REYNOLD‘S HISTORICAL

GENEALOGY COLLECTION
 A LOST ARCADIA^
OR

The Story of My Old Community

By WALTER A. CLARK

ILLUSTRATED

AUGUSTA, GA.:
Chronicde Job Print,
1909
 Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2016

https://archive.org/details/lostarcadiaorstoOOclar
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WILLIAM J. STEED,
My Literary Sponsor.
 CONTENTS.
Preface v
Introductory vii
The Red Man’s Rule i

Early White Settlements 5

Thomas Walker 5
A Hundred Years Ago 15
Robert Allen 19
Plankgate Piety 21
A Curious Cure for Calvinism 23
Edmund Murphey : 26
Elisha Anderson 35
Absalom Rhodes. . . . ;
39
Lewis B. Rhodes 45
Aaron Rhodes 47
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster in Augusta ‘

55
The Old Rhodes Mill 60
Freeman Walker., 64
Charles and Edward Burch .78
Thomas Hill 79
Early Religious Development.
Liberty Church 81
Hopeful Church 83
New Hope Church 88
The Old Richmond Camp Ground 91
Richmond Bath and the Old Bath Church 97
Love and War or a Bath Romance 100
Jacob Walker or a Slave’s Loyalty 103
A Slave Wedding at Bath id6
Rev, Frank R. Goulding 112
Ante Bellum 114
Dum Vivinuts Vivamus 115
Early Colored Churches 119
Early Schools 125
Mount Enon Academy 126
The Old Field School 127
Old Time Academy Life 131
Brothersville, A
Lost Arcadia 141
The .A.nderson Brothers -.
146
William E. Barnes 148
John W. Carswell 149
Dr. Samuel B. Clark 153
The Old Homestead I54
An Evening Scene 156
A Psychic Mystery 157
William Evans 160
Moses P. Green 161
Edmund B. Gresham 161
Henry D. Greenwood : 164
Seaborn Augustus Jones 166
Rev. J. H. T. Kilpatrick 171
Robert Malone I74
Jdhn D. Mongin , I77
Alexander Murphey *
180
J. Madison Reynolds 181
Absalom W. Rhodes 184
A Brothersville Home Coming 185
Hephzibah 188
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 PREFACE
]n the old days at Emory (College, students who failed to attend the

sun rise prayer service in the antiquated chapel, were required at evening
prayer to render excuses for their absence. A professional delinquent
along this line fell into the habit of singing out “corporeally indisposed”-

when the charges against him were preferred. Through frequent reitera-

tion the plea grew a little monotonous to the grim old President, Rev.
James R. Thomas, and one day he answered: “Yes sir, I’m afraid you
are morally indisposed and if you don’t convalesce very rapidly I shall

send you home for your health.” And so if the reader feels indisposed
“corporeally” or otherwise to tackling this preface no statutory provision,
legal or moral compels him to do so. These literary accessories before

the fact are not as a rule of specially absorbing interest and usually ex-
hibit abnormal talent for being skipped by the average reader. And yet

in deference to long established custom these initiatory words are penned.

And now in patient discharge of this implied duty I do not mind saying
to the reader, a la Artemas Ward, that “this is a book.” or at least that

this in Celtic vernacular is the “intintion.” There are many books of

many kinds and this volume properly classified would probably belong to
the “sui generis,” “sic trasit gloria mundi” variety. If the reader has
grown a little rusty on classic Latin I do not mind saying to him further
that the latter phrase has been sometimes translated, “My glorious old
aunt has been sick ever since Monday,” but I do not think that this revised

version has been generally accepted as strictly orthodox. This book can
not be said tq. have been written without rhyme or reason for its pages
hold more rhyme than poetry and three reasons at least, have conspired
to give it literary existence.

First, I have written it to please my friends, who bear personal

kinship to its records.

Second, I have hoped to please myself by making some little con-

tribution to a bank account, whose surplus has never been a burden.

Third, a hundred years and more from now it may be that some
far descendant of the author, while fingering the musty shelves of some
old library, may find some modest satisfaction in the thought that his
ancient sire had “writ” a book.
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VI PREFACE

Whatever its shortcomings may be, it bears at least the merit of

being the first distinctive effort to gather and preserve the historical,

genealogical and traditional records of a rural community in Georgia,

and possibly in all the South. Treating largely of the early pioneers it is

in a literary way a pioneer itself. may

It/ not meet a long felt want and
yet through all these later years many inquiries have come to me for

ju.st such information as this books has tried to furnish.

In the morning of our lives our hopes and aspirations like ^our
shadows lie before us, but when the noontide has been passed and our
steps are tending towards the sunset our thoughts and feelings, like our
shadows still stretch backwards towards the morning. Our interest in

the old. old days increases with our added years and the glamour of the
long ago grows stronger as we near the twilight.

And yet, dear reader, whether the skies that rest above you are
radiant with the breath of morning or paling in the shadows of your
eventide, if you will give these old time memories as kindly a reception
as met my first attempt at authorship T shall be more than satisfied.
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 INTRODUCTORY
Filed away on a page of the writer’s scrap book there is a

letter that I have treasured and preserved not only for the

gifted hand that penned it but for the tone of tender kindliness
that breathes and glows in its every written word —a letter

that in large degree must stand as sponsor for the story that

will follow. Some years ago I published another story, the

record of my company and regiment during four years of
Confederate service. A copy was sent to gentle and genial
Bill Arp, humorist and sage, always witty and never perhaps
unwise, and his reply acknowledging the gift contained these
words: “What a pity that every regiment, and indeed every
company, did not have a historian.” This expressed regret
has brought to me the kindred thought that possibly it may
be equally a pity that every community does not have its

chronicler to gather up the tangled and raveled skeins in its

own history and preserve them in coherent form not only for
the living, but for their children and their children’s children,
in all the years to come. To fill this need if need it be for
the community in which the writer was born and reared will

be the purpose of this perhaps imperfect story.

Its data has been garnered from many sources— from con-
lerence with many whose memory goes farthest back into the
past, from musty and antiquated records, from fading entries
in old time family bibles that ha\ e been heirlooms for a hun-
dred years and more, and from the moss stained slabs that
mark the mounds where rest our earliest pioneers.
For the vein of unpretending humor that clothes in part

its storied detail T have only this apology to make. When

Henry Clay had closed (Uie of his magnificent orations in the
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Vlll INTRODUCTORY

city of New Orleans, Sargent Prentiss, who sat upon the stage
was called for by the shouting audience. Rising he said, and
only said : “When the eagle is abroad owls and bats must

hide their diminished heads.” Washington Irving and William

Nye have with their own inimitable genius given to dry
historic fact a touch of genuine humor, but the mountain
eyries where these proud eagles fledged their literary young
have long been tenantless and in their absence I can but trust
that in the lowlier efforts of an humbler pen the kindly reader
beneath whose eyes this story falls may find at least no
serious ground for cavil or regret.
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 THE RED MAN’S RULE
No proper historic setting* can be given to our rustic
village without some reference to its antecedents, »to the early
story of the community in which it stands and to the social,
moral and educational forces that brought it into municipal
being and without which it would have had no individual
entity and no history corporate or otherwise. Looking back-
ward then to a period some centuries ago, when the writer and
the town were both absolutely unknown quantities, a period
when this section was covered by primeval forests untouched
by the woodman’s axe, a period w^hen the policy of “benevolent
assimilation” had not begun its fateful work and the Red man’s
foot had not been taught to press the rugged path that leads
to race extinction, roaming over these hills and valleys there
lived and loved another race of beings. When Oglethorpe,
in the F^all of 1735, established for the benefit of his struggling

colony a trading post on the banks of the upper Savannah and

gave it the name of his friend and patron the Princess Augusta,
he found the territory extending Westward from the river
occupied both above and below the post by a tribe of Uchee.
Indians. Their original habitat had probably been located near
the Coosa river, in upper Georgia and North Alabama, On
their migration to this section they became a component part
of the great IMuskhogee or Creek confederation, whose domin-
ion extended from lower Florida to the Cherokee lands in
North Georgia. The Uchees were not a large tribe, their ter-
ritorial limits covering probably only the present area of a
few counties adjacent to Augusta, among them Richmond,
P.urke, Jeflterson and a portion of Columbia, the occupation
and control of the last named county being shared by the
Kiokees, another subordinate tribe owing allegiance to the
Creeks. The names of both these minor tribes are perpetuated
by gurgling streams that traverse their former hunting grounds
in that county. Although seventy-one years have passed since
the Creeks were removed from Georgia by the Federal gov-

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eminent and a longer period has elapsed since their moccasined
feet pressed the soil of this immediate section abundant
evidences still exist of Indian occupancy. The Murray Road
in this county was once an Indian trail and was probably
used by George Galphin in his trips- from his home at Silver
Bluff on the Savannah to his trading post at Ogeechee Town
or Galphinton, now Old Town, in Jefferson county. The
following reminiscence of this celebrated Indian trader may
be new to some of my readers. There are probably several
versions of iU but I give Rev. George Smith’s, first because 'he
is a preacher and ought to tell the truth, and secondly because

it is the only one I have.

On one of Galphin’s visits to Ogeechee town an Indian

chief was attracted by the bright red coat he wore. Gazing
with admiring and covetous eyes on the crimson vestment he
said to the trader:
*'Me had a dream.”
‘'Oh,’.’ said Galphin. “what did you dream?”
"Me dream you give me dat coat.”
"You shall have it,” said the wily trader.
Months passed and they met again. After the usual salu-
tajtions Galphin said
"Chief, I had a dream.”
"Ugh,” said the chief, “what you dream?”
"I dreamed that you gave me all the land in this fork of

the creek.”
"Ugh,” said the chief, with a shrug, “you have it, but we
dream no more.”
Evidences of the Red Man’s rule are not confined, how-
ever, to traditional Indian trails. During my schoolboy days
at the old Brothcrsville Academy, it was the habit of the
students to utilize many of the midday intermissions in period-
ical visits to the bathing house Ibuilt by Mr. Alexander
Murphy, one of the old-time Brothesville residents, for the
benefit of that community. Our pathway led across a stream
that finds source within the limits of our town, and in
its

a cultivated field lying along its borders we gathered a goodly

collection of Indian arrow heads. Half a mile away, on a

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another, that begins its gurgling life near my father's old
home, the subsoil plow in recent years has unearthed many
fragments of ornamented Indian pottery. The contour of
some of these specimens indicates that they formed part and
parcel of large vessels probably used for boiling the beans and
other vegetables cultivated by the Indians. How was this
done? This clay ware was unable to endure a high degree
and the squaw cook, when
of heat applied to its outer surface,
she decided to “boil the pot" for the midday meal, filled the
vessel partially with water and then dropped into it heated
rocks until it reached the boiling point. If this was an every
day occurrence the Red Man scarcely failed to consume the
proverbial “peck of dirt" before making his exit to the happy
hunting grounds beyond the sunset. Not far away from w^here
this pottery has lain for nearly two centuries, on the old
James Anderson place, and near a spring, whose limpid waters
mingle wdth the streams already named, there is a mound sup-
})osed to be of Indian origin —a mound within whose hidden
bosom there may have rested for all these years the antiquated
dust of some old Uchee chief. These corroborating facts seem
to furnish satisfactory evidence that within the limits of our
town or justbeyond its boundaries, there w'as once upon a time
a thriving Uchee village w^here

The Indian warrior wooed his dusky mate.

And like his “pale face” brother, sat up late;
Yet wooed and won without the helpful aid
Of soda-fount, ice-cream, or even lemonade.
And when the happy honeymoon was over.
He played the gentleman, and lived in clover,
While squaw, was up at dawn,
she. his faithful
To cook his meals and hoe his patch of corn.

She kept his wigwam and his food warm, too;

And when with trusty bow his aim was true.
She jerked his venison and may likewise.
Hav'e jerked the scalp-lock o’er his Uchee eyes.

Since the above doggerel was written I have learned from

a -Statement made by Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., who was not
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only a very learned scholar and historian, but an eminent
Indian authority as well, that these dusky sons of the forest
were in the habit of doing their courting by proxy. The
delicate and generally delightful preliminary negotiations that
antedate a matrimonial alliance among the Whites in all

civilized landswere delegated by the Indians to the prosy lips

of a mother or sister, whose personal interest in the arrange-
ment was untouched and untinged by any halo of sentiment or
romance. While I can but deprecate the lack of good taste
shown by these dusky lovers in foregoing voluntarily the
pleasure of “popping the question” I can make no refutation of
a fact which seems to throw a shadow of discredit upon the
absolute historical accuracy of a few lines in the foregoing
verse. But what is writ is writ, and as my learned and clever
friend. Rev. L. P. Winter, who sometimes woos the muse and
whose opinion, therefore, on the matter of wooing ought to
be “expert,” has suggested that the unintentional error be
charged up to poetic license, the reader can let it go at that.
Before closing this feature of my story T am glad to be
able to give, as a matter of interest to the reader of these
chronicles, the signification of some of the beautiful Indian
names still in use in this and adjoining States. This informa-
tion has come to me through the kindness of Rev. Milton A.
Clark, who for more than twenty years has devoted his life to
missionary service among the Red Men of the West, and who,
at my request, has furnished it for use in these memories:

Indian . English Tribal Origin

Catoosa __ High-up . Cherokee
Dahlonega Gold . - Cherokee
Savannah Open Glade Cherokee
Oostenaula . - -High Tower . Cherokee
Chattahoochee _ -Figured Rock- -- - - Creek
Ockmulgee _ _ Foaming Water . - Creek
Opelika _ _ _ . Owl Roost Creek
Ocklawaha . Bog-gy - Creek
Seminole Wanderer Creek
Tallahassee _ -Broken Down Town * - - - - Creek

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 Ana now m taking leave of the Brother in Red I can but
express my regret that any of my own kith and kin should
have been accessory to the spoliation of these aborigines of
their broad and beautiful domain —
a regret just as keen and
possibly a little more sincere ithan that, which shadowed Mark
Twain’s soul as he stood with misty eyes over the ancient
grave of Adam.

EARLY WHITE SETTLEMENTS.

In the early years following the establishment of a military
and trading post at Augusta the whites began to make inroads
into the territory adjacent to that point. Rev. George G.
Smith, who is never happy save when he is fingering musty
records, says in his “Story of Georgia and Her People,” that
as early as 1753 there were white residents in Jefferson county.
In this immediate section, lying so much nearer the protecting
arm of the military post, white settlements must have been
made at an earlier date. Who was the original pioneer. After
all these years and in the absence largely of any written or

printed, record it is difficult to determine with any degree of

certainty or assurance. The men who cleared these primeval
forests were making and not writing history, keeping the wily
Indian at bay and not keeping diaries or journals for their
remote posterity.
Collating all the historic and traditional information that
I have been able to gather, it seems probable that if not the

first, certainly among the very earliest settlements made in

the communty, was that of

THOMAS WALKER.
In the old days the landed estates of the King of England
—
were patrolled by royal guards men who were required to
“walk” over and inspect a certain area every day. In this way
they came to be known as “walkers,” and finally the term
denoting their occupation was adopted as a surname. Some
of the impecunious members of the tribe have probably been
“walking” ever since.

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 During the civil war in England a large contingent of the
Walkers were staunch adherents of the Stuarts, and when that
dynasty fell into temporary eclipse at the hands of Cromwell
and his Roundheads, Cavalier heads were at a premium.. Many
of the Walkers, having no inclination to lower the price by
placing their own on the market, sought on foreign soil the
safety denied them at home. Among them there was a family
whose roll contained a Peter, whose father had spent his fortune
in the royal cause and fled to Ireland, where Walkers were
practically unknown. The Encyclopedia of Heraldry, in listing
the coats of arms of this family name with its ‘‘Nil Desperan-
dum'” motto gives in a record of fifty-two. only one from the
Emerald Isle.

In 1735, two brothers, George and Thomas Walker, and

their sister, Mary, who were probably descendants of this
refugee family, emigrated to Pennsylvania, settling on the
Delaware river. Five or ten years later, Mary, having in the
meantime joined the married sisterhood by wedding a Mr.
Dallas, George and Thomas came to Georgia, the former locat-
ing on Brier Creek in Burke county, probably near the bridge
over that stream that bears his name. Thomas settled either
in this section of Richmond, and near the spot where he now
lies buried, or lived for a time in Burke and then came to Rich-

mond. In 1750, on account of Indian troubles, he left Georgia

and lived for eighteen years in Beaufort District, South Caro-
lina. Returning to this State in 1768, he lived in this com-
munity until his death in 1809, at the age of 90 years. His
wife, Mary, died in 1825, aged 83. Who was she before her
marriage? On this point my ignoranceabout as dense as
is

that of a member who, on rising

of an old time debating society
to discuss the justifiability of the execution of Mary. Queen
of Scots, asked the presiding officer if a question for informa-
tion was in order. “Certainly,” said the official. “Well, sir, be-
fore discussing this question I’d like to know who this Mary
Scott was anyhow?”
So the writer would like to know who Mary W'alker, his
great-grandmother, was, but there seems to be no present ac-
cessible source of information. A penciled memorandum made

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by my uncle, tiie late Col. A. C. Walker, states that Thomas
Walker, his grandfather, had seven sons and five daughters.
A similar memorandum, made by Mr. Peter G. Walker, of
Morgan county, says that George, his ancestor, had seven sons
and five daughters, and it is a rather singular fact in connection
with the above that the Bible should stand sponsor for ex-
actly nine of the names in each of these groups of children.
A stranger chancing in at a Christmas reunion of the two fam-
ilies, when all were present, would have had his acquaintance

with old time Bible worthies refreshed by a presentation on

the Thomas side of the table to Abraham and Isaac, Rachel
and Rebecca, Reuben and Benjamin, Elijah and Amos, wind-
ing up with the loved and loving John. Across the table
George would have taken him back through antediluvian days
to Enoch, and then on down, with Rebecca and Moses, David
and Esther, closing up among New Testament records wdth
Mary and Elizabeth, Thomas and John. Each group had a
William and each a Margaret, while George had a namesake
among his children.
In this schedule of Thomas Walker’s sons I have added
an Amos to Col. A. C. Walker’s list for two reasons. First,*
Mr. Peter Walker, who suffered from an attack of pedigree
fever some years him with a son of that name, and
ago, credits
for the additional and convincing reason that the grave of
Amos lies beside the mounds that cover his father and six of
his brothers and sisters, and in matters genealogical grave-
yards make mighty good witnesses.
Of the personality of Thomas Walker I know but little.
The memorandum left by Col. Walker, already referred to.
states that he and his sons were a fine looking race of men. As
I am one of his descendants and as I have at divers and sundry

times been the victim of mistaken identity in being taken or

mistaken for four of the homeliest men in Richmond county,
there would seem to be strong circumstantial evidence that my
share of the family inheritance on that particular line was still
an undistributed patrimony.
One traditional incident has come down to n'le that shows
at least that Thomas Walker’s manly heart w^as not lacking

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in the milk of human kindness. He owned a large body of
land and many cattle and hogs, the early settlers relying more
upon itheir flocksand herds than cultivation of the uncleared
forest. Riding over his estate one day, he chanc'ed upon a
poorer neighbor, who had slaughtered one of his beeves and
was flaying it for use at his own table. After reprimanding
him for the theft he asked: “Have you any salt .to cure it?”
‘‘No, sir.” said the man. “Then send to my house and I will
give you what you need,” and putting spurs to his horse he
went his way, little thinking that a hundred and fifty years
later his great-grandson would be placing before the public
eye this little story to his credit.
It is not the purpose of these records to enter into the
construction of family trees, lest such a course might trench
upon the domain already pre-empted by a clever friend and
relative of the female persuasion, who thinks pedigree, talks
pedigree, writes pedigree, and who possibly wanders in happy
dreamland through mammoth groves of every blooming family
trees. So many inquiries have come to me, however, in these
later years on genealogical lines that some information as to
the descendants of the early settlers will not, I trust, be lacking
in interest to the reader. Taking Thomas Walker’s children
in the order already given, Abram married a Miss Whitehead,
lived at Athens, Ga., and died childless.
Isaac Walker married Bethia Whitehead and eleven chil-
dren were born to them, James B., Thomas, Amos, William,
Isaac, Jr., John, Hester, Mary (Garlick), Rebecca (Harlow),
and Susan who became the wife of Wm. S. C. ^Morris.
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Augusta, Ga., and was a very prominent figure in its com-
mercial life. His sons, the late James W. and John W. Walker,
his daughters Virginia Schley, Lucy Caswell and ]\Iary Wal-
lace, and his grandchildren through these sons and daughters
have filled and are filling now large space in the business
and social life of the city.
To Wm. S. C. and Susan Morris was born one daughter,
Maria, who on July 3, 1861, was married -to Major Thomas
Spaulding McIntosh, Adjutant General of McLaws Division

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C. S. A. While rallying skirmishers at the battle of Sharps-
burg, Maj. McIntosh was killed, and in 1868 she married Dr.
John M. Madden, Asst. Surgeon C. S. A. She and her daugh-
ter Fleurine (Tucker) are now residents of Brunswick, Ga.,
while her son Maurice lives in Jacksonville, and her daughter
Susan, wife of Samuel B. Hatcher, lives in Columbus, Ga.,
John Walker married Cornelia Woolfolk, and their de-
scendants through their children, Woolfolk, Louise and Cor-.,
nelia, live in Columbus, Ga., or elsewhere.
Isaac Walker,
Jr., married his wife, of course, but I have
no information as to her identity, nor am I advised as to the
place of residence, past, present or to come of either Isaac Jr.,
and his better half nor of their six children, viz: Isaac, Amos,
William, Thomas, Hattie and Polly.
Elijah Walker married Elizabeth Collins and to them were
born two children, Robert T., who married Anne daughter of
Judge William Polk of the Supreme Court of Maryland, inecc
of President James K. Polk and first cousin of Bishop atni
Lieut. General Leonidas Polk, and Cynthia Maria, born Dec.
7, 1799, married Col. William A. Carr July 31, 1817 and died
July 12, 1833.
To Robert T. was born who
married in
a son, William,
Macon, Ga., and died in 1853. His widow was later married
to Col. Philip Tracy of Macon who was killed afterward at the
battle of Gettysburg. After the death of Robert T. his widow
became the wife of Gov. Herschel V. Johnson to whom she
bore four sons, Herschel V. Jr., Emmett, Winder P. and
Thomas L.
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children, aside from four who died in infancy:
1st. Thomas Walker, born Sept. 17. 1822, died unmarried
March 28, 1895.
2nd.William Walker, born Aug. 8, 1824, died in i'^>3.
married first Caroline Tucker, children Robert W'alker, M«»nda
C., William A.; married second, Mattie Rawles, children,
Charles, Joseph, James and Goode.
3rd. Elijah Walker, born ]\Iarch 28, 1820. married .\nna.
daughter of Dr. Edwin H. Macon Dec. 19, 1860. and died Dec.

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24, 1872, children Lilias Amanda, Susan Crawford, Florida
Agnes (Orr) and Thomas.
Florida Cynthia, born July ii, 1831, died Feb. 14,
4th.
1905. She was the youngest born and was never married. I
never knew her but have gathered the following data from a
loving tribute paid to her by her niece Florida Orr, now living
with her husband, Robert C. Orr, and her children Robert C.
Jr., and Julia W. at Carrs Hill, Athens Ga. Cynthia Carr died
when Florida was in her babyhood and her childhood years
were spent at the home of her grandmother, Elizabeth Walker
on the Northern border of Burke county near McBean Creek
and now owned by Pauline C. Rhodes.
During her girlhood her father married a widow who had
been the beneficiary of two previous matrimonial alliances and
when after her grandmother’s death young Florida returned to
her childhood home she found herself domiciled with brothers
of her own blood, two batches of step brothers and sisters and
a little half sister, a rather strenuous situation. Despite such
environment however she retained her sweetness of temper
and developed into a womanhood of rare and charming beauty,
a claim confirmed by her pictured face.
'
Eschewing marriage she devoted herself for ten years to
the care of her invalid father and for many years to orphaned
ones committed to her care. And so though childless she was
indeed and in truth one of ‘God’s mothers.” For sixty years
she kept a quiet nook near the old Home all abloom with
flowers of every tint and hue, perpetuating among others roses
and narcissus, that her mother Cynthia had carried from the
old homestead in Burke nearly a hundred years ago, and that
are still shedding their fragrance on the summer air at Carrs
Hill today.
Such in brief is the story given me of her by my good
friend and relativ^e Florida Orr, and while she has written
lovingly I am sure that she has written truly.
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ret,were never married, but whether from choice or necessity
I do not know. After their father’s death -in 1809 they kept
bachelors’ hall or old maids’ hall at the old home. Aunt
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"AUNT BETSEY,” WIFE OF ELIJAH WALKER
and
HER GRANDDAUGHER, FLORIDA CARR.
Rebecca was the last survivor and her later years were spent
at my father’s home. In her old age she was rather an odd
genius and as Rev. Thomas F. Pierce once said of her “If the
:

English tongue holds any word that expresses singularity

more strongly she was that.”
* * *

In the memorable debate between Alexander H. Stephens

and Benjamin H. Hill at Lexington, Ga., during the Presi-
dential campaign of 1856, Mr. Hill requested his opponent to '

read certain extracts from his public utterances tending to

show marked inconsistency in the positions he had taken on
pending political issues at different stages of his pubilc career.
In order to ensure faithful rendition of the incriminating record
he placed copies in the hands of a little boy with instructions
to notify the audience if omissions were made. Mr. Stephens
had proceeded but a little way with the unwelcome task when
the boy sang out : —
“He’s a skipping he’s a skipping.” This
incident has no earthly connection with the statement that if
any reader of these family details should find them lacking in
interest he has my cheerful permission to “skip.”
Returning then to the Old Testament progeny of Thomas,
his son Reuben, my grandfather, married Martha Jones Evans,
daughter of Daniel Evans, a Revolutionary soldier whose name
appears upon the roster of Captain Patrick Carr’s company of
Burke Co., Rangers in 1782.
As a result of this marriage there were born one son, Alex-
ander C., who rnarrried Virginia Anderson and after her death,
Mary Louise Stafford, and two daughters, Celestia V., who
was married to Edward R. Carswell and Martha R., who be-
came the wife of Dr. Samuel B. Clark. Numerous descendants
of these families now live in Richmond, Burke, Jefferson and
other counties. Reuben Walker died in 1820, aged thirty-two
years, his death having been the result of accidental poisoning
at the wedding supper given by Mrs. Nancy Bugg on the oc-
casion of her marriage to Alexander Kennedy. This marriage
occurred at the “Goshen Place” near where Hephzibah now
stands and as some inquiries have come to me* in regard to the
details of the accident, the following version furnished by Col.

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wedding a demijohn, that had lain open or stopperless for
months was sent to a wine dealer to be filled. The servant
failed to rinse it thoroughly and after my grandfather’s death
the attending physician found mingled with the wine the re-
mains of a poisonous species of spider. Other guests were
made seriously ill, but there were no other fatal results.
Among the descendants of Reuben Walker, his son, Col.
A. C. Walker deserves special mention. An intimate personal
friend of Toombs and Stephens, Jenkins and Cobb, he was one
of the brainiest men and most brilliant writers in the State.
He represented Richmond county in the General Assembly
for many
years and on the retirement of Mr. Stephens in 1859
from long continuous service as representative of the old
Eiglith Congressional District Col. Walker was nominated
unanimously as his successor. Having no political ambition he
declined the honor. A political drama written by him about
1850 and entitled “The Conspirators,” created a decided sensa-
tion and was first accredited to the brilliant and virile pen of
Robert Toombs.
During the heat and bitterness of the slavery agitation and
soon after the death of “Uncle Frank” one of his trusted and
valued negroes he wrote for N. P. Willis’ Home Journal of
New York “The Night Funeral of a Slave,” a sketch whose
beauty and tender pathos attracted wide attention and was
largely copied by the Northern and Southern press. His
ability as a writer was acknowledged by Gov. Johnson even
when they were at enmity. During the Johnson and Jenkins
gubernatorial campaign the former became offended by some-
thing Col. Walker had said or written against him and when
they met in Milledgeville the Governor declined to speak al-
though they had been schoolmates and friends from earliest
boyhood. Passing each other on the street or in the corridors
of the capital for weeks without recognition, Gov. Johnston
stopped one day abruptly and said “Walker, I want to ask a
:

favor of you.” “What is it Governor?” said Col. Walker. “I

want you to write an obituary of ” naming a rela-

tive by marriage who had recently died. “I know of no man

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the reply. know that,” said Johnson, ‘'and that is my
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reason for asking the favor. No man within the whole range
of my acquaintance can fix up a case of that kind as well as
yourself.” The paper was prepared and their relations became
friendly and cordial again.
Anothern prominent descendant of Reuben Walker w^as
Gen. Reuben W. Carswell, who commanded a Confederate
brigade in the ’60s, was nominated for Congress in the early ^
years following the war and filled for many years the bench
of the Middle Judicial Circuit.
Benjamin G. Walker, son of Thomas, married Caroline
Edwards, and had one daughter Mary who became the wife of
Martin and whose descendants now live in Alabama. After
the death of Benjamin G., his widow was married to Judge
Robert A. Allen of this county.
Of the other sons of Thomas, John D., William and Amos,
what I don’t know would probably fill a book. Beyond the fact
that John D. and Amos lie buried near their father and have
left no descendants my information does not extend.
And now before taking leave of the Walker tribe there are
two or three incidents in the general family history that may
not be lacking in interest to the reader.
During the Revolutionary War, Valley Forge was owned
by Joseph Walker and his home was headquarters for Wash-
ington’s officers. During all that cold and dreary winter of
1777 Joseph’.s good wife Sarah made corn mush and sent it
with milk to the sentinels standing guard near her home.
Helen Walker of Edinburgh, Scotland, was the original of
the beautiful character, Jeanie Deans, portrayed by Walter
Scott in his Heart of Mid Lothian. After her death, the tender
hearted novelist placed a monument at her grave bearing on its
face a beautiful tribute to her memory written with his own
hand.^
• Allusion has been made to the marriage of my grandfather
Reuben Walker to ^Martha Jones Evans. Nearly fifty years
later William Evans Walker, son of Col. A. C. Walker was
married to Sarah Eleanora Evans daughter of William Evans.

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These two unions of the two families add interest to the fact
that some centuries ago the marriage of Hannah Walker to
Samuel Evans of Wales, connected the Walker name and blood
with the King of Wales and the King of Man both of whom
were descended from King Lind who ruled Brittany when in-
vaded by Julius Caesar in 54 and 55 B. C.
Some years ago Camp 1389 U. C. V. secured the services
of Rev. Mr. Ledbetter, Pastor of the Methodist Church at
Louisville, Ga., in a lecture for their benefit. Major Wpi. T.
Gary was selected to introduce the speaker. While wafting
for the audience to materialize, which I regret to say it failed
to do, and while engaged in conversation with the lecturer and
Major Gary, the matter of pedigree became the subject of dis-
cussion. Mr. Ledbetter said that he was a descendant of King
George of England, and iMajor Gary, not caring to be over-
shadowed in ancestral prestige replied that he was more than
sixty years of age before he learned that he was a lineal descen-
dant of King Robert Bruce of Scotland.
The writer, absolutely unconscious of any trace or taint
or royal blood in his plebeian veins, sat by in still unbroken
silence. And yet if I had known then what I really do not
know now, that my Evans ancestral line carried me back to
Mervyn Vrych the King of Man and Essyx his wife the daugh-
ter of the King of Wales and through them both to old King
Lind of Early Brittany, whose brother Caswallon had with
his sturdy yeomanry driven back the veteran legions of Julius
Caesar frorn the British Coast, my tongue would scarce have
been so silent nor my lips so mute.
And yet if my friend Peter G. Walker is not off in his
arithmetic and if old King Lind had lived only a thousand
years ago and if as Tom Watson would say, he was “some
punkins” in his day, and if my Evans ancestral line came
directly from him, my share of his royal prestige would be
represented by the fraction one divided by one billion, three
hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-
four. Run it back another thousand years to this old sov-
ereign's ancient era and there my royal strain would vanish
into thin and misty air.

