History of Old Pendleton District With a Genealogy of the Leading Families of the District
| History - Former Pendleton District A GENEALOGY OF THE LEADING FAMILIES OF THE Commune Transcribed and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Dena W. |
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A wise historian has said that history ought non to be written until i hundred years have elapsed since the event. Be this equally it may, it appears to us to exist the duty of all good citizens, in passing through life's toils and pleasures, to preserve the facts and circumstances of history, so that in the hereafter the history of Pendleton may be presented accurately by the coming historian.
We, therefore, present with some misgivings equally well every bit pleasure, such facts and circumstances in the history of Pendleton every bit nosotros accept been able to trace them in the past.
R. W. SIMPSON.
Pendleton, S. C.
Past WILLIAM Due south. MORRISON, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL Economic system, CLEMSON College, SOUTH CAROLINA
RICHARD WRIGHT SIMPSON was built-in on his begetter's farm near Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina, September eleven, 1840.
His father was Richard F. Simpson, a native of Laurens Commune, Due south Carolina, a graduate of the South Carolina Higher, and for many years a lawyer at Laurens Court House; a soldier with the rank of major in the Florida state of war; a fellow member of both branches of the General Assembly of his native State; iii terms (1842-48) a fellow member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States; and a signer of the Ordinance of Secession of the Land of Southward Carolina.
His female parent was Margaret Taliaferro, a native of Anderson District, South Carolina, whose parents were Virginians by nascency.
"Dick" Simpson enjoyed an ideal boyhood. He was well and strong, the son of indulgent parents, living a gratis country life. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and was fond of work with tools. At home he read the Bible, Shakespeare, and Scott'south Novels. He attended Pendleton Academy from which he went to Wofford College. The late Dr. James H. Carlisle, at the time the merely surviving member of the Wofford Faculty of the fifties, was asked a few years since, to write his recollections of the "Simpson Brothers" as students. The following is a literal copy of his answer:
"The Simpson Brothers-this is the style in which the survivors of the generation of Wofford students, 1857- 1861-retrieve of T. Northward. Simpson and R. W. Simpson, as the catalogues gave their names. Their brotherly affection was marked. Each might take said of the other what the late Robert W. Boyd said to me about his brother Charles: 'We were not only brothers-we were dandy friends. They were gentlemanly, self-respecting immature men, whose bear represented the refined Christian abode, which they had left. Joining different literary societies each gained the highest honour in the gift of his fellow-members. At the Anniversary the two brothers saturday on the platform as presidents of the Calhoun and Preston Societies. In their Senior year (1860-61) the clouds of war gathered. The students formed a military visitor, 'The Southern Guards,' and T. North. Simpson was elected captain. Arrangements were made for the usual May exhibition. The programme had these names and subjects:
T. N. Simpson-Vox Populi.
R. W. Simpson-Republican Institutions in Due north America-are they a failure?
Surely these were timely subjects, well fitted to draw out the feelings and convictions of the young patriots and orators. Just when the fourth dimension came these speakers were not on the platform. They were on the tented field. The bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 13, 1861, seemed to the students as their mother's call to duty, and they answered at one time.
Capt. T. Due north. Simpson was one of the unreturning braves. His sword is now among the valuable relics in Wofford College. His blood brother was spared for years of service with his boyfriend-citizens in carrying his native State through a great historical crunch."
R. West. Simpson served as a private in the Confederate army in Company A, Tertiary Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, and in Adams' battallion of cavalry from April, 1861 to 1863, when, on account of disease contracted in the service, he was detailed for special duty until the close of the state of war.
From 1865 to 1874 Colonel Simpson farmed. And so began his sympathy with the tillers of the soil. In the fall of 1874 he was called a member of the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1876-the year of Carolina'south redemption from the mitt of the alien and the traitor-the "carpet bagger" and the "Scalawag." He was made chairman of the Commission of Ways and Ways of the "Wallace House," e'er a position of
bully responsibility, then one of peculiar dangers and difficulties, as is well understood by all who remember the struggles of that fourth dimension and past every student of "Reconstruction." Colonel Simpson's friends merits for him the credit of first suggesting the thought of the Democrats of Due south Carolina breaking loose from the maternal party-of securing command of the State and letting Tilden's friends fight for their own cause-the programme of cut what Gen. 1000. W. Gary called the "gordion knots'-a program which resulted in President Hays withdrawing the United states of america troops, and Governor Hampton securing undisputed possession of the State House and the State.
Chairman Simpson's services in settling the disordered finances of the Country were delicate and difficult, but time proved the wisdom of his views. "He devised the programme-and secured the adoption-which reduced the debt of the State to its present minor proportions."
