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acquired a sufficient estate. He was frugal but not stingy, was just and fair in all his dealings, was helpful to his friends, and altogether lived a well rounded carcer. He was a member of the Meth- odist Church.
Captain Daniels died at Anderson May 17, 1901, when past sixty-seven years of age. ' October 27. . 1881, he married Mrs. Julia (Webb) Carpenter, sister of the late T. J. Webb of Anderson County. The only child of their marriage, a daughter, died at the age of eight years while Captain and Mrs. Daniels were living at Columbia Mrs. Daniels who has attained the age of seventy is one of An- derson's esteemed citizens and occupies a beauti- ful residence provided for her during the lifetime of Captain Daniels.
JOSEPH H. CANNON, M. D. A prominent young physician of Charleston, Doctor Cannon has been a prominent worker on the teaching staff and hos- pitals of the city and for nearly two years was on active duty as a naval surgeon at the Naval Base Hospital in Charleston.
Born in Charleston in 1886, he is a son of F. E. and Mary Elizabeth (Furse) Cannon. His father was a native of South Carolina. Doctor Cannon was educated in several private schools. One of his best teachers was Mrs. Dora Walker of Appleton, who was very successful in preparing boys for col- lege. Doctor Cannon graduated with the class of 1912 from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. After an interneship of one year in Roper Hospital, he began private prac- tice, but at the same time his association with his alma mater and hospital and other public duties has been practically continuous.
He was assistant in medicine and also had charge of the out-patient dermatology clinic of the medical college, and for two years was assistant demon- strator of anatomy, eventually being promoted to instructor in dermatology. Prior to the beginning of his military service he was also assistant visit- ing physician to the Roper Hospital.
He volunteered his services to the government early in 1917. for the period of the war. He was assigned to duty at the Naval Hospital at Charles- ton, and put in charge of the section of internal medicine. Thereafter all his time was taken up by these duties until April 15, 1919. He held the rank of lieutenant in the navy, and while relieved from active duty he is still retained with a reserve com- mission. Doctor Cannon is now dividing his time between his private practice and his duties as as- sistant visiting physician to Roper Hospital.
He is a member of the South Carolina Medical Society, the State Medical Association, the South- ern Medical Association, the American Medical As- sociation, and the Medico-Chirurgical Club, the lat- ter comprised chiefly of young men on the staff of the medical college and the hospital. He is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner.
EDWARD KING. For generations the King family have been successfully identified with the rural life of Anderson County, have supplied many capable farmers, have developed large bodies of land, and
have also turned out men and women of the high- est moral worth and civic character.
One of the younger members of the family is Edward King, prominent as a farmer in Brushy Creck Township. He was born in Anderson County May 27, 1878, son of Drury Edward and Willie Caroline (Elrod) King. His grandparents were Peter M. and Rhody (Raines) King, the former a native of Anderson County and a farmer and cooper by education. Drury Edward King was born in Anderson County December 10, 1839, was a school teacher and farmer, and in 1861 enlisted in the Con- federate army and served until the close of the war. After the war he spent nearly half a century in the useful occupation of farming. He was prominent as a Methodist, being a steward of his church and su- perintendent of his Sunday school for many years. He died January 3, 1915. His wife was born in An- derson County November 14. 1839, and died Decem- ber 14, 1918, at the age of seventy-eight. Her father was Samuel Elrod. She was the mother of four children: Ann, who married J. W. Lee; Mattie, who became the wife of A. P. Brown; Rhody, who is unmarried ; and Edward.
Edward King grew up on the home farm, had a common school education and attended Wofford College at Spartanburg. He owns 241 acres in- cluding the parental homestead, and for many years has been busily engaged in its management and cultivation. His handsome country residence was erected by him in 1911.
He married Miss Mourning Moore in 1904. She is the daughter of J. J. Moore of Anderson County. Mr. and Mrs. King's four children are Richard Samuel, Ellen, Velde Edward and May. The family are members of the Methodist Church and Mr. King is a Master Mason and a Woodman of the World.
HARVEY RICHARDSON JONES is proprietor of a large and highly developed farm, is thoroughly progressive in his business, and one of the good citizens and neighbors of Brushy Creck Township, Anderson County.