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Roll back the curtained panorama of the years for an
even century and what does its pictured canvas show to our
modern eyes? In the forefront of its shifting lights and
shadows sits Thomas Jefferson writing Presidential Messages
with his virile grey goose quill by the flickering light of a
tallow candle. Six years before, he had mounted his horse at
Monticello, had ridden unattended and alone to the newly
constructed capital at Washington, had hitched his mettled
steed to a sapling in its front, had brushed the dust of travel
from his Sunday clothes and in republican simplicity had de-
livered his brief inaugural. In 1807 he was filling his second
term as Chief Magistrate of the nation and was filling it

miglity well.
In a less pretentious structure in the little village of Louis-
ville, Ga., Jared Irwin was serving his second term also as
Governor of Georgia. as you
But scan the canvas as closely
may, you will find on its pictured face no railroad, no steam-
boat, no cooking stove, no sewing machine, and not even a box
of matches, nor a postage stamp in all the land. The pole
boat and the old time stage were the “public carriers” of
those old days, while the tinder box or horn with its flint and
steel attachments took the place of the modern match, when
the burning “chunk” though carefully imbedded in ashes
failed to preserve its incandescent glow through the long
winter nights. Letter writing in that day was a rather ex-
pensive pastime as every missive, loveladen or otherwise, re-
duced the writer’s bank account just twenty-five cents.
And what were the local conditions in this immediate
section? Augusta, although it had received its city charter
seven years before, was only a struggling town over whose
municipal destinies Gen. Thomas Flourney presided. There
were only two public roads in Richmond County one leading —
to Savannah, and the other to Louisville, where for twelve
years the State Government had lived and moved and had its
legal being. During the old slave days Mr. James Anderson,
who will receive further notice in these records, owned a negro
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whose name was George. A stranger passing the Anderson
home one day found George working in the grove, and being
uncertain as to his route said: “Uncle, where does this road
go to?” “Well boss,” said the old man, “I bin here a long
time and never see dat road go anywhar. It just nach’ully
I
stay right dar.”So this old Louisville road that forms the
commercial avenue of our town lies today where it lay a
hundred years ago and more, with no material changes in its
maiden path. Over its ungraded hills and unpaved -sandy
stretches the old time stage lumbered and jolted and toiled
while the driver probably “cussed” his team in conventional
Western style. The first stage station on this road was at the
old A. W. Rhodes place in our town and the room used for
this station still forms a part of the Rhodes dwelling. It was
kept by a certain Stringfellow or some other fellow, but I
have been able to secure no information as to his antecedents
or his post-cedents.
Col. Augustus H. Anderson, of old time Brothersville,
once went hunting and a little pet dog that had never heard
the report of a gun followed him into the woods. When the
first shot was fired the dog was standing by his side, but when

its echoes had died away the dog had adjourned sine die, and

was never seen again. The “Col.’s” solution of the matter was
that his canine pet through excessive ;fright had simply
“evaporated.” My friend Stringfellow seems to have suffered
a similar fate.
Oliver Cromwell once had his portrait painted. The artist
thinking to please the grim Protector left oft* the warts that
marred his rugged face, and when the stern old Puritan looked
upon the finished canvas he said: “No sir, I won’t have it,
paint me as I am, warts and all.” Tom Watson says that a
book is worth only the truth it holds, and so in giving a faith-
ful portrait of this community in its early days I fear I shall
have to paint at least one wart upon its old time face.
“ pity and pity ’tis true,” that in the early
’Tis true, ’tis

years of the i8th century Stringfellow or the other fellow, who

kept this stage station, not only looked upon the wine when it
was red but reddened the noses of the stage passengers by
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furnishing them liquid refreshments at so much per glass.
With the exalted reputation this community has sustained for
sobriety and good morals for all these years, I regret to place
this blur upon otherwise stainless record but as a truthful
its

chronicler I can not ignore the fact. The patrons of the old
stage routes did not enjoy a “two-cent fare” rate in those old
days. Rev. Adiel Sherwood in the 1829 edition of his Gazet-
teer gives the fare charged on a number of these routes but
none from Augusta to Louisville, probably for the reason
that when the latter place was shorn of its prestige by the
removal of the State Capitol to Milledgeville in 1807 the stage
line was possibly abandoned. The figures given indicate that
the rates were from 8 to 12 cents per mile. One statement
made by this clerical authority may both puzzle and amuse
the reader. It is as follows: ‘‘From Augusta to Charleston
$15.00 and found.” Those unfamiliar with the provincialisms
of other days might infer from this record that passengers on
the route named were sometimes lost and that -the rates
charged covered the expense" of finding them. To prevent any
misapprehension on this line it may not be amiss to say that
the language quoted simply means that the fifteen dollars
guaranteed to the patron of this route not only transportation
but “hog and hominy” in transit.
The early years following the close of the Revolutionary
War brought to this section a tide of immigration from other
and older States, notably from Virginia and North Carolina.
Among those who came to this immediate community there
was a Robert Allen who, as his grandson D. R. Allen informs
me, was a native of the Tar Heel State and who settled within
the present limits of our town. There were so many marriages
and inter-marriages among the families of the early settlers
and their stories are so largely blended that the clearness and
interest of the narrative will be enhanced by an enumeration
of Robert Allen’s contemporaries all of whom will receive in-
dividual and special notice in these annals. Among them were
Edmund Murphey who located at what is known as the old
Murphey place on the Louisville Road and within the present
limits of Hephzibah, about 1784, Elisha Anderson, Sr., who
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 lived near what is known as the Miller Spring and Aaron,
Absalom and Lewis Rhodes who were named to me by grand-
sons of two of them as three brothers who migrated to this sec-
tion with their sister Nancy Ann from North Carolina in the late
years of the i8th century. The late Wm. W. Rhodes of
Louisville, Ga., grandson of Aaron gave me this information
some years before his death and within the past few weeks
Judge R. H- P. Day grandson of /\bsalom has corroborated
the statement and yet other documentary evidence that^has
come to me later has convinced me that they were bo'th
laboring under the same traditional error. From entries in
the old family bibles of Edmund Murphey and Lewis Rhodes
I learn that Edmund married Nancy, the sister of Aaron and
Absalom in 1785, and that Lewis son of John Rhodes was born
in 1787. If Lewis came to Geeorgia with Aaron and Absolom
and Nancy, he must have made the trip several years before
he was born, and this seems hardly probable. In addition to
this, John A. Rhodes, son of Absalom referred to A. W.
Rhodes, son of Lewis, as his third cousin, and this would have
failed to express the true relationship if Absalom and Lewis
were brothers. My inference from the above is that John,
father of Lewis came with the Rhodes contingent from North
'
Carolina and that he was a cousip and not a brother of Aaron,
Absalom and Nancy. If the reader can reconcile the facts to
a different theory he is at liberty to do so and no demurrer
will be filed.
Within the soil of the old Allen burying ground in our
town there lies today, and has lain for more than a hundred
years, the dust of another and perhaps the earliest settler
within the limits of Hephzibah. The stone that marks his
—
grave bears this inscription: “Eleazor Brack Died 1801,” but
his identity seems largely lost in the mist of the years that
are gone. The only information that I have been able to
gather is Anderson married a Miss Brack and that
that Elisha
Mrs. Virginia Davis thinks that Eleazor was her ancient
"kinsman. But of these matters and of others, as the rural cor-
respondent said '‘More Anonymous.’'

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 ROBERT ALLEN.
Between the years 1757 and 1774 a section of land was
granted to John Allen in Richmond County, and between 1785
and 1788 other sections were taken up by David, Gideon and
Samuel Allen. Between 1787 and 1791 Daniel, Robert, Joseph,
William and John Allen located in what was then St. Georges
Parish, now Burke and Jefferson counties. The Allen tribe,
therefore, seems to have been well represented in this imme-
diate territory. Whether the Burke or Jefferson Robert was
identical with the one under discussion, or whether the latter
was related in any way to the others named, I do not know.
My friend D. R. Allen informs me that the residence of
his grandfather Robert Allen stood about midway between
the site of the old Kilpatrick or Mr. J. Carswell ho.me and
the Louisville Road, or just in rear of Mr. U. B. Frost’s
dwelling, and that the blacksmith shop where the first Allen
plow was made, glowed and shone with its old-time furnace
and bellows and rang with its ancient hammer and anvil near
the present site of the Baptist Church. He stated, further, that
the sites were pointed out to him by his father, Elisha A.
Allen, who lived in the Home and Who probably in his early
manhood hardened his muscles in the blacksmith shop. This
seemed to settle the matter beyond a peradventure. But now
cometh my old friend and schoolmate, James A. Carswell,
who deposeth and saith that the location named can not be
the correct one for the reason that there was no spring near it,
and in addition to this that he has eaten fruit from the old
Allen orchard near what was once known as the Allen spring
half a mile away. I regret that my friend James has seen fit
to “spring” such an objection to what I thought to be an es-
tablished fact, and regret likewise that I have fallen into his-
torical difficulties through the same agency that brought to the
life of old Mother Eve her moral troubles, namely, the eating

of apples.
Since modern research has thrown discredit on the Wm.
Tell apple story and on the George Washington hatchet inci-
dent as well, the value of tradition as a historjcal asset seems

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to be on the wane. It may be that in the days to come some
skeptic will arise and say that no man. ever hit Billy Patterson,
but that he was simply struck by an idea and that the resultant
injury from so unusual an occurrence was so grave that its
distant echoes linger in the corridors of time.
Ah well, whatever may have been the exact site of his
home, the fact remains that Robert Allen, a hundred years
ago and more, lived within the present limits of Hephzibah,
and was not only the father of the Allen plow but of a goodly
number of sons and daughters. He married Elizabeth Ander-
son, the only child of Elisha Anderson, Sr., by his first mar-
riage. His wife must have been a very lovable woman, or she
must have had tact enough to induce her husband to think so,
as he gave both his sons, Robert and Elisha, her maiden name.
His daughters in their matrimonial alliances seemed to develop
a predilection for men who wore judicial honors, his daughter
Martha having married Judge Wm. J. Rhodes, son of Aaron
Rhodes, and Jane having become the wife of Judge Edmund
Palmer, son of Jonathan Palmer. A third daughter, Elizabeth,
was married to Alexander, son of Edmund Murphey, but the
judicial fever in that case did not riseabove normal until the
advent of a grandson, the present clever and genial postmaster
of our town, who is known as Judge H.*L. Murphey. Of four
remaining daughters by his first marriage, Rosa married Ben-
jamin Wooding, Polly, Crawford, Sarah, Jackson and Emily
was never married. After the death of his wife Robert Allen
married a widow living in Columbia county and Hattie, the
only child of this marriage, became the wife of Henry Wash-
burn of Savannah.
‘

Of his sons, Robert A. married Priscilla Wood and after

her death Caroline, widow of Benjamin G. Walker. Elisha A.
married Jeannette Evans, daughter of Daniel Evans. Judge
Robert A. Allen for many years a prominent and useful citizen
of this county left two sons, Frank and Robert, and one
daughter, Cornelia (Hull). Elisha A. had three sons, Robert
H., Elisha A. Jr., and D. Richard Allen, and three daughters,
Anna, 'Margaret and Jennie. He was a prominent and suc-
cessful planter in the adjoining county of Burke. Through
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the marriage of his daughter Jane to Edmund Palmer, Robert
Allen became the grandfather of James E., John T., Robert
and Savannah Palmer, and through the marriage of Rosa to
Benjamin Wooding, of their children Mary, Martha and Ed-
ward. His descendants through the Rhodes and Murphey al-
liances will receive proper mention in the stories of Aaron
Rhodes and Edmund Murphey.
If the information given me by his grandson is authentic
Robert Allen in his early manhood varied his agricultural
operations by sowing a lot of “wild oats,’^ but finding the
outcome from that particular method of diversion unsatisfac-
tory he reformed, entered the communion of the Methodist
church and for many years was a prominent and useful local
minister. During all his later life Rev. Nicholas Murphey
and Rev. Alexander Avret were his co-laborers in the pro-
pagation of the Arminian Creed in this section. The following
story, in which the three were the dramatis personae, was told
me by Rev. E. R. Carswell, Sr., and is probably absolutely
trustworthy. I give it the alliterative heading of

PLANKGATE PIETY.
In the early days- of Methodism any effort at ornamen-
tation either in dress or doniestic surroundings was looked
upon as a direct inspiration of the Evil One. On one occasion
his two co-laborers were traveling together the Louisville Road
and in passing through what is now Hephzibah they came
directly in front of the Robert Allen residence. Looking
toward it they noticed that an old-fashioned set of “bars,” that
had formed the means of entrance to and egress from his
barnyard or lot, had been replaced by a plain plank gate. It
added much to the convenience of the situation and destroyed
in that particular case at least the old-time boyish job ot
“minding the bars.” The plank of which it was made was
undressed and unpainted, but it looked better than the old and
the change furnished to the two preachers strong circumstan-
tial evidence that Brother Allen was growing^worldly minded

and in imminent danger of “falling from grace,” and they both

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then and there solemnly covenanted with each other that they
would pray for him that he might be delivered from the
snares of the Wicked One, and restored to his former strict
adherence to the tenets of the Methodist Creed.
If old Father Murphey and old Father Avrett were alive
today and were to ride together, as in the old days, from Tybee
light to Rabun Gap no set of “bars” perhaps would greet
their vision through all that weary travel, but gates enpugh
‘
to vex their righteous souls for all the years to come.
As it is not my purpose to confine this story to the narrow
limitations of strict historic detail, and as my last instalment
closed with an incident which may seem to have furnished
“one on” the old time Methodists of. this community, and as
our towm in its denominational alignment is confined largely
to members of that creed and of the Baptist faith and order,
it may not be amiss to even up by giving a similar reminis-
cence for the benefit and behoof of my many friends of the last
named church.
Allusions have been made to the marriage of Edmund
Palmer, son of Jonathan, to Jane Allen, daughter of Robert.
With the tide of immigration that flowed into this section
from the old North State a hundred years ago and more, there
came to this country Jonathan, George, William, Nathaniel and
Jeff Palmer, with two sisters, Mrs. Rowland and Mrs. Wash-
ington. These five brothers are the progenitors of the numer-
ous family of that name now to be found in this and adjoining
counties, as well as in other sections, and in other States.
During my college days at. Emory, Prof James E. Palmer,
grandson of Jonathan and of Robert Allen, as well, occupied
the Latin chair in that institution, and filled it ably as he did
every other position to which public or private duty called
him. His son, Howard E. W. Palmer, who has inherited in
full measure the gifts arid graces of his worthy ancestry, is
filling large space in the official, professional and religious life
of Atlanta today.
In the waning hours of a winter day in 1905, I had just
taken my seat in the Augusta Southern train, preparatory to
my ride to my home in Hephzibah, when a tall, fine looking.
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well preserved man with a ministerial look on his open face
and w^ell dressed form, entered the coach and seating himself
near me began a railway conversation, which revealed to me
that after a break of thirty years and more I was renewing my
acquaintance with Lewis D. Palmer, of Nashville, Tenn., son
of “Uncle Jimmie” as he was familiarly known, and grandson
of Jonathan Palmer. Among the delightful reminiscences
with which he entertained me during our hour’s ride together
he gave me the following story of his grandfather, which I
place among these memories as a sort of offset to “Plankgate
Piety” and label it in the same alliterative way as

A CURIOUS CURE FOR CALVINISM,

Jonathan Palmer, after leaving his home in North Caro-
lina, crossed the Savannah at old Petersburg, and after passing
through the fertile lands and virgin forests of Lincoln and
Columbia, by some strange perversity of business judgment,
located on the thin pine soil that borders the waters of Sandy
Run in Richmond county.
Though a Methodist by training and family tradition, he
found himself surrounded in his new home entirely by Baptist
neighbors, who were holding weekly religious services in one
of' God’s temples, unprotected from sun and rain, save by a
rude brush arbor. Jonathan joined in with them and when
they were about to suspend on account of the approach of
winter he suggested that they build a log church. The plans
met their approval, the material was cut and hauled, and when
the walls were finished and a shapely piece of timber had been
placed in partial position as a girder they suspended work for
the day. Frequent friendly spats as to doctrine had occurred
between Jonathan and his Calvinistic neighbors and as they
were about to separate for the night one of them pointing to
the shapely girder said: “That log was everlastingly pre-
destined from the beginning of time to lie on this church and
no other log could take its place.” “But,” said Methodist
Jonathan, “some one may come along here tpnight and cut
that log in two.” “It couldn’t be done,” was the reply. “The

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Lord would palsy his hand.” They parted, and as they went
their several ways Jonathan said to his slave, Ed, who was
aiding in the work. “Take your axe and a pine torch tonight,
go back to that church, and cut that log in two, but hitch up
your team at daylight and have another piece of timber there
to take its place when we begin work.” Under the shadow I*

of the autumn night Ed carried out his orders faithfully and |

when the laborers met to resume their work, the shapely girder
lay on the ground cut into two sections and unfit for, its in-
tended use. The substitute was used and the work completed,
but no palsied hands were found in all that section, and the
incident so undermined the faith of the community that it
resulted in the establishment of old Ariel Methodist church,
that stood for many years near the scene of- Ed’s nocturnal
labors.
My friend, Lewis D., gave me an incident in his father’s
which
life while not directly connected with my story, may be
worthy of record in these annals for the moral that it bears,
j

On his annual visit to his father’s from his home in

last
Nashville, he found him planting an orchard and though
|

eighty-six years of age, setting the trees with his own hands, j

To his son’s inquiry “why are you planting an orchard when

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you can have no hope at your age to gather fruit from it?” i

“I am not planting with any such purpose,” was the reply, !

“I am planting for those who come after me.” And then lean- !

ing on his spade he added “Lew, I want to give you two rules, j

one for working and one for living. A man ought to work as '

if he \vere going to live forever. A man ought to live as if he

were going to die tomorrow.” And his son as he finished the .

recital said to me “I have never known more moral wisdom

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compressed into so short a space,” a statement which the

reader will scarcely feel disposed to challenge. Two months
j

later.Uncle Jimmie went to his long home, and I am sure few

gentler and purer, better men have ever breathed the air of
earth or found a warmer welcome at the gate of Heaven.
The log church just referred to was not the only one of
similar primitive architecture, that supi>4ied the spiritual needs
of the early settlers in this section. Contemporary with it and .

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only a little removed from the present limits of our town, there
stood in those old days a hewn log church known in my early
boyhood by the rather contradictory title of “Old New Hope.” •

During the old days I enjoyed the friendship of a negro

preacher who always referred to his pulpit service as “offish-
uating.” The proximity of the church just named, and of “Old
Liberty,” to the residence of Robert Allen, furnishes pre-
sumptive evidence that at their sacred desks and within their
primitive but prayer hallowed walls, a large measure of his
own “offishuating” was done. I have in my possession an
old register of New Hope Church, compiled April 9th, 1833.
On one of its pages time stained and yellowed with age, there
is a record of the baptism of twenty-two of my grandfather’s

twenty-five children. For the first three entries, made for the
year 1812, my father among them. Rev. Robert Allen is named
as administrator of the ordinance. The latest similar record
with which his name is made for the year 1816.
connected is

Aside from his ministerial labors, Robert Allen was an

enterprising and successful man of affairs, owning a public mill
and gin propelled by an overshot wheel on a small stream near
his home. To this gin in those old days cotton was brought
from sections twenty miles away to be prepared for market.
Of the date of his death and the exact location of his
burial place, I am not advised, but after his second marriage
he moved to Columbia county, and somewhere within its soil
his dust has lain for all these years. No trace is left of his old
time home where he lived and labored a hundred years ago.
The busy clang of his ringing anvil and the drowsy hum of
his rumbling mill have long since died upon the woodland
air, and yet in the life and character of his descendants, noted

as they are for intelligence, integrity and moral worth, he

still lives and will live till earth is childless and time’s no

more.

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 EDMUND MURPHEY.
When Oglethorpe left the English shores in 1736, on his
second visit to the Georgia colony, there came with him as
immigrants Nicholas Murphey and wife, who settled in the
then small village of x\ugusta. Nicholas served for five years
as a member of His Majesty’s Troop of Rangers and was
granted one acre of land in the town and 250 acres on the
river below Augusta. On November 24, 1745, the traditional
stork made them a visit, and brought to their home a boy, to
whom they gave the name of Edmund, and who by his own
claim was the first white male child born in Augusta. I was
not keeping a diary in those old days, and cannot therefore
certify to the absolute accuracy of this claim but from the
;

number of white males now resident in this goodly city, and

from the number who have made their entrance and their
exit for all these years, this accommodating bird seems to have
been kept reasonably busy in supplying prospecitve white
voters ever since baby Edmund headed the procession.
The boy grew up to manhood and married a Betsey Ann,
but of her further “trimmings,” as they are sometimes termed,
I am not advised. As the fruit of this marriage there was
born to Edmund a son, James, whose descendants are now
living in Augusta, and in the 1269th district of this county.
There was also one daughter, Nancy Ann, who became the
wife of Aaron Rhodes. As Edmund in later life married
Nancy Ann, the sister of the aforesaid Aaron, and as he gave
to a daughter by that marriage the name of Elizabeth x\nn,
it would indicate that among Edmund’s personal family hold-
ings there was abunch of exactly four Anns. This seems a
little unreasonable, and I have hard to figure out a dif-
tried
ferent result, but the facts seem to be against me. At the
morning meal of an old-tfme family, who kept up the com-
mendable custom of requiring each of its members to repeat
a verse of Scripture, after the “grace” was said, two transient
guests once sat. The father asked the blessing, and then led
oflF, while the children, trained to the jiabit, followed without

a break, until the circuit of the table had been made, and the

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guests were reached. The responded promptly with, “And
first

Peter went out and wept bitterly.”The other ransacked his

brain in vain for a familiar shred of Holy Writ; but his Bible
knowledge at that particular juncture was filed away in the
column of unavailable assets. Finally, to break the oppressive
silence, and redeem his waning reputation he decided to en-
dorse the last quotation made, and mentally referring to Peter’s
penitential tears, he smiled and said, “He sho’ did.” And so, in
canvassing the evidence pro and con, as to whether Edmund
Murphey really had this multiplicity of Anns in his family
household, I am compelled to believe that “he sho’ did.”
Some years ago the public mind, mathematically inclined,
was puzzling its wits to solve a problem whose main objective
point was voiced in the query, “How old was Ann?” I do not
know that the problem found its birth in the conditions named
above, but if Edmund had ever tried to solve it, it would have
surely vexed his worried brain to know which Ann was
meant.
The first installment of his matrimonial life was marred
in some degree by seven years’ effort of the colonies to leave
the maternal roof and set up housekeeping for themselves.
He enlisted in the American army, was captured by the British,
or Tories, was imprisoned in Fort Grierson, and afterwards
in Fort Augusta, and was only released when the last named
Fort was captured and its garrison surrendered to Pickens
and Lee in 1782. During his incarceration in Fort Grierson,
Col. Brown, the Tory commander, in retaliation for the mur-
der of a British officer after his surrender, ordered twelve of
the prisoners hanged on the stairway of the fort. Edmund
must have been a man of some shrewdness, for havingno special
desire to have any part or lot in that matter, he quietly hid
away in the cellar of the building until the drawing was over.
But for this evidence of his thorough acquaintance with the
law of self-preservation, he might have had no part or lot in
this story.
When the war had ended, Edmund, for Revolutionary
service,was granted in 1784 a section of land; and in further
evidence of his good sense, he located in this community.

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building his home within the present limits of our town. This
home, with its landed estate, now known as the “Old Murphey
Place,” has remained in the possession of Edmund’s de-
scendants for all these years, and is now owned by his great-
grandson, Dr. Eugene E. Murphey. About the date of this
landgrant the Rhodes contingent consisting of Aaron, Abso-
lom, their sister Nancy, and probably their cousin John Rhodes,
came to this county from North Carolina. Nancy must have
been a comely maid, for she had lived in her Georgia borne
but a little while when Edmund Murphey persuaded her to
become his second wife. As Mormon elders had not begun
missionary operations in this section at that date, it is hardly
necessary for me to say that his first wife was not then living.
This marriage occurred February lo, 1785. Some years later
Aaron Rhodes, in order to recoup himself for the loss of a sis-
ter Nancy, married Edmund Murphey’s daughter Nancy,
and thus matrimonial matters between the families were
evened up. This marital exchange seems to have developed
in the family and its connections a sort of hereditary mania,
or idiosyncrasy, on the subject of Nancys, Absalom^ Rhodes,
brother of Aaron, gave the name to one of his daughters, while
Nicholas, son of Edmund, and grandson of Aaron, aside from
having a mother, sister, daughter and granddaughter of the
same name, married two Nancys, though not at one and the
same time.
The writer disclaims very earnestly entertaining any per-
sonal grievance against the name of Nancy, for in other years
his life was blessed by the love of an aunt, who bore that name,
and who, like many of her sex, similarly cTiristened, belonged
to “the salt of the earth.” And yet if I were a young man, and
unmarried, and were looking out for some confiding woman,
whose tender ministrations would bless my home, and whose
gentle hands would darn my socks, and comfort my declining
years, it does seem to me that there would be at least some
slight inclination to draw the line at Nancy Ann, and Samantha
Jane, unless of course there were extenuating circumstances.
With a vocabulary of such names as Ruth and Esther,
(Mary and Martha, Ethel and Agnes, and others of like euphony

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and sweetness at their command, I have been at a loss to un-
derstand why these old-time people, sensible as they were,
in other matters, should have been willing to burden and alflict
their helpless and innocent offspring with some of the names
they were compelled to bear through life, for names, like
postage stamps and porous plasters, stick.
In a record of the ‘'Old Colony Walkers” of New England
I 10 Mercys, 7 Mehitables, 6 Patiences, 5 Wealthys, 4
find
Comforts, 3 Keziahs, 2 Experiences, i Thankful, i Rejoice, i
Relief, i Mandaua, i Diadam.a, and
i Hephzibah, with several

precincts to hear from. In evidence of the fact that the

Murphey famdly did not enjoy an absolute monopoly of the
Nancys in that day, I find on this record twenty-two bearing
that name, some of them plain Nancys, some of them with an
attachment, two of them Nancy Tituses, who were probably
also “plain.” And now in justice to the Nancys past, present
and to come I desire to say that in my humble judgment the
name in comparison with some appellatives that were common
in Other days is as my friend Tom Pilcher would say, “Not
only a daisy but a regular geranium.” Some years ago there
fell into my hands a batch of old letters written to my grand-

father and running in date from 1806 to 1845. Among the

items gleaned from them I found that among my own tribe
on that particular line there had been a Peninah, an Azariah
and others of like handsome and rhythmical nomenclature.
A fair young relative who had in some way contracted a
rather serious type of the D. A. R. fever wrote to me for some
information as to her Revolutionary antecedents and in re-
ply I told her that with a family tree whose branches bore such
fruitage her chances for admission surely ought to grade “Strict
Middling.” Artemas Ward once stood behind the footlights
on a London stage to deliver his famous panorama lecture.
Having unbounded faith in the skill of the artist whose hands
had traced the canvas he pointed to a figure on its pictured .

face and said “That figure is intended to represent a horse

:

—that is I think it is.” To any reader therefore who may be

unable to trace the connection, logical or illogical between

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I
not be amiss to say that itis probably intended as a digression.

The dividends from Edmund Murphey’s second matri-

monial investment were larger than from his first, aggregating
five boys, Nicholas, Alexander, Leroy, John and Edward; and
five girls, Elizabeth Ann, (Evans), Levicy (Hull), Mary or
‘Tolly” (Rheney), Maria (Brown), and Harriet, who died in
1829, unmarried. Taking the sons in order given, Nicholas,
who waning days of 1785 came as a Christmas gift to
in the
his parents, was married February 7, 1805, to Nancy
Collins. By this marriage there came to Nicholas two
sons, Milledge and Moses C., and seven daughters, Sarah
(Clark), Elizabeth,Mary (Daniel), Levinah (Avret), Nancy
(Rheney), Jane and Martha (Daniel). Moses C. lived but a
few months, and Elizabeth and Jane were never married.
March 20, 1819, Nancy, first wife of Nicholas, died, and May
20, 1820, he was married to Nancy Carswell, daughter of
John, and granddaughter of Alexander and Isabella Carswell,
who came to Georgia from Ireland in or about 1770, and who
were the progenitors, not only of the Hephzibah contingent
of that name, but of many other contingents in many other
sections of the State.
By his second marriage the family of Nicholas was in-
creased by the addition of four sons, Edmund T., John C.,

John C. No. 2, the first having lived only a few months, and
Nelson Wright, and two daughters, Caroline Elizabeth, who
lived only a few years, and Elizabeth Ann, who married Need-
ham Bullard.
Among the descendants of Nicholas through his son Mil-
ledge areMoses C. Murphey, Julian, Weems and Curtis Smith
of Augusta and their several families. . Sarah, who married
Charles Clark, had only sixteen children, three of whom
survive. One of these, Rev. Milton A. Clark, has been labor-
among the Indians for more than twenty
ing as a missionary
years. Other descendants by the last marriage are. Dr.
Eugene E. Murphey and Geo. S. Murphey of Augusta, Ell-
wood Murphey of Atlanta, Jno. M. C. Murphey of Hephzibah,

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and Mrs. Ella Salter of Tampa, Fla. The limitations of these
records forbid fuller specializing.
As a local minister of the Methodist churph, Rev. Nicholas
Mnrphey rendered able, earnest and faithful service to his
[Master. He was a strict constructionist of Mr. Wesley’s “Gen-
eral Rules,” evidence of which has been already given in the
“Plankgate” incident. On a trip to Atlanta thirty years ago
and more, I chanced to get a seat in the railway coach just in
the rear of Rev. Lovick Pierce, D. D., the Nestor of Georgia
Methodism. The word “picnic” was used by some one in
the car, and the Dr. said : “I never hear that word without
thinking of old Nickie Murphey of Richmond county. After
a social occasion of this kind in his community, he preached on
the succeeding Sabbath, and after dw^elling at some length on
the sin of worldly amusements, he closed with this climax
T understand you have all been picknicking it. Yes, you can
picnic now, but some of these days “Old Nick” is going to
”
pick you.’
Rev. E. R. Carswell, Sr., once gave me the following il-

lustration of another “curious cure,” but not for Calvinism

in this case. During Gov. Wm. Schley’s administration of the
Richmond Factory Plant, “Uncle Nickie” had occasion to
visit his office. The governor, seeing an inflamed wart on the
preacher’s hand, said : “Mr. Murphey, if you will follow my
directions, you can cure that wart. As you ride home, stop
at the first smooth pebble you see in the road, rub its under
side over the wart, make a cross mark in the road, deposit the
pebble carefully in the cross and then drive away without
looking backward.” The preacher had probably but little
faith in the prescription,but took the medicine according to
directions, and when he saw Gov. Schley again, two weeks
later, the unsightly protuberance had gone “where the wood-
bine twineth.”
Uncle Nickie’s ministerial labors embraced an “appoint-
mert” at Richmond Factory and probably at New Flope and
Liberty churches, with an occasional service at the old
Brothersville Academy. After serving his generation by the
wii; of God, he fell on sleep Jan. 8, 1853. Flis wife survived

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him for sixteen years, dying May 23, 1869. They both sleep
in the old Murphey burying ground, near Hephzibah, but on
the stones that mark their graves, in deference to the wishes
of the dead, no line or letter has been traced or carved to tell

who lies beneath.

Alexander, second son of Edmund, was not a strong be-
liever in single blessedness, having taken the oath of allegiance
matrimonially on three separate occasions. His first marriage,
to Elizabeth Kinlow, brought no olive plants to grace or bless
his home By his second marriage, to Eliza-
or hearthstone.
beth, daughter of Robert Allen, there came to him two sons,
Robert and William, and a daughter, Frances. After the
death of Elizabeth, and the conventional widowerhood had
passed, forgetting the advice given by Mr. Weller to his son
“Samivel,” he married Margaret, the widow of Henry Seaborn
Jones, one of the numerous tribe of that name, who trace with
some degree of pride their lineage back to “Sweathouse
Peter,'’ for whom Petersburg, Va., is said to have been named.
When their union occurred, Margaret had already to her credit
as a legacy from her first marriage, four sons, William, Thom-
as, P>att and Henry Drummond, and three daughters, Grace
Sarah and Henrietta. The union of the parents started the
matrimonial ball to rolling, and its revolutions never ended
until all the marriageable material in the two batches of
children had been exhausted. William Jones married Frances
Murphey, and Robert Murphey married Grace Jones, and after
her death married her sister Henrietta, and William Murphey
married Sarah Jones, whose gracious presence still today
abides among us. as I write these simple annals, as a symbol
and a token of the sweetness and the fragrance of the times
that seem so olden, and the years that were so golden, and
the days that are no more.
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latter did not seem to take kindly to the idea. “When I was
no older than you are,” said the father, ‘T married your
mother, and I think you ought to marry.” “But. said the
•'on. "that was different: you married ma right here at home,

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and rd have to go off and marry some strange gal.” The
conditionsnamed above certainly relieved William Jones and
Robert and William Murphey of the unpleasant necessity of
going off to marry “some strange gal.”

