The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-15
Story and Sentiment.
Extract from Mr.. Wilson's booklet

Extract from Mr. Wilson's booklet.
Members of the South Carolina Conference 1909:
Genemen-The City Abbevie extends to each OF you cor
dial greeting hearty welcome Warm
city yours Our homes are yours Inc oes' 0, dill '
ia All that we can make pleasant your stay
with u.s. We hope cordaty of people and the
of our homes may acceptable your presence WI" 10
neassnt to u.s. And you your homes we nope
Won NAV carry you something Of the pleasure which we
realize by your Without to our
relations we you good health and good spr
best things this side the River
Having said this much it is hoped that you may
M if we talk little of the city county of Abbeve which we
we'll While do not doubt that you ALREADY Know ~
If this historic old county brief recital OF few
rs Of legend history inemngled with some tac as 10 1ne
conditions today be neither TO
nor improbable -.
Abbeve has which true son proud TO
in detail the facts legends which the people have an
honorable pride would require great volume but IL IS nopea
your patience be weaed by the little to wnlcn
is invited
In peace Church and in State in education ana
good citizenship people been factors all that
morals and protects religious liberties or defends the
rights of the education and in good citizenship we yield
the palm to
SETTLERS OF ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
bbe Comfy was settled by refugees religious persecu
to French Irish immigrants among the hrst set
tiers County, which land had occupied by
and used by hunting grounds The settlers OF AboeV1e
County left beyond search OF religious
They religious persecution to become the
an lerate people, unend morals or hostile to
our religion how brave or how strong they may nave peen
T. as not decreed that the and Christian
white dominated ruled governed by the
and unfriendy red man -
one occasion the people Long settlement had notice OF the
approach of Settlers put their families and their
goods intending seek safety Augusta neY were
oyertaken miles Southeast of Abbeve men
women and children were little girls taken OIL
One soon after was having endured captivity
allowed to return
STRONG BRAVE HEARTS.
T. is fact however that now olden time some few
every section claim superior heritage or OF KIN
royalty but the fact B the great majority OF our
we're men and strong and brave hearts They were
men and women and serve to none
That herty influence down through the
needs proof consider the OF the
settlers through the succeeding an
which distinct today as they were hundred
years ago.
The settlers of County being religious people were
moral and loyal things tended their upft the better
civilization They devoted worhppe Of the Lord and they
were equally of education and morals Before they were able
to they assembled the forest where they touna
Tongues in trees books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything
And before we school houses had noble mothers
"Who in beauty education. blood,
Nodded mind with princess of the world N
Christian education without unnecessary delay built
churches claim that county in all
land scholars than did Abbve county Mothers
fathers and churches nowhere produced better nobr
those which fame and to the home OF the
migrant asylum the refugee from religious
cution. i,
There noble spirit of emulation and EACH worked
for welfare and the public good Each distinct the
lows but Schools esabshedn reach OF every
child and pockets parents paid the teachers
Lowndesvie Wlngton Clear Spring and other communities
uilt what were then called high And West built col
ee where the drink deeper the Peran
spring
THE !
hundred years ago while this struggle going French
settler County, Dr. John Della Howe died leaving his large
estate for home and school for twelve boys
and the cash
Before free schools and public sentiment
such needy children from participating in the
for the poor Only about $ 600 then paid to
teachers by the paid tuition of children
sometimes knowledge the The counties then
1aid nothing by taxation.
Under like these the school which Dr. Della Howe
great such needy children
as appointment the school and home
school graduated boys and girls who atterwad
church and the country Among the
from that institution W. b. Fraser as good
man as there California He loves Abbevle county he
loves and will his advance
the interests of that institution.
The industrial institution where the children
supposed employed onehaf of each day at labor
while the half of the given the school to the study
of the lessons
DR. Della Howe eth Lethe has been defined
the stream of the lower world from which, according to
the Greek belief the souls of departed drank to lose all