Marion County, South Carolina - The whole text, 1902 (part 15 of 15)

Johnson, and another. Dr. Johnson's mother was a Miss Davis, I think, a sister of B. F. Davis' father, whose name, I think, was Benjamin ; Dr. Johnson settled and practiced medicine at Marion, was a very successful and popular physician, and a perfect gentleman in his deportment ; he married a Miss Gregg, a sister of J. Eli Gregg, and raised three sons, Ed W., Hezekiah and Keene, and several daughters, names unknown. Edward W. Johnson was a graduate of the South Carolina College, studied law, was admitted to the bar, never practiced but little, went to farming; was elected! Sheriff in 1880, and again in 1884, served both terms, and retired from office. Florence County was established in 1888, and in 1889 he was elected Sheriff of that county, and served the balance of that term, three years, as Sheriff of that county, when he retired from office, and in a few years died, unmarried ; he was an excellent man, a good citizen and made a good Sheriff in both counties. Hezekiah Johnson is also a graduate of the South Carolina College; married a Miss McCall, in Marlborough, settled on a farm near his father, at Mars Bluff ; has raised a family, number, name and sex unknown; like his father, is an excellent man and good citizen. Keene Johnson has never married; lives on his farm near the old homestead. Keene seems to be a family name among the Davises. A hundred years ago or more, there was a family by the name of Keene ; and one of the old Davises married a Miss Keene (as a family the name is now extinct in the county) ; hence the name among the Davises and their descendants, one of Whom is Keene Johnson. A. G. Johnson, youngest brother of Dr. W. R. Johnson, went to Marlborougih, and married, I think, first, a Miss Thomas ; had one child, a daughter; his wife died, and he married again, don't know who, and married, a third time, a Miss Henagan, daughter of Governor B. K. Henagan; know nothing of his children. The daugtiter of the first wife married Hon. H. H. Norton, of Bennettsville ; she soon died.. Dr. Johnson had another brother, whose name is not known, but was the father of the late William ("Bill") Johnson, of Wahee, and three other sons, Joseph, Thomas and David; of these sons, they all had families, of whom nothing is known^ - think they are all dead, except, perhaps, David, in Britton's Neck. Dr. W. R. John- son was no ordinary man - a born leader, and, with all, was very popular, shrewd' and sagacious ; he represented the county in the House and Senate ; was also a member of the Secession Convention in December, i860; he commanded respect in whatever position 'he was placed - a high-toned gentleman and of the strictest integrity.

In former times there was another family of Johnsons in the Temperance Hill and Buck Swamp region, of prominence and standing, but by death and emigration they have dwindled to only a few. Old Enos Tart's wife, "Susannah," was a daughter of one of these old Johnsons. The mother of old John and Absalom Turbeville was another daughter, and, doubtless, there were others of that generation, but the writer has not been able to get them in any traceable shape. The late Samuel, Carey and David Johnson were descendants, also Hardy and Zeno, and, perhaps others, all from the same stock. These descendants, as known to the writer, are and were good, honest men, respectable citizens all of them. Samuel Johnson, whose wife was a Turbeville and still survives, was a most excellent citizen, died childless. Carey and David had families, more or less large ; also Hardy and Zeno. David Johnson left, I think, two children, who are now among us. One of his daughters, Anne, married Milton F. Price, a nephew of the writer ; they have a family of five or six children, only one son among them, Connerly, by name, a grown young man, steady and levelheaded, a promising boy.

Seventy years ago there was another Johnson, suppose not connected with any of the above named Johnsons, whose name was Lewis Johnson. He lived then and owned the place afterwards owned and occupied by old Dew Rogers, on the north side of Bear Swamp, below Caddy's Mill, on the road leading to Fair Bluff, N. C. ; he was well-to-do, and then an old man ; he had an only son, Allen, who married a Miss Elvington, sister of old Jessee Elvington ; he settled and lived on the road to Fair Bluff, lower down the swamp, opposite or rather below Page's Mill (then called Ford's Mill), and on Cowpen Swamp - place now owned by Isaac Spivey or estate of the late Joseph N. Page. The son, Allen Johnson, had also an only child, a son, named Alexander, with whom the writer went to school, in 1832 - Alexander was then grown ; the next year, I think, in 1833, Alexander niarried a Miss Thompson, daughter of "Moccasin-jawed" William Thompson, three or four miles below Lumberton, N. C. There was something peculiarly romantic in the incidents to that marriage, which from their character are worth relating at this late day. Old man Thompson was a well-tcHdo man, of more than ordinary intelligence, but very unique ; had an angular character - some of the angles were very acute, others were obtuse, more generally acute. Young Johnson had been paying attentions to his daugihter, Mary, for some time, and the old gentleman, suspecting that matters between the young couple were about to come to a focus, kept out of Johnson's way, to prevent Johnson asking for her - or, rather, the old man's consent to their marriage. It was said old man Thompson, having several daugliters, never consented to any of their marriages. Johnson went two or three times, intending to ask for her, but never could meet up with the old man, who managed to elude him. He asked the mother, who readily consented - it was a very good match for her daughter, and the old lady had sense enough to see it. At last Johnson met up with the old man one morning early - ^as he was making off to avoid Johnson, but the young man anticipated him, and met him as he was going off. Very unexpectedly to the old man, Johnson "popped" the question to him. The old gentleman replied, "I cannot consent to it, but you and Mary can do as you please." This satisfied Johnson - thinking, although he did not consent to it, yet that he would not oppose the marriage. The old man pretended to be in a hurry and left him. A time was appointed for the marriage. Johnson lived in Marion, some eig'hteen or twenty miles from Thompson. On the morning appointed for the marriage, at breakfast, old man Thompson said Mary should not marry Johnson - that he intended to take Mary and carry her off, if he had to tie her to carry her. The old lady and Mary, knowing the old man so well, suspected some sort of trouble with him about it, and they had everything ready to spirit Mary away, with her trousseau, clothing, &c. Mary got up and left the table." The old man said he would go and get a line to tie her with, and went out - ostensibly to get it. The old lady followed Mary, and got a negro to take her to the Widow Pitman's, who lived on the road that Johnson would travel in coming. Mrs. Pitman, I think, was a sister of Mrs. Thompson (I suppose Mrs. Pitman had been posted before). The negro carried Mary to Mrs. Pitman's, and Mrs. P. sent her into a bay not far off on the road, and put one of her own negroes on the road near the bay to cutting wood - ^this negro was let into the secret, and instructed to tell Johnson, as he passed, where Mary was. Johnson did come that afternoon, with some few friends, and among them Major Benjamin Ivee, who was a Magistrate, brought along to perform, as he supposed, the ceremony at old man Thompson's house. When Johnson and his party approached the negro cutting wood, the latter stopped him and told him where Mary was, and conducted him to her ; she came out of the bay, and Johnson took her in his gig (no buggies in that day), and they drove up to her Aunt Pitman's, and Squire hee married them, and the party then rode back to Lee's (the White House) , some twelve or fifteen miles, and there stayed all night. Next day Johnson carried his wife home, and they had a big infare, as it was called - ^to which the writer was invited and which he attended, and has personal knowledge of much of what has been written of this marriage. They lived there together. Johnson's father and mother having died, he sold out and went West, after having three or four children ; heard nothing from them since. Alexander Johnson was at least five or six years older than the writer. I am very sure there are none now living (1901) that ever saw old L/ewis Johnson, and may be none that remember his son, Allen. The episode above written only impresses a lesson, long since learned by observant minds - that is, that when two young people, of opposite sexes, get it well into their heads to get married, the opposition of parents don't amount to much. It is about as easy to stop Pee Dee River from running as to prevent them, and especially when they have the mother on their side. Nothing will here be said of the lawyer Johnsons in Marion; they are well known in the county and their names will herein be transmitted to succeeding generations among the list of lawyers practicing in the Courts of Marion since 1800, when the first Court was held in the county.