Information technology was while serving in the Legislature that R. Westward. Simpson was appointed a member of the Governor'due south Staff, with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, by Governor Wade Hampton.
During those days he became convinced that changed conditions made necessary a change in our educational arrangement. He became an earnest advocate of the establishment of an agricultural higher. He was the confidential advisor of the Honorable Thos. Grand. Clemson - wrote that gentleman's will, was made executor of that instrument, and on the system of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of Due south Carolina was elected chairman of that Board, which position he resigned, on account of impaired wellness a few years before his death. His interest in, and his devotion to the welfare of Clemson Higher are well known to all who know annihilation of the history of that institution for the first twenty years of its being.
Well-nigh the fourth dimension he went into politics Colonel Simpson studied law, was admitted to the bar, good at Anderson Court House, and was local chaser for the Southern Rail Route 15 years and for the Blue Ridge Railway for 8 years. He was also attorney for the Bank of Pendleton.
Colonel Simpson was a life-long fellow member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He loved its doctrines and polity and was many years a Lord's day Schoolhouse teacher and superintendent.
On February 10, 1863, R. Due west. Simpson was married to Miss Maria Louise Garlington, of Laurens County, S. C. Their beautiful dwelling-life, their devotion to each other are well known to all their friends. Of this happy union ten children were born--of whom 9 are now living: Mrs. W. W. Watkins, Mrs. P. H. Due east. Sloan, Jr., Miss M. Fifty. Simpson, Mrs. A. K. Holmes, Mrs. Southward. K. Martin, Mrs. W. West. Klugh, Messrs. R. W. Simpson, Jr., J. Grand. Simpson and T. S. Simpson.
Colonel Simpson died in a infirmary in Atlanta where he had been taken for treatment a few days before, at four o'clock in the morning of the 11th 24-hour interval of July, 1912. The afternoon of the next day his remains were laid to rest past the new fabricated grave of his wife, near the resting place of his father and his mother and his soldier boy brother, in the family burying ground at the old home identify near Pendleton, South Carolina.
"When a nifty human being dies For years across our ken The calorie-free he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men."
Pendleton
PREVIOUS to the year 1768 the but court held in Southward Carolina was in the City of Charleston. In that year the Country was divided into vi districts, and Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas were thereafter established and held in each of the said districts. The judges were authorized to build courtroom houses and other necessary public buildings in some user-friendly place in each. A court firm was established at 90-Half dozen, at Cambridge, (See State Statutes, Vol. vii, p. 197.)
At the close of the Revolutionary War all the territory embraced in the nowadays counties of Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens belonged to the Cherokee Indians, although embraced within the State lines.
Many adventurous white people had founded settlements within this territory, and, for their protection from the Indians, the State had built forts in several places, and maintained garrisons therein. All of this territory, except the extreme upper portion of Oconee and Pickens counties was ceded to the Land past the Cherokees shortly afterward the shut of the war by a treaty negotiated by Gen. Andrew Pickens near his abode on Seneca River.
Tradition points out a big oak tree, well-nigh the banks of the Seneca River, under which General Pickens met the Cherokee chiefs and made with them the treaty by which the State secured the sectional possession of this territory.
In 1816, Full general Statutes, Vol. U, p. 252, some other treaty was concluded in the Metropolis of Washington by which the Cherokee Indians ceded to the State the remaining parts of the land lying to a higher place the former Indian boundary, and within the limits of the State lines every bit they at present exist.
By Human activity of March 16, 1783, commissioners were appointed to split the half-dozen judicial districts into counties of not more than than forty miles square for the purpose of establishing county courts. Andrew Pickens, Richard Anderson, Thomas Brandon, Levi Keysey, Philemon Waters, Arthur Simpkins and Simon Berwick were appointed commissioners to divide the District of 90- 6, (Vol. 4, p. 561). By Act of 1785, Vol. 4, p. 661, the several districts were divided into counties. The District of Ninety-Six was divided into the counties of Abbeville, Edgefield, Newberry, Laurens, Union and Spartanburg; and the Justices of Peace were authorized to locate and build courtroom houses and jails, and to levy taxes to pay for the aforementioned. And the lands ceded to the Country by the Cherokee Indians, embracing the present counties of Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Oconee were attached temporarily to the bordering counties of Abbeville, Laurens and Spartanburg. Pendleton County, as afterwards established, was attached to Abbeville Canton, and for the fourth dimension being was in the judicial district of Xc-Vi, which by the way explains why we find some of our state deeds styled Ninety-Half-dozen.
