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The Sketch of the Family of Jacob
Luther Aull
This Sketch Is Written By John K. Aull
And
is Published By E. H. and James L. Aull
Beginning With the
Emigration of His GrandFather From Germany and Coming Down To the
Present August 1911
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Jacob Luther Aull
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Mrs Jacob Luther
Aull
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To Jacob Luther Aull and Julia Ann Haltiwanger
Aull
Who have trod life’s pathway and shared its
Joys and its
sorrows, its hopes and its fears, its sunshine and its shadows, for
more than fifty five years, hand in hand together, in the simplicity
of a perfect love that would give rather than receive, and who must
have felt during their long lives the truth of the beautiful
sentiment expressed by the author of "Life’s Mirror”.
“Give love,
and love to your life will flow,
A strength in your utmost
need;
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith
in your word and deed”
This Volume Is Lovingly Dedicated By The
Author And The Publishers
Herman
Aull
The father of Jacob Luther Aull was
Herman Aull, who was born in Orangeburg County on September 20,
1786. His father was Philip Aull, who moved to this country from
Germany and settled in the lower section of the State, founding the
Aull family in America.
Philip Aull died when his son, Herman
Aull, was quite young. Inspired with that love of political and
religious freedom which has made America greatest among the nations
of earth, he had left the Fatherland to seek a home in the new
world, then bright with the promise which has been
fulfilled.
In his early youth Herman Aull moved to the lower
part of Newberry County, where he bound himself as an apprentice to
John Sultan to learn the carpenter's trade. He purchased a place
about one and a half miles west of Jolly Street, where he combined
farming with his carpenter's trade, and where he lived and died.
This place is still owned by his son, Jacob Luther Aull.
In
1831 Herman Aull applied to the South Carolina Synod (Lutheran) for
a license to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, at which time he was
licensed to preach, and four years later, in 1835, he was fully
ordained. From the time when he received his license until his
death in 1852 he was a zealous laborer in his Master's vineyard, and
his work was characterized by that sincere devotion, singleness of
purpose-the saving of souls, and that power of holy endeavor which
characterized the early pioneers of the Lutheran Church in the Dutch
Fork.
No more beautiful and tender tribute was ever paid one
man by another than that paid by Dr. O. B. Mayer to the Rev. Herman
Aull in the Annals of Newberry, published in 1893. Of the life and
labors of the Rev. Herman Aull, Dr. Mayer said:
"One of
the most beautifully significant features is the incipient
declaration of the Gospel is the selection for that purpose of a few
unlettered men, some of whom were laboring for their living in the
humblest of occupations, namely that of fishermen-the most notable
among them being, as that class of laborers have ever usually been,
addicted to coarse, irreligious behavior. Only divine wisdom could
perceive under their uncouth exteriors the more excellent way
waiting to be shown to them. We have reason to believe that two of
them, James and John, were turbulent, vindictive men before such
showing; and that a third one, Peter, was a fickle boaster and
profane swearer. Yet there was in their rugged Natures seed which in
the former, undergo spiritual culture, sprang up into faithfulness
unto death, and love the purest for God and fellow man while the
Holy Ghost caused to flourish in the vacillating heart of the latter
the very enthusiasm of constancy to the cross. It is true, there was
one who, before he was called to preach the Gospel, had acquired
much learning at the feet of a great teacher; and he was chosen to
disseminate among the learned what had been declared to the simple
by the unskilled in worldly wisdom; but before he could be fitted
for his office he had to be prostrated physically and morally and be
continually buffetted afterwards by the messenger of Satan, until he
became wise through the foolishness of preaching.
"My memory
reaches back to some unpretending men whose devotion to the cause of
Christ may somewhat illustrate the meaning of the above
introduction; and serve also to show that Zion is now-a-days, as she
has ever been, upheld by the pure, simple energy of the
humble.
"Along an extent of perhaps ten miles up and down the
Saluda river there stepped forth from the rustling corn fields same
half dozen men of mature age and sound judgment-of little liability
to be deceived-honest, inflexible, who felt assured that they were
called to preach the Word.
They were men of very limited book
learning, and knew not how to convince themselves or others of the
truth by process of reasoning-that is to say, by logic. They did not
all come forth at the same time. From the year 1824, when the Synod
of South Carolina was organized, to 1831 or 35, it became known from
time to time, that Jost Meetze and Michael Rauch, between Lexington
Court House and the Saluda, had ventured to proclaim the glad
tidings to their neighbors, and between the Saluda and Newberry,
Jacob Moser, Godfrey Dreher and Herman Aull stood up to show the
people their transgressions and the only way of escape from the
consequences of them.
There were others, but these whose
names are here mentioned were heard and seen by myself; and it is of
the last named, Herman Aull, I propose to write a short account,
because I knew him and because he was a citizen of Newberry County
(District); and, indeed, because some of his numerous descendants, I
think, are my warm friends.
"Herman Aull, (or as he was more
frequently called, Harmon Aull) was not born in the Dutch Fork, that
is, in the area of country irregularly laid off, by a radius varying
from five to ten miles long, around a centre fixed at Pomaria Depot,
on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. He came into this
neighborhood from one of the most Southern counties - probably
Beaufort. It is impossible to ascertain any facts relating to his
parentage or to the colony of immigrants from which he became
separated to seek his better fortune on in the interior of South
Carolina. From the fact that he was bound to one Mr. John Sultan, as
an apprentice to learn the carpenter's trade, he must have been a
boy when he came into the community where he lived and died. At the
time of his arrival in the Dutch Fork, the German language was the
mother-tongue in every family. It comes within my easy recollection
how the Dutch Fork people struggled against the encroachment of the
English language. They soon became completely surrounded by
settlements of Irish and Scotch, who, of course, spoke English,
destined, as it was easily foreseen, to supplant the German; which
really did come to pass, in the course of a half century. The change
from one language to the other, however, was very gradual, and
brought about a patois, or dialect which was called "broken
English." Well-marked traces of this can be recognized at the
present time on both sides of the Saluda from Prosperity to
Columbia. Herman Aull's mother-tongue was undoubtedly the German. I
was young when I for the first time heard him preach, and this
"broken English" was plainly perceptible in his utterance. For
instance, such phrases as "The Grace of God," "Come hither, souls,"
he pronounced, "De crace of Cot," "Come heeder, souls." This was
also the manner of Mr. Meetze, Mr. Rauch and others. I was about
sixteen years of age when I heard these pioneer preachers, and
fifty-six years have not obliterated my remembrance of the pensive
emotion excited by the tender persuasiveness this "broken English"
gave to their. Preaching; - similar to the charm given to the
Waverly novels by the dialect of the Scottish
Highlanders.
