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In 1816, John Maxwell, B. F. Perry, William Hubbart, E. B. Benson, George Reese, Sr., George W. Liddell, J. B. Perry, John Martin, T. Farrar, W. R. Davis, William Gas- ton, Joseph Reed, Elam Sharpe, D. Sloan, Jr., Samuel War- ren, Leonard Simpson, Major Lewis, Samuel Taylor.
In 1817, William Steele, James Lawrence, Francis Burt, John Hunter, W. S. Adair, William Taylor, William An- derson, Joseph Mitchell, Thomas Lorton, Rev. James Hill- house, Benjamin Dickson, Richard Lewis, J. T. Whitfield, J. B. Hammond, John Holbert, Robert Lemon.
In 1818, John Hall, David Cherry, John Gaillard, Charles Story, Samuel Gassaway, R. A. Maxwell, J. P. Lewis, F. W. Symmes, Geo. Reese, Jr., Joseph Whitner, James Faris, William Oliver, James O. Lewis, Thomas Sloan, Henry McCravy, David K. Hamilton.
These names with the Constitution and By-Laws of the organization, together with the letters and papers read be- fore the Society at its various meetings, may be found in a pamphlet printed at the Telescope Press, Columbia, in 1820, several copies of which are extant in the community.
The valedictory address of the first President, Thomas Pinckney, Jr., closes with this sentence: "I hope, and per- suade myself, that the views of the Society will encourage individual attempts to introduce grass fields as a regular ro- tation, and the last words of your first President are, 'Gen- tlemen, make hay.'"
Our leading agriculturists of to-day, backed up by our members of Congress and the Department of Agriculture at Washington, are earnestly advising the same wise course,
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and the grass gardens of the South Carolina Experiment Station are within three miles of the hall built by the Pen- dleton Farmers' Society, the first Society of the kind organ- ized in our State, the second within the limits of our United States.
In an old book (Mill's Statistics), whose press date is 1826, the reader finds this paragraph :
"Commerce and Manufactures .- Charleston and Ham- burg are the two principal markets of this District. But little progress has been made in manufactures, except in the domestic way. Every family manufactures cotton cloth for their own use, which gives employment, during wet weather, to idle hands. There is one cotton factory, owned by Mr. Garrison, in the District, which manufactures for sale on a small scale. A rifle gun factory is established on Chatuga Creek."
Of this "one cotton factory, owned by Mr. Garrison," we have not been able to learn anything more from either record or tradition. In the 30's of the last century Pendle- ton factory was built by Messrs. Sloan, Benson and Sloan, and was operated by them until 1865, making "block yarns," which were used in the old hand looms of ante-bellum days to make homespun and as a basis for jeans. The first ma- chinery for the mill was made in Patterson, N. J., and was hauled on wagons from Hamburg, South Carolina. The factory is still in operation, owned by Col. A. J. Sitton, and produces carpet yarns.
It is interesting to note that the B. F. Sloan who built the Pendleton factory, the pioneer of the many mills now in the territory of Old Pendleton District, was the father of Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, now Secretary and Treasurer of the Clemson Agricultural, Mechanical and Textile College, which office he has filled since the organization of that insti- tution.
It fits well the place and the hour to commend most cor- dially the course of Hon. D. K. Norris, a battle-scarred
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veteran of the War of Secession, a life Trustee of Clemson College, and the President of two cotton mills, in calling the Post Office at one mill Cateechee and in naming the new mill, now building, Issaqueena-different forms of the name of the Indian maiden, who, well known tradition teaches, ran from Keowee to Cambridge to warn her lover and his pale face friends of an intended hostile incursion of the Cherokees.
"Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays That tell of the memories of long-vanished days; Yes, give me a land that hath story and song, Enshrining the strife of the right with the wrong."
A friend furnishes us the following lists of the names of Confederate soldiers buried in the church-yards of the town of Pendleton :
"Baptist Church-Robert Maxwell, Edward Maxwell, Priestly Maxwell, John Maxwell, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Dr. James Sloan, J. D. Smith, B. F. Gantt, James Duke, Richard Wilson, David Keisler.
