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May 24, 1850, he married Miss Mary Jane George, daughter of Ezekiel George of Anderson County, and of an old and highly respected family in that section of the state. Mrs. Tolly, who was born in Anderson County December 30, 1838, has passed her eightieth birthday. She and her husband had the following children: Elizabeth, who is the wife of W. M. Wilcox, and lives at Elberton, Georgia; George M .; William F. and Clarence E., both asso- ciated with the G. F. Tolly & Son furniture and undertaking business. George M. Tolly, the res- ponsible head of the business since his father's death, married Miss Jessie McGee June 15, 1886. Their only child is Mrs. W. J. Muldrow, of Ander- son.
JOHN A. HUDGENS, like others of that name in upper South Carolina, is an able business man and a conscientious public spirited citizen, and for a num- ber of years has been active in business and financial affairs at Pelzer, where he is cashier of the Chicora Bank.
Mr. Hudgens was born at Honea Path September 28, 1872. His father was the late Dr. Thomas A. Hudgens, whose personal career and family have been described on other pages.
John A. Hudgens grew up in his native town, at- tended the public schools, and afterward entered the University of South Carolina, where he had a thorough English training. His father died in 1892, and he never returned to the university to take his degree. Soon afterward he found congenial duties in office work, was employed at various places, each change being a promotion, and in 1900 became cashier of the Chicora Bank of Pelzer. Mr. Hud- gens is also president of the Willmont Oil Mills at Pelzer, Piedmont and Williamston.
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DR. D. S. WATSON
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In 1907 he married Miss Sarah A. Smyth, a daugh- ter of Edison A. Smyth of Greenville.
DANIEL SANFORD WATSON, M. D. While many worthy civilian efforts characterized the usefulness of the late Dr. Daniel Sanford Watson, it was, perhaps, as a surgeon of the Confederacy that he rose to the most sublime heights. Certain it is that the traits of courage and faithfulness with which Doctor Watson was so richly endowed, found no more certain avenue of expression than in the great war between the states, for in giving his services to the cause which he deemed just he not only faced the ordinary dangers and privations of such service, but at the same time was compelled to wage constant war against his own enemy, poor health. Following the war he gave up his medical practice and for the most part devoted himself to farming, a vocation in which his great industry and good management won him splendid success.
Daniel Sanford Watson was born on a farm in Anderson County, South Carolina, November 30, 1830, a son of Daniel Keith and Susan (Gary) Watson. His father was born also in Anderson County, a son of Jonathan Watson, a native of Virginia and a Revolutionary soldier, a farmer by occupation and the son of an Irish emigrant. The mother of Doctor Watson was a descendant of Thomas Gary, also a native of Virginia and a Rev- olutionary soldier. Daniel Sanford Watson was reared on the home farm and educated in the pub- lic schools, and upon reaching manhood continued farming until ill health caused him to seek other avenues of activity and he turned his attention to the study of medicine. In 1859 he was graduated from the . Reformed Medical College, at Mason, Georgia, and immediately entered the practice of his profession at Homer, Georgia, where he became thoroughly established. Up to that time his career had included the routine of farming and profes- sional work, and his life had known little deviation from the strict fulfillment of home duty.
When the war between the states came on he was in possession of a lucrative practice, but in August, 1862, disregarding the petition of a large patronage, he joined Captain Chanler's Company of Colonel McMillan's regiment, the Twenty-Fourth Georgians, and went to Virginia as a detailed assist- ant surgeon. After the course of a few months, however, his old enemy, ill health, again assailed him, and on advice of the chief surgeon he returned to his home for recuperation. In 1863, having par- tially regained his health, he again entered the service and was a detailed assistant surgeon in Trenholm's Squadron of the Seventh South Caro- lina Cavalry. He was transferred from the army of Northern Virginia on account of the severity of the climate to Northeast Georgia, in December, 1864, and afterward was surgeon of Durraugh's regiment. He surrendered with General Reynolds' command at Athens, Georgia, in April, 1865. Dur- ing the time he was in the service he was frequently petitioned by his friends to return home and prac- tice medicine, but his patriotism and sense of right were too great to yield to them, and, barring the interval during which his shattered health forbade it, served his country faithfully until the close of the war.
