The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-10-14


! English surveyor and naturalist, be-
gan his journey from Charleston
through South Carolina and North
d Carolina 20 the south Of the Pamlico
river. In his very interesting account
4 of the country through wkich ne
passed none is more interesting than
the Waxhaw region, lying partly in
South Carolina, along the Oatawba
] river, where be sarr;ed several dsys.
His description Of the Waxhaw Iu-
dams Originally spelled Waxsaw),
their manneSs and their customs,
their festivals, their homes and State
house-all read like jumbled frag-
ments from a chapter Of "Arabian
Nights" The WaxhaRs ct this time
I we're powerful tribe, but war and
pestilence by degrees robbed them of
their identity, and 80 years later,
when tho first Irish immigration to
this region entered upon their wild
lands, the Waxhaws had submerged
into the Catswhas and were moving
toward the westward. Before the re-
/ ml.ns Of this once powerful tribe
! weTs erased there was being planted
/ along Waxhaw creek another race to
be more powerful and to exercise more
constructive force than any other
group Of men on the American con-
4 tinent.
Here came Patrick Calhoun, the
father Of South Carolina's greatest
/ statesman. here, too, came Andrew
Pickens, the soldier and statesman,
4 who married John @. Calhoun's sister
in the little brics church. From che
same community came Calhonn's
greatest rival, William n. Crawford,
the great Georgian, who divided CAL
houn's support for the presidency in
1924. Here at the Waxhaws grew to
manhood William r. Davie, the SOL
! der who covered Gate'e retreat from
camden, governor Of North Carolina,
minister to France, and here, after
growing weary Of political honors, he
turned his face back to his old Wax
haw home, and his last days were
spent at his country home, Tivoli,
facing the Catawba, and at his re-
quest his remains rest in the little
church yard at Waxhaw. From the
aWaxhaws came Stephen D. Miller,
1jurist, governor Of South Carolina,
and United States senator; and, too,
~. Marion Simms, q surgeon of world
wide fame, and the greatest Of his
time. A few miles from here, in
3Mecklenburg county, N. G., James K.
Polk, the eleventh president Of the
United States, was born, and about o
half mile from the South Caroline line
lin Union county, North Caroline, and
about three miles from the little Wax
ahsw church, was born Andrew jack
1son, the. seventh president Of the
UNITED states. The remains Of An
drew jackson, ST., lie buried in the
2ittle churohyard. and tradition aeys
that email pile Of rough stoaes mark
the place. In that ancient place
80f burial, families sleep togeth-
Ter, but the place where andrew
jackson, ST., lies is unknown. Fifty
years ago Parton, the historian, visited
fhe WaHhaws and wrote OF the little
Echurchyard. Very little change has
GRaken place since then, and his de-
Pcription, if dated in the twentieth
|Btentnry, would be almost as accurate
|hs when dated in the middle Of the
eiRsteenth century. A strange and 4
Rovely place is that old graveyard to
Rhis day. A little church (the third
Rhat he's stood .11.e the spot), having
|hothing whatsver Of the ecclesiastical |
IN its appearance, resembling rather e |
peat farmhouse, stands, not in the
bhntchyard, but o short distance from
It. Huge trees. With smaller pines
Rmong them, riseaing ely and iii olumps,
hs theySWere originally left By. those |
Rwho first subdued the wilderness there.
hnd when . stranger stands in that
Phurehyard, among those old graves
he has the feeling of one h,o: comes;
hpon5 the ancient burial place of q race3
Pxtinct Rude Old sronaes are there
e@hatS were placed on graves wlh,en, i, m as
pet g etonsontter was 5siot III in the,
provinces zones q upon which coats of |
hrms5s sers once engraved, stiiiiiiS patslysi
aecipherabls;s stones which are mod 81
Pm compared with these. yss record
fhet exploits of Rsvo ntionasy sol diers;; /
btones SO old that every trade of IN
fcsiption is lost ], and STONES aa new as
fhe new year. I.
Itis the purpose torscord sapseially
fRhat tradition has 10 relate of { ths
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