Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-15
THE NEWS IN CHEROKEE.
The Memphis Re-Unfon-NOtes Q
NeighbOrhoOd Interest.


Correspondence OF the Yorkville Enquirer.
ETA JANE, June 11.-During my trip
to the Memphis reunion, had the
pleasure of meeting many of my old
York county friends and acquaintances
Some haven't seen in years and years,
and some I have never seen before
Among them was Willie Whitesides
son of Wagonmaker John Whitestdes.
who used to live near Smyrna, and
moved off to Florida just before the
war. His wife was a Neeland. She
died there and he returned to York
county again. Willie now lives in Tip
ton county, Tennessee, 35 miles from
Memphis, and apparently Is doing well
He is an officer in the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. He resembles the
Neelands very much. He heard that
your correspondent was there and call
ed at our boarding house and had a
long talk. He went to the war from
York county, in Captain AVery's COM
pany, Of the 18th Regiment.
Also I met for the first time DR.. ]. L.
McCorkle Of Little Rock Ark. He Is
nephew of Colonel w. H. McCorkle, OF
Yorkville, and fine looking, intelligent
man. Also a son, or grandson, Of DR.
T. B. Whitesides, of Indian Territory
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Henry family from Kings Creek Sec
ton, of York county. Then there were
the Lindsays, the McElwee's, the Har-
shaws, the Whitesides, the Meeks, the
Brattons the Shillinglaws, the Jami-
sons, the Davises, the McGills, the Nc
Connells, the BurriseS, the Carothers
the Hemphills, the Smiths, and an in
Vulnerable host Of names and persons
that sprung from York county, repre-
senting nearly every state Of the late
Confederacy. Some were the sons and
daughters, others the grandsons and
granddaughterS Of native South Caro-
linians. This was more or less the
case with the other counties of the
state, notably Chester, Fairfield, Union
Lancaster and Spartanburg counties
West Tennessee Is largely made up OF
South Carolinians, and not few of the
citizens of Memphis sprung from South
Carolina stock.
One Of the most notable features OF
the reunion was that state pride mani
tested in the young people. Along the
! line of march, it was nothing uncom-
mon for the boys and girls, young men
and young women standing on the side
walks, to wave their hats or handker-
chiefs or flags and holler "Hurrah fol
South Carolina-my mother or my
!; father as the case might be) was a
South Carolinian, and I am proud OF
it," Sometimes old men and women
even tottering under the weight Of
years and infirmity, with tears in their
eyes, would stagger up and reach out
their hands and say, II want to shake
! the hand of South Carolinian, for
too am a South Carolinian." The eXpe-
rience of the South Carolinians was
more or less the experience of the vete-
rams of other states, we have no doubt
The people of Salem are expecting tc
have a Children's Day on Thursday
August 1. Besides the children's ex-
ercises, Rev. c. A. B. Jennings, Of Un-
ion, will deliver an address to the chill
dren and Christian Endeavor societies
In the afternoon. Hon. Stanyarne WI
son. of Spartanburg, will address the
Ladies' Memorial association. The
committee Of arrangements hope to Sc
cure the services of first-class band
The public generally. and especially the
ladies, are invited to come and bring
their baskets.
Mrs. Jonn M. Foster has been quite
sick for several days. She is getting
| better now.
Our thanks are due Miss Mildred
Smarr of Hopewell, for a nice mess OF
her early, home raised whitehead cab
bage.
The last freshet in Broad river broke
the wire down at Howells ferry, and
the flat has to be polled across with
poles.
| Farmers are cutting their wheat. 1t
! is generally good. Oats are good, too
The floods have given the farmers con-
/ siderable trouble on the low lands. In
many places corn has been planted
over three times. J. L. s.