Upon the close of hostilities, Doctor Watson returned to his native county and merchandised at Anderson for several years, and then for thirty years was engaged in farming. The same cause which sent him from the farming industry into medicine made of him a farmer instead of a phy- sician, and he never returned to his medical prac- tice. As a farmer lie achieved gratifying success, and when he died, April 9, 1909, at his country residence near Anderson, he was in comfortable financial circumstances. He had two brothers, Wil- liam B. and Seaborn H., who were also in the Confederate service.
On January 14, 1875, Doctor Watson married Corrie A. Watson, a daughter of John B. and Eliza (Burris) Watson. To this union there were born four children, two of whom grew to maturity, a daughter, Nannie B., dying at the age of eleven years and a son at the age of two years. Susie Gary is the wife of E. P. Vandiver, of Anderson; and Charles Manly superintends the operations on the farm which formerly belonged to his father. Mrs. Watson survives her husband and resides at Anderson, where she is a member of the First Baptist Church, of which her husband was also a member. He also belonged to the Masonic fra- ternity, and as a public-spirited citizen allied him- self with movements for civic, educational and religious betterment. He was a great friend of the colored race and donated to their church, includ- ing the land on which this church, Rock Hill, stands near his old homestead. He was a faithful friend, a devoted husband and an affectionate father.
JAMES FRASER LYON. While his abilities and serv- ices for over twenty years as a lawyer have com- manded the respect of the legal profession in South Carolina, Jamies Fraser Lyon is doubtless best known to the general public through his effective service as attorney general of the state from 1907 to 1913.
He was born October 16, 1871, at Asbury Church, now Verdery, in that portion of Abbeville County, now Greenwood County. His parents were James Fuller and Marie Louise (Pelletier) Lyon. His direct American ancestry in the paternal line goes back to John Lyon of Albemarle, Virginia, descend- ing through John's son, Elijah, Elijah's son, William, who was the grandfather of the former attorney general. The latter's mother was a daughter of Antoine Pelletier, who came to this country from Nancy, France. James Fuller Lyon was a soldier of the Confederate army, and after the war was a farmer and served as probate judge of Abbeville County. His wife was a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
James Fraser Lyon attended public schools in Ab- beville and graduated A. B. from Wofford College at Spartanburg in 1895. He soon qualified for the legal profession and for a number of years has prac- ticed as a member of the Columbia bar. His first important public office was as referee in bankruptcy, appointed by Judge Brawley. He first came into state wide prominence as a member of the South Carolina Legislature in 1905-06, when he was ap- pointed a member of the Legislative committee to investigate the state dispensary and he helped un-
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cover many of the corrupt practices which were in- volved in the old dispensary system. When he be- came attorney-general in 1907 he had the active prosecution of many of the dispensary cases. He served as attorney-general until 1913. In 1918 he was appointed special counsel for the South Caro- lina tax commission, a position he still holds.
In 1919 Mr. Lyon was appointed a member of the state board of law examiners by the South Caro- lina Supreme Court. He is president of the Abbe- ville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association and of the Gulf and Atlantic Insurance Company. He is identified with the democratic party, is a member of the college fraternity Kappa Alpha, and was a dele- gate to the convention' of that order at Richmond, Virginia, 1893. He is a member of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias aond of Abbeville Lodge No. 64, is a member of the Columnbia Club and his church affiliation is the Methodist Episco- pal Church, South.
December 28, 1911, at Beaufort, he married Kath- leen Greenwood, a daughter of John Greenwood. They have two children, J. Fraser, Jr., and John Greenwood Lyon.
MAJ. HENRY EARLE RAINES was born in Green- ville County, South Carolina, in 1879, son of Elias Pinckney and Martha ( Martin) Raines. The family is of Norman French origin. The first Americans of the name settled in early colonial days in Prince George County, Virginia. About the close of the Revolutionary war members of the family moved to Greenville County, a few miles east of Greenville, in the vicinity of Taylors.
It was in that locality that Major Raines grew up. In 1898 he entered The Citadel at Charleston, and was graduated in 1902. The four years following he taught school, and then for twelve and a half years was on the administrative staff of The Citadel in the capacity of quartermaster. He resigned that office in 1918 to enter actively into the business world. He is president of the Southern Motor Corporation, vice president and treasurer of the Charleston' Trans- fer Company, secretary and treasurer of the Francis Marion Hotel, treasurer of the West Point Corpo- ration, a member of the board of directors of two banks, and a member of the Charleston Rotary Club. He is also a member of the board of directors of the city Young Men's Christian Association and a member of the Young Mfen's Christian Association State Executive Committee.