Two children were born to Alexander and Margaret,

after their marriage, Margaret, who married William Womack,
and Caroline, who died in her early womanhood. Leroy, son
of Edmund", married Lucinda Brown, and lived between
Hephzibah and Story’s mill. Three sons and three daughters
were born to them, John M., Emerson, Leroy, Isabella (Hlllis),
Sophia (Powell), and Maud Alice (Ratcliffe). Mrs. John W.
Hillis, daughter, and Mrs. O. B. Stoughton, granddaughter,
are now living in Augusta.
To Charles Rheney and his wife, “Polly” there came ten
children: John W., who married Nancy Murphey, and after-
wards Mary Eleanor Clark, Elisha A., who married Julia
Rhodes, Frederick, who married Nancy Moore, Edmund, who
married Martha Denham, Levicey (Rogers), Mary Ann
(Cook), Rosa (McNair), Lucinda (Agerton), Amanda (Duke)
and Harriet, who never married. Many descendants of “Polly”
through her numerous offspring are now living in Richmond,
Burke, Jefferson and other counties of this and other States.
Robert Evans and Elizabeth Ann, his wife, had only two
children, Marcus, who married Emeline Palmer, daughter of
Jonathan Palmer, by his second marriage, and ^lary J., who
married first William T. Malone, son of Robert, and after-
wards John H. Rhodes, son of John A. Their children and
grandchildren may be found at Bartow, Wadley, and in other
sections of Jefferson, and at Tennille, in Washington county.
Edmund Murphey December lo, 1821, and Nancy,
died
his wife,August Their bodies rest in the old bury-
12, 1825.
ing ground near his old home, and on their graves there are
lying today stones, the counterpart of which I have never
seen on any other graves in all the land. Quarried in old
time coffin outlines from a granite boulder that lies only a
mile away, and weighing each a ton or more, they rest the
full length of the graves, with seeming intent to bar a possible

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resurrection of the sacred dust that has lain so still beneath
their massive weight for all these years.
Edmund’s generation of many names forms a material
share of the present population of this section of the State,
adding largely to its thrift,, its intelligence, its good citizen-
ship, its business integrity, and its moral and religious tone.
And now with the blood of these old-time people trickling
through the veins of my wife and children, with personal
knowledge in early life of four of them who bore these names,
and with kindly reverence for them all, why have I empha-
sized this Ann and Nancy feature of these records?
'
A story given me by my old friend and comrade, W. J.
Steed, may illustrate the reason. An old time negro, who
had been in the service of a prominent Augusta family for
years, came into the office to make his tax returns. In the
conversation that ensued, he told myPhunie that he
friend
had found a large snake coiled in a nest where his hens were
laying. When the intruder had been despatched it was found
that he had gulped down not only the fresh eggs, but the
porcelain nest egg as well, and the old man, with a twinkle
in his honest eyes, said : “Speck he would a found that chiny
aig right hard to injest.”
So this little side line or by play has been interjected as
a sort of mental peruna to aid the readers in “injesting” the
genealogical meals my pen is trying to furnish. And now in
winding up the matter not only sine die, but forever and a day,
I am glad to give it a happy and fitting climax. On the day
in which my tribute to the Anns and Nancys met the public
eye there came to bless the home of my young friend, John
E. Murphey and his charming wife, a baby girl, the great,
great, great-grandaughter of Edmund Murphey. Her little
brother, six years old, was so delighted with her advent that
he went out to make announcement to the world, and when
the question came, “What are you going to name her?” he
promptly answered “Nancy Ann.”

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 ELISHA ANDERSON. jL^7330 /^8
Elisha Anderson was probably an earlier resident of this
community than any of those to whom special reference has
been made in these records, save Thomas Walker. Between
the years 1757 and 1774 James Anderson was granted a section
of land in Richmond county, and between 1764 and 1774 simi-
lar headrights were taken out by James and Elizabeth Ander-
son in Burke county. The frequent recurrence of these two
names among the descendants of Elisha Anderson and the ;

ownership by him of landed estates in both of the counties

named indicate very strongly that he was the son of this James
and probably the nephew of Elizabeth. A hundred years ago
and more Elisha lived near what is now known as the Miller
Spring in our town and not far away from the site of the
present residence of our townsman, Frank W. Carswell. I
know very little of this earlier resident’s characteristics, but
his record shows that he entertained a very high regard for
what is known as the better half of creation, having married
four different and distinct times. His first wife was either
sister or daughter of Eleazor Brack, whose dust has lain en- !

tombed in the old Allen graveyard since Oct. ii, 1801. By

this marriage there was only one child, Elizabeth, who became |

the wife of Robert Allen. His second marriage to Miss.Cald- j

well seems to have been barren of any issue. Flis third wife
|

was the widow of William Rheney, and was originally Mary

j

Holzendorf, whose parents lived in Glynn county and were

|

probably descendants of German Salzburghers, who came over

with Oglethorpe 1736 and settled at Frederica, St. Simons
in
and other points on the Georgia coast. By her first marriage
Mrs. Rheney had three sons, John, William and Charles, and
a daughter who married John Devine. My friend, Rev.
George Smith, in his Story of Georgia gives the name of ;

William Rheney in the list of settlers, who were granted

headrights in Burke and Jefferson counties between the years
1783 and 1788. This was probably the William who married
Mary FTolzendorf, and who I am informed by his grand-
daughter Mrs. Vicie Rogers of Wrens, Ga., came to Georgia

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from 'Virginia. To Elisha Anderson his wife Mary bore three
sons,. James, Elisha and Augustus and a daughter, Rosa.

James Andersen married first Sarah Bradley, to whom the

following children were born James, Augustus, John, Mary,
:

Elizabeth, Rosa, William and Lawrence, the last two dying

in childhood.
By Malvina Kinlow there were
his second marriage to
first named being
three children, Ella, Susan and Martha, the
the only one who survived her childhood years and reached
maturity.
James Jr., son of James by his first marriage, married
Julia W. Clinton, of Burke county, who bore to him one
daughter, Mary, who is now living in Augusta.
After the
death of James Jr., his widow, Julia, was married to Gen.
James Barnwell Hayne, to whom she bore one son, Linwood
C. Hayne, now the popular and efficient president of the Na-
tional Bank Augustus H. Jr., son of James, mar-
of Augusta.
ried Susan, daughter of Augustus H. Anderson, Sr., and their
children, Martha, Howard and James now live in Burke coun-
ty, Cora (Shewmake), the eldest, having died some years ago.
Their mother still survives at a good old age.
John and Mary, children of James, died unmarried in
early manhood and womanhood. Rosa V., was married to J.
Jones Reynolds and* her surviving children, Foster, Joseph
and James, are living in Burke county. J. Jones was so well
pleased with his first wife that after her death he married her
sister, Lizzie W., who survives him, and is now living in
Waynesboro, Ga. Ella E., daughter of James, was married to
Rev. J. O. A. Clark, D. D., and she and her children are now
residents of Macon, Ga.
Elisha Anderson, Jr., married Jane Mc-
son of Elisha Sr.,

Cullers. My who seems to have an unlimited

friend Steed,
supply of illustrative stories, once told this A lady was asked
:

the number of her children and after the information was

given there followed this additional inquiry: “WhaL are
they?’* ‘‘Mostly boys and girls,” she replied. Elisha Ander-
son’s offspring seems to have differed from this descriptive
family catalogue as they were not only “mostly,” but entirely.
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Edmund B. Gresham Harriet, who married Henry D. Green-
;

wood; Rosa, who married Elisha Harris, and Louisa, who died
unmarried. Some further notice of these families will be
given in the Brothersville feature of this story.
Augustus H., son of Elisha Sr., married Sarah Jones, and
two daughters came to bless their union, Martha, who was
married to Moses P. Green, son of Jesse, and Susan, w^ho has
been already named as the wife of Augustus H. Anderson, Jr.
Two children were born to Martha and Moses P. Green;
George, who married Kate Thomas, and Edward, who married
Fulcher. Rosa, daughter of Elisha xA.nderson, Sr.,
was first married to John ^^lorrison, to whom she bore a son,
Robert, and a daughter, Sarah (Dowse). After the death of
her first husband she became the wdfe of Dr. Baldwin B. Mil-
ler, a Virginian, who came to Georgia in one of the early

decades of the last century, and after his first marriage lived
for a time at the old Elisha Anderson home in our town. Tw'O
children were born of this marriage, Baldwin Jr., and a daugh-
ter, Frances, who married Henry J. Schley. After Rosa’s
death Dr. Miller married Cornelia, daughter of Rev. Joseph.
Polhill.
Dr. Miller, after his residence at the old Anderson home,
lived for a time at Mount Enon, then in Burke county, re-
turning in his later years to Hephzibah, where his last days
were spent and where his widow and two daughters Lavinia
(Carswell) and Lula (Frost) now reside. The Dr. was a
skillful physician, an eminently successful planter, a man of
exceptional energy and business sense and accumulated during
his long life a large landed estate.
Elisha Anderson, Sr., after the death of his third wife,
married a Miss Womble, who bore him one daughter, Virginia
P. After Elisha’s death his widow married a Mr. Danforth
and spent her later years in Alabama. Virginia first married
Dr. Edward Hughes, brother of Judge William W. Hughes,
and son of Capt. Henry Hughes, who served as an officer
through the Revolutionary War. Capt. FTughes belonged to
the order of the Cincinnati, organized by the American of-

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ficers after the close of the
of his grandson,Benjamin S. Hughes, the original certificate
of membership handsomely engraved and signed by “G. Wash-
ington, President.” Dr Edward tiughes lived only a year or
two after his marriage and his young and handsome widow
became the wife of Col. A. C. Walker. Elisha, Sr., died and
was buried at his Burke county home where his great-grand-
son, Foster Reynolds, and his family, now live. Some future
reference will be made to his three sons in the Brothersville
period of these records.

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 THE RHODES TRIBE.
ABSALOM.
Rev. Patrick H. Mell, D. D., learned, and witty, and wise,
and probably in his day the most distinguished exponent of
the Baptist faith in Georgia, once said to himself, if he failed
to say aloud, asSimon Peter once did, “I go a fishing.” The
genial D. D. was amply able mentally to row his own boat or
paddle his own canoe, but on this particular occasion, not
wishing to be handicapped in his enjoyment of the sport, he
engaged a rustic citizen living near his fishing ground to pad-
die for him. His companion for the day proved to be rather
a garrulous individual and entertained the doctor with many
“wise saws and modern instances,” chiefly of an autobiograph-
ical character. But a single shred of that discourse has sur-
vived the wear and tear of time, and as reported by Dr. IMell
to my friend, W. J. Steed, it was couched in the following
words: “I was born mostly in Emanuel county.”
And now what on earth has this incident to do with the
story of Absalom Rhodes? Only this, that after exhausting
all available sources of information, weighing the evidence and

giving the defendant the benefit of the doubt, I have been

unable to decide positively whether Absalom was born
“mostly” Georgia or “mostly” in North Carolina.
in
My Richard H. P. Day, John H. and Absalom
friends,
Rhodes, all grandsons of Absalom, Sr., unite in giving me the
traditional information that the latter came from North Caro-
lina to Richmond county, and Judge Day fixes the date at
1765 or 1770. A
recent inspection of the stone that marks the
grave of Absalom and of a transcript from the family Bible of
his daughter, Mrs. Nancy Loyless, has convinced me beyond
a peradventure that the 1765 theory will not hold water, for
the reason that Absalom did not make his advent into the
world until five years later, April 8, 1770. It also renders it
rather improbable that he should have been wandering around
this section in long dresses and before he had cut his teeth,
prospecting for a place to plant his baby feet in 1770. Even
at the date of his sister Nancy’s marriage to Edmund Murphey

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 inFebruary, 1785, he had not completed his fifteenth year, and
givingNancy reasonable time after her arrival in Georgia to
make the acquaintance of her neighbors, time to sit up at
night by the light of a tallow candle during her courting days,
time to consider Edmund’s proposal and time to “make her
clothes” for the wedding, and it would reduce Absalom’s age

to twelve or thirteen years. This seems rather early in the

then unsettled state of the country, for a boy to be rambling
around several hundred miles from home, looking for a job.
And, as Mr. Dooly would say, “so there you are.” The reader
has as much right to a guess as to the real facts in the matter
as the writer, and he is at liberty to draw his own conclu-
sions.
I do not know that it will throw any light on the matter,

but it is perhaps not amiss to add in this connection that

headrights were granted in ante-Revolutionary days to Samuel
and William Rhodes in St. Georges Parish, now Burke and
Jefferson counties, and that John Rhodes, possibly the “John”
already named as the father of Lewis was a Revolutionary
soldier from this State.
And now whatever may have been the place of Absalom’s
nativity he was for the first three decades of the last century
a vefy living entity and a very prominent factor in the busi-
ness and official life of Richmond county. He lived for a time
at the corner of Greene and Jackson streets where the engine
house now stands. In 1808 and ’09 and again in 1812 and ’13
he was sheriff of the county and lived at the old jail building,
corner of Broad and Center. During the last named term
James Murphey, son of Edmund by his first marriage and
great-grandfather of W. J. Murphey, now in similar service
with Gen. John W. Clark, was appointed by Absalom, deputy
sheriff.
From1818 to 1822 and again from 1829 to 1836, he served
as judge of the inferior court for this county. He was as-
sociated in that service with such prominent citizens as Val-
McTyre, John and Abraham Twiggs,
entine V’alker. Holland
Samuel Hale and Edward Thomas. This court had control
not only of the administration of county affairs, but dis-

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charg'cd the duties of the present court of ordinary and ex-
ercised large judicial powers in the litigation of civil cases.
In addition to these public services rendered by Absa-
lom he was a member of the General Assernbly, serving both
at Louisville and Milledgeville, former Capitals of the State.
I made an effort to secure through my old classmate and war

comrade, Prof. Joseph T. Derry, of Atlanta, the years in which

this legislative service was rendered, but through loss of some
of the House Journals and through interruption in his search
caused by his attendance on the Richmond reunion the data
are not yet at hand. Joe would rather miss his breakfast than
to miss a reunion of his old comrades in grey, and his desire
to attend on this special occasion may have been intensified by
the following fact. In the fall of ’6i, through the carelessness
of a Yankee bullet, he lost a tuft of his curling hair. In these
later days his ambrosial locks, like my own, have been grow-
ing thinner and thinner, year by year, and his trip to Richmond
may have been in part another i\rgonautic expedition in search
of the Golden Fleece lost on Virginia soil long years ago.
In the, absence of railway transportation in those old days
Absalom, in addition to his public duties organized a wagon
train, which brought merchandise both from Charleston and.
Savannah for the merchants of Augusta. During the war of
1812 there was some apprehension of the occupancy of Savan-
nah by British troops and this train was utilized to transport
the specie and other funds of the city’s banks to Augusta for
safety from military spoliation.
Absalom Rhodes in his later life left the city and engaged
in the milling business in the country districts. Fie built a
mill on the waters of Spirit Creek, managed for a time by his
son, Aaron, and afterwards sold to John Houghton, of Au-
gusta. Later he built another just below the junction of
Grindstone and Friendship branches, that still belongs to his
grandson, Absalom Rhodes, and has always been known as the
Rhodes Mill. The site of both these mills are on the Patter-
son Road and only a little way removed from the limits of our
^own. He built homes near these mills and occupied each
of tliem for a time, living also at a place known as “Tranquilla”

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within what is now Hephzibah. During his residence in the
country he was known as the political boss of his district,
dictating to his neighbors what they should eat, what they
should drink, and how they should vote.
Absalom Rhodes was twice married, but of the identity of
his first wife, I have no information. One son was born of
this marriage Absalom Rhodes, Jr., who though dying in
1820, when only twenty-nine years of age seems to have been
a man of some prominence as his name occurs frequently on
the records of the old inferior court in some official way. His
grave lies in the old Edmund Murphey burying ground.
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After the death of his first wife, Absalom, Sr., married
Mary Barton, who belonged to a prominent ante-Revolution-
ary family of this county. Whlloughby Barton was a Revolu-
tionary soldier, and was granted a section of land in this coun-
ty between 1785 and 1788. Dr. Willoughby Barton of Jeffer-
son county, informs me that his ancient namesake was a noted
Indian fighter and at one time commanded a brigade of troops
under Andrew Jackson. Mary, wife of Absalom Rhodes, was
probably his daughter or otherwise nearly related to him. She
was born in 1773, married in 1796, and died in 1825, having
borne to Absalom two sons, Aaron and John A., and five
daughters, Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary, Lavinia, and Caroline.
In addition to the children named there were born to
Absalom Rhodes by his marriage with Mary Barton three
others, who died in infancy or early childhood, viz : Maria in

1795, George W. in 1800 and Mary A. B. in 1804.

Absalom Jr., the sole issue of his father’s first marriage,
died in 1820, leaving a son, Thomas, who migrated to Alabama
where descendants are now probably living.
his John A.
Rhodes, son of Absalom, and Mary, was born March ii, 1787;
and on Feb. ii, 1819, married Margaretta Trippe, of Port
Royal, S. C. Two children were born of this marriage, Mary
(Chaplin) and Robert, who died unmarried. His second mar-
riage to Cynthia Brown resulted in the following issue: Julia,
who married Elisha A. Rheney Andrew J.. who married x-\nn
;

Sheehan John H., who married Mary J, ^lalone, widow of

;

Wm. T., afterwards Cola Rentz, and last Eva Whigham;

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ried Anna Coursey; Absalom, who married Frances Cogle,
and Seaborn, who died in later boyhood unmarried. Of these
children four now survive :Andrew, Augusta, Ga. John H.,
;

Bartow, Ga. Aaron, Tifton, Ga., and Absalom, Hephzibah, Ga.

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John A. died Jan. i8, 1897, having rounded out almost an even
century of existence. Aaron, son of Absalom, married Eliza-
beth^ Beale and had one son, Charles A., who lost a leg in
Confederate service, and died in Augusta some years ago.
Nancy Barton, daughter of Absalom and Mary, was born
Feb. 22, 1809; married Rev. Elliot B. Loyless, Oct, 27, 1829,
and died in Dawson, Ga., Aug. ii,'i887. There were born to
Nancy and Rev. Elliot B. eleven children, as follows: Mary
C. M. (Sanders), born Nov. 16, 1830, and died Sept. 12, 1869;
Sarah Lavinia, born March 7, 1832, and died Aug. 15, 1832;
Ann Elizabeth (Cheatham), born May 3, 1833, and died May
5, 1869; Martha Jane (Sanders), born Aug. 7, 1835, and died
March 19, 1888; Henry Melville, born Nov. 9, 1837, married
'Mollie Wooding, and died Jan. 3, 1876; James Elliot, born
Oct. 6. 1839, married Lizzie Williams, and died Nov. ii, 1861
Lucy Hinton, born Aug. 16, 1842, and died Sept. 27, 1843 i

Thomas Wesley, born Sept. 13, 1844, married Susan M. Von

Aldehoff, and died Nov. 2, 1874; William Arnold, born Sept.
4. 1846, married Hattie Jackson; Francis Cassandria, born
March 25, 1848, married John H. Harp; Samuel Anthony, born
May 7, 1851, and married Louise J. DeLagle.
Rev. Elliot B. Loyless was a local minister of the ^^leth-
odist church and at one time a large cotton merchant in Au-
gusta, having branch houses or connections at Athens, Ga.,
and other points. He was the son of James and Mary Butt'
Loyless. Some years after his marriage to Nancy Rhodes he
moved to Southw'est, Ga., and his last years were spent in
Da wson, Terrell county. A grandson is now^ living in Au-
gusta, Thomas W., son of Thomas Wesley, whose brilliant
and pen adorns the columns of the x\ugusta Chronicle.
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Elizabeth, daughter of Absalom and Mary, w'as married to
Richard B. Day, and lived at “Tranquilla,” in the present
limits of Hephzibah. Six children were born to them John
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A. R., who married Sarah !Mary Barton, who was mar-
Griffin ;

ried to William Cochran Sarah Ann (Seale) Richard H. P.,

; ;

who married Mary L. T. Averet Fanny Elizabeth (Farrar),

;

and William A., who’ never married. Judge R. H. P. Day is

now a magistrate and employed at the Richmond county home.
Of the present location of other descendants I am not advised.
Caroline, daughter of Absalom, was married to Robert W.
Bugg. As a result of this marriage five children were born,
Samuel, Mary (Kelly), William J., Moses P. G., Lizzie (San-
ders), Alex H. S., and Louise E., who never married; Samuel,
Wm.Jr., and M. P. G. Bugg are now farming in this county.
Rev. A. H. S. Bugg is an able, earnebl and useful member of
the Xorth Georgia Conference of the Methodist church.
^lary, daughter of Absalom, was married to Henry John-
son, and bore to him the following children Charles J., Wil-
:

liam H., Larry, Danforth, Samuel and Mary. I am not ad-

vised as to their matrimonial alliances, except as to Mary,
who married ilMr. Coursey. William FI. is now living in Au-
gusta.
Lavinia, daughter of Absalom, married Thomas Beale and
theirmarriage brought to them three sons and three daughters,
George, John, Absalom, Ella, Bettie and Louisa, whose de-
scendents are probably living in this and adjoining counties.

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 LEWIS B. RHODES.
Lewis B., son of John, was born March 10,1778. Where
this event occurred, whether ''mostly” Richmond or
in
“mostly” in some other county, who John was, where he came
from or where he went to, either in this world or the next, I
am not advised. x\s Johns of the Rhodes name were not as
common as John Smiths and as there is only one of the name
mentioned by George Smith in his "Story of Georgia and Her
People,” it is probable that Lewis was a son of this Revolu-
tionary John, who seems to have been a cousin of x\aron, Absa-
lom and Nancy. The first authentic information I have been
able to gather of Lewis after the incident of his birth is that
he married Mary White, Feb. 5, 1810. Some years after his
marriage he^ bought 'from some Stringfellow, Mhlliam prob-
ably, what has been known for so many years as the old A. W.
Rhodes home in Hephzibah. Here were born to him the fol-
lowing children: John R., who married Araminty Haynie.
Absalom W., who married Susan C. White, Thomas R., who
married Maria Watson and afterwards Sarah A. Pardue, Val
W. Rhodes, who married Mary G. Fox and' afterwards ^lar-
garet M. Jones, Mary B., who married W. W. AValker, Tilman
W., who married Sarah R. Wolfe, James William, Lewis Allen,
Lewis Bobo, AVilliam Peyton and Hiram James. I find from
entries in the old Lewis Rhodes Bible that in 1820 ^fatilda
Rhodes was married to Thomas Hatcher, and in 1821 Merne-
mia Rhodes was married to Thomas Marshall Ligon,
Matilda and Mernemia were evidently daughters of John and
sisters of Lewis. I have no information as to the descendents
of John R., if any.
To .\bsdlom W. were born Robert L., James W., Harriet
(Byne) (Murrow), Martha (Kuhn), Charles J., Margaret and
Mary. Charles J. and FTarriet Murrow are living at Blythe.
Ga.. and Martha (Kuhn) in Texas. Fannie Wilder, daughter
of Robert L., lives in Atlanta, and a son of James W. in New
Jersey.
To Thomas R.. bv his first marriage were born ^farv
(Watson), George Crawford and Flenry A. Rhodes.

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 The last named enlisted in Confederate service as a mem-
ber of the Richmond Hussars at the age of seventeen, and
was killed at .Barbee’s Cross Rhodes, Va., Nov. 5, 1862. By
his second marriage there came to Thomas R. three children,
Henry who died in boyhood, Sarah A. (Pardue) and Anne
May, who married W. C. Boykin, and who with her hus-
band and Harriet, Grace and Annie, her children, now live in
Augusta, the eldest Rhodes Boykin being engaged in the
lumber industry elsewhere. Thomas R. merchandised very
successfully for a long time in the store now occupied by
A. B. Saxon & Bro. The writer once served with him on the
Board of Jury Commissioners and recalls the following inci-
dent of that service. In our examination of the list, whose
fitness for jury service was to be considered and determined
by us, reached the name of a young man who in his
we
physical makeup had developed some of the characteristics of
a dude. As his name was announced Thomas R. said: ‘‘Pass
him, he isn’t fit Pie always wears his coats
for jury duty.
either too long or too short,”and he was passed.
To Val W. Rhodes were born Thomas V. W., now living
in Texas, Wallace, who died in Atlanta, and Jennie, who mar-
ried Jno. W. Browm, local manager of the W. U. Telegraph
Co. Henry C. Brown, manager of the Interstate Cotton Oil
Co., in Augusta, and Annie B., wife of Mareen Duvall, District
Superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Co., are children of
John W. and Jennie Brown.
Hiram Rhodes, son of Thomas R., married in Jonesboro,
Ga., and his children are now living there.

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 AARON RHODES.
I have not been able to fix definitely the year in which
Aaron, Absalom and Nancy Rhodes, and probably their
''Cousin John” came from North Carolina to Richmond county.
That they were here prior to Feb. lo, 1785, is evidenced by
the fact that on that date Nancy was married to Edmund
Murphey. During my school-boy days at the old Brothersville
Academy, my classmate Jasper Daniel at a Fritday afternoon
exercise in 1854, gave voice to his embryonic oratorical pow-
ers by declaiming Catiline’s oration to the Roman Senate.
At its conclusion Mr. Thos. H. Holleyman our teacher, said:
‘'Jasper, do you know who Catiline was?” "Yes, sir,” was the
prompt reply. "Well, who was he?” asked the teacher, and
Jasper ransacked his boyish brain, scanned the ceiling closely
and probably twitched with his nervous hands the periphery
of his bifurcated garment and then replied, “I was not per-
sonally acquainted with him. Sir.”
And so while Nancy in her infant years was often lullabied
into happy dreamland by the soothing strains of the old-
time ditty,
"Oh, Miss Nancy, don’t you cry.
For your sweetheart will come bime-by.”
Andwhile Edmund "bime-by” came it is hardly probable
that hiscoming involved a horseback ride to North Carolina
to marry a girl between whom and himself as between Jasper
and the old Roman Conspirator there had been no "personal
acquaintance.”
Making due allowance therefore for the probable duration
of Edmund’s courting days, which as a widower he would
scarcely have unduly extended, their migration must have oc-
curred as early as 1784, and possibly 1783. Some time after
their arrival Aaron located at what is now known as the War-
ren Place on the Washington road a few miles above Augusta.
Nancy Murphey was only seven years old in 1783, and
Aaron must have waited for her as long as Jacob did for
Rachel, for they were probably not married before 1797. Tw('>
children were born to Aaron and Nancy, a son William J.,

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Jan. 13, 1799, and a daughter Lavinia some years later. Aaron’s
wedded life was of short duration as he died in 1805. He was
probably buried on the X^'arren Place where he had lived, but
like Moses the J^rother of his ancient namesake, ‘‘No man
knoweth of his sepulcher to this day.” Plis son Wm. J., after
growing up to manhood made diligent effort to locate the
grave, but without success. Soon after the death of her hus-
band. Nancy Rhodes moved to a location near the present
site of the Albion Kaolin Co., and only a little way removed
from the house of her father Edmund Murphey. Her selection
of this location in such close proximity to what was known
for so m.any years as the- old “Chalk Bed” may possibly have
been influenced by the fact that it would enable her the more
easily to compel her offspring to “walk a chalk line.” Here
she. reared her children and here on a fall day in 1833 (Oct. 6)

she left them to take her. last sleep beneath the shadow of the
trees in the old ^lurphey burying ground.
About three years before her death her son, William
J. married Alartha, daughter of Robert Allen of “Allen plow”
and “plank gate” fame. Soon after his marriage he built the
home near Edie station so long occupied in later years by
Judge James Brandon, and now owned by i\Irs. Brandon, his
widow, ^^'il!ia^l J. lived at tin's home until 1828 or ’29. then
sold it and removed to what is now known as the Rhodes
Place on the Walker’s Bridge Road between Hephzibah and
Story’s Mill, where the remainder of his life was spent. To
William J. and his wife Martha, there came from Oct. 8, 1820,
to June I, 1843, twelve children, five of whom died in early
childhood. Martha Maria died in her twentieth year unmar-
ried. Lavinia Allen was married to Roberson Palmer, son of
Benjamin and grandson of George, who was a brother of
Jonathan of the “Calvinism Cure.” Evalina Amanda became
the wife of Rev. James Allen, an earnest and able ^lethodist
minister and a noted temperance evangelist. William W.
married iMary Ann Bostwick, scion of an old ante-Revolution-
ary family of this section. James W., like his kinsman, .\lex-
ander Murphey. unmindful of i\fr. Weller's advice, married
Pauline C. Allen, widow of Elisha A. Allen, Jr. Robert A. and

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Mary J. died unmarried in early manhood and womanhood
during an epidemic of typhoid fever that swept over this sec-
tion in the early months of i860.
Of William J.’s immediate family either by blood or mar-
riage only Pauline C., widow of James 'W., now survives.
For some years she has been a citizen of Hephzibah and re-
tains in large measure the charming grace of her early days.
I use the word “citizen” advisedly.
In ante-bellum days my father owned a slave whose name
was Jonas. He and his wife Mary were exceptionally good
negroes and remained on the plantation for a long time after
“freedom came out.” Finally they drifted away and chancing
to meet him one day I solicited his return to the old home. In
reply he said: “I would like to go back, ]\Ias’ \\*alter, but
Mary wants to go to Waynesboro. She has a great idea of
becoming a city-zen.”
Few men have lived in Richmond county, who were gifted
with a larger share of the sense that counts than \Villiam J.
Rhodes. His marked success in the administration of his own
affairs brought to him many fiduciary trusts. To the private
obligations as well as to the public duties that fell to him as
Justice of the Inferior Court and as Representative of Rich-
mond County in the General x\ssembly he always brought
eminent skill and faithfulness.

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 A WORRYING WELCOME TO HENRY CLAY.
No resident of our town, perhaps, recalls from personal
recollection the fact that Henry Clay, one of the immortal
trio, was once entertained in this community, that the giant
oaks that our sandy avenues once met his beaming gaze
line
and that the air that lends its ozone to our wasted frames
‘once fanned his lordly brow. And yet it is a cold, cold fact.
I have had occasion more than once to quote in this story

from genial and gifted Dr. E. R. Carswell, Sr., my fathers'

long time friend and my own as well. It may not be amiss,
therefore, to give one incident in which the Dr. played a lead-
ing if not a happy role. In 1844 Henry Clay was unanimously
nominated by the Whig Convention as its presidential candi-
date. In the campaign that followed he made a general tour
of the Southern States and his itinerary included both Savan-
nah and Augusta. His engagement in the Forest City occur-
ring first and the Central railroad having been completed to
its terminus at Macon in 1843 seems but natural that Mr.
Clay should have availed himself of the rail line to Millen and
then when no other alternative was available should have
taken private conveyance to Augusta. My friend W. Phuny
Steed, however, who needs only an ‘‘n” to make him “phunny,”
and who, half a century ago, more or less, was engaged in
teaching the young ideas how to shoot in the wilds of Screven
county, insists that memories of the carriage bearing the
'^Mill Boy of the Slashes" over the old Quaker Road on the oc-
casion referred to were at the date of his advent into those
parts, figuratively speaking, as thick as blackberries in June.
He made some allusion at first to the natives having pointed
out to him the imprint of those four particular wheels after
thirteen years had passed, but on cross examination he ad-
mitted that this was to be taken simply in a Pickwickian sense
and that he did not care to be summoned as a character witness
. on this feature of the story.
However this may be, whether the great Kentuckian left
the Central at Millen or at “No. 6" it is historically certain
that he and his attendant escort struck the Richmond county

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 line at what is now Story’s Mill, that they passed over the
Walker’s Bridge and Louisville Roads directly through what
is now the town of Hephzibah. The home of Judge William
J. Rhodes, who was an ardent Whig supporter of Mr. Clay,
\
lay directly on their route and arrangements were made to give
^
the distinguished traveler an hour’s rest and probably a lun-
\ cheon at the Judge’s residence. The community was advised
I
and a large crowd assembled to honor the occasion and to
f
feast their eyes on the face and form of the man who had
said ^T would rather he right than President.”
: Mr. Clay, in
I order to be in good form and unimpaired voice for his Augusta
f speech had exacted a pledge frorri his attendants that his trip
should be absolutely unadorned by any oratorical frills. The
I carriage halted in front of the Rhodes home, Mr. Clay alighted,
[
- bowed to the assembled crowd and was conducted to the res-
[
idence where he hoped to have an hour of absolute rest and
[
quiet. He had just entered the’ spacious hall when he was
j
, confronted by a young man with raven locks and flashing eyes,
[ whose clarion voice broke the silence of the mid-day air.
“Hail, Sage of Ashland, hail immortal Harry of the West.”
And on and on the torrent of unwelcome welcome poured like
a young Vesuvius on Mr. Clay’s unwilling ears. If the wearied

^
guest had been asked to “stand and deliver” he could not have
been more astonished, and the mobile lips that oft had swayed
a listening senate at their will were voicing only mild and
gentle protests at this unexpected number on the program.
Col. A. C. Walker, who was an eye witness of the scene,
gave me the incident long years ago and I do not now recall
whether Dr. Carswell exhausted his pent up eloquence or
whether Mr. Clay’s manifest annoyance caused a large measure
of it to lie upon his gifted lips unborn. The Dr. was evidently
unadvised as to Mr. Clay’s expressed desire. He entertained
me often with memories of the past but on this particular
episode of his long and useful life, his tongue was silent and
his lips were mute.