"Episcopal Church-Gen. Barnard E. Bee, Gen. Clement Stephens, Henry Stephens, J. C. Clemson, Alex. Warley, J. F. Calhoun, Lawrence Smith, Benj. Smith, Harry Miller, Earle Seaborn, Willie Seaborn, Sam'l Taylor, Dr. T. L. Cuthbert, J. W. Wilkinson, -- Stark, Major Jos. Adams. "Methodist Church-Henry Knuff, John Frasier. "Presbyterian Church-James Hunter."
As a tribute to their memory, suffer your speaker, Daughters of the Confederacy, to read the inscription on the Confederate monument in the State House yard, Co- lumbia, S. C .:
This Monument Perpetuates the Memory of those who, True to the instincts of their birth, Faithful to the teachings of their Fathers, Constant in their love for the State, Died in the performance of their Duty.
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Who Have glorified a fallen cause By the simple manhood of their lives And the heroism of Death, And who, In the dark hours of imprisonment, In the hopelessness of the hospital, In the short, sharp agony of the field, Found support and consolation In the belief That at home they would not be Forgotten.
Let the Stranger Who may in future times Read this Inscription Recognize that these were Men Whom Power could not corrupt,
Whom Death could not terrify, Whom Defeat could not dishonor ; And let their Virtues plead For Just Judgment Of the cause in which they perished ; Let the South Carolinians Of another generation Remember That the State taught them How to live and how to die, And that from her broken fortunes She has preserved for her children The priceless treasure of their Memories, Teaching all who may claim The same Birthright That Truth, Courage and Patriotism Endure Forever.
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These words might be read with profit at any and every Memorial Day celebration in South Carolina. At this place to read them seems most appropriate. Their gifted author's grave is in your Episcopal cemetery. They came from the pen of William H. Trescott, the most illustrious diplomat South Carolina has produced.
Every school boy knows that Barnard E. Bee gave Jack- son at Manassas his immortal name of Stonewall, the name bestowed on the bloody field, displacing that given beside the baptismal font. Every Carolinian should know that Bee's ashes are in a Pendleton church-yard ; that Maj. R. F. Simp- son, a veteran of the war with the Seminoles, while a Con- gressman from the native State of both, appointed Bee a cadet at West Point, and every member of the Pendleton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy should delight to tell that when Bee fell from his horse, soon after pointing to Jackson and calling on his men to stand like a stone wall, shot to the death, his mind turned to his old home and his school-mates and he called out, "Where are the Pendleton boys? Let them take me off the field." Color Sergeant Robert Maxwell and Lieutenant Richard Lewis were two of those who did so.
Most appropriately to-day does a grand-daughter of Major Simpson, representing the Barnard E. Bee Camp of Confederate Veterans, at Aiken, S. C., place on Bee's monu- ment a wreath of flowers presented by that Camp for such sacred purposes !
"War's richest spoils are the ashes of her brave." Rich in such sacred dust is the soil of Old Pendleton. Here sleep soldiers of the early wars with the Cherokees; of the war of the Revolution, David Sloan, Gen. Blassingame, Col. Warren, Zachariah Taliafero, Andrew Pickens, Sr .; of the war of 1812, Andrew Pickens, Jr .; of the Florida war, Major R. F. Simpson; of the war with Mexico, Lieut. E. T. Shubrick; of the war of Secession, whose names are regu- larly read on these memorial occasions; and a recently 14-0. S. C.
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erected stone in the Old Stone Church-yard guards the mem- ory of James Sloan Goodman, of the regular army, who died one year ago in the distant Philippines, whose body his parents hope will soon be brought home and put to rest there in native soil. Of all of these, the known and the unknown, let us use the words of O'Hara, a Mexican war soldier from the South, a soldier of the Confederacy, words which, cast on metal tablets, are read by thousands of visitors in the Federal cemeteries of our country :
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldiers' last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, . And glory guards, with solemn sound, The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind; No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind; No vision of the warrior's strife The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust; Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troops, the flashing blade, The bugle's stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past; Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal, Shall thrill, with fierce delight, Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight.
Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre.
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Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your story be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
The marble minstrels' voiceless tone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath flown, The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb. -Keowee Courier, Walhalla, S. C., July 1, 1903.
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LIST OF THE DEAD. IN THE OLD STONE CHURCH CEMETERY.
Alexander, A. N.
Casey
Alexander, Col. E.
Cherry, David
Alexander, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cherry, Mary S.
Anderson, Keziah Pickens
Anderson, Maria
Benson, E. B.
Benson, Esther
Benson, Wm. E.
Cherry, Samuel
Cherry, Sidney S.
Cherry, Susan
Cherry, Susan, daughter of Thomas and Mary Cherry.
Bird, Mary M.
Bishop, Jane
Bishop, Dorcas
Bishop, Nicholas and wife.
Bishop, Jane
Brackett, Richard Brandon
Breazeale, Nettie McElroy Breazeale, Sam'1 M.
Bruce, Lucy M.
Crawford
Crawford
Caminard, Mr.
Crawford
Daniel, Eliza Pratt
Caminard
Dendy, Leland
Caminard
Dendy, Lucia E.
Caminard
Dickson, Florence Scott
Dickson, Nancy Y. Scott
Dickson, Thomas
Carruth, Mary Cary, J.
Dickson, Henry F.
Cary, Julia Dillard
Cary, Lucinda
Cary, N. G.
Dillard, J. B.
Casey
Cherry, Horatio Reese
Cherry, Sarah Ann
Cochran, John W.
Cochran, infant son of New- ton Cochran.
Cochran, Mary Cary
Crawford
Bynum, Turner
Caminard, Mrs.
Caminard
Dillard, Lizzie
Dillard-two infants.
Doyle, Dr. O. M.
Cherry, David, infant son of G. R. and S. C. Cherry. Cherry, George R. Cherry, J. C.
Benson, infant son of John B. and Elizabeth A. Ben- son.
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Doyle, Mrs. Mary E. Ram- sey. Dupre Elliott, Lawrence B.
Huger, Eliza Hunter, John G. Hunter, Ethelinda Hunter, Mandana
Elliott, three of John El- liott's children.
Hunter, Mary
Fitzgerald, Eli
Fitzgerald, Margaret Adair
Frazier, John
Frazier, Eliza Young
Gantt, B. F.
Johnson, wife of Richard.
Kay, Charlotte Miller
Gantt, Frank
Keels, Martha P. Maxwell
Garvin, James A.
Kilpatrick, Col. F. W.
Goodman, A. S., wife of Wm. W.
Klugh, infant Langston, Emma McElroy, wife of P. B. Langston.
Goodman, Wm. W.
Grisham, Nancy, wife of Joseph G.
Lanier, Bird
Lanier, Elizabeth
Hardin, Mary Payne
Harris, John
Lanier, Mary
Harris, Robert
Lanier, Henie P.
Harris, Nathaniel
Heineman, John
Lanier, Mary A., wife of H. A. Hinson. Ledbetter, Abner
Heineman, wife of John.
Heineman, Mary
Henry, Beverly Allen
Henry, Ben Hill Henry, Mrs. Mary H., wife of Dr. B. A. Henry.
Henry, William Patrick Henry, Miss Henry, James Hopkins, G.
Hubbard, Rebecca
Hubbard, Margie 15-O. S. C.
Ledbetter, Mrs. Abner (Sa- rah Miller, daughter of Alexander and Susan Cal- houn ).
Lewis, Susan M., wife of Jesse P. Lewis, Jesse P. Lewis, Jesse A. Lewis, David
Lewis, Earle
Lewis, Robert
Whitner
Gantt, Mrs. B. F.