Major Raines was graduated from The Citadel as captain of Company B, and has always maintained a very deep interest in the military affairs of the state. In July, 1903, he enlisted in Company A of the First Regiment of South Carolina Troops. That was before the organization of the National Guard .. July 14, 1903. he was commissioned captain of the company, and May 1, 1908, was commissioned cap- tain and quartermaster of the Third Infantry, Na- tional Guard of South Carolina. On May 25, 1915, he was promoted to major of ordnance. In that capacity he was called to Camp Styx, Columbia, in the spring of 1916 to assist in the preparation and mobilization of the state troops for service on the Mexican border. He continued in his duties at The Citadel during the World war and is at present
major of ordnance, National Guard of South Caro- lina.
Major Raines is a loyal alumnus of The Citadel, and is a member of the building committee of The Greater Citadel. He is vice president of the Asso- ciation of Graduates.
That Major Raines is a specialist with boys and young men is evidenced by the success of his sum- mer enterprise. He owns and directs the French Broad Camp for boys on the French Broad River near Bravard, North Carolina, where for two months each summer over two hundred boys from various states have the opportunity of leading a happy and healthiul life in a wholesome environ- ment.
In 1904 Major Raines married Sydney Hinton Wolfe. She is a native of West Virginia but was educated in the Memminger School of Charleston and St. Mary's College of Raleigh, North Carolina.
THOMAS MARTIN WELBORN was six years old when the war broke out between the states, and the war and its accompanying devastation and ruin, and the early death of his mother made his youth barren of many opportunities and privileges which have been customary to members of such families as the Wel- borns. His carly years were years of toil and strug- gle, but out of all of it he has achieved a success that makes him one of the leading citizens of Ander- son County and he also is one of its leading farmers and land owners.
He was born in that county near Williamston, April 22, 1855, a son of Aaron and Caroline (Reeves) Wel- born. His father was born in Anderson County, a son of Thomas Welborn, a native of North Carolina, who, on coming to South Carolina settled in An- derson County. Thomas Welborn and wife had the following children: Elbert, Martin, Aaron, James, Betsie, who became the wife of a Mr. Bennett, and lived to be past ninety years of age, Hester who never married, Frankie who never married, Civila, who be- came the wife of a Mr. Rogers, and Rebecca who married Mr. Allen.
Caroline Reeves Welborn was a daughter of Noah Reeves, of Anderson County. She died when her son Thomas Martin was only two years of age. The other children were Lawrence Moore, Jane and Ci- vila. Aaron Welborn afterwards married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Jane ( Miller) Reid and they had three children, Hyson, Walter and Pally.
Thomas Martin Welborn after the death of his mother was reared by his grandmother Welborn. He was twelve years old when his grandfather died and that event practically closed his opportunities in the old field schools, and thereafter he had to assume most of the duties of working and managing his grandmother's farm. He lived with her and did a dutiful part until her death, when he was eighteen years of age. He then started out on his own ac- count, his capital consisting of a horse, a saddle and a bridle. For the next five years he rented land. He then bought a small tract and later kept up his program of hard work and good management and out of his increasing means he bought farm lands until now he owns 1,256 acres. His home farm is a model place of 231 acres.
In. 1878 Mr. Welborn married Carolina Elizabeth
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Harper, a daughter of William Harper, of Ander- son County. Mr. Welborn's success has meant most to them because it has been largely for the benefit of their children. Their family consists of the fol- lowing: Ethel, who graduated from the Winthrop Normal and is now Mrs. J. A. Pruitt; James, a farmer; Elsie, a graduate of a finishing school at Holland, Virginia, now wife of Ernest Holcomb; Pearlie, wife of H. Newell; Lawrence, with his father on the farm; D. K. Welborn, a graduate of Erskine College and was a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; Pally married Frank Breazeale; Byron at home; Floreid, who mar- ried Griffin Jameson.
Mr. and Mrs. Welborn are members of the Baptist Church and reared their family in that faith.
JULIUS H. ANDERSON. Anderson County was named for the gallant revolutionary soldier, Gen. Robert Anderson. His descendants have comprised for more than a century a group of prominent men and women in the state, and one of them is Julius H. Anderson, a farmer, banker and business man of prominent connections at the City of Anderson.