Acts of 1789, Vol. vii, p. 252, sets forth as follows:
"Whereas, the people residing in that part of the lands ceded to the State by the Cherokee Indians, n of the Indian boundary and between the Seneca and Saluda rivers, take experienced many inconveniences by being attached to Abbeville County, which renders it necessary to establish it into a separate county. Therefore, be information technology enacted, That the same be laid off into a county to be chosen Pendleton County. The other part of the said ceded lands was laid off into a county to be called Greenville County. Pendleton was named in accolade of Gauge Henry Pendleton, a native of Virginia, who rose to distinction in this State past reason of his great ability and patriotism.
Samuel Lofton exhibited to the court his commission from the Governor as sheriff, which was ordered recorded. The canton courts exercised a wide jurisdiction. Amid other things they laid out all the public roads in the county. Past the Act of 1791, Vol. 7, p. 262, Gen. Andrew Pickens, Col. Robert Anderson, Capt. Robert Maxwell, John Bowen, James Harrison, Maj. John Ford and John Hallum were appointed to purchase land and superintend the building of a court house and jail for the district of Washington. Washington District was equanimous of the counties of Pendleton and Greenville. The court house was located at Pickensville, almost the present Town of Easley. By the Act of 1792, Vol. V, p. 210, it was enacted, that the village in Pendleton County where the court house and jail of Washington District have been located, shall be called Pickensville, so named in honor of Full general Pickens. Here were held the Courts of Common Pleas and Full general Sessions for a few years only. By the Human action of 1798, Vol. Vii, p. 283, the proper name County was changed to Commune. And at the courtroom business firm in each of the several districts in that location shall be held, after 1800, Courts of Sessions and Mutual Pleas, to possess and exercise the aforementioned powers and jurisdiction as is held by the district courts. By the same Act, it was enacted that the courtroom for Pendleton District should be held at Pendleton Court House. And that the several courts of General Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, Assizes, and Full general Jail Delivery, and Common Pleas, at present established in this Country, are hereby and forever abolished. The new courts established past this Act were called Courts of Sessions and Common Pleas. By the Act of 1799, Vol. VII, p. 291, county courts as they then existed, were as well abolished. By the Human activity of 1799, Vol. VII, p. 299, it was enacted, that all laws then of force relative to the district courts shall be construed to relate to the new districts and the courts thereof. By the Act of 1868, the proper noun "Commune" was changed dorsum to "County." The outset court business firm for the Courts of Sessions and Common Pleas for Pendleton District, was located In the nowadays public square of the Town of Pendleton, in the hollow near the public well. The jail remains as it was then congenital. These two buildings were built of brick. In 1826, at the time when Pendleton District was divided into Pickens and Anderson, the commissioners were engaged in erecting a new court house, where the Farmers' Hall now stands. The Pendleton Farmers' Gild purchased the old, and the new courtroom business firm being built then erected, and with the cloth of the old, finished the new, which is still endemic by the Pendleton Farmers' Guild. The records of the Court for Washington District, are said to be institute in the Clerk's function at Greenville. The records of the Courts held at Pendleton may be found in the Clerk'due south office at Anderson. The following are the names of some of the lawyers who adept in the Courts at Pendleton, namely: Pickens and Farrar, Warren R. Davis and Lewis, Taylor and Harrison, Yancey and Whitfield, B. J. Earle, Geo. W. Earle, Bowie and Bowie, Robert Anderson, Jr., Saxon, Yancey & Shanklin, Saxon & Trimmier, T. J. Earle, Z. Taliaferro, Choice, Earle & Whitner, Thompson, Tillinghasy Norten, George McDuffie. Doubtless there were others, these are all that can be institute. The Lynch tract of land, upon which the Town of Pendleton was located, at the time of its purchase, was divisional on all sides past lands still belonging to the State. Only, information technology was located on the principal thoroughfare or Indian trail, from 90-Vi to Fort George, located further up in the lands formerly belonging to tine Indians-Keowee being their chief town, and lying on the west banking concern of the beautiful river by that proper name. The lands for many miles surrounding were slightly rolling and very rich and fertile, with numerous water courses traversing them. As shown past the contour of the railroad, from Belton to Walhalla, Pendleton is situated in a basin, and in altitude above the sea, is considerably lower than Belton. The Blueish Ridge Mountains are afar about twenty-5 miles, and the spectacle they nowadays to the eye is one thousand and magnificent. Lord Lowther of England was so much impressed with this mountain view that he caused a large home to be erected on the highest point in the town. This domicile is still in a skillful state of preservation, and is at present owned and occupied by Mrs. William Henry Trescott and her daughters. At the shut of the Revolutionary State of war, many families from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina settled in Pendleton Commune. Gen. Andrew Pickens, Col. Robert Anderson, Col. Benjamin Cleveland, Samuel Earle, Samuel Warren, and Horse Shoe Robertson were of this distinguished number. They, and many others, were attracted by its good for you climate and its rich and fertile soil. The native forests were covered with a heavy growth of wild pea vine, which furnished a luxurious pasture wintertime and summer for horses, cattle and game. Pendleton shortly became from its location the peachy trading center for a big and all-encompassing territory, and very naturally, the concern men of the town, of all avocations, became rich. The lands face-to-face to the town were in bang-up demand, and were very early on purchased by men of means. Their owners built large and comfortable dwellings thus early and farmed with great success. These farmers skilful a generous mode of living, satisfied with the increment of their slave population.
