The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-12-04
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BILL ARP.


the Georgia senators and representa-
tiyes who seeded in January. l6ol,
and also for a list Of their successors
ia the confederate congress. But rev
men can answer these questions, anC
indeed the answer is hard to find in
any book. But these women are after
information that is worthy OF prescr-
walton in their archieyeS and they Will
| soon know more about the civil war
than the men.
Well, our state senators before the
war were Robert Toombs and Ben.
| Hill. ToombS made a withdrawal
| speech which was grand and defiant.
Our representatives were Martin D..
Crawford. Peter E. Love. Thomas }.
| Hardeman. Lucius ]. Gartrell, John w.
| H. Underwood. James Jackson. John
They are all dead.
The members of the first confederate
congress were Senators Ben Hill ana
| Herschel v. Johnson. Toombs was
| elected. but had serious opposition and
it irritated him so that he refused to
| serve and later on Johnson was elected.
Toombs said. THE nanner IN which
| this trust has been conferred on ME re-
| lieves me from any obligation to accept
it," So he u~nsheathed his sword and
went to fighting. The representatives
| elected were Julian H%artridge, ]. c.
| Munnerlyn, Hines Holt, A. H. Kenan.
| David W. Lewis. ". w. Clark, Robert
7. Trippe, L. J. Gartrell. Hardy Strick-
land and Augustus R. Wright. These
are all dead. Time cuts down all. both
great and small"
A letter from another chapter wishes
to know the maiden names OF the
wives of the presidents and the names
@, the mothers Of the presidents. tell
you these women are in earnest. For
centuries their sex has been under the
ban. You can't find a history OF CYCLIC
pedia that tells anything about wives
CT the mothers of great men, and yet
it is the mother who makes the men.
George Washington's father died when
he was Il years old and his mother
trained him and taught him and plant
ed within him all those virtues that
made him great-and yet there are but
few of our American people who know
who his mother was. | have three sets
OF standard cyclopedias. but only
meager mention is made in them OF the
mothers or wives of the president. Who
knows anything about the mother OF
Webster. Clay or Calhoun? | have
found the maiden names Of all the
wives of the presidents and the names
of all their mothers except those of
| Zachariah Taylor, William H. Harri-
son, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan.
R. B. Hayes and Ben Harrison. Maybe
they had mothers. Well, to begin.
George Washington's mother was
Mary Ball. His wife was widow Park
Curtis, nee Martha cambridge.
John Adams mother was Snsannah
Boylston. His wife was Abigail Smith.
Thomas Jefferson's mother was Jane
Randolph. His wife, Martha Wales.
James Madison's mother. Fanny Tay-
lor. His wife. Dolly Payne. That Fan
ny Taylor's brother was grandfather
to Zachary Taylor.
James Monroe's mother. Eliza Jones
His wife. Elizabeth Kortright.
John @. Adams 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 Buren's mother, Mary
Hoes; his wife, Hannah Hoes.
William H. Harrison's mother not
named; wife, Anna Symmes.
John Tyler's mother, Mary Arni-
stead: wife. Letitia Christian.
James X. Folks mother. John Knox;
wife. Sarah Childress.
Vo.In,- t. ,ID,', -,D4hn. MT rop,GI.
wife. Margaret Smith.
MilliaS Filmore's mother was
Phoebe Millard; he never married.
Franklin Pierce's mother not named;
wife. Jane Appleton.
James Buchanan's mother not nam
ed. He was a bachelor.
Abraham Lincoin's mother, Nancy
Hanks; wife. May Todd.
Andrew Johnson's mother too poor
and ignorant to name. His wife, Eliza
McCarle. educated him.
u. S. Grants mother, Hannah Simp.
son; his wife, Julia Dent.
r. 3. Hayes mother not named: his
wife. Lucy Ware Webb.
James a. Gacfieli's mother was Eliza
Ballou; his wife. Lucretia Rudolph.
Si!SStcE "A. AIlnCI > ulOlnSI. -hGiEiHd
Stone; his wife, Ellen L. Herndon.
Grover Clereland's mother. Anne
Neal; his wife. Frances Folsom.
Ben Earrison's mother not named;
his wife was Miss Scott.
William Mckinley's mother. Nancy
c Allison: his wife. Ida SaXton.
Now, of course II a man can afford
to 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
pea:e. Cowper. Powe. Gray, Johnson.
Hood, Burns. Moore. Byron, Coleridse
or any of the noted writer's of England
or Scotland. The idea seems to have
been that women as a general rule were
of no consequence-except to bear chill
dren anG stay at home and nurse mem.
But that is not the idea now. Women
are coming to the front and claim a
more notable position in history and
biography. Mrs. Do. Burt, Of Bruins
wick. has in press a book devoted ex-