Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Jephtha George Abbott.

In memory Of Jephtha George Abbott,
who died at his home, near Walhalla,
s. c., on Monday morning, May I'd, 1904,
at about a O'Clock, after sudden illness,
in the seventy eighth year of his age.
He was one of the fourteen children of
Uncle Buckley and Aunt Judy Abbott,
and was born at the old Buckley Abbott
homestead on Bear Swamp or Little Con.
neross creek, in December, 1926. His
mortal remains were buried at the Ne
vile school house graveyard on Tuesday
afternoon, Sd instant, at 4 O'Clock, after
appropriate funeral services conducted
by Rev. j. M. Mcclure, pastor of the
Walhalla Baptist church, in the presence
of large conoourse of relatives, friends
and neighbors, who bad assembled to
pay the last sad tribute to his memory
and to attest their high appreciation to
his many virtues, as warm friend, kind
neighbor and generous citizen.
Among the first settlers OF this section
of then old Pendleton District, after
wards old Pickens District, now Oconee
county, about the year 1905, now nearly
one hundred years ago, we're Uncle Jack
Abbott and Uncle Buck Abbott, two
brothers, and the latter the father Of the
subject of this notice, who came as
pioneers to this section from Spartan
burg District, South Carolina. They
were reliable farmers and stock raisers,
and men of respeotability and high
character in the community in which
they lived. They both belonged to the
old school of Jeffersonian Democracy al
ways true, patriotic, fearless and out
spoken in their political principles, and
not unlike Unole Israel Gillison, another
contemporanoous, impulsive and fervent
Southern patriot, who on one occasion
had attended political gathering and
public speaking, aud hearing the ex-
preston of some sectional sentiments
with which he did not agree, remarked
to the writer's father, "Damn Southern
man with Northern principles.'
The deceased, Jephtha George Abbott,
married Miss Jane Dowis, a daughter of
old Uncle John Dowis, we'll known to
the older citizens of this county, who re-
sided then in the early fifties near old
Riohland church. She predeceased him
many years ago, leaving an only child, q
son, John w. Abbott, who now resides
with his family on the homestead of his
father, above Walhalla, s. c., and he is
also staunch and successful farmer,
like unto his ancestry.
The subject of this notice, though
aged, volunteered his services in defence
of his State in 1858 and served on the
coast of South Carolina until he was
later discharged from the service on ac-
count of physical disabilities. In politics
he was a lifelong Democrat as was his
father before him. lie was farmer, an
agriculturist of the true type; devoted
his whole life to it; made his entire sup
port for himself and family from the
farm, and enjoyed it, His religious faith
was that of a Baptist, to which he ad-
hered strictly. He was liberal in his
contributions to the support of the
church and the public schools, and all
enterprises for the welfare Of his fellow
men. He leaves one brother, Rev. w.
w. Abbott, and two sisters, Mrs. Tempe
Graham, relict of Alexander Graham,
deceased, and Mrs. Martha Crenshaw,
widow of - Crenshaw, deceased,
who lived near Gainesville, Ga, To
these and his only son, John w. Abbott,
and family, and his long line of kins..
people the writer extends sincere and
heartfelt sympathies.
s. K. Dendy, Sr.