Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-10
TRIBUTE 10 DISTINGUISHED NAM.
CAPTAINS JULIUS LEWIS sHANkL,S.

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Captain Julius Lewis Shanklin was
born September 30th, 1928, and uied De-.
cember 10th, 1905. His father was Mr..
Joseph Van Shanklin, q prominent law
yer at the Bar at Pendleton In Old Pendle-
ton District. His mother was Mrs. Nancy
Elvira Lewis %Shanklin, a daughter Of
Col. Richard Lewis, a descendant of the
Lewis family, 80 closely related to the
Washington family. His father and
mother resided at Pendleton from their
marriage to their death. Capt. julius l..
Shanklin received his academic education
at the Pendleton Academy, then gradu-
ated at the South Carolina College, and
afterwards took a liberal course at the
Uni, ,rsity of Virginia. He was edu-
Gated for a lawyer, but never completed
the course, %preferring to remain at homo
with his father and mother and assist
them in the management of their extern
sive property. A short time previous to
the war he wa elected a member of tho
Legislature from Anderson District and
served one term. In April, 1851, he was
elected captain of a company of volun.
teers, organized at Pendleton, and his
company was attached to the Fourth
South Carolina Volunteer Regiment, Col.
j. B. e. Sloan, and his company, with his
regiment, was Immediately sent to Vir-
Rinia. The Fourth Regiment participated
in the first battle of Manassas and the
battles following, until its twelve months
service expired, when the regiment was
r%eorganized for the war. At this re-
organization Capt. Shanklin, like many
Of the ofic srs, either declined to serve
again, or other mon were substituted in
their places. But he continued in the
service during the entire war; most of
the time he was attached to the signal
corps.
After the war he settled in Oconee
county on q plantation given him by bis
father, near the town of Westminster.
Here he lead a quiet and unobtrusive
life until January, 1859, when he married
Miss Julia Doyle, daughter of Col. E. r.
Doyle and NJ. Susan DENLY Doyle. He
was elected after his marriage both to
the House and to the Senate from Oconee
county and served in both with credit to
himself and to the county he represented.
Capt. Shanklin was q modest and unas.
Stunning Christian gentleman. He had NO
ambition to advance his personal OIL
selfish. purposes. In all of his public
service he worked only to build up and
advance the interest and welfare Of his
fellow mon. Capt. Shanklin was a, gen.
tleman of the old school. He was re,
fined and pure by nature, was honorable
and upright in all his dealings with his
fellow men, was genial, generous and
unselashF to- a marked degree; was, II
anything, too modest and unassuming,
yet was possessed Of an intellect O.
more than ordinary power. 1t was gene.
rally conceded that julie Shanklin, as he
was familiarlY called, was the brainiest
man Pendleton ever produced. Capt.
Shanklin's most conspicuous character.
istic, which endeared him most to hif
family and friends. was his uncomplain.
ing patience with which he endured his
pains and sufferipgs for many years OF
his life, and also his kindly sympathy
for the poor and distressed. The widow
and the helpless never came to him 70,
help and went away empty handed, and
his Christian spirit was manifested in
that, when he bestowed charity, he neve,
let his left hand know what his right
hand did.
The minds and characters of men
after death, are frequently exaggerated
and for this reason the writer of this
sketch of Capt. Shanklin has refrained
from expressing the full measure of com,
mendation his life and character are
entitled to, yet on the other hand one
feels that such a life and character should
be held up as an example to his sons anG
tho young men of the present genera
ton.
Capt. Shanklin left surviving him hit
widow, Mrs. Julia D. Shanklin, and foul
sons, namely, Major Augustus Shanklin
of Clemson College,; j. Barbour Shank
lin, S. Morris Shanklin, and Edga,
r. Shanklin.
Capt. Sbanklin was a member of thu
Rock Springs Methodist Episcopal church
South, and his remains were laid to res
at Richland church, near his home.
A Friend Who Knew Him Well.