Early in the eighteenth century many of the wealthy residents of the low lands, along the sea coast, were as well attracted by the great advantages which the Town of Pendleton afforded as a summer resort and came to Pendleton to spend the summertime. They besides purchased farms and erected large, and some of them, very fine residences for summer homes. Merely many of them became permanent residents. So it came about that all the onetime citizens of Pendleton, in speaking of Pendleton, called the country for miles effectually the "Town of Pendleton. Information technology was quite natural that these low country gentlemen should bring with them the refined community and manners of. the French Huguenots, which took root and spread amid the sturdy and cultured residents from Virginia and other contiguous states, until the very proper noun of Pendleton became a synonym for refined and beautiful women, and for elegant, high-toned and chivalrous gentlemen. The names of some of these families who came from the low state to Pendleton are given. These names will speak for themselves:
Pinckneys, Elliotts, Bees, Stevens, Chevers, Haskels, Smiths, Tunnor, Jennings, Porchers, Ravenels, Humes, Boons, Norths, Adgers, Potters, Darts, DuPrees, Hamiltons, Haynes, Campbells, Wilsons, Warleys, Trescotts, Cuthberts, Gibbes, Stuarts and Hugers. Just a few of these families take descendants in Pendleton at this fourth dimension.
In addition to these immigrants from the low country, many other people from diverse sections of the Land, many of them wealthy, too came to Pendleton to secure the benefit to be derived at that place in many ways. Among them were the Calhouns, Adams, Earles, Harrisons, Pickens, Andersons, Taliaferros, Lewis, Maxwell, Seaborns, Symmes, Kilpatricks, Rosses, Warleys, Lattas, Shanklins, Dicksons, Sloans, Smiths, Taylors, Bensons, Mavericks, Van Wycks, Whitners, Reeses, Cherrys, Simpsons, Hunters, Clemsons, Millers, Gilmans, Sittons, Burts. In that location were many wealthy and influential families scattered over the territory of Pendleton. Descendants of many of these families take been men known far and wide for their fine characters and great ability. Such men for instance as James L. Orr, Benj. F. Perry, Stephen D. Lee, Joseph E. Dark-brown and others. It would accept afforded usa great pleasure to have reached out and embraced the many distinguished families and men in this little history, but to have washed and then would nave extended it beyond all reasonable bounds. Information technology is a well known fact that the descendants of these early on settlers in Pendleton accept produced more prominent men than perhaps whatsoever other portion of this or whatever other country of equal size men who have left here for other states and have attained there high and important positions. Information technology might exist well to interruption hither and enquire into the causes which produced noticeable results. The rules or guild in Pendleton were for the protection of the women primarily. None only gentlemen were admitted into the family unit circle. No matter how rich he might be, he could not enter, and a poor man, if a gentleman, was ever welcome. The standard was graphic symbol and noesis of how to conduct himself according to the lawmaking of a gentleman. It was as much as a homo's life was worth to speak disrespectfully of a woman or to do or say anything not permitted by the best society. Consequently, the mothers, wives and sisters of this favored region were respected and honored, and every bit a natural result they shed an influence which in turn elevated the children, and produced a race of men that have shed lustre upon the State and our common state. It is a common maxim that in that location never was a great man unless he had a great female parent. When women are pulled downward past the tongue of slander, and by a lack of that veneration due them by the men, from the loftier and exalted position in which God in his Providence has placed them, we volition await in vain for the coming of not bad men. There never was a breath of scandal connected with a woman in Pendleton. The men in their intercourse with other men, observed with profound respect the rules which a refined guild established for the government of such intercourse. These observances, coupled with a complimentary and generous hospitality from i and all, won for the Town of Pendleton, lying in the lap of the cute Blue Ridge Mountains, an extended reputation for elegance, refinement and hospitality second to very few places in the State. When we look back fifty years ago, when Pendleton was in its highest degree of prosperity, nosotros recall with what strikes us now with peculiar force, that there never was any jealousy or unfriendly feeling existing amidst the men and their families. Merely all seemed to live In perfect harmony 1 with the other. On account of the scattered condition of the unlike homes at that place were only few entertainments given at night. Dinings were frequent between the diverse families, and such dining as they were besides. A very pretty custom was when a family invited some other in the absurd of the summer evening to tea, as it was then chosen. It was handed around on big waiters, out on the piazzas, and it was not tea alone either. Weddings were memorable occasions, everybody was invited, and a supper was served in the nigh lavish manner. Ofttimes there was sufficient to feed not merely the guests nowadays, only the whole neighborhood also. The citizens of Pendleton always took an active