Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-03-20
RECALLS PAST IN OLD OCONlIE.
Names of Many Old Residents Re-
caIleu-Thc New Generation.

Spring Place, Ga. March 11.-Eto
itor Keowee Courier: am sending
you So, for which you will please
give me credit on my subscription.
| have forgotten when my time is
out. 1t is my intention to always
keep you paid one year in advance.
If do not, it is just because | do
not think Of it at the proper time,
for you may consider me a lifetime
subscriber.
l want to tell you how much | love
the dear old Courier. 1t is the first
newspaper l remember. When
was a child 1t was one Of my greatest
pleasures to read it to my grand
father, Foster Perry, after he was
too old to read for himself. Very
since then. 1t is known in my home
now as "Mama's paper" and no one
dares destroy it until they are quite
sure that mama has read it about
to me about noon, when ! am busy,
but just as soon as l can glance
over it hurredly, to see If anything
very important has happened That
night l read it carefully, then in a
few days, when the old papers are
carried out, ! glance over it once
more, to be real sure that nothing
has been overlooked. Reading The
Courier has kept me posted about
affairs generally in Oconee since
left there in 1889. l was born and
reared in Oconee, spent just about
half my life there, and you know
we all love our home county.
l enjoy the letters from the diff
ferent correspondents. like the
ones from Bounty Land because my
father, w. ". Cleveland, once taught
school there. am told that we
lived somewhere near there at the
time, but do not remember quite
that far back. suppose it must
have been the year Of 1867, for my
father died in 1865. I do not re-
member him. My mother, who was
Maria Perry, died two years later.
No orphan girl was ever more ten
derly cared for than I, by my grand
father, unclcs and aunts.
But back to Bounty Land. !"
Names are often mentioned in the
letters from there OF people | knew
when a child. Have known the fa-
theirs and mothers Of a lot Of the
young people. I have q beautiful
little china pitcher. given me by Jas
per Doyle's mother when | was at
her home, when a very small girl.
| enjoy the Richland letters, too,
for l used to know a lot Of people
around Richland and Rock Springs
churches. I attended church at both
places when little girl, usually go
ing with my uncle, John Perry, who
now lives in Walhalla. Will say to
those who knew the Perry family,
that he is the only one Of the family
him, and the fact that he is now the
only one of my mothers people liv-
ing draws him still nearer to me-
| hope to have the pleasure Of at
tending one Of the Richland reun-
ions some time. There are a num-
Der Of old people in that community
that | would like to see once more
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughs, Mrs. Emily
Stribling, Mrs. Mary Fennell and
others. Many happy hours have
spent at Mrs. Fennells.
| miss the letters from Fair Play.
/ wish some one would write from
there, for that was my last home in
Oconee, and where | spent most Of
my school days. | really know more
people in that section than any
other Your last correspondent from
there, Mrs. Floyd Watson, was one
Of my schoolmates and ono Of my
best friends. My last visit to Fail
Play was made sad by her death
just few days before. | visited in
her home and my heart went out in
sympathy to the husband and moth.
erless children. Was so sorry tc
note the death Of her little daughter
Tho family have my deepest sympa.
thies.
There has been a great change IN
that little town since ! left there ir
1889. think there are only two
people now living in the place who