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Obits& Death Notices
Abbeville County, South
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James Edward
"Screwdriver" Thomasson
The News & Advance Lynchburg, VA 3.30, 2004 James
Edward "Screwdriver" Thomasson, 75, of 108 Acorn Hill Drive, died
June 25, 2000, at Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood. Veteran: U.S.
Navy, World War II. Survivors: wife, Marion "Jeanette" McCurry
Thomasson; sons, Steven Edward, James Larry and Robert Michael
Thomasson of Abbeville; siblings, Robert Thomasson, Abbeville and
Clara LaNell Davis, Iva; and eight grandchildren. Predeceased:
parents, B. L. and Ruth Gause Thomasson. Service: 11 a.m. Tuesday at
the Harris Funeral Home Chapel. Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens.
Visitation: home of Steve Thomasson, 1477 Rock Hill Road, Abbeville.
Memorials: the charity of one's choice.( Greenville
News 11/1/2003) submitted by Dena
Thomason-Whitesell
Richard Andrew Rapley
AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER. Died, on Sunday, 2d ult at
Bedford. This late residence in Abbeyville district, S. Carolina,
Richard Andrews Rapley, esq.
This well known old man, about the
year 1761, came from London to S. Carolina, as the agent of Joseph
Salvadore, in the management of the immense estate called the lno's
land. Notwithstanding the devoted partiality for his native land,
which seemed to increase with the length of his absence from it, in
the revolutionary struggle, he zealously espoused the cause of his
adopted country — and in various capacities contributed to its
success in the desoltory, predatory warfare of the back country. He
was a member of the Provincial congress ; he was one of the
commissioners who signed the S. Carolina currency, and had held a
post jn the prymaster's department, which entitled him to the rank
of colonel. As a justice of the peace he was an ? biter of disputs
and preservr of peace in times of confusion, and an efficient member
of the county courts at a subsequent period. His useful knowledge
made him while the settlements were young, the physician and lawyer
of his neighbor hood; and, as his services were bestowed
gratuitously, so they were never officiousiy obtruded when no longer
required by the situation of the country. He was for many years
commissioner in equity, and with delight he acted the forms of the
English charcery, with which his early recollections were familiar.
Independent and somewhat aristocratic in his notions and manners, he
pursued his course — did good to many — harm to none. A long while
ago he settled upon a large and fertile tract of land on Long Cane
creek, in a small, rude log cabin. His indigo and cotton fields soon
externed as far as the eye would reach on every side. Always
considering his habitation as but temporary, he ? ? corners, and
piled upon it layer of board - overlayer, while the timber for the
permanent edifice which filled his imagination, rotted again and
again of the spot long marked out for their erection. Passionately
devoted to horses, without regards to pains or expense, he reared
heads of the finest form and blood ; grew young when he witnessed
the public performance of his favorites, and in latest hours of
inf?, sought relief in the sight of his coursers in training.
Hospitable, well read, full of anecdote and elated when company
broke the series of his solitude, he was visited with pleasure by
men of curiosity and refirement. In the little log house, which with
difficuly could be singled out fron the numerous negro log cabins
that surrounded it, were constantly found the richest hands for body
and mind, the massive plate upon the rickety cross legged pine
table, the choicest collection of
English and French literature
on the coarsest, clumpiest shelves; and with all the oddest mixture
of elegance and rudeness. He was an ardent admirer of beauty, a very
pattern for the young of gallantry and ease of manners; yet he
liveed and died a bachelor, with a fund of cheerfulness, which
neither disease, age nor misfortune, could exhaust, the greater part
of his life was spent with no other security, than his faithful
black domestics; and these he treated with the most affectionate
tenderness. He attained the age which could not have been less than
ninety, and it is believed left neither will or known relation.
(unknown source)
Sophia Helen Harden
Abbeville, Nov. 13 - Mrs. Sophia Helen Harden, relict
of Edward J. Harden of Savannah, Ga., died here last night. Mrs.
Harden was born at Bedford, Ga., February 29, 1820 and was at the
time of her death 92 years of age. She was a daughter of Col. John
Jackson Maxwell of Georgia and grand-daughter of Col. John Baker of
Liberty county, Georgia, who was a soldier of note. She is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. Anna M. Maxwell of this place and two sons,
William Harden of Savannah, Ga., and Edward T. Harden of Los
Angeles, Cal., and a large number of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. Since early childhood Mrs. Harden has been a
devotged member of the Presbyterian church. (The State - November
14, 1912)
Ann Pickens Simpson
Died, at Pensacola, Fla on the 20th ult, Mrs. Ann
Pickens Simpson, born on the 12th April, in the year of our Lord,
1770. Her native place was Abbeville District, S.C. She was the
daughter of Gen. Andrew Pickens, so highly and deservedly celebrated
as a commander in the American forces during our revolutionary
struggle with Great Britain, and the most distinguished hero in the
Battle of Cowpens. Her mother was Miss Rebecca Calhoun, daughter of
Ezekiel Calhoun and sister of John E. Calhoun, who died while in
Congress, and cousin of John C. Calhoun, present Senator from South
Carolina. After having been educated in her native State, she was
married to John Simpson, her first and only husband, with whom she
lived 45 years; and became the mother of 7 children, two daughters
and five sons; the youngest of whom died at the age of two years.