He was born in Hopewell Township of Anderson County February 5, 1865. a son of Richard Harri- son and Josephine (McCann) Anderson. His
father was a native of Hopewell Township, being a son of Dr. William H. Anderson. Josephine McCann was horn at Equality in Anderson County, daughter of Thomas Hampton McCann. Thomas H. McCann, who was born May 24, 1808, and died December 12, 1885, married Narcissa Walker. He served as a major in the state militia. His parents were Robert and Jane ( Hamilton) McCann. Robert McCann, a son of Patrick and Jane (Stuart) McCann of Scotch lineage and Presbyterian church faith, was born in Ireland, January I, 1764, came to America in 1783, soon after the close of the Revolution, and first lived in Abbeville County and afterwards in Anderson County, where he died June 7, 1803.
Mr. Anderson, whose lineage is therefore one involving interesting and important personages in both lines, is one of five children: Ida Narcissa who married J. D. Smith; Hampton G .; Julius H .: Minnic, wife of Dr. M. A. Thompson ; and William DeWitt, deccased. The father of these children died in 1910 at the age of seventy-four and the mother, now cighty years of age, lives with her daughter, Mrs .. Thompson, in Anderson. The chil- dren grew up on the farm in Hopewell Township, and the parents were active members of the Mid- way Presbyterian Church, the father being one of its deacons for many years.
While a boy on the farm Julius H. Anderson acquired a good education, and from the age of fourteen to nineteen gained a business experience as clerk in a general store at Liberty, owned and operated by R. H. Anderson & Company, of which his father was the senior member.
November 15, 1892, Mr. Anderson married Mary Simpson Sadler Norris, a daughter of Col. Jesse W. and Susan (Simpson) Norris, a descendant of the historical Bratton family. Colonel Norris was a lawyer by profession, but after practicing for several years settled on a farm south of Anderson at Varennes. Varennes was the name of a postoffice
conducted for many years on Colonel Norris' prem- ises. He was eminently successful as a farmier, and a man of deserved prominence in the county. The old Colonel Norris farm and homestead is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Anderson. To their mar- riage were born four children: Louis Harrison, Susic, Fred Norris and Julius William.
There is a military record for the oldest son. He volunteered in the officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, went overseas with the rank of first lieutenant, spent over a year in France in active service, and was promoted to captain in the Eighty- First Division, with the Three Hundred and Eight- eenth Field Artillery.
Some of the best lands in Anderson County are farmed under the direct supervision of Mr. Ander- son. He is also president of the Citizens National Bank of Anderson, and is interested in other busi- ness affairs there. He has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church since he was nineteen years of age and he and his family now attend the Cen- tral Presbyterian Church at Anderson. Politics, so far as office holding is concerned, he has shunned, and has given his time to farming, business, church and family. He is a man of unassuming nature and in business and social relations accord to those with whom he comes in contact a cordial greet- ing and just and fair treatment.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS KING was a youthful Con- federate soldier during the last year of the great war, and like his native state has risen from the impover- ished conditions of war times to a prosperity repre- sented by the ownership of one of the good farms of Anderson County.
Mr. King was born in that county, November 13, 1847, a son of Thomas and Eliza Jane (Fant) King and a grandson of Peter King and Jesse Fant. His parents were natives of Anderson County, and Peter King was also born there. The brother of Grand- father King was Rev. Robert King and their father was Robert King, a pioneer of Anderson County. Thomas King spent his life as a teacher and farmer and died at the age of forty-eiglit.
Christopher Columbus King, oldest of seven chil- dren, grew up on a farm and had common school educational advantages. He was seventeen years old, when in November, 1864, he enlisted in the Con- federate army and was with General Johnston's army until the close of the war. His war service brought on chronic dysentery, from which he was a sufferer until 1872. His father died in 1871, and he continued with his mother on the home farm until her death in 1888. In the meantime he had estab- lished a home of his own by his marriage in 1874 to Margaret Ellen Jolly, a daughter of James Albert Jolly of Anderson County. For half a century farm- ing has been Mr. King's regular occupation. His home farm is on Rural Route No. I out of Anderson. He has been honored with positions of public trust, has served five years as a magistrate, is deacon and treasurer of the Hopewell Baptist Church, and a Master Mason.