He was born in that township May 25, 18:6, son of William M. and Mahala (Elrod) Jones. Ilis father and mother were natives of Anderson Coun- ty. Their children were named Charles M., George Adam Franklin, Harvey Richardson and William Berry. After the death of the mother the father married Sallie Slayton. To that union were born five other children named Samuel Walker, An- nie Mahala, Harrison M., Robert B. and Sallie. William M. Jones, the father, was a farmer by occu- pation. Though well advanced in years at the time he served in the Confederate army during the last year of the war. He lived to be seventy-two. His church faith was that of the Baptist Church.
Harvey Richardson Jones grew up on the farm and the years of his boyhood and early youth were spent in the peculiarly trying and difficult period of the war and reconstruction. He lived at home with his father to the age of twenty-one. In 1878 he married Miss Augusta Ann Rogers, daughter of Jackson Rogers. She died Icaving no children. In 1912 Mr. Jones married Miss Frances Lenora Holder, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Malinda (Ferguson) Holder. Mrs. Jones was born at Walhalla, South
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Carolina, and her father was a prominent Baptist minister, spending much of his life in Pickens Coun- ty, and was a Confederate soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children named Edward Grady and Jessie Lillian. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Bap- tist Church while he is affiliated with the Presby- terian faith. He is a Master Mason.
Mr. Jones has achieved real success as a farmer. His home place consists of 201 acres and he lias lived there for thirty years.
THOMAS ALLISON HUDGENS, M. D. While he was best known in his community in Anderson County as a faithful and hard working physician, the late Dr. Thomas Allison Hudgens earned a place in the history of his state . as lieutenant colonel of the Seventh South Carolina Regiment, a gallant regi- ment in the Confederate Army, as a leader in pol- ities during reconstruction times, and as a citizen whose life was one of the finest integrity and irreproachable conduct in all its relations.
He was born at Laurens June 19, 1831, and died suddenly at his home in Honea Path February 25, 1802. His parents were Colonel John and Kathryn (Allison) Hudgens. His father, a native of Laurens County, was a farmer, served as a colonel in the State Militia, also a member of the State Legis- lature. Ambrose Hudgens, grandfather of Doctor Hudgens, was a native of Virginia and of Scotch- Irish lincage and developed one of the early farms in Laurens County. He married a Miss Irby of that county. Kathryn Allison, mother of Doctor Hud- gens, was born in Laurens County and her father Robert Allison was a native of Ireland, settling in Laurens County in early life.
Doctor Hudgens grew up on a farm, was the oldest of eight children, and had a healthy and wholesome youth, recreation being judiciously com- bined with study and labor. He finished his literary education in the University of South Carolina and in 1858 completed his medical course in the Jeffer- son Medical College in Philadelphia. For one year he practiced in his native county and then located at Donalds in Abbeville County. The outbreak of the war called him from his profession into the ranks of the Seventh South Carolina Regiment as a pri- vate. Upon the reorganization of the regiment he was made captain and subsequently was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and as such continued to serve the Southern cause until the close of the war. The war over he located at Honea Path, and for a quarter of a century was looked upon as a leader in his profession and also in the general interests of the community. He owned and super- vised much farming land, and in politics was chiefly identified' with the movement which cul- minated in 1876 in the redemption of the state from negro rule. Later he served as a member of the Legislature. He was a Baptist and was a master of liis Masonic Lodge. May 31, 1870, he married Ella Gaines. She was horn in Pickens County but was reared at Anderson. Mrs. Hudgens is a mem- ber of the Methodist Church and is still living at Honea Path. Her parents Rev. Barnett S. and Mar- garet (Whitfield) Gaines were born in South Car- olina, her father being a Methodist minister. Mrs Hudgens grew up at Anderson in the home of her
grandmother Whitfield. Dr. and Mrs. Hudgens have eight children: John Allison of Pelzer married Sarah, youngest daughter of Capt. E. A. Smyth of Greenville. Ella died at the age of eleven years. Margaret is the wife of Rev. F. H. Wardlaw, Pres- byterian minister. Wilham Augustus Hudgens who was born September 26, 1878, is a distinguished name on the honor roll of South Carolina in the state record for the World war. He was a volun- teer soldier, was on duty along the Mexican bor- der one year, and soon after his return from the South entered the army when the United States de- clared war against Germany. He rose to battalion adjutant with the rank of first lieutenant in the 118th Infantry of the Thirtieth Division and he was killed in action in France on October 8, 1918. Cap- tain Hudgens married Lucia Taylor. The next in the family in age is Thomas Arthur Hudgens, living at home with his mother. Frank Hampton Hudgens, a grain dealer at Nashville, Tennessee, married Miss Virginia Waterfield. Catherine is the wife of L. L. Wright of Honea Path, superintendent of the public schools of that city. The youngest child, Bessie May, married Dr. J. Wallace Payne of Green- wood County, South Carolina.
