The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-27
AT LOWER
LONG CANE
Pastor of Lower Long Cane Commences Series
Of Sermons on Peace, Joy and Happiness of
Christian Party From Abbeville At
tend Church of More Than Gen.
tury-Interesting Old Cemetery
Story of Irishman, Catholic
DR.. Hemphill.

In Friday afternoons Press and
Banner an invitation from Rev. R.
Foster Bradley to the people "for
forty miles around" was published
by which all were invited to attend
services at Lower Long Cane yester-
day, the preacher announcing in the
Invitation that he would commence a
series of sermons on the "Peace, Joy
and Happiness" of the Christian, the
sermon yesterday to be on "Disobedi-
ent Women" with particular refer
ence to the suffragrette.
Col. w. A. Calvert had no sooner
read the invitation than he determin-
ed that he would attend the services.
Running through his mind the men
who, he supposed, would be interested
in the subject along with himself, he
decided to take along with him few
of the down-trodden men of the COM
munity to the end that they might
hear the Word preached as it is
written. Accordingly, early Saturday
morning he invited Ruler.Albert Hen
ry, Col. Patrick Roche, Capt. Jack
Perrin and the editor Of the Press
and Banner to accompany him.
At 9:30 o'clock sharp he was in
front of the City Hall determined to
be on hand te-hear. it all, and prompt
ly at the appointed hour his Cocoon
spirators appeared and took seat in
the new Davis car in which Col. Cal
vert rides nowadays, and in few
minutes the party was on the Snake
Road headed for the place Of preach
ing.
We had not gone far before Col.
Patrick Roche began to open up a
volume of his ancient history, in
which he was ably seconded by Capt.
Perrin. Just beyond Rock Buffalo to
the right, Capt. Perrin pointed out to
US the old house in which his grand
mother Livingston was born, and a
little way beyond we came to the
residence of Mr.. David Wardlaw,
when we were Informed by Col Roche
that the place was first settled by an
Englishman named Jackson, who was
a cabinet maker, and who too was
the grandfather of Mr.. Lewis A.
Jackson and of Capt. Brown Syfan
of the Southern Railway, and the
other Syfans of Abbeville. Beyond
this we passed the Thornton place,
the Watson lands, the Mountain
Church, where John Neel. (col.) is
class leader, and to the home of Mr..
Norman Cason, which was built as
Col. Roche informed US, by a man
named. Lites, who married daughter
of Mr.. Samuel Jordan, a prominent
man of the section a good many
years ago. Further on we passed the
estate lands of Judge Thomas Thom-
son now owned by his son DR.. S. G..
Thomson, of Abbeville.
When we had reached the forks of
the road at Bethia church, Col. Roche
insisted that we "bear to the left"
but Col. Calvert averred that there
was no bearing to be done, that the
left was the straight road, which
amounted to the same thing, except
that it furnished the Rich Young Rul-
er a chance to say that the two would
never agree even when they mean the
same thing.
We passed the Wilson place, which
at her death belonged to Mrs. Jane
Patterson, formerly Mrs. Wilson, and
Col. Roche told US of her first hus-
band, of the tragedies in the family
and other matters of history. On the
left is the fine plantation of Col. w.
w Bradley. which Col. Roche told us
was formerly in possession of "Bill
Neel, who moved to Florida" the
place having been given to Mrs. Neel
by her father, Mr.. Samuel Jordan
mentioned above.
Below this in Lindo, the home of
DR.. William Ramsey Hemphill when
bo ,uas nactor IF nwar Tonu Cane