There are other old families and names in the county, which have not been specifically mentioned herein, for the want of knowledge or information concerning them - they are not omitted designedly. For instance, the Baxleys, the Drews, the Britton's Neck Watsons, the Williams, the Hdldens, the Wallers and others. Of these, so far as known, they are all good people, honest, law-abiding and harmless - ^never heard of any one of them' being in the criminal courts of the county. There are others in the county not mentioned herein, to wit : the Calders, the Turners, the Cooks, the Barrentines and the Sweats. They are an humble, obscure and honest people; made good soldiers in the war ; associate only with themselves, content to be humble and obscure, but are doing their part in the-general make-up of the county, and contribute their share to its general prosperity ; and to these may be added the Christmas families. Many not specifically named herein are incidentally brought forward, in connection with those named. It is generally the case that females lose their name and identity uj)on their marriage, taking the name of the husbands, yet they transmit the blood, if not the name, and in many cases purer and more surely than do the males. In these pages I have traced the genealogy of families through the female line as well as the male, whenever I could ; and in so doing, many not specially named are included in those connections.

In reference to the conduct of our_ soldiers in the Confederate War, the writer has said but little, for the reason that it would take up too much space - it would take more books than one to tell of all the gallant deeds and exploits of each soldier ; moreover, where all were good soldiers and all did their duty so well, it would be invidious to tell those of one and not of all. As a whole, our soldiers did their duty, and where any did not, it is an exception, and does not affect the general rule. Besides, it will be seen by examining the copy of the Marion County rolls, herein published, who did their duty and who failed - ^that is, in a great measure. Hence, in speaking of any particular soldier, it is only in a general way, so as not to disparage others equally good and brave.

from about Tarboro, N. C, about 1750. They were of Sootdh, Irish and English descent. My great-grand-father, William Sellers, headed the family ; he settled in Columbus or Brunswick County, N. C, on what was called the "Seven Creeks ;" he had and raised six or seven sons - Elisha, Joel, Matthew, Henry, Benjamin and Sion - of these, my grand-father, Benjamin, was born about 1740; grew up and married a Miss Bryant, by whom he had five children - of these my father, Jordan, was the eldest, and the only one raised to be grown. My father was born i6th February, 1763, and died 9th September, 1838, at the age of seventy-five years, in this (Marion) County. My grand-father, Benjamin, married, a second time, don't remember to whom ; by this marriage he raised four children - three sons, Wright, Luke and Levin, and one daughter, Rhoda ; my father was balf-brother to these. Rhoda married Jonathan Rothwell, on Cape Fear River, Bladen' County, N. C. Rothwell was a very successful man, and accumulated a large property. The writer has seen some of the descendants of Rothwell since the war - ^they were good people and well educated. Wright Sellers, the oldest son by the second marriage, married a Miss Duncan, of Horry or Columbus County, and settled and lived on the Iron Springs Swamp, near what is now called "Green Sea," in Horry. My grand-father, Benjamin, had in the meantime moved to that section, owned and had taken up much land in that community, and died there in April, 1817, at the age of seventy-seven years. My uncle, Wright Sellers, had and raised one son, Benjamin D., and six or seven daughters. The Sellers and Nortons built the first church at Green Sea, then called "Norton's Church," between the years 1801 and 1807. My grand-father was a Methodist preacher, and was ordained by Bishop Asbury in 1801 (see Asbury's Journal, 3 vol., p. 9). The Nortons and Sellers kept that church up or were the most prominent members in it until 1826, when they sold out and went to Alabama. Luke Sellers, the second son of my grand-father by his second marriage, married, don't know who, and had one son, Jacob, and died. Jacob grew up and married, and also went West. Levin Sellers, the youngest son of my grand-father, grew up and became a Methodist preacher, joined the Conference in 1806 or 1807, and was sent first to Edisto Circuit (now Orangeburg), and the next year to Cypress Circuit, where he died in August of that year. My father, Jordan Sellers, went there and got his horse, clothing, saddle-bags, books, &c. The Methodist preachers in that day traveled on horseback and carried their clothes, books, &c., in saddle-bags - not so with the preachers in 1901. My father, the only dhild raised of the first marriage of my grand-father, at the age of eighteen years joined the Continental Army of the Revolution, under the command of General Nathaniel Greene, and was in the battle at Eutaw Springs, S. C, 8th September, 1 78 1, and served to the end of the war. The results of that battle turned the tide of success of the British arms in South Carolina, and with the fall of Yorktown, Va., a month or two afterwards, under Washington, forced the evacuation of Charleston in 1782, and finally forced George III. to acknowledge the independence of the United States of America early in 1783. At the age of twenty-six, in 1789, my father married Miss Elizabeth Hunchy, a Dutch lady ; by her he had one child, a daughter, Mary; the wife was an invalid, bedi-ridden from the birth of Mary, for twenty-four or twenty-five years, when she died ; Mary grew up, and married James W. Edwards, and in 1819 moved to Montgomery County, Ala., then a frontier region ; Edwards raised seven or eight children ; amassed large property, and he and wife both died, and are buried about four miles below Montgomery, Ala. The writer was in the graveyard in 1854, and saw their tomb-stones, and while there learned that the children were all dead, except two. Dr. Charles Edwards, of Prattville, Ala., and one daughter, Amanda, who was the wife of a Methodist preacher, a presiding elder (name forgotten). In 18 17, my father married again, my mother, Mary Osborne - ^he being fifty-four years of age and she twenty years ; I was the oldest child, bom 27th March, 1818 ; they raised to be grown three sons - ^the writer, James O. and Bryant J., and two daughters, Susan and Civil. I am the only survivor of the five. My brother, James O., went to Alabama, married there a Miss Willis, and had and raised one son, James Jordan, and four daughters. James O. was killed in a skirmish in Hood's Army, 28th October, 1864. Bryant J. went into the army in a Marlborough company of cav- airy, Peter L. Breeden, Captain ; he died of typhoid fever, 13th August, 1863, at McPhersonville, S. C. ; I brought him home and buried him at Dothan, in this county; he left two sons, James F. and Thomas W. James F. married Miss Chloe Rogers, daughter of Johnson Rogers, in the Mullins section ; he died in 1889 ; left four sons and one daughter, now in that community. Thomas W. Sellers married Dora Campbell, daughter of Theophilus Campbell, of the Mullins section ; she died four or five years ago, and left two children, girls; the father has not remarried. Of the daughters, Susan married James J. Rogers, brother of Johnson Rogers; he died last October, childless, and Susan died 17th May, 1901. My sister. Civil, maried Rufifin Price, of North Carolina; he left her with two children, boys, Milton F. and Joseph M., both now citizens of Mullins, both married and have coming families. I married Miss Martha A. Bethea, daughter of Philip Bethea, as already stated herein among the Betheas ; we raised six children, three sons and three daug'hters, John C, W. W., Jr., and Philip B. ; of the daughters, Anna Jane, Rachel and Mary, all married, as will be found among the Maces, Betheas, Nortons, McMillans, DuBois and Godbolds. Of the five brothers of my grand-father, Benjamin Sellers, they scattered, and they and their posterity may be found in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and perhaps other States. My mother's father, Joseph Osborne, was an Englishman - came here as a British soldier in the Revolution; was taken a prisoner by the Americans, and, though exchanged, refused to return to England; married in Sampson County, N. C, to Miss Civil Foley (Irish people), and by her had four children, of whom my mother was the eldest - bom in 1797, and died 12th February, 1868; had only one son, Charles Osborne, who died years ago, childless. Hope I will be pardoned for having said so much about my own family, but knowing so much about them, I could not well say less.

