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Tribute to the Memory Of Wad- II
dy Thompson Jaynes. d.
(By Julia d. Snanklin.)

not be complete without a short
sketch Of Waddy Thompson Jaynes.
who was the sixth child of William
and Catharine Jaynes. William
Jaynes was born August 8, 1904, and
died September 28, 1876 His wife,
Catharine Thompson (Davis) Jaynes,
was born August 30, 1904, and died
September 1S, 1888. Something re-
markable, they were both born in
August and died in September,
though there was seven years differ
ence In their deaths. AS they lived
near and were close friends Of my
grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Dendy,
we knew them as Uncle Billie" and
Aunt Kitty" They had ten chill
dren, namely: Francis, born Febru-
ary 10, 1926; Nancy, born June 6,
1927; Davis, born December z, 1928:
Anna, born March 81, 1890; Catha-
rine, born April 90. 1892; Waddy
Thompson, born December Z, 1893;
Charles B., born April 20, 1896; Jo-
seph Pinkney, born February IS,
1887; Dempsey, born July 6, 1899;
Thomas A. Y, born April 2S, 1S41;
Eliza Isabella, born March 3, 1914.
Dempsey died young. Mrs. Catha-
rine Jaynes Gibson, wife of Hamil-
ton A. II. Gibson, of Walhalla, died
May 81. 1907. OF the five sons all
are dead except Charles B., who re-
sides at Valley Mills, Texas. Three
daughters are living-the eldest,
Mrs. Frances Ewing, resides in New
Mexico. Mrs. Nancy Graham died in
Mississippi several years ago. The
other two daughters, Mrs. Ann
Brewer and Mrs. Eliza Riley, reside,
in Texas.
Waddy Thompson Jaynes was
born at the old home place where
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughs now lives.
They used water out Of the original
Rock Springs, where the water bub-
bled up through the rock and sand
and looked just like pot boiling.
He was happily married to Miss Del
lah Saphronia Rust, of Franklin, Ca,
August 2, 1860. To them five chill
dren were born, four sons and one
daughter. The oldest son, Robert
Thompson Jaynes, brilliant lawyer
of the Walhalla bar, was made colo
mel on Governor Heyward's staff. In
the reserved and dignifled lawyer of
to-day 1T Is hard, sometimes, to rec
ognize "Our Bob" as he was known
when he went to school at old Rich
land. The second son, little Joseph
Pinkney, was born February 6, 1864,
and died November 28, 1864. Such
short life, but he held a sacred
place In the hearts Of father and
mother that none Of the other chill
dren ever filled. The father was in
the war and never saw his baby. He
grieved over 1t as long as he lived
He talked to me Of how hard 1t was
to think he never saw his baby,
while was spending very pleasant
day with him and his second wife
just short time before his death.
William Burton, the third SON,
went to Sherman, Texas, in 1888,
where he began the practice of law.
From there he went to Washington.
as private secretary of Senator Bal
ley, though he still claims Texas as
his home.
Fannie L. married Rev. John A.
White, a member Of the South Caro-
lima Conference Of the M. E. Church,
South. They are on the Rock Hill
Circuit this year.
The baby, the genial Charles Gar
wood, who, though the years may go
by and the silver threads begin to
show, never grows any older. He Is
boy still--with all a fondness for
his boyhood friends. Methinks, as
the father and mother watch
over their children from the Home
of the Blest they are we'll paid for
every sacrifice they made to educate
their children.
No one man ever lived in our COM
muntiy who did more for the cause
Of education. He and his wife
thought no sacrifice too great to
make for the cause Of education, re-
alizing that 1t could not be lost
While the subject Of this sketch was
not an educated man, yet he had
such hard, common sense few knew
his education was limited. He' was
determined his children should not
be handicapped as he had been. AL
though just after the war it was a
cI Ir,tpn n1n IN Ix,to IA.
generous subscriber to the schools