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jtmtbarhAiken, South Carolinaicum, SOCIAL AND CHURCH HEWSENQAQEMENTS AND WEDDINGSFEATURES• • •ouhould■■■MiKnow• IIt*A Uwho )flltllMofvear*fireu Ii • i * jfj(Hf1 elnIIv VUian Milner♦i /11 - f i c » in il u ith 1!f|\ IrlSf )||f)«rU will* »ir*s donu much to1 Mis* Hortens# V gefield. who will er of service in the Aiken Of* of Sen Strom Thurmond■r 31, Litcrallv thousands ofVople have consulted gracious, if effacing Miss Hortens# In the senator's offices beneath the Post Office here, during those years. Few guessed the wisdom behind her rmwlest front,gain#*! through her experiencesas an historian, author, news-pa pei woman, church worker, geneologist and organizer.uin cdidate fU S.andI wrv*hdorstnrnvrri **ii ind if I Gov. I thtt]highlyK• ■uld help him. rnes, and he he would en-it he thought qualified.research onhook. Giant published inDr. ,TcthfIr i uJIn Cs offtArK,rr.Mrs. Aclt;)Miss Hortens# first learnedthat Strom Thurmond had switched from the Democratic to the Republican party In her sitting room In Edgefield. Warren Abernathy advised me to watch the news on television that night, and I said, I hop#* whatever Strom doea comes out alright'.i in mt) in New Y afed it To my mot ;atha Ahney Woodson, whose ardent love for old Edgefield, hallowed ground of South-ern Baptists, haa not wavered with the lengthened years, and whose unfailing interest in this undertaking has been a constantInspiration and benediction.”Her mother died In 1952.-Two manuscr tense's are nou cation. One* *f Mm lt;* ■y fo Is on the GfCRut Strom on aftor hUIpmrpf ,flt;»fjStrom a? s fiiend sitmid he hisI ftWoodsonThurmond knew, beloved wife, and , died in January;cd Miss Hortense,e boyhood, if she ecretary either In n or Aiken. At that time. I was secretary, treasurer and clerk of the Edgefield Baptist church, where I’d been since 1950. I chose the Aiken office, so that I could remain with Mama and my sister, Bet, in Edge-field.ThurmondA life long Demo Hortense had mixed feelings a bout the switch; but she faithfully supported Strom and thet Iona I Republican Party. “IHer first book, Peter Ourti I and His Descendants In Edge-field County, came out In 1919. ra# ... The next year, she went to workforthe Edgefield Baptist Church but continued her writing. In%* *always shall support Strom Thur-mond; but I said then and I say now that I would use my discretion in voting at the local and state levels. I think it is terribleto be bound by part. 'Die Issuesare there and the men, and wt should vote accordingly,ion.- (lni-imas Cards IMany years earlier, she had felt that she could not support Democratic presidential candiOT . — — — — — — -w — —- —- — - w 0 v W V v — ■ vW M H ■a custom of Miss Hortense*. She date A1 Smith. She wrote a letter1IAM.MARK$1.25Boxed Cards per box A upNAMES CAN BE PRINTED ON CAROS IN STOCK OR FROM ALBUMShas even had a psychic exper icnce connected with him.The night before S. C. Circuit Judge C. J. Ramage died unexpectedly of s heart attack in 1938,Miss Hortense dreamed that he __________... „passed away and her very dear ol Edgefield! friend Mrs. Mamie Norris Till-to the editor of The Augusta Her aid, explaining her reasons for supporting Hoover. After election, some Republicans visited me and asked me if 1 would be interested in being Postmistress1956 she published a book on the May family and the next year ■ book she had edited on the Ifield Baptist Association.Miss Hortens# was responsl-hie for the preservation of the historic home of her dear friend Mrs. Tillman. Magnolia Dale.The home, built in 1830, had beensold to Kendall Companv, with agreement that Mrs. Tillman could live out her life there.She and I worried about what would become of It. I Just wrotethe officers of th# companv andthey deeded It to the Edgefield County Historical Society In 1959 Mra. Tillman died in 1962. Today, under the leadership of Miss Hortense, now the president of the society, Magnolia Dale”* Hor*pubii*_ _.rmsnPalatine settlers of South Carolina and grew out of her search for Thurmond's Strom” ancestors. The name is an Americanization of ‘Straub’ or 'straum' The other is on the EdgefieldCemetery. I plan to set the type myself on Walton Mims machine”. She Is working on a book about Dr Lake, the missionary, and then there are others in my mind ”Besides her writing teaching a Sunday School class, her work with historical and patriotic groups. Miss Hortense will ser-Count vve on the EdgefieldDistrict Commi^jor., v. ,,*0 South Carolina Tricenter]year her aister and herCRESTItkkitsAIKENCOUNTY'SONLYtravelSERVICEIINSTANT| mond was appointed by the legiilaturt.iea 10 _ ,Thur- Thurm°m*Besides keeping in touch with thAm™!!'