Welch Family Annals of Newberry, by John A. Chapman, page 591 William and Williams Welcb, who were brothers, came from Iredell County, N. C., during the first quarter of the present century. They were of Quaker parentage. William was a wortby, guileless man, but of an impatient and restless temper. He died in 185B, aged sixty. Williams was the younger. He was of a generous, and impulsive nature; a man of clear judgment and abounding in energy. Though he came to this country a poor boy, he accumulated a fortune in the pursuit of agriculture, besides rearing and educating a family of eleven children. He died in 1874, in his seventy second year. Professor C. W. Welch, late Principal of the High School, Houston, Texas, and now (1892) Professor-e!ect in Clenson College and Williams Welch, tbe portrait painter, also Professor-elect in Clemson College, both natives of Newberry, are his grandsons. Mrs. Lucy Sharp was the sister of William and Williams Welch. She came to Newberry from North Carolina in 1850, and died in 1856. She was a woman of unusual industry and very kind and generous in her nature. She left two cbildren, William, one of Anderson's best citizens, and Mrs. Neville, wife of Rev. Mr. Neville of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.