The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-09
JONESVILLE

weeks issue of The Union Times there
was recorded the death of four old
people, all my acquaintance from my
boyhood. They were VIM. C. Coner,
VIM. w. Tracy, Mrs. Rebecca Nc
Daniel and Miss Elizabeth Charles. Mr..
Tracy, Veteran of the late war, a
good soldier and good christian man
in whom there was no guile. Mr..
Conner was not quite old enough for
service in the war. He was a good,
quiet citizen and died as he had lived.
Miss Charles was good and clever and
full of good deeds, while Mrs. Nc
Daniel was made a widow at the
battle of the orator near Petersburg,
Va, on the goth of July, 1864, her
husband, John Mcdaniel, being beaten
to death by Yankee soldiers with the
butts of their guns. The good soldier
died in defence of his wife and chill
dren and for his country and while
mention this sad event of his death l
am reminded of something that oc-
Cured in his life that was a little
funny. Just before the second battle
of Manassas I had been home on fur
Tough and had gone on to Richmond to
join my command, which was up to-
wards Manassas and at Richmond I
joined in with John Wheeler Foster,
John Lipsey, John Willard and John
Mcdaniel and these four Johns and I
made up jolly crowd of what was
called stragglers. The railroads were
torn up and the country laid waste by
the army and we had to make our
way on foot and get something to eat
as best we could. One day we drew
near farmers home and the man was
in the yard under an apple tree beat,
ing apples and pressing cider and his
wife was also in the yard churning
and we turned in and went up to the
house and asked the man if we could
get some cider and he said, eyes. as
soon as he pressed it," We then asked
the good wife if we could get some
buttermilk and she replied in the af-
firmative. We also asked if she could
let us have some bread to go along
with the milk and she answered, eyes.
but you must wait until I cook it.'
and we agreed to do all this and sat
down and waited with keen appetites.
The churning done, the woman cooked
large cake of corn bread and cut into
five equal parts and put it into our
haversack. got all the cider we could
drink, filled our canteens with butter
milk, paid our bill and left. We soon
came to a rock fence and all sat down
to eat and such another feast of hot
corn bread and buttermilk and when
we started to get up to move on John
Mcdaniel had eaten so much he
couldn't make it and he had to be
helped up and given a start and he
soon got all right. A day or two later
we had got very hungry and we came
up to an old dwelling that was aban-
doned and we concluded to camp in it
for the night. There was an old poorl
razor-back sow roofing in the orchard
and we shot her, dragged her up tot
the house and skig22sa hsr with our
,ass',ss 49,
ment and we made NE and swung |
the old razor-back up before it and
roasted her and eat her without salt
or bread. I mention this to show our
boys who may chance to read it what
war life is before they have to meet
the German soldiers down on the bor-
der. If Mexico accepts Germany's Of
fer and forms alliance with her it is
very probable that our government
will have to fight them on the border.
Many times have seen our Confed-
crate soldiers while in the trenches
draw a days rations, sit down and eat
it all at one meal and then sing and
be lively.
The Jonesville Oil Mill has ground
up all its cotton seed and shut down
for the season.
Miss Maud Kelly of Wilmington is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. NJ.
Gault.
Mrs. J. II. Herring and three chill
dren Of Union spent Monday with rel
atives in Jonesville
Sunday was Rad day, -aiE from
morning till night. but few pnop.e at
tended the churches.
I don't Zee much in the papers late
ly about the "leake" There is one
thing sure, all the oakum in the coun-
try can't stop the leak.
Telephone.
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