The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-06-21
COL. j. II, WHARTON
BURIED in WATERLOO
leading Citizen Of County
Passes.
IN ILL HEALTH
SEVERAL YEARS


Prominent Figure in State and Coun-
ty Politics, Passed Away Wednesday
Morning ana was Buried Thursday.
Col. John II. Wharton, for many
years n prominent figure in state and
county politics, passed away at his
home in Waterloo "Wednesday after an
illness lasting for several years.
The funeral services were held at
the Baptist church in Waterloo Thurs
day afternoon, the services being at
tended by large number Of people
from this and surrounding counties.
Rev. Graves j.. Knight conducted the
services and paid an eloquent tribute
to the deceased as q sterling citizen
and lifelong mcnber and churcl,
worker in the Waterloo IBaputist
church. He was assisted by Rov Sam
uel Fl. Templeman, OF Laurens, and
Rev. j. II. LuDo, pastor OF the Metho-
dist church i'll Waterloo.
Tho following sketch OF his life, talk
en- from SiowdcMs History of South
,CAEc!ina, gives q survey OF his lie
FLEA with se;yico to Iii; co;nty and
state:
There Is probably no better 9.nown
figure in the life and affairs OF Lau-
rens county than Col. John Henry
Wharton Of Waterloo lie was a Con-
fedcratc soldier, has made farming
his chief business in life, but IL
again and again answered the cal!
duty in public affairs. ani kAG : 2g
practically every oilicc lNithin { .$.t
Of his fellow citizens il t..HYs and
county.
"Hc was born in Laurt HsSi, c.,
tobor 8, 1S47. a son O. W%l'...l Noise
and Loanna (Nulltl) Wharton, also
natives Of the s;&ao coun,y. HIS
graldfathor, Samua, Wl,a:tcn, was a
native VisGir.ipa and cama to I..urcna
county lcoic ha married. His wife
was q. Miss Snllivaa n'ho Whar&cas
arc Of Scotch-I. iGh ancestry. Ianry
Fuller mltclnal grandfather OF Cole.
mel Wharton. was native cf Iscurena
county. Nil!'am N. Wharton spent
his life as 4 farmer, was en- actiyc
Baptist and he and his wife had q
family Of four daughters and three
sons.
John Henry Wharton was not yet
fifteen years of age when he joined
the Confederate army in August 1862
He enlisted in Company d of James'
q lnttn1
with the Third South Carolina Regi-
ment. He was a private and carried
a musket all through the war from the
time Of his enlistment until the close
of hostilities. Later he was NOM
Der OF the staff OF Governor Thompson
with the rank of colonel, and held the
same rank on the staff OF tho State
Commander of the United Confederate
I Veterans, an organization in which he
has long been active.
Colonel Wharton after the war be-
gan farming, and in that productive
vocation has Spent fully half CEN
3tury. For time he was also mor-
chant at Waterloo and built the cotton
gin In that town. He served rs coun-
Sty commissioner four years, clerk of
court two terms, for ten consecutive
years was a member of.thc lowor house
OF the legislature and is now in his
eighth year as state senator from Lait-
T rens county. He was also railroad
commissioners OF the state for six
years, and was q member OF the Con-
stitutional Convention in 1895. Colo
mel Wharton has been a deacon in the
Z baptist church for forty-nye years
and superintendent of its Sunday
school fifty-wo years He is affiliated
with the Independent Order Of Odd
Fellows, also the knights OF Pythias
and the Woodmen OF the, World. <
"In 1869 he married Laura Harris, a
Z daughter of Richard Harris OF Iau-
rens county. Colonel and Mrs. Wfar-
ton had seven daughters and one son,
ilula Lee, wife oflH, @. Fuller, OF
terloo; w !. Carl wharton; Mamie Sue,
E wife OF 4, wv. Gray of Woodruff; Leon
ide, deceased, who married Clyde F'ul-
Ter, Greenwood; BELL, lMrs. Tomas Gray,
OF ofWoodruff; elizabeth. wife OF Alonza
Keller. of Greenwood; and Ella. who
4 married. Andrew Taylor, OF Greenwood.
BY HIS congenial Temperament ant,