The negro was introduced into the province of Carolina almost coeval with its first settlement in 1670. The first shipment was made by Sir John Yeamans, in 1671. He was an

Englishman, who went to Barbadoes and there procured a small colony to go with him to Carolina. Large grants of land had been obtained by him from the Proprietors in Carolina. And from Barbadoes, he not only carried his small colony, but also a number of negro slaves. These were the first negroes in South Carolina. How or by whom they were carried from Africa to Barbadoes, does not appear (Ramsay's History of South Carolina, pp. 2 to 18). The colony of the year before was under William Sayle as Governor, who died soon after his arrival, and was succeeded by Joseph West, 28th August, 1671 ; and he was succeeded by Sir John Yeamans, 26th December, 1671. He held till 13th August, 1674. Negroes had been previously imported into Virginia. Thus was established the nucleus of slavery in South Carolina, and the germ for our present -negro population in the State. Whether wise or unwise, yet remains to be determined. "There is a Providence that shapes our ends, roUgh-hew them as we may." They are here and, I suppose, her tq stay - not as slaves to the cupidity of man, but as human beings entitled to the benefits to be derived from the laws and usages of humanity. He came here a barbarian, a savage - ^could not speak or understand our language, knew not how to work - ^in fact, knew nothing except what his animal instincts and propensities taught him ; he knew nothing except by intuition - nothing except to gratify his animal propensities, and to supply his natural wants. He knew nothing of civilization and its concomitant and consequent pleasures and enjoyments, and as for a God, that rules and governs all worlds and is everywhere and at all times present, disposing of the destinies of all men and all worlds, the negro had never heard. His two hundred years of hardship and slavery has been greatly for his benefit. It has transformed him from a barbarian to a civilized and christianized man. He has not only learned to speak our language, but to read and write it ; he has not only learned to make and use all the arts of civilized life, but has learned to appreciate them. The thick darkness that beclouded his mind as to a true and living God, that created and upholds and continues all terrestrial things for man's benefit, has been dispelled. His mind has been enlightened, and he feels and knows that he is accountable to that Great

Being for all his actions - that there are rewards and punishments in the future. The great struggle in the South from 1861 to 1865, involving his continuous state of servitude or his freedom, tenninated in his favor, and he was set at liberty, and the powers that then were conferred upon him all the rights and privileges of citizenship, civil and political - whether he was fitted for the political privileges conferred upon him has been and still is a disputed question. I, for one, did not, nor do I yet, think he is fitted for the due and proper exercise of that high privilege. There are a few, compared with the whole, that might be trusted with the ballot in this free country, and, I think further, that it ought to be intrusted to them gradually, as they may develop a fitness for it, and thus in the progress of time all may attain to that high privilege. The negro, as a race of people, is unlike every other race. He lives for the present, while the Mongolian lives in the past, and the Caucassian or European lives in the future or for the future. The negro is improvident, as a general rule; he looks only to the present, and if he has enough, however simple it may be, for the present, he is satisfied - his wants are few and they are easily supplied ; hence he is the best laborer that the South can have - his place as such cannot easily be filled. He is contented with his status and condition, wants employment only to supply present and pressing needs - is easily satisfied; not aspiring, since the days of carpet-baggery and scalawagism - and they were to blame, not the negro, and Were not as trustworthy as the negro ; they stole it by thousands, the negroes only by littles. They are mostly gone - left for the country's good, and to save their mean carcasses ; the negro is still here and, I trust, for all time to come. He does not seek, nor does he expect, social recognition - they gang to themselves, and would not be contented otherwise; they have a contempt for the white man who puts himself on a level with them. /i.s a race, they are cowardly - at least, as to the white man. They are somewhat brutal among themselves, and especially to their children. The negro can live on less than any one among us - his wants are few. There are few or no strikes in the South - the negro don't strike ; the agricultural people of South Carolina and of the South will never suffer from a strike as long as they employ negro labor. The negro has a monopoly of that class of labor, and the agriculturalists have a monopoly of its employment - the one monopoly is entirely dependent upon the other, and so long as that relation subsists and is maintained, there will be no friction, but harmony and good feeling will be maintained. Destroy that relation, and bring the white labor - a laborer that is hard to satisfy, that is ever looking out for the future, and seeking avenues to better his condition and fortunes, constantly demanding social recognition for himself and family - there would soon be friction and trouble, no end to it ; and we of the South would soon be involved in a strike, such as now pervading other parts of the country, w'here corporate wealth and corporate greed abound. Agriculture would languish, and every thing dependent upon it would be wrecked. The means of supplying the natural wants of man and beast would be cut off, and bloodshed and revolution might follow in the wake, and finish up the sad catastrophe of our now happy country. If the negro is wisely utilized, our section of the country will be spared the direful calamity.

The conduct of the negro during our late unpleasantness, from 1861 to 1865, is without a parallel. There were then, say, six millions of slaves (negroes) in the Southern Confederacy. The section was drained of its effective men - every effective man from the Potomac to the Rio Grande was required to be and was at the front. The old and ineffective men and boys were alone left at home with the women and children, as their only protection, surrounded with these six millions of negroes. Did the negroes rise in mass, and massacre these old men, boys, women and children, which they could have done at any time in 1864 and '65 ? and which any other race of people, similarly circumstanced, upon the face of the globe, seeing their opportunity, would have availed themselves pf, and instituted a general butchery throughout the length and breadth of the Confederacy. Nothing to hinder them. Nq; instead thereof, the negro was loyal, truly loyal, to his master and his family, and also to his section of the country. He labored upon the farm, raised provision crops for the support of themselves, their masters' families, and to support and maintain our vast armies in the war. But for them, our armies would have had to disband and give up the cause for which they had gone to war and for which they were fighting - ^there was no other source of supply. The negro knew all this ; that the war was being waged on his account, and upon its result depended his freedom, or his continued state of slavery; yet, knowing all this, he chose, under the providence of God, to be loyal to his master and to his master's cause. It is without a parallel, and I may say miraculous. Had he chosen to take advantage of the situation and to strike for freedom, the results, horibile dictu, would have been indescribable, and horrifying beyond toleration. I will turn from its contemplation and let the reader do the further imagining. We owe the negro a debt of gratitude immeasurable, and which can never be paid. He is now our only and best laborer - he is emphatically "a hewer of wood and a drawer of water," and it is probable he ever will be. We should utilize him, but treat him justly and fairly, aid him in every way we can to better his condition, and elevate him to a platie of self-respect in his status and position in society. We are due him this much, at least, as some sort of reward for his loyalty to us, in a time and in a crisis when we most needed it, and where it was the very sine qua non of our existence. There are those among us who are advocating the policy of applying the taxes paid by white people to the public education of the white children of the State, and the taxes paid by the negro to the public education of the negro - the latter a mere bagatelle What base ingratitude does such a proposition evince! It is to be hoped such a policy will never be adopted in the South, and especially in South Carolina. It would be rank repudiation of the debt of gratitude we owe them - it would be publishing ourselves to the world' as a set of ingrates. The' white people now control the policy of the State, and I hope ever will - ^but do not bring upon us such moral degradation as such a policy would betoken and entail. We claimed to be a civilized afrid christianized people - if so, we cannot favor and adopt such a policy.

