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History of Edgefield
County
Edgefield County, South Carolina
HISTORY OF EDGEFIELD
COUNTY
FROM THE EARLIESTSETTLEMENTS
TO
1897
BY JOHN A. CHAPMAN, A.
M.,
ELBERT H. AULL, PUBLISHER AND PRINTER.
1897.
Index
and data contributed by D.
Whitesell |
INTRODUCTION
The author of this book is a native of
Edgefield District, born before it was shorn of its fair proportions, as
it was in 1817, before a part was cut off to form the County of Aiken, and
long before it was further divided to form Saluda County. He was born
within three miles of Saluda River on the old Charleston and Ninety-Six
Road, which, in Revolutionary times, was one of the main highways leading
from the low country and the Congarees to Ninety-Six. The place is now in
Saluda County.
From his boyhood the author was a great
reader and student of history. Nothing pleased him better than to get hold
of some good book telling of the deeds of other times, and stories of
Marion and his men, and others of that heroic age. Unfortunately, books
that told the history of that period were too few; but he had Weems* Life
of Washington and of Marion, and a book of American Biographies published
in 1830, all of which were well suited to cultivate a taste for history
and make the reader long for more.
With such a training in early life it is
not surprising that, as he
grew older, he read everything that could throw light upon the early history of his State and
the formation of the Union
and the rights and duties of the States in the Union, writing this book he has
faithfully sought and drawn from
every source of information available. All books, of which he could get hold, giving information
of the first settlers and their
struggles, he has used; and individuals and friends in all
parts of the Counties of
Edgefield and Saluda, and some outside, have freely and gladly helped him
in his work. To these, one and all, he gives his grateful and heartfelt
thanks. One dear friend, who loaned him many old books, and who assisted
him greatly otherwise, has only recently, 1896, left this stage of life for a better, William
G.Whilden.
Men of Edgefield and Saluda, and you
children of Edgefield elsewhere, the author has done his best. This book
now belongs to you and to your posterity; and the author cannot permit
himself to believe that you will turn coldly from it because you may think
that it has some errors and defects. Of one truth you may be sure, that it
is absolutely impartial in its treatment of men and their deeds. Can you desire
more?
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I - First Settlement. (page 5)
Roving Traders.
Building Fort Keowee.
Conference At Saluda Old
Town.
II - History Of Edgefield. (page
11)
Settlers Of Various Nationalities.
Culbreaths,
Hazels, &C.
Abneys,
&C.
Towlses, Carsons, &C.
Ferries—Saluda.
Stewart
Settlement.
III. - Perrys, Colemans,
Trotters, Ac. (page 18)
Inconveniences Of The Settlers.
Changes
In The Names Of Places.
Opening Of
Public Road.
Christian Priber.
IV. (page 24)
Obstructing Water Courses.
Education.
V.
(page 30)
The Butler Family.
VI. -
Muster Roll - Brooks' Company. (page
47)
List of Capt. Zachary Smith Brooks' Company.
Story of
George and Sampson Pope.
Zachary
Smith Brooks.
Journey of Washington.
Abney
Meeting House.
VII. - Roads and Ferries After the Revolution. (page
53)
Mount Willing, S.C.
Catlett
Connor.
Townships of Mobley, Norris,
&C.
1775.
Number
of Companies, Comanding Officers, Officers, Sergeants, &
Privates.
Major
Mayson to Colonel Thompson
Jas.
Mayson
VIII. (page 65)
Intro
Siege of Ninety-Six.
Tory
Marauders.
Cunninghams Raid.
IX. - Condition of the Country. (page
72)
Intro
Great Demoralization.
Settlers from Maryland.
X.
(page 80)
DR. J. C.
Ready.
That Yellow
Jacket Company.
A Fight at
Edgefield.
XI. (page 86)
A Remarkable Phenomenon.
Secession at Mount Willing.
Ministers of the Gospel.
Education.
Watson,
Bates and Others.
Division of
the District.
XII. (page 95)
Mount Willing - Origin of the
Name.
