Abbeville cradle of secession and civic memories
Abbeville is hailed as the cradle of secession with long lists of notable natives and their contributions. The piece recounts Georgia, South Carolina, and national figures tied to Abbeville, the history of post offices, editors, governors, and military leaders, and recalls the 1860 Secession meeting and Secession Hill memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McDuffie
Georgia
Abbeville County
Abbeville
Congress
United States Senate
South Carolina
Frank B. Gary
Patrick Noble
John Gary Evans
Armistead Burt
D. Wyatt Aiken
Cothran
A. C. Latimer
Wyatt Aiken
House
Senate
District of Columbia
Langdon Cheves
William Lowndes
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
United States Bank
Charleston
J. C. Hemphill
Winnsboro
Wm. H. Wilson
Florida
North Carolina
John T. Darlington
Due West
Kernersville
N. C
James H. Giles
Newberry
Columbia
Edgefield
W. P. Calhoun
D. B. Johnson
J. W. Thomson
Winthrop College
Clemson Abbeville
Mark E. Bradley
D. H. Henry
Gus Miller
Americus
Edgefield Military Institute
T. J. Lyon
Washington, D. C
James M. Baker
J. Lthens Johnston
W. O. Bradley
J. J. Darlington
W. L. Kirby
New Orleans
Robert McCaw Perrin
Anderson
John K. Hood
J. F. Lee
R. E. Hill, Jr
James L. Petigra
Stephen D. Lee
Thomas C. Perrin
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
John G. Edwards
Thos, P. Cothran
Southern System
J. W. Perrin
Wilmington
Atlantic Coast Line
D. W. Morrah
Atlanta
Seaboard Air Line
J. F. Livingston
S.C
Robert G. Hemphill
Canon City
Colorado
Willie T. Mclwain
J. H. Onlla
Arthur Morrow
J. M. Giles
George Shillito
George
Gambrell
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Thomas W. Coogier
Express Company
G. Henry Moore
Macon
Thomas J. Sysan
Southern Railway
J. J. Wardlaw
J.8
T. C. Perrin
J. A. Calhoun
A. J. Lythgoe
A. Burt
BR. H. Wardlaw
J. H. Wilson
Wm. Hill
J. C. Calhoun
Secession Hill
Pautharn Bichta
Abbeville's Sacred Ground and Mill Driven Prosperity
Abbeville counties growth spurred by the railroad and a cotton mill, with $200,000 annual distribution cited. The piece extols healthful climate, rich soils, and the tying of town prosperity to cotton farming, mills, and new settlers while venerating local historic sites linked to the Confederacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardlaw
B. W. Barnwell
R. M. Sanders
J. P. Phillips
Abbeville
Aix- Chamberlain
L. W. White
Eugene B. Gary
J. N. King
A. B
Toot
Istid
Abbeville Church 1909 Accounts Total by Category
Abbeville Methodist Church records show 1909 expenditures and allocations for pastorates Rev. Henry Stoken and Rev. J. Roper, including foreign and domestic missions, church extensions, education at Walford College, publishing minutes, General Conference delegation, orphan support, Sunday school and missionary society contributions, Sunday school literature, organist, church music, contingents, insurance, lay movements, ladies societies, special services, repairs to church and parsonage, with totals and notes on inactive members and average attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Stoken
Roper
Bishops Conference
Foreign Missions
Walford College
General Conference
Epworth Orphana
Ladies Missionary Society
Missions Young Peoples Society
Ladies Working Society
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Mr. Wilson
United Effort
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Secession
Fannie Marshall
H. G. Pinckney
Magnolias
Slion Hill Sacred Ground
Fort Pickers
Charles Henry Allen
James Clark Allen
Moultrie House
Sullivan's Island
Little Mountain
Lowniesville
Pura
Blue Ridge
Mr. Davis
Gen. Breckenridge
Benjamin
Mallory
Reagan
Lawton
Bart
Davis
Vaughen
Dukes
United States
Oakes
Vaughan
Bragg
Burt
Lindsay
Abbeyille
Hodges
Savannah River
Ada
Vetch
Uuimern
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