Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-01
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WEDNESDAY,, JULY 4, 1908.
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Anderson having recently erected
one, in honor OF the memory of the
Southern soldiers from Oconee
county, and for monument at Co.
lumhia in memoriam of Wade
Hampton.
The occasion seems a fit one to
speak of the burial places of these
signers. William S. Grisham's grave
is at West Union, Benjamin Frank
lin Mauldin's at Williamson, Will
liam Hunters near Pickens Court
House, j. N. Whitner's, James l..
Orr's and j. p. Reeds at Anderson,
r. +. Simpsons at his home place,
near Pendleton, and Andrew f.
Lewis's and John Maxwell's at the
Old Stone church. Near the ashes
of Messrs. Simpson and Lewis lie
the mortal remains of son of each,
boys who wore the gray and gave
their young lives for the cause 80
dear to the fathers heart-the cause
for which Lee fought and Jackson
died. These fathers signed-their
sons died-for secession.
"Eaoh for his hearth and household fire; {;
Father for child, and son for SIRE"
The Pendleton Farmers Society
was organized in 1915. Its honorary
members were: Gen. Thomas Pinck-
ney, ST. James, Santee; Hon. VIM.
Lowndes, G. G. Pinckney, Jr., r. S.
lizard, j. r. Pringle, DR.. J. Noble,
Gen. d. L. Huger, all of Charleston !;
Hon. j. @. Calhoun, Washington
City; Col. j. B. Ion, ST. James, San
tee; Col. L. j. Alston, st. Stephens,
Alabama; Rev. DR.. Waddell, Athens,
Ga. /; Gen. John Blassingame, Green
vile; d. p. Hillhouse, Washington,
Ga. (; DIR. Isaac Auld, Edisto Island !;
DR.. G. M. Reese, Philadelphia.
It's resident members were in 1915 !:
Thomas Pinckney, Jr., Jno. L. North,
Andrew Pickens, Benjamin Smith,
John Miller, Sr., Charles Gailard,
John E. Calhoun, j. II. Lewis, Thos.
l.. Dart, j. b. Earle, G.. w. Miller,
Samuel Cherry, John Taylor, James
G. Griffin, Robert Anderson, William
Hunter, Benjamin DuPre, Sr., Joseph
Grisham, l.. McGregor, Samuel Earle,
Richard Harrison, Patrick Norris,
j. @. Fitzpatrick, Joseph B. Earle, T..
w. Farrar, Thomas Stribling, John
Green, Josa d. Gaillard and Joseph
Won Shanklin.
In 1916, John Maxwell, B. f.
Perry, William Hubbart, E. B. Ben
son, George Reese, Sr., George w I.
Liddell, j. B. Perry, John Martin,
T. Farrar, w. r. Davis, William
CASTOR, Joseph Reed, Elan Sharpe,
ID. Sloan, Jr., Samuel Warren,
Leonard Simpson, Major Lewis,
Samuel Taylor.
In 1917, William Steele, James
Lawrence, Francis Burt, John Hun
ter, w. S. Adair, William Taylor,
William Anderson, Joseph Mitchell,
Thomas Lorton, Rev. James Hill
house, Benjamin Dickson, Richard
Lewis, j. II. Whitfield, j. B. Hum
mond, John Holbert, Robert Lemon.
In 1918, John Hall, David Cherry,
John Gaillard, Charles Story, Samuel
Gassaway, r. A. Maxwell, j. P.
Lewis, f. w. Symmes, Geo. Reese,
Jr., Joseph Whitner, James Faris,
William Oliver, James O. Lewis,
Thomas Sloan, Henry McCravy,
David X. Hamilton.
These names, with the constitution
and bylaws of the organization, to-
gether with the letters and papers
read before the society at its various
meetings, may be found in a pam
phlet printed at the Telescope Press,
Columbia, in 1920, several copies of
which are extant in the community
The valedictory address of the first
president, Thomas Pinckney, Jr.,
closes with this sentence "I hope,
and persuade myself, that the views
of the society will encourage indi-
vidual attempts to introduce grass
fields as a regular estation, and the
last words of your first president are,
Gentlemen, make hay.'"
Our leading agriculturists of to-
day, backed up by our members of
Congress and the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, are
earnestly advising the same wise
course, and the grass gardens of
Cne DOutn CdTOllua h8peTlmenU DUa-
tion are within three miles of the
hall built by the Pendleton Farmers
Society, the first society of the kind
organized in our State, the second
within the limits of our United
States.
In an CID book, (Mills's Statistics)
whose press date is 1926, the reader
finds this lragraph:
"Commei 20 and Manufactures. s.-Char-
lesion and Hamburg are the two princi-
pal markets of this district. But little
progress has been made in manufactures,
except in the domestic way. Every family
manufactures cotton cloth for their own
use, which gives employment, during
wet weather, to idle hands. There is one
cotton factory, owned by Mr.. Garrison,
in the district, which manuf ur,s
sale. on small scale. A rifle gun fac
tory is established on Chatuga creek"
OF this zone cotton factory, owned
by Mr.. GARRISON" we have not been
able to learn anything more from
either record or tradition. In the
80's of the last century Pendleton