XII. (page 95)
Mount
Willing - Origin of the Name
Mad Bill Abney
John A.
Crouder
Dr. William Mobley
XIII. (page
102)
Westside.
Parksville.
Rehoboth,
&C.
Skipper's Georgia and the Dark Corner.
An Old
Memorandum Book.
XIV. (page 121)
Fruit
Hill and Vicinity.
XV. (page
127)
Capt. James Ryan.
Samuel Hammond.
LeRoy and
Samuel Hammond.
XVI. (page
143)
Pickens.
Captain Richard Johnson.
Michael
Watson.
Francis Salvador.
The Martins.
Cunningham and
Hammond.
Mrs. Cruger at Ninety-Six.
Mrs. Dillard and Mrs.
Thomas.
Pickens' and Williamson.
Fort Galphin - George
Galphin.
XVII. (page 156)
Norris
Township.
XVIII. (page 162)
Rev.
Alexander Travis.
Nicholas Stallworth, Sr.
Nicholas
Stallworth, Jr.
William Barrett Travis, the Hero of the
Alamo.
Mark Butler Travis.
Colonel P. D. Bowles.
XIX. (page 171)
Intro.
Judge Richard
Gantt.
Judge William D. Martin.
Judge Ephraim Ramsay.
James
J. Caldwell.
John S. Jeter, Solictor.
Edmund Bacon.
John
Dunlap.
Abraham Giles Dozier.
Charles Goodwyn.
John S.
Glascock.
Nathan Lipscomb Griffin.
George McDuffie.
XX. (page 187)
Thomas H. Pope.
Elred
Simkins.
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Simkins.
Charles Martin
Gray.
XXI. (page 197)
War of 1812 -
Seminole.
XXII. (page 203)
The Tillman
Family.
W. B. Dorn.
The Edwardses - Additional.
XXIII. (page 208)
Kansas Troubles -
Seccession.
XXIV. (page
218)
Intro.
XXV. (page
227)
The Seventh Regiment.
Soldiers' Relief
Association.
Presentation of a Flag to the Holcombe
Legion.
XXVI. (page
236)
Hamburg.
XXVII. (page
244)
Francis Hugh Wardlaw.
John E. Bacon.
Joseph Abney.
Joseph Abney - Additional.
Joseph
Quattlebaum.
William Walker.
XXVIII. (page
251)
After the War - Reconstruction.
Contest between
the Legislature and Governor.
Reconstruction.
XXIV. (page 263)
Dr. John Landrum.
Colonel
James C. Smyley.
Colonel James P. Carroll.
General R. G. M.
Dunovant.
Andrew J. Hammond.
Colonel James Tomkins.
Preston
S. Brooks.
William Gregg.
Colonel James B. Griffin.
General
Martin W. Gary
Colonel W. C. Moragne.
XXV.
(page 272)
The Blocker Family.
Death of an Aged and
Remarkable Lady (Mrs. Isabella M. Blocker)
Wounded
Officers.
John B. Abney.
Mark Madison Abney.
Captain James Pope
Bean.
Death of Major Cicero Adams.
Joseph Matthew Abney.
Death of Colonel
Joseph Abney.
Pickens B. Watts - In Memoriam.
Joseph
Abney.
Joseph Haddon.
The Ouzts Settlement.
XXVI. (page 209)
Churches - Methodist.
XXVII. (page 299)
The Presbyterian
Church.
Lutheran - St. Mark's.
Mount
Calvary.
Trinity.
Good Hope.
Corinth.
St. James',
Graniteville.
XXVIII. (page
306)
Baptist Churches - Red Bank.
Dry
Creek.
Sardis.
Philippi.
Bethany.
Bethel.
Richland
Spring.
Damascus.
Johnston.
Edgefield.
Mountain
Creek.
Bethlehem.
Pleasant Lane.
Good Hope.
Big
Stephen's Creek.
Olive Branch and Bold kSpring.
Mount
Lebanon.