interest in everything that looked to the uplifting of the people by and large. They too were always zealous and watchful to preserve the liberties of the country, and specially those interests and rights that belong to every human and to the Land and entire state as well. During the days of Nullification the people of Pendleton were staunch supporters of Mr Calhoun, the leading spirit of that memorable movement. And were also earnest advocates of, and active participants in, those measures which culminated in the Secession of the State of Southward Carolina from the The states in 1860. When war was inevitable these people, nigh to a man, volunteered in the army. The immature men volunteered start, and unfortunately many of our immature men were absent in college, or engaged in business in other places, and they joined the companies being raised at those places they were so at. This and other causes prevented the people of Pendleton from organizing local companies, thus showing their loyalty to the great cause at stake. Only the companies of Capt. Daniels, Capt. Shanklin, Very early on later the Boondocks of Pendleton became the county seat of Pendleton County the citizens became interested in educational matters. In 1808, the legislature passed an act authorizing and directing the commissioner appointed to sell the lots into which the tract of land purchased from Isaac Lynch had been divided to turn over all the money in their easily to certain persons therein named for the purpose of establishing a circulating library. Past the same authorization other moneys and lands were added to the library fund. In 1811, the circulating library was incorporated and authorisation was given to the incorporation to buy and sell land, and all the remainder of the Lynch tract of land unsold was by said act vested in the said incorporation. The circulating library connected in operation until 1825, when by act of the legislature the library was incorporated as the Pendleton Male Academy. The brick academy was then built upon some of the land which the legislature had
The men of Pendleton were ever noted for their loftier toned and chivalric characters. They strictly observed all the courtesies and civilities of life, due from one gentleman to another, and whatever departure therefrom met with firsthand condemnation-as with the parents, so with the boys. There was no hazing at the Male Academy, but when a boy entered this school he had very soon to acquire that he had to be a gentleman in his bear. If he was not an apt educatee in learning the ways of a gentleman he had more fights on his easily than he could possibly attend to. And woe be to the boy who should brand a remark reflecting upon the life or graphic symbol of a lady. It fabricated no difference what lady either. Thus were the boys trained in the ways of their fathers to respect women, to honor the aged, and, in their intercourse with each other, to be honest, upright and gentlemanly. Their grooming was sometimes rough, aye, very rough, but in the end many honorable and noble men were turned out of this quondam University. In 1834, the Pendleton Manual Labor School was incorporated. This school was under the management of Rev. John 50. Kennedy, who afterwards became famous as a instructor of the youth of the land. He afterwards taught most successfully at Pickens Courtroom Firm, Thalian University, and other places. The labor schoolhouse continued for a few years only. The reason given by Mr. Kennedy to the writer for its failure was ii-fold. The boys could not stand beingness taken out of the school room to piece of work in the sunday. The sudden changes or other causes not determined, brought on an epidemic of typhoid fever, which caused the scheme to be abandoned. It is somewhat peculiar that the citizens of Pendleton very shortly later the termination of the Amalgamated War attempted to establish a like school but on a broader basis. Thos. M. Clemson, R. F. Simpson, W. H. Trescott, James West. Crawford, Dr. J. H. Maxwell, Maj. Benj. Sloan, Col. J. W. Livingston, Dr. H. C. Miller, and R. Due west. Simpson attempted, in an humble way, to establish an Agricultural School. And while their efforts failed at that place grew out of their efforts influences which culminated in the establishment of Clemson College, an institution far beyond the conception of those who first conceived the idea. As early as 1815 the citizens of Pendleton began to take an active involvement in the comeback of their stock and the methods of farming. In the aforementioned twelvemonth they organized a Farmers' Gild. The officers were James C. Griffin, president ; Josias Gaillard, vice-president; Robert Anderson, secretarial assistant and treasurer; and Joseph V. Shanklin, corresponding secretary. The resident members who first joined the Gild were Thomas Pinckney, Jr., John L. Due north, Andrew Pickens, Benjamin Smith, John Miller, Sr., Charles Gaillard, John E. Calhoun, J. T. Lewis, Thomas L. Dart, J. B. Earle, William Hunter, Benjamin DuPre, Sr., Joseph Grisham, L. McGregor, Samuel Earle, Richard Harrison, Patrick Norris, J. C. Kilpatrick, Joseph B. Earle, T. Westward. Farrar, C. Westward. Miller, Samuel Cherry, John Taylor, Thomas Stribling, John Green. The side by side year the post-obit names were added:
John Maxwell, B. F. Perry, William Hubbard, East. B. Benson, George Reese, Sr., George W. Liddell, J. B. Perry, John Martin, T. Farrar, Warren R. Davis, William Gaston, Joseph Reed, Elam Sharpe, D. Sloan, Jr., Samuel Warren, Leonard Simpson, Major Lewis, Samuel Taylor.
