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Obits & Death Notices
Abbeville County, South
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Miss Mary Lee
Perrin, a young lady about 21 years of age, died on the
7th instant of typhoid fever, at the residence of Mr. C. L. Toole,
near Montmoreci. Miss Perrin was a native of Abbeville County but of
late years has been living in this County. Her body was taken to
l.iberty Hill for internment. [Aiken Journal and Review (Aiken,
South Carolina) Wednesday, October 26, 1892 ; transcribed by Marla
Zwakman] 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)
Dr. D.
T. Riley
March 3d, at his residence in Abbeville District, near
Greenvood, Dr. D. T. Riley. (The Charleston Mercury March 15,
1859)
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