The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-02-08
A General View of the Dutch Fork

The settlement of the Dutch Fork its enlarged terri
four places and at different times The ear-
est settlement was made about 1888 Youngmers or
DreIer ferry These settlers came from Saxa Goha and
Amelia township Dr. Bernhein, in his German Settlements
of the Caronas tells Of the conditions existing in this COM
m1nv It was here Webbr heresy and when Rev
Christian The,,s German Reformed minister demonstrated
with them they turned him and he had fee for his life
Webber was arrested tried and hanged His followers
dispersed and whose mentioned in connection
Herewith known in this section The fame OF this
garden spot America having gone back to Germany number
Of came over and made their future home lower down
in the Fork Among some of these the well known families
of Leaphart Liebhardt, Huffman (Foffman) Nunnamaker
Newnamacher) LoricS Dreher This settlement has
always been noted for its progressive spirit and sturdy honest
citizens doing their full duty church and state when
called
Another settlement made on Waeree creek near what
is now Spring Hill In this settlement the Whites, Eeaz
ers Earges Sikes Cun1eranders, HatiwangerS, ct al
The third settlement far can learn was made on
Buffalo creek near Newberry county line reaching far
as Bush river where the ScotchIrish settlement that
had come down from the upper section of South Carolina
1t was in this settlement that the dead line existed
across which neither party ventured for fear of having
punishment visited upon him them. This dead line existed
until into the 10th century, when neookng rsan began
to cast longing eyes at one Of the rosy-cheeked Dutch gt
with the result that Matthew Hail. of Irish parenag and
Polly Schunpert Dutch lasse married and the dead
line was thing of the past and the line of deakaon
unknown to the present generation. They are now all
Americans.
In the Buffalo creek settlement find the names OF the
Wises Longs Shealeys Dominicks Stockmans ETC. These
names are still to be found in this territory and form OF
the most steady and progressive yeoanry of the two counties
The original Dutch Fork settlement the fourth and
perhaps latest unless antedated the Buffalo creek settlement
They were made near the year. I74I Or I742
There was no dead line this section but there very
little nterrngng with the English and Scotch to the north
and west of them There was internarryng for many
years Col Thos w Holloway the first of English de-
scent to win the hand of fair Dutch maiden, The German
settlements reached from Cappe1an Hill to the fork Of
Broad and Saluda and line drawn from Broad river
near Hugheys Ferry the mouth of Bush river where II
tiers the Sauda will pass within three miles Of the county
seat will embrace the territory into which the German emf
grafton settled There prosperous section OF the
state today than this section as outlined above.
It might not be of place just this time and in this
nection when the decried much by the
Angophe press this country to say that SO far as my nves-
tgaon goes and from what learn from the Oldest OF our
people, there single German who had settled i'll
South Carolina that member Of band OF Torres May
inquire if any one else knows of single GernaAerican
of that day who was Tory? They bertylovng and
were always found the ranks of the patriots Can many
of these dcriers today say much for their forbears the
German-Americans can say for theirs?
There many interesting stories and anecdotes eant OF
these early German settlers q the German instead
of Dutch of these settlers from Holland, from
which country the Dutch Gomez their belief in spells
conjurng and wichcraft
There posts still standing the original
settlement not far from ST. Johns church, which told
represent araudng Tories who were turned to stone
posts at the behest of of the occult sciences
There was gunSit Settler by who turned many
an honest penny by running silver balls bullets (metlng
the silver and pouring into molds that made it into rifle
bal) with which the shoot ghosts
From all accounts there many such visants at that
time in that section With all their superstition they were
God fearing honest people, who lost opportunity to
do favor friend neghbor stranger They furnished
several companies for the militia state troops Capts no
A. Summer and VIM Fredk Houseas companies were made
up from this section and just the line in Newberry
To show how loyal and God fearing, if simple some of
these parsans giving below extracts from
sermon preached to one of these companies by German pastor