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 AARON RHODES— Concluded.
On June i, 1843, Frances Virginia, the last child born to
Wm. J. Rhodes by his wife Martha, came into the world, and
on June 30th, following, the mother’s life faded out, the little
babe surviving her only a few days. Their graves lie in the
Allen burying ground in our town. Some years later Wm. J.
married ^laria, sister of Governor Geo. W. Crawford, but their
union was childless. On January 23, 1866, Judge Rhodes died,
and his dust lies by that of his first wife in the old Allen grave
yard. His descendants trace their lineage back to a larger
number of these old-time settlers than any others who bear a
personal relation to this story. His grandsons, Robert A.,
William J., Millard, Edward H., sons of William W. Carroll ;

Rhodes, son of James W, William R. Allen, son of Evalina, all

;

at Louisville, Ga., are not only descendants of Aaron Rhodes,

Edmund IMurphey and Robert Allen, whose records have
come into this story, but of Elisha Anderson. The children of
my brother, Samuel R. Clark, Rev. Wm. H., Dr. S. Allen,
W. Edward, Lillian, Gertrude and Harold, as well as Prof.
E. P. Clark and his sister, Essie M., all of whom are great-
grandchildren of Judge 'Wm. J. Rhodes, not only claim descent
through their mother from the four early settlers named, but
through their fathers from Thomas Walker and Alexander and
Isabella Carswell. Any lack of interest shown by them there-
fore in this story can scarcely be attributed to w^ant of personal
relation to it.

Lavinia, sister of Wm. J. Rhodes, and daughter of Aaron,

was married in the early years of the nineteenth century to
James /\. Carswell, son of Alexander and Isabella Carswell,
whose lineage, as I am recently informed by my clever friend
and relative, Mrs. Ella Salter, of Tampa, Fla., has been traced
back to Lord and Lady Ruthvcn, the former being, as she
states, head of the ‘‘House of Cassiles.” If these statements
are entirely authentic, and not simply “Cassiles in the Air,” I
fear I shall have to bring the arithmetical skill of my friend,
Peter G. Walker, into recjuisition again to ascertain what
billionth trace of noble Ruthen blood trickles through my own

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veins under this brave May sun in 1907. My clever friend,
however, has promised to furnish me the proof, and I await its
forthcoming before taxing my friend Peter again.
There were born to James and Lavinia Carswell two sons.
Edward R., who married Celestia V. Walker, daughter of
Reuben, as already noted in the story of Thomas Walker, and
James A. Carswell, who married iMaria Loring. There were
also three daughters, Caroline, who married John Whigham,
and afterwards Thomas Poland, Lavinia, who became the wife
of John Denny, and Jane, who was married to Michael King.
The children of Edward R. have been alread}^ named as descen-
dants of Thomas Walker. James Carswell had one son, Wil-
liam, and three daughters, Lula (Evans), Lily (Evans), and
Mamie (Rhodes). Caroline Whigham had a son, and two
daughters, flattie and Lavinia. To Lavinia Denny there were
born two sons, William and James, and a daughter, Della
(Baston). Jane King had two sons, James and William, and
a daughter, Isabella. Of these descendants of z\aron Rhodes
there still survive Lily, wife of Jones Evans, Bartow, Ca.,
William Denny and William King, Wrens, Ga., and Della
Baston, Stellaville, Ga. Some allusion has been already made
to iGen. Reuben W. Carswell as a descendant of Thomas
Walker. His prominence as a descendant of Aaron Rhodes
also may justify the incorporation into these records of these
additional incidents. On making debut into the world.
his
General Carswell tipped the scales at exactly two and a half
pounds, but in mature manhood his avoirdupois would not have
fallen far short of a hundred times that weight. His appetite
and his digestive attainments would both have classed “good
maiding.” and his enjoyment of “table comforts” ran pari
passu with them. Seated at a hotel table on one occasion, the
attendant waiter took his order, and after the usual delay en-
circled his plate with the ordinary array of miniature dishes.
Ca^ting his eye over the display for a moment, he turned to
his white-aproned attendant and said: “Your samples seem to
show up all right; now bring me a dinner.”
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railroad train, riding down to the dinner house at Social Circle

and returning in the afternoon. On one of these occasions
Reuben W., and his collegemate, Dan Saffold, were members
of the party. Neither of them needed a tonic to whet their
appetites, and at the dinner hour their comrades pitted them
against each other in a gastronomic race. I have no informa-
tion as to who umpired the game, or who won at the finish,
but I do recall that when they approached the desk to settle
for the meal the proprietor said : “Young gentlemen, my usual
charge for dinner is fifty cents, but I make a rebate in your
case. I charge you only twenty-five. I sell cheaper by whole-
sale.”
^But General Carswell’s development was not confined
solely or mainly to physical lines.With marked gifts, large

culture and much magnetic humor, he was a man of wide in-

fluence and a delightful companion socially.

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Henry Clay at the
After writing up the reception given to
home of Judge Wm.
Rhodes, there came to me a natural
J.
desire to learn from some old time resident something of the
great Kentuckian’s address in Augusta on the following day.
Chancing to meet my old friend Hal Moore, he said: ‘'See
A. M. McMurphey, he heard the speech I know, for I heard
him say so.” The ’phone was brought into requisition, but I
found that the memory of my friend Hal had slipped a cog, for
Mr. McMurphey was in Abbeville, S. C., at school at the time
of Mr. Clay’s visit. I then attempted to interview over the

same instrument another old time resident, an honored citizen,

whose genial personality, wonderfully preserved physical and
mental powers and retentive memory suggested the thought
that Mark Twain had made the mistake of his life in failing to
secure him as a compagnon du voyage in his search for Adam’s
old time grave. I failed to reach him, but a lady friend, who
had been advised of my unsuccessful effort, chanced to meet
him and kindly secured for me the following story:
He was absent from Augusta on the date of Mr. Clay’s
address, but later attended a banquet given to Dan-
some time
iel Webster during his visit to the city. While the post
prandial feast of reason and flow of soul was at its flood tide,
Hon. Andrew J. Miller entertained the banqueters at the ex-
pense of his friend. Judge Benjamin H. W^arren, with the fol-
lowing incident of Mr. Clay’s visit. The electric belt line had
not been then completed and Mr. Miller, Judge Warren and
Gov. Charles J. Jenkins were giving their distinguished visitor
a carriage ride over the city. Driving down the northern side
of Greene street they passed what had been known in later
years as the Coleman residence, recently purchased by Marion
Reynolds, and removed to a lower block onEllis, and Mr. Clay
said: ‘‘That is have seen. Who owns
the prettiest home I

it? And Judge Warren, laying his hand on his manly breast
and making their guest his blandest bow, replied, “That, Mr.
Clay, is the home of the subscriber.”

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 I had still another friend, a very dear friend, whose life

has long since passed the Psalmist’s limit, and yet upon whose
sunset years no shadows seem to rest. I found him in the
cozy corner of an upper porch in the home to which he had
been long confined, and for an hour and more he entertained
me with charming memories of the past. He told me of his
friendly association with A. B. Longstreet and William T.
Thompson when in ‘‘Georgia Scenes” and “Major Jones’ Court-
ship,” they were making Georgia humor classic of Judge ;

Longstreet’s mother, who lived where now the Dyer building

lifts its lofty head, and of her asking her gifted son one day

to dra\y her will of his mild protest based upon the fact that
;

she owned nothing to bequeath of her insistence and of his

;

final drafting of the instrument in solemn, legal form, willing

bequeathing and devising a certain pair of worn out shoes that
lay beneath her bed, and other personalty long laid aside as
absolutely valueless, and of his reading it to her with solemn
face and of her sharp and sudden interruption: “Get out of
here, Gus. I always thought you were a goose, and now I

know it.”

He told me of his visit to Headden’s studio while he was

engaged in painting Longstreet’s portrait, of the witty judge’s
coming in one day for a final sitting, but looking wan and care-
worn of the artisPs asking for a story to brighten up his
;

face; of Longstreet’s prompt compliance, and of Headden’s be-

ing so convulsed with laughter that he was forced to lay his
brush aside and ask the judge to close his story and his mouth.
He told me of standing in front of MHshington Hall that
stood at the corner of Broad and McIntosh streets, and of
listening to Daniel Webster as he spoke for a little while from
the balcony of that building, but that the great defender of the
constitution was suftering from such excessive hospitality at
the hands of his Augusta friends that it had “superindenced,”
as m_v friend John Heidt would say, an attack of acute inability
to stand on his feet for any length of time, and his address was
therefore, in Bill Arp vernacular “short but brief,”
He told me many other things cannot refer to now,
tliat 1

and then I asked him: “Did you hear Henry Clay in 1844?”

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“Oh, yes,” he said. “I was standing only twenty feet away
when he spoke. He reached Augusta just before the hour,
drove directly to the court house and alighted looking hot and
dusty and tired, for it was a scorching summer day. Retiring
to one of the court house rooms for only a few moments to re-
move the dust of his morning travel he came out fresh, tall,
erect,with his hair thrown back and looking every inch of his
more than six feet of sturdy and wiry physical manhood. For
an hour or more he charmed the audience with a magnificent
address. I can never forget the easy grace of his manner, the
flashing glance of his eagle eye nor the silver tones of his
ringiiig and rythmical voice. He was entertained during his
stay in Augusta by Mrs. Emily Tubman, who had been his
ward during her girlhood days in Kentucky.”
As my friend thus talked in glowing terms of Henry Clay,
words of the great commoner that had lingered in my mem-
ory for nearly 50 years came back to me and I could picture
him as he stood on the floor of the National Senate with his
right hand raised in forceful and yet graceful poise, while
from his gifted lips there fell these trenchant and defiant
words: “I stand here today erect and unbroken, unawed and
unsubdued and ever ready to denounce the pernicious meas-
ures of this administration and ever ready to denounce this
their legitimate offspring, the most pernicious of them all.”

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 AARON RHODES— Resumed.
If Aaron Rhodes were to rise from his ancient grave and
walk the earth again and were to meet what I have written
above, in the public road he would scarcely recognize or accept
it as a part of his family history without identification at the
hands of my who is kind enough to act as my
friend Steed,
literary sponsor and endorses without question and without
mental reservation every emanation of my homely pen. If it
were possible for the contingency named above to occur, my
friend Phuny recaljing his ancient familiarity with the Latin
tongue would probably explain that while Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, Judge Longstreet, and Charles J. Jenkins,
Andrew J. and Judge Warren were probably not re-
^liller
lated to the Rhodes tribe by ties of blood, their incorporation
into these records may properly and legitimately be assigned
to what the legal fraternity would term the “res gestae” of this
story and as my friends rulings are always ex cathedra in lit-
erary matters, it would have to go at that if it went at all.
And now it seems a long call from the empyrean heights
through which Clay and Webster soared down to the gastro-
nomic plane where yellow-legged chickens scratch and crow
and have their short-lived being and yet the exigences of my
story seem to require that I should take the call. Filed away
in the brain cells of my memory long years ago, there is an
incident in which Judge William Rhodes and one of 'his inti-
J.
mate friends were the dramatis personae and the judge’s home
furnished the scenery for the play. It might perhaps be ap-
propriately termed, “Larcency from the Lane.”
Capt. William S. C. Morris has been already referred to in
these records as having married Susan, daughter of Isaac
Walker and sister of Dr. James B. Walker, of Augusta. He
was an old-time southern gentleman, in partial evidence of
which it may be stated that when he had raised a company
known as the Poythress’ Volunteers for Confederate service in
’6ihe went to the firing line wearing a silk beaver hat, carrying
an umbrella and though assigned to the infantry department of
Cobb’s Legion, carrying along for his own use his favorite

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that army regulations did not sanction the use of a horse by an
infantry captain, he replied that'he had bought the horse and
paid for bought his feed and paid for it, that he preferred
it,

riding to walking and he didn’t see what the Confederacy had

to do with it anyway. He was a practical joker with a post-
graduate diploma in his pocket. His summer home was at
Bath, in this county, his winter residence on his Burke planta-
tion and the route between them lay directly in front of Judge
Rliodes’ home. Riding up one day from Burke with a large
empty hamper basket tied to the rear of his buggy Re found
the lane in front of the Rhodes residence filled with chickens
midday lunch. Visions of
foraging with tireless feet for their
crisp fried chicken, chicken pie, chicken salad and other en-
trees of the chicken kind flitted through his brain and then
there came an inspiration. Reining up his horse he secured
him at a hitching post and then began to call loudly for Judge
Rhodes, who came out hurriedly and after saluting his friend
>aid. “W’hat is the trouble. Captain?” “Why, Judge, I’ve had
terrible luck. I Burke with a basket full of
started from
chickens and just as I reached the front of your place the top
of the basket came off and they all got away right here in
your lane. Can’t you help me?” And the judge promptly
summoned a squad of “hands” from a nearby field and as the
captain pointed out the comeliest specimens of the feathered
tribe the nimble footed darkies would capture them until the
basket was taxed to its full capacity. Thanking the judge
kindly for his timely aid he went on his way rejoicing with
fowls enough to supply his table for weeks and weeks to come.
Of the aftermath when Judge Rhodes learned that lie had
been accessory to the purloining of his own chickens I have no
traditional record.

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A Water Idyl.

During my boyhood
days Saturday was always “mill day”
at the old homestead. day occurred during the week
If a rainy
it was utilized in shelling from the glistening ears that lay

heaped in the old log crib the usual “turn” of corn, and on
Saturday Peter or Joe or Alfred or Henry or old “Uncle
Moosher,” whose name I have never learned to spell, would I

take it over to the old Rhodes mill, where, under the skilful .

manipulation of “Uncle Jack” Rhodes, it would be transformed |

into the softest and whitest and purest of meal. And then i

during the coming week, whether in the old-time hoecake ;

patted smooth and thin by old Aunt Hannah’s honest hand, or

in crisp and flaky mufiins, or in corn dumplings, dished from i

the cavernous pot that hung from the crane, or in old time
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“cracklin’ bread" that I have tried to canonize in homely !

verse, it was the sweetest, the most tempting, the toothsomest

that ever touched or tickled my hungry palate, for “Uncle
Jack” and old Aunt Hannah were simply adepts in their
special lines.
The memory of its sweetness and its wholesomeness as it
comes back to me today over the waste of vanished years has
prompted and inspired this unpretending tribute to this old :

time mill, that furnished for me the stafi: of life for nearly
fort}^ years.
Nestled away shaded cove, not far away from our
in a
little town, there is whose limpid waters
a gurgling spring,
form the source of Grindstone Branch. Aeons and aeons ago,
when the world was young, it began its babbling life and
trickling and gliding through sunny valleys, whose spring
time air was laden with the fragrant breath of bay and jasmine
and honeysuckle, it passed on its maiden path a mammoth
boulder from whose granite heart long years later, grindstones
and gravestones and millstones were chiseled into form,. giving
the stream its peculiar christening. It had rambled but a
little way from its bubbling home when there came to meet it

another stream, that finds its birth near Friendship Church,

and has been known in later years as Friendship Branch.
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 Reluctant each to travel alone the long journey that lay
before them, they agreed to wed and as their fates were joined
a tinyrainbow that spanned the rim of a gleaming bubble
formed the marriage ring while the silver throat of a mocking
bird caroled their wedding march and the soft brown eyes of a
startled fawn witnessed their plighted troth. For ages and
ages their mingled waters rippled and sang and gurgled and
foamvd on their winding way to their far away ocean home.
Through the tangled thickets that lined their shores the In-
dian hunter pursued his game or at eventide on its shaded
banks he fished in its eddying pools.
But the years went by and the “Pale Face” came and he said
to the Brother in Red, as Greely said at a later day, “Go West,
young man, go West.” And he went, but the streamlet rippled
on with never a thought of a rumbling mill or a dam to bar its
flow.

But it chanced one day that Absalom Rhodes

Looked down on its waters clear,
And he thought to himself, if he failed to say,
You’ve loitered and idled for many a day,
With never a thought, but to gambol and play;
ril harness }^ou up in the old-time way,
And I’ll put you to work, without any pay,
For many and many a year.

And across from the slopes on either side,

Sturdy and strong and tall,

There rose a bulwark of solid earth

Like an old-time fortress wall.

And over the water’s glint and gleam
He builded an old-time mill,
With many a rafter, many a beam
And many a twelve-inch sill;
With an old-time wheel and hard grey stone.
And a hopper that opened wide;
And the mill boys came from far and near.
From village and country side.

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In summer and winter’s cold.

While the miller stood by and tolled the corn,

And many a story told.

But the years went by and Absalom Rhodes was called to

his last long home, but the drowsy mill ground on and on, for
a sturdy son was there to take the old man’s place. And for
nearly the half of a hundred years he stood in the old mill
door with a smile always on his sunny face and a word of cheer
on his genial lips. But there came a time when age and feeble-
ness became liis lot, a time when the strong men bowed them-
selves and the keepers of the house trembled, and he was
forced to yield his post to younger and less skillful hands.
And still the mill ground on and on till it chanced one day that
the rains descended and the floods came and the waters chafing
and fretting in their long confinment rose and swelled and beat
against their bars, but the sturdy dam held for a time its own.
But inch by inch the waters crept up towards its crowning
summit and then at last a tiny streamlet trickled over, wearing
a tiny pathway in the solid earth. And then the rent grew
larger and larger and broader till, wdth a mad rush, the whirl-
ing waters burst their bonds sweeping away timbers and
earth together and roaring and raging in their madness
wrecked other mills below.
The mission of the old mill had been for all these years
a peaceful one, save for a single day. Once on a summer’s
morning in ’65 the miller’s baby boy, the youngest of his
flock and then just budding into manhood, had taken his
father’s station by the grinding stones for only a little while.
He stepped out on the uncovered sleepers that spanned the
deep fore-bay and missed his footing and then was hurled
into the seething w'aters that lay below\ Stunned by the fall
they bore him to the whirling wheel, w'hose cruel arms
chrushed out his young and buoyant life.
And now for years and years the old mill has stood but
the ghost of its former self, idle and tenantless and dumb.
The gaping hopper is empty and the drowsy rumble of the
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and wide-mouthed trout sported and splashed and on soft

spring days laid their spawn in the shining sands below, no
longer gleams and glistens in the morning sunlight and the
mill boys come no more.
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rippling waters still dance merrily on their journey, laughing at
the old mill as they pass it, and singing as they gurgle

“For men may come and men may go.”

And mills may bar my liquid flow

For fifty or a hundred years or so,

“But I go on forever.”

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 FREEMAN WALKER.
Among the families not so prominently identified with this
community as those already noted and yet bearing such per-
sonal relation to it as to warrant recognition in these records
was that of Major Freeman Walker. With the tide of immi-
gration that flowed into this section of Georgia from Virginia
in the later years of the eighteenth century there came four
brothers, George, Freeman, Valentine and Robert Walker.
Some reference has already been made to Valentine as Justice
of the Inferior Court for Richmond county from 1812 to 1836.
George Walker was a prominent member of the young Au-
gusta bar in 1797, and an intimate friend of Peter Crawford of
Columbia county, who gave to his son, afterwards member of
Congress, twice governor of Georgia and secretary of war
under President Taylor, the name of George Walker Crawford.
Robert Walker was also a lawyer serving as solicitor general
of the Superior Court from 1804 to 1808 and as judge of that
tribunal from 1813 to 1816.
Freeman Walker was born at Charles City, Va., Oct. 25,
1780, came to Georgia in 1797, studied law in the office of his
brother George and was probably afterwards associated with
him in its practice as I find in the records of the old Inferior
Court that Walker & Walker represented either the plaintiff
or defendant in a large number of cases coming before that
tribunal in those early days. In 1803 Freeman married Mary
Garlington Creswell, a native of Wilkes county, and a niece
of Governor Matthew Talbot. Some years before, George
Walker had married Eliza Talbot sister of the governor, and
at a later date Valentine Walker, after the death of his first
wife, who was a Miss Arrington, married Zemula Whitehead,
a widow and a sister of Mary, wife of Freeman Walker.
These matrimonial alliances closely connected the Walker
and Talbot families, a fact perpetuated in the names of Gen.
William Henry Talbot Walker and his son William H. T. Jr.,
Laura Talbot Galt, the charming Kentucky girl, who won the
love of every Confederate soldier by refusing to sing “March-
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IS Isham Talbot, a Revolutionary
a lineal descendant of Capt.
officer and a cousin of Gov. Matthew Talbot and is therefore
connected by ties of blood with the descendants of both
George and Freeman Walker. Before or after his marriage
Freeman built the residence recently removed from the corner
of Greene and Washington streets and that Henry Clay during
his visit to the city in 1844 pronounced the prettiest home in
Augusta.
Here the larger number if not all of his children were born.
He owned also a summer residence known as Bellevue stand-
ing on what are now the Arsenal grounds and sold in Novem*-
ber, 1826, to John Quincy Adams, as President of the United
States for Arsenal purposes. He lived at one time also, at
Spring Hill, near Gracewood, Ga., on or near the site of the
present residence of Allen W. Jones. Flis home was destroyed
by fire and his exposure on the night of the burning brought

to Major Walker a pulmonary complaint that ended his life

September 23rd, 1827. I am inclined to believe that after the
loss of his residence he built the home known as Tranquilla,
that stood within the limits of our town in the rear of the
Turner dwelling, was occupied by his widow after his death
and was sold to Absalom Rhodes. During the residence of
Mrs. Freeman Walker at Tranquilla in 1833, the “stars fell,” as
it was termed and Mrs. Walker believing with many others
that the world had come to an end sent for Rev. Robert Allen,
who lived not far away. He came, the family, white and col-
ored were gathered into the home and a prayer service was
held.
During my
boyhood or early manhood, I was told that
Madame Octavia Walton Levert the brilliant and fascinating
daughter of George Walton, Jr., the friend of Henry Clay,
W'ashington Irving and many other distinguished men, hon-
ored during her European tour by presentation at the courts
of both England and France, endowed with mental gifts of the
highest order and a personal charm that made her a favorite in
the salons of Paris and among the poor of ?^Iobilc, had once
lived at Tranquilla. I have made much effort to verify the

statement but with no marked degree of success. The remark

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was probably suggested by the appearance of her “Souvenirs
and may have been based upon an extended visit
of Travel/’
made during her girlhood to the home of her relative Mrs.
Freeman W’alker. Madame Levert was the grand-daughter
of George Walker, her father having married his daughter
Sallie, thus giving her close relationship to both Freeman
Walker ahd his wife Mary. Though dying at the compara-
tively early age of forty-seven Freeman Walker filled large
space in the professional and official life of his day. Many
times a representative of Richmond county in the General
Assembly and four times ^layor of Augusta he was chosen
in 1819 to succeed John Forsyth as U. S. Senator from Geor-
gia, but after two years’ service he resigned to resume his
law practice. His distinguished friend Richard Henry Wilde
speaks of him as a man of engaging personal appearance, bril-
liant talents, a graceful and fluent speaker with a vein of
pleasing humor in his mental make-up, but above and beyond
these and more than these as a man of gentle, generous heart
in whom the milk of human kindness never curdled, as the fol-
lowing incidents that have come to me at various times and
with no purpose of their being used in these or any other rec-
ords will serve to show. In the early years of the 19th cen-
tury a young Virginian came to Richmond county looking for
employment and a home. The school at Mont Enon had re-
cently been established and he was chosen as its teacher.
Freeman Walker met him and was favorably impressed
with his character and talent, and urged him to abandon the
school room and enter his office as a law student, offering to
give him the benefit of his own experience and legal learning.
He accepted the offer, was admitted to the bar, won success
as a lawyer, filled the bench of the Superior Court for a longer
term perhaps than any other occupant in all its history and I
am sure no man in all the State has worn judicial ermine more
ably or more honorably or held the scales of justice with more
impartial hand than William W. Holt.
One day a client from one of the country districts came to
Alajor Walker’s office to ask advice about the drawing of a
will. A little boy was with him and his brightness so attracted

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the genial lawyer that he offered to take him in his office and
aid him in securing an education. The
was accepted and offer
the aid extended. The boy grew up under Major Walker’s
guidance, studied law in his office and in time became United
States Senator and the efficient and honorable head of one of
the largest corporations in Georgia.
To Major Walker’s country home there came one even-
ing an impecunious pioneer preacher, who asked accommoda-
tions for the night. He was kindly invited in for the Major
always kept an open house. The preacher was riding a regular
Rosinante, rawboned and probably old enough to vote. When
ready to resume his journey on the following day, Major
W'alker called one of his servants and naming one of his
favorite horses, said “Put the preacher’s saddle on that horse
:

and leave his in my lot. I am going to swap with him.” The

preacher’s sermon as he preached that day showed probably
added fervor and effectiveness for the difference in his mount.
I am glad to know that this gospel of helpfulness, of human
brotherliness that shone in the life of Freeman Walker has
been in large measure transmitted to those in whose blood
and lineage he lives today.
The following incidents in the life of Major Walker
though differing in character from those already cited may
be worthy of record in this story. The late Col. Charles C.
Jones in evidence of the fact that iMajor Walker’s usually
genial and affable temper could be aroused to honest ire on
proper provocation gives the following. At a session of the
court at which the famous Judge John Dooly was presiding,
a bar supper was given. The wine flowed freely. Judge
Dooly’s wit was at keenest and Major Walker was made
its

the special butt of his jokes. The genial victim bore it until
forbearance ceased to be a virtue and then rising in his wrath
he seized a chair and advanced upon the Judge with the evi-
dent intention of acting as chairman of the meeting and of
giving to his antagonist “the floor” but not in the usual parlia-
mentary way. Judge Dooly grasped a carving knife from the
table and rose to defend himself when one of the guests seized
Major Walker, while, three encircled the Judge to stay the

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threatened trouble.Judge Dooly turned to the barricade that
“Two of you go and hold Major Walker,
invested him and said,
one man can hold me.” The remark created a laugh in which
the Major was forced to join, the war-clouds were lifted and
“peace reigned again in Warsaw.” The following story is

vouched forby my good friend. Rev. W. E. Johnston, a grand-

son of Major Walker. The Major owned a trusted slave
named Harry whom he made his coachman. While his master
was a strictly temperate man, Harry developed an abnormal
propensity for looking upon the wine when it is red, and his
attacks of inebriety sometimes occurred on very inopportune
occasions. The Major did not have the heart to punish him
but finally said to him, “You’ve got to quit it. You simply
can’t drive me when you are drunk.” Harry promised amend-
ment, but when the next session of the court was about to
convene, and his master after ordering his coach came out
to begin his journey, he found that Harry had fallen from grace.
He was barely able to sit upright, the reins were held with
unsteady hand and he was furnishing a fairly good object
lesson for the present paramount issue in Georgai legislation,
“Get down,” said the master and Harry slowly dismounted
from his seat. And then opening the door of the carriage the
Major with a courtly bow said. “Get in there, you're too drunk
to drive me and I’ll drive you to court.” The negro begged
and pleaded without avail and finally clambered in while the
Major mounted the driver’s seat, grasped the reins and began
his journey. x\fter driving for some miles the master felt some
curiosity to know how his passenger was faring and bending
over he looked into the window to find the carriage empty.
Further investigation showed that the negro humiliated by the
lesson had raised the rear curtain clambered out and sitting on
the dickey seat or standing on the rear of the axle was playing
the role of footman. And in this style the coach wended its
way -to its destination with a driver and footman but with
“nary” a passenger. Whether the lesson given was effective
in bringing about permanent amendment in Harry’s ways I
am not advised.

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the of iGen. Val. Walker, brother of Freeman may not be
life

lacking in interest to the reader. The General seems to have

been a rather unique character, a sort of rara avis, in his day.
During his service as Judge of the Inferior Court and at a date
when Holland McTyre, uncle of the late Bishop Holland N.
McTyre of Southern Methodist Church and Absalom
the
Rhodes already written up in these records, were his conferes
on the bench, a traveling showman applied to them for license
to exhibit an Egyptian mummy in Augusta. In making the
application he stated that the mummy was three thousand
years old. “What,"’ said Judge McTyre, three thousand years
old? Why that’s mighty old.” Judge Rhodes in order to
digest the statement more effectually took an abnormal pinch
of snuff and Gen. Walker said to the applicant, ^^And is it a
living creetur?”
Whether the permit was granted does not appear on the
traditional record at least.
Aside from Gen. Walker’s long, continuous service as a
member of this tribunal he was for many years a member of
the General Assembly from Richmond county. During this
service a body of Unitarians in Augusta decided to build a
church and requested Gen. Walker to secure the necessary
legislation. The bill was introduced and when it had reached
its third reading he rose to explain its purpose and advocate

its passage. While doing so a country member interrupted

him with the following question: “Gen. Walker, do the peo-
ple that want this bill believe in the Trinity?” “Oh, ele-
gantly. responded the General with one of his
elegantly.”
blandest smiles. The
bill was passed without further inquiry
or objection and a house of worship was erected as I am in-
formed on the site of the present Opera House. Many years
ago the late Clarence V. Walker gave me the following story:
After Gen. Val. Walker had been a Representative from
Richmond for many terms, a young and aspiring lawyer from
Augusta decided that rotation was in order and announced
himself a candidate against the General. On day
election
two of the young lawyer’s friends drove out to one of the

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country precincts on electioneering purpose bent and taking
with them a bottle whose contents were to be used as a snake
bite remedy or a political persuader as occasion might require.
Reaching the ground they tackled an old- time resident of
Pinetucky who had been a uniform supporter of Gen. Walker.
Argument proving unavailing they reinforced it with a draught
from the bottle, but the Pinetucky voter after partaking of their
liquid hospitality said, ‘‘I am not ready to vote yit.’' At sun-
dry and divers times they repeated the dose but with the same
result. Finally the bottle was exhausted and they urged him
to deposit his ballot. “No,’' he said, “I want another drink.”
“We’re sorry but the supply is exhausted.”
“Oh, I can’t vote for your man, my man’s jug never gives
out.” Sherwood’s Gazetter of Georgia says that Gen. Walker
was like his three brothers a lawyer, but if so, as Col. Charles
E. Nisbet, son of Judge Eugenius A. once said of himself, he
was probably not “one to hurt.” He lived near Belleville
Factory, the site for that manufacturing plant having been sold
by him to George Schley and others, who were its projectors
and owners.
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Eleanor Lexington, in describing the characteristics of the

general Walker tribe both in the old world and the new, says
that they are a fighting race, always ready to defend any flag
under whose protecting folds they chance to live. The de-
scendants of Freeman Walker furnish striking verification of
this statement. While his elder son, Beverly, devoted himself
to the peaceful pursuits of law and agriculture, younger
his
boys, both developed an early taste for military and both
life,

fell victims to “grim- visaged war.” Gen. William H. T.

Walker entered the military academy at West Point at the age
of i6 and graduated in 1837, with the rank of second lieutenant.
Assigned to a regiment then serving under Col. Zachary Taylor
in the Seminole war he received three wounds in the engage-

ment that occurred near Lake Okeechobee in December, 1837.