**, »d ln ■iiurmond ■ Washinetnn i,. . . L 1 °J * furnished ;with pieces of the era. A museum .»£*«« of M,s. t lot tense's occupiiVih.secondfi^oVJob has been to keep hi* hiatori *RESERVATIONS A TICKETINGWhen Strom wa* running as cal record Me*. Her year* of ex- field Bapti*t church and a mem.States Rights candldat* for pres- P^rienc« a* a newspaperwoman orial room ther* to Dr Jnhn, ident. In 1948, Tim# magazine «nd historian fully equipped her Lak# who went fromsent a writer down here. He 101 ,ni8.i York SE • AikonPhono 643-4651Aiklt;OpenIMIi104 Park Avenue. SE--V g Jvc Supply Hook Sliopcame to see me at my home In ....Edgefield and asked me all sort ^ Julv^t , v ^ , 4d^tin«ulah'nf (nir«tinn« whig-h t family history led to her greatto a missionary and worked withI643-8339643-3330of questions which I answered most favorably for Strom. The story gave the most aarcastlc slant on him.Then when he decided to be-AIKENShopping Crnter1:30—SAT, 9:€94ROMANTIC E GEGAMTHE SHADOW]?Soft, sweet and so utterly feminine , , , that's you in our waltz-length gown by Shadowline! Made of marvelous nylon tri.'ot in pink, blue, mint, yellow and camellia. Sizes Petite, Small, Medium and Large, 6 00 ^Matching peignoir, 7.00, Both btautlftilly detailed with petal shaped collaf And hand cut lace appUauaa.Interest and knowledge of Edg efield county history and geneo-logy. Her mother Agatha Abney,was descended from Sir Thomas Abney of Arundel Castle near Lxndon, her maternal grandfather was Col. Joseph Abney of the Confederate Army.She explains with a twinkle in her eye that he is pictured in Union uniform in a portrait hanging Jin her hall because he SC*I Vi*(l *4S i a lieutenant in the Palmetto regiment fighting in Mexico in 1M7. Her paternal ancestor was Dr. j John Woodson who arrived at j Jamestown. Va., in 1619 and own*J od six of the first Negro slaves j brought to this country.I Her mother met hor father, j Tucker Everett Woodson, while ting to school in Virginia. He was a professor and Baptist Minister and the family lived in Texas before returning to Edgefield, her mother's home. Widowed early, Agatha raised five ©f her seven children to maturity. Miss Hortense graduated from Tub-man High School in Augusta in 1916, and then went to Winthrop College. Mother built this house Pine Terrace, in 1918. I remember we had a big celebration here, at the end of World War I, before the porch was finished”.For one year. Miss Hortense taught school. Then in 1918 she went to work for the Edgefield Advertiser, where to this day she has strong ties. I was thelinotype operator and I alsowrote stories.” For a year she was with the now’ defunct Edgefield Chronicle, for n few years with the Newberry Herald and News. She returned to the Advertiser in 1925 and remained for 20 years.Julian Mims, editor most ofthat time, ustd to say you write a check on the Edgefield Advertiser in 1836 and you could still write one in 1936. We celebrated it's Centennial in 1936. and I set up all the reading matter and w’rote a good many of the articles and features. A weekly, it’s the old newspaper in South Ca-with the same name on the mast-rolina with the same name onthe masthead.correspondent for the Columbia State, the Augusta Chronicle and Herald and the Greenville News and wrote special articles, One series was on the nine South Carolina governors from Edgefield-there are 10 now, since Stromwas governor.I felt a call to public work-the church, the American Legion Auxiliary, the UDC durin those years. Mama organizedthe Edgefield DAR and in 1939 she formed the Edgefield County Historical Society.Miss Hortense became greatly interested in the story of Dr. V illiam Bullein Johnson, a pastor of the Edgefield Baptist church in the early 19th century who became a national Baptist loader. Through his granddaughter she obtained his reminiscences in 1945, That year she retired from the Advertiser and began seriousShop Daily 9:30 A. M. Until 9 P. 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Aiken Standard and Review
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1967
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