Edgefield letter recalls social events and Charleston trip
The Johnston community assembles at Turner hall for a cemetery association benefit with a white W C T U booth and a red sweets booth. A spelling bee entertains while locals and visitors recount weddings church events and travels to Charleston for Confederate Home College and a naval visit aboard the Utah and Isle of Palms sightseeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Edgefield
Columbia
A. R. Brooks
Confederate Home College
Charleston
Corcoran
Louise Home
Amy Snowden
Edgefield
White
Johnston
J. D. Holstein
Mamie Tillman
Manolia
Italy
Carolina
Vander-Horst
Hampton Park
Naval Station
Music Hall
St. Michael’s
Vanner-Horst
Isle of Palms
South Battery
Helen
Raven Lewis
Marguerite Villa
Andrew Simonds
Ex-slave clarifies freedom and marriage tale
A traveler questions a former slave in the South about freedom after the war. Uncle Erastus replies that he did not gain freedom but was already married, revealing a nuanced personal view of emancipation and status after emancipation.
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New York Sun
Erastus
Parlor Promise Leads to Ring Change
A hopeful suitor recalls his sister’s reaction to news he was waiting in the parlor. She answered by removing a ring from one finger and placing it on another, signaling a discreet shift in sentiment.
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Albert
Mrs J B Dorn Undergoes Surgical Operation
Mrs J B Dorn mother of W Horace Dorn was rushed to Augusta hospital after a sudden illness last Tuesday. She underwent a surgical operation on Wednesday and is slowly improving per hospital reports. Edgefield friends hope for full recovery as her son visits.
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Turner Hall
Cemetery Association
L. .C Latimer
J. A. Kirby
Hortense Padgett
Edgefield
A. Bre Capers
Mitchel
Gola Ek
Smater Mitchel
W. C. Bailey
Ellenton
J. M. Denny
Clara
Maud Sawyer
Elise Crouch
Messrs
Sheppard Jones
L. S. Maxwell
Columbia
Lonesome Pine
P. N. Lott
Derring
St. Julian Harris
Chas. Early
Florence
Wm. Satcher
Hilliary Grant
Augusta
Geo. White
North Augusta
Rufus Dorn
Meeting Street
Augusta Hospital
Lylie LaGrone
Batesbury
W. A. Cooner
Presbyterian
Ellen Dunovant
Oscar LaBorde
Rhett Nicholson
Pierre LaBorde
W. L. Dunovant, Jr
John C. Barrie
Spartanburg
W. C. Lynch
Lohengrin
Anna LaBorde
Elizabeth
E. C. Bailey
Mendelssohn
W. L. Dunovant
Emily Strother
Miriam Norris
Charlotte Russe
Anna ‘LaBorde
Sophie Carroll
Max
Jean B. LaBorde
A. R. Brooks, Jr
Anna
Linnie LaBorde
A. C. Moore
Harriett Moore
Burst Anderson
LaBorde
Carroll
Miss Dunovant
J. B. Dorn
W. Horace Dorn
Johnston
Dorn
South Carolina Corn Wonder Sparks National Expositions
Jerry H. Moore of Mars Bluff South Carolina set a world corn yield record on one acre with 228 bushels in 1910 and 164.46 bushels the next year. His results drew national attention, helped shape plans for the National Corn Exposition in 1913, and inspired discussion of southern corn potential versus national output. Maryland’s 75 bushel local surge showed what science could achieve, prompting estimates of larger regional yields and expositions to push agricultural progress.
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Jerry H. Moore
Mars Bluff
S. C
South Carolina
Jerry
Columbus
Columbia
D. C
Kentucky
Maryland
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Baltimore
South
Interest Consumes Deposit in Black Town Bank
A Georgia town’s leading Black residents establish a bank and invite Black customers. A man arrives claiming a ten dollar deposit, but the cashier finds no record of funds, and the claim is dismissed as a joke about the bank’s funds being consumed.
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Darkey
Jim Johnson
Chicago Daily Sketch
Busy Clark's Hill Agriculture and Community Update
The article praises oat sowing progress across Edgefield County with farmers adopting two and three horse plows and grain drills. It notes W. H. Ryan's top oats on the hill and recounts E. L. Fouche's river accident and new saw mill. Other items include county corn show success, a $700 jersey pea win by W. M. Rowland, home remodeling, and school improvements.
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W. H. Ryan
E. L. Fouche
Clark’s Hill
Fouche
WTR
Georgia Carolina Power Company
Edgefield County
Augusta
Columbia
W. M. Rowland
Augneta
Edgefield
Columbia Co. Ga
Burke
H.E. Bunch
WR. Legent
Abbeville
Car Hill
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Dunovant-LaBorde Wedding
Confederate, Home College
Mary Strother
Elise Lake
A. D
Strother
Charleston News
Conti
Terra Firna
Iramy Ossen
Middleton
Atlantic Street
Arthur Middleton
Jones
Mary Stuuother
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