Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
INTERESTING LETTER
Prominent and Historic
Sections Of Saluda County.


About. Prominent and Historic
Sections Of Saluda County.
saluda county isaometimes
aihrown cff. on" by other counties
of the state, there are some aec-
tions of Saiuda which could vie
with any other rural section in
the state in the way of progress
and historical connection. When
1 say this l have in mind especial
ly that sec'in which wss once
part of old Edgefeld now known
as, Zoar community and which
embraces that section known as
Coleman's Cross Roads. The peo-
pie of this section are making
rapid strides IN the way of prog
ress. The laud is in high state
of cultivation, there are good
churches, a daily mail; aud the
most striking feature, and one
in which the interest of entire
community in centered. is Zoar
High School. This school was
founded seven years ago bya citi-
zen of Greenwood county. T. E.
Dorm. who still holds the princi-
palship. 1t was at that time only
q common school, but Prof. Dorm
seeing that it could be developed,
at once adopted a high school
course which be maintained on
his own responsibility up till last
year, when he succeeded in hav-
ing it adopted as one of the state
high schools. The people are now
erecting splendid two-story
building to meet the demand OF
students from different sections.
Students from this school have
entered as high as sophomore
class at Woffold College and rank
among the leaders of the class,
some have won scholarships to the
University Of South Carolina aud
the Citadel in Charleston, some
have obtained first grade certi6-
Gates and are successfully engaged
in teaching, some holding high
positions as book keepers, and
others are engaged in other pur-
suits.
In the vicinity Of this school
ia the burial ground of some of
South Carolina's most il!ustrious
statesmen, which is at Butler
Methodist church, the site of their
former home. GIN. VIM. Butler
who was Major General in the
Revolution. and who eerved for
a long time IN the United States
senate, and his wife, who was Maj
VIM. Moore's sister, are buried
here, and also five of their sone,
and their only daughter who mar
ried Gen. Waddy Thompson; one
son, Gen. M. g. .Butl-r's father,
being kuried out west. Among their
sons buried are Andrew Pickens
Butler who served as circuit
Judge, and as Uni ed States sena-
tor; Col. Pierce M. Butler who
served as governor, and as United
States senator, aud who lost bis
life in the Mexican War COM
mapding the Palmetto Regiment
which SO distinguished itself, aud
to whose memory the graceful
palmetto monument on the State
House grounds in Columbia was
erected; and James Butler, who
was major in the Civil War.
Here is also buried Gen. VIM.
Buffers grandson, Col. Tom But
Ter OF the Civil War. and Col. q.
S. Brooks who married Gen. VIM.
Buffers sister and is the grand
father of Press and Hampton
Brooks.
Another grave in this vicinity
and ole of especial interest to
Baptists is that of ElGer Luther
Rice at Pine Pleasant Baptist
church. He was a native of North
boro, Mass. 1t is thought that the
first American Foreign Mission,
on which be went to India, as
sociated with Judson and others
originated with him. He was a
minister of Carolina Baptist de-
nomination, founder of Colum.
blan College in District of Co.
lumbia, and was making tour OF
the leading cities in eastern Uni
ted States endeavoring to arouse
his brethren in the cause of mis-
sions and education, when, while
passing thru this section of Sa-
luda, at that time part of Edge
field district, was suddenly taken
sick and died in the year 1886,
being buried at the nearest church
Of his denomination
CITIZEN.
Zoer 6 q Ian 2 1903