The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-27

namented the graden of Long House,
the Huger plantation near the village.
The late Col. Thomas Wentworth Hig
ginson's life of Lafayette has made the
romantic story of Francis Huger fa-
miliar to schoolbOys everyweher.
Huger was but three years OF age
when Lafayette. on his way to join the
American patriots landed with IL
companions, on the night of April ID.
1777. on North Island. Winyah bay.
and became the guest of Huger's
father. The county young marquis
Impressed the imagination of the
child and ever afterward was his hero.
All the world knows how Francis
Huger, score of years later. with
his fellow student. Eric Bollman,
rescued Lafayette from the Austrian
fortress of Olmutz. Their strategy
was Immediately successful. though
Lafayette, having misunderstood the
directions given him, took the wrong
road and was recaptured near the
frontier. Huger. living given up to
BOllman the one horse available for
their escape. was taken near the spot
and himself was committed TO the
! noisome dungeon OF Olmhtz, where
he languished through eight months
Huger's connection with the Pen
dleton society arose out of his mar
rlage in 1911 to daughter of Gen.
Thomas Pinckney. the first president
of the society His son, BENJAMIN,
born in 1906, was presented with a
sword Of honor by the State OF South
Carolina in 1852 for meritorius con-
duct and. gallantry in tt/ war with
Mexico. In the War Between the Sec
| tions he attained the grade OF briga
| der general in the Confederate States
army. He died in Charleston in 1877.
Following is list of the members
of the Pendleton Farmers society be-
tween 1920 and 1861:
Robert Anderson, William Ander-
| son, G. t. Anderson, John b. hdger, J.
E. Adger. E. B. Benson. John p. Ben
son, j. 6. Baker, Armist/id Burt, r.
Bachelor. o. X. Bryoles, G.. T. Bar
nette. Aaron Boggs, J. N. Boggs. John
c. Calhoun, John E. Calhoun. William
Clark. Samuel Cherry, William Car
| ter. A. p. Calhoun, John X. Cherry,
| Colin Campbell, Archibald Campbell,
T. Herbert Gown. E. D. Cherry, ]. w.
Crawford, Ransom Calhoun, W. r.
Calhoun, the Rev. A. H. Cornish, H.
E. Campbell, E. M. Cobb, ]. w. Cobb,
4 IL, u.
| e. Elliott, George E. +. Foster, Alfred
Fuller, Joseph Grisham. James G..
Griffin. j. d. Geniord, Isreal Gillerson,
A. S. Gibbes. w. H. D. Gaillard, r. N.
Garvin. G. G. Gilman. Edward Har-
lesion, John Hunter, Francis Kinloch
Huger, David K. Hamilton, William
Hubbard, Jno Hunter. Thos. Har-
rlson, Bentley Hasel, Alfred Huger, Jo-
seph Hillhouse, John Humes. Ezekiel
Harris, James Hamilton, Paul Hamil-
ton, John HASTE, j. w. Harrison, w.
a. Hayne, John Holmes, William L..
| Jenkins. w. r. Jones, John G. Kilpat-
rick, Robert Lewis, Jesse p. Lewis. w.
C. Livingston. j. o. Lewis. A. F.
! Lewis, r. l.. Lewis, j. T. Latta, John
| Maxwell. James L.: McCann, Isaac
Murphree. r. A. Maxwell, S. e. Max
we'll. c. b. Moses. John c. Miller, NJ.
s. McCrary, H. c. Miller, Jesse Martin.
nj. p. Maxwell, Warren Martin. Mar
tin Mckay. j. C. Miller, S. E. Mayes,
John McPhail, Jephtha Norton. John
l.. North. Jesse W. Norris John S.
Newton. Thomas Pinckney, Charles
iCotesworth Pinckney, Thomas J. Pick
ems, William Poe, Andrew C. Pickens,
Richard S.. Porcher. John Robinson.
Willis Robinson, A. w. Ross, Carver
Kendall. Henry e. Ravenel. John Ra-
Letter, Thomas Reid. James Stewart,
David Sloan, John M. Sloan. Benjamin
Sloan, Benjamin Smith. William C.
Smith. ]. v. Shanklin, F. w Symmes,
William Sloan, Elam Sharpe, Thomas
NJ. Sloan, d. F. Sloan, William Steele,
Robert Simpson. George Seaborn,
Archibald Seabrook, John It. Sloan,
Richard F.. Simpson. ]. r. Shelor, ]. D,
! Smith, William Simpson, Edward
Symmes, j. L. Simpson, David s. Tay-
.or, d. r. Towers. e. A. Tate, John
Werner. Samuel Werner. William Van
Wyck. Joseph Whitner, Samuel War
rem, Jacob Marley, j. t. Whitefield,
Thomas Marley, J. d. Wright, Green
berry Whitten. s. M. Wilson, j. s.
Iawtop.
(PEEDLETON FARMERS SOCIETY.
! Compiled by c. l.. Newmann and J.
c. Stribling. for the society. Cloth,
12mo,. DIP. 20S, illustrated. Foote &
Davis CO., Atlanta.)
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