In 1817, the following members were added to the Lodge: William Steele, James Laurence, Frances Burt, John Hunter, Westward. Southward. Adair, William Taylor, William Anderson, Joseph Mitchell, Thomas Lorton, Rev. James Hillhouse, Benjamin Dickson, Richard Lewis, J. T. Whitfield, J. B. Hammond, John Halbert, and Robert Lemon. In 1818, the following members were added: John Hall, David Scarlet, John Gaillard, Charles Stony, McKenzie Collins, George Taylor, Theodore Gaillard, Samuel Gassaway, R. A. Maxwell, J. P. Lewis, F. W. Symmes, George Reese, Jr., Joseph Whitner, James Faris, James 0. Lewis, Thomas Sloan, Henry McCrary, David One thousand. Hamilton. Many addresses and reports of committees are still preserved in which are shown the great interest taken at that early on appointment in the comeback of everything pertaining to agronomics. This order is the oldest of its kind in the United States, except the one organized in Philadelphia a year or two before this one, The Pendleton Farmers' Society, in 1828,, bought the one-time court house and the new one beingness then erected in Pendleton. And, with the material of the onetime courtroom firm, completed the new building for the Farmers' Lodge, which is still the holding of the Society. For many years stock shows and fairs were annually held. Improved breeds of cattle and other kinds of stock were imported. Horses, cattle jacks, sheep and hogs in swell numbers were put on exhibition. And thus these shows were kept upwards for years. Ever since the war some notable exhibition of stock has taken place. The Farmers' Society has maintained its organization to the present time. John Miller, who assisted in the publication and circulation of the famous Junius' Letters in London, came to America. He published the offset daily paper ever issued in Charleston. Afterwards he made Pendleton his abode, and was elected Clerk of the County Court in 1790. Mr. Miller commenced the publication of a weekly paper in Pendleton early on in the nineteenth century. The paper was first known as Miller's Weekly Messenger, and afterwards appeared equally the Pendleton Messenger, with Dr. F. W. Symmes every bit editor. Dr. Symmes was a human being of ability and wielded a controlling influence in the politics of this department of the State. He was a Democrat and a fearless advocate of Mr. Calhoun and his politics in his remarkable career in the land. In 1849 he sold the Messenger to Burt & Thompson, who conducted the paper for several years. Major George Seaborn edited and published the Farmer and Planter at Pendleton for a number of years. Major Seaborn was a native of Greenville, and reared a large and interesting family. He took great interest in improving the methods of farming equally he institute them here. His paper was not simply useful and ably edited, only information technology was very popular in the Land. Early on in the history of Pendleton a Jockey Society was incorporated by the legislature. A number of good citizens engaged in the sport of racing, not because information technology was assisting as such, but because in that way the stock of the country could be improved. At that place was no betting or immorality in the mere act of racing. It was encouraged because it afforded amusement to the people at large. One small event may be recorded without loss of atmosphere or currency This was known as the worm Multicallus incident. Many trees were planted, and some silk was evolved by the silk worms. The fortunes to be made by the trees did non materialize, merely quite a number of persons, including Mrs. Samuel Reid, of Pickens, were very successful in making silk and manufacturing it into beautiful cloth. One of the great events in the history of Pendleton was the removal of Hon. John C. Calhoun, from Abbeville, to Fort Hill in 1824. Incidentally, it connects his family with the origin of Clemson College, of which we want to make brief mention. The keen struggle, tile fierce "War between the sections," left the unabridged South barren in almost every respect. As an agronomical people we were bereft of labor and capital letter, and, to add to this, our political status was rendered well-nigh intolerable by the unrelenting disposition of the Northward in its hour of success. Our educational institutions went downward in the general wreck. They had been as well, mostly of a literary character. Something practical in this respect was a necessity. Col. Thomas G. Clemson, a son-in-law of Mr. Calhoun, was an eminently practical man, and had been very thoroughly educated in this respect. He was a scientist of very high character. Colonel Clemson was in the overthrow with his family unit, and saw his style conspicuously as to the necessities of the future. The education of the youth of the South must in a measure be of a practical character; and he, in his old age, gauged the future most successfully. He resided on a spot dear to every Southern man by its associations. Was the future of a great people to be made certain by the practical and scientific noesis of Colonel Clemson? Let us run across. We accept already seen that the people of Pendleton had at a very early period, become interested in the applied character of the "Labor Schoolhouse" established well-nigh town. They also redoubled their efforts afterward the war to constitute a more effective institution. These gentlemen were the companions of Colonel Clemson, and has desire in this connection rekindled their efforts. This was especially truthful as to Col. R. W. Simpson. He had nobly discharged his duty as a private in the ranks of the Confederate