The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-24

OF Mass chusc;:S, where he was hor,
ArYiI q, 1I4i he vas 10 doubt OF"
of the many New Gng;anders who
Icanc South TO fight aga;ns; the b.;
ISL like the Delaware troops at the
battle cf Camdca. Major Tateman
married Ann Geigcr. Z first cousin OF
Emiiy Geige:. Upon his death. itn-
out issue, she married Capt. W..iiam
..ea, and later, upon his death, she
became the wife Of d.. JOAN j. Ma
III. Captain Rea was born il Dun
,4ee, Scotland, July Il, 1853. Set-
l:iins frs in Virginia he removed af-
.erwards tc South Carolina.
CT the two daughters OF Capt.
William Rea and hi se Ann (Gei-
ger> Rec, the eldest, Agnes, married
James Rives and the youngest, El:z-
abeth, .>orn July 90, 1872, married
James Cayce Of, Manchester, W.,
February %, 1917. Their son, R. W.
G. Cayce, born January p, 1889,
was TIE husband CT Mrs. Cayce IS
mentioned heretofore il this sketch.
He died about y years ago.
James Rives was the son of Benz.
Rives. an original settler Of Columbia
proprietor of Rives' tavern which
stood on the western side OF the pres
ent State House grounds when Co.
lumbia was founded. Two Of James
Rives' eldest lincal descendants are
Mrs. 4. 3. Robinson o. Charleston
and Mrs. William? P. Houseal leach,
Rives} Of Columbia. Other direct de-
scc2dants iaclude the children Of the
late William C. and Octav:a Rives
Crum of Orange6ucg and William c..
and Catherine Bowman Rives of Ala
chua county, Florida.
The Cayce house taus has taken its
name from the family which has oc-
cupeid it so long. Oil portraits Of
Major Tateman and others of the
early residents OF the ants-Revolu-
tiorsry period adorn still its walls
and the account OF the Tatemna- -Rea-
Cayce family given here has been
compiled from the record iii the fam
lily S;ole, which is II 9 good state Of
preservation in the historic house.
The living descendants Of r. ".
C. and Carolina Cayce embrace two
children e. son and daughter}, seven
grandsons, four grsnddaugaters, two
g-eat-grandsSns, and cne great
granddaughter. Mrs. Elizabeth Ho1l-
bacl. Csyce OF Caycc IS q daughter
;n-law and also Z liaeal descendant
of James R:ves. She married Briggs
&. Cayce, who died about IS years
ago.
The Cayce house IS the oldest struc-
turo II the up country. It is IN a
good state of preservation, with the
original sills of the main foundation
intact, withdrawing of quaint de-
s::gn, doors, windows, to a large ex-
tent, except where additions have
been made for the sake OF modern
conven;cnces, all very much the
same as when built 80 years sgo.
Electric lights were made ! part OF
its modern conven;cnces only last
year.
sThe town of Cayee has spcang into
existence since the Soataooucd (now
the seaboara} railway was built from
Columbia % Savannah il l8S9-S0.
Before that time The Cayce house
vss the only house IN the vicinity for
SO years and until the railroad came
that way 80 years in close proximity
TO it's historic scenes, one -or two
houses comprised all its other resi-
dences in the immediate neighbor-
hood with only q few more between
Cayce and New >Brookland. On the
sandy road where formerly the pedes-
TRAN trudged his weary way or the
high wheeled vehicles slowly moved
along, fine topso;l highway enables
the modern motcrcar to move with
snootnness and safety. The old or
der changes, for one generation Only
exists TO sacrifice for its onconnng
and to lay firmly as posi-
bic the foundation Of progress and
civilization.