As ambulances were not then a feature of military equipment,
he rode seventy-five miles on horseback to reach a point where
medical attention could be given his wounds. For gallantry in

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this action he was promoted to first lieutenant. After his
recovery he served with his regiment until the close of the
Indian troubles in Florida in 1842. In 1845 he was made
captain and served with distinction through the Mexican war,
being twice promoted for heroic conduct in battle. In the
charge on the stone fortress of Molino del Rey, September 8,
1847, and while leading his regiment, he received a desperate
wound, which confined him to his bed for a year. In 1847
the State of Georgia presented him with a handsome sword for
meritorious service in the Florida and Mexican wars. From
1854 to 1856 he was commandant of the military academy at
West Point with the rank of colonel, and was later assigned by
Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war, to duty in Oregon.
In i860 he resigned his commission and threw himself
body and soul into the Confederate cause, serving as brigade
commander in Virginia, and on the coast of Georgia and
Florida, and later as Major General in Mississippi under John-
ston, and from Chickamauga to Atlanta with the Army of
Tennessee, giving always brilliant and daring service. As a
soldier he seemed not only absolutely indifferent to danger,
but rather to court its presence. Gen. W. L. Cabell in recalling
his association with Gen. Walker in the ’6o’s said that the
breath of battle always brought an unusual glitter to his eye,
and that he thought him the bravest man he had ever known.
On the morning of July 22, 1864, as Hardee’s corps was be-
ginning its attack upon the Union left, Gen. Walker rode to
an exposed position in front of his division to see that the lines
were in proper form, and a cruel minnie from the enemy’s
vidette line ended his brave, historic life. A hero of three wars,
Ifeel assured no battle soil on God’s green earth in all the ages
was ever stained by braver or by nobler blood than William
Henry Walker’s.
And now I cannot close this brief, imperfect notice of
Gen. Walker more fittingly than in the words of one, who was
the fittest of all men living or dead to utter then fittest be-
:

cause for a year and more before his leader’s death he was a
trusted and honored methber of Gen. Walker’s immediate
own brilliant courage and
military family; fittest because his

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 which he fought, best quali-
soldierly devotion to the cause for
him to speak of one, whose life from boyhood to the grave
fied
was marked by infinite courage and devotion, fittest because
in the purity and sweetness of the limpid English that falls
from his gifted lips no human tongue excels him.
They are words spoken by Hon. Jos. B. Gumming at the
unveiling of the monument reared to iGen. Walker on soil made
sacred by, his hero blood: “What can any feeble word of mine
add to the facts of his honorable life and glorious death? If
I tell you that he was the bravest of the brave, the soul of

honor and generosity, the incarnation of truth, the mirror of

chivalry, the devotee, I had almost said the fanatic, of duty,
what do I say which his life and death have not proclaimed
with more of eloquence? I who knew him best in the latest
and most marked period of pronounce, in addition to
his life,

all I have said and to what his life and death have eloquently
proclaimed, that of all things under the vault of heaven, for
nothing, not even whistling bullet, nor shrieking cannon ball,
nor bursting shell, nor gleaming bayonet had he any fear for —
nothing save failure to obey to the letter and to do his soldierly
duty to the uttermost.”
“Lifting our eyes from this span of human life and regard-
ing the ages which will roll over this imperishable monument,
what a gainer he was by which we are commemorat-
the day
ing! On what of life may have re-
that day he exchanged for
mained to him in the order of nature, filled as it might well
have been with sorrows and trials and disappointments, and
which in any event would have terminated long before this
—
morning on that day he exchanged for that fragment of
mortal life the everlasting fame, which this monument will
make perpetual.
“We therefore salute thee, thou stately shade, who we fain
would believe dost move invisible across this scene ;
we salute
thee not only with honor, but with felicitations, thou brave
and gallent soldier, thou true and knightly gentleman, thou
of the generous heart, thou of the dauntless spirit, who didst
fall on this spot, which we can only mark, but thou didst con-
secrate.”

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 John D. Walker lacked the military training of his older
brother, but he shared in fullmeasure his courage and military
spirit. Enlisting at the age of 21 for service in the Mexican
war, he participated in all the engagements fought by Scott’s
invading column until the battle of Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847,
in which he was severely wounded in both legs. The surgeon
decided on amputation for both wounds, but the. knife was
stayed by the imperial will of the older brother, and John
recovered, though not in time to rejoin his regiment before the
end of the war, in February, 1848.
In 1853 the United States were at peace with the whole
world and the rest of m^ankind. Gen. William Walker, a native
of Nashville, Tenn., graduate in law and medicine and a
journalist in New Orleans and San Francisco, not related in
auy way to the Walker family now under consideration and
yet bearing in his blood and temperament the fondness of the
general Walker tribe for military life, decided to inaugurate a
little war of his own. Organizing a small body of troops he
made a descent upon La Plaza, Lower California, with the in-
tention of conquering the State of Sonora, in Northern Mexico,
but the effort came to grief. In 1855 he organized another fili-
bustering expedition against Nicaragua. Landing in that
Central American republic with 62 men he enlisted a number
of malcontents and in his second engagement completely
routed the government forces, compelling them to accept him
as an ally with the rank of Commander-in-chief of the com-
bined army. In a war with Costa
Rica, which occurred soon
afterward, he defeated the Costa Ricans and secured his own
election as president of Nicaragua. His autocratic methods in
this position brought about disaffection among the people, the
army revolted and he was forced to leave the country. He
organized several similar expeditions and in the last against
Honduras he was captured by a British vessel, turned over to
the Honduras authorities, courtmartialed and shot to death at
Truxillo. After his return from Nicaragua he visited Augusta
and during his stay my father and one of his neighbors. Judge
John W. Carswell, called to see him. He was referred to by
the press as “the grey-eyed man of destiny” but was a very

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mild mannered personage, his appearance giving no indication
of his adventurous and danger-loving spirit. If he had waited
a few years his genius for war would have found ample play
in a much broader field.

And what has this to do with John David Walker? Only

this, that fifty years ago I attended services at the old Rich-
mond Camp Ground near the site of the present plant of the
Albion Kaolin Co. There I met John David Walker for the
first and only time and there I was told that he had returned

a short time before from a round of filibustering with Gen.

William Walker in Nicaragua.
The following incident connected with the camp meeting
service and with John David as well has remained as fresh and
green in my memory for all these fifty years as if it had come
to me but yesterday.
St. James Methodist Church, Augusta, in the opening
years of its life, 1856 and ’57, was served by Rev. William M.
Crumley as its pastor. He attended the Richmond camp-
meeting on the occasion named above and there met John
David Walker. On the night after the meeting, while the
preacher’s body was wrappedin slumber his mind wandered
into dreamland. Traveling with a large concourse of people
a public highway their journey was suddenly obstructed by a
deep, impassable gulf. While debating what steps to take in
order to cross the obstruction Mr. Crumley dreamed that the
Saviour appeared in their midst andjaying himself across the
gulf said to the waiting crowd: “Pass over on my body.”
The bridge, human
or divine, seemed so slender and so frail
that the travelers were afraid to make the venture until John
David Walker stepping out in front of the assembled company
said, “I’ll take the risk,” and was the first to make the passage.
On the following evening Mr. Crumley led the services, preach-
ing from Peter’s words as recorded in Matthew X, 24th and
25th. It was a very earnest appeal and at its close the usual
request was made for those who moved to lead a better
felt
life to come to the altar for prayer. With absolutely no knowl-
edge of the dream and yet in strangely seeming fulfillment,

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John David Walker was the first in that large assembly to
rise and accept the earnest invitation given by the preacher.
In the early months of i86i he enlisted, probably with the
rank of captain, in the first regiment of Georgia Regulars,
commanded by Col. Charles J. Williams, of Columbus. Their
first active service was in Eastern Virginia, fighting through

the Yorktown campaign and afterwards through the Seven

Days’ Battle with Toombs’ Brigade. Transferred to G. T.
Anderson’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Corps, their soldierly con-
duct in every engagement aided in making the fame of that
fighting corps historic. August 28, 1862, Anderson’s Brigade
as the advance column of the corps, reached Thoroughfare Gap.
The Eighth Georgia was sent through the Gap but were at-
tacked by a Federal brigade and were being slowly pressed
back when they were reinforced by the 7th and nth Georgia,
and the ist Georgia Regulars, Major John David Walker com-
manding. The Union troops were immediately driven back to
their entrenchments on the crest of the mountain, the Confed-
erates climbing its precipitous slope on their hands and knees.
Of the conduct of Major Walker’s regiment in this engagement
Gen. Anderson says, “The Regulars, both officers and men,
fought with distinguished gallantry, as they have on every
occasion, and I only regret that the army is not composed of
just such men.”
Two days later at Second Manassas, Anderson’s Brigade
fought on the right of Toombs’ and after bravely sustaining
a galling fire they advanced, driving the brigade in their front
entirely from the field, but sustaining the heaviest loss of any
command on the Confederate side, 612 in killed and wounded.
Among them were seven or eight field officers and fifty com-
pany officers. ]\Iajor John David Walker was severely wound-
ed and was taken to the home of a Presbyterian minister.
The surgeon said to him “It will require amputation to save
:

your life.” “No,” said the Major, “I have had a hard time
getting through the world with two legs and I don't think T
could manage it with one.” Gangrene set in and his gallant
life went out near the historic battle field through whose

minnie-laden air he had led his regiment so bravely. Buried

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for a time near the minister'shome, his remains, some months
later,were brought to Georgia and laid away in the family
burying ground near the Arsenal.
In addition to the heroic record left by Freeman Walker’s
soldier sons. the_military spirit of the family is further repre-
sented in the service of a grandson, Dr. Freeman Valentine
Walker, as U. S. Army Surgeon, and two great grandsons,
Hugh McLean Walker, now naval officer on the battleship
Maine, and Fred Walker, now on duty with the 26th U. S.
Artillery in the Philippines.

FREEMAN WALKER, GENEALOGICALLY.

Major Walker and his brothers, George, Valentine, and
Robert were the sons of Freeman Walker, Sr., of Charles City
County. \'a., by his marriage with Sarah, daughter of George
Minge. Mary Garlington wife of Freeman was the daughter
of Col. David Creswcll by his marriage with Phoebe daughter
of John Talbot. Freeman and Mary were married at Bellevue
then the residence of George Walker, April 29., 1803, by Hon.
George Walton. Of their children who lived to adult age there
were three sons, George Augustus Beverly born April 7, 1805,
married Arabella Pearson. William Flenry Talbot born Nov.
26, 1816, married Mary Townsend, John David born Jan. 9,
1825. was never married. There- were also two daughters,
Ann Eliza Amanda born March i, 1809, married to Adam
Johnston and Sarah Wyatt born Oct. 18, 1822, and married to
Dr. W'alter Ewing Johnslon. In addition to these the fol-
lowing children died in childhood or youth, Robert, Freeman
Valentine, Zemula Tabitha and Elliot Floyd.
To Beverly and wife were born John P. King, who mar-
ried Anice L. iMitchell, Mary Elizabeth married to Lawrence
A. Milligan, Zemula married to William A. Pendelton, Lucy
P. married to Clarence V. Walker, Lena married to Lewis F.
Goodrich, x\gnes Ewing married to Armistead F. Pendleton,
George, Cornelia and Sarah Wyatt died in later youth and four
others in childhood.
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sons and two daughters who reached maturity, William H. T.
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Bluffton, S. C. Mary Cresswell (Schley) Savannah, Ga., and
Hannah who died some years ago in New York. There were
several others who died in childhood.
Anna Eliza (Johnston) had no children and Sarah Wyatt
(Johnston) only one, Rev. W. E. Johnston Augusta, Ga.
Jtt * * *

In my closing sketch of Freeman Walker, there weretwo

features of his story that were inadvertently omitted. Walker
street, in Augusta, and Walker county, in North Georgia were
both named in his honor. The late Col. Charles C. Jones has
left upon record the statement that this distinguished citizen
of Richmond county was “believed to be the original of Free-
man Lazenby in one of Judge Longstreet’s laughable sketches
in ‘Georgia Scenes.’ ” Jupiter sometimes nods and yet it is
difficult to believe that so learned and accurate a scholar as
Col. Jones should have written “Freeman,” when the character
who played the role of “The Sleeping Beauty” in the Wa^
Works show is named by the witty author as “Freedom Laz-
enby.” The types were probably at fault. If Major Walker
really played the part, he was selected, Judge Longstreet
states, for the reason that he was the only member of the
party endowed, as Mrs. Peeler would have expressed it, with
the necessary measure of “personal pulcritude” to fit the
place.

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 CHARLES AND EDWARD BURCH.
Just beyond the limits of our town, near the waters of
Little Spirit Creek, and only a little way removed from the
old Malone place, now occupied by Judge Matt Kelly, there
has stood for a hundred years or more, a cluster of ancient
oaks that mark the site of the old-time home of Charles and
Edward Burch. They were sons of an early immigrant, who
came to Georgia about 1740. Charles and Edward received
from King George a grant of a tract of land, bounded by the
waters of Big Spirit Creek and by the Savannah and Louisville
roads. But this evidence of royal favor did not prevent them
from joining the Revolutionary forces that had rebelled against
the English King. Both their names appear on the pay roll of
the *' Burke Co. Rangers,” commanded by Capt. Patrick Carr,
of Jefferson county in 1782. A descendant of Charles has
given me Edward’s military service
the following incident of :

At the close of a skirmish between the Whigs and Tories or

British, Edward, who was a very muscular and fearless man,
went out unarmed over the ground that had been the scene
of the conflict, probably to ascertain what loss the enemy had
sustained. A mounted British or Tory officer, who had been
concealed by the heavy undergrowth, saw the Whig soldier’s
defenceless condition, and determined to capture or kill him.
Drawing his sword and putting spurs to his horse he ran
down unarmed Edward and attempted to brain him with his
gleaning steel, but the doughty Whig parried the blow, and,
grasping the blade, he wrenched it from the officer’s hand, and
would have paid him in his own coin, but for the fleetness
of his steed. Of Edward’s descendants, I have no information.
Charles left four sons, Joseph E., long time commissioner for
the poor of Richmond county; Charles, Blanton and Kelt
Burch the last, if I am correctly informed, lost a Hmb while
;

serving in the Mexican war.

Many descendants of Charles are now living in Augusta
and Richmond county, among them James W. Burch, Sr., and
James W. Jr., Lloyd W. Burch, Dr. Joseph E. Green, Mrs.
G. B. Duke and many others.

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 THOMAS HILL.
During my boyhood days the waters of Little Spirit Creek
that finds its source in our town and borders the lands of my
father’s old homestead, formed the scene of my early piscato-
rial experiences. On many a Saturday, when school duties
were suspended, I endeavored with alluring bait and with
varying success to entice mudcat and red-breasted perch from
the depths of its eddying pools. At one point on its shaded
banks there were the remnants of what was known as the
“Old Tom Hill Mill.” There was an old dam by the mill
site, but there was no mill by —
a long sight. It had vanished
with the vanishing years. There was a tradition that in one
of the earlier years of the last century a cyclone had passed
over this immediate section and in its unmeasured wrath this
demon of the air had swept this old mill, or the old Mc^Manus
mill, half a mile below, or both of them, from the face of the
earth.
The only personal information that I have of Thomas
Hill’s milling operations is a story that came to me fifty years
ago and more, and whose authenticity I have no reason to
doubt. A patron of the mill became impressed with the idea
that Thomas was tolling his corn more heavily than the law or
established custom warranted and to prevent this excessive
levy he accompanied the corn on the next mill day. Thomas
suspected the purpose of his visit, and after emptying the
sack into the hopper and taking out only legitimate toll he
entertained his patron by giving him an exhibition of the
diving proficiency of the fat porkers that roamed around the
mill. Taking corn from the hopper and not from the toll barrel
he threw it into the mill race and the hogs would dive into the
limpid water to secure the glistening grain. His evident pur-
pose was to convince his patron that any little shortage in his
meal sack was due to his indulgence in this innocent enter-
.

tainment.
Thomas Hill lived at the home afterwards owned by Eli-
sha Anderson, Jr., and later by Col. Edmund Gresham. The
B.
old house was standing in my boyhood and was replaced by

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Col. GreshaTTi with the resitbence
Edward E. Cadle. The old mill was rebuilt and utilized for
many years by S. B. Cadle.
If Thomas left any descendants, I am not aware of it.
This community has numbered among its assets many hills,
long hills and short hills, steep hills and hills of moderate
grade, but no human Hill, save Thomas. During my boyhood
. hisname was only a memory, and Thomas Hill had probably
gone the way of all the earth, but whether his last long journey
was made up hill or down hill, I do not know.

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 EARLY RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT
LIBERTY CHURCH.
The early settlement of this section, as of probably every
other section in the State, was followed by the erection of a
rude log church to supply itsmoral and religious needs. At
what date and on what site was the first house of worship built
in this community? Just a hundred and seventeen years ago
Francis Asbury, a primitive Bishop of the Methodist Church
made an entry in his diary that will probably lead us to a
correct solution of this question. This record- states that after
crossing the Savannah at Augusta in 1790 the Bishop rode in
a South Westerly direction to the S. C. Church in Richmond
County. Rev. Geo. G. Smith referring to this incident in his
History of Georgia Methodism says that this church must have
been located near Brothersville. In further reference to the
title of the church, he says that in later years a church was

built not far away from this community and named for old
father Samuel Clark and that the S. C. Church was probably
named for an older Samuel Clark. All this I do not steadfastly
believe. My friend George like other historians falls some-
times into error and in this particular case his mental ma-
chinery has evidently slipped a cog. Clark’s Chapel, to which
he refers was built in 1847 largely through the efforts of my
grandfather, Charles Clark, and was named for him. My
father Samuel B. Clark was born in 1812, twenty-two years
after Asbury preached at the S. C. Church. If there was an
“older Samuel Clark” in this community my researches among
colonialand other records have failed to unearth him. What
then and where then was this S. C. Church? In one of the
early years following the Revolutionary War a tribe of Collin.s
brothers and probably sisters made their advent in this section.
There were Moses, the great grandfather of my friend Moses
Collins Murphey of Augusta, Lewis the ancester of the late
Lewis R. Collins, Samuel, Stephen and possibly others. One
of these brothers Samuel or Stephen cut the first log that went
into the original church building that stood on the site of
what is now^ Liberty Church and is buried not far away from
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that sacred spot. The church bore for a time the name of its
original projector either Samuel or Stephen Collins and this
fact explains, I feel assured, the initials used by Bishop As-
bury in its early title. It was the first Methodist church
erected in Richmond County and possibly the second in the
State. Grant’s Meeting House in Wilkes County being the
first.

In further evidence of its antiquity my friend Josiah M.

Seago has informed me that his grandfather Rev. James
Xeatherland preached in this church in i8i8 and that the
building in which he ministered was the third house of worship
that had sanctified the site. During its more than a hundred
years of sacred service as a religious center its pulpit has been
blessed by the labors of many honored and useful men. In
this connection it is an interesting fact that the late Rev.
.-Mfred T. Mann, one of the ablest and most eloquent ministers
known to Georgia Methodism, preached his maiden sermon in
old Liberty Church and after fifty years or more of distin-
guished and successful service in his Master’s cause the same
hallowed walls echoed the last public utterance that came from
his gifted lips and consecrated heart.

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 HOPEFUL CHURCH.
Prior to the establishment of the Hephzibah Baptist
Church in 1862 there was no organized body of that denomi-
nation in this community, and those who professed that creed
united themselves with the Hopeful Church seven or eight
miles away. This old church began its religious life in April
or May 1815. Its organization was largely due to the earnest
religious work of Rev. Edmund Byne, a native of Virginia,
who began preaching in Burke County as early as 1785. Dying
in 1814 he failed to see the full fruition of his labors in the
establishment of this church. During its more than ninety
years existence many able and godly men have ministered at
its altars. Among its pastors, who were directly connected
with this community, may be named Rev.
J. H. T. Kilpatrick,
Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, Rev. Wm.
H. Davis, Rev. E. R. Cars-
well, Sr., and Rev. J. Hamilton Carswell. The first church
building was made of rough pine poles and while its early
pastors probably talked to their hearers when occasion de-
manded, “with the bark off’’ as it were, their earnest words
were echoed by pine walls with the bark on.
From this primitive chrysalis it developed as the years
went by into a hewn log building then, into a neat framed
edifice and finally in 1851 into the present structure, one of the
handsomest strictly rural churches in the State.
Through the courtesy of my friend Samuel G. Story I
have had the privilege of examining the early records of Hope-
ful Church running back to November 1815. They show a
stringency in church discipline unknown to modern religious
methods and a quaintness in expression unknown to modern
ears.
In 1830 a member of this church confessed at the monthly
conference that he had been present when a bee tree was cut
on the Sabbath and after the expression of proper contrition
for the direliction he was forgiven. A year or two earlier a
sister was excommunicated after acknowledgment that she
had allowed a negro to put a bag of corn in her house, and
another met the same fate for marrying her son-in-law. The

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corn was probably stolen but the records do not show that
fact. On another occasion in those early days a brother rose
in his place and after confessing sorrow and repentance for
'‘coming in contact” with a neighbor he was forgiven and
restored to fellowship. In 1828 a committee was appointed “to
visit a beloved sister and stir her up.” The doctrine of
apostacy was not a tenet of the Hopeful creed and yet the
records for the year 1828 show that while they did not believe
in “falling from grace” they did believe in the falling of Grace,
a member bearing that name having been excommunicated
for some alleged moral obliquity.
Rev. Elisha Perryman, a noted Baptist minister of the
old days, while never a pastor of Hopeful held membership
his
there for a time and aided the church in many ways in its
religious work. He was a plain blunt mian of limited education,
very plain speech and some eccentricities. My father was his
physician and at one time was instrumental in curing him of
a very serious malady, making, in view of his ministerial call-
ing no charge for the service. Meeting my father after his
recovery he said: “Dr. I am going to spread your fame from
Dan to Beersheba.” Some months later an itinerant corps of
musicians opened up in the community a kindergarten school
of music and my father allowed my brother and myself to
matriculate in the violin class. came to the preacher’s
This fact
knowledge and my father’s fame, so far as it rested upon Mr.
Perryman’s effort for its extension, failed to reach either Dan
or Beersheba. In Mr. P.’s eyes a man who would allow his
boys to play on the fiddle was anathema maranatha, fit material
for the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched.
Many stories were told during my boyhood of Mr. Perryman’s
peculiarities and some of them may be worthy of a place in
these records. Col. A. C. Walker once gave me the following
incident. Mr. P. had preached on the sin of Sabbath breaking
and in the course of his discourse had given many instances of
what he conceived to be temporal judgments visited upon of-
fenders for violating the sanctity of the Lord’s Day. One of
his ministerial brethren sat in the pulpit to close the service
and when the sermon was ended he rose to make a few ad-

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ditional remarks, '‘Yes brethren” he said “if you break the
Sabbath your sin will shorely find you out, why old Brother
and Sister started out to church not long ago on
Sunday and just as they crossed Sandy Run Creek there came
a streak of lightening and killed ’em both.” As the illustration
ended, Mr. Perryman leaned forward and giving his brother’s
coat tail a rather strenuous twitch he said “Sit down you
:

goose, you don’t know what you are talking about,” and the
brother’s fervid exhortation ended without an encore.
My genial friend, Brad Merry, whose retentive memory is
as full of stories as the proverbial egg is of meat, has recently
given me the following: Mr. Perryman on one of his preach-
ing tours spent a night at the home of Judge Edmund Palmer,
who has already been named in these memories. The Judge
was not a pronounced believer in race suicide having been
blessed, as Bill Arp once said of himself, with “a numerous
and interesting ofiFspring.” In the opening prayer preceding
the sermon on the following day Mr. Perryman told the Lord
how kindly he had been entertained by his hospitable friend
Judge Palmer and then added : “And now Lord let thy bless-
ings rest upon the Judge and his wife and their long train of
children.” Mrs. Palmer was an auditor that day and however
impressive the sermon may have been she was hardly edified
by the personal allusion in the prayer.
My good friend W. J. Steed, whose constant kindness and
unselfish friendship have blessed my life so many years has
been to me always a veritable Samaritan, never passing by
on the other side when a story from his prolific mental store-
house would fill my needs. He stands sponsor for thv fol-
lowing incident. Mr. Perryman had closed a successful pro-
tracted srvice in Lincoln County and was burying in a liquid
grave the fruits of his labors. Baptisteries were not in vogue
in that section at that day and the waters of a nearby stream

were utilized for baptismal purposes. The previous record of

one of the “candidates” had not been such as to commend him
as a shining exemplar for the rising generation and one of his
friends stood by the water-side determined to see that nothing
should occur in the administration of the rite to mar its effec-

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tiveness. As Mr. P. drew him from the water this friend
said: “Try him again, I don’t think you got him well under
that time.” The preacher was preparing to comply when the
young man said “Please don’t, I think I saw a mink when
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I was under there just now.” Whether the protest was effec-
tual the recordsdo not show.
The Mr. Perryman’s life were spent in this
later years of
community. Pie died during my boyhood and the funeral ser-
vices were conducted by Rev. Jonathan Huff under an agree-
ment of long standing between them, that whichever survived
should render this loving service for his dead friend and co-
laborer.
Mr. Huff lived in Warren County, but served Hopeful
church as its pastor from 1828 to 1836. The following incident
in his ministerial life has no connection with this church, but

may be worthy of record in these homely annals. A church

under his care numbered among its members Mr. Joshua
Whittaker noted for his skill as a marksman. According to
his own claim he had killed deer, wild turkeys and other game
with his rifle at such long range as not only to astonish the
natives, but tax the credulity of strangers as well. And these
feats usually occuired when no other eye but his own wit-
nessed the performance. The matter finally reached a stage
where Mr. Pluff felt that Brother Whittaker’s propensity to
exaggerate was bringing reproach upon the church and a con-
ference was therefore called and a committee appointed to
“labor with the brother” and win him back from the sin
that seemed so easily to beset him.On the appointed day the
pastor and his deacons metMr. Whittaker’s home and feel-
at
ing reluctant to tackle in his own house, they asked him
him
to accompany them to a neighbor’s, a mile or so away. Plaving
no clue as to their mission, he readily assented and taking his
rifle from the pegs on which it lay he said in explanation that a
;

hawk had been foraging on his wife’s chicken preserve and he

might find opportunity to stop its depredations. They had
covered about half the distance when Mr. Whittaker stopped
sudilenly and said: “There he is now,” “Where?” said Mr.
Hulf. Pointing to a large poplar a long distance away he re-

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plied : “Look up that tree about fifty
and then ten feet to
feet
the right and you will see the hawk on a nest in the
sitting
fork of the limb.” Mr. Huff and the deacons looked and looked,
but neither nest nor hawk could they see. “What” said Mr.
Whittaker, “Can’t see the hawk? Why I can see his eyes.”
They shifted their position and strained their eyes, but with no
better success. “Well I’ll show him to you,” and drawing a
careful bead he fired. As the smoke cleared away the hawk
fell to the ground with a dull thud. An examination of the
game showed that the ball had passed through the head going
in at one eye and coming out at the other. The journey was
resumed in a silence that was a little oppressive both to Mr.
Huflf and his deacons. They had gone but a little way when
the preacher stopped and said, “Brother Whittaker, I have
heard so many miraculous stories of your marksmanship with
your rifle that I could not believe them and I thought they
were injuring the church and I had brought these brethren
with me to aid me in the effort to induce you to bring these
stories down to the limit of credibility, but since you have
killed that hawk by shooting him through the eyes when I
couldn’t even see the nest I’ve got enough and I’m going home.
Good-bye, Brother Whittaker.”
The argumentum ad hawkem had done the work. The
committee de inquirende adjourned sine die without the bene-
diction, and “Brother Whittaker’s” tongue was left to wag
from that day on ad libitum et ad infinitum.
I once told the story to a friend, who knew the hero, and

he said “I am not surprised. Why he could see a honey bee

:

a quarter of a mile away.” And then in further evidence of the

abnormal development of the Whittaker tribe not only in the
line of vision but on other lines as well he said that two of
them were passing a church steeple when one looking up to
its apex for a moment said to the other, “Can you see that fly

buzzing around the point of that steeple?” And the other

replied, “No but I can hear him buzz.”
Aside from those already named. Rev. Joseph Polhill, a
prominent Baptist minister in his day, is associated with the
history of Hopeful Church. Though never serving as its pas-
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tor he began his religious life at its altars and in his earnest
and effective ministration for other churches in the Hephzibah
Association, he was instrumental in bringing into their com-
munion nearly a thousand members.
The church building at Hopeful erected in 1851 at the
cost of $5,000, and by a membership numbering only sixty
five, still stands as a center of religious influence and a lasting
monument to the Christian liberality and zeal of its old time
congregation.

NEW HOPE CHURCH.