Army. He was non only a successful farmer, but also a lawyer of stardom. He was often consulted by Colonel Clemson as to his business organisation generally and especially as to the establishment of such an institution equally Clemson College has proved to be. He wrote his will, giving in a marked degree, the directions of Colonel Clemson in this respect, and was his companion generally in the passing years of his useful and eventful life. On ane occasion, Colonel Simpson was requested by the Trustees of the College to set up a sketch of the life of Colonel Clemson. This he did, and read the same earlier the regime of the College. This is a brief memorial of Colonel Simpson to his departed friend, and we have drawn largely from information technology in concluding this article. "Col. Thomas Yard. Clemson was built-in in the City of Philadelphia, July, 1807, died at Fort Hill, Due south. C., April six, 1888, and was buried at Pendleton, S. C. Colonel Clemson was 6 anxiety six inches tall. His features were handsome and his appearance commanding. His deportment and manner were dignified and polished. His intellect was of a high order, and he was gifted with fine conversational powers. His views and opinions were broad and liberal and there was aught narrow or contracted about him. "While possessed of ample means he had no disposition to spend more coin upon himself than was actually necessary. His greatest want was to take care of his property and increment information technology that he might the improve conduct out his hope to his wife, which was to found an Agricultural College upon Fort Hill, upon the very spot she herself had selected for the location of the main college edifice. How faithfully he redeemed his promise to his dearest wife, let Clemson College as it stands today in all of its magnificence speak. Colonel Clemson well knew that the property donated for the purpose would not be sufficient to build and maintain such a college as he conceived of; but having a firm reliance upon the liberality of the State of Due south Carolina, he felt assured that when the necessities of the people, growing out of their changed atmospheric condition resulting from the effects of the war, were properly understood and appreciated, his efforts to do good the farmers would be recognized, and that the State would supplement his donation past whatever corporeality might be necessary to establish the dream of his life. He reasoned wisely and correctly. "Very early in life Colonel Clemson adult a great taste for the study of the sciences, especially chemistry, mineralogy and geology. In 1823, when inappreciably sixteen years old he ran off from dwelling, not on account of whatsoever disagreement with his parents, only but for adventure and to see the world. At that time, though so immature, was half-dozen anxiety tall and exceedingly handsome, both in course and feature. He first went to England, simply remained at that place only a short time and and so visited Paris. At that time France was particularly friendly towards the United States, and this handsome young American very presently attracted the attention of the. young nobility of the great City. Through these young men he also became acquainted with some of the leading officials of the City. During his stay in Paris he shouldered a musket and joined his immature friends in several of the revolutions or outbreaks for which that Urban center has been famous it'southward gallantry displayed on these occasions earned for him the respect and esteem of the officials, who rewarded him with a position in the celebrated School of the Mines. He remained at the school for iv years and graduated with high honors. During his stay in Paris he as well plant time to indulge his sense of taste for painting, and had equally his teachers some of the celebrated artists of that time. By these means he became acquainted with many painters both in France and Federal republic of germany, which enabled him in after years to collect the many valuable and cute paintings which now adorn the walls of John C. Calhoun'due south old homestead at Fort Colina. During his stay in Europe his father died and his large manor was divided in such a way as to leave him no part of it, and simply at the age of manhood found himself penniless; but he cheerfully set to work in the practice of his profession and very soon earned an enviable reputation. His services as mining expert were particularly valuable, and though established at Washington, his labors were not confined to this state lonely, but extended to Republic of cuba and S America too. His fees were big and he before long after amassed a comfortable fortune. At Washington he was a conspicuous and prominent person, and he had the entry into the about exclusive families. Miss Floride, the eldest daughter of John C. Calhoun, was in Washington on a visit to her father, and in that location Colonel Clemson met her, and subsequently they were married at Fort Colina. Mrs. Clemson was among women what her distinguished begetter was among men. Her love for her home and country was superb, and to this noble, generous and nonetheless gentle woman, South Carolina is as much indebted for Clemson College as to the distinguished husband, Thomas G. Clemson. Colonel Clemson was a great admirer of John C. Calhoun and earnestly supported his political views and opinions. During the administration of President Jackson he was appointed Minister to Kingdom of belgium, only having very little gustatory modality for politics, at the expiration of his term, he returned to his home in Washington, and