JAMES B. SPEARMAN, owner of a large and well ordered farm in Anderson County on Kural Route No. 1 out of Piedmont, is father of a large family of sons and daughters and is himself a representative of a family that has lived in South Carolina for a number of generations.
Three brothers named Spearman, natives of Vir- ginia, came to South Carolina, two locating in Ander- son County, one in Williamston Township and the other in Corner Township, while the third brother established his home in Newberry County. From these brothers have descended the numerous Spear- man families now found in South Carolina. The brother that located in Williamston Township had three sons named Benjamin, David and Asbury.,
Of these Benjamin married Sarah Catherine Idom, whose father came from Germany and was an Amer- ican soldier in the Revolutionary war. Benjamin and wife had three sons and eight daughters, the sons being John, Jacob and David. John lost his life while a Confederate soldier. David was a Baptist minister and farmer.
Jacob Spearman was born in Anderson County February 7, 1850, and spent his active career as a farmer. He lived 'to the age of sixty-seven. He was one of the founders and for many years a steward of the Beulah Methodist Church and from the age of eighteen until his death was superintendent of his Sunday school He was a successful farmer and left a good estate. His wife was Sarah Martin, daughter of James Martin. She is still living at the age of sixty-eight. Her seven children were: James B., William D., Elizabeth, Joan, Ruth, Rob- ert M. and Andrew Walker.
James B. Spearman whose ancestry has been given briefly above, was born in Anderson County Sep- tember 30, 1872. He spent his youth on his father's farm and made good use of his educational ad- vantages. For eleven years he was one of the popular teachers in his community, farming when not engaged in school work. Since leaving school he
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has devoted his entire attention to farming and owns one of the valuable places in the Piedmont com- munity. Since 1914 he has served as local magis- trate, and fraternally is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Masonic Order. He and his wife are members of the Beulah Methodist Church.
In 1804 Mr. Spearman married Miss Mamie Calla- han, daughter of Maston W. Callahan of Anderson County. Mr. and Mrs. Spearman are the parents of twelve children. All are living but one, William Oscar, who was a victim of the influenza epidemic and died at the age of nineteen. Pallie, the oldest daughter, is the widow of Curtis M. Simmons, who was a graduate of South Carolina University and was killed in action in France November 2, 1918, only a few days before the signing of the armistice. The other children are: Sarah, a graduate of the Win- throp Normal; Ruby, a student in Lander College; David R., Gladys, Helen, Jamie, Marvin and Mary,. twins, Edith and James B., Jr.
ADOLPHUS CLARK WERB, whose life is tied to An- derson County by many bonds of association and affection, is a planter and for many years has also been a merchant in the country community where he was born and reared.
Mr. Webb was born on his present homestead September 1, 1855, a son of Charles G. and Frances A. (Smith) Webb. His parents were both natives of Anderson County, his father being a son of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Guyton) Webb and his mother a daughter of William and Marialt ( Mattison) Smith. The father was born December 8, 1824, in Hopewell Township. The mother was born Septem- ber 10, 1828. Charles G. Webb spent his active life as a farmer, entered the Confederate army during the war between the states, and while in service in Virginia lost his life. His children were as follows : Warren J. born June 19, 1854, died in childhood ; Adolphus Clark; Mariah E. born June 11, 1857; Dayton, born February 20, 1859; and Martha Ann, born March 14, 1861. Their mother passed away August 30, 1884.
As the oldest living child Adolphus Clark Webb had to begin work carly and eventually became the sole dependence of his widowed mother. For this reason and also because of conditions during and fol- lowing the war he had limited opportunities to se- cure an education. Since early manhood he has made steady progress as a farmer and for twenty years has conducted a country store. He is a Mas- ter Mason and a member of the Baptist Church.
