The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-12-13
HERLIFE ENDED WITH CENTUrY
N Worker III the First Cotton Mil
Established in South Carolina.
Anderson Daily Mail.

"A Worker In the First Cotton Mil
Established in South Carolina.
Anderson Daily Mail.
Mrs. Mary b. Pickrell died at !:
o'clock on Friday afternoon at the
home OF hor daughter, Mrs. Kate
Norris, a. Broyles, in this county. She
was the widow OF the late Jonathan
Plckrell, Esq, who died FIVE years ago
at the age Of 81, and herself lacked till
the 10Th OF February Of completing
her Ninety fourth year. She had been
sick but q ehort time and her death was
due solely to tho tntirmities Of extreme
age. Sne uttered but little and passed
away without groan or u struggle.
notwithstanding the great weight OF
years her strength Of mind and BODY
was rcmar kably we'll preserved, and
tho firo Of her religious experience
burned brightly to the ond. Only u
few days before her death she cuue ht
the hand OF her daughter who was
ministerlng to her and pressing it
warmly exclaimed with rapture, as
seeing Him who is invisible" "Glory
be to God praise HE holy namo w
She had been a amcmb Der 0! the Metho.
dist church seventy-tive years, pro-
badly longer, and during that long
timc--a much longer tims than is al
lowed most people to serve in the
church miIttant-she was uniformly
loyal to the church OF her fathers, con.
stantly exemplifying the soundncss
and saving power " "e'en down so old
age OF tho religion Of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Mrs. Pickrell was born on Nantucket
Island, of tho coast Of Massachusetts,
and was daughter Of Abraham Coffin
also native Of Nantucket, and one OF
the first persons Of tho leland to en-
brace Mcthodism when the old religion
With u new and consuming zaal swept
the dead siasticism Of New Eng
land as prairie fire. Her mothers
father, William Bunker, Baptist,
was caught by the tide OF Mcthodism.
as her Iather's poop c. who were Pres,
byterians, had been, and he gave the
land upon which the first Methodist
church on Nantucket was built.
When shc was ten years OF age she
heard the celebrated evangelist, LO.
renZo Dow, preach in Providence,
Rhode Island, where her father was
living at the time, and to her dying
day she kept fresh in mind her impress.
siOns OF the man and his manner. The
preacher was unweil and after the
service in the court house-thcre was
then no Methodist church in the CITY
decided to rest there till the evening
appointment. During the interval a
lady, sympathizing with the rvange-
list in his indisposition, brought him
sOme refreshments and subsCuucntlv
became his wife,
During the year 1919 Mr.. Colin, Mrs.
Plckrel's father, q man possessed OF a
wide range OF practical knowledge,
decided, in view OF the widespread
business gloom that hung over the
Eastern States as q result Of the war OF
1872, to remove to South Carolina. His
resolution to come South was largely
determined by tho insstencc OF mis-
friend, Philip Weaver, who had al-
ready come to South Carolina and
established little cotton mill in Spar
tanburg County.
Accordingly, Mr.. Coffin sailed with
his family from Providence that wear
and reached Charleston after stormy
voyage or three weeks. They were
met in Charleston by Mr.. WcaYcr's
wagons and conveyed 80 the little mill
up in Spartanburg, and thus Mrs
Plckrell became an operative in the
first cotton mill established in South
| Carolina.
n lew years later Mr.. Coffin removed
to similar mill on Recdy River, a few
miles below Greenville, and from there
he went about the year 1926 to the
FORK section OF this county TO tax, a
half interest IN small yarn mill which
the Rcv! Levi Garrison, father OF the
late Henry Garrison OF this county,
had established on Little Beavcrdam
creek onc-fOurth of a mile below what
ls now known as Broylcs Mill.
1t was here that Mrs. Pickrcll WAS
married January Is, 1928, tho Rev. Mr..
Garrison performing tho ceremony.
she was the mother OF thirteen child
| rem ten OF whom grew to maturity.
one OF her sons, promising young
man, was killed In battle at Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee, as u member OF
the Second South Carolina Rifles dur
ing the civil war. Four OF her child
rem, Mrs. Kate Norris and Mrs Edrcw
Cromer OF the Fork; Mrs. John c..
CAN'T, Of Hartwell, Georgia and Mr..
William b. Pickrell, Of rcxas, survive
her The Rev. Henry Bascom Browne,
q prominent member OF the South
Carolina Conference, and DR.. Walker
q. Browne OF Atlanta, Georgia, distin-
gulshed in the profession OF dental sur.
gerry. are her nephews.
Mrs. Pickrells body WAS Inferred
yesterday beside that Of her husband
at Smith Chapel in the Fork, In which
| church she had held an unbrokcn
mem bership for q period Of seventy
| five years, the like being probably
without parallel in the State.
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