During my
boyhood there stood on a blackjack ridge near
the present southern limits of Hephzibah a hewn log church
by the rather contradictory title of ‘'Old New Hope.” At
what date it began its mission as a pioneer radiant of moral
and religious activity I do not know, but it was probably in the
early years of the 19th century. Unearthed from a batch ot
old records left by my grandfather Charles Clark, who died in
1852, there is now in my possession a roster of New Hope’s
membership compiled April 9, 1833, and with such additions
as were made to October 1844. This roll embraces a large
number of those who have already found a place in these
records, among them Nicholas Murphey and family, Charles
Clark and family, John, Matthew, Moselle and Sarah Cars-
well, Robert H. and Betsy Ann Evans, Philip and Martha
Evans, William J. and Martha Rhodes, Lavinia and Araminta
Rhodes, .\nderson, John W., Frederick and Amarintha Rheney,
Betsey Walker, Matthew Templeton, and nearly a hundred
others. Among members there is one “Diadem Jewel”
these
who if she her name must have been a gem of
fitly illustrated

the first water. New Hope church in 1833 formed a component

part of what was known in Methodist economy as the WUrren
circuitof the Georgia Conference. Rev. Lovick Pierce the
Nestor of Georgia Methodism was then presiding elder of the
Augusta district, while Isaac Boring served New Hope and
other churches as pastor with Robert Stripling as Junior
Preacher. A baptismal record found in connection with the

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list of Methodist itinerants who ministered to this community
from 1809 to 1849 •

1809 Watson, 1811 Lewis Adyers, 1813 Alichael Burge,

1815 Joseph Tarply,^ 1818 John Mate, 1820 Tilman Snead, 1822
James Turner, 1824 Joseph Travis, 1827 Allen Turner, 1829
P. N. Maddox, 1830 James E. Glenn, 1834 Geo. W. Carter,
1839 P. N. Maddox, 1841 John J. Triggs, 1843 T. D. Peitrifoy,
1844 Jno. C. Simrnons, 1847 Jr^o* P- Duncan, 1849 Josiah
Lewis. The names of James O. Andrew and George F.
Pierce occur in this record in 1832 and 1837 respectively, but
they were both evidently Presiding Elders of the District.
The building of Berlin church at some date in the ’30s and
of Clark’s Chapel in 1847 drew so largely upon the membership
of New Hope that its use as a house of worship ended prob-
ably about the last named year. The late William W. Rhodes
once told me that it was the rule or custom of this church to
construe attendance upon its ‘dove feasts” for three consecu-
tive occasions as prima facie evidence of a desire to enter its
communion, but that having no special trend in that direction
in his boyhood he would bar the application of the rule to his
own case by always skipping the third service. The Rev. E.
R. Carswell, Sr., gave me the following reminiscences of New
Hope. During the pastorate of Rev. Josiah Lewis he attended
preaching at the church when through the inclemency of the
weather or other cause there were present beside himself only
Rev. Nicholas Alurphey and his wife, and my father. That is
to say two preachers and two active members of the church
formed the congregation and Brother Lewis preached to these
four from the text, “Ye must be born again.” Fie had evidently
prepared the discourse for a class of hearers wlio preferred the
cosy comfort of their blazing fire-side to the cliilly air of an
old log church, whose only heating arrangement was confined
to the weakened rays Alatthew Templeton,
of a winter sun.
an old time member was accustomed to
of this old church
walk to the Sabbath service, but on one occasion he varied the
rule by riding his mettled steed. Hitching him to a conven-
ient sapling he entered the church where the fervor of the

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horse to wonder in his equine way if the pulpit deliverance
would never end.
The last vestige of old “New Hope” has long since van-
ished into airy nothingness and no one now perhaps could
mark unerringly where once its hallowed altars stood,
the spot
and yet just seventy years ago its rough hewn walls were
echoing in rhythmic melody the charming eloquence that
came unbidden from the gifted lips of saintly George F. Pierce

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 RICHMOND CAMP GROUND.
The and zeal of the early days found full
religious faith
and fit expression in the freedom and fervor of the old camp-
meeting service. Leaving behind them for a time their daily
toil and care these old time ]\Iethodists went out into the open

woods to one of God’s first temples and through the mellow

sunshine of mild September days and in the shadows of the
Autumn nights they made their vows afresh and sought -to
save their fellow men. Aside from the religious benefit ac-
cruing from these services there was a social side to these oc-
casions that brightened and relieved the dull monotony of
rural, isolated life and left its gladness and its glamour to
I
I linger in the hearts of men for weeks and months to come.
Not far from our village limits there lay in the old days
*
two shaded groves dedicated at different times to these an-
nually recurring open air services. The 'first was near the
waters of the Grindstone branch and only a little way from the
old time home of Rev. Nicholas Murphey. If my information
is correct no “Tents” as they were called were built on the

ground. The people came in covered wagons and these were

used as sleeping quarters during the progress of the meeting.
When conditions in the community had improved, financially
and otherwise, the site of the Richmond Camp Ground was
changed to an ideal spot not far removed from the present
plant of the Albion Kaolin Co., and donated for the purpose
by Absalom Rhodes. A spacious tabernacle was erected and
bordering it on three sides there stood more than a score of
comfortable summer dwellings dispensing a lavish hospitality
to all came. My father’s “tent” after its last enlargement,
who
I am sure comfortably housed and slept and fed at least fifty

guests outside his own family. With the missing links in my

. own memory supplied by conference with my old friends J. W.
Burch, and R. H. P. Day, I am able to give the following
Sr.,
approximately correct list of these old time “tent holders” as
they were called. Taking them alphabetically they were as
follows: James Anderson, Augustus H. Anderson, James
Brandon, Joseph E. Burch, Charles Burch, Samuel B. Clark,

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Geo. H. Crump, William Doyle, Robert Evans, Edmund B.
Gresham, H. D. Greenwood, Dr. Walter E. Johnston, Jesse
Johnson, Jesse Kent, Robert Malone, Holland McTyeire, Rev.
Nicholas Murphey, Alexander Murphey, Hiram Oswald, Ab-
salom Rhodes. Middleton Seago, Mrs. Nancy Seago, Joseph
Thomas, Edmund Tabb, David Tinley, Valentine Walker
and Asaph Waterman. For twenty-five or thirty years this
camp ground flourished like a green bay tree. Its annual
services were blessed by the earnest and efifective labors of
George F. Pierce, James O. Andrew, Jno. W. Glenn, Thomas
IF Pierce, Josiah Lewis, Wm. M. Crumley, John W. Knight,
Allen Turner and many other worthies of the old days. John
W. Knight preached his first sermon at a service on this
ground. In his youth and early manhood he had been wild,
reckless and dissipated. Fie ‘'quit his meanness” as the late
Sam Jones expressed it, joined St. John church and soon after
applied for license to preach. George F. Pierce was Presiding
Elder of the Augusta District and Mr. Knight’s application
embarrassed him. Mr. Knight’s previous record, lack of edu-
cation and general awkwardness would, he thought, militate
very strongly against his usefulness as a minister. While the
matter was pending the Richmond Campmeeting came on with
Dr. Pierce, as he was called, in charge. A dearth in ministerial
help furnished opportunity to test the young applicant’s fitness
for the pulpit and iMr. Knight was assigned to a preaching
hour in the service. The result astounded the future Bishop.
His fluent, forceful, impassioned appeal silenced all misgivings
and secured the license. With limted knowledge of books, his
strong native intellect, terrible earnestness and unique method
of presenting the truth made him a successful preacher. Rev.
'Fhomas F. Pierce a short time before his death gave me the
following reminiscence of Mr. Knight. At the close of one
of Mr. Pierce’s sermons he asked “LTncle John,” as he was
familiarly called, to lead in prayer. The old man k'neeled
down and began, “Lord there are just three things that we
want to talk toyou about this morning and we want you to
pay special attention.” As he enumerated each item he would
close the statement with an inquiry of his Master, “Are you

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listening? Are you listening?” And then said Mr. Pierce “He
gave voice to one of the most powerful prayers I ever heard
from human lips.”
After Mr. Knight’s maiden sermon at Richmond Camp-
meeting 'George F. Pierce, whether as Presiding Elder or
Bishop was one of his strongest friends and advisers. As they
talked one day the Bishop said to him, “John, you are a good
preacher, but you get off the track sometimes. You start up
the creek all right, but you wander off into some shallow
branch where there are no fish at all.” “I guess you are right
Bishop,” Mr. Knight replied, “and the next time you are in the
pulpit with me and I get into one of those branches, I wish
you would give my coat tail a twitch and Pll get back into deep
water again.” Not many weeks afterward the Bishop chanced
to attend one of his friend’s appointments and sat in the pulpit
to close the service. In the course of the sermon the preacher
reached a point where in the estimation of the Bishop he had
struck the unfruitful shallowness of branch water and recalling
the request made he leaned forward and gave his brother’s coat
tail a gentle twitch. Mr. Knight recognized the signal and
turning his back to the audience he thundered with an imperial
sweep of the head, “Bishop you are wrong there. There are
fish up that creek and the biggest sort.” His hearers were
doubtless entertained if not edified by that unexpected and un-
explained number on the program and his ministerial bark
was allowed to glide on without interruption to its destined
haven.
James Knight, who died a year or two ago in Eatonton,
Dr.
Ga., was a son of “Uncle John,” and in his boyhood developed
some characteristics of the Munchausen type.
Seated at the breakfast table one morning he taxed the
credulity of the family by the statement that he had just seen
a million rats down at the pond.
was his father’s custom in riding to his appointments to
It
stop at homes by the wayside and hold prayer with the family.
On this particular morning after Jim’s breakfast deliverance, he
mounted his steed and halting at the first house on his route,
he said to the lady, who met him at the door, “Sister I have

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just dropped, in tohave a prayer with you,” and dropping on
his knees he prayed for the family and the church and the
world generally, winding up his petition with this invocation,
“And now Lord forgive Jim Knight for that lie about them
rats this morning, and save us all in Heaven.”
On another occasion Rev. J. H. Echols was preaching
while Mr. Knight sat before him an interested listener. In the
elaboration of his theme the preacher was portraying the
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characteristics of a gay and festive sinner and his gifted tongue

was drawing the picture with the skill of an artist. As he
neared the consummation and gave the finishing touches Mr
Kinght to the amazement of the preacher and the amusement
of the audience sang out, “Now aint he a blossom?”
The reader will not I trust form his judgment of this
saintly man mainly from these peculiarities. He was
solely or
a diamond in the rough. From the day of his reformation he
served his ^Master humbly, faithfully, effectively often brilliant-
ly in the pulpit and if there are reserved seats in the Celestial
City he is surely filling one, today. Bishop Pierce once said
of him, “If his moral and educational environment had been
favorable in his early life he would have stood in the front
rank as a preacher. His pulpit efforts ranged all the way from
cipher to a hundred but in his dryest moods there were al-
ways scintillations of his originality. His best sermons for
range of thought, power of expression and touching pathos I
have never heard excelled.”
Some minor incidents come back to me to-day over the
waste of vanished years of those old campmeeting days, in-
marked religious trend. My first personal
cidents that bear, no
acquaintance with that peculiar species of the genus homo
known as tramp, occurred at this camp grouiul. He was known
to the general public as Lazy Lawrence and in appearance was
a typical member tramp tribe. He wore upon his, griz-
of the
zled locks the fading, battered remnant of a once glossy silk
tile, upon his rugged face the glow of a perennial smile and on

his lips the mellow cadence of an Irish brogue. In his earlier

days he had probably been an Irish ditcher, but in his later
years his constitutional aversion to physical labor had placed

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him on the retired list without emoluments or pay. When
the lusty voice of Edmund Tabb rang throug the vibrant bugle
the maiden opening service on those old grounds
call to the

the battered tile was there and when its last notes on the
closing day faded out on the Autumn air its owner

'‘Would fold his tents like the Arab

And as silently steal away.”

I do not recall that he ever attended a religious service,

but when Bob Toombs
the tempting meals were spread, like
story of the Vermont Democracy he was “always on hand with
his dish up.”
What became of him during the twelve months interval
between these services I do not know unless with his physical
wants entirely filled by a four days feast he went into a state of
prolonged hibernation until the bugle blew again-
But this peripatetic specimQn of the tramp tribe was not
the only acquaintance formed at these annual services. On
one of these occasions I came into personal but not pleasant
contact with what the modern medical fraternity term acute
indigestion but w'hat was then known to the unprofessional
mind at least, by the less aesthetic title of cholera morbus.
While convalescing from this attack an old negro woman, who
was rendering culinary or other service at a neighboring tent
came in and noticing that I was a little under the weather she
kindly asked, “What’s the matter with you?” As I gave her
the old time name of my physical ailment she drew back with
a look of apprehension on her honest old face and said in a
tone of some alarm, “Is it ketching?” I hastened to assure her
that to the best of my medical knowledge and belief the trouble
was hardly “ketching” and her fears were relieved.
Rev. Milton A. Clark, who for twenty years and more has
been laboring as a missionary among the Indians attended
when boy these campmeeting services. Awaking one morn-
a
ing in my father’s tent he was unable to locate the bifurcated
outer garment that he had laid aside on retiring to rest. My
mother learning of his trouble sent Henry, a negro boy owned

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reappearance my mother asked if he had found them and he
replied, “No Mistiss, Mars Milton wouldn’t help me. He just
sot dar a snuffin.’’ Milton’s long and strenuous service as a
Confederate soldier culminating in the loss of a leg as he
bravely faced the bursting shells to rescue a wounded comrade
at Spottsylvania and his twenty years or more of arduous self-
denying labor among the untamed Indians of the West have
brought him many weightier trials than that recited above,
but he has met them with a quiet fortitude and patience that
failed him in his boyish trouble on that campmeeting morning
in the long ago.
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until the strain and stress of war caused its suspension and it

was never resumed. The old tabernacle was moved in 1869

to its present site at Gracewood and campmeetings have been
held there for all thfese years but never with their former
charm or prestige.

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On New Year’s Day and the 23rd Vir-
in 1862, the First
ginia regiments with Ashby’s cavalry and other Confederate
troops started out from Winchester, Va., on a winter tramp
under Stonewall Jackson with the benevolent purpose of in-
ducing by moral suasion or otherwise, a certain Federal force
then trespassing on Virginia soil to return to their homes and
thenceforth and thereafter to “play in their own back yards.”
Col. William B. Taliaferro, who in the years that followed
won his spurs as a major general, was then commanding the
23rd Virginia. Riding by our regiment in one of the early
days of this January outing, he was saluted by one of its
members with the query:
“Where are the Yankees, colonel?”
“Up he replied, giving the
at a little place called Bath,”
name the modern and up-to-date pronunciation of “Barth.”
So, nestled away on the borders of old “Pinetucky” and
only a little way from our rustic* town, there has lain for a
hundred years or more “a little place called Bath,” or if the
“culchar” of the reader so prefers it, “Barth.”
In its early days it was known as the Richmond Baths,
but whether from any alleged medicinal virtue in the limpid
water that gushed and gurgled from one of its shaded vales,
this scribe is not prepared to say.
Bordering the ancient Indian trail that lay between Au-
gusta and Galphin’s trading post at Old Town, it was probably
in ante-railroad days a station on the old stage route that led
to Louisville.
When plans were being formulated to construct the Geor-
gia Railroad to Atlanta, some of its promoters suggested a
route that ran by Bath, but the old time residents made strenu-
ous objection. They did not want their rural quietude dis-
turbed by the smoke and snort of iron horses and another line
was chosen.
Through all its ante-bellum history, this little village was
the resort of wealthy planters from the adjoining county of
Burke. Cultivated and refined, with ample means and ample

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leisure these old time Southern gentlemen builded here their
old colonial mansions and made of Bath a social center noted
far and wide for its charming elegance and old-time Southern
grace.
Prominent among its earliest settlers and filling large
space ante-bellum history, there was a race that came
in all its
of Scotch Presbyterian stock. Driven from their native heath
by religious persecution they found a refuge in Northern Ire-
land in the early years of the 17th century. A hundred years
later William ^^'hitehead, one of the tribe decided to try his
fortune in the New World and settled on the soil of the Old
Dominion. In 1764, or possibly earlier, three of his grandsons,
John, Amos and Caleb, migrated to Burke County, Ga., taking
a section of land that stretched for fifteen miles along the
western bank of Brier creek. The lands were fresh and fertile,
their slaves multiplied and they and their sons and grandsons
took rank among the wealthiest planters of this wealthy old
county. Noted in all the fair and broad domain that formed
their landed estate was the Spread Oak Place, settled, improved
and beautified by the original John Whitehead and the birth-
place of three generations or more of his descendants.
But on these virgin lands where the pendant moss in grey
festoons drapes the forest trees and the snowy cotton bloomed
and boiled and whitened in almost tropical luxuriance under
the Southern sky the malarial germ in earth or air or stagnant
streams found its abiding place and “third-day chill and fever”
hung like a pall over the summer and autumn days. In such
environment the old familiar salutation “give us a shake”
nuisit hardly have found its birth for shakes, that bore no warm

relationship to milkshakes, came without the courtesy of any

invitation.
To find some surcease fromannoying yet rarely seri-
this
ous many of the old time Whiteheads made their
afiliction,
homes in the balmy, resinous, and germless air of Richmond
Bath. Among them were John and James, Amos G. and John
P. C., Troup and William, John Berrien and John Randolph.
With them came other wealthy planters from old-time Burke,
of whom the following are recalled, Adam McNatt and W'^m.

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and Gideon Dowse, Samuel and William Byne, Amos W. Wig-
gins and Thomas Nesbit, Commodore Nelson and last but not
least Quintillian Skrine, who as Senor Quinzimaniskrani and
with 'his conferes Senor Cartara, Senor Benneti, Senor Antonini
and Senor Portosi representing Dr. Carter, Major iBennett, Dr.
Anthony and Major Poythress formed the dramatis personae
in “The Conspirators,” a political drama written by Col. A. C.
Walker in the “forty-four, forty or fight” period of Southern
history.
All of these old homes kept open house, dispensing a
princely old time Southern hospitality to all who came. In
these latter days a girl of the period invites three or four friends
to her home days and the local reporter em-
for three or four
blazons it and biilliant house-party,”
in the press as a “large
but I am assured by one whose memory goes back to the old
Bath days that it was not unusual for her father to entertain
thirty guests, continuously for weeks and weeks at his old Bath
home.

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 LOVE AND WAR, OR A BATH ROMANCE.
In the summer of ’6i the Confederate Government was
endeavoring with wholly inadequate force to hold the un-
friendly territory of West Virginia true to its allegiance to the
Southern cause.
In the army of occupation was the 21st Virginia regiment
holding as a component part of its organization' a splendid
company of Baltimore boys commanded by Capt. Lyle Clark.
Within its ranks there was a fairhaired lad within whose loyal
veins there flowed the blood of a Revolutionary sire, who had
not only signed Tom. Jeflferson’s historic paper, but had affixed
his signature in such a way as to leave no possible doubt as to
his identity if the effort of the colonies had come to grief.
In the mountain campaign that followed this boy soldier grew
sick and helpless and was forced to ask the kindly care of a
friendly mountaineer.
Afew days later there came to the home two Augusta
boys, membersof the Oglethorpe Infantry, ist Ga. regiment,
asking for a night’s shelter, and were assigned to the invalid’s
room. He had grown weak and despondent and thought that
his time had come. They cheered him as best they could and
one of them to divert his mind from his illness showed him a
picture of his Georgia sweetheart. It was the face of a typical
Southern girl with laughing eyes and mobile lips and a wealth
of soft brown hair. The night passed and the Augusta boys
hurried on to overtake their Command.
The sick boy was nursed back to health and rejoined his
comrades later.
In a life of more than sixty years I can recall few days in
which palmetto fans w'ere as absolutely useless as January 4th,
in ’62. If not the coldest I have ever known, as the rustic
witness said, it was certainly “tharabouts.”

Our winter tramp with Stonewall Jackson had brought us

within a mile of Col. Taliaferro’s little place called “Bath.”
Our regiment had been halted awaiting Gen. Jackson’s final dis-
position of his forces for the expected battle. Standing by the
roadside in the frozen snow I heard the tramp of an approach-

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ing column and Capt. Clark’s crack company from “Maryland,
My Maryland,” marched by with faultless step and ringing,
rhythmic tread on their way to the front to open the engage-
ment on the skirmish line. During my service as a soldier I
came in contact with many military organizations from many
states, but with none that impressed me more by their soldierly
bearing and handsome looks than those grey clad boys from
Baltimore. With them tramped and fought that bitter winter
day the quondam invalid from the Western Virginia home,
but to my personal mental consciousness he was then an abso-
lutely unknown quantityin the algebra of life.
A year later die was sent to Port Gibson, Louisiana, on
some military mission that involved a stop over in Augusta
for a day or two enroute. There he chanced to meet a Virginia
army friend. Col. iMcLeod, of Emanuel county, and as they
chatted pleasantly, two blooming maidens passed them on the
street. “Colonel, those are mighty pretty girls,” said the young
soldier. “Yes, they are friends of mine. Would you like to
meet them?”
“Sure,” was the prompt response, and when the presenta-
tion was made, the face of one of the girls seemed strangely
familiar to him. “Were you ever in Maryland or Virginia?”
he asked.
“Never,” she replied:
“Well, I have certainly met you somewhere.”
“No, I guess not,” she answered. “You have simply met
some girl that resembled me a little.”
“No, it was your face and no other,” and then there came
back to him the memory of a sick bed among the \drginia
mountains in ’6i, of a chance meeting with two Augusta boys,
of a pictured face drawn from an army knapsack to cheer him
in his illness and the mystery was solved. He told her the
story, but she laughingly denied the soft impeachment and
asked him to accompany them on their visit to the old Doughty
home. He went and his stay in Augusta was possibly pro-
longed beyond the limit that military necessity absolutely re-
quired, but before it had ended he had secured from her a
promise that his letters would not go unanswered.

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 And
then the weary, bloodstained years went by, but be-
fore “grim v'isaged war had smoothed his wrinkled front,” the
soft pine air of old time Bath was laden with the breath of
orange blossoms and in the spacious halls of one of its old
time mansions the bidden guests had gathered from far and
near to witness the plighted troth of ^laryland’s grey-clad sol-
dier and his bonnie Georgia bride. And now as I write these
lines on this January day in 1908, the genial face and manly
form of my long-time friend, Phil Carroll, lies at his Greene
street home smitten again by illness while she whose love has
blessed his life for all these years sits by his bedside to cheer
him with her real and not her- pictured face.

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 JACOB WALKER, OR A SLAVE’S LOYALTY.
Some weeks ago I was able to secure some data in the
early history of the old Bath church from my friend Mrs. C.
A. Rowland, who in her girldhood worshipped at altars and
its

whose kindly hands and gentle, generous heart

have for so
many years in the role of a Good Samaritan brought sunshine
to many shadowed lives and homes. In addition to this in-
formation she gave me also the following story, which while
it hasmo distinctive Bath setting occurred at ‘Tvanhoe,” the

plantation home of her father, Amos G. Whitehead, one of the

old Bath residents and is therefore in some measure germane
to these records. This home lay on the Quaker road not
many miles from Waynesboro and in the track of Sherman’s
famous and infamous “March to the Sea.” Some days before
the advent of the vanguard of the Federal army, Mrs. White-
head in order to minimize in some degree their expected depre-
dations, placed the family silver in charge of Jacob Walker,
one of her trusted slaves, with instructions to conceal it in
some safe hiding place. In faithful execution of his trust he
hid it away in the cavernous depths of an unused well on the
premises, covering the surface opening and concealing it all
with a layer of forest leaves. Kilpatrick’s cavalry corps oc-
cupied the place for a day, the home itself being utilized as
headquarters for the general and his staff. During their stay
Kilpatrick having possibly in his baggage wagon, still space
for a few^ more sets of family treasures took occasion in a
private interview with Jacob to inquire where the family silver
could be found. And the faithful slave believing that even
the law of absolute truthfulness had its limitations in war
times, said with an innocent look in his honest eyes, “Boss,
dere ain’t no silver here at all. Marster done took it all to
Augusta. No, sir, dere ain’t none here.” And the general’s
was not adorned by the White-
table at his next stopping place
head silver. Jacob’s wife was the family cook and under
orders from one of the aides prepared the midday meal for
the uninvited guests. Mrs. Whitehead had reserved a set of
spoons for the family use and these were placed on the table.

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As them
the meal progressed one of the officers tilting one of
on his fingercommented very favorably on its weight, and
evidently sterling quality. The cook heard the comment and
quietly making the circuit of the table she gathered them in
and hid them away.
Jacob’s young master, Willie Whitehead, joined the Burke
Sharp Shooters at the first call to arms in ’6i, and became the
ensign of the Second Ceorgia Regiment. On the bloody slope
of Malvern Hill he went down to death gallantly bearing the
regimental colors. Before leaving home he gave to Jacob as
a special mark of his affectionate regard a handsome set of
gold shirt studs carved or moulded in the form of a wolf’s
head. This cherished gift adorned Jacob’s homespun shirt
front on the occasion of Kilpatrick’s visit and while the raid-
ers were earnest advocates of “Free Silver,” silver that was
free to their pillaging hands, they were in no way averse to
the “double standard” when the occasion offered. The gleam
and glitter, that shone from the negro’s brawny breast attracted
the attention of one of the officers, and fingering the studs
with an itching palm, he said: “These are mighty pretty. I
want them.” And Jacob with the same innocent look in his
homely face, said, “Boss, dere ain’t no gold ’bout dese buttons.
I rubs ’em up every mornin’ to make ’em shine, but dey ain’t

Huffin’ but brass,” and the officer having no desire to add to

his outfit, physical or mental on that particular line, left the
negro in undisturbed possession of his treasure.
I am glad to know that when in after years this trusted

slave was called to his last long home and his lowly form was
laid to rest beneath the shadow of the trees in the city of the
dead, every business house in Waynesboro closed its doors in
loving token of respect for his humble, but faithful life.
It was General Kilpatrick’s purpose to prolong liis stay at

“Ivanhoe,” until the following day, but General ^^dlecler came

up in the afternoon and began to show him social courtesies of
a carbine character and the Federal officer decided to ‘‘move
on,” and “step lively.” “Little Joe’s” attentions were kept up
unremittingly until they arrived at Buckhead creek when
Kilpatrick in order to bar a continuance of these courtesies

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whose constancy had grown a little monotonous, burned or
partially burned the bridge. Wheeler’s type of hospitality did
not allow him to wait for a lumber order to be filled by a local
mill and the pews in Buckhead church were utilized to replace
the burned flooring.
Some days later Little Joe to supplement his knowledge
of Burke topography accepted the volunteered service as pilot
of my old friend and school mate, Jno. W. Reynolds, whose
active military duties had been ended by a wound received
at Malvern Hill. In their meanderings they reached the vi-
cinity of “Ivanhoe” again and Mrs. Whitehead invited the Gen-
eral to dine at her home. Little Joe. requested my friend John
to accompany him and they went, but Eliza found no occasion
to remove the spoons that day.

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 A SLAVE WEDDING AT BATH.
The outside world has never had in the years gone by
and will never have in the years to come any true conception
of the peculiar relation that existed between “Marster and
Mistiss” and those, who calledthem such in the old slave days.
They found their birth in conditions that had no precedent and
a system that will have no successor. The tender kindliness
that lay in the hearts of each of these classes, Marster and
slave, mistress and maid, “mammy” and “chile” is a “Lost
Chord,” whose rhytmic melody will never echo again in earth
or sea or sky. To those of my readers, whose conscious life
goes back to those old days the following incident given me by
my friend, Mrs. M. P. Carroll, may awaken a fading memory
of the feeling I have tried to picture.

In the old Bath home of her father, Adam McNatt, many

Augusta guests were entertained and none more frequently,
perhaps, than William Henry Warren. In his periodical trips
to the little village, he was attended by Henry, one of his
slaves, as a valet. In the home of his host, there was a servant
girl, Maria, with whose maiden charms Henry became en-

amoured and a marriage engagement followed. Maria confided

the fact to her mistress and when the appointed day ap-
proached Mrs. McNatt prepared a costly wedding supper,
purchased many bridal gifts and invited all the family servants
in the neighboring homes, as Maria’s marriage guests. The
use of the summer dining room was allowed for the wedding
feast, and the services of Rev. Rufus K. Porter, then pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Bath, was engaged to bind the
nuptial tie, Maria was supplied by her mistress with an ap-
propriate bridal trousseau, the ceremony was honored by the
presence of Mrs. McNatt’s family and the occasion passed off
with much eclat. If my memory serves me correctly, this in-
cident and the many similar ones that occurred in the Old
South have not been given any very special prominence in
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and yet they may, perhaps, he appropriate-
ly added to the long list of “Southern outrages.”

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.eXfib »v*le bio o;b ni ri-j»» msiti
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 “RUTHER cold;*
My old friend and comrade, Jim Wilson, was wont to
characterize an abnormal drop in the mercury as being “cold
enough to freeze off the ears of a brass monkey.” The allusion
made former sketch to the frigid temperature that pre-
in a
vailed in Northern Virginia in January *62, recalls a story that
came to me long years afterward and yet that was suggested
by the Virginia “spell,” and that would seem to meet in some
measure, at least, the conditions of Jim’s mental thermometer.
During one of the Confederate reunions in Louisville, Ky., my
old friend Jordan Bottom and myself, made a visit to Cave
Hill cemetery, where rest many of Kentucky's honored dead.
On one of its graveled and winding ways we chanced to meet
two veterans from Parkersburg, W. Va., and in the conversa-
tion that followed, the severity of the winter already named,
became the subject of discussion. My friend Jordan recalled
the fact that the temperature fell below the zero point. I was
unable to either affirm or deny the statement, as my camp outfit
did not include in equipment any thermometer, save my
its

ears and toes, and they were both ungraded. I did remember,
however, that on the unbridged streams over which we passed,
ice 'lay thick enough and strong enough to bear up the weight,

not only of heavy baggage wagons, but of artillery as well, and

this hardly indicated the fervent heat of a summer solstice.
Growing out of this discussion there came from the lips of one
of our new made friends the following story, corroborated and
confirmed that evening in its essential features by a Confed-
erate captain from Norfolk, Va., who had personally inspected
the documentary evidence.
Some years after the war the contract for carrying the
mail over a star route line that ran over Cheat ^Mountain, on
whose wooded slopes there came to the writer on a fall day in
’61 his initial baptism of fire, was awarded to two Virginia

brothers, one of whom was a pious sort of fellow while the

moral character of the other would hardly have fitted him for
specially efficient service in the line of Sunday school work.
The contract was carried out according to specifications until

107
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'odl ^liriw wollil lo no« eiioiq fi ?.fiW moflv/ lo sno ,«T 3 dloTd *

Tol mid !)9llA 3'/fid xibifirf. blirow t^HJo 3dl V^iotofiTfido Imom
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a winter blizzard came that mantled the earth with ice aiid
snow and possibly beat the record by its unparalleled bitterness
and bleakness. Outdoor life under these conditions was hardly
a luxury and the two postmen sat by the cosy fires in their
mountain homes while the mail piled higher in the pigeon
holes undisturbed and undelivered. The patrons along the
line were possibly singing Edison’s modern phonograph song:

*T wonder what’s the matter with the mail,

Itnever was so before,”

But they did not sing long before they began to pour
complaints into the department at Washington and back by
every mail came letters of inquiry as to “the reason why.”
The pious brother answered them for a time but with no
eminent degree of satisfaction to the officials, tie then turned
over the correspondence to his wicked partner and a letter was
written that failed to find its home in the waste basket, or
amid the musty archives of the department records. Neatly
framed it hung for years and years on the office walls as a
national curio and probably hangs there still. As a sample of
its Addisonion style our informant gave us the following ex-

tract: “If the gable end of the infernal regions was bursted
in and its lurid fires turned loose on Cheat Mountain it

wouldn’t thaw that ice in six months.”

Whether this virile answer was effective in nol pressing
the case we did not learn.

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 “JIM.”

As the following has no earthly connection with old time

Bath, nor with “Hephzibah and its Antecedents,” nor with their

heirs and assigns, the reader can charge it up to the law of

association, but not to the Hephzibah Association. It is simp-
ly a companion picture to the framed epistle named above and
may possibly hang beside it. Some years ago there came to
the New York postoffice from over the sea a letter with the
following unique superscription

“To My Son Jim

He lives two miles from the Rail road
And drives red oxen.”

The postal service makes diligent effort to secure proper

disposition of all mail matter that falls into its hands but the
prompt delivery of this epistle was fraught with difficulties.
If there had been in all the broad domain over which the Fed-
eral vflag folds its protecting aegisbut one railroad, but one
“Jim” and only a single pair of carmine tinted steers and
they had lived and moved and had their patient being just
two miles from the railroad for Jim’s sole use, behoof and
benefit, the identification might have been complete. But un-
fortunately, in the progress of modern civilization, railroads
had multiplied and red oxen had multiplied, so that amid the
cattle on a thousand hills Jim’s plodding yoke of steers
though blessed with auburn locks could cut but little ice. And
so under postal statutes, made and provided, the letter went
its reluctant way into the gaping jaws of the dead letter office,

not to be burned as were its mates that held nothing of value,

but treasured and preserved as a national curio, while “Jim” if
he still survives is making the woodland echo with his sono-
ous “haws and gees” two miles away from the railroad line in
utter and pathetic ignorance of this maternal missive.

109
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 THE OLD BATH CHURCH.
Rev. George C. Smith, in his Story of Georgia, states that
in 1760 Presbyterian churches had been established at Brier
Creek, Walnut Branch and Old Church in Burke county.
Waynesboro was born in 1783, or at least, in the language of
an authority lying before me, it was “laid out” in that year.
Like some of its modern sisters it may have been laid out
before it was born, but if its early reputation has been truth-
fully portrayed, it is probable that a good many of its citizens
in those old days were “laid out” after they were born. In
1810 the churches at Brier Creek and Walnut Branch were
abandoned and their members combined in a united church
organization at Waynesboro. John Whitehead and Gideon
Dowse, who had aided in the establishment of Midway church
in Liberty county in 1754 and who had removed to Burke
county in 1799, were probably leading spirits in this movement.
After Bath had become a summer residence for the families of
these and other prominent planters in Burke, the Whiteheads
true to the ancestral faith, for which their forbears had suf-
fered, builded another house of worship at Bath and the or-
ganization became known
as the “Church of Waynesboro and
Bath.” arrangement began as early as 1820, Rev.
If this dual
S. K. Talmage, at one time president of Oglehtorpe Cniversity,

near Milledgeville, was probably the first pastor of the Bath

church. He was the uncle of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, and a
sentence from one of his sermons given to me fifty years ago
by my friend Joe Lewis, seems to furnish evidence that he
was in no way inferior to his distinguished nephew as a pulpit
orator. This pretty thought prettily expressed is as follows
“The first feeble pulsation in the infants sinews is but the
maiden drumbeat of an eternal march.”
In 1824 Rev. Calvin Mclver, began his pastorate and was
followed in 1830 by Rev. Lawson Clinton, grandfather of
President Linwood Hayne, of the National Bank, and later by
Rev. Timothy Dwight, whose long pulpit servdee at Bath and
Waynesboro ended in 1843. was never my privilege to sit
under Mr. Clinton’s ministration, but if he was as charming

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in the pulpit as his daughters were out of it, he must have kept
his Bath congregation awake even on the hottest summer
days. I do not recall having met, more than once, Miss Julia,
the eldest daughter, who was married first to James Anderson,
Jr., and after his death to Gen. Hayne, but she impressed me as
being not only a pretty, but a very beautiful woman. Miss
Kate, the younger, was my schoolmate at the old Brothersville
Academy, and was as charming as a rose in June. During the
winter of 1859 and i860, my elder brother, William H., was a
student at the Medical College in Augusta and among his
friends there was a John Wesley Brown, who had met Miss
Kate and had become so enamored that his attack might have
been diagnosed as a virulent type of functional rather than
sympathetic heart trouble. During one of the sessions named,
Miss Kate was married to James Heidt, brother of my old
friend and college classmate, Rev. John W. Heidt, the genial
and gifted presiding elder of the Augusta District. Tidings of
the marriage reached Augusta and as my brother stood on the
street on the following morning, he saw his friend John Wes-
ley approaching with a graveyard look on his gloomy face.
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came in sepulchral tones from his trembling lips these sor-
row freighted words. “Clark, she's gone,” and then went his
lonely way. If the rumors of that day were not misleading
there were others from whom this disappointed swain could
justly have claimed special consideration if the poet said wdth
truthfulness.

“A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.”