February 12, 1884, Mr. Webb married Matilda Tarrent Williams who was born in Anderson Coun- ty, a daughter of Capt. M. B. Williams. To their marriage were born four sons and one daughter : Percy A., Mack W., Tarrent E., Reginald Calhoun and Manda Lizzie. The son Mack W. is a successful physician and surgeon at Aiken, South Carolina. Tarrent and Reginald were both soldiers, serving in the Eighty-first Division in France.
WILLIAM H. TUCKER and his brother John Baylis Tucker constitute a fraternal and business partner- ship that is widely known over Anderson County. The Tucker brothers are bachelors, have given their active lives to farming and the various enterprises
of a country community, have greatly prospered and own some of the richest and most valuable lands in their native locality, and their public spirit has been displayed in behalf of every community miove- ment and in many individual cases.
They were born in Anderson County sixteen miles south of the City of Anderson, William H. on Jan- uary 18, 1859, and John Baylis on December 22, 1865. Their parents were Harrison and Mary Ann (Wat- son) Tucker, the former a native of Georgia and the latter of Anderson County. The paternal grand- father David Dejonnette Tucker was born in Ander- son County, and his father was a native of England. The maternal grandfather David M. Watson was also born in Anderson County, son of Jonathan Wat- son, a native of Virginia who served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Harrison Tucker and wife had six children : Indiana Matilda, who married Dr. N. J. Newell; David Dejonnette; William H .; Lawrence Riley; John Baylis; and Currinne Malissa Jackson who married R. D. Bates of Greenville. All the children were born in Anderson County. The parents were active members of the Baptist Church. Harrison Tucker served faithfully through- out the war in the Confederate army and was a farmer by occupation. He died in 1902 at the age of eighty-one and his wife in 1907 aged eighty-four.
The Tucker brothers have been partners in their farming enterprise since early manhood. They own and operate a large plantation comprising 1, 100 acres, and besides this place they have other farm lands. For thirty-five years they have also operated a cotton gin and saw mill and their business is there- fore in the nature of a public service to the locality. When the present Cross Roads public school build- ing standing on land formerly a part of the Tucker farm was proposed, William H. Tucker generously contributed $5.000 for its construction and is the individual chiefly responsible for making this one of the best equipped and most efficient country schools in Anderson County.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN LEE, a boy soldier of the Confederacy, for half a century, has been a farm- er, wheelwright and millwright and surveyor in Anderson County, and the record of his immediate family is one of almost unsurpassed sterling pa- triotism in times of war and peace.
He was born three miles west of Honea Path in Anderson County. September 14, 1844. His great- grandfather was William Lee, a native of England, but came to the American colonies and espoused their cause at the time of the Revolution and was with General Washington at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. His son. Talton Lee, a native of Virginia, married Mary Bugell and took part as a soldier in the second war with Great Britain, serving under General Jackson in the War of 1812. He was an early settler in Pendleton dis- trict. now Anderson County, where he farmed and lived until his death at the age of sixty-five.
Philip Lee, the father of William Franklin, was born in Pendleton district, now Anderson County, March 27, 1803, and died August 7, 1862. He was a farmer and well digger, and sank manv of the wells of Anderson County. Though well advanced in years he joined the army as a soldier
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of the Confederacy, being in Company I of the First South Carolina Regiment of Regulars. He married Elizabeth Dunlap Greer, who was born in Anderson County February 25, 1805, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Dunlap) Greer. She died August 20, 1804. Their children were twelve in number, three of whom are still living. Philip Lee. who died early in the war between the states, had five sons in the Confederate army, John W., James B., Robert A., William F. and Enoch W. These sons, five sons-in-law and one grandson were in the cause as soldiers.
William Franklin Lee enlisted in March, 1862, which a little over seventeen years of age, in Company D of Hampton's Legion. He saw active service until the elose of the war, leaving the army April 13. 1865. He still has in his possession a pass to visit Rich- mond, issued by order of Governor M. L. Bonham and dated March 3, 1863. He is a prominent mem- ber and present commander of Camp Crittenden No. 707 of the United Confederate Veterans at Piedmont.
