Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
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And by the way. at this place at one
time a certain man ran q liquor shop
sold some groceries and also was q
kind of jack-leg tailor. This was be-
fore the railroad was built. | think
Mr.. Ratchford got $4,000 per yeal
for his service. Rev. J. Lowry VIII
SON was chosen pastor of Bethesda
and dion in 1850 and took charge
early 1870. lie was fresh from the
Seminary, had always lived in town
and had much to learn OF, country life
He was born in Allahabad, India, and
when twelve years cid was sent to
the United States to be educated, Soon
after graduating the Civil war com
meheed.S he entered the Confederate
States army as Lieutenant and lost a
leg in Virginia. After the war he
taught school two years. at Bethesda
then went to the Theological Semi
nary at Columbia and came back TO
Bethesda as pastor thrcc-fourths ot
his time and Zion one-fourth. lie
boarded at DR.. Robert L. Loves
where 1t was also my good fortune TO
board. He was hard student and
wrote in full all his sermons and gem
erally sticking close to his manuscript
in delivery. He was held in high es-
TEEN by the whole community, was a
great punster, but had much to learn
of country life,-as an illustration, IN
visiting among his congregation 1t al
ways worried him for them to prepare
a big dinner on his account. One
evening" he told me he had worked out
a plah 70 overcome 1t and, it was this
TO find out the dinner hour of the
family yhe was to visit and manage to
drop in JUST as 'theyfwere ready to sit
dow4, 5ls bad already been seated at
dinner and, they would not have time
to prepare anything extra. told him
that. would put them to more trouble
than if he went earlier, as none OF
them would set the preacher down to
dinner without something extra. He
was good conyersationalist and en-
joyed Gped company Rev. Henry Dix
on, pastor of the Presbyterian church
af Ybrkville, and he were warm friends,
and, Mr.. Dixon would frequently spend
Mondays with him talking over
church matters, etc. He would come
down on the train in the morning and
return in the afternoon. Mrs. Love
keptca, negro girl about IA or 10 years
old Whom Mr.. Wilson had nicknamed
)..T'olly' because she always had a
broad grin on her face, on one OF
these visits she sent this negro with
a horse to the station for Mr.. Dixon
to ride. When he got off the train
and Mr. j. p. Moore. showed him his
conveyance, the girl insisted on riding
bef1f1rd him to the strenuous objection
OF Mr.. Moore, when the couple got
near DR.. Loves folly struck the
grit and walked. That evening when
Mrs. Love and sMr. Wilson heard Of
it they were worried not knowing
what Mr. Dixon thought of it. When
the e:old cook learned it she took
Folly" in hand and, dare say FOL
lyr never forgot what happened Mr..
Wilson never married, he Identified
his charge then went to the Abbevilie
Presbyterian church and died some
time ago.
DR.. r. l.. Love with whom l board
ed was the only practicing physician
in this community. consequently his
practice was very extensive. He al
ways rode horseback and carried the
preyerbial saddle bags from which he
dispensed his medicines. His prac-
tice was almost entirely theraputical,
occasionally he would be called on to
perform a minor operation, such as
pulling a tooth or setting a broken
limb for some boy who had fallen out
oftsa treehwhile gathering muscadines
or yscalybarks in the Fall of the year
The people were not up on sanitation
then as now and, there. was a great
deal of chills and malaria in this Sec
tion during tbs fall months which
kept him on the go all the time and, If
he's had been q good collector as he
was a practitioner he would have left