Hunter, Sarah
Hunter, Thomas
Jones, Cornelia Symmes Johnson, Richard
Lanier, Jane
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Lewis, Carrie C., wife of J. J. Lewis. Lewis, Nancy F.
Lewis, John Earle Lewis, Lindamira
Lewis, Mary T., wife of J. Overton.
Lewis, J. Overton
Lewis, Richard
Lewis, Sarah
Lewis, Emma Elford
Lewis, William E.
Lewis, David S.
Lewis, Andrew Felix
Lewis, Susan Sloan
Lewis, Andrew Fielding
Livingston, Col. J. W. Livingston, infant daughter Lorton, John S. and wife.
Lorton, Eliza Amanda (mother of Col. F. W. Kilpatrick. )
Martin, Wade H.
Masters, Willie Claude
Maxwell, Lizzie
Maxwell, Dr. John H. and Mary E.
Maxwell, John Baylis, infant son.
Maxwell, infant
Maxwell, Mary L.
Maxwell, Elizabeth H., wife of Capt. John.
Maxwell, Capt. John
Maxwell, Baylis James
Meriwether, Anna Reese
Miller, Crosby W.
Miller, John, Sr.
Miller, John, Jr.
Miller, John 3d
Miller, Mrs. John, Sr.
Miller, Mrs. John, Jr. Miller, John F.
Miller, Mrs. John F.
Miller, S. F. W.
Miller, Sarah J., wife of Patrick J. Miller.
Miller, Mrs. Crosby W .- 1st Ann Neel
Miller, Mrs. Crosby W .- 2d Eliza Hamilton Moore, Betsey Miller
McAllester, Polly
McBryde, Fannie L.
McBryde, M. W. McBryde, Rev. T. L.
McCleskey, Mrs. Mary McCrary, Edmund M.
McCrary, Mary McCrary, Albert
McCrary, Mary C. Harris
McCrary, Sammie W., son of Edmund Mccrary. McCrary, Willie A., son of Edmund Mccrary. McCrary, Phœbe Doyle McElhenny, Rev. James McElroy, Dr. James M. McElroy, Martha Susan McElroy, J. S.
McElroy, Sam'l R. McGufen, Andrew
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McHugh, infant daughter of Pike, Floride
Jas. H. and M. R. Mc- Hugh.
Price Price
Ogier, Thomas
Ogier, Peter Edward
Patterson, John A.
Patterson, Luther
Patterson, infant
Ramsey, John
Ramsey, Alexander, Sr. (1826)
Ramsey, Isabella Baskins
Reese, Caroline
Reese, George, Sr.
Reese, Horatio R.
Reese, Jane Almira
Reese, John Milton
Reese, Horatio
Reese, Rev. Thomas, D. D.
Reese, Anna F.
Reese, Mary Elizabeth
Reese, Osenappa, son of George and Mary Reese.
Reese, Ann
Rembert, E. M.
Rochester, Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan W.
Rochester, Jonathan W.
Rochester, Floride C.
Rochester, Susan E., wife of W. G. Stephens.
Rochester, J. L.
Rochester, W. D.
Rochester, William
Rochester, Mrs. William
Rochester, Sally
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Pickens, Gov. Andrew
Pickens, Mrs. Gov. Andrew
Pickens, Mrs. Andrew, wife of Andrew, son of Eze- kiel.
Pickens, Jeremiah M.
Pickens, Junius
Pickens, Ezekiel
Pickens, Mrs. Eliza, wife Ezekiel.
Pickens, Andrew, son of T. Roberson
J. Pickens. Pickens, Mrs. T. J.
Phillips, Arch.
Phillips, Mrs. Arch.
Phillips, Josephine
Pike, Daniel
Pike, Mary A. Phelps
Pike, Ellen S. Pike, J. P.
Pike, Martha J. Fitzgerald Pike, Warren
Ramsey, Sarah Hartgrove Reid
Ramsey, Alexander, Sr. (1871)
Pickens, Andrew (infant son of A. C. Pickens. )
Pickens, T. J., son of Ezekiel Pickens.
