Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-12-06
The Gen Mart Gary Monument:

Mr.. EDITOR: The following
letter from Hon. John T. Sloan,
President, and Col. Willie Jones,
Treasurer and Secretary of Gary
Monument Association of South
Carolina, will explain itself:
Columbia, Nov. 30, 1899.
Messrs. s. B. Mays, Mark Toney,
C. G. Fuller, Pierce Stevens and
D R..Durisoe
Gentlemen :, We beg to inform you
that pursuant to authority vested
in us as president aid secretary
and treasurer of the Gary Monu-
ment Association of South Caro-
lima, we have appointed you COM
mittee of five to solicit subscrip-
tions in Edgefeld county.
We have raised, and now have
in the bank, $507.61, and We have
pledged to US $1,000 more, which
is good and will be paid on dem
and. We intend to make this
monument certainty.
General Gary was the peer of
any Carolinian in the forum or on
the field. He lived as be died,
with knightly heart, full of love
for his State. His career was
splendid in peace and in war.
The people of the State, many Of
whom followed him in the front
of battle during the war, and in
the trying times of 1876, when he
ibid SO much to free the State from
Radical rule, revere his memory,
and we believe will raise this
monument to perpetuate his name
and fame.
We are confident that Edgefeld,
the birthplace of this gallant
Carolinian, will lead the other
counties in the State by raising
some $500 or $400 for this monu-.
ment.
Please organize your county in
such way you may deem best,
and kindly raise all you can for us
in this worthy undertaking.
Please remit any amount you
collect to- Col. Willie Jones, trea-
surer, Columbia, S. c..
Yours truly,
JOHN T. SLOAN.
President Gary Monument Aseocia-,
tion of s. O..
WILLIE JONES.
Sec, and Treas. Gary Monument
Association Of S. g. s.
In pursuanceof the above, the
committee held its first meeting
at Edgefeld on Monday, the 4th
inst, and organized by electing
Col. s. B. Mays, chairman, and D.
r. .Durisoe, Secretary.
The committee thought 1t. best
to ask the aid of subcommittee
men to assist them in the further
ance of the proud duty assigned
them, and appointed the following
gentlemen-one in each township
Ito constitute the said sub-com-
mittee, viz: Luther Reece, Joseph
A Mays, E l. Ryan, J B Tompkins,
S. T Williams, Capt ] R Blocker, P
w Cheatham, E C VIM, J M
Miner, Eugeue Freeland, Hon w R
Parks, B F Gianton, E B Mathis,
W Lee Coleman, Lewis Claxton,
John Kennerly and ] Horde Allen.
And, gentlemen, we feel assured
chat each of you will take an es-
peoial interest in the matter, and
give every one in your respective
townships an opportunity to SUBJ
scribe something, be it ever 30 lit
tie, to the erection of a monument
in honor of the memory of the gal
liant Mart Gary, the true, the brave
.Bald Eagle of Edge6eld." The
State committee say 1--WE intend to
make this monument a certainty"
And we men of Edgefeld should
go to work with the same high re-
solve.
ALI of the subcommittee will
please report to us, with subscrip-
tiou lists and funds received, at
our meeting on first Monday in
February next. The subscription
lists will be published, and every
cent paid in duly acknowledged.
S. B. MAYS, Chairman.
D. R. DUR1soE, Secretary.
P.S.-Printed subscription lists
will be forwarded to each member
Of COMMITTEES in a few days.