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HISTORIC PINCKNEY
(Continued from Page 1, Part III)
a magistrate at Pinckneyville. He
and J. F. Walker were brothers-inlaw,
having married the daughters of
William Reid. J. F. Walker was the
grandfather and William Reid the
great-grandfather of the present writer,
and her 'brother, William Reid
Walker. Robert Black was another
merchant of the village.
The Taylor hourse was occupied by
Congressman Joseph Gist before he
built his home a mile from the village.
The latter place was afterwards
the home of the late J. C. Farrar.
William F. Gist was a merchant in
I*inckneyville in 1805 and in 1821 was
ne of the justices of the Quorum for
Union District. Districts have been
called counties since 1808. Isaac Going
was one of the justices of the
Quorum in 1828. Judge William
Smith lived for a time at Pinckneyville
and afterwards moved to Alabama.
An old letter states that
Judge Grinks held court at Pinckneyville
in 1796. It is said Judge Abraham
Nott presided over the last court
at Pinckneyville.
At one time Thomas E. Suggs, the
thp rlni'k" vnn/lnr ltt'iwl in llm 'rof.lrt?
house. Ho came from Wuterbury,
Conn. His clocks had wooden wheels
and works, were considered Rood timepieces,
could be placed on the mantel,
and were made at the Waterbury
Clock Factory at Bullock's Creek. In
after years, Sujrjrs moved to Alabama.
It may not be amiss to mention that
Seth Thomas, of Plymouth, Litchfield
county, Connecticutt. owned six acres
of lots in Pinckneyville and sold them
to James Fowler Walker in 1X47, who
afterwards sold them to Dr. W. II.
Sims. Dr. Sims owned and lived in
the Taylor house for eipht or ten
years. He sold it to the late B. F.
Foster, who lived there before moving
to Union, and whose sons, as before
mentioned, now owns the site of
Pinckneyville.
The Taylor house is in ruins. It
was a two-story wooden buildinp and
was put together with wooden pegs.
Part of what was a boarding house
Hf " -mi
GRAVE OF THOS. C. TAYLOR,
PINCKNEY, S. C.
has been moved across the street and
is used as a barn. The only landmarks
left of this almost deserted villapre are
two brick buildings?the old jail and
the store?the latter said to have been
built by Daniel McMahan. Rntb thn?r?
have been fitted up for tenant houses
and are occupied by Darneille McMa'
han and family?descendants of the
MeMahan negroes. The jail is rather
interesting. The brick wall of the
room is eighteen inches thick and the
size of the room is fourteen feet by
. twenty. It is plastered inside and
has two windows and two doors. The
shutters and doors are double planked
and thick with nails well clinched.
There is a chimney at one end of the
room, and the two spaces between the
fireplace and the walls were planked
op and used as dungeons. These two
dark cells would he small closets if
they had doors. They measure two
feet by four feet. It is said the criminals
were lowered from the top.
Mills says Broad river was navigable
to the Ninety-nine Islands for
boats carry sixty bales of cotton?
that the obstruction at Lockhart
Shoals was overcome by a canal with
seven locks executed by the State
Benjamin F. Ix>gan and John McEntin ,
owned a cotton house in Pincknevville
ia 1828.
Stage coaches took the place of 1
trams in tnose nays, and ran rain or
shine. They drove four horses to the
coach and changed horses every ten
miles. They carried the mail as well
as passengers and their luggage. The
driver would blow one long, distinct
blast on the York side approaching 1
Pinckney Ferry as a warning, and after
that a short blast for each pas- i
senger, so the innkeeper at Pinckney
would know how many guests to ex- <
pect. It is said on good authority i
that the chickens became so accustomed
to being chased immediately after
the stage horn's daily blast that
they would run for their lives when
they heard it. <
It is sad to think of the changes ,
that have befallen Pinckney since
those good old days. After the courthouse
was moved to Union and the '
tide of travel changed when railroads <
took the place of stage coaches 1
through the county, Pinckney went 1
into a decline from which it never re- 1
covered. From a once thriving vil- <
lage it is left to a lonely fate. '<
"So sleeps the pride of former days, s
so glory's thrill is o'er; i
And hearts that once beat high for 1
praise j
Now feel that pulse no more." <
HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
SECESSION QUILT
This quilt was desipned and made
in 1860 by Mrs. Philip Drury Cook of
Fairfield County, S. C. Mrs. Cook
was the grandmother of Mrs. John
W. Cunningham and Mrs. Jesse Hix,
both of Union county. Her maiden
name was Jemima Ann Threwitts
Williamson. She was born in Virginia,
but in early youth came with
her parents to Fairfield County. S. C.,
and was there married to Philips
Drury Cook, who in the 60's was Gen.
