Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-29
AT THIIE OLD HlOF1E
OF ANDREW IPlgKENlg
AT Cherrys Crossing COL JAS T. Bacon has Glorious Time
with Girls and Cadets-Some History Recalled
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station on the Blue Ridge road
called Chorry's Crossing-two miles
from the college. Cherry's Crossing
is very lonely place in very pic
turesque country. TO be at Clemson
College, is, in our opinion, to be high
up i'll Abraham's bosom. Therefore,
it does not matter how lonely the
gateway may be.
Arriving at Clemson on Friday
afternoon, May 10th, from the Dio-
cesar Council in Greenville, and full
of the great and true glory of the
apostolic succession, we sleep in
peace and comfort in the barracks.
At Clemson there is peace and COM
fort even in the misunderstanding as
it may seem. On Saturday morning
early we hear that the flower of Se-
neca's people is coming down to
Cherry's Crossing at 10 o'clock for a
May picnic. Seneca is the lovely,
refined and very progressive noun
tain town nine miles above Clemson
College. We decide to 60 to Seneca
picnic. 1t runs in our head that it
will be heavenly. We know that
everybody will be kind to us and
agreeable, but we especially hope to
meet our dear friends, Mrs. DR.. A.
e. Hines and Mrs. M. w. Coleman,
founder and ex-President Of the Wo-
mans Federation of Clubs in our
State. A young barracks officer, be-
hind an extremely fiery Arabian
steed, drives us to the scene. When
we arrive near the scene, the young
officer is seized with a deadly fear
that we are vulgarly early. AS for
ourself, we have survived the feeling
of shame, but We say nothing, and
the young officer drives us quarter
of mile further, down a grand hill,
to the ''iron bridge" across the Sc
neca river. It is q beautiful new
modern bridge, and the spot is one of
uncommon beauty. On tho bridge,
which stands very high above the
lovely, swift-fowing Seneca, we find
two young gentlemen fishing-Prof.
Newman, of Clemson College, and
his tiny little grandson, Stanley, who
is bright and handsome little boy.
With one hand Stanley holds on to
his line, while with the other he
clasps to his bosom two Seats" One
of these cats is larger than Jobs be-
hemoth that was able to drink the
river Jordan dry at one draught,
while the other is very small. Stan
ley informs us with extreme exulta-
tion that he has caught the behe-
moth, while his grandpa has only
hauled up the wee cat.
THE TREES WHERE rICKENs STOOD
WITH THE INDIANS.
Assuring the proud young officer
that the hour of extreme gentility
had fully arrived, we drove back,
and, through a wide-swinging, old.
time gate, enter the grounds of the
once proud Cherry mansion. 1t sits
on hill, and the now somewhat bar
rem lawns around it is dotted with
ancient oaks. This was the original
home of old Brig. Gen. Andrew
Pickens and his wife Rebecca Cal
houn, and here he sat in pow-wow
with the Indians, made his famous
treaty of peace with them, and se-
cured their everlasting friendship
and love. In the graveyard of the
historical "Old Stone Church." two
miles away, he and Rebecoa Calhoun
are buried. Their tombs are in good
preservation. A part of this estate,
lying lower down the river, but adj
joining, Gen. Andrew Pickens gave
to his son, Ezekiel Pickcns, who is
also buried at the Old Stone church,
as is also Gov. Andrew pickens,
while Gov. Francis w. Pickens sleeps
in Edgefield, few hundred yards
from where we are writing. These
two plantations are still spoken OF
by the old people as "the Andrew
Pickens place" and "the Ezekiel
Pickens place" When this property
went out of tho hands of the Pick
enses it went into those of a rich
and prominent family named Cherry
The Andrew Pickens place, the
scene of the picnic, is now owned by
Miss Mary Cherry, lovely and be.
loved young girl who is now Mt the
Presbyterian College for Women,
Columbia, while the Ezekiel Pickens
place is the property of her mother
Mrs. Jesse w. Stribling, a promi-
nent and popular society leader OF
Seneca. Indeed, it is Mrs. Stribline
who is, as it were, tho head and front
Of this May outing. The residence
has been much added to and i'm.