Pickens, Gen'l Andrew
Pickens, Mrs. Gen. Andrew
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Roland, Lizzie Roland, Lizzie (daughter)
Ross, Rebecca Mary Rusk, John R. Rusk, Mrs. John R.
Russell, Mrs. Geo. (Miss Scott Dickson)
Sharpe, Ed. A.
Sharpe, John F.
Sharpe, Elam
Sharpe, Mrs. Elam
Sharpe, Elizabeth
Sharpe, Charlotte B.
Sharpe, Jane Elizabeth
Simpson, infant son of W. and E. A. Simpson.
Simpson, Raymond R.
Simpson, William
Simpson, Mrs. William
Simpson Simpson
Sloan, Frank, infant son of B. F. and Ella S.
Sloan, Enoch Berry
Sloan, Essie M. Whitner
Sloan, Emma Caldwell
Sloan, Wm. Henry
Sloan, Rebecca Benson
Sloan, three infant sons of John T. and Eliza A. Sloan.
Steele, Major Joseph L.
Steele, Capt. Aaron
Steele, Sarah Antoinette
Steele, Sarah Antoinette, in- fant daughter.
Steele, Esther L. Steele, William Steele, Wm. Davis
Steele, Nancy H., wife of Capt. A. S.
Stephens, A. C.
Stephens, G. B.
Stephens, Hampton
Stephens
Stephens
Stephens, Susan E. Roches- ter Stephens, Anna M.
Story, Charles
Story, Mary
Stewart, infant
Stewart, infant
Swords, Harvey
Symmes, Anna and Sarah- twins.
Symmes, Alex.
Symmes, Rebecca
Symmes, Mrs. Sarah S., wife of
Symmes, Dr. F. W.
Symmes, F. W., Jr.
Taylor, Effie Taylor, Truman
Thurston, Wm. E. Walker, Matilda
Walker, Wm., 3d son of W. and J. Walker
Walker, Jane, consort of William. Walker, William
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Weyman, infant daughter of J. B. and E. M. Wey- man. Whitner, Joseph
Whitten, Campbell
Whitten, Collin Whitten, infant Whitten, infant Whitten, Luther
Whitner, Mrs. Joseph Whitner, Elizabeth
Whitten, infant
White, N. J., wife of A. F. White.
Wilson, Mr.
White, G. Verner
White, Margaret B. Beatty, wife of G. V. White.
Young, Mary
Whitten, Frank S.
Whitten, Nina
Whitten, Ursula Jane
Whitten, John C.
Whitten, Franklin G.
Whitten, Henrietta
Whitten, Elmira Hubbard
Whitten, Mary
Whitten, Bird
Whitten, Mary
Lewis, Robt.
Cherry, J. C.
Livingston, Col. J. W.
Dickson, Henry F.
Miller, John F.
Doyle, Dr. O. M.
Miller, S. F. W.
Frazier, John
McCrary, Edmund M.
McElroy, J. S.
Gantt, B. F. Goodman, W. W.
Rochester, W. D.
Harris, John A.
Sharpe, Ed.
Sloan, Enoch Berry
Stephens, A. C.
Swords, Harvey
White, G. Verner
Whitten, John C.
Young, Eliza, wife of J. J. Frazier. Young, C. W.'s family- Young, H. C.
Young, Hattie A. Young, C. G.
Zachary, baby of J. R. and J. R. Zachary. Zachary, Claude L.
List of Confederate Dead.
Alexander, A. N.
Harris, Robt. A. Hopkins, Gaston Kilpatrick, Col. F. W. Lewis, David S. Lewis, Earle
Wilson, Martha Miller
Wright Young, William
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Revolutionary Soldiers.
Garvin, John* Rusk, John R.
Pickens, General Andrew
Indian Creek War, 1815-1816.
Jessie Payne Lewis
* This is probably James A. Garvin. I know of no John Garvin buried in this cemetery. (Editor.)
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