Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-08-30
pARKsvILLE NEWS.
Accident to Mr.. Edmunds. Old
Landmark Removed. Death
of Mrs. CARROTS Moth
er. Masonic Meeting.

pitality of Mrs. Mary Il. Freeland,
the widow of the late Eugene Free
land of Plum Branch, on her 10th
birthday. Seventy-nine honorable
years, surrounded by fine looking
children, grand children and great
grand children, none of whom have
ever been guilty Of anything mean
or dishonorable is'something to feel
thankful for. 1t seemed to me, al
though Mrs. Freeland does not
look a whit over sixty, that she
could we'll pray the prayer of Sim
con: "Now lettest thou thy servant
depart in peace for mine eyes have
seen thy salvation" Of course
Simeon referred to having seen the
Saviour, but Mrs. Freeland has
seen the salvation of her children,
and does not care to tarry here too
long, for she told the writer, when
he told her she looked like she
might reach 100, she did not care
to. Better for her will be the day of
her death than the day of her birth.
The children all came and honor
ed her by bringing presents, and she
in turn gave each of them present
with a mothers blessing. Her grand
children recited tender odes, ex-
pressing love for grand mother. Her
pastor, Rev. Earl Freeman, read ap-
propriate scripture and offered up
a tender prayer and the children,
grand children and pastor with
moist eyes sang God be with you
till we again" 1t was tender ser
vice, calculated to touch heart of
adamant, and which Nno doubt
made impressions upon the little
hearts of the great grand children,
which will not be effaced long after
"the worms have destroyed all that
is mortal" of the honored grand
mother. But an abler pen will tell
you about it, giving their names.
The meeting at Red Hill closed
last Friday with 95 accessions. Rev.
T. n. Garrett reached home in the
afternoon of Friday and Saturday
morning received a telegram an
5nouncing the death of Mrs. Gar
rett's mother. Mrs. Garrett has been
by the bedside of her dying moth
er over a week. They have our SYM
pathies.
Parksville doesn't look exactly
right; one of the old land marks is
gone. I refer to the old store of the
late Mr.. L. F. Dorm, which for
many years was his dwelling, as
we'll as his store and in which sew
eral of his children were born. Mr..
d. N. Dorm has torn down and
moved tho old building, and though
we do not know his plans, he will
doubtless rear a modern structure
in it's place While the old land
marks must pass away, new ones
must 60 up; and this reminds me of
the new market house now going up
between the bank and store of Parks
and Blackwell. This building, we
understand, is the enterprise of Mr..
Otis Redd and his father-in-law, MIR.
Tom Barrett.
We are sorry 10 report serious
accident to Mr.. Charlie Edmunds,
a brother of Mr., R. N. Edmunds of
our town, as we'll as Mr.. Gus Ed
munds of yours. Mr.. Edmuuls was
hurt in an automobile wreck in
Georgia, having his leg broken in
two places, and shoulder dislocated
or badly broken up. We sympa-
thize very much with Mr.. Edmunds
for it has not been much over
year since he left the hospital after
a severe operation for mastoid alb
scess.
The sage of Falfa, and his boys,
Abiah and Dimpse, have bought the
old Morgan home from Mr.. j. G.
Morgan. This old home has been
owned by the Morgans for over
century. The sage will occupy the
old residence while his son Abiah
is putting up a nice home for his
wife and babies, just this side, of
the most modern style. Mr.. j. G.
Morgan has purchased the Wales
cottage and will move into town.
And this reminds me THAT the
population of what might be styled
Morgan town is increasing, as MIR.
E. G.. Morgan, Jr., another son,
who owns a part of the old Morgan
estate hard by, is the happy father
of another fine boy, named John
Evan. Bub, as we call him, cut up
some and said eh hem! it's a fine
boy, if it is ours, isn't it Lilly? We
pull our hat to Morgan town.
The Masons met in regular ses-
sion Saturday night and gave the
fellow craft degree to Messrs. Harv
Drennon and Tillman Howle. The
visitors at this communication were,
Messrs Erv Holmes, Hamp Smith
and Dave Quarles from Concordia
at Edgefe.d.
Mr.. Jim Minor has returned from
the great Confederate reunion in