The remainder still live..Pensacola Gazette (The Abbeville Banner -
April 8, 1846)
Richard Harris
Died, of congestion of the bowels, at his late
residence, in Mississippi, on the 29 ult. (July 29, 1851), Richard
Harris, in the 64th year of his age. It is, of course, painful to
the sensibilities of the heart to reflect upon the death of a fellow
being, but that natural feeling is deepened into melancholy regret,
and even repining, when one is taken from amoung us whose worth and
whose virtues might be quoted as illustrative of the glory of his
kind. The deceased was a native of Abbeville district, South
Caorlina, and in the year 1836 removed to Mississippi...For eighteen
years he had been a member of the Presbyterian church...(The
Southern Patriot - August 22, 1851)
Joseph Black
Died of Apoplexy in Columbia on the 7th ult. (November
7, 1843), Joseph Black, Esq. a soldier of the Revolution, and for
upwards of thirty years, a Represnetative in the state Legislature,
from Abbeville District. (The Anderson Gazette - December 2,
1843)
Rev.
James Key
May 27th, at his residence in Abbeville District, Rev.
James Key, a minister in the Baptist Church, aged 72 years. (The
Charleston Mercury June 7, 1859)
Philip Cromer
September 25th, at his residence, five miles east of
Abbeville, Mr. Philip Cromer. (The Charleston Mercury October 4,
1859)
J.
Willis Buchanan
September 21st, in Abbeville District, at his
residence, near Greenwood, Mr. J. Willis Buchanan. (The Charleston
Mercury October 4, 1859)
Dr.
D. T. Riley
March 3d, at his residence in Abbeville District, near
Greenvood, Dr. D. T. Riley. (The Charleston Mercury March 15,
1859)
Astatia Jane
Hawthorn
November 7th, at the residence of Mrs. Seals, in
Lowndes county, Miss. Miss Astatia Jane, eldest daughter of John and
Nancy Hawthorn, of Pickens county, Alabama. She was born on the 13th
of January, 1833, in Abbeville District, near Due West, but removed
to Alabama. (The Charleston Mercury November 29, 1859)
Mary Allen
Fraser
January 17th, at her residence in Abbeville District,
Mrs. Mary Allen Fraser, relict of Mr. Donald Fraser, and daughter of
Col. John Glenn. She was born on the 30th of
September, 1771,
and was consequently in her 88th year at the time of her death. Her
husband died in the year 1812, so that for forty-seven years she had
been a widow. (The Charleston Mercury March 15, 1859)
Mrs. Rev. Francis
Cummins
Died, on the 10th of December at Abbeville
county, in the prime of life, Mrs. Cummins, wife of the Rev. Francis
Cummins, of that place. It is but a just tribute to the memory of
this lady to say, that she did honor to a pious education by an
early choice of religion, which added to a disposition naturally
good, made her truly amiable in every circumstance of life. By an ?,
unaffected manner, she was agreeable to all about her and
particularly so in the intimacies of friendship. In the benevolence
of her heart, in the tenderness of her affections, and in the
prudence of her whole conduct, she illustrated all the domestic
virtues. In her life she was an ornament to christianity and in her
death an irreparable lost to her family. (The State Gazette of South
Carolina January 31, 1791)
George Gartin Savage
Died...January 16th, in Paris, Texas, Dr. George
Gartin Savage. Dr. Savage was a native of Abbeville District, where
he was born on the 5th of November, 1811. (The Charleston Mercury,
May 3, 1858)
Charleston Mercury, 3-1-1859
Died..February 14th and 18th, in Abbeville, Thomas and Frances, children of Mr. Robert A. and Mrs. Frances
Martin.
Died..February 10th, in Abbeville, Capt. John Cunningham, in the 77th year of his
age.
Died..January 1st, in Franklin county, Georgia, Mrs. Martha Eddins, aged 81 years and 21
days. Mrs. Eddins was born, raised and Married to Mr. William
Eddins, in Abbeville District, and soon after came to Georgia, where
he died, abut 25 years before her.
Died..February 1st, in Pickens
District, Mr. Samuel McWhortee, in the
84th year of his age. He was a native of North Carolina, but
in early life was brought to Abbeville District, and there
educated. Thence he moved to Pickens District, in which he
resided till his death.
—Raleigh
Register, September 28, 1828.
DEATH OF A FORMER
TEACHER.
Died, In Abbeville, District S. C. on the 5th ult.
Chesley Daniel, Esq., an able Counsellor
at Law. He was a native of our State, and a graduate of our
University. [He was formerly a teacher in the Raleigh
Academy.—C. L. C] (Source: North Carolina Schools and
Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) contributed by Linda
Rodriguez
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