XXIX. (page 323)
Red
Hill.
Red Oak Grove.
Salem.
Chestnut or Chestnut
Ridge.
Antioch.
Episcopal Churches.
Roman
Catholic.
Second Adventists.
The Universalists.
Young Men's
Christian Association.
XXX. (page
333)
Education.
Literature.
Something
Unique.
Newspapers.
Ladies' Library Society.
XXXI. (page 343)
Medical Biographies.
Dr. W.
Brazier.
Dr. Elbert Bland.
Dr. William Butler.
Dr. A. W.
Burt.
Dr. Wall Burt.
Dr. H. Burt.
Dr. M. W. Abney.
Dr. E. J. Mims.
Dr.
J. O. Nicholson.
Dr. John Lake.
Dr. W. W. Geiger.
Dr. N.
Meriwether.
Dr. A. G. Teague.
Dr. T. H. Pattison.
Dr. J. F.
Adams.
W. Scott Sheppard.
Dr. William D. Jennings. Sr.
Dr.
George M. Yarbrough.
Dr. William Coleman.
Dr. Charles M.
Burkhalter in Life and Death.
Dr. Garrett.
XXXII. (page 365)
Historical Hints of
Edgefield.
The County and Town of Edgefield -
Descriptive.
Under the Oaks at Lanham's.
Penn's Drug
Store.
Waters Family.
Captain Lewis Jones.
Robert W.
Jennings.
A granddaughter of Edgefield Distingushed in
Paris.
Colonel David Denny.
General James Jones.
Colonel T.
P. Shaw.
XXXIII. (page 386)
The Scott
Famiy, Who Gave Name to "Scott's Ferry," on the Westside.
The
Martins of Martintown.
Werts Family.
Haltiwanger
Family.
Sheppard.
XXXIV. (page
400)
Recollections and Reflections.
An Act of
Heroism.
Ninety-Six.
Anne Kennedy.
The Fires of
Edgefield.
The Pine House.
Edgefield Village.
XXXV. (page 418)
Ninety-Six
Riflemen.
Cherokee Ponds Guards.
Edgefield Riflemen.
Ninth
Regiment Milita.
Ninth Regiment Milita.
Edgefield
Hussars.
Company G. First Regiment - Gregg's.
Company E, First
REgiment - Gregg's.
Company H. Third Regiment.
Gaines
Mill.
Company E. Seventh Regiment.
Company F. Seventh Regiment
Infantry.
Sergeant Dick Clary's War List.
Company G. Seventh
South Carolina Infantry.
Company G. Seventh
Regiment.
XXXVI. (page 436)
Captain
Benjamin Roper's Company I, Seventh Regiment.
Company K, Seventh
Regiment.
Company M, Seventh Regiment.
Company A, Nineteenth
Regiment.
Company B, Nineteenth Regiment.
Company C,
Nineteenth Regiment.
Company D, Nineteenth Regiment.
XXXVII. (page 458)
Company "F", Nineteenth
Regiment.
Company K, Nineteenth Regiment.
Company B, Sixth
Regiment.
Company I, State Troops.
Company B, Second
Regiment.
Company B, Fourteenth Infantry Regiment.
Company D,
Fourteenth Regiment Infantry.
Company G, Fourteenth
Regiment.
XXXVIII. (page 477)
Company
K, Fourteenth Regiment.
Company I, Twenty-Fourth
Regiment.
Company K, Twenty-Fourth Regiment.
Company F,
Twenty-Seventh Regiment Infantry.
XXXIX. (page
496)
Company E, Seventh Regiment Cavalry.
Company I,
Second Cavalry.
Company K, Second Regiment Artillery.
The
Citadel Academy.
The Confederte Flag.
Haltiwanger.
Butler
and Farley.
XL. (page 509)
Troop for
Florida.
Seventh Regiment.
Tenth Regiment.
Ninth
Regiment.
XLI. (page 510)
War With
Mexico.
Muster Roll of Captain Brooks' Company.
XLII. (page 519)
Saluda
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