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 REV. FRANK R. GOULDING.
The ample imcome of the old Bath residents enabled them
to furnish liberal compensation to their pastors and the church
was served in all its early history by able ministers. In 1843
Rev. I'rank R. Cionlding, one of the most prominent Presby-
terian divines in the State, located in the village, and for eight
years filled its pulpit. During the early years of his pastorate
at Rath,he bloomed out as an author publishing in 1844 “Little
Josephine,” a religious story based upon the early life of
Josephine Anderson, of Washington, Ga. A few years later,
lie wrote “Young Marooners,” which while publishers were

slow to recognize its merits, became one of the most popular

books of its class ever issued. A charming story of adven-
turous boy life on the coast, it contained a large amount of
valuable information, clothed in very attractive form. A new
edition has been published in recent years with an appreciative
introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. In later life he wrote
other books, among them “Marooners Island,” “The Woodruff
Stories,” “Saloquah, or Boy Life Among the Indians,” and
“Frank Gordon,” but Young Marooners seems to have been
his master piece as no other product of his pen met with so
kindly a reception from the reading public.
Dr. Goulding must have been a moderately busy man, for
in addition to his ministerial and literary labors he devoted a

portion of his time to mechanics. In the early ’40’s his hand

and brain evolved a sewing machine, which is claimed to have
been the first invention of its kind operated on American
soil. The practically universal use into which such machines
have grown and the princely income secured by Howe and
\Vilson and Singer and others from similar inventions, have
led me to investigate the reasons why he failed to profit
financially by his mechanical genius. have
Theologians
written muchon the “Harmony of the Gospels..” but
it would require even larger mental effort to effect even ap-

proximate reconciliation among the conflicting stories, that

have come to me on this particular line. In this case the har-
mony doesn’t seem to harmonize. In my boyhood days I was
told that Mr. Goulding declined to make any effort to secure
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a patent for his invention for the reason that with its extended

use the occupation of the sewing women throughout the land,

like Othello’s, would be gone. Since I began this story, the
following varying accounts have been received
Washington, D. C., in the
First, that the inventor’s trip to
interest of his patent was delayed by flooded streams and a
rival claiming the same mechanical principle, in this way
reached the patent office in advance of him.
Second, that on the aforesaid trip the stage was over-
turned and in the confusion incident to the trouble the model
was stolen and never recovered.
Third, that the model dropped from his buggy into a deep
stream as he crossed it and was never found.
Fourth, that he failed to locate the eye or opening of the
needle used, near its point and for this reason the machine
was never a success. I have been told also that Howe during
a visit to Augusta was allowed by his friend to inspect the
working of the model, that he saw its defect, remedied it, ap-
propriated the motive mechanism and secured a patent that
bountifully filled his coffers.

The needle theory named above was given to me by my

old friend, Mr. John H. Jones, whose memory, although he
has passed his four-score years, is as retentive as a tar bucket.
As it confirmed by my friend Mrs. C. A. Rowland and as
is

they were both personal friends of Mr. Moulding and received

the story from his own lips, it is evidently the correct version
of his failure to utilize his invention.
After leaving Bath in 1853, Dr. Goulding lived for a time
at Darien, Ga., but spent his last years at Roswell, Ga., where
he died in 1881.
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Since writing the above have learned through a lady

I

friend that Mrs. Mary FTelmer

Macon, Ga., daughter of Dr.
of
Goulding, has in her possession beautiful samples of the handi-
—
work of this machine samples that show conclusively that
there was no defect in its construction and so it must have
been at last his kind consideration for the interest of the
gentler sex that held his genius in abeyance.
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 REV. RUFUS K. PORTER.
Began his pastorate at Bath in the early 50’s. He was
the only ante-bellum minister of that church of I had whom
any personal knowledge. Earnest, cultivated, of handsome
physique and pleasing address he enjoyed the confidence, es-
teem and love of all who knew him. Some years after his
ministry began I attended the morning and evening service at
this church, but Dr. Porter had exchanged pulpits for that day
with Rev. J. E. Ryerson, pastor of the First Baptist Church at
.\ugusta. At the morning service Addison’s beautiful hymn
begining

“The spacious firmaments on high

And all the blue ethereal sky
The spangled heavens a shining frame
Their great original proclaim.”

was used. Why this fact has lingered in my mind for more
than fifty whether it is due to Dr. Ryerson’s impressive
years,
rendition of it 1 do not know. Some months ago I mentioned
the matter to my friend Brad Merry and he said, “Why Mrs.
Henry Leitner attended that service and was so impressed by
that hymn that she had one of her sons to memorize and re-
cite it at the first Sunday School Convention held at Berzelia.”
On the day following this interview I attended the evening
service at the Second Presbyterian Church at Augusta and Dr.
Giiille, its pastor, read the Psalm on which this hymn is based

and preached on “The testimony of the Stars,” all of which is

respectfully submitted. •'

Dr. Porter’s pastorate was interrupted for a time by his

service as a Confederate Chaplain with Cobb’s Legion and af-
terwards with the .‘Xrmy of Tennessee.

ANTE BELLUM.
The use of this phrase in the sketch above recalls another
story of my
friend Steed, which while it has no legitimate
place on the family tree of the old Bath Church is nevertheless
a good story and a true one, and I give it here for the reason

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that I may have no opportunity to give it historic setting in bet-
ter company.
On reaching home some months ago, my friend Phunie
found his good wife engaged inconversation with an aged
colored woman, who had called on some errand not material
to the present issue. By way of presentation, his wife said,
“This is one “Oh, yes,” said Phunie,
of the old time negroes.”
“Ante bellum.” “No, no. Boss,” said the old woman, “Dis
is Aunt Mandy.” And my friend with his proverbial urbanity
confessed his error and made the necessary amende honorable.

“DUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS.”

During Mr. Porter’s pastorate at Bath, Capt. W. S. C. Morris,
whose Confederate outfit of umbrella, silk tile and infantry
saddle horse has already been noted in these records, was a
resident of the village. The minister was an expert linguist
while his parishioner’s knowledge of the classics would hardly
have fitted him for successful and efficient service as Professor
of Ancient Languages in a first class University. According
to his own statement, as made in the recital of this story, there
was but one Latin phrase with which he was reasonably
familiar, and its English meaning would have found no recog-
nition if he had met it in the road. At their earliest meeting
the liquid flow of language from ^fr. Porter’s ready lips was
liberally interlarded with familiar quotations from the Latin
tongue. Capt. Morris bore it for a time without rejoinder
but finally unwilling that his pastor should bear off all the
classic honors he blurted out with emphasis “Dum Vivimus
Vivamus.” The remark was made without malice aforethought
either express or implied, but by happy accident it chanced to
fit the place exactly and the two became fast friends.

“GIVE ME ANOTHER PIECE.”

iMy friend Brad Merry, whose Confederate command Mr.
Porter served as Chaplain, has given me the following story
of that service. The preacher by his earnest work, his sym-
pathy and his willingness to aid them in any way he could, had

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won their confidence and love. And when there came by
chance or otherwise to supplement their scanty fare a tempting
dish of any kind, the Chaplain was always an invited guest.
One of the messes had one day a dish of crisp fried chicken, a
very unusual item in their menu, and the preacher sat at meat
to share its juiciness with them. The contents of the savory
dish were disappearing rapidly when one of the hungry mess
thinking perhaps to throw a damper on the appetite of their
guest, said, “Parson, you asked a blessing on this meal, didn't
you?” ‘A\'hy yes,” he replied, “Well do you know where this
chicken came from?”- “I do not,” was ..the answer. ‘Tt was
stolen,” the soldier said. “Ah, I didn’t know that,” Mr. Porter
answered, “but it’s mighty good, mighty good. Please help
me to another piece,” and he passed his tin plate and ate what
was set before him asking no questions for conscience sake.
After the close of the war Mr. Porter returned to Bath, served
the church for a time and in 1867 was called to the pastorate
of a church in Atlanta.

Hi sj: ^ :jc Jjc 5K

Since the foregoing was written there has come to me

through my old friend A. M. MacMurphey, whose memory
goes almost back to pre historic days and whose ancient kins-
man. George Galphin. was trading red calico for corner lots
with the Uchee Indians years before the foundations of the
first building were laid in Augusta, this further information as
to old time Bath. I do not know that my old friend was a sub-

scriber to the Augusta Herald, published by Hobby and Bunce

m i8i 2. but he has copies of its weekly” issues for that year
which contain the following “ads.” On June 3. 1812. the pub-
lic is advised that “A convenient four wheel carriage will start
from the City Hotel at 3 P. M., every Friday and Saturday
for Richmond Bath, and return every Monday and Friday the
fare being $1.25 each way.” The “ad” is signed by Joseph
Carrie, and his fourwheeled vehicle was probably the original
The City Hotel referred to. was
"Carrie-all” in this section.
probably the dwelling now occupied by Dr. Andrew J. Kil-
patrick. which in the days of its use as a hostelry extended

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the entire width of the block from Greene to Telfair and en-
tertained Gen. La Fayette during his visit to Augusta in 1825.
A lady friend and relative has recently allowed me the privi-
lege of examining the original invitation requesting the pres-
ence of her grandmother Mrs. Launcelot Johnson at the ball
given to La Fayette in Milledgeville in March of that year.
The stage line suggests the further fact that my friend Capt. N.
K. Butler has now in his possession a receipt for stage fare
from Augusta to Charleston paid by his father in 1823. The
printed bill head shows that the Commercial Coffee House of

Charleston was proprietor of the stage line and that the fare
was $12.50 for the trip.
Another “ad” in the Augusta Herald of Dec. 3, 1812, shows
that Bath was at that time a U. S. Military Post, Capt. R. Cun-
ningham of the 8th. U. S. Infantry offers a reward of $20.00 for
the apprehension of one John Tyner, a member of the regiment,
who had deserted on their “march from Charleston to Rich-
mond Baths.” As war had been declared against Great Britain
June 19, 1812, and hostilities were then in progress, what
military or other necessity brought this armed force to this
retired spot in time of actual war. No foreign foe was likely
to invade the sylvan shades of young Pinetucky nor hostile
battle ship to plow the limpid waters of Sandy Run, why then
was this thus? (My friend, Phil Carroll, says upon the au-
thority of Col. Quintilian Skrine, an old resident of Bath, that
in some early period of the 19th century troops were sent to
this place to secureimmunity from the ravages of Yellow
Fever, but the occupancy noted was in December and this
dread scourge is hardly wont to flaunt its yellow peril in tiie
winter air. It may be that they came in the good old summer
time and that Prest. James Madison was unable afterwards to
find the place so as to order them away. My friend Mrs. Car-
roll tells me also that there was at one time an army ar-^enal

at Bath and this fact may furnish further reason for its military
occupation.
The name of Col. Skrine recalls an incident or two in the

career of this gifted and yet in some respects peculiar individ-

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iial with it these memories of old-time Bath will find their
end.
Born in Wilkes County he entered the legal profession in
early manhood and selected Waynesboro as the theater in
which to won professional fame. The trial of his first case at
the bar was held in a magistrate’s rural court. When the ar-
gument was ended the learned judge turned to him and said,
“Mr. Skrinc, I’ll have to decide this case agin you, but I’ll

decide the next one in your favor to even up.” The result dis-
gusted the young barrister and he hauled down his shingle and
al>andoned his chosen field.
In the early “fire eating” fifties he took an active part in
public affairs and was slated on one occasion for a joint dis-
cussion with an advocate of contrary political faith. Col.
Skrinc had the opening speech and when he had ended, his op-
ponent rose and said, “Fellow citizens, do you know where
^tr. Skrine got all that fire-eating stuflf he’s been giving you?
If you don’t I’ll tell you. He got it out of Tom Paine’s 'Age
of Reason.’ ” The crowd was composed largely of Baptists
and Methodists, who
looked with absolute horror on this
infidel authority, and the Col.’s eloquence went where the
woodbine twineth. Disgusted again, he left the political arena
and so he has come down into history as a lawyer with a
single case and a sturnp speaker with one lone eflfort on the
hustings to his credit. And yet possessed as he was of strong
mental speech and a seemingly exhaustless store
gifts, fluent
of information he might have won distinction on either of these
lines of effort and endeavor if he had not been a quitter.
Richmond Bath like Daniel Webster “Still Lives'.” but
only one of its old time homes now holds within its classic
walls descendants of its IMany of them in
pristine owners.
Augusta fam-
these later years have passed into possession of
ilies, who since the advent of the Augusta Southern R. R.

find through the summer months some surcease from the City’s
dust and din and overheated air.

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 EARLY COLORED CHURCHES.
The early religious development of this community was
not confined to provision for the moral needs of the whites.
Each of the churches already named had its colored member-
ship, while accommodations were always furnished at the
Richmond Camp Ground for the negroes, who attended the
services. In addition to this they had churches of their own.

EBENEZER CHURCH.
The earliest house of worship erected in this immediate
section by the negroes stood near the circular boundary of our
town and its present successor still stands on the same site
today. It was organized eighty or ninety years ago, and was
originally a branch of the Springfield Colored Baptist Church
in Augusta, but developing after a time into independent
church life. While occupying territory covered by the Heph-
zibah ^Association it has never formed a component part of that
religious body. Of its early history I have no information. In
the ’40’s of the last century its pulpit was served by Rev.
Joseph Walker, a slave owned by William Evans of old
Brothersville. During the earlier ministry of Rev. Charles T.
Walker he ministered at its altars ably and succesfully. Its
pastorate for some time past has been held by Rev. Joseph
Carter.

FRANKLIN COVENANT CHURCH.

In 1848 Col. A. C. Walker, whose residence stood upon a
large tract of land adjoining the imaginary limits of old
Brothersville, gave to the negroes in this community a lot for
religious uses. On this lotand largely through the efforts of
“Uncle Frank,” one of Col. Walker’s most trusted and valued
slaves, a church was built, perpetuating in its title the name
and virtues of this saintly Christian negro. Rev. Joseph
Walker was its first pastor. He was owned by William Evans
a resident of Brothersville, but after the organization of the
church its members raised the necessary funds to purciiase his
freedom thus enabling him to devote his entire time to min-
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on
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nephew of “Uncle Joe,” how so large an amount was secured
by the negroes. “Well,” he replied, “we raised what we could
and our white friends came to our aid with the balance needed.”
Rev. Joseph Walker’s service as Pastor of Covenant Church
continued until his accidental death resulting from a fall while
attending the funeral of one of his members. He was suc-
ceeded by his brother. Rev. Nathan Walker, and in later years
by his nephew, Rev. Charles T. Walker, while another
nephew. Rev. Peter Walker, has often ministered at its altars.
As Rev. S. C. Walker, grandson of Joseph, is now its pastor
its pulpit for all these years has been practically monopolized

by the Walker family, a famil)^ noted for sixty years and more
for high moral character, strong individuality and earnest
Christian service. Aside from those named above there are
nearly a dozen other scions from this parent stock, who are
now serving their race ably and faithfully in the pulpit in
Macon, Savannah and in other sections of the State. During
the pastorate to Rev. Charles T. Walker the old building at
Covenant was replaced by a larger and more comfortable
church structure, which still stands on the old site today.
In the early days of the church Uncle Tom, father of
Rev. Charles T., was one of its deacons. He did not have the
talent nor the learning of his gifted son, nor his ready command
of the King’s English, but he held in his untrained head a
goodly share of what sometimes known as “horse sense,”
is

as the following incident will show. During my boyhood, on

Sabbahs when our own church doors were unopened, members
of my father’s family would frequently attend the service at
Covenant, which was only a mile or two away. On one of
these occasions Uncle Tom in the absence of the pastor, was
making an examination into the fitness of a number of appli-
cants for membership. One of the candidates with the charac-
teristic superstition of his race went into a rambling “exper-
ience” in which “black-dogs,” “spirits,” and other supernatural
apparitions formed the controlling feature. The old man bore it
with commendable patience for a time, but finally said to the
applicant. Brother, I don’t want to hear all that. I want you
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right
livered.” This deliverance of Uncle Tom’s would have hardly
graded as ‘‘strict middling” in a civil service examination but
it had a “get there” attribute about it that relieved in some

measure its deficiencies on other lines.

During my early school days the hebdomadal respite that
came to me on the closing day of the week from the daily
regime of the three R’s was sometimes spent at the home of
my uncle, Col. A. C. Walker. On one of these Saturday holi-
days his son Willie and I, rambling through the woods in
search of amusement came to a large bathing house built by
my uncle and turned over to Covenant Church for use as a
Baptistery. In lieu of other entertainment for our boyish
brains we hoisted the old time gate that held the water in con-
finement and let itaway at its own sweet will in order to
flow
catch the tadpoles, who were enjoying their otium cum di-
gnitate on the moss lined floor. Our sport ended, we wended
our way homeward little dreaming of the mischief we had
wrought. On
the following day the pastor and the members
met church for the regular monthly service. A number
at the
of candidates were to receive baptism and the congregation
forming in files of twos marched to the music of their old-time
songs down to the baptismal pool. The pastor halting the
procession went forward to inspect the condition of the liquid
grave and returned with a look of dismay on his homely face
He had found in it a marked resemblance to Senator Black-
burn’s mental outfit as portrayed by one of his friends. While
the Senator’s volatile tongue was shelling the woods before
an admiring crowd a friend on its outskirts said, “Joe’s brain
reminds me of a piney woods pond; it covers all creation and
in only an inch deep.”
The pastor with the announcement, “Brethren, we are
liable to dissapointments in this life. There’s no water here
and we’ll have to appoint another day,” pronounced the bene-
diction, while William and I tho’ guiltily conscious of being
accessories to the unexpected denouement stood by and made
no sign.

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 In one of the early years following the war my old com-
rade and messmate gejitle George Leonhardt, was for a time a
guest at my home and went with me to a “general
father’s old
meeting” service atCovenant Church. Dinner was served on
the grounds, but not on the ground, temporary tables having
been prepared for the occasion. One of these was reserved for
the sole use, benefit and hehoof of the white attendants on the
service and was generously laden with a tempting array of
viands, but there was one dish in the menu that contributed
materially to our mental as well as physical entertainment.
It was a savory chicken pie baked in a tin washpan, but in
justice to our hospitable hosts it is only proper to say that this
was its rriaiden use.
And now cannot close this sketch of Covenant Church
I

more perhaps than with the tribute paid to “Uncle

fittingly
Frank,” its humble founder, by his master Col. A. C. Walker
in “The Night Funeral of a Slave.”
While the cool damp earth lay fresh upon the new made
grave of his trusted friend and slave the master penned for the
Home Journal of New York the sketch from which the follow-
ing clipping is taken.
“I have lost the best and truest friend I had in the world
one whom I have been accustomed to honor and respect since
my earliest childhood. He was the playmate of my father’s
youth and the mentor of mine, a faithful servant, an honest
man and a sincere Christian. I stood by his bed-side and with
his hands clasped in mine I heard the last v-ords that he
uttered. They were, ‘Master, meet me in Heaven.’ His loss is
a melancholy one to me. If I left my home I said to him.
‘Frank see that all things are taken care of.’ and I knew that
my wife and child, property and all were as safe as if guarded
by an hundred soldiers. I never spoke a harsh word to him
in all my life for he never deserved it. I have a hundred others,
many of them faithful and true, but his loss is irreparable!”
His life was lowly and his work unheralded beyond the
narrow pale that hedged the humble sphere in which he lived
and yet the fragrance of his kindly deeds and of his Christian
faith and zeal still lingers in this modern air and will abide to

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bless his race for all the years to come. And when within the
glow and radiance of the Resurrection Day the blessed Angel’s
hands unclasp the Book of Gold, somewhere upon its shining
pages his name will stand beside Ben Adhem’s as one who
loved and labored for his fellow men.

SPIRIT CREEK CHURCH.

While this church was not located in this immediate com-
munity it stood not far away and deserves some notice from the
fact that it is probably the oldest colored church in Richmond
County. Its original site was on the landed estate of the
Twiggs family, near the stream whose name it bears, and its
organization dates back more than a hundred years. Through
the courtesy of my friend Rev. Daniel McHorton, its present
pastor, Ihave had the privilege of examining the records of-
this old church from 1839 i860. They show that while its
membership was composed entirely of slaves they paid their
pastor a salary, defrayed'Tiis expenses to the meetings of the
Association and at one time contributed nearly fifty dollars for
repairs to the church building. When collections were taken
each individual contribution is recorded and the amounts
range all the way from a nickle or the old half dime to a dollar.
The aggregate sum received from the membership is noted
and the remainder is credited to “well wishcjrs.” They show
further that church discipline was much more stringent than
in these modern days. “Excommunications” were in order
for ofTenses ranging from “impudence to her mistress” to viola-
tion of the seventh commandment. One of these entries cer-
tainly beats the record. At a regular session of the church
held in September, 1839. l^he preceedings are noted thusly in
the minutes, “Conference met and excommunicated Sister
Peggy Mims for designedly drowning herself.”
liack in the seventies of the last century I chanced to be in
Atlanta when the relations between Robert Toombs and Joseph
E. Brown became so strained that Carey W. Styles bore a
message from the Ex-Senator to theEx-Governor asking if a
challenge would be accepted. There was a rumor in the air

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that Gov. Brown had withdrawn from the Baptist Church in
order to meet the demands of the code duello. Discussing the
matter my room mate, Col. Enoch Steadman, said to me,
“There is nothing in the rumor. There are only two ways of
getting out of the Baptist Church, death or excommunication.”
As Sister ^lims traveled both routes there could be, as a rustic
friend of mine would express it, “no defalcation” about her
absolute and unequivocal exclusion from all further fellowship
and communion with that particular branch of the church
militant.
Though organized in 1800 this church has been served
during its more than a century of existence by only five pas-
tors, Revs. Sutton, McGahee, Peter Johnson, Frank Beale and
the present incumbent Rev. Daniel McHorton, who has filled

its pulpit for twenty-two years, and who in addition to his

pastoral labors has organized and conducted the Shiloh Or-
phanage with the laudable purpose of training the homeless
w'aifs of his race into habits of industry and Christian useful-
ness.
Soon “freedom came out” as some of its beneficiaries
after
are wont term it, the church was moved from the old site
to
to a location, near Butlers Creek though it still retains its
original name.

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 EARLY SCHOOLS.
After all these years and in the absence of any official
records it is difficult to determine the date at which the
pioneer school building in this community was erected. The
earliest documentary evidencehave been able to secure is a
I

printed “Reward of Merit” given to my aunt -Mary Eleanor

Clark, by Joseph Oglethorpe in 1838. The building in which
he taught stood in the rear of the site on which the Brothers-
ville Academy was afterward located and about four hundred
yards distant.
My mother attended this school and as she was married in
1837, and during her tutelage at this institution was young
enough to be attended by “Aunt Emily,” one of my grand-
mother’s slaves as a chaperone, the establishment of this edu-
cational center must have dated back to 1830 or possibly
earlier. In addition to his profession as a teacher Oglethorpe
was an artist of decided merit. Mrs. M. Louise Walker has
now in her possession a portrait of Col. A. C. Walker painted
in his earlymanhood. Mrs. Anna Dickinson of Waynesboro
has one of her mother and Mrs. Florida Orr of Athens one
of “Aunt Betsy” Walker all painted by this old time teacher
and painted well. In addition to his devotion to art and
pedagogies he was at times if he has not been the victim of
false tradition a generous imbiber of spiritus frumenti. A
friend meeting him on one occasion said: “I understand you
were drunk a few days ago.” “No sir,” he replied, “I was
only gentlemanly befuddled.”
In addition to the above there was in those old days a
school located between Brothersville and Bath near the Sapp
place afterwards owned by Robert H. Evans, taught by one
Biglow, a Northern man, and including among its pupils W.
L., and J. H. Kilpatrick, Herlry Sapp, Henry Hines and
R. H. P. Day.
There was also the Millwood Boarding School near the
present site of Hancock’s Mill, where the teacher furnished
not only scholastic instructions but bed and board as well.
My friend L. L. Winter, whose father attended this school, in-
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forms me that Mr. Millwood suffered from a dyspeptic ailment
and that it was his custom to compel his boarding pupils
to leave the table as soon as his owm impaired appetite was
satisfied. Whether this policy was due to a fatherly regard
for their health or financial concern for his monthly grocery
bill, this scribe it not prepared to say.

MOUNT ENO'N ACADEMY.

dawm of the 19th century a number of wealthy
In the early
rice planterson the Georgia coast selected an elevated site in
this county not far away from Richmond Bath and made of it
a Summer resort for their families. On account of its altitude
it was given the name of Mount Enon. In 1805 the Baptist
denomination in Georgia decided to establish a college at this
place and application for a charter was made to the General
Assembly under the title of “Mount Enon College.” The
State University then known as Franklin College had opened
its doors at Athens in 1801 and the Legislature fearing that

the new institution would draw from its patronage declined to

grant the charter. It was then incorporated as the Mount
Enon Academy and began its work in 1807 with Dr. Charles

C. Screven as its teacher. Some years later William W. Holt,

afterwards Judge. of the Augusta circuit, succeeded him or
taught with him until he began the study of law in Hon. Free-
man Walker’s office. Dr. Henry Holcomb of Savannah, one
of the school’s most active promoters, removed to Philadelphia
some years after the incorporation of the Academy and the
loss of his influenceand support, combined probably with the
establishment of the Bath School brought about its decline and
final suspension, .\mong the later residents of Mount Enon
were Dr. Baldwin B. William Evans, later of Brothers-
]\[iller.

ville, Geo. W. Evans later of Augusta, William Sturgess and

Simeon Garlick of Waynesboro. In 1837 Mrs. Sturgess, mother

of William and John R., kept a hotel or boarding house there
and J. Madison Reynolds and family were numbered among
her boarders. Some time after the war Dr. Miller moved his
Mount Enon residence to Hephzibah. It was probably the

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old chimneys are the only remnants left to mark the site of
this ancient educational center while for fifty years or more it

has been numbered among the “Dead Towns of Georgia."

The writer’s connection with the Brothersville Academy
was antedated by upon two smaller schools.
his attendance
In 1848 Miss Amarintha Rheney taught in a building lo-
cated near my father’s home and occupied for a time as a
dwelling by the Dowdy family and later by an old man known
as Billy Pierce. In 1849 father built an x\cadcmy on his
own land and engaged the services of Thomas Pearce Sims as
teacher. He was succeeded in 1850 b}^ Deborah Curtis. These
two universities in embryo furnish inspiration for the following
tribute to

THE OLD FIELD SCHOOL.

Sixty years ago in the unceiled, unpainted and largely un-
furnished room of an old field school, holding a blue backed
speller in my boyish hand I sat with a row of barefoot urchins
on a plain pine bench and watched with sleepy eyes the mellow
sunshine creeping all too slowly towards the 12 o’clock mark
cut by the teacher into the schoolroom floor. This primitive
time piece that marked the boundary line between school hours
and the midday intermission, known in that day as ’*j)laytimo.’
was never patented, although it had the happy faculty of never
running down and never needing repairs. To the student of
today, reveling in the luxuriant appointments of the i)rcscnt
public school system, there may come sometimes a touch oi
pity for the simple methods and the meager equipment of the
old field school, whose teachers, in addition to the inconven-
ience of having to “board around," were forced sometimes to
accept partial compensation for their work in home-made _

“socks."
Such of my readers as may be disposed to question the
freeand unlimited knitting of socks as a circulating medium for
the payment of school salaries in those days, are respectfully
referred to my old friend, W. J. Steed, now tax receiver at
Augusta, Ga., for the historical accuracy of this statement,

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And yet and yet, minimize as we may the limited ad-
vantages of those old days in the ’40s, and magnify as we do
the wondrous advance in educational method and appliance in
every grade from the kindergarten to the university, the fact
remains that “there were giants in those days” who seem to
have no successors.
I do not know that every institution to which the above
title was applied had a veritable old field as one of its necessary

adjuncts, but I do know that the special school referred to and

in which the writer began, with faltering step, to climb the hill
of knowledge, had the good or bad fortune to be so endowed.
The building, measuring perhaps eighteen by twenty feet,
stood by a running brook, and was furnished with a sufficient
number of plain pine benches to supply seating capacity for
the pupils who worshipped educationally at its altars. There
were no desks, no blackboards, no globes, and in the line of
proper school furnishing a son of Erin would have said there
was no nothing, and very little of that. The writer’s own
equipment for the 'tasks assigneed him consisted of a blue-
backed speller and an unfortunate tendency to go to sleep in
the intervals between recitations.
There was a little brown-eyed girl, whose educational ad-
vancement about equaled my own, and she and I formed one
of the grades in the school, if grades there were. We were in
the a-b, ab e-b, eb, period, and I doubt if our progress during
;

the six months session enabled us to read with any degree of

facility, “She fed the old hen.” “The old hen was fed by her,”
and other similar interesting stories written by Mr. Webster
for the improvement of the primary pupils of that day.'
As limited as was our advancement, I recall the fact, how-
ever, that we found the pictures that adorned the closing pages
of the book and with the pigment furnished by the wild flowers
growing near the school grounds we took our first lessons in
art by painting the boy in the apple tree and the milk-maid as
she soliloquized on the prospective purchase of her new silk
gown.
Our teacher was known to us as “Miss Amarinthy,” and
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the strenuous life. I remember that in consequence of various

misdemeanors, whose specific character I do not now recall,

she was accustomed at times to take me on her knee and ad-
minister an old-fashioned spanking, subjecting me on other oc-
casions to sundry other experiences of a punitive character
which were doubtless efifective mental tonics and moral anti-
septics, but not specially conducive to my physical comfort. If
my information is correct, she still lives, and if these lines
should meet her aged eyes, it gives me pleasure to assure her
even at this late day of my gratitude for her earnest efforts to
guide my errant feet aright.
Some months ago, while spending a day at the old home-
stead, I took advantage of the opportunity to revisit the site
of this old school. Not a vestige of the old building remained
to tell the tale. The same skies bent over it, the same stream-
let rippled along its sandy bed to its far-away ocean home, the

soil my boyish feet had pressed, the giant oaks under whose
cooling shadows I had played, the old box spring, whose limpid
w'aters had quenched my childish thirst, were there, but the
—
schoolmates of those far-gone days where were they? Roam-
ing over those old grounds with a flood of tender memories
tugging at my heart, I could recall but a single face among
them all, that had not in the passing years paled under the
Amid the bloom and
touch of the “old, old fashion death.”
freshness of morning hour or in the strength of midday
life’s

womanhood and manhood, or in the gathering twilight of its

eventide,

“God’s finger touched them and they slept.”

To those of us for whom a kindly providence has length-

ened out our span of life, these retrospects will always bring a
touch of sadness, for as the friends w'ho bore us company in
other years drop by the wayside, our sunset years grow lonelier
as we near the end.
this was not the only old field school that taught my
But
young ideas how to shoot, nor was the passage of the Potomac
by McDowell’s army the first invasion of the South by our
Northern neighbors. In the days of which I wmite there had

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been a large influx into this section of a class known as “Yan-
kee School Marms/’ This invasion was due, perhaps, less to a
lack of competent material in the South than to the fact that
Southern ladies, as a rule, did not feel the necessity for sup-
plementing their incomes in this way. In addition to this,
there was possibly a feeling of pride, which made them re-
luctant to accept positions which would in some measure lower
their social rank. This feeling, false though it may have been,
was largely the outcome of the special deference paid to wo-
man in the old South, a deference amounting almost to rever-
ence, that raised the fairer sex to a pedestal above the plane
of toil, and in degree has found no parallel in any other age or
race. In this era of commercialism and the new woman the
pendulum has swung perhaps too far the other way, and the
throne where once she reigned as queen has given place to a
sphere of ill-required labor.
The first whom the writer came in
of these invaders with
educational contact was a Miss Deborah C., hailing, as I re-
member, from some point not far below the Canadian line.
She was tall and angular, with a face that seemeed to have im-
bibed some of the hardness and bleakness of the New England
clime from which she came. If she had descended from her
ancient Jewish namesake, she had certainly inherited more of
the martial than the poetic characteristics of that old-time con-
queror of the Cannanitish Sisera.
The building used by Miss Deborah had been erected by
my father, had acquired in some way the euphonious title
of “Lick Skillet.” For the frequency with which seasoned
hickories were brought into play for the enforcement of school
discipline, “Lick Scholar” would have probably been a more
appropriate designation. In lieu of the clock with which acad-
emies are now supplied, marks were cut into the school room
floor and the sun in his daily round marked the hours for morn-
ing and afternoon, recess and for the midday intermission. In
place of the school bell which now summons the pupils to their
daily tasks, the teacher stood in the doorway and shouted to
the scattered children, “Come into books.” Among other
educational advantages of those old days, I recall the furtb.er

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 fact that no kindergarten enabled the mother to clean up the
house while the little tots were cared for by the teacher, there
was no football or baseball nine to aid in’ solving the mysteries
of Euclid, no “Ponies” to divide all Gaul into three parts, and
last, but not least, there was in all our vocabulary no such word

as “Nit.”
And yet despite the meager equipment of only rustic
benches and unrusting hickories, despite the handicap of prim-
itive text-book and primitive methods in its use, the old field
schools laid the broad foundation for moral and mental power
that ruled the government for more than half a cenutry and
made the South, in culture and in courtesy, in honor and in
honesty, in virtue and in valor, to bud and blossom as a rose.

OLD ACADEMY LIFE.

