The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-27

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as the Watson place. Here Gen. R. R.
Hemphill was born. Col. Roche called
attention to the large white oaks at
Lindo, where the old Hemphill resi-
dence (since burned) stoods saying
that the preachers study was under
these trees, and there he lambasted
the Masons and Catholics as he pre-
pared his sermons for the next Sab
bath.
Next we came to the home of Mr..
Charles Dansby, where 'Miller Nc
Caslan once lived" Capt. Perrin
wanted to tell it that Mfs. DR.. Mill
wee, formerly of Greenwood, also liv.
ed there, but Col. Roche knew better.
Passing the negro Baptist rhurch on
the left, we came to the old McClane
homestead, formerly the property of
David McClane, who was the father
of Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, of Due
West, Mrs. Tommie Kennedy (the
mother of Bob Kennedy, formerly
sheriff of this county, who was killed
by John Dansby few days after he
assumed the ofice.) David McClane
was the grandfather of Foster B.
McClane, the sheriff of Able
vile County, so that it appears that
the family have a liking for the Of
fee.
The Hunter place was next, and
then we came to the w. K. Bradley
estate lands of several hundred acres,
passing as we went several places
which had belonged to different men,
bers of the McCaslan family,> but
none of whom now reside in the i'm
mediate section. We were informed
by Col: James E. Taggart whose mo-
ther was a McCaslan and who was
one of the first men we saw on reach
ing Long Cane church that all the Nc
Caslans had died out, or had moved
away.
Turning to the left at the old home
stead of w. X. Bradley, we soon ar
rived at the old church. 1t is one Of
the most picturesque in the country.
The present building was erected
many years before the war. 1t is of
frame construction, with four large
Corinthian columns in front. Inside
the ceilings are high and along the
rear and to the sides are the galleries
which before the war were occupied
by the negro slaves. The church will
seat on the lower floor some six hun
dred people. The windows are large,
and the sash instead of being of two
pieces are of one, which slide to the
side between the ceiling and siding,
when the windows are to be opened.
The pulpit is rather highter than the
pulpits nowadays, and on either side
are small rooms cut off from the
main auditorium. At the rear too, as
you enter the church on the right,
and under the stairway, is small
room where the mothers may take the
children when they grow tired of the
services, if ever.
Only a few people had gathered
there when we arrived, principally
good women of the community, who
like the good women of the Biblical
days were all on hand when work
was to be done for the Master. Soon,
however, the congregation began to
gather. Col. Roche and the others
walked through the interesting old
cemetery and stopped here and there
at the grave of friend who had gone
on before. There lie the ancestors of
the Bradleys, the Grays, the Ward
laws, the Morrahs, the Widemans,
the Watkins, the Youngs, the Dams
bys, the McCaslans, and of many
others, whose names are still to be
found on the church roll of Lower
Long Cane. In fact as the congrega-
ton gathered we noted that practic
ally every person who came was a
descendant of the people who have
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