called L,iberty County or Precinct, by the name of Marion District, and providing for the location of a court house and jail therein by the first January, 1800, was the first step towards the building of a town. The court house and jail (comparatively rude structures) were built, and the nucleus of a town planted. A county seat is always followed by an aggregation of people (necessarily so) at said county seat, more or less numerous and pretentious according to circumstances, environments and prospects of trade, &c. Who the first settlers were is not known, and is not now ascertainable. The writer has heard old "Aunt Nancy God'bold" say that S'he and family moved there in 1812, and built a good large house (for that day), about where the Marion Bank stands, a boarding house or hotel, and lived in it and kept it as such ; she was there and keeping it as such in 1843. The writer boarded with her there one week, attending Court as a juryman - .the first and last time he ever was juryman. The old house stood there until after the war. The leading merchants there have been Thomas Evans, W. H. Grice, Ebby Legette, Durant & Wilcox, Wilcox & Young, T. W. Godbold, McDonald & Crawford, M. Iseman, I. Iseman (called Ligbtfoot), C. Graham, E. H. Gasque, J. N. Stevenson, R. H. Reaves, Moody & Smith, Durham & Stanley, S. A. Durhata & Co., W. C. McMillan, druggist. These bring us down to the present day merchants - all of whom are well known, and of whom there are now many.

Marion. - Marion grew very slowly. In 1838, when the writer first saw it, it was a mere hamlet. The native oak saplings were then growing in the public square, to which persons going to town then hitched their horses. More business is done there now, in the fall and spring, in one week than was done there in 1838 in a whole year. In 1838, the population was perhaps 150 or 200, not more. It remained a little court house town for a period of fifty-five years. The first impetus given to the town of Marion was by the building the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, which was not completed to that point until 1854. Marion then began to move up, business and trade were increased ; its population increased, and some life and activity prevailed^ - a spirit of enterprise and improvement began to show itself, not only in the town but in the cx>unty generally. This upward movement was, however, soon checked by the war, and after the war and its devastations it was further retarded by the horrors of Reconstruction and the rule of the "Carpet-bagger." The war and subsequent conditions and agencies held back the town and county - little progress made for fifteen years, say, till 1876 and '7. Since 1876, Marion grew slowly, mostly by the natural increase of its population. Bar-rooms were numerous, and tolerated until 1883, when the town, at an election held for the purpose, voted it "dry" by a majority of twenty-five ; soon afterwards, by an amendment to its charter, the Legislature passed an Act by which liquor was forbidden to be sold there for twenty years. The town remained dry, except an occasional "blind tiger," until the dispensary was planted in its midst. This great "moral institution" seems, for the present, to be the policy of the State, in reference to the sale of liquor within it - how long it is to remain the State's policy, we can't tell. The little morality there is in it can hardly be seen with a microscope. Take the profit feature out of it, and it would not last three months. To say it was established to promote good morals would be a libel on truth, bold hypocrisy. I think Marion was first incorporated in 1854 (I have not the Act before me). The improvements since 1876 have been gradual, up to a few years back, when a new imputus was given her, and she is now on a boom ; her population is about 2,000. Instead of bar-rooms, we have two flourishing banks, a cotton factory, an oil mill, an iron foundry and machine shops, the largest and best in the eastern part of the State ; two large tobacco warehouses, with pack houses, and a stemmery of tobacco; and this is not all, the old wooden shanties for dwellings and stores are being replaced by large and commodious buildings for dwellings - some of wood and some of brick have gone up and are going up ; also the sjame as to stores, and other buildings ; there are also five or six livery stables and five or six drug stores, and from two or three places of business, stores, in 1840, small establishm'ents, they now number at least thirty, with large stocks of goods of every variety, and every one seems to be busy and doing a fair business. From three to five hundred men and women now find employment there daily in the different channels of trade and business - where formerly there were many unemployed, loafers about town, mostly bar-room patrons, and, I might say, vagabond's - ^now employed and prosperous. In 1840, there was but one church in town - ^the old Methodist Church ; now there are four good church buildings, commodious, viz : the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopal, all well attended, and each with its minister, and two of them with parsonages. The Methodist have also a Presiding Elder's parsonage with its glebe. There are also three or four colored church buildings, commodious and substantial; each has its minister, and their churches are well attended. And above all and as its climax, they have a large and commodious town hall of brick, with all necessary furniture, two stories high - ^the lower one for the meetings of the town coucil, and for a town market, and guard rooms. They also have a fine and commodious brick building, two stories high, for their graded school, and one of the best graded schools in the State. These last are a great credit to the liberality and public spirit of the town. To one living in 1840, and leaving at that time and coming back there now, would hardly know the place. The old town has waked up. The people who are there now are a progressive and large-hearted people, esto perpetua.