"Sixty years ago the young men of the Dutch Fork
retained many of the wild, frolicksome habits which their
forefathers brought with them from the Fatherland. Perhaps the
wildest of these customs was, to ramble throughout the night of
Christmas eve, in companies of a dozen persons, from house to house,
firing heavily charged guns, and having thus aroused the family they
would enter the domicile with stamping scramble to the blazing fire,
greedily eat the praetzilies and schneckilies, imbibe, with many a
rugged joke and ringing peal of laughter, heavy draughts of a
compound liquor made of rum and sugar, butter and alspice stewed
together, and then,
"With monie an eldritch screetch an
hollo,"
rush out into the night to visit the next
neighbor.
"It was narrated by people of old that Herman Aull,
in the vivacity of youth, was easily led to participate in all the
joviality which marked the behavior of the young in his day. He,
however, did not permit the vagaries of youthfulness to encroach
upon the soberness of manhood. I could mention other names of men in
the Dutch Fork besides Herman Aull whose follies in the first half
of their lives served as contrasts by which the beauty of holiness
in their latter days shone with brighter lustre.
"What caused
Mr. Aull to change his ways I am unable to state; but a change did
take place in his mind and conduct, to the extent of urging him to
apply, in 1831, to the Synod of South Carolina for·license to preach
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before this he married Miss Christina
Rikard, and had combined the occupation of the farmer with that of
the carpenter. There can be, I think, no labor of the hands so
suggestive of the duty to meditate long and prayerfully upon the
claims of Christianity- so persuasive to the spirit of man to yield
obedience to the spirit of Christ, as the tilling of crops and the
building of homes. That must be a dull husbandman who can cast forth
his seed over his field without calling to mind the parable of the
sower, and dwelling upon its simple but searching
applications.
That must, likewise, be a dull carpenter, who
while "planing his wood" does not feel a thrill of delight in the
thought that his Lord and Master "was the same trade as he". I
cannot refrain from inserting here the pathetic ballad so well
recited by Dr. Alleman in his baccalaureate sermon, delivered some
years ago, before the students of Newberry College:
"Isn't this Joseph's son? Aye, it is He,
Joseph
the carpenter-same trade as me;
I thought as I'd find it, I knew
it'was here,
But my sight's getting queer."
"I don't know
right where, as His shed must ha' stood
But, often as I've
been a planing of my wood,
I took off my hat, just with thinking
of He
At the same work as me."
"He warn't that set up, that He
couldn't stoop down
And work in the country for folks in the
town;
And I'll warrant He felt a bit pride, like I've done,
At
a good job begun.
"The parson, he knows that I'll not make too
free,
But Sunday I feels as Pleased as can be
When' I wears my
clean smock - bran new,
And has thoughts a few."
I think of as
how, not the parson his sen (self)
As is teacher and father and
shepherd of men,
Not he knows as much of the Lord in that
shed,
Where he earned his own bread."
"And when I go home to
my Missus, says she,
'Are you wanting your key?'
For she knows
my queer ways and my love for the shed,
(We've been forty years
wed.)"
So I've come right away by myself with the book,
And I
turn the old pages and has a good look
F or the text as I've
found, as tells me as He
Was the same trade as me."
"Why don't
you mark it?" Ah, many says so,
But I think I'd as lif with your
leave let it go;
It do seem that nice when I fall on't sudden you
see;
Was the same trade as me."
"Now, whatever might have been the circumstances
impelling Herman Aull to abandon his ways of carelessness- whether
of sudden or gradual influence, it is not remembered,- he did turn
earnestly to his Savior, and in Him became a new creature. In 1831
he was licensed to preach, and four years afterwards, in 1835, he
was fully ordained. His field of work was mostly at St. Paul's, in
those days called Kibler's Church; though he often preached beyond
the Saluda in Lexington and Edgefield. It was in St. John's Church,
near the Pomaria homestead, where I heard him, for the first time.
Though young, I was old enough to notice, and I have retained firmly
in my memory some remarkable features of his person and manners. He
was small of stature, and quick in his movements.
His hair
was black and straight, and his eyes were brown and bright. In the
pulpit he would frequently depress his chin upon his breast, and,
glancing his gaze from under his eyebrows, pause and bestow over his
congregation looks of sternness tempered with pity. The hymn he gave
out at that time was one which I believe must have been his favorite
- his song of repentance. In the Book of Worship it is numbered 369.
From the feeling manner of his reading, it seemed that every stanza
must have recalled the days of his waywardness:
"Jesus, my all to heaven is gone,
He whom I fixed
my hopes upon;
His tracks I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow
way, 'till Him I view."
I felt sure, from the slow movement of
his head to the right and left, that the third and fourth stanzas
affected him with sorrow:
"This is the way I long have
sought
And mourned because I found it not;
My grief a burden
long has been
Because I could not cease from sin."
"The more I
strove against its power
I sinned and stumbled but the
more;
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
Come hither, soul, for
I am the way."
In his "broken English," he pronounced the
word "hither," "he-e-der," with a tremulous and prolonged emphasis
that was truly touching.
The Rev. Herman Aull labored as a
preacher from 1831 to the time or his death, in 1852 - twenty one
years. I think he might have truly said to the people, whom he
endeavored to instruct in the way of salvation, that he eat no man's
bread for naught; but wrought with labor and travail that he might
not be chargeable to any of them. I, myself, when visiting his house
professionally, in 1842, saw him coming from his field to greet me.
His face was moist with the sweat of labor and his shirt sleeves
were rolled above his elbows. As I took his hand and felt the palm
hardened by contact with the plow handles, I could not help admiring
the old man.
Two sons, John P. Aull and W. Calvin Aull, and
several daughters were born. from the marriage with Christina
Rikard. After her death he married a widow Werts, whose baptismal
name was Eve Riser. From this union came Jacob Luther Aull and
Louisa, the widow of the late Nathan A. Hunter.
