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Mrs. Haves, Keenan Avenue, leadingup to the house is a part of the old Union race track.The Methodist parsonage on Soutnstreet was spoken of as “(list's Folly’*. Gov. (list was a steward of the church r and a member of the building: committee, and insisted upon using only two bricks’ thickness, and others thought that made the walls too thin to keep out the dampness.Occupying the greater portion of the square where Nicholson Bank and Trust Company now stands, was th* home of Col. John L, Young, once Judge of Prolate, and the father of our townsman, the Hon, Macbeth Young. I have been told that were he alive be could give a great deal of information about old Union and the people of Unton, A lady told me that Col. Young showed her a window —a very small window in the gain-* end of a house, out of which a young lady climbed and slid down the roof and rail away and got married! Name and location omitted).So we see that cupid was at his pranks then as now. It is to be hoped that the swain proved his appreciation of the young lady's steeple-jack” feat.The large hiiek building on Moun-was the residence of Mrs. Joiner, formerly Mrs. Hix, the mother of Dr,d ft.;, machine a hop.It was in this shop that the negro(Fixton Joiner) who was lynched in th * big gully, plied his trade—hav-n ■ been a slave owned by Mrs. Joiner.I’he Gages were large property v ncrs in Unionville, the progenitor f the family coming from Ireland, Dlt;ods are on record showing that h nes Gage owned land here in 17‘JP, u 1 John Toch deeded a tract of land ' in John Gage in 1X02. This was near| ih 1 stream now called Toch’s Branch.u 1 which was probably so namedfro mthe Toseh family. Shoaly Greek u I Tosch’s branch are d liferent names fo the same stream. Mills speaks of SI oaly creek and in one of the platssh iwing Bill Dogan’s Land on Tosehtil • stream at the end of the street is 40 called. Mr. Christopher lt;\ Gagej frilled Kit Gage} inherited most ofth s land which extended from Judg-| n nt street at the court house to the ; Mineral spring (sometimes spoken of ts Leake’s spring) including what is , if* v known as (Sage’s Grove, up Gage neiuie to South street, beyond the*' First Presbyterian church southward o the Excelsior mills.Johnson.An old deed dated 17X5 records land told by Thomas fay lor to David Johnson, and there is a plat dated INI7 showing 402 acres owned by Da vid Johnson. The description Accompanying the plat says (hat the land is in Union village, at the head of Tosoh's ►ranch, adjoining land owned by John
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Union Times
Union, South Carolina, US
Thu, Nov 01, 1917
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