The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-07-31

!. ing of her that it was the sorrow 'pSI af H.
lie that hc was not personally q,
quainted with her. "
Tom Lee is great fayoritc omo,,
the railroad officials. Very rccnmu
, ne wished to try the work and spcc
= OF new monster locomotive and !,
vlted the presidents and superinte,
dents OF several railroads and fort,
three editors and newspaper men /
go with him on special to Pocon
mountains and back again. On tn
northern rosds the supcrintendcnts no,
nave an indicator or Dutch clock i,
their private Car that registers tn,
speed. What do you want p, sai,
Tom Lee. Well, about 70 miIcs :,
said the editor. The speed was tho,
90 miles an hour, but quickly the clocl
registered 5G, 81, So, 60, G5, 70, where
IL remained for several minutes while
INC engineer was holding her down to
an even, steady pace. A glassful of
water on the floor would not have
spilled a drop. Tom Lee said. 81
would have given you 80 if YOU had
asked for it," After while thew ston.
PED at the Swlftwater house, wberc
Washington and Lafayette played cro-
quet after the war was over and whcr.
Joe Jefferson spends his summcrs
Tom Lee knows his lineage and that
his parents were Virginians and nearly
related to the Harris, for whom Thomas
Hart Benton was named.
For the sake of many children who
have never heard the story. I will
briefly relate that during the dark days
OF the Revolution five tories came 10
her cabin and ordered her to get din
ner for them. She did 80 and while
they were eating and drinking and
tilelr guns were set up in the corner of
the room she quietly took them out
slde, and standing at the door with one
In her hand she drew aim on the leader
ana ordered them to surrender or die.
one man STATED toward her and she
shot him dead and seized another gun
and shot another who had risen from
the table. With another gun she kept
the others quiet until some neichbors
came8and they were taken prisoners.
NO doubt this isa true story and man
had better not move TO Ebert or Hart
county and express any doubts about
1t. L have been there and know. Some
years ago l lecturcd in Hartwell and
from there jouneycd to Elberton in
buggy with preacher. We got late
start and the preachers horse wanted
20 slow up at every house where there
was woman in sight, and when we
got TO the river the ferryman was awav
'nd we had TO wait an hour for him to |
como back. " So it was dark when we
Elherton. The court house
vas lighted up and seemed full of peo. |
pc, and the boys were rapping and
calling for carp" "Bill Arp" The
unloaded me near by and told |
ne to go up stairs and open the ball |
While he went home TO put up his |
lorse. AS | hurried in the door the
ioorkeeper stopped me and said
Hold on, my friend, you haven't
oaid." + modestly told him that 1 was
he speaker. "Oh, yos," said he.
May be you are and maybe you amt.
Several other men have tried TO pass
IN that schedule. 1 reckon you had
better pay" So l paid half dollar
o go in and hear myself talk, but l
got half of it back when we divided
proceeds.
Now, don't know that Nancy
could read or write, but she conld
shoot and in war timos tnat tn.at,,ii IL of her
~ al hnH i.S,: rssreac-grandson, Tom Lee, has
lever tarnished the name or fame of
he family. When John Randolph
,oasted of his ancestral blood, Tristan
Burgess, of Rhode Island, his bitter
enemy, rose up TO say that good con-
iuct in posterity was of moro conse-
luence than good blood in ancestors.
6 have great respect" said he, for
he gentleman's English blood and
his Indian blood, but he should remem-
Der that he is removed from them by |
several generations and that only one
part of Lord Rolte or Poca-
hontas blood flows in his veins. That
ls not much to boast of. The rest is
widely scattered, diluted and degone-
rated" Burgess and Randolph had
many spats like that, but they never
came to blows.
There never was time in the South
land when 80 much eager interest was
manifested in tracing up ancestry
lineage. receive letters almost daily
from good people, from Carolina to
Texas, asking for help TO trace up and
prove their claim to join the Sons or
Daughters of the Revolution or to
service of their father or grandfather
in the civil war of forty years ago.
The genealogical department of The
Constitution and George Smiths week
ly contributions to The journal are
doing valuable and interesting work on
these lines.
There is one other line that has been
shamefully neglected. From first tc
last there were near 10000 Georgia
soldiers in the Confederate army, anC
yet there is no record of them-nelth
er in the counties nor the State nor a
Washington. l do not suppose there
are ten in hundred of these soldiers
whose children or grandchildren 0
near relatives can prove themselves
, Colonel Avery did the best he could t.
mako up roll of each regiment an
name the officers and the captains @
t .he companies, but there is no roll G
ltho man nor q rocOrd Of who wa