The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-06-25
BISHOP CAPERS I'LL.
Reported to be Very Ill at His Sum
mer Home.-Paralyzed on the
Left Side.

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8areenville:
Sa "Bishop Ellison Capers is desper-
ItSately i'll at his summer home on Cedar
issEnountain. His left leg and arm are
Sapparently paralyzed."
$S Cedar Mountain is in Pennsylvania
N. c., and Brevard, the near
Vest railroad station, is ten miles away
8snhe means Of communication, there
SSfore, are very much limited, for Bre-
@vard itself is on a branch road Of tho
fSouthern running out from Hender-
\ sonville.
{ Brig. Gen. Ellison Capers, a de-
scendant Of an English family which
settled in South Carolina among the
/. earliest colonists, was born in Char
h sleston, October ID, 1887. His father,
81 Grandfather and several generations
Esof the name, belonged to the parish
SSEEAs of St. Thomas and st. Dennis, i'll
@Gharleston county, in the territory
called Berkeley county.
s&His Mother was of Irish extraction,
Ssier father, William McGill, having
ssgasettled in Kershaw county, upon COM
Wing from Ireland.
SS$s SS William Capers, the grandfather of
S8Ellison, was soldier of the Revolu
Mtion, lieutenant in the Second South
;SCarolina regiment, and after the fall
sBQf Charleston in 1850, one of Mar
$ion's captains in his famous parti-
sSSIISan brigade, in which his only BROTH
s8sr, G. Sinclair Capers, held the same
StTank. Several thrilling incidents in
$gsthe career Of these two gallant parti-
6szan' captains are related by Judge
\ James Of South Carolina, in his life
\ Of Marion. They were both planters.
n William Capers, father Of Ellison,
Nwas born on his fathers plantation,
"" Bullhead," In St. Thomas parish,
B about 20 miles north Of Charleston,
/ January 25, 1890. He was graduated
j at the South Carolina college in Co.
/ lumbia, entered the Methodist minis
I try in 1903, and devoted his life and
!, brilliant talents to his sacred calling.
He was elected and consecrated
bishop in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in 1845, and died at
his home in Andeson, S. c., january
%, 1855.
Ellison Capers, the fourth son Of
his marriage with Susan McGill, was
graduated at the South Carolina
Military academy in November, 1857.
The next year he was resident gra
duate and assistant professor in
mathematics and belle letters in his
alma mater. In 1857 he married
Charlotte Rebecca, fourth daughter
of John Gendeon and Katherine
Couturier Palmer of Cherry Grove
plantation, St. John, Berkeley, S. G.
In the fall Of this year he was APP
pointed assistant professor Of math-
ematics in the South Carolina Mill
tary academy at Charleston, with the
rank of second lieutenant.
The active state Of affairs in Char
lesion during the Summer and fall Of
1860 reused the military spirit of
the people, and the First regiment Of
rifles was organized in Charleston, Of
which Lieut.. Capers was unanimously
elected major. He served with his re-
giment at Castle Pinckney, and on
Morris, Sullivan's, James and Johns
islands. His regiment also constituted
a part Of the army under Beaure-
gard during the attack on Fort Sum-
ter. He continued to serve in the Vi
" cinity of Charleston until November,
when he resigned the rank Of lieu
tenant-colonel, to which he had been
promoted, in order that he might en-
ter the Confederate service.
Satisfied that terrible struggle
was before his people, he resigned his
professorship at the Military aaa-
denny and united with Col. Clement
H. Stevens Of Charleston ir enlisting
a regiment for the war. The regiment
was mustered into the Confederate
service as the Twenty-fourth South
Carolina Volunteer infantry, April 1,
1862, with Clement Fl. Stevens as
colonel, Ellison Capers lieutenant col
onel, and II. j. Hammond major. On
the 4th Of April he was ordered to
Coles Island, and on the 25th Of May
was transferred to James island. On