NiCHoivS AND Mui^WNS. - The 'construction of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, completed in 1854, and the establi's:hment of depots at those respective places, formed a nucleus for a town at each point. At first, and for years afterwards, these places were mere hamlets. There gathered near them a few families and some few business men ; several houses were built here and there around the depots, without any seeming regard to an ultimate town, but with an eye only to their then personal convenience. Thus they were and thus remained until after the war. At both places, after the war, churches were built - a. Methodist and a Baptist Church at each, and perhaps a colored church or two at each. A while after the war, Nichols seemed, as between the two places, to take the lead. The lands above the railroad belonging to the estate of the late Harman Floyd were sold, and with a view to the building up a town, were sold near the depot in convenient lots. The purchasers began to build, and did build several very good dwellings and storehouses upon their respective purchases. The turpentine business there was pretty extensive and profitable, and under these influences Nichols took on a little boom for a while, and seemed to outstrip its neighbor, Mullins, in business enterprise and business prospects ; but in a few years the turpentine began to fag, and finally in a measure played out, and with it Nichols came to a stand-still. Recently, however, the cultivation of tobacco for market has found its way into the country around it and in upper Horry, just across the river, which has given Nichols an impetus, and she is again looking up and is forging her way to the front. A. B. Nichols, a good and successful business man and a man of large means, has erected a commodious warehouse there for the handling and sale of tobacco, and the quantity sold there is having its effect upon the town, and she is looking up. The population, I suppose, is 200 or more. There are three or four stores, owned and managed by A. B. Nichols, John H. Stroud and C. R. Ford - ^there may be others. The section of country around Nichols is not as agricultural as it is around Mullins and other sections of the county. Mullins is situated in one of the many good sections of the county for agricultural purposes, and in that respect has the advantage of Nichols. For a while she ran a turpentine business, but not to the extent that Nichols did, and she abandoned it earlier. There was not much emigration to either, but more to Mullins than Nichols. I think, by the census of 1890, Mullins had a population of 282. In one respect, Mullins has outstripped all other towns in the county, Marion not excepted, and that is in establishing and keeping up her Sunday schools, in both her churches. They were living, moving institutions years ago, and the interest in them dt>es not seem to a;bate, either in the attendance or in mastering the lessons. No other public Sunday meeting, however imix>rtant, such as a district conference or an association, is allowed to side-track the Sunday schools. It has been so for years - the interest in them does not seem to abate in the least. The morail influences at Mullins, which are very good, may be attributed in great part to those Sunday schools, which have been in existence for a generation, and it tells upon the town and surrounding country. In addition to this, they have and keep up, and have for years, a school - ^the peer of any school in the county - don't know whether it is what is called a graded school or not, but it is deeply rooted in the minds of the people of the town, and is much to their credit. What is now booming Mullins is the tobacco trade - it has only been a few years that tobacco has been cultivated in the county. The Mullins region early saw its opportunity, and embarked largely in its culture and production, and in that regard is far ahead of any section of the county. The consequence is that Mullins sells more tobacco than any market in the State. She sold last year, 1900, over 4,000,000 pounds, and bids fair to become the Danville of South Carolina. She has three large and well equipjjed tobacco warehouses, a number of pack houses, and four large and well equipped tobacco stemmeries (one of brick), and employs, of men, women and children, four or five hundred hands. It has given Mullins an impetus not dreamed of ten years ago. People are emigrating to Mullins from all parts, houses (dwellings) are not to be had. From 1890 to 1900, as shown by the census, the population increased from 282 to over 800; and now, 1901, it is over 1,000. The town is spreading; large and handsome 'houses, dwellings, stores, &c., are going up all around (some of brick) ; a spirit of enterprise and "expansion" is engendered and developing fast, and bids fair to equal, if not surpass, in wealth and population in the near future her near neighbor (might say mother), Marion; she has a bank, through which her finances pass and are transacted, and is also doing a good business, launched and based on the capital of her own people. The spirit that animates the town actuates and permeates the whole surrounding country. A new and active life manifests itself everywhere. Much more might be said of this thriving town, but want of space will not permit.

Latta and Dili,on. - These towns, yet in their youth, owe their origin to the building of the Florence (Short Cut) Railroad. The road was completed up to those points, seven miles apart, in 1888, depots located, and a nucleus of a town planted, and at once persons began to build and to come in and dwell there. W. W. George built, as I think, the first storehouse, a large and commodious one, at Latta, and also built a large dwelling, now occupied by J. W. Smith, and the store is occupied by S. A. McMillan. Soon others began to come in and build, until the town has attained to its present proportions. It is a thriving, progressive and enterprising place. Three churches for the white people have been built - Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian^ - and each has its minister and are well attended. They have also constructed a school building, large and convenient, and have established a first class graded school, which is kept running from year to year by first class teachers. There are two or three colored churches, of moderate pretensions, gone up. The town has ample church facilities, as also schools. The graded school established, of course, includes the colored population, and they share in its benefits. This arrangement is required by law in the graded schools of the State. The white and colored, each, has its school house - ^the races are thus kept separate. Latta has caught the tobacco fever, which is epidemic in all northeastern South Carolina. They have two large and well equipped tobacco warehouses, together with pack houses, also a tobacco stemmery, and have launched into the tobacco trade, and are competing with other tobacco centres in the county; and the prices paid this year (1901) will doubtless stimulate its production, perhaps, for years to come. They have also some banking facilities - I think, a branch of the Merchant and Farmers Savings Bank of Marion, conducted by Mr. Austin Manning, a. very competent young man, which affords sufficient money facilities for the business of the town. The leading merchants and business men of the place are S. A. McMillan, J. J. Bethea, D. M. Dew and John L. Dew, and recently a large wholesale and retail supply 'Store has been launched by E. B. Berry and Lonzo Smith, which seems to be doing a large business and promises much in the future ; and last, but not least, is W. W. George, a regular hustler, who has done more in the way of building than any one else, apparently with but little money, and carries on a large mercantile business all the time. Such an one deserves more than a passing notice. To enumerate : He first built the large and commodious store building now occupied by S. A. McMil-

Ian ; a large ten'-room dwelling, now occupied by J. W. Smith ; next a store house on the corner next the railroad, afterward occupied by Young & Bass ; next the Farley store, a large twostory building; next a two-story building storehouse, in the branch (formerly) near the livery stables; next a fine and pretentious two-story dwelling, in Northeast Latta, in which he now lives ; next a large tobacco warehouse and pack house, in East Latta; and' last, but not least, a large two-story brick storehouse in East Latta. He has done all this within the last thirteen years - ^began with nothing, and has never seemed to have much money, and in the meantime made a trip to Mexico. He is a prodigy. Latta is a live little railroad town. It has a population of 467, by the census of 1900. It has good surroundings, a good agricultural country, and no reason can now be seen why it should not continue to grow and prosper. It is incorporated.

Dillon was started about the same time, 1888, and under the same or similar influences, about one mile from Little Pee Dee, and about seven miles from the North Carolina State line. The growth and prosperity of Dillon have been somewhat phenomenal, for a railroad town in a sparsely settled country, backed up by only agricultural products. I think Duncan McLaurin was first to settle there, a level-headed, progressive man; he was soon followed by others. The founders of that town had an eye to the future of the place. It is well and sensibly laid out ; the streets are wide and at right angles to and with each other, and in this respect is the Philadelphia of the county. The location was uninviting - it was comparatively in a pond. The writer waded through the site of Dillon, sixty-one years ago, several times in the water from ankle to half-leg deep, along a little winding footpath, leading from about Dothan Church to Stafford's Bridge, on Little Pee Dee. It is now well drained and apparently high and dry. The town presents gentle undulations of hill and dale, and is pleasant to look upon or to travel on. Dillon had a large territory, and the best agricultural section of the county to draw from. Its trade extends over Little Pee Dee to the North Carolina line and into that State. It absorbs the -w^hole Little Rock section and about to the Marlborough line, including the whole of Harlleesville Township, also Carmichaels, Manning and Hillsboro, and down into Reaves Township to the lower end of the Fork. Its territory covers the best portion of the county, and within that territory are many men of large means. When all this is considered, it can be seen why and how Dillon has outstripped Latta, and, I may say, all other towns of the county; she is only thirteen years old. By the census of 1900, she had within the corporate limits of the town 1,015 population, and including her suburbs, which take in the cotton factory people, she 'has at least 1,500. While Latta has a good country around it, it is not near so extensive as that of Dillon, nor are there so many moneyed men in it. Dillon has three churches for whites, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian. The Baptist Church is of brick, large, commodious, and well finished and furnished. She has had for eight or ten years a large cotton seed oil mill which has been very successful ; its stock paying annually twenty-five per cent, or more. Has had for several years a fine and large brick structure as a graded school building, in which is kept from year to year a first class school, under the supervision of a first class man as Superintendent, with a corps of able teachers. There is also a $150,000 cotton factory, built by local capital, and is now running successfully, and in a few years more its capacity will be doubled by additions. Also, an Electric and Water Power Company, with what capital is unknown. Likewise a bank founded entirely on local capital, of sufficient strength to run the finances of the growing town and its varied business interests. There are also two large and well equipped tobacco warehouses, one of brick, together with pack houses sufficient to handle the staple of the surrounding country, and in the near future will have a stemmery. There are two or three colored churches in the town. All the churches, white and colored, have a minister, and are well attended. The colored people share in the benefits of the graded school. There are shipped from Dillon annually for the last few years from 10,000 to 15,000 bales of cotton, and the shipments are increasing every year, besides large shipments of tobacco. It is said to be the strongest station on the "Short-cut" Road, except, perhaps, Fayetteville, N. C, and it will surpass Fayetteville in a few years more. It will be remembered that Fayetteville is over

