The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-03-02
LOCKHART JUNCTION

Dockhart Junction. Feb. 26-Sun- |
day was beautiful day and many
took the privilege and opportunity of
this beautiful day by going to church
and Sunday school.
This writer spent the weekend at
Lockhart, stopping at the hoSpitable
home of Mr.. j. Louis Hames, where
we are always welcomed. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hamcs invited me to stay for
dinner Sunday as they were going to
have fine 'poSSum for dinner and be-
sides that there was going to be two
chickens and other good things to
eat. | regretted very much to leave.
] thank them for the kindness shown
me. | had other engagements and
had to 90.
Telephone told u last week in his
letter about the fellow and his sweet
heart getting into so much trouble
while they were courting. l heard that
before, but it had been long time
and it seems new to me. | heard it a
little different to what he told it. The
fellow was making so much love to
her that he made out as if he would
die for her, he would never forsake
her, but when the dead man, as they
thought it was, rose up in the bed
he ran off and left her.
Well, allow me to tell Your fortune
as it was told to me by lady not
long ago. On the first day of May
take a looking glass, go to the we'll
and take the back off of the glass
and look through it to the water. You
must have this in mind saying as you
look, IF | am to prosper in this life
and ever to do well, come forward
while I look" and the one YOU are to
marry Will come. so you can see him
or her. This sounds like fairy tale.
but lady told me she saw her hus-
band plain and she never had seen
him before. | heard some YOUNG la
dies and young men say they were &C
ing to try it when the time comes.
This writer while at Lockhart met
good old lady from whom | learned
some news. Her name is Mrs. Kate
Long. This lady is Is years old She
told me of the flood or great rain and
waters that washed away the Clifton
mills. also the Trough Shoals and the
property and the lives that were lost
in the waters. She told of her narrow
escape and of one of her sons. She
was walked up about 3 o'clock in the
morning by numbering in and around
the house and she raised the window
and looked out. The water was up on
the porch and the wash tub was float
inf and other things against the
house. Her first thought was to wake
up the other members of the family
and by the time she did the water
was coming in on the first floor of the
house. Her next thought was to pray,
and she prayed to God as she never
did before. And while she prayed
something pulled her arm and in some
response said it was all right. She
had to go to the top story, the water
Was S-.'~g 81 rasC, AND N5ofne,. v-.- -.
hardly knows how it was, she was
on top of the house with only one of
her children, one of her sons, and thew
stayed together. The house moved
along with them, carrying them on
until she heard and felt it breaking
to pieces below them and she told her
son they had better move and in n
minute they were afioat in the water.
she sank, but her son, being a good
swimmer, held her up and kept her
from sinking and again they GOT on
another house top and stayed up there
awhile and then it went and thev
jumped on another house and so on
until at last they were caught in the
top of tree and the son said he
reckoned the rest were all drowned and
she said, "No, son. will see them
again, for God told me So" and she
looked out on the water and saw her
other other son and his wife fOatin~
IN the rushing water and she waived
the last farewell as if to say. az will
meet you no more till we meet in
heaven. She clung 10 this tree nine
hours before boats could reach them
She stood on snag or short limb Of
the tree, one foot at time. for tho
snag wasn't large enough for both
feet. This was a trying time with
these people. She said there were two
snakes, two musk rats. herself and bcr
son all on that tree together. When
they first caught to that tree the water
was up 10 theif neckS. MoXy.
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