All his education was acquired in the old field schools prior to the age of fourtecn. He spent his youth on the farm, also learned and followed the trade of shoemaker and for a year worked at the wagon making trade at Belton. In 1873 he took up his work as millwright, and followed it for many years. He deserves a prominent place among the construction engineers of his state. In 1891 he superintended the construction of the dam for the Piedmont Cotton Mill Company at Piedmont; also built the stone dam for the cotton mill company at Trion, Georgia ; another dam at Cherokee Falls, and has built and installed many water wheels and has thus been an important factor in harnessing the water power of the state to the manufacturing industry. Mr. Lce furthermore has the distinction of having surveyed more farm lands in Anderson County than probably any other individual. For nearly half a century he owned and supervised ex- tensive farm interests. His home has been in Wil- liamson Township since 1886, when he located on his present farm of 170 acres. Mr. Lee is a Master Mason and is master of his lodge. He is a Pres- byterian in church faith. His life has been one large opportunity to him, and out of the riches of experience he has gathered an immense fund of in- formation and is an exceedingly entertaining conver- sationalist.
Mr. Lee was married May 10, 1866, to Jennie Bal- lentine. She died in 1898 the mother of six children, two of whom are deccased. In 1899 he married Mrs. Rebecca (Morrow) Reavis. By a former marriage Mrs. Lee was the mother of two children. She was born in Ireland. The military record of Mr. Lee is supplemented by the performances of six grand- sons who were in the National Army during the World war period. Three of them were with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and one of them, William Franklin Lec lost his life in action at Argonne Forest October 5, 1918.
JAMES H. SILCOX. In the history of the cotton business at Charleston the name of Silcox has fig- ured prominently for over half a century. Of the older members of the family one of the most promi- nent was the late Ferdinand Augustus Silcox.
He was born at Charleston in 1846, a son of Daniel Hardy Sifcox. While a student at The Citadel in Charleston the war between the states began, and he was called out with others of his class and was in the service of the Confederacy during most of the struggle. Soon after the war he took up the cotton business in Charleston, and for many years was a prominent cotton factor. At one time he was president of the old cotton mill in Charleston, the first institution of its kind built in the city. He also founded the cotton business now conducted by his nephews under the firm name of Sitcox & Com- pany. Ferdinand A. Silcox was a leading layman of the Baptist Church, being a leader for many years in the First Baptist Church of Charleston. He died in 1897. His wife was Caroline Spcar.
Their son, James H. Silcox, grew up in the same line of business followed by his father, and in 1918 founded and carries on a general cotton buying and exporting business under the name James H. Silcox & Company. Mr. Silcox was born at Charleston July 20, 1887, and was educated in Clemson College, the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina. He married Miss Helen Heyward, of Charleston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Heyward. To their marriage have been horn four children, J. Heyward, Helen Heyward, Margaret Beverly and an infant.
JOHN GRIFFIN DUCWORTH, M. D. In the words of a friend and contemporary the late Doctor Duc- worth of Anderson County "was a good man, a splendid eitizen, an able physician, a faithful friend and kind neighbor." It was fortunate that there were such strong characters as Doctor Ducworth to take their places in the various communities of South Carolina in the period immediately following the war and reconstruction. The war had all but ruined the state, not only by the physical loss of its best manhood, but in depriving the coming genera- tion of needed educational opportunities. The late Doctor Ducworth acquired a thorough professional education in spite of heavy handicaps, and in 1875 began a practice in one of the country communities of Anderson County, where he remained steadily until his death.
He was born in that county November 22, 1847, a son of William and Frances (Breazealc) Duc- worth. His parents spent all their lives in Ander- son County, his father being a farmer and was a Confederate soldier in the war.
Doctor Ducworth was one of eleven children. He spent his life as a farm boy, acquired a fair lit- erary education at Williamston, and later attended Newberry College when that school was at Walhalla. Finally he entered Baltimore Medical College, where he graduated in the spring of 1875. In order to complete his education he had been obliged to bor- row and when he began practice he was $500 in debt for his education. He located on a farm near Five Forks, and in that vicinity continued to reside until his death February 10, 1908. Doctor Duc- worth was justly regarded as a physician of splendid judgment and ability and for many years attended a large practice. He loved his work and frequently expressed a desire to "die in the harness." This
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