Cook of the Coast Artillery of the
S. S. A. Mrs. Cook was the mother
of four children?one son and three
daughters. The son, Capt. John
Warinp Cook of the United States
army, was killed in the Mexican war,
Of the daughters, the younpest died
at the ape of nineteen. The oldest
married Walter Blount Williamson,
the second married Col. Wm. Alston,
both of Fairfield county.
While Gen. Cook was in service or
the coast, Mrs. Cook carried on the
plantation work with the help of ar
overseer. She spent the year 18CC
in desipninp and makinp this historical
secession quilt, which was piver
her oldest ??rnnddnnchter whn is nn?
Mrs. John W. Cunningham of Unior
county. Later on she made a quill
of very beautiful floral design, which
she pave to her second granddaughter,
Mrs. Jesse Hix, of Union, bul
when Sherman's men burned the Alston
home in Fairfield they cut up this
quilt and used it for saddle blankets
Mrs. Jesse Hix, who lived with hei
grandmother when a very little girl
says she remembers that her grand
mother put the quilt into the frame
then rolled a big table under it am
so sketched the entire design, and she
remembers what a long, long time
"Grandmother was making on it anc
how often the big frame had to be
pushed to one side to make way foi
some other work."
The quilt is three yards square, anc
is made of fine white camhric, with t
very thin wadding and quilted in tin>
stitches to form the outlines. Ther
cotton picked from the seed by hane
and bleached to snowy whiteness anc
carded by hand was shuffled with i
bodkin through the sheer thin lininp
to raise the figures. This gives it i
beautiful appearance and makes il
really a work of art.
The design is historical and orig
inal. The centre represents an eagle
whose outspread wings rest upon the
inverted horns of two cornucopias
from which are falling fruits anc
flowers. From the beak of the eagle
floats a streamer hearing the motto
"E pluribus unum." Upon the bacli
of the eagle stands the Goddess of
Liberty bearing a flag staff in hei
right hand, a sheaf in her left. Back
of the Goddess to the right of the
flag staff and just above the starrji
background is the word "Secession",
beneath which is the date 1860. Or
the left of the Goddess is the name
,Yamey, while the ten letters ir
the name Washington form an arcli
over her head. Beneath this picture
is the name P. D. Cook, the husband
of the designer. In the beautiful border
of flowers and beadinggs that surrounds
this centrepiece four arches
are inserted, each bearing the name
of the four governors belonging tc
the Nullification Period?1830-1837
Above the Goddess is "Butler,'
below "Hamilton," to the right "McDuffie,"
to the left "Hayne." Around
all this is a wide band of grapes and
roses and in each corner two large
cornucopias filled with fruit and flowers.
Midway on each of the four side?
is the State emblem ,the Palmettc
tree and shields, and on each shield
there are two cunning little figures.
On the approach of Sherman's
army this quilt was packed in a box
with other family treasures and buried
deep in the earth. When taken up it
was badly stained and discolored, and
repeated washings were necessary.
This, no doubt, has made the letters
and figures less distinct. It was on
exhibition at the Charleston Exhibi
tion in the Union county exhibit in
1902 as the following clipping from
The News and Courer will prove:
"Union is without a doubt ahead in
historical exhibits; the beautiful hanomade
quilt surpasses anything in design
and workmanship on exhibiton."
Exposition Committee on Awards.
Mrs. Cook also made a dress for
herself out of woolen threads ravelled
from scrapes of black cloth, carded
and recarded by hand with white
home-prown wool and woven on a
hand loom into a beautiful pray cloth.
The trimmed it with rows and rows of
tiny buttons cut out by hand from a
pourd and covered with black silk.
After the close of the war when
the women of Columbia pot up a bazaar
for the benefit of the disabled
Confederate soldiers, Mrs. Cook attended
this bazaar and wore this dress.
It attracted much attention and Mrs.
Cook at once donated it to the bazaar.
It was sold for $50.00 in pold and the
entire amount piven to the fund for
the soldiers.
THE LOVE OF A NEGRO MAMMY.
The dear old mammy of by-pone
lays is a tiling of the past. She who
used to make a courtesy with that
ajrace not well copier?the dear old
<oul with the red bandanna handkcr hief
about her head and such a kindy,
motherly look in her eyes. This
ler eyesusedaC kmfwypmfwypmfw
landanna seemed to pive her an air
)f distinction. She was always patient
ind pentle, rather stout, but just
scorned to glid along, and was a luxiry
never again to be known under
he sun. Such was my mammy, George
\nn Logan, for whom the "Sweet
'hariot has swung low" and carried
her to the mansions in the skies. She
lies buried at Lockhart church, where
a monument was placed over her.
"Her people" she loved better than
' anything else and the children she
; brooded over as a hen over her only
chick. We children were always under
, her tender care and she thought no
i child of any consequence unless
i "mammy raised." Well do I remember,
when small, of being sternly rei
minded if things did not go to suit
, her ideas, and "old Miss" was going
i to be told if it happened again.