IOC years old, and for fifty years or more of the nineteenth century Fayetteville had a monopoly of trade for many miles around, extending down into South Carolina. As another evidence of the growth and prosperity of Dillon, the postoffice there has lately been raised from a fourth class office to a third class, or Presidential office. There are many large two-story brick buildings going up, and ere long the wooden structures will give place to brick ones. The wooden dwellings are well built, present a good appearance, are commodious and comfortable, and but for fires (occasional), would be as safe and convenient as brick dwellings. Everything about Dillon indicates life and a spirit of progress. She is looking forward to become the county seat of a new county, of which she is deserving, in the event a new county is ever or in the near future established. Dillon, if she continues to grow and progress, is destined to become a city of no mean proportions. May it be realized. Don't know how many mercantile establishments there are in Dillon. Some of the leading merchants of the town are J. W. Dillon & Son, Dr. J. F. Bethea & Co., J. H. David & Bro., A. J. C. Cottingham, T. S. Richburg, E. L. Moore & Co., Huger & Co., supply store, wholesale and retail, J. C. Dunbar, J. H. Hursey, I. I. Foss and others not known. Corps of cotton buyers and corps of tobacco buyers every season.

Little Rock, four miles above, as before stated, has been absorbed by Dillon. It never was much more than a cross-roads hamlet, though there were three or four business houses there. It was incorporated some years ago, as I understood at the time, mainly for the purpose of heading off the illicit liquor traffic, which it did pretty effectually. It is in a sober, quiet community, and there are three churches there, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian.

Hamer and Sellers. - Hamer and Sellers are stations on the Florence Railroad. The first was named for R. P. Hamer, Jr., who resides there and owns the adjacent lands. It is on the east side of Little Pee Dee, in.Carmichael Township, in the midst of a thriving section of the county, and large shipments of cotton and other farm products are sent from that point, and much guano is shipped to the station for the surrounding farm- ers. There is one store and a ginnery, both operated by R. P. Hamer, Jr., who is one of the most extensive farmers in the courtty. A few years ago, be was planting 900 acres in cotton. Sellers was named for John C. Sellers, who lives there, and operates the adjoining lands as a farm. It also is in the midst of a prosperous and progressive section of the county. There are three stores, operated by J. K. Page, J. D. Haselden and E. J. Garrison - the last an industrious colored man, who is prospering. Many of the lots in the town are owned by colored people, who form a large part of the population. This is an important shipping point.

All denominations are tolerated here; there are, however, only four denominations now obtaining in the county, to wit : the Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian and Episcopal - their numerical strength are as in the above named order. The Methodist are the most numerous, and the Episcipalians are but few, only one church of that denomination in the county, the Church of the Advent, located at Marion, and that is weak. The oldest church in the county is the "Old Neck" Methodist Church, twenty-three miles below Marion, built in 1735, 'by the first settlers in that region, as an Episcopal Church, or the Church of England. It has already been mentioned herein. It was used as an Episcopal Church until some time after the Revolutionary War, when by some arrangement agreed uj>on, it was used by both the Episcopalians and Methodists together^ and after a while it fell into the hands of the Methodists as sole owners, who have rebuilt it and used it ever since. About the same time, 1735, the settlers at Sandy Bluff, on the Great Pee Dee, just above where the railroad crosses that river, built another Episcopal Church, of which Wm. Turbeville was the minister, as hereinbefore stated. No vestige of that church remains. According to the best information (traditional) the writer has been able to obtain, the next church built in the county was the Tyrrel's Bay Baptist Church, I think, about 1750 to 1760; by whom or what particular persons, I have not been able to learn. I suppose the Rev. Daniel Snipes, the father of Captain Joe Snipes, who settled in that neighborhood.

was one of its founders, and, perhaps, was its first pastor. This is only a conjecture. That church still subsists and is prominent among the churches of that denomination to this day. Not long after Tyrrel's Bay was established, the Gapway Baptist Church was built; don't know by whom. Tyrrel's Bay and Gapway are, no doubt, the tVvo oldest churches in the county, except the "Old Neck" Methodist Church, as hereinbefore stated. It will be remembered that at the time of the erection of Tyrrel's Bay and Gapway Baptist Churches, there was not a Methodist Church in America. There were no Methodist Churches in American until Bishop Asbury came here, in 1771, and none in South Carolina until after the Revolution, when Bishop Asbury (not a Bishop then) first visited the State, in 1783 or 1784. The first South Carolina Conference was held in Charleston, in 1785.

Bishop Asbury came from England to America in 1771, landed in New York, and from that time till the Revolution traveled only in the Eastern and Middle States, perhaps as low down as Baltimore. When the Revolution broke out, Asbury, fresh from England, was opposed to the Revolution, and he had to lie low, and, I think, part of the time in the latter part of the war, had to be in hiding for his personal safety. After the Revolution he extended his travels and came to South Carolina and to Georgia, and founded churches and schools wherever there was an opening, and continued to come through here as long as he lived. He died in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1816, on his way to a General Conference in Baltimore. I have not the "Life of Asbury" nor his journals before me, but have read them, and I make this statement from memory, and which, I think, is in the main correct. The first Methodist Church built in Marion County, according to tradition, was "Flowers Meeting House," already herein mentioned among the Flowers family; built of logs, as I suppose, on one of Asbury's trips through the country on his way to Charleston, after the Revolutionary War. About the same time another Methodist Church was founded by Asbury, just above Little Rock, about half mile on the Rockingham Road. When Herod Stackhouse died, in 1846, a class leader and steward of the then Little Rock Church (Liberty Chapel), the writer was informed that the class leadership of that church, Liberty Chapel, had been in the Stackhouse family for sixty years - which would throw it back to 1786. This was stated in his obituary, which was written by the writer hereof. I suppose. Flower's Church and Liberty Chapel at that time, 1786, were the only Methodist Churches in the county.

