The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-04-28
4 CHURCH REPRESENTED IN
SOUTH ONLY IN GRAYEYARDS
Family Names That Are Used to Con-
iure With in COyenanteT Church
-Boyds, Chalmers, Reds.


on Saturday and Sabbath. While here
Mr.. White had the privilege to- visit
The Head Spring, King Creek and Con-
ne Creek sraveyards going by auto
through what Mr. Waite pronounces
some Of the most picturesque and fer
tile country he has seen in the United
States. Mr. White and wife are just
returning north after winter spent
in st. Petersburg, Fla. 1t was the
desire Of his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Mitchell Kyle White, deceased 10 visit
these ancestral burying grounds. but
her wish was never fulfilled so Mr.
White as a matter of duty is making
it in her stead.
Mr. White on his mothers side is
descended from the Chalmers
families early pioneers in this sec
ton. The branch that went north
about 1900 along with friends from
Chester. IS. C.. were Covenanters or
Reformed Presbyterians About 1900
Rev DrseAlex Mcleod of New YORK
city visited this section and notified
Co, enanters who wished to remain
in their communion to cease holding
slaves. They did so and the Civil
war saw this church which DR.. Nc
Leod said was "cot any branch bat
the root of the Calvinistic church.
with not a single church below Mas
on and Dixons line. Other denomi-
nations four-fushed and split up
north and south, says Mr.. White
In these graveyards and one at
Prosperity Mr.. White found tomb
stone names of families whose names
are used to conjure with ia the Gov
enanter church The Boyds and Chal-
mers form some of the most sturdy
! Covenanters in the denomination
while the latter family has furnished
some Of the most brilliant ministers
in the A. R. p. church. The Sloans
furnished some of the most distin-
guished ministers and theological in
structors in the R. p church. One
Sloan was a speaker on the anti
Slavery platform with wendell Phil
lips and Garrison. DR.. SlOan's one
great regret was that Phillips and
Garrison neither of whom were ortho-
dox believers could hold the church
up as the bulwark Of human slavery
The Reds whose names are fourd
in local graveyards furnished de-
scendant Whitelaw Reid to be the dis
tinguished editor of the New York
Tribune and be an ambassador to
England The Renwicks came Of a
family that furnished the last Gov
enanters martyr for the scaffold in
Scotland His successor had to be
ordained by the CalvinistiI church in
Holland.
Such is the history OF a people,
faith a church represented in the
south only by graTeyards. That
church should erect monuments in
the four here and three 'grareyards
at Chester to mark the spot where
are buried people who always stood
for civil and religious. liberty, who
feared not the wrath Of; earthly kings,
but feared him who is Emmanuel. In
short the Covenanters dissented from
voting, holding Office, etc.. because
they held the United States Constitu-
ton in it's failure to recognize Christ
as king of ki1gs to be immoral and
of an atheistic-in6del order. also be-
cause it says government IS ordaIn-
ed of we the people when the Bible
SAYS all government is ordained OF
God. nhey hold that the Bible should
be the supreme guide in government
al affairs; they will not tolerate
members of secret orders in their
communion and they hold to the
Psaimody efFUncle David as the only
manual of praise.
Mr.. White has been a newspaper
reporter for twenty-seTen years on
the Republican and Democratic pa
pers in his city. From here he goes
to Xenia and Cedarville, Ohio, where
later generations of the Boyd-Chal-
mers and Reid families are buried.
iN'r. White is rot a member of the
CoFenanter church though both his
parestns were once in the church and
his father was minister of the de-
nomination, but Is row in the Pres