Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-18

was ptter Yards named for himself,
Anderson county. His estate at his
death amounted to 2,100 acres. From
this district he was sent to the State y
Legislature.
Ca,... Ben Perry, IA native Of Mas
sachusetts, settled in what is now
Oconee county, near South Union.
He served through the Revolution
and died at his home place, now
owned BY Col. T.. ID. Long. Capt.
Perry died IN 1S42 and was buried
In the family graveyard there. Tho
grave is iua".rd by brick wall
around and a marble slab on 1t.
William Grant, Revolutionary sol
der, was from the lower part of what
is now oconee. He served through
the war IN upper Carolina. He is
buried in private burying ground.
His grave is on the east slope of a
hill overlooking Clemson College, on
the farm OF eugene Fant, near Town
Vile.
Col Benjamin Cleveland, a Revolu-
tionary soldier, Is buried near Fort
Madison and monument has been
erected to his memory in Madison.
The creeks in Oconee county were
named by an Indian girl, who, know
,rg that the Indians were going to
attack the white men, went to warn
them. She was walking along ana
her dress was caught in the shrub
Sery and was torn. She spliced the
pieces out of her dress, and as she
came to each creek she dropped the
little scrap of her dress and called
the creeks, beginning with one mile,
up to nihety-six miles.
About 1875 the Colonial Cover
nor of Caroiira, James Glenn, made
a treaty with the aborigines-secar-
ing vast tracts of lands in the upper
part OF the State and permission to
erect forts in the Indian territory.
The most important of these forts
was Fort Prince George, on Keowee
River. Fort Rutledge was built on
the Seneca River, near the planta-
tion afterwards owned by Andrew f.
Lewis. John G. Calhoun CAME into
possession Of the farm, his home for,
twenty-five years. He called this
place Fort Hill in commemorative
OF Fort Rutledge.
| Capt. Horshoe Robinson was born
in 1853. and he entered the army in
his seventeenth year. Before the
| close Of The war he says he commend
ed a troop of horses, 80 that his mill
tary title is Captain Horseshoe?,
He derived his name from bend in
a creek in South Carolina. Major
James Robinson died April &c, 1895,
aged 70 years, and was buried near
the Black Warrior river, few miles
from Tuscaloosa, Ala.
| John Werner, year-nld boy
fought in lie Revolution. He was
born and reared In Abbeville district.
liz f.ught in the battle Of Kings
Mountain and the battle of Cawpens.
He served faithfully throughout the
war. He died 1853 at Bachelors Re-
treat. and is buried at the same place
in Oconee county.
Arthur Craig was courier for
John Werner in the Revolution. He
died few years before John Werner,
about 1850. His grave is near Old
Pickens.
John McWhorter, originally from
Pennsylvania, was Revolutionary
soldier in upper Carolina. His bro
ther, Samuel, was chaplain in the
army, and when last heard of was
in the New Jersey campaign. John
McWhorter settled on grant of
land decided to him above Walhalla.
He died in a good old age, and his
body lies in old Bethel churchyard
beside his wife. Both graves haS4s
slabs of the same kind, but the wordy
ing on them is almost obliterated by
time.
All of these soldiers served in up
per Carolina and were brave defend
ers of home and friends and contend
ers for national independence and
| liberty.
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