Carson
HowellCarson Howell (1768-1836, Nancy Dolly Cook -
wife) was a Baptist Minister. He was a founding deacon of Rocky
Springs Baptist Church in Aiken County, SC. He later pastored this
church for 17 years until his death in 1836. He also founded Sardis
Baptist Church in Swansea, SC in 1835 and Convent Baptist Church in
Leesville, SC in 1828. He was one of the founders of the Edisto
Baptist Assn. and at the time of his death was doing missionary
work. Carson told people one year before he died the exact time in
day, hour, and minutes when he would die and he died exactly the
time he predicted. He was preaching in Augusta, Ga. at the time of
his death. He rode his horse from Aiken County near Bethcar, his
home, to Augusta. The church only paid him with a pair of homemade
socks. (contributed by John Howell, gg-grandson)
Rev. Zack
Townsend
AIKEN (Aiken County) — The
Rev. Zack Townsend, for many years a mathematics teacher at Morris
College in Sumter, S. C, and a resident of Aiken, is listed in the
1963 edition of "South Carolina Lives — The Palmetto "who's
who's" The volume is described as a reference edition
[biographies] of contemporary leaders In (South
Carolina). The Rev. Mr. Townsend, in addition to serving
as a professor, is paster of Bethkhm Baptist Church and the Morris
Chapel Baptist Church in Barnwell. He has served in the first
pastorate since 1941 and in the second since 1947. Born
in 1891 in Robeson County. N. C, he was educated at Benedict
College, receiving an A. B. degree, and at Ohio State University,
receiving a B. A. degree. He earned his M. S. in education and
received an honorary Litt D. degree from Morris College. He
has also served as a mathematics teacher at Benedict College, Bettts
Junior College and Clover High School. He was a school
principal in Aiken l934-44. His first post at Morris College was in
1944-47. He returned and has been there since 1958. He is also a
trustee of the college. The Rev. Mr. Townsend is a member
of the S. C. Council of Human Relations. Prom 1946-60 he
was president of the S. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers,
and is now president emeritus. He is grand chaplain. Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons, and is grand worthy patron of 0. E. S. of
South Carolina. He was married to Amanda Williams of
Columbia in 1922 and they are the parents of four children.
[Augusta Chronicle 2 February 1964, Transcribed by
Christine Walters -- Biography - Rev. Zack
Townsend]
Albert Murray Denbow
While he has lived in the state only a comparatively
few years, Albert Murray Denbow is widely known as a financier and
as an executive officer in half a dozen banks and business
corporations in the southern part of the state.
Mr. Denbow, whose
home is at Bamberg, where he is president of the Peoples Bank, was
born in Canandaigua, New York, April 12, 1884, third among the five
children of Alfred and Cora (Howard) Denbow. The parents are both
natives of England and immigrated (sic) from Devonshire in 1870,
first settling at Canandaigua, New York. Alfred Denbow spent his
active career as a banker. He was active in New York politics, and
was prominent in the financial world. He died in 1890.
Albert
Murray Denbow was educated in New York State, and at the close of
his schooling located in Richmond, Virginia. He was engaged in the
banking business in Richmond with John L. Williams & Sons,
bankers. In 1908 he located at Aiken, South Carolina, where he
became assistant cashier of the First National Bank. His home has
been at Bamberg since 1912. He served successively as cashier, vice
president and since 1916 as president of the Peoples Bank at
Bamberg. He is also president of the Commercial Bank of Blackville,
which he organized in 1917; is organizer of the First National Bank
of Barnwell, which was established in 1917, and is organizer and
vice president of the Citizens Bank of Aiken. He organized and is
active head of the Denbow Tobacco Warehouse of Bamberg, and was one
of the organizers and is a director of the Bankers National Life
Insurance Company of Orangeburg.
Mr. Denbow is prominent in
Masonry, being affiliated with Orangeburg Commandery of the Knights
Templar and a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory of Charleston.
He is a member of Omar Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine at
Charleston, South Carolina. He is also an Odd Fellow and is district
deputy of the Third District, Knights of Pythias of South Carolina.
In 1916 Mr. Denbow married Mrs. Allie Jennings O'Hern, daughter of
George A. and Julia Jennings, of Bamberg. Mrs. Denbow is a member of
one of the oldest South Carolina families, which contributed much to
the history of the state in the past. Several members of her family
took part in the Confederate struggle. She is also a niece of the
late Gen. Francis Marion Bamberg.
[History of South Carolina,
Volume 5, Edited by Yates Snowden and Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 –
Transcribed by AFOFG]