resumed the work of his profession. At the start of the state of war Colonel Clemson was residing at his home in Washington City with his family unit. which consisted of his married woman and his son, John C. Clemson, and daughter, Floride Clemson the son and daughter about grown. It was well known to the authorities that the sympathies of Colonel Clemson were with the South, and for this reason his movements were closely watched, and some time in 1862 his arrest was ordered, only beingness warned by a friend that he would be arrested the side by side day, he and his son escaped during the dark, and crossed the Potomac in a row boat. Landing on Virginia soil they did not cease until they reached Richmond, having walked the entire distance. Upon arriving in Richmond they both tendered their services to President Davis. John C. was at once appointed a lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to duty. Colonel Clemson was assigned to the mining department of the trans - Mississippi. Here he remained in the service to the close of the war. At this time Mrs. John C. Calhoun resided at Pendleton, and here Colonel Clemson was reunited with his family, and here they resided until the decease of Mrs. Calhoun in the latter function of 1866. Previous to the state of war, Mrs. Calhoun had sold their old abode Fort Colina and all her property thereon, to her son, Col. Andrew P. Calhoun, taking his bail and mortgage for the purchase money. Of this bond and mortgage Mrs. Calhoun willed 3-fourths to her girl Mrs. Thomas One thousand. Clemson, and one-fourth to Mrs. Clemson's daughter, Miss Floride, who subsequently married Mr. Gideon Lee, of New York. The mortgage of Col. A. P. Calhoun was foreclosed, and Mrs. Clemson bought in Fort Colina, and divided it with her girl, Mrs. Lee, in proportion to the involvement of each nether Mrs. Calhoun's will. In 1871, Mrs. Floride Lee died, leaving i kid, a girl. Only seventeen days after Mrs. Lee's death, John C. Clemson was killed almost Seneca by a collision of two trains on the Blue Ridge Railroad. The loss of their only 2 children was a terrible shock to Mr. and Mrs. Clemson. Desolate, they mourned-all the effulgence had been blotted out of their lives, but unsearchable are the Providence of God, for it was and so that these two stricken sorrowing parents determined to unite in so disposing of all they had left of their property equally to bring to their fellowmen as much happiness and prosperity as they could take wished for themselves. They agreed to make wills to each other, and promised that the survivor would make a volition donating all of their joint property to erect an Agricultural College at Fort Loma. In 1875, Mrs. Clemson died suddenly of heart disease, while Mr. Clemson was absent from home. Many persons in Pendleton remember the grief of this quondam and now desolate man at the grave, when the remains of the devoted partner of his life were being laid to rest. The remaining years of his life Mr. Clemson spent desolate and alone, at Fort Hill. After awhile he began to have more interest in affairs. He was fond of reading and kept around him the leading newspapers and standard magazines, by which he was enabled to keep in touch with his fellowmen otherwise he lived the life of a hermit, at least for several years afterward the death of Mrs. Clemson. Eventually, yet, his listen became fixed upon the ane purpose of fulfilling the promise to his wife, and erecting the College they had planned. And so he began again to visit his friends, and many were the efforts he and his friends fabricated to interest others in this dandy work. During this time he looked carefully after his finances, and tried to save all he could for the College. But even so he provided generously for the faithful helpers who remained with him, and wished very much to help other poor friends in distress and did so. Information technology was the privilege of the author to visit him frequently during the final two years of his life, and during this time he talked freely of his life and experiences. He portrayed in a way never to be forgotten, the condition the South was sure to exist plunged into if something was not done to abort the subversive tendencies of the times. Education, such every bit we had before our atmospheric condition were changed past the state of war, was all right, just not enough. To get successful the Southern people had to go applied, and a practical teaching was necessary to come across the people's necessities. During the latter part of his life he talked a great bargain almost religious matters and became very much concerned about the salvation of his soul. He requested the ministers to visit him. I good man who was with him to the last, said that across a doubt he had made his peace with his God, and his terminal words were in behalf of the poor and suffering. Tin the people of South Carolina ever forget Thomas Grand. Clemson and the great work he helped to attain for them? If this is possible visit Fort Hill and wait around you!" This is the true-blue tribute of Colonel Simpson to his friend. Thomas One thousand. Clemson. Clemson Higher has been partly burned, and has been rebuilt. Additions have been made from time to time. Recently large additions have been planned, and very soon more than 8 hundred immature men tin can exist educated at this Higher along applied lines. The College is in a very prosperous condition.
This book did non have an index. I have made the following index to assistance you detect the families Col. Simpson has sketched .
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