Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-12-03
BILL ARP.
Observation-Disclosures


Confederacy writes to me for list of
the Georgia senators and representa-
tives who seeded in January 1861 |
and also for & list of their SUCCESSORS
in the confederate congress. But few
men can answer these questions, and
indeed the answer is hard to find in
any book. Rslt these women are after
Information that is worthy OF preser-
vatlon in their arch inves and they Will
soCn know more about the civil war
than the n1sn.
Well, our state senators before the i
war were Robert Toombs ami Ben. \
Hill. T0ombS made. a withdrawal X
speech whlch was grand and defiant.
Our representatives were Martin J
Crawford. Peter Z. Love. II omas i .
Hardemar. Lucius ]. Gartrell. John w.
Fl. Underwood. James JacksIn. John
Jones am, Joshua Hill, who resigned.
They are :all dead
The members OF the first coptoferatc
congress were Senators Ber Hill and
Herschei V. Johnson. ToGmbs was
elected. tut had serious opposition and
1T irritatHd him so that he refused tu
serve and later IN Johnson vas elecbad.
Toombs said. "T'he manner in when
this trusi has been conferred on me re-
lcves me from any obligation to accept
it" So he unsheathe6 his sword and
elected were Julian Hartrit sc. j. G..
Mmnerlyn. Hines Holt. A. II. Kehan.
David w Lewis. w. w. Clark, Robert
7. Trippe~ L. J. Gartrel, Hardy Strick-
land and Augustus r. Wright. These
are all dead. Time cuts down all, kOth
great anG small
\ letter from another chapter wishes
tU know she maiden names of the
wives of the presidents and the names
-. Al. Ill. t..1I
you these womep are in earnest For
centuries iheir sex has beer under the
ban. You can't find history of tyrio
pedia that tells anything about wives
or the mothers of great mCn. and yet
it lis the mother who makel the men.
George Washington's father died when
he was IL years old and ms mother
trained him and taught him and plant
ed within him all those virtues that
made him grnat-and get there are Airt
few OF our American people who knew
who his mother was ] have three ssls
of standard cyclopedas. but only
meage~ mention is made in them OF the
mothers or wires of the president. WhN
knows anything about the mother Of
Webster. Clay or Calhoun? | have
found the maiden names of Sll the
wives OF the presidents and the names
OF all their mothers except those of
Zacharioh Taylor. William II. Harri-
son, Franklin Pierce James Buchan
r. b. Hayes and Ben Harrison Maybe
they had mothers. Well, to- begin
George Washihgton's mother was
Mary Ball His wife was widow Park
Curtis. nee Martha Dandrdge
John Adams mother was Susannah
Boylston. His wife was Abigail Smith
Thomas Jsfferson's mother was Jane
Randolph. His wife. Martha Wales.
James Mad:son's mother. Fanny Tay-
Tor His wife Dolly Payne. That Fan
ny Taylor's brother was grandfather
10 Zachary Taylor
James Monroe's mother. Eliza Jones
His wife, Elizabeth Kortright.
john q. Adans had a grandmother
Quicy. No mother is named. His wife
was Louisa Johnson.
Andrew Jackson S mother. Elizabeth
Hutchinson; his wife. Rachel Donel-
son
Martin Van Bu~ns mother, Mary
Hoes; his wife. Hannah Hoes.
William III. Harrisons mother not
named: wife. Anna Sgmmes.
John Ty3er's mother. Mary Armi-
stead; wife. Letitia Christian.
James X. Polk's mother. John Knox;
wife Sarah Childress.
Zachary TaYlor's mother not named; +;
wife, Margaro, Smith.
Miiliard Flmores mother was
Phoebe Miilard: he never married.
franklin pierees mother not named :;
wife. Jane Appleton.
James Buchanan's mother not nam
ed. He was a bachelor.
Abraham Lincolp's mother. Nancy
Hanks; wife. Mary Todd
AndreT JohnsonS mother too poor
and ignorant to name His wife. Eliza
McCar!e. educated him
u. S. Grants mother. Hannah Simp.
son; his w:fe, Julia Dent
Il. e. Hayes mother rot named: his
wife. Lucy ware Webb
James a. Garfieid's mother was ElIzo
Ballou; his Wife. Lucre;ia Rudolph
Chester A. AYthurs mother. Malvina
Stone; his wife. Ellen L. fierndon
Grover Cleye,and's mother. Anne
Neal; his wife. Frances Folsom
Ben Harrisons mother not named:
his wife was Miss Scott
William Mckinley's mother. Nancy
Z Allison: his wife. Ida SaXton
NOW, OF course II man can afford
10 buy the separate biographies of
these men. though some have no. been
written. no doubt he could learn more
about their mothers and wives, but
not very much. We know but little con
corning the mothers of Milton Shakes
peare, Cowper. Powe, Gray. Johnson.
Hood. Burns. Moore, Byron, Coleridge
or any OF the noted writer's of England
or Scotland. The idea seems 10 have
been that women as general rule were
OF no except to bear chill
dren and stay at home and nurse mem.
But that is not the idea now. Women
are coming to the front and claim q
more notable position in history and
biography. Mrs. Do. Burt, of Bruins