, Through all the years of childhood,
f she loved us, tended us, in sickness
and in health.
i And what a consequential air I had
i when mammy said I must now be
i called "young Miss." How she loved
, to see us dressed in pretty things.
I She would have nothing but the best
: and finest, and her own fingers bore
, fluited and crimped ruffles and laces
, to see us shine. That this love was
true and since was shown by an act
i the last year of the war. A few
; years before, she had been made a
i gift of a French mull dress, which
I came in a "pattern" and th;s she
prized so highly, that she would not
i even allow the scissors put into it?it
r was too beautiful to be cut into. She
i kept it in the box, wrapped in tissue
I nnnor in I ho inn ^rnu-nr nf fKn " V* i_
i boy" that stood in one corner of her|
room. "High up", she said, "so the
: little ones could never soil it" for
mammy's room was a beloved place.
5 This dress was a fine texture with
. peach blossoms over it, just as if an
April breeze had scattered petals
, over it. The last year of the war,
- it was very difficult to secure a nice
dress of any description, at least any1
thing like this, and it began to be a
? source of distress that her children
> were not arrayed as she had been see1
ing them. It happened that one of
' the soldier boys came home and there
r was to be a wedding and I was invited.
My mother looked over my
1 wardrobe with me and a dress that
i had been made over twice was at last
r selected for me to wear. Mammy came
l in to see what we were going to do
1 about it. and I displayed the dress.
1 She eyed it for several moments and
i then with a toss of her head, said:
r "The very idea of Mars William's
i daughter gwine to a weddin' in a
t made-over frock ,and twice made-over
at that" and left the room suddenly.
- Soon she was back and in her hands
i held the peach blossom lress. "Here
; honey," it suits you so much better
, dan dis old nipper, you were made to
I wear pretty thinps." I was deeply
: touched by this act, but could not take
, the precious dress. "Very well, hon:
ey," was all she said, but her eyes had
' a look in them that I had seen before
when she was planninp some pleasure
: for us. What did she do but go ses
cretly to the neiphborhood dressmaker
r nearby, and knowing every inch of
, me, the two made the dress a perfect
i fit. I was moved to tears the day I
s went to dress for the wedding, there
i beside the twice made-over dress lay
i a beautiful dress with peach blossoms
' scattered over it.
I To this day I never see a peach
tree in full bloom that tears do not
spring to my eyes, for it so reminds
t me of dear old mammy and the lovely
dress.
> (Told by my mother, .Toannah Smy
ly Payne).
Zena Payne.
Mnrv Ann Rnin riiontor
I Johnston, S. C.
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MASTER'S SALE.
State of South Carolina,
. County of Union.
, Court of Common Pleas.
I The Enterprise Building and Loan
Association, Plaintiff,
. against
John 1). Norris, et al., Defendants.
| In obedience to an order made in
the above stated case, I will sell at
| Union, during the legal hours of sale,
before the Court house door, on Sales;
day, Dec. 4th, 191(5,
i All that certain lot of land containing
one-third of an acre, which
was conveyed to him by L. G. Young
and recorded in the office of Clerk of
Court for Union County and State
aforesaid, in Book P, No. 94, at page
211, and lying and being situate in
the City of Union, County and State
aforesaid, and commonly known as
Lot No. 8 in the subdivision of I,. G.
Young's Dawkins tract as will appear
more fully reference being had
to a plat made by John L. Young in
October, 1896;
Also, all that certain tract of land
i r?:? c-?- * tt_
in inu iiihii ui uiiiuii, uuuniy 01 union
and State aforesaid, known as Ix>t
No. 9 in John L. Young's resurvey
and subdivision of Tract No. 2 of L.
(1. Young's Hawkins place in September
and October, 1890, having the following
metes and bounds?beginning
at stake corner Lots Nos. 9 and 13 on
Jackson Street, thence East 08 links
to corner, thence Southeast 2.70 to
stake, thence South 80 West 1.75 to
stake, thence N .3 E 2.00 with Jackson
Street to the beginning and containing
one-fourth of an acre, more or
less, and bounded on the North by Lot
No. 13, East by Sophia Wright, South
by Lots Nos. 7 and 8, and West by
Jackson Street.
Terms of Sale: One-half cash, balance
on a credit one year from date
of sale with interest thereon at the
rate of eight per cent per annum,
credit portion to he secured by bond
of purchaser and a mortgage of the
premises, purchased to have the option
of paying all cash.
R. C. Williams,
4fi-3 As Master for Union County.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard Nicholson
have returned from their honeymoon
trip spent in Northern cities of interest
and are at home to their ^
friends.
Capital $60,000
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