Another church of olden time was the "Saw Mill" Baptist Church, located on the east side of what is now called Gaddy's Mill ; don't know when it was built, but it was an old, rickety, dilapidated building in 1831 or '2. The writer attended an association there in one of those years, and there and then first saw Rsv. Joel Allen and his brother, Thompson Allen, who yet survives, eighty-eight years old, and lives in the Brownsville community, in Marlborough. Thompson was the older, and then about grown; Joel, the younger, was a large lad. I remember how they were dressed' - ^they each had on a well-made suit of grey jeans, tinged with red. No young man there on that occasion was better dressed than they were ; their mother spun and wove the jeans. Our mothers, in that day, spun and wove and made all the clothing for her family, and the most of the mothers prided themselves and vied with each other' as to who should make the nicest cloth, and especially jeans for dress or Sunday wear. This old church soon decayed, and was afterwards replaced by the present Baptist Church, "Piney Grove," located on the south side of Bear Swamp, near where Captain R. H. Rogers now lives. It was at that association that the writer saw old man "Zaw Ford,'' vyho lived near by, and owned the mills there located. Old man "Zaw Ford" was the grand-father of the late Elias B. Ford, and, I suppose, was the son or grand-son of the James Ford mentioned by Dr. Ramsay, in his History of South Carolina (page 302), as dying about 1804, at the age of one hunderd years. The Ford family in the county is very ancient - I suppose, coeval with. its first settlement. Bear Swamp Church (Baptist) is an old church, but cannot say when nor by whom it was founded. The Catfish Baptist Church is also an old' church, founded, I think, about 1802, by old man Henry Berry, uncle of Cross Roads Henry.

the Scotch and their descendants in the county. Their ancestors came here in the long past, and brought with them the ideas, doctrines and procHvities of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Sixty-five and seventy-five years ago, they had a church, then old and dilapidated', just across the Little Pee Dee, at Campbell's Bridge, which, I think, was then the only Presbyterian Church in what is now called Carmichael Township. The old Carmichaels, Campbells and Mclntyres were the chief m^en and worshipped there. Since that time other and more commodious church buildings have been located and constructed in the Scotch settlement iand in other portions of the county, to wit: Pee Dee, Kintyre, Dumbarton, Little Rock, Reedy Creek, Carolina, Matrion, MuUins, Latta and Dillon - each with its minister. The Presbyterians have no church in the county below Marion Court House and the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Though the Presbyterians are not very numerous in the county, yet their membership is quite respectable, and include many of our best people.

As already stated, there were no Methodists or Methodist Churches in the county till after the Revolution. Bishop Asbury and Whatcoat planted the seeds of Methodism in the county - ^the seeds germinated, sprang up and grew rapidly, and as a church we are having the harvest. Methodist Churches now dot the whole county - there is scarcely a neighborhood in which there is not a Methodist Church. Not saying anything of its doctrines as contradistinguished from other denominations, the writer attributes its success to their Church polity, mainly its itinerancy. The Methodist Church is an aggressive Church - more so than any other denomination among us. It goes, as it were, into the highways and byways, everywhere carrying the gospel to all people, the high and the low, the rich and poor alike. Another cause of its success is the rotation of its ministers. Formerly two years was the limit of a preacher's pastorate of the same church - it has been latterly extended to four years, though they may be moved short of that period, and is very often the case. If a preacher is unacceptable, he is soon sent somewhere else, where he may be more acceptable, and consequently more successful. If a preacher is strong and acceptable at any particular church or circuit, it matters not how much so, he cannot remain on any particular work more than four years - he is sent to some other work, that others may share somewhat in the benefits of his ministry, and thus do as much good as possible to others, to as many as possible, to extend his useful influence to the greater number. Another cardinal characteristic of the Methodist Church (though not written) is that the preacher goes, without question, to wherever he is sent, and the membership accepts whoever is sent to them. If a mistake is made in this, it is soon remedied by their rotatory system.

The Baptist, in the county, are strong, and though not so numerous as the Methodist, yet they are respectable in numbers ; their churches are to be found in every section of the county. Their church polity is not so cumbrous as that of the Methodist - ^they are more democratic. Every Baptist Church is independent of any other. There is no app wn its decisions to a higher tribunal - it is final ; not so w : Methodist and Presbyterian. They each have their higher courts. The Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians are liberal to each other, sometimes exchange pulpits, and sometimes hold union services, and manifest a true Christian spirit, though each holds to its distinctive views and doctrines. I will say, however, that the Constitution of the United States was a death-blow to a State denomination. The country is wide enough for all, and enough for all to do in their respective spheres, in restraining men from sin and in promoting the glory of God.

Bai-field Moody, from November, 1859, to his death, 7th April, i860; when Asa Godbold, as Ordinary, by operation of law, became Clerk, until June, i860; when T. C. Moody was

William Sayle, commissioned' in England, 26th July, 1669; Joseph West, 28th August, 1671 ; Sir John Yeamans, 26th December, 1671 ; Joseph West (second time), 13th August, 1674; Joseph Morton, 26th September, 1682; Joseph West (third time), 6th September, 1684; Sir Richard Kirle (time unknown) ; Colonel Robert Quarry (time unknown) ; Joseph Morton (second time), 1685. James Colleton, 1686; Seth Sothel, 1690; Philip Ludwell, 1692; Thomas Smith, 1693; Joseph Blake, 1694; John Archdale, 1695; Joseph Blake (sec-

In 1719, there was a bloodless revolution, by which the government was changed from Proprietary to Regal government. Pending which, Robert Johnson was deposed and James Moore was elected by a convention of the people as Governor, and for a year or more was recognized as such. The Royal Governors were as follows : Sir Francis Nicholson, from 1721 to 1725 ; Arthur Middleton, 1725 to 1730; Robert Johnson, 1730 to 1735 ; Thomas Broughton, 1735 to 1737; William Bull, 1737 to 1743; James Glen, 1743 to 1756; William Henry I^ittleton, 1756 to 1760 ; William Bull, 1760 to 1761 ; Thomas Boone, 1762 to 1763; William Bull, 1763 to 1766; Lord Charles Gevillo Montague, 1766 to 1769; William Bull, 1769 to 1775; I^ord William Campbell, from June, 1775 to September, 1775.

Collins, Joel B. Killed on Darbytown Road, July, 1864. Collin's, Shadrach. Disdharged January 26, 1863. Living. Collins, Richard. Died in Union Prison at Elmira, February, 1865.

Gasque, William B. R. Wounded ten times - The Crater, by shell; Davis' farm, six times in succession; Sharpsburg, skull fractured; Virginia, in left leg; Virginia by shell - disabled. Living.

Braddy, Robt., Lieutenant, Marion. Resigned June i, 1862. ^ Tolar, John H., Second Lieutenant, Marion; Promoted from Sergeant, July, '62. Killed at Plank Road, April, 1864.

Davis, William, Marion. Died in camp, 1862. Dew, John A., Marion. Died since war. Dunsford, Asa, Marion. Transferred, 1862. Davis, Arthur, Marion. Killed at Ox Hill, 1862. Emanuel, Frank, Marion. Transferred, 1862. Evans, Nelson, Marion. Killed at Horse Shoe, May, 1864. Evans, Solon, Marion. Wounded at Petersburg, April, 1865. Finklea, William, Marion. Died since war. Finklea, Hardy, Marion. Finklea, Alfred, Marion. " Finklea, Hugh. Died at home, 1862. Fladger, Hugh, Marion. Died in Virginia, 1862. Graner, John, Marion. Killed at Horse Shoe, May, 1864. Graves, George, Marion. Killed on train. Grice, George, Marion. Discharged by Medical Board, 1862. Gaines, Jdhn, Marion. Transferred, 1862. Gilbert, William, Marion. Killed at Turnpike, April, 1864. Goff, James, Marion. Killed at Horse Shoe, May, 1864. Goff, Henry, Marion. Gray, J., Marion.

