The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-07-22

And even if our hands could touch
We'd seem like figures in dream,
Old friends, old comrades here's health,
And golden memory's wealth to you'
For the old days,
For the old blithesome days.
1 feel like I was of kin to all the
Newberry people I meet
Idined with Prof. G. W. Welch
and his interesting family. R. A. W.
was present. Mrs. W. and her sister,
Mrs. Robertson, were the nieces OF
my grand aunt-ln-law, Mrs. Mary
Spence, and the meeting was so
pleasant to me. The professor stands
among the first of ad- need educa-
tors in Texas. He captured me. 1t
is quite an Intellectual family, and
Mrs. r. is q fine conversatlonallst.
Their descent from that good old
man, Herman Aull, interested me.
Next day I met very Intelligent
son of Newberry, G. Pelham. 1 was
drawn to him by the fact that had
rscited many a lesson to his grand
father, G. P. Pelham, who was tutor
in South Carolina College while l
was there, and the grandson OF my
old friend, Col. ]. R. Leavell; lady
friend of mine observed of him, "that
he was the most elegant young man
she had met in Houston"
Spent an evening with my kins-
man, J. G. Martin and family; all
doing well, and from signs l guess a
fine youpgster has captured one Of
his daughters. Had the pleasure of
meeting DR.. Bruce Wallace, (who
once lived in Newberry) the son of
Col VIM. and Victoria { (McLemore)
Wallace. Col. W. was my classmate
and Mrs. w. was at our wedding.
The McLemores were q bright intel
lsetual family. Mrs. W. was not
only intellectual but beautiful, and
was related to that ''lion hearted old
WAGNER, Gen'l Daniel Morgan"
Those elegant ladies, Mrs. Harriet
Lane and Mrs Laura Ewart will re
member Mrs. W. The doctor is do
ing we'll; the half hour I was in his
Office had two calls.
Another Newberrian, my son, L. L.
Crosson, Is here from West Texas;
he has just been renominated for
judge by very large laiority. He
and were born on the same lot on
which Andy Wicker held forth when
I left for Texas.
Oh, the whirligig Of time! Little
did think in the ''Auld lang syne"
when little Hayne Leavell in his
s'scraw" (straw) hat went to school to
me and I licked him that in years
afterwards, away West in Texas, he
would be the Rev. Hayne Leavell,
D. D., and my pastor. I laugh and
tell him Pm the only man IN Texas
that thrsshed him. We always en-
Joy meeting him and his lovely wife.
He is fine looking man, an eminent
divine and one of Texas great preach,
ers.
/ noticed in the Observer of last
August that Rev. ]. M. Henry
preached at Cannon's Greek "a. R. P.)
church and stated that the Henrys
were Covenanters. I remember Jim
mie Henry who was an elder in the
Co7enanter church. He was good,
pious man-rather slender. He, as
we'll as the Quakers and Covenanters,
did not helie7e slavery was right.
Together with DR.. Dunlap he was
executor of my fathers will. His
duty was to take my fathers negroes
to Indiana. The last time l saw
him was in Greenville on his way
North with them. Dick Ayres, whose
interviews DR.. Ruff describes on
D. 498 of annals" was Elder Jim,
mics SON. n.in.law, but by no means
inspired by his piety. Dick was al
ways as full of spirits as bottle OF
whiskey. He was fox hunter and
was followed by a lot of lean hungry
hounds. Dick was from North Coro-
lima, and I have met some OF his
kinsfolk in Texas who were famous
horse racers and jockeys.
Among the old timers was Tom
Slider who, with myself, edited the
c4;o1 on1 R;sino Snn. "Ye ken