These
preachers of the Lutheran church in the interior of South Carolina
ought to be retained in honorable and affectionate recollection.
They were the short, massive, unpolished pillars upon which rest the
arches of the temple of Lutheranism along the Saluda river. Let some
others, possessed of facts, and inclined to honor the worthy dead,
write brief chronicles of Meetze, Rauch, Dreher, and the rest of
these early farmer preachers, to hold them up for somewhat longer
remembrance in the Church of their upholding, as I have attempted to
do for Herman Aull, whose heart was not the weakest among theirs in
love and zeal for the cause of Christ."
Herman Aull died at
his home place, near Jolly Street, and there he sleeps with his
wives in the family burying ground.
Herman Aull's Baptismal
Certificate Following is a copy of the baptismal
certificate of Herman Aull, in the original German, together with a
translation thereof:
Herr Gott du bist
Doch unsere Zuflucht fur und
fur.
Johann Hermann Aul.
1st geboren in Sud Carolina in
Arinshurg (Distriot) in Jahr 1786 den 2osten September. Seine Eltern
waren Phillipp Aul und seine Frau Anna Margaretha, geborne Emigin.
Er ist zur heiligen Tauffe gebracht worden bei den Herrn Hachbei
einen lutherischer Prediger, seine Tauffzeugen waren Johann Herman
Suldan und seine Frau Maria Margaretha. Christi Blut und
Gerichtigkeit soll segen mein Smuck und Ehrenkeid Damit will ich vor
Gott ibestehen, wenn ich zum Himmel werde eingehen.
Amen.
Lord God thou art
Surely our refuge forever and
forever.
John Hermann Aul
Was born in Arinsburg County, or
District, on 20th of September, in the year 1786. His parents were
Phillipp Aul and his wife Anna Margaretha nee Emigin. He was brought
for holy baptism to Mr. Hachbei, a Lutheran preacher. His sponsors
were John Sultan and his wife Maria Margaretha. Christ's blood and
righteousness shall bless my ornaments and dress (robe of honor) in
order that I will stand (the test) before God if I shall enter into
heaven.
The First Marriage of Herman
Aull
The first wife of Herman Aull was Christina
Rikard, who was a native of Newberry County ad a member of the
Rikard family of that County. To this union nine children were born.
Three of them-Elijah, Luther, and one other had died before Jacob
Luther Aull, a son by the second marriage of Herman Aull, and from
whom the facts are gathered on which this history is based, was
born. The others were: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, John Philip, William
Calvin, and Christina.
The Children of Herman Aull and of Christina
Rikard
Elizabeth Aull married Michael Witt, then
living in Newberry County. They afterwards moved to. Edgefield
County (now Saluda), near Trinity Lutheran Church, where they lived
and died. Three children blessed this union: Catherine, who married
George Koon, of Edgefield County; Christina, who, married Sumter
Adams, of Edgefield County (now Saluda), and, afterwards, Joe
Waites, of Edgefield County (now Saluda) ; Sallie, who married John
Mitchell, of Edgefield County (now Saluda).
Mary Aull, who
married Wesley Folk, of near Pomaria. There were several children
from this union, all of whom are dead.
Martha Aull, who,
married Martin Witt, of Edgefield County (now Saluda), who was a
brother of Michael Witt. To this union the following children were
born: Mary, who married a Graddick, of Edgefield County (now Saluda)
; M. H., lately deceased; Catherine, who married Brantly Bryant, of
Edgefield County (now Saluda); Florilla, who married Whit Graddick,
of Edgefield, (now Saluda); John :M., who afterwards moved to
Arkansas; Sula, who married William S. Dodgen, of Graniteville;
Susan, who married an Adams, of Edgefield County (now Saluda);
Martha, who married W. O. Carson, of Edgefield County (now Saluda) ;
William Calvin, who died many years ago; Christina, who married a
Koon, of Edgefield County (now Saluda).
John Philip Aull, who
first married a Miss McQuern, of Newberry County. To this union two
children were born: James Herman and Carrie E. M. The second wife of
John Philip was Miss Eugenia Smith, .of Columbia. Their children
were: William B., of Pendleton; Drucy, who married Charlton Lake, of
Newberry County, and later moved to Texas; Edward Philip, who now
lives in Texas; Patrick Henry, now of Florida; Leila, who married A.
J. Sitton, of Autun, near Pendleton, in Anderson County; S. Beaurie
and John I. C., of Jalapa; Anna Bachman, who married Walker Russell
of Pendleton.
William Calvin Aull, who married Nancy
Stockman, of Newberry County. William Calvin was wounded in the
Confederate army, of which wounds he died. He was the first person
buried in St. Paul's cemetery, in the lower part of Newberry County.
To his union with Nancy Stockman the following children were born :
John M., of Leesville, lately deceased; George B., of Pomaria;
Lizzie, who first married John Dominick, and afterwards a Taylor;
Mary, who married James M. Werts, of Prosperity; Adam L. of Pomaria;
Fannie, who married David Cromer of Prosperity.
Christina
Aull, who married Patrick E. Wise, of Newberry County. Their
children were: George H. who, at the time of his death, lived at
Saluda Court House; Lizzie, who married J. B. Lathan, of Little
Mountain; J. L. and A. G., of Prosperity; James H., of Little
Mountain; Sallie, who married Fred W. Calmes, deceased, Sallie
having recently moved to Georgia, and W. B., of Prosperity.
The Second Marriage of Herman
Aull
The second wife of Herman Aull was the widow:
of John Werts, of Newberry County, whose maiden name was Eve
Margaret Riser, a daughter of Martin Riser, who lived in the lower
part of Newberry County. To this union two children were born:
Louisa Catherine and Jacob Luther.
The Children of Herman Aull and of
Eve Margaret Riser Werts.
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Louisa Catherine Aull was born on February 23,
1834, and died on November 28, I905. She married Nathan A.
Hunter, of Newberry County, on January 9, 1850. Their children
were: Joseph H. Hunter, now of Newberry; Alice, who married
Dr. Peter Robertson, of Newberry; Julia, who married Prof. C.
W. Welch, now of Houston, Texas; Charles T., now living in
Texas, and Clarence, now of Texas.
