Edgefield’s Storied Role In State History
Edgefield County’s history is tied to South Carolina’s formation, with Edgefield founding families, Revolutionary War service, and later political shifts led by figures like M. C. Butler and Ben Tillman. The article traces Edgefield’s early settlement, county creation from Ninety Six District, notable residents in military and state leadership, and religious figures shaping the region as a logistics hub near the Georgia Florida Railroad. It notes Edgefield’s evolution into three towns and hints at a new era with growth in Edgefield Johnston and Trenton.
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Edgefield
Edgefield County
South Carolina
Kate Butler
Florida
Virginia
Scotland
Arthur Simpkins
Drury Mims
Col
Cedar Fields
Nathaniel Abney
Tain
Williem
William Abney
LeRoy Hammond
Thomas Harvey
Une Middleton
Purvis
Ryan
England
James Butler
Cunmingham
Cloud's Creek
William Martin
Augusta
John
Bartley
James Edmund
Matthey
Marshall
Pine House
Trenton
Bettis Bouknight
George Washington
Charleston
Edmund Bacon
General Washington
Richmond Academy
Ned Brace
Augustus Longstreet
Georgia
Toombstone
Edgefield Village
Longstreet
John E. Bacon
United States
Brazil
James T. Bacon
South—Carolina
Thomas Brandon
Levy Kesey
Casey
Philemon Waters
Andrew Pickens
Simon Berwick
Newberry
Abbeville
Aiken
Saluda
Greenwood
McCormick
Savannah River
John Simpkins
Beaver Dam
Atoer Landram
Cherubusco
Francis B. Simpkins
Farmville
Samuel McGowan ‘Simpkins
Sarah Lewis Simpkins
T. Graydon
Columbia
Nott Simpkins
Butler
Brooks
Abney
William Butler
Pierce M. Butler
Whitfield-Butler—Brooks
Congress
M. C. Butler
Miledge L. Bonham
Frances W. Pickens
Edgewood
Russia
Milledge L. Bonham
Bonham
Manassas
Preston
Palmetto Regiment
Mexico
R. G. Mc Dunavant
Pickens
Beauregard
Lientaren
James Longstreet
Genneral Lee
Barr
Old Dent Place
Bairrefield
A Dent
William Longstreet
Austasia
St. Paul's Church Yard
Dent
Julia Dent Grant
U.S. Grant
Chicago
Julia
Hampton
Ben” Tillman
James Tillman
Orlando Sheppard
William H. Wallace
House of Representatives
John C. Sheppard
Helen Wallace
Martin W. Gary
John R. Abney
Mr. Sheppard
Wade Hampton
Farmers’ Movement
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Ben Tillman
Martin Gary
Tillman
Joseph H. Earle
Hugh Thompson
Sheppard
United States Senate
Soldiers of the Cross
Old Edgefield
Richard Gantt
James Parsons Carell
Hugh F. Wardlaw
William T. Gary
John F. Grimke
Ephraim Ramsey
Arthur Simkins
J. W. DeVore
J. McGowan Simpkins
J. William Thurmond
William Lownds Yaney
Benjamin Yancey
Carolina Byrd
Samuel Worthington
Furman
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Southern Railway
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