The educational advantages of the Old South were not
, confined exclusively to the privileges furnished by the old
field school. While, fortunately or unfortunately, the present
public school system was not then in existence in the South,
this section was dotted with academies manned by its best
teaching talent. x\side from the Richmond Academy, in Au-
gusta, whose organization runs back almost into ancient history
there was as early as the thirties of the last century a school ol
high grade at Bath, in this county, presided over by Rev. Otis
Smith. Some estimate of the character of the instruction given
at this school may be formed, from the record made by its pu-
pils in after years. Among them was Herschel V. Johnson,
who served three terms as Judge of the Superior Court, t'vo
terms as Governor of Georgia, an unexpired term as United
States Senator, one term as Confederate States Senator, and
who was a candidate for vice president of the United States
on the Douglas ticket in i860. There was also Gen. W. H. T.
Walker, who served with distinction in three wars, and foil
gallantly leading his division in the battle of Atlanta in 1864.
Numbered among the pupils was also Col. Alexander C.
Walker, of Richmond County, who was deemed worthy to

wear the mantle of Alexander H. Stephens on the retirement

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of Mr. Stephens from long continuous service as Representa-
tive of the old Eighth Congressional District, and who de-
clined the honor. There was also Hon. Isaiah Irvin, a dis-
tinguished lawyer of Washington, Ga., who received the nom-
ination after Colonel Walker’s failure to accept, and who also
declined because he was not the first choice of the convention.
In writing of the differences that exist betweeen those old days
and the present, it is perhaps hardly necessary to suggest that
the precedent set by these able gentlernen, either one of whem
would have worn worthily the honor conferred, and the dif-
ficulty encountered by this convention in securing a nominee,
find rare duplicates among congressional timber in the present
day.
In illustration of the methods of discipline in use in those
days I have heard Colonel Walker say that when the exercises

of the school grew dull, it was Mr. Smith’s custom to call up

the late Rev. E. R. Carswell, of Hephzibah, Ga., and thrash
him simply to vary the monotony of the session. This habit
of Mr. Smith recalls a similar custom in vogue at the Richmond
Academy in the earlier decades of the last century, when Wil-
liam T. Brantley held the reins of that institution. On one
occasion Mr. Brantley was forced to absent himself from the
morning session and installed one of the larger pupils as pre-
ceptor pro tern. When the recitations were ended and the
hour for noonday, intermission arrived the acting teacher said,
“School is now dis —
Xo, hold on I forgot I. P. Garvin hasn’t
; ;

been whipped yet. Come up, Ignatius, and take your daily
thrashing.” The Doctor, in embryo, advanced and took his
punishmeent and the session ended. For the authenticity of
this special feature of the Richmond Academy curriculum my
late friend Dr. D. B. Plumb is sponsor, the account given
having been received by him from the late Dr. I. P. Garvin,
who occupied the leading role in this educational drama.
Besides the institutions named there was the old iBrothers-
sille Academy, built by Mr. James Anderson, one of the origi-
nal brothers for whom this rustic village was named, and
presided over during my boyhood by such efficient teachers
as Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, Mr. Thomas H. Holleyman, Rev.

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James T. Lin, Judge Henian H. Perry, and Rev. Josiah Lewis,
Jr. To this academy the writer was promoted after three
years’ instruction in old field schools. The most vivid recol-
lection I have retained of my first year’s tutelage at this school
IS the savage pinch my teacher. Miss Parsons, gave one of my

boyish ears for my failure to comprehend the mysteries of long

division. Her attack upon that particular organ was probably
due to its rather abnormal prominence as a feature of my
physiogomy. I recall the further fact that under her super-
vision I began the study of Primary Geography. There w^ere
only two in the class, and I found no difficulty, therefore, in
standing at least next to *‘head.” I remember further that my
classmate and myself were both averse to undergoing any un-
necessary mental strain, and to„prevent the possibility of over-
taxing our youthful intellects, we prepared ourselves only on
the questions that in the natural order of recitation would fall

to each of us to answer. We did not deem it necessary to take

our teacher into our confidence in making this arrangement,
which worked very smoothly so long as correct answers were
given, but very unsatisfactorily when a slip in the mental cogs
threw the machinery entirely out of gear. School sessions in
that day began at 8 a. m., and ended at 5 or 6 p. m., with a
morning, midday and afternoon recess. Pupils whose homes
were not located very near the academy belonged to the tin
bucket brigade, their midday meals being carried in that con-
venient, but hardly aesthetic, receptacle. These lunches al-
ways embraced a bottle of molasses, and this saccharine addi-
tion to our meals was utilized by being poured into the in-
verted bucket top, or into finger holes punched into the sides
of the biscuits, and these doctored products of the old-time
oven were eaten with a relish that a swell luncheon at the
Ron Air would not bring to me now.
The text books used were selected by the teacher for their
supposed fitness to meet the wants of the pupil undisturbed
by the competition of rival publishing houses or the com-
parative hustling ability of their respective agents. Webster’s
The New York Reader. Mitchell’s Geography,
Spelling Rook,
Smith’s Grammar, Davies’ Arithmetic and Algebra, Corn-

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stock’s Natural Philosophy, and Bullion’s Latin Grammar and
Reader were the. standards. The schools were ungraded, and
the teacher had to contend with every degree of advancement,
from an A. B. C. tot to the student preparing for the Junior
Class at college. Despite this disadvantage, and despite the
wonderful improvement in text book and school method since
that day, I can recall pupils of that old time, who at twelve
years of age were studying Greek and reading seventy-five
lines in Virgil’s “Aeneid” without the aid of the teacher,
daily,
or the proverbial “pony.” And
yet despite this apparent pre-
cociousness, the students of that day did not know it all, as
the following incidents will show. It was in the early 50's, and
the class in Natural Philisiphy at the Brothersville Academy
had been called to the recitation bench by the teacher, Rev.
W. L. Kilpatrick. The hydrostatic paradox was the subject of
the lesson for the day. The teacher, turning to the pupil who
sat at the head of the class, and who chanced to be, as I recall
it, Miss Moselle Carswell, afterwards Mrs. W. A. Wilkins, of

Waynesboro, Ga., said, “What is a paradox?” In reply she

began to quote the opening sentence of the lesson. “No,” said
he, “I want to know what a paradox is outside its hydrostatic
association,” and she was silent. The question was passed to
the next pupil with similar results. My brother was sitting
at the other end of the bench and as the inquiry came down the
linehe began to move restlessly in his seat, fearing that the
question would be answered correctly before he had an op-
portunity of showing off his superior knowledge. His appre-
hensions were groundless, however, and the teacher finally
said: “Well. Edward, can you give ns the definition of a
paradox?” “Yes, sir,” said my brother very confidently, “it’s

what you sing after preaching.” The teacher’s ministerial

labors had presumably familiarized him with the usual
methods of closing a religious service, but this was probably
his first personal contact with a “hydrostatic doxology.”
Friday afternoons were devoted to declamation and the
reading of original compositions by the pupils. During Mr.
Thomas H. Holleyman’s administration at this academy in
1854, my old schoolmate, Jasper D , had selected Catiline’s

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oration before the Roman
Senate as the medium through which
to give vent to his embryonic oratorical powers. After its
rendition Mr. Holleyman said “Jasper, do you know who
:

Catiline was?” “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply. Well, who
was he?” asked the teacher. “Well, sir, I knew him, but I
I can’t say that I was personally acquainted with him.”
And Mr. Holleyman proceeded to give him a dose of Ro-
man history.
* *

These reminiscences of the old Brothersville Academy re-

call an old schoolmate of those far-away days, whose girlish
charms furnished for years the inspiration for my every boy-
ish endeavor. She is a dignified matron now, and handsome
still, but our paths in life have drifted far apart, and I think of

her only as the bright-eyed lass, whose winsome grace made

always sunshine in a shady place. I was an awkward, timid
boy, and the wealth of silent adoration that I laid daily at her
unconscious feet would have furnished many a novel with a
a supply of the tender passion. From morn till dewy eve I
looked forward with beating heart to the large spelling class
that closed each day’s exercises, for with it came the coveted
opportunity of “turning down” every pupil that stood below
her in the class, and of standing by her side for the remainder
of the recitation. If she missed a word I spelled it and kept my
place. The turning down process had ended. There were
other occasions when her applications to the teacher for aid in

solving some arithmetical problem would meet with the re-

sponse: “Get Walter Clark to show you, I haven’t time now,”
and she would come daintily and trippingly to take her seat
beside me, and I would bend low over the old-fashioned slate,
for tablets were unknown then, and she would bend beside me
until our cheeks were almost in touch, and I would solve the
problem slowly, very slowly, to lengthen out the time, for
while it lasted I was in paradise. In those old days I thought
she had the brightest, tenderest eyes and the fairest, pinkest
cheeks and the softest, kissiest lips that maiden ever owned,
and the dainty aprons that gowned her girlish form were, as I

thought, so snowy in their whiteness that no fuller on earth

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could white them. But, alas ! my gallantry in the spelling
class and my willing contributions to her stock of mathematical
knowledge were all, as the reader may have suspected, “Love's
Labor Lost.” His appreciation of the fact may, however, be
emphasized by the recital of an incident which, though occur-
ring nearly fifty years ago, comes back as freshly to me today
as if it were one of yesterday’s happenings. Pink teas and such
like social functions were not much in vogue in that day, but
“parties,” with less elaborate paraphernalia and possibly more
real enjoyment, were very much in evidence. At one of these
entertainments she gave me an old-fashioned kiss verse, saying
it was a reply to one received from me. I had neither given

nor sent one to her, but hoping that it contained some evidence
of her appreciation I made no sign and held my peace. Open-
ing the precious paper I read as follows:

“You must have dined on razors.

You seem so very keen.
And were you not so big a fool
I’d ask you what you mean.”

While this verse may be lacking in artistic finish and

bears no marked internal evidence of the divine afflatus, its

effect upon my budding affection may be inferred from the

fact that I am able to quote it verbatim et literatim et punctua-
tim after all these years.
Among the educators whose teaching service gained for

them an enviable reputation in this section during the waiter’s

boyhood was Columbus C. Richards, who taught at Wrights-
boro in Columbia. Thomson in IMcDuffie, and Summerville in

Emanuel county. During his long and successful record as a

teacher he became especially famous for “breaking in” boys
who were not amenable to ordinary methods of school discip-
line. A friendattended one of these schools once gave me
who
an item in his experience which, while not educational in char-
acter, nay not be unworthy of record in these memories.
Mania a potu, or delirium tremens or “the monkeys,” as it was
known to the unprofessional mind, was probably a more com-

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mon ailment in those days than it is now. Whether this fact
is due to a difference in the quality of the spiritus frumenti
consumed or to a diminition in individual potations, the writer
is not prepared to say. The story as told me by my friend
was as follows : A
gentleman living near Mr. Richards’
school had been imbibing too heavily and continuously, and an
attack of this disease supervened. As professional nurses were
then practically unknown, the neighbors were accustomed to
take upon themselves this duty, and my friend volunteered his
services in that capacity. During the night the patient placed
on exhibition for the benefit of his attendant audience the usual
menagerie of monkeys and snakes, visible only to his demented
vision, but before the morning dawned his brain gave birth to
the following original couplet of verse

"‘On the wings of love I fly

From grocer-ree to grocer-rye”

Whether this poetical effusion was intended to aid the

physician reaching a correct diagnosis, or whether he
in
simply sang in numbers for the numbers came, the records do
not show.

SCHOOL SPORTS.
While the on the school ground was not
athletic feature
so fully developed in the old days, yet school boys did not lack
for games or sports. The morning and afternoon recess and
the mid-day intermission were occupied with knucks, ring
marbles, base, bull pen. cat, townball and shinny, or shinty,
as the old Scotch game was known. The present game of base-
ball was evidently evoluted from old-time townball and foot-
ball,though manipulated with the hand instead of the old-
fashioned stick with a curved end is a possible development

from shinny. These old games had some advantages over their
modern successors in the fact that while they furnished health-
ful exercise forour youthful muscles, there were no fatalities
to report at the close of the game, and no umpires to en-
courage by their decisions a resort to lynch law. Solid rubber

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balls were used, while a three or four-inch paddle with the
handle trimmed to proper shape and size with a pocket knife,
took the place of the modern bat. :Bishop George F. Pierce
once related in the writers presence, an incident which in-
dicates that even in his maturer years he had not outgrown his
taste for townball. Passing a crowd of school boys engaged
In the game, he decided to take a hand at the bat. He was walk-
ing with a hickory cane that had been used by his-grandfather,
and had been owned by the family for a hundred years. Using
the stick instead of the paddle he knocked the ball so far that
it was never found and his family relic was laid up for repairs.

During the writer's college course at Oxford, the faculty

not according to the athletic fad the honored place it now
holds in educational circles, issued a stringent order that no
sports should be indulged in around the college building.
Judge Frank L. Little, of Sparta, then a senior, reaching the
college one morning in advance of the recitation hour, and
finding that none of the faculty were in sight, decided to utilize
the opportunity to beat the record as a jumper. While en-
gaged in the pastime, Prof. Luther M. Smith came upon the
scene unexpectedly and caught Frank in flagrante delicto.
The latter began at once to excuse himself upon the plea that
his physical system needed the exercise. “Oh, yes,” said the
professor, “Even the Bible tells us that ‘bodily exercise profit-
”
teth Little.’

WAYNIE, WIDDIE, WICKIE.

All progress is not improvement and in noting the
changes that have taken place on educational lines in the past
half century, there is one which fails to commend itself to the
writer’s judgment as belonging to the improvement class.
While this is true the following protest is made more, possibly,
for 'the satisfaction of having my say in the matter than from
any hope of securing a reversal of the verdict through the
medium of a new trial.
More than fifty years ago the writer began the study of the
Latin tongue in the old Brothersville Academy under the
tutelage of Mr. Thomas H. Flolleyman of precious memory.

138
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Through the Commentaries of Caesar, the Aeneid of Virgil, the
Odes of Horace, the Satires of Juvenal, etc., my youthful
fancy wandered with a glowing reverence for these old time
worthies who had opened to my verdant mind the beauties of
the ancient classics. Amid the prosy duties of'a busy life my
memory had retained but little in a literary way of

“The grandeur that was Greece

And the glory that was Rome.”

And yet I had not entirely lost my admiration for the pithy
terseness of Caesar, the flowing measure of A^irgil and the
stately periods of Cicero until the dictum of modern scholar-
ship burst the bubble and left me
only the sad conviction that
I had been the victim of misplaced confidence.

For nearly fifty years I have cherished the fond delusion

that as in schoolboy days I tripped with nimble tongue through
“Hie, haec, hoc,” “bonus, bona, bonum,” ”Jusjurandum, juris,

jurandi,” etc. I was strictly up-to-date, but now alas, these

latterday literary saints with their “hie, hike, hoke,” “bonooce,
bonar, bonoom,” “yoose, yurandoom, yureese, yurandee,” have
laid my little hard won knowledge away on the shelf as a
back number and I am no longer in it.
For all these years I had rested with implicit faith in the
conviction that the Commentaries on the Gallic war were
written by Julius Caesar, but these modern educational lumi-
naries inform me that they were penned by Yulioose Kiser, a
possible ancestor of the Kiser family in Atlanta. I had since
boyhood admired the epigrammatic alliteration of the brave
old Roman’s “Veni, vidi, vici,” but alas! that famous Caesarean
message will now go ringing down the centuries as “Waynie.
widdie, wickie.” I had been taught that the story of the

Wandering Aeneas was sung by Publius Virgilius ^faro,

“Wielder of the stateliest measure

Moulded by the lips of man,”

but now I am famous epic was

told that the author of this
christened as Pooblioose Wergilioose Mahro.

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against Catiline and Verres and Anthony w-ere delivered by
Marcus Tullius Cicero, but I am now confronted with the
fact that these masterly orations emananted from the brain
of Markoose, Toolioose Kickero. Even the old Latin adage,
“omnia labor vincit,” that has inspired so many weary toilers
in the world's broad field of battle, will henceforth stir their
flagging zeal as “ome-nia labor win-kit/’ while the time-
honored chair where old “verbum sat,” will now be warmed
for all the coming years by his successor young “werboom.”
I had been puzzling my brain to find some plausible ex-

planation for the fact that time and labor are spent in teaching
the student of today the obsolete pronunciation of a language
that is not only dead, but buried beyond the hope of a possible
resurrection, and had been tempted to ask with becoming
modesty “cui bono?” Opening an English lexicon at random
today a possible solution of the question was presented. By
actual count, nearly 50 per cent, of the words, on the page ex-
amined, were derived from the Latin tongue. As Sam Jones
would say, “One of the most principalest” benefits arising
from a study of the classics is the knowledge furnished the

student of the derivative signification of the thousands of

English words based upon these dead languages. A few illus-

trations will convince the reader of the happy influence of

the present system, in accomplishing this result. Take the
word “civil” for instance. No student with a reasonable
amount of grey matter in his brain would of course dream that
it was derived from the Latin word “civilis,” but change the

latter to its present reading, as “kee-wee-leese,” and the fact

would occur to him instanter, if not sooner. Again, it would

be unnatural to derive the word “ceiling” from “coelum,” but

as under the revised version the latter becomes ‘‘koyloom,”
the derivation would be as plain as the nose on your face even
if physiognomy chanced to be of the Roman
that item in your
type. In like manner the words “cede" and “joke" and “vision"
and “circumvent" would i)robably never be suggested by the
sim])le forms of “cedo" and “jocus" and “'visum" and “circum-
venio," but transform the latter into their proper shape as

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the result would be as easy as falling from a log.
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Those given will suffice to convince him of the beauty and
benefit of the revised system. And now in conclusion I have
only to add that the frequent stumbles I have made in my
efforts to renew my acquaintance with the Latin tongue under
its present environment recall the soliloquy of an inebriated

individual, who unable to retain a perpendicular position gave

vent to his feelings in the following impromptu parody;

“Leaves have their time to fall and so have I,

But the difference ’twixt the leaves ami I.

I fall more harder and more frequent-lye.”

It gives me a touch of sadness to feel that though my life

has reached the season of its sere and yellow leaf, yet through
all these years

I never knew ’twas “Kick-e-ro”

Nor “W'erg-ils” liquid song
Tve learned but little here below
And learned that little wrong.

* * * *

From records left by my father I find in addition to the

list of teachers already given for the Brothersville Academy,
that Daniel Mahoney taught there in 1845, J^tnes Mann
in 1846, Samuel Phelps in 1847 ’4^.Packard probably in

1849 and Miss Mary Jane Parsons in 1850 and ’51.

BROTHERSVILLE, A LOST ARCADIA.

The rural village, in which the writer was reared, if village
itcould be called, was a typical old-time Southern community.
In one of the earlier decades of the last century, on an ele-
vated plateau covered with oak and resinous long-leaf pine
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made their homes. These residences formed the points of a
practically equilateral triangle, and near one of its sides lay
then and today the old homestead where the writer on a
lies

spring day in the early forties made his debut into what a
colored brother has termed “the toil and trouble and tossifica-
tion of life.” Or if it be true, as Rev. S. K. Talmage, uncle of
the late Rev. T. DeWitt, has said, that “the first feeble
pulsation in the infant's sinews is but the drum beat of an
eternal march,” then the locality I have named witnessed the
initial notes made by the writer at the beginning of his personal
participation in the aforesaid march. Of those very early days
I have no very definite or distinct recollection, but it is prob-

ably safe to assume that I did not cut any very remarkable
figure as I was unable at that time to cut anything but my
teeth.
The healthfulness of the location, with its pine-laden air
and its freedom from malarial influences, attracted a number
of Burke county planters, who built comfortable residences
near the homes of these three brothers, and in time the com-
munity had not only a local habitation, but the name of
Brothersville, given it in honor of its original settlers. I do

not know that it resembled our national capitol in rnany

respects, but there was certainly one well defined point of
likeness in the fact that our rustic community was a village
of “magnificent distances.” Streets were a luxury in which it

did not indulge, the site of its residences being selected to

please the individual taste of the owner and facing every point
of the compass, while the intervening spaces were covered with
original forest growth, save the carriage-ways that formed a
means of communication between its homes.
And yet despite this seeming irregularity in physical con-
had some very pleasant characteristics
struction, Brothersville
to its credit. Its were well-to-do planters owning
citizens
among the fertile lands of the adjoining county well kept
plantations from whose fruitful soil under the tillage of hun-
dreds of dusky laborers, comfortable incomes were derived.
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estates by the services of trained “overseers” these old-time
Southern gentlemen had ample leisure for reading, for travel
and for the cultivation of the social virtues. Every household
had its family carriage and coachman ready for service in the
periodical visit to the city, to the weekly or monthly church
service and in the constant and pleasant interchange of neigh-
borly courtesies. Every kitchen was brightened by the shining
face of an old-time “mammy,” whose skillful hands had been
trained from girlhood in all the mysteries of the culinary art
and were blissfully ignorant of the modern housewife’s con-
stant bete noir, the “service pan.” No cold and rainy morning
brought to the mistress of the horne the apprehension that on
completion of her toilet she would find the kitchen fireless, the
breakfast table minus its accustomed menu and the cook off on
a colored excursion or taking a permanent vacation, without
the formality of verbal or written notice. The whole range of
domestic service from the dignified coachman with his silk hat
and “broadcloth” suit, on through the varying, grades of cook,
laundress, seamstress, housemaid, nurse and down to the little
black imp who brought to the “Big House” the barnyard keys
at nightfall, was as perfect as training could make it and was
rarely changed in its personnel save by death or the disabilities
of old age.
Under the favoring conditions of practical freedom from
business and domestic cares the social life of the community
was at its best. In a shaded cove within the village limits
Mr. Alex. Murphey, grandfather of the present clever and
genial post master at Hephzibah, had built for the public
benefit what would now be called a natatorium, but was then
only a “bathing house.” Near it was erected a comfortable
pavilion and the site furnished a pleasant and convenient pic-
nic ground for the community. During the summer months
the citizens would alternate at brief intervals in supplying on
these grounds picnic dinners with barbecued trimmings, to
which the entire village was invited. Artificial ice was then
unknown, but for the 24 hours preceding these social occasions
the cool limpidwater from a nearby “spring house” had
trickled over the choicest products of Mr. Murphey’s melon

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monl mobaanl IsaitaBK^ lo anoilibnoa ^^niiovsl aril nabnU

Xlmnfltmoa aril lo atlil Israo? aril eaisa allBamob bns Eeanraud
eJi ib «bw
^eliinil a^jriliv *aril '^niril|w avoa baberiB^B nl.^ bead

y^biiB?navab Inaeanq tarilBlbnir^ ^X^riqnuM ,xaLA .iM

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bilduq aril nol IHnd beri eriBdisriqaH ^^IB lalsBrn lac^ iBinrg
asw ind nCntjhSs&iSit R haite ad won blnow Jsriw iSanad

?'afdfiMolfnoa s balaaia ajjw^ li nsaM ^.aeoori ^nirilBd“ b vino

‘^alq litainavnoa bris lltBeBotq b barfeimwl alia aril bns tfCjflivBq

j^erilnom narnmne^arii ^nnwC .xiinurnmoa aril nol bnuors
^no ‘gnrxfqqng* ni alfivialitr la4nd ifi alBnnallfi’blnov/ anasilia aril

ol;,,fc^mmmhJ,,bauaa<h«d rinw enannib arnaiq sbnaoT$ aaarfl

SBW aai iBiaHIliA .balivni ts'/r a^BlIiv alUna arfl^rioiriw
tfifao^ aearil "gnibaaano enoori ^ aril nol Ind «awofnlnu

i "aanoif ^dhqe^ * monl nalBW b^mH

r ^ ^ " .nM lo eiaubonq laaaiorfa ^di itro jAMohi

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patch. It may be that the distance of years as well as space
lends enchantment to the view, but no melons of the present
day seem to have the flavor and the fragrance of the crimson
hearted fruit that lay cooling during a summier day and night
in that old spring house under the hill.

They have sung of “the Old Oaken Bucket”

And waters so clear and chill,
its

But today I sing of the old box spring.

That rippled and sang with its cooling flow
On the emerald rind and the crimson glow
Of the m.ammoth melons of long ago,
- In the spring house under the hill.

Whatever estimate may be placed on the lines above, the

readeris asked to remember that they were written in “the

good old summer time” and are in no wise intended as a con-

tribution to the world’s surplus supply of “spring poetry.”
In the early history of the village Mr. James Anderson had
built on his own land at his own expense a neat and commo-
dious academy to supply the educational needs of the com-
munity. Under able management it won justly a wide reputa-
tion as an educational center of high grade drawing large pat-
ronage not only from' the immediate section but from the ad-
jacent counties as well. The interest felt by the citizens of our
village in these matters is evidenced by the fact that the boys
and girls within its limits had not only the benefits of this
excellent school, but a majority of them received higher educa-
tion at colleges or universities.
A mileor two away from the undefined limits of the village
therewas a little log church built in the early days of Georgia-
Methodism and known in the writer’s boyhood by the rather
contradictory “Old New Hope.” Its altars had been
title of
blessed by the labors of George F. Pierce, James Danelly. Wil-
liam Peurifoy, John P. Duncan, Josiah Lewis, Xicholas Mur-
phey and other worthies of those old days, and the grace that
permeated its hewn-Iog walls had provided during the early life
of the village for the moral and spiritual wants of its people.

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Erected 1853-

OLD HOME OF DR. SAMUEL B. CLARK,

Built in 1848.
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In the course of time a
Academy, was dedicated by Bishop Pierce in ’54
Brothersville
and has been served since that day by a long line of faithful
and Godly men.
Lying midway between the Georgia and Central Railroads
and more than half a score of miles from either, our little
village was kept in partial touch with the outer world by a
semi-weekly mail delivered on Wednesday and Saturday after-
noons. On these occasions the village post office was the cen-
ter of attraction and the community turned out en masse to do
it honor.
Nestled away from the maddening
in rural seclusion, “far
crowd’s ignoble strife” and yet keeping open house to all who
came, whether friend or stranger, they lived and loved, married
and intermarried, served their generation by the will of God
and when the evening shadows had fallen were laid unto their
fathers. I can not believe that in all this broad land there was
a better or a happier people. True to its name Brothersville
was a village if not a city of brotherly love. More than thirty
years of the writer's were spent within its limits and yet
life

he can not recall a single personal estrangement among its

citizens. Peaceable and social, moral and intelligent, generous
and hospitable, with no petty jealousies nor personal bickerings
to 'mar the quiet of its rural life, it seemed to me then, and as I
look back over the waste of years, it seems to me now to have
been almost an ideal life. An honored minister, who served
as pastor in the community, once said that it came nearer to
his conception of what heaven will be than any community he
had ever known.
Dear old Brothersville, as I write of it today the glamour
of its charming old-time life comes back to me like the echo of
“faint fairy footfalls down blossoming ways.”
And now who were the residents of this old time x\rcadia?
There were fifteen homes, that lay within its undefined limits.
Taking them alphabetically there come first on the list,

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 THE ANDERSON BROTHERS.
James, Elisha, Jr., and Augustus, sons of Elisha Anderson,
Sr., and from whom the community took its name, have al-
ready been given notice in these records genealogically and
otherwise. Of Elisha, Jr. I have no personal recollection as he
died before my memory began to serve me. James and Augus-
tus H. I recall as dignified, portly men, the latter suggesting
in form at least the hero of Pickwick Papers. The residence
now owned by E. E. Cadle was built by Col. E. B. Gresham
and stands near the site of the original home of Elisha Jr. The
James Anderson home was sold after the war to Dr. B. E.
Fryer, then to Dr. Henry 'Garrett and later to W. G. Weathers-
bee, who still owns the site, the dwelling having been burned
two years ago. The home of Augustus H., builded eighty
years ago or more, still stands and is owned and occupied by
W. P. Hudson. The following incident occurred at the Winter
home of Col. Anderson in the later 30s of the last century and
while not strictly a Brothersville reminiscence may still be
worthy of record. Reference has been made to the marriage
of V^irginia, youngest daughter of Elisha Anderson Sr., to Dr.
Edward Hughes and to the latter’s early death. During her
widowhood she was an inmate in the home of her brother,
Augustus H. While there her hand was won again by Col. A.
C. Walker. The date for their marriage was fixed, friends from
far and near were invited and arrangements were made to
give them an elaborate wedding. On the morning of the
appointed day Col. Walker rode over to the home of Col.
Anderson and called for the bride to be. When s'he appeared
he said, “Virginia I don’t propose to be married before all that
crowd tonight. I understand that the preacher is here, call
him in and we’ll get through with it now.” She protested
against such a course, but he was insistent and her consent
was finally gained. The minister was summoned, the family
gathered in the parlor, the solemn words were spoken and Col.
Walker and the handsome widow were made man and wife.
When the ceremony was ended, the groom mounted his horse
and taking his gun and dogs spent the day in hunting, return-

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sdl bn* i 9 ill*y/^
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THE JAMES ANDERSON HOME,
ing at night fall to witness the discomfiture of the guests, who
w^re forced to enjoy the marriage feast without the fragrance
of orange blossoms or the rhythmical jingle of wedding bells.
After the death of Col. Anderson his tBrothersville home
was occupied by his namesake, nephew and son-in-law, Augus-
tus H., Jr., and for a time in i860 by Col. Charles E. Nesbit,
son of Judge Eugenius A. Nesbit of Macon. In 1859 the late
Judge Herman H. Perry was teaching at the Brothersville
Academy and was boarding at the Anderson home. James
Gardner editor of the Augusta Constitutionalist was publish-
ing also a literary journal known as the “Field and Fireside.”
In one of its weekly issues there appeared a poem of marked
merit sent to the journal as original stuff by an Alabama con-
tributor. When Mrs. Susan Anderson, wife of Augustus H.,
Jr., had read it she turned to Heman Perry and said, “That
poem was written by George D. Prentice years ago. I wish
you would advise Mr. Gardner of the imposition.” This was
done and after making apology for the oversight the two poems
were published in parallel columns. They differed only in
the transposition of a single word in a single line, which
failed to mar either the rhythm or the sense. And yet this
Alabama genius came back with the claim that it was his own
production and their apparent identity was simply evidence of
a remarkable literary coincidence. His contention carried with
it to the journal’s readers only the conviction that his cre-
dentials justly entitled him to instant and unanimous admis-
sion as a “free and accepted” member of the leading “Ananias
Club” of that old day.

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 WILLIAM E. BARNES.
Of this old-time resident of Brothersville I have no per-
sonal recollection as he left the community during my early
boyhood. In the early ’40s of the last century he built the
residence on what has been known in later years as the Schaff-
ner Place, occupied it for a time and sold it to Robert A.
Reynolds. Later it became the property of Dr. J. .F. Schaffner
formerly of Charleston and who had married my old school
mate Mary Dillard. William E. was the son of John A. and
brother of Hon, George T. Barnes of Augusta.. He married
Eliza, daughter of Seaborn and Margaret Jones and sister of
the late Jno. J. Jones of Waynesboro, where a son by this
marriage John A. is now living. A later marriage brought to
him three sons, Harry and Albert L., who now
V., Geo. T.
reside in or near Augusta. William E. served in the Confed-
erate army and died in a military hospital at Sumter, S. C.
After the death of Dr. Schaffner his widow and younger
son Clarence made their home in Cincinnati while the elder,
Fred L.. played in some measure at least, the role of a cosmo-
politan. During their absence the old home was burned, but
in the recent past my young and versatile friend, Fred, after
years of errant absence has returned to the old homestead has —
erected Phoenix like from its ashes a modest castle of artificial
stone, which he says with pardonable emphasis will be only
in its prime a hundred years from now. And now within the
cosy bachelor walls of “Greystone,” unawed and unsubdued
by the charms of the female face divine he serves as his own
chef de cuisine and furnishes gastronomic entertainment to
his Augusta guests in the tempting form of barbacued opos-
som, roasted and toasted and salted and peppered and vine-
gared by his own practiced and expert hands. .\t least such is
the story given me by my friend Tennent Houston, and
Tennent like Brutus is an honorable man.

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 JUDGE JOHN W. CARSWELL.
I have written it “Judge” for the reason that his long and

honorable association with Joseph A. Shewmake, William W.

Hughes, Jerry Inman and others as members of the old Infe-
rior Court Bench in Burke County conferred upon him the
title that he wore gracefully,, ably and justly until his death.

He was one of my father’s nearest neighbors and probably his

most intimate friend in the community. They were bound to-
gether by ties of blood, constant association as official mem-
bers of the same church and by an abiding friendship that I
cannot believe was ended even by death for I feel assured that
it has found a happy re^newal in the unknown land. His
genial temperament, broad information and full equipment of
common or possibly uncommon sense made his frequent visits
to my father’s home always enjoyed. Over the gulf of nearly
fifty I can recall today some of his terse, sen-
vanished