He and his wife had nine children. Five of them are deceased, one dying in childhood and the others after reaching adult years, their names being Walter DeWitt. Lorin Oscar, who was in the Spanish-Amer- ican war, Mary Jane and Christopher Columbus, Jr.
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The living children are Thomas Albert, William Cary, Lulu Alice and Joseph Lewis. Mr. King is proud of the fact that two of his sons were sol- diers in recent wars. William C. spent six months with the First South Carolina Regiment on the Mex- ican border. Thomas Albert was a member of the Forty-second ( Rainbow) Division, and went with the American Expeditionary Forces to France and has received an honorable discharge.
ANDREW A. KRONG is a Charleston lawyer, and in ten years since his admission to the bar has made his name an honored one in professional circles.
He was born at Charleston February 9, 1885. His father was for many years in the real estate and insurance business in Charleston. His grandfather, Capt. Andrew Kroeg, was connected with the naval service of the Confederacy during the war between the states.
Mr. Kroeg was cducated in private schools, the Charleston High School, graduated from the College of Charleston in 1905, and after continued study of law for two years was admitted to the bar in 1907. He has been in active practice since 1908, and throughout has depended upon his own efforts to build up a practice and has had no partnership association.
In IgII he married Oliveros Witsell of Charleston. Their two children are Andrew A., Jr., and Katharine Witsell.
MATHIAS BEELA RICHARDSON, whose name is associated with some of the most absorbing and pro- ductive agricultural interests of Anderson County, was a Confederate soldier in his youth, and comes of a family. distinguished by its patriotism, and by all those qualities which made sturdy, useful and hon- orable citizens.
He was born in Anderson County, February 14, 1845. He is descended from one of three brothers who came from Wales, one settling in Massachusetts and two in Virginia. These brothers were all sol- diers in the Revolutionary war. From Virginia, Wil- liam Richardson came at a very early date to Ander- son County, South Carolina. His son Mathias Rich- ardson was born on Hurricane Creek near Pelzer, South Carolina, and married Polly Tinnel. They were the parents of Noah T. Richardson, who was born in Anderson County in 1811 and died in 1862 while a resident of Pickens County. His wife Hester Murphy Richardson was a daughter of Ezekiel Mur- ply who was a son of Rodgers Murphy. Rodgers Murphy was an Irishman and a Revolutionary sol- dier and married a Miss Wilson of Virginia. Eze- kiel Murphy married a Miss Martin.
Noah T. Richardson and wife had a family of children whose individual records deserve the following comment: John Franklin, who died a few years after serving as a Confederate soldier ; Charles Piekney who died of wounds received in the battle of Frazer's Farm; William Murphy who was mort- ally wounded at the battle of Frazer's Farm; Mary Caroline who first married Elisha Ferguson and he was killed while a Confederate soldier, and she is now the wife of James Hendricks; Mathias Beela who for over two years wore the uniform of a Con- federate soldier; Albert Newton, who became old enough to serve nine months as a Confederate sol-
dier ; Clark, a prominent physician, who died in Texas; Charity Emmaline widow of Henry T. Mc- Daniel ; Enoch B., a prominent farmer and a resident of Pickens County; Thomas Jefferson, a Baptist minister, living in Texas; and Frances Elizabeth, wife of Lewis L. Hyde of New York City.
For many years the father of this family lived on a farm near Williamston in Anderson County, and went late in life to Pickens County.
Mathias B. Richardson married Miss Mattie Young in 1869. She was a daughter of Lewis Clark Young of Pickens County. They became the parents of the following children: Emma, William Murphy, Lewis Clark, Anna C. and one that died in childhood. Of these William Murphy Richardson is a success- ful physician at Iron City, Georgia, while Lewis Clark Richardson has a distinguished record as a naval officer, now holding the rank of captain in the United States Navy.
After the death of the mother of these children Mr. Richardson married Miss Sarah R. Newton. She died the mother of John Henry, Effie R. and Sallie. For his third wife Mr. Richardson married Sarah E. Martin. They have six children, Nettie Hester, Mattie Eugenia, Lois E., Ruth, Helen and Mathias B., Jr. Mr. Richardson has given his children the best of educational advantages, and the rearing of this large family has been one of the outstanding features of his successful career. He located on his present farm in 1870.
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