Home, William, Marion. Killed near Richmond, July, 1864. Hodge, Charles, Marion. Died in hospital, 1863. Hazleton, Hugh, Marion. Died since war. James, Robert, Marion. Killed at Gaines Mill. Jones, Wesley, Marion. Died at Danville, 1862. Jones, Evandier, Marion.

Shooter, Washington P., Captain, August, 1861. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, April or May, '64. Killed May 12, '64. Graduate of Charleston Citadel.

Norton, James, August i, 1861. Promoted Ck>rporal, September, 1864. Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va. Badly wounded 16 August, 1864. Imprisoned at Point Lookout near close of war, and remained there till July, 1865. Living.

Norton, John W., Sharpshooter, August i, 1861. Served five years in Sec»nd Cavalry U. S. Army. Transferred i860, joined C. S. A. ; captured 1865. Prisoner.

McPherson, C. Ervin, Second Lieutenant. Promoted from Third Sergeant to Second Junior Lieutenant, for gallantry at Beans Station, East Tennessee. Dead.

Williams, Henry, Marion. Killed at Manassas, 1861. Williams, Tihomas, Marion. Died at Bull Run, 1861. Williams, R. L., Marion. Died at Bull Run, 1861. Williams, S. B., Marion. Discharged, under age. Weatherford, W. S., Marion. Discharged, 1861. Weatherford, Ben, Marion.

Lofton, John H., Corporal. Killed at Richmond, 1864. Mclnnis, Murdock, Corporal. Wounded Fredericksburg, 1862. Died of wound's at hospital, January 13, 1862. Brigman, Arthur P., Corporal. Exchanged.

Benjamin, S. Mustered out, under age. Brown, G. R. W. Wounded at Murfreesboro. Lost a leg. Brown, R. M. Died at hospital. Brown, J. L. Died at hospital. Brown, L. Died' at hospital. Brown, W.

Brogsdfen^ E. Discharged. Collins, A. J. Died at hospital. Collins, J. D. Die-d at hospital. Collins, R. Wounded Chickamauga. Collins, S. Wounded) Missionary Ridge. Collins, J. G. Died at hospital. Campbell", G. F. Died at hospital. Carmichael, J. L,. Died at Franklin, of wounds. Cameron, D. C. Mustered out, under age. Coleman, Jessee. Croker, H. Died at hospital. Clark, H. S. Discharged, Prussian subject. Deaver, A., Marion. Wounded Murfreesboro. Lost a leg. Flowers, B. A. Wounded Resaca. Died of wounds at Murfreesboro.

Stackhouse, E. Thomas, Captain, Marion. Wounded at Sharpsburg, Gettsyburg, Deep Bottom. Transferred from Co. I. Promoted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. Dead.

Caimichael, William D., Captain, Marion. Wounded at Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, Petersburg. Promoted Captain at Gettysburg. Surrendered at Greensboro. Living.

The following appear as supplementary, by G. G. Crawford, from memory : Calder, Joel. Carter, Henry. Carter, Joe. Fladger, James. Hayes, Joe. Dead. Hamer, R. P. Living. Horton, Nicholas. Living. Hunt, Cornelius. Living. Kitchen, Eli. Owens, Willis. Price, H. G. Power, Malcolm. Power, J. H. Rodgers, Henry- Dead. Smith, H. L.

John Roberts, Captain, Marion. Wounded at 2d battle of Manassas, Va. In recognition was elected Lieutenant ColoneL Died of wounds at Marion.

W. Warren Hamilton, Captain, Marion. Wounded at 2d battle of Manassas. . Captured at Five Forks, Va., and surrendered at John's Island. Promoted to Captain from Third Lieutenant, and from First Sergeant to Third Lieutenant. Living.

Gibson, James H., Marion. Transferred from Hampton Legion, May 26, 1864. Wounded Petersburg, Va., and dis^ charged. Surrendered Five Forks, Va. Dead.

Ammons, A. R. Discharged 1862. Altman, W. T. Wounded Murfreesboro. Avant, A. Died in hospital. Baxley, B. Died in hospital. Baxley, W. Wounded Chickamauga.

Owens, E. Died at hospital. Owens, S. Died at hospital. Porte, Jehu. Died at hospital. Porte, L,. Died at hospital. Rogers, J. L. Died at hospital. Rogers, C. C. Sanders, J. Shelley, J. G.

Shaw, E. Died at hospital. Stephens, J. W. Died at hospital. Tart, C. Died at hospital. Thomas, S. Killed Chickamauga. Thomas, E. Died at hospital. Thomas, H. Died at hospital. Turner, J. Died at hospital. Turbeville, F. Died at hospital. Turbeville, P. Died at hospital. Turbeville, W. Ward, W. Died at hospital. Woodad, L. Killed Murfreesboro. Wright, G. W.

Roll of Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment Infantry, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army, from Marion County :

Moore, G. W. Wounded Drewry's Bluff. A soldier of Mexican War. Was severely wounded, furloughed home, and killed at Little Rock by parties unknown.

Roll of Company C, Twenty-sixth Regiment Infantry, South Carolina Volunteers, in th*: Confederate States Provisional Army, from Marion County :

Andrews, D. J. Died of wounds at Resaca. Barnes, B. J. Died of wounds in Atlanta. Bostick, J. H. Died in Kentucky. Bragdon, J. B. Wounded at Chickamauga. Cooper, Levi. Mustered out, over age. Cooper, Simon. Caulcutt, James. Cain, E. E. Died in Georgia. Cain, William'.

Roll of Company D, 7th Battalion, South Carolina Reserves, Major J. M. Ward, of Timmonsville, commanding; attached to the brigade commanded by Brigadiar General Albert Z. Blanchard, of New Orleans, I;a. :

Besides, there was a company of Citadel Cadets, commanded by Maj. J. B. White, in which company there were three from Marion District: R. K. Clark (dead), John C. Sellers and James A. Ferrell.

Just before completing the foregoing, the author was stricken with a fatal malady, cancer on the face, and after a lingering illness of several months which he bore with uncomplaining fortitude, he died on Good Friday, the 28th day of March, 1902, being 84 years and one day old, and was buried Easter Sunday in the Dothan Church Cemetery by the side of his wife, who had preceded him to the grave nine years. At the time of his death he was perhaps the oldest active Mason in the county, having joined that order in early life. At different times he had served as Worshipful Master of Mackey Lodge No. Tj, of Little Rock, now the Dillon Lodge, of Clinton Lodge No. 60, at Marion, and of Dalcho Lodge No. 160, at Latta, and at the time of his death was an honorary member of Dalcho Lodge. These three lodges, with members from every lodge in the county, paid the last tribute of respect to their venerable Past Master, according to the beautiful and impressive ritual of the order of Ancient Free Masons. A large concourse of people from nearly every section of the county was present, and the commodious church could only seat a part of the crowd present. The church services were conducted by the Rev. Dove Tiller and Rev. C. C. Herbert, of the Methodist Church, of which church the author had been a member nearly seventy years. At the conclusion of the church services, Maj. J. Monroe Johnson, Past Master of Clinton Lodge No. 60, was introduced and paid an eloquent tribute to the character and worth of his departed brother and lifelong friend. He spoke of him as a Mason, a lawyer and as a man, and dwelt particularly upon these marked characteristics of the deceased :

A Masonic procession was then formed and the body carried to the nearby cemetery, where it was buried in accordance with the beautiful ceremonies of Freemasonry.