Jacob Luther Aull
was born on December 4, 1835. He lived at the home place, near
Jolly Street, until 1872, when he purchased and moved to the
place he now owns in the lower part of what is now Greenwood
County (then Edgefield), his place being about two and
one-half miles southwest of the station of Dyson, on the
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The Children of Eve Margaret Riser Werts,
the Second Wife of
Herman Aull by Her First Marriage to John Werts
Susan
Werts, who married Solomon Kinard, of
Newberry.
Christiana Werts, who married a
Rikard, of Newberry County.
Sarah Werts, who married Michael
Fellers, of Newberry County.
John Werts, who died many years
ago.
William M. Werts, now living at
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William M.
Werts
half Brother of Jacob Luther
Aull | JACOB
LUTHER
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Jacob Luther
Aull | Jacob Luther Aull
was born on the place owned by his
father, the Rev. Herman Aull, one and one-half miles from Jolly
Street, and four miles from Prosperity (then Frog Level), on
December 4, 1835. He lived
there until he moved to the place which he now owns in the lower
part of Greenwood County, in 1872.
Following in the
foot-steps of his father, he became a farmer, a carpenter, and a
miller. On the home place his father had established a grist and saw mill - the saw on the jig-saw
order as it was later called-both operated by water
power.
When he was about
sixteen or seventeen years of age he came to Newberry Court House
and learned the trade of gin-wright under his brother in-law, Nathan
A. Hunter. Several years later, in about 1856, he and Nathan A. Hunter established a
saw mill in the O'Neall community, which they conducted for about
two years. On the boiler they had a steamboat whistle, which Jacob
Luther Aull still has, which was the first whistle of its kind ever
heard in that community .
Not long since one of
the older citizens of that section, in telling of the first time the
people down there had heard it blown, said that some of them thought
it was Gabriel's horn.
When his father died
in 1852, Jacob Luther Aull became the owner of the home place, which
he still owns. When the mill which had been established by
him and his brother-in-law,
Nathan A. Hunter, in the O'Neall section, was discontinued, about
1858, he moved it to the home place, and there he established a steam wheat, corn and saw
mill.
On May 22, 1856, he
was married to Julia Ann Haltiwanger, who lived about a mile from
Trinity Church, in Edgefield County (now Saluda). He had met her
some time before on a visit to his relatives in that community. On
one of the visits which he frequently made in that section there was
an old-time slave wedding, to which the white people were, of
course, invited, and which they liberally attended. Here it was that
he first saw Julia Ann Haltiwanger, and here it was that the fires of love were kindled
within him. After that time his visits to that community
followed in close succession, and
not a long time afterwards he took her to the old home place as a
bride.
To this union seven
children were born. All but one, who died in infancy, are now
living.
The War
Between the States came on in 1861.
At that time Jacob
Luther Aull was engaged in his occupations of farmer, carpenter and
miller. Family ties bound him to his home. But that love of
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Jacob Luther
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caused his forefather to leave the Old World and to seek a home in
the New, was an inheritance. He volunteered as a private in Col.
Lester's command, Holcomb's legion, and went to Columbia to enlist.
But the Southern·Confederacy needed supplies for its soldiers, and
the demand for supplies was greater than the need for the soldiers
themselves. Jacob Luther Aull was sent back home to run his mill as
a government mill to supply flour for the armies of the Southern
Confederacy.
Though the call of the
fife and the drum rang in his ears, and the anxiety to do and to
dare for his country in the front line of battle consumed him, as it
did other young men in those stirring days which made the Southern
Confederacy, while short-lived, greatest among the nations of earth,
he yet cheerfully took the quiet part which had been assigned him by
his country, as he has assumed every duty which has fallen to his
lot in the three-quarters of a century of his life. And well was
that duty performed. The glamour of military accoutrements was
absent; the inspiration of stirring battle music was lacking; but,
as an enlisted member of the commissary department, fearing not the
dangers which threatened, he pursued the even tenor of his way, save
when interrupted by the soldiers of the North, and did his part towards sustaining the
armies of the Confederacy.
His grist and flour
mill was leased to the government, which employed him as miller. The
government was to receive the usual One-tenth tithes. Jacob Luther
Aull furnished three teams, two of which hauled from Prosperity and
Pomaria to his mill, and points around, and the other of which was
regularly stationed at Newberry in the commissary department. For
his three teams and his mill the government agreed to pay him seven
hundred dollars per month, regularly enrolling him in the commissary
department of the Confederate government. Of this seven hundred
dollars per month he received not a cent in cash, receiving from the
government only provisions for his teams and
family.
In 1872 he purchased
the place where he now lives, and moved to Edgefield County (now
Greenwood). Since that time he has farmed and pursued the
occupations of carpenter and miller. In his later years he is not as
active, in the course of nature, as he once was, and he has
practically given up his trade as carpenter. When he moved to
Edgefield County (now Greenwood) he established another flour and
grist mill, and with it a modern saw mill, which he has continued to
operate. Patent flours and roller mills have well-nigh relegated
into the things of the past his wheat and corn mill, but his saw
mill continues to turn out the best of lumber from his and near-by
plantations.
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Jacob & Julia Aull
taken 1910 at the
home in Dysons, SC | In his trade
as a carpenter he entered the business of building bridges, and he
acquired an enviable reputation throughout Edgefield, Newberry and
adjoining counties, as a bridge builder. And it has truly been said
of him that he built some bridges the like of which in wooden
structures the country will never see again. The author of this
sketch has often seen him placing a timber high above the channel,
on a slender support, where none but him would venture. But that was
the secret of his success in bridge building. He asked no man to
precede him, nor would he allow it. He always led. In work of this
kind, as in all affairs of life, he has been absolutely fearless.
Some twenty years ago he purchased a western pony, which was broke
to saddle soon after it came into his possession, but which had
well-nigh passed her prime before she could be induced by force or
persuaded to pull a buggy. He thought nothing, even in his later
years, of getting on her back and swimming her through any stream
across which he was erecting a bridge, as he thought nothing of driving home the first bolts on the
highest timbers mid-stream.
He is now nearing seventy-six years of age. He has never
used tobacco, nor strong drink as a beverage. He has lived an
upright life, and he has been in continuous communication with
Nature and with Nature's God. It is no wonder, then, that, even with
his seventy-six years, he is strong and vigorous, and that his eyes
have the same kindly expression, his mind the same keen
appreciation, and his hand-clasp the same strength which is evidence
of hearty welcome, as in the days of yore.
Jacob Luther Aull was noted for miles around for his
generous hospitality, and his neighbors and friends always delight
in passing, to take a meal or to spend the night with
him.
Such men were the product of the Old
South.
It is to be hoped that the New South will reproduce their
like.
He is an ardent Lutheran and a member of Trinity
Lutheran Church, which he attends whenever he has the opportunity.
JULIA ANN HALTIWANGER
AULL
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Rev. George
Haltiwanger
brother of Mrs. Jacob Luther Aull |
Julia Ann Haltiwanger was the daughter of Jacob
Haltiwanger and Elizabeth Feagle Haltiwanger. She was born in
Edgefield County (now Saluda), within a mile of where Trinity
church stands, on January11, 1832. The home where she was born still
stands near Trinity Church, and is today more than one hundred
years old.
Her brothers and sisters were:
Catherine Haltiwanger,
who married a Boozer and moved to Mississippi;
Lenore Haltiwanger, who
married a Trotter, and afterwards a Dyer;
Levi Haltiwanger, who
moved to Florida;
George Haltiwanger, a
minister of the gospel, who died in Georgia;
William Haltiwanger,
long since dead;
Emma Haltiwanger, who
married a Rushton, and later Michael DeLoach (deceased), and
who now lives at Ninety Six; and
Isaiah Haltiwanger, of
Columbia, lately
deceased.
Faith, Hope, and a boundless Love
have characterized the life of Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aul1. She
has striven to serve her Master, whom she has loved, by doing
as best she could the work which her hands have found to do.
She has been her husband's inspiration; she has brought to him
hope and cheer and encouragement, as apparently insurmountable
obstacles faced them in their journey through life together;
though the clouds
were heavy and the shadows deep, as oft they were, she has
shown him the rifts
through which the sun was peeping the promise of better things
and of happier days.
She is and has been from her girlhood days a
faithful and consistent member of Trinity Lutheran church,
where her father and her mother
sleep.
Though she is now in her eightieth year, she is
-remarkably strong and vigorous, and her chief delight yet is
ministering to those whom she loves. |
OLDEST WOMAN IN STATE
DIES
Mrs. Julia Aull, Mother
Of Walhalla Minister, Recently Passed 104th Birthday
Passed Away
at The Home Of Her Daughter in Columbia, Last
Week.
(Reprinted in The Herald
&
News, December 28, 1936 from the article written for The
State newspaper by John K. Aull, (Mrs. Julia Aull's
grandson).
Mrs. Julia Ann Aull, who on Jan. 11 celebrated her 104th
birthday, died at 4:05 yesterday afternoon at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. W. W. Daniel, in
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Julia Ann Haltiwanger
Aull | College Place,
Columbia.
Mrs. Aull, it is believed,
was the oldest living woman in South Carolina at the time of her
death -- perhaps the oldest person in the State.
No funeral plans had been announced last night, but it is
known that interment will be beside her husband in the family plot
in Rosemont cemetery, Newberry.
She
is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Daniel, of College Place; three
sons, the Rev. W. B. Aull of Walhalla; Nathan E. Aull, of Tampa,
Fla., and L. B. Aull, of Greenwood. Several grandchildren and 11
great-grandchildren also survive. Her eldest son was the late Elbert
H. Aull, for many years prominent in South Carolina newspaper
circles, serving longer than any other man as president of the State
Press Association.
Mrs. Aull was born in the
Trinity Church section of Edgefield (now Saluda) County, January 11,
1832. Her parents were Elizabeth Feagle and Jacob Haltiwanger, whose
home was in the Dutch Fork section of Lexington County, to the left
of the road as one travels towards Newberry, some 20 miles up. The
house was added to since it was built shortly after 1750. They were
all pioneers. Her grandfather, John Haltiwanger, was a soldier of
the Revolution.
The span of Mrs.
Aull's life covered the administration of 26 of the 32 Presidents of
the United States. She was born in the year of Nullification in
South Carolina, when President Andrew Jackson sent troops and ships
of war to Charleston harbor to emphasize that South Carolina was
going a little too far in nullifying a tariff act of the Congress of
the United States. She was a young girl over in Edgefield County
(that part now embraced in the county of Saluda) when she saw Pierce
Butler, who had been Governor of the State, as he went to lead the
Palmetto Regiment on its way to Mexico, where he was killed leading
his troops across a wheat field in the attack on Churubusco.
Butler's home was over in that section of old Edgefield
County.
Mrs. Aull was the widow of
Jacob Luther Aull. Immediately following her marriage in 1856, she
moved with her husband to the old Aull place near Jolly Street in
Newberry County. Following the Confederate War, they lived for a
while on property which they owned, which is now a part of the State
Reformatory grounds, several miles above Columbia on the Newberry
road. Her husband, in addition to his farming, was a contractor and
builder, and built a number of houses in Columbia. He sawed the
lumber in the old "overhead" bridge, three miles out of Columbia,
over Broad River which has been succeeded by the present magnificent
concrete structure. Afterwards they moved to Dyson, in the lower
part of Greenwood County (it was then Edgefield County), where they
lived until the death of Mr. AulI, Dec. 25, 1923. For eight years
Mrs. Aull had lived with Mrs. Daniel in Columbia. She has been
spending her summers in Walhalla with her son, Rev. W. B.
Aull.
The death of this grand old lady
will be greatly regretted. Truly she led a long and notable
life.
The Children of Jacob Luther Aull and Julia Ann
Haltiwanger
Aull
Elbert Herman Aull was born on Tuesday, August 18, 1857.
He married Alice Kinard, and they now live in Newberry. Jacob Osborn
Aull was born on Sunday, September 25, 1859, and died on Thursday,
September 20, 1860.
Alice Rowena Aull was horn on Friday, October
11, 1861. She married W. W. Daniel, and
they now live in Columbia.
Nathan Edwin Aull was born on Thursday; May 19, 1864. He
married Margaret Louise Kirkpatrick, and they now live in Hickory,
N. C.
Eva Elizabeth Aull was born on Sunday, March 31, 1867.
She married A. D. Timmerman, and they now live in the lower part of
Greenwood County, near Dyson.
William Bowman Aull was born Saturday, March 19, 1870. He
married Mabel Florence Deal, and they now live in Fairfax, S.
C.
Luther Bachman Aull was born on Friday, May IS,
1874. He married Ella Riser, and
they now live near Dyson.
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Col. Elbert Herman
Aull | Elbert
Herman Aull, the
oldest child of Jacob Luther Aull and Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aull,
was born in Newberry County, at the .old homestead of the Aulls,
near Jolly Street, about four miles east of Prosperity, on August
18, 1857. He attended the
country school at St. Paul's Church, nearby, and was taught by Dr.
J. A. Sligh, and afterwards by John F. Banks and U. B. Whites. When
he was about eleven years of age he came to Newberry and spent one
Year in Newberry with his aunt, Mrs. Nathan A. Hunter, and was a
student under the late Capt. A. P. Pifer, who was then principa1 of the preparatory
department of Newberry College and also a professor in the
collegiate department of the institution.
On the removal of
Newberry College to Walhalla, Elbert Herman Aull returned
home, and worked in his father's mill and on the farm, and also at
the carpenter's trade, attending the country schools during the
winter.
After the removal of his family
to Edgefield County (Now Greenwood) in
1872, he attended for three years the country
school in the Dyson community, and was taught by F. A. Townsend and
George D. Haltiwanger, the latter a man of extraordinary
ability.
In 1877 he entered the Sophomore class in
Newberry College, which at that time had been moved from Walhalla
back to Newberry. The session opened then in September, and the
college was using the rooms now occupied by Salter's photograph
gallery. He graduated from Newberry College with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1880. Three years later the degree of Master
of Arts was conferred upon him by the
college.
In the fall of 1880 he went to Ninety-Six to engage in the
machinery and mill business, but in October he accepted a position
as teacher in the Abbeville Graded Schools, and taught there one
session. Dr. D. B. Johnson, now president of Winthrop College, Rock
Hill, was superintendent of the schools.
On February 14, 1881, he was married to Alice Kinard,
of Newberry, a daughter of Capt. John M. Kinard (who was killed
while leading his regiment as senior captain in a charge at
Strasburg, Va., on October 13, 1864) and Mary Alabama Ruff Kinard, a
daughter of Dr. P. B. Ruff.
In the fall of 1881 he was elected professor in Newberry
College and principal of the preparatory department of the
institution. He taught in the college during the session of
1881-2, and during the
first term of the session of 1882-3. While engaged in teaching he read law,
and he was admitted to the
bar of South Carolina in 1882. He practiced law in 1883 and 1884,
being in partnership for a time with General A. C. Garlington, and
afterwards with George G. Sale.
In 1884 he formed a partnership with
his father in the contracting and building business, and they bought
the old Cline shops, in Newberry, which they operated for about two
years, under the firm name of J. L. Aull & Son.
In the meantime he had done some
newspaper work on the old Newberry News, and in 1885 he and M. S.
Hallman formed a partnership and established the Prosperity
Reporter, at Prosperity, in Newberry County. They continued to
publish this paper for five months until October, when Mr. Aull
withdrew to accept the position of editor of the Newberry Herald and
News, then owned by A. C. Jones. He remained in this work until
1886, when he again took up the practice of law. In connection with
his law practice, which was limited, he assisted Trial Justice Henry
H. Blease, the late lamented father of Governor Coleman Livingston
Blease, by taking testimony for him in his court. Trial Justice
Blease showed him a great deal of kindness, which is held by Mr.
Aull in loving remembrance.
Mr. Aull formed a
partnership with Mr. William P. Houseal, now of Columbia, in 1887
and on March 7 of that year they purchased the Newberry Herald and
News. Just before Mr. Houseal notified him that the Herald and News
could be bought, Mr. Aull had received an offer of the position of
editor of the Florence Times, at Florence, SC and would have
accepted but for the proposition by Mr. Houseal, which came between
the time of the offer from Florence and an opportunity of accepting
it. He and Mr. Houseal continued in partnership for seven years, at
the end of which time the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Aull
continued the publication of the paper. Some years later, in 1898,
he organized the Elbert H. Aull Company, to which company the paper
was sold, and as president and manager of this company he has
continued as editor and manager of the Herald and News until the
present time. In connection with the newspaper a modern book and job
printing establishment is conducted by the
company.
While he and Mr.
William P. Houseal were partners in business, the firm of Aull &
Houseal owned and published the Lutheran Visitor, the predecessor of
the present Lutheran Church Visitor, the organ of the United Synod
of the South (Lutheran). The Lutheran Visitor was later purchased by
Mr. Houseal, who continued its publication in Newberry for some
time. Its successor, the Lutheran Church Visitor, is now published
in Columbia by the Lutheran Publication Board, and Mr. Houseal
continues as business manager of the paper.
Mr. Aull was
chairman of the Publication Board of the United Synod of the South
(Lutheran) from the organization of the board, until its
reorganization in Columbia several years ago.
In 1896, just
after the formation of Saluda County, he established the Saluda
Sentinel, the first .paper published in the new county. This paper
was later sold to a stock company and was succeeded by the Saluda
Standard.
He was elected president of the South Carolina
State Press Association at the meeting of the Association in 1894,
and was re-elected each year without opposition until the meeting in
Greenville in 1909, when he positively declined
re-election.
He was Journal Clerk in the State Senate during
the session of 1899.
When Governor M. B. McSweeney took the
oath of office as chief executive of South Carolina in June, 1899,
upon the death of Governor William H. Ellerbe, Mr. Aull accepted the
position of Private Secretary to the Governor, which he held for
three and one-half years, until a short while before the expiration
of Governor- McSweeney's second term, when he resigned to take a
seat in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of
South Carolina, to which he had been elected from Newberry County.
He served in the General Assembly in 1903 and 1904. He was Chief
Clerk of the Engrossing Department of the General Assembly in 1905
and 1906. In 1906 he was again elected to the House of
Representatives from Newberry County, and served during the years
1907 and 1908. He was the author of the Rural School Library Bill
which; with amendments, is now the law of the State; assisted in the
fight for the Child Labor Law of the State, and was a strong
advocate of Compulsory Education.
He was a member of Governor
McSweeney's military staff, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel.
In May, 1907, when the South Carolina Pythian was
established by the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of South Carolina,
Mr. Aul1 was elected chairman of the Board of Publication of the
Grand Lodge and by the Board elected editor of the paper. These
positions he now holds.
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To his union with Alice Kinard, six children
were born, four of whom are now living:
Julia Ruff
Aull, born April 14, 1882; died January 30, 1889
John
Kinard Aull, born February 17, died February 3.
1940
Elbert Herman AulI, born May I8, 1886; died August
3, 1902
James Luther Aull, horn August 4, 1888, died
July 20, 1972
Alice Aull, born February 10, 1891,
died
Humbert Mayer Aull, born February 11 1896, died
April 10, 1971
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Alice Aull |
ALICE ROWENA AULL
DANIEL
Alice Rowena Aull, the third child of Jacob
Luther Aull and Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aul1, was horn at the
old Aull homestead in Newberry County on October 11, 1861. She
attended the public schools of the community, and later was
taught by the late Captain A. P. Pifer, in the old Newberry
Female Academy, which he conducted in Newberry for several
years. She took the collegiate course in the Columbia Female
College, from which institution she graduated with distinction
in the class of 1882.
She was married on Wednesday,
August 29, 1883 to Dr. W. W. Daniel, of the South Carolina
Conference (Methodist).
To this union four children
were born, all of whom are living. (In 1911)
Herman Aull
Daniel, born October 28, 1885
Wille Wellington Daniel,
born June 19, 1889
Walter Wright Daniel, born March 23,
1896
Julia Aull Daniel, born January 16,
1900
Dr. Daniel, her husband, is a graduate of
Newberry College, in the class of 1879. Following his
graduation, he entered the ministry and rapidly rose to
prominence as one of the leading preachers and pulpit orators
in the Southern Methodist Church. He is now, and has been for
several years, president of the Columbia College, which is
under the control and direction of the South Carolina
Conference. Under his administration, the college has had a
good and substantial growth, and, notwithstanding the fact
that it was recently destroyed by fire, the success attending
his efforts is shown by the fact that it is now on a more
solid basis than at any previous time in its long history of
usefulness
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William Wellington
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Mrs. William Wellington
Daniel |
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NATHAN EDWIN
AULL
Nathan Edwin Aull, the fourth child
of Jacob Luther Aull and Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aull, was born
On May 19, 1864, at the home .of his parents, in Newberry
County. He received his early training in the country schools
of the community, and entered the Freshman class in Newberry
College in October, 1884, graduating with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in June, 1888. Following his graduation he
taught the St. Paul's public school, in Newberry County,
during the session ,of 1888-89. In 1889 he was chosen a
teacher in the Ball High School, Galveston, Tex.,
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Mrs. Nathan Edwin
Aull | and taught in that
institution during the session of 1889-90. He then accepted
the position of teacher of Latin in the Houston High School,
and continued in this work for three years, at the end .of
which period he ,resigned to pursue post-graduate work at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
He pursued the
Ph. D. course in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry in Johns
Hopkins University for two years, and then went to Dallas,
Texas, to accept the principalship .of the Oak Cliff High
School of that city, which he most acceptably filled for
several years, his whole work in Galveston, Houston and Dallas
covering a period of about eight years. In 1900 he moved to
North Carolina, and for some time he filled the chair of
Mathematics in North Carolina College, Mt. Pleasant,
NC.
He was married at All Healing Springs, Gastonia,
NC, on August 30, 1900 to Margaret Louise Kirkpatrick. They
have no children.
In 1902 he accepted the chair of
Chemistry and Physics in Lenoir College, Hickory, NC and
continued in this work until his resignation in 1905. He then
engaged in the lumber business and the business of contractor
and builder at Hickory, NC and at Dyson, Greenwood County, SC
until; the fall of 1910, when he was elected principal of the
Yorkville High School, which position he filled during the
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Nathan Edwin
Aull
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Arthur Douglas
Timmerman
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EVA ELIZABETH AULL
TIMMERMAN
Eva Elizabeth Aull, fifth
child of Jacob Luther Aull and Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aull, was
born in Newberry County at the home of her parents, on March
31, 1867. After a thorough rudimentary education in the
schools of the community, she attended the old Newberry Female
Academy, taught by the late Captain A. P. Pifer, who was one
of the most thorough educators who has ever benefited the
South.
She was married on Thursday, December 29, 1898,
to Arthur Douglas Timmerman of Edgefield County, a member ,of
the prominent Timmerman family of Edgefield County, and a
nephew of the late State Treasurer W. H. Timmerman. At the
time of his marriage, Mr. Timmerman was living at Pleasant
Lane, in Edgefield County, where he and his wife continued to
live for several years after their marriage. He was engaged in
farming and in the mercantile business at that place. For the
past several years he has been living in the lower part of
Greenwood County, about two miles south of the Aull home. He
is a prosperous farmer and substantial business
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Timmerman have one child, Julia
Elizabeth, who was born on March 5, 1902. |
Mrs. Arthur Douglas
Timmerman
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ELBERT HERMAN AULL,
JR .
Elbert Herman
Aull, Jr., the third child
and second son of Elbert Herman Aull and Alice Kinard Aull, was born
on
May 15, 1886, and fell on
sleep eternal on August 3, 1902.
He had finished the
Freshman class in Newberry College in June preceding his death;
while
he was at the graded schools in Newberry and also during his year in
college he had worked in his father’s printing office in Newberry,
where he became proficient in every line of work connected with the
office. While he was only sixteen years of age at the time of his
death, he had already given evidence of marked acumen in business
dealings, as well as success in literary
attainments.
He was strong and
sound in body, and he was a lover of athletic
sports.
His nature was
gentle and he was of loving disposition. He was without fear, and
his character was above reproach. He held the love and esteem - not
only of -his youthful companions, but of those in all walks of life
who knew him. During the few short years of his earthly sojourn he
brought only happiness and sunshine and love into the family
circle.
In the summer of
1902
he was
stricken with typhoid fever. He made a brave and manly fight. The
ski11 of eminent physicians was combined with every attention which
love could suggest in the fight against the dread malady. But these
were of no avail. The decree had gone forth. He realized a few days
before his death that the end was near. For six weeks with an almost
superhuman strength he had struggled against death-not for himself,
because he had no fear of death, but for those who would be left to
mourn. When he knew that the end was inevitable he murmured not.
With the same sweet smile with which he might have met his mother
after a little absence from her, and with the same assurance of a
loving welcome, he passed from earth to meet the God who had given
him life.
A life is not
measured by years, but by the manner in which it is lived. By such a
standard, Elbert Herman Aull, Jr., in the sixteen years of his life,
attained to the highest success. He was only a boy, but he was brave
and manly and tender and true. His ideals were high, and he followed
them with a fidelity which gave brilliant promise of a true and
useful and noble life in the years to come.
Elbert Herman Aull,
Jr.
(J. W. Earhardt, in The
Newberry Herald and News of Tuesday, August 5,
1902.)
At 9:40 o'clock on
Sunday evening, August 3rd, the young life of Elbert Herman Aull,
Jr. came to a close at
the home of his father, Col. E. H. Aull, in this city. For about six
weeks he had battled manfully against the ravages of typhoid fever,
but the decree had gone forth, the skill of the physicians, the
assiduous care and solicitude of loved ones were counted as naught,
and he quietly and peacefully fell asleep to awake in the beautiful
beyond.
Born May 15th,
1886, he has lived his life in our midst, and we had learned to
esteem him as a high-souled, manly young man. Gifted with all of
those qualities which are lovable, he was universally and deservedly
popular with his young companions, and admired by his
seniors.
A student .of
Newberry College, and entering his Sophomore year, he gave promise
of honor to his teachers, and usefulness to the community.
Our hearts go out
in deepest sympathy to father, mother and family, to whom we
tenderly recall the words of the meek and lowly One, "Not as
I will, but as Thou
willest."
Beautiful services
were conducted at the home this Tuesday, morning at 9 o'clock by
Rev. W. L. Seabrook of The Church of the Redeemer, of which he was a
baptized member, after which he was followed to his last resting
place in the ‘silent city’, by a concourse·of those who had known
and loved him, where amidst mounds of beautiful flowers, he was
lowered into the grave by tender and loving
hands.
The family has been
the recipient of many telegrams and letters of sympathy and
condolence from kind and loving friends in different sections of the
State, who sorrow with them in this sad hour of
affliction.
The pallbearers
were Gov. M. B. McSweeney of Columbia; Editor Ed. H. DeCamp, of
Gaffney; Rev. W. K. Sligh, F. L.
Bynum Esq., H. S. Cannon
and J. W. Earhardt.
Under the
Rod
(Editorial by
Elbert H. Aull in the Newberry Herald and News of Tuesday, August 5,
1902):
For the second time
we have been made to tread the wine press and pass under the rod. In
our humble home we now have two vacant chairs. We are taught in the
good Book that afflictions come to us for some good and wise
purpose, and God’s chastening hand is also a hand of love. We
can
not understand why, but we are told that after awhile we shall know
even as we are known, and see face to
face.
In our newspaper
experience we have written many death notices and have always tried
to say some word of sympathy and comfort, and while we knew words
from human lips could bring but little comfort, never before have we
so fully felt the impotency of human comfort. And yet it is kind and
good to know that your friends grieve with you in your affliction
and we certainly appreciate from the depth .of .our broken and
bleeding hearts the many words of sympathy which have come from our
friends at home and abroad. The greatest comfort is the fact that
our dear dead boy, Elbert Herman, was held in so high regard by
those who knew him, and while he was only a boy and modest and
retiring in disposition and was permitted to live only a few short
years, yet his life was not a failure, and though dead, his
influence for good will live after him, Life after all ·is not so
much in the years you live as in the deeds you do, and as we pass
under the rod we can have pleasant memories of a life that
brightened our home for a few years, though taken from us just as
our hopes and affections were centered so deeply in him. Faithful to
duty always, obedient to parents and teachers, thoughtful and
considerate of others and especially the old. In his death we feel
the loss not only of a son but a companion, one with whom we could
counsel, feeling absolutely certain that in him we could
trust.
Words of love and
sympathy have come to us from our friends and neighbors at home, and
friends abroad. We appreciate all these. Mr. Ed. H. DeCamp, for whom
a strong attachment was formed on the trip to Buffalo last year,
came from Gaffney to attend his funeral, and Gov. McSweeney, who
knew him and appreciated him, came from his official duties in
Columbia. This is all very kind. Only time can partly heal the
wounds and partially stop the bleeding from the heart, but no one
and no words can remove the vacant chair from our home.
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Tribute From Mr. W. H.
Wallace
(Editor W. H.
Wallace, in the Newberry Observer of Tuesday, August 5, 1902):
Elbert Herman Aull,
second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Aull, died at his home in this city
on Sunday night at 9:40 of typhoid fever.
He had been sick for several weeks, receiving the most skillful
attention of physicians and nurses, and it was hoped at one time
that he had passed the crisis safely and
would get well; but this was not to
be.
Herman Aull was born the 15th
day of May, I886, and was in his 17th year. He was a young man of
most excellent and exemplary character, bright and studious and
obedient at school and college and home, giving parents and teachers
no trouble or uneasiness whatever, doing
his duty fully and cheerfully at all times. He was a young man of
much promise, and it is very sad that he should be cut off at so
early an age. His parents have the profound sympathy of the
community in their bereavement.
JAMES LUTHER
AULL
James
Luther Aull,
grandson of
Jacob Luther Aull
and Julia Ann Haltiwanger Aull, and fourth child of Elbert Herman
Aull and Alice Kinard Aull, was born in the City of Newberry,
SC
on
August 4, 1888. He attended the city graded schools, and·then the
preparatory department of Newberry College. He attended Clemson
Agricultural and Mechanical College as a member of the Freshman
Class during the session of 1905 - 06, and as a member of the
Sophomore Class during a part of the session of 1906-07. Returning
to Newberry he continued for a time his studies in Newberry College.
In 1907 he began regular work in the mechanical department of the
Elbert H. Aull Company. He learned the operation of the linotype
machine, and in addition to being an operator he is a linotype
machinist. He was an expert in all departments connected with the
mechanical end of a printing
establishment.
He was one of the
‘Owners’ and the manager of the Elbert H. Aull Company, of which his
father was president. Later he was a linotype for the Columbia
State, retiring after 25 years of employment.
He married Miss Anita B. Davidson
(2/6/1880—7/25/1969). Surviving him were two daughters, Mrs. C. G.
(Emily) Edwards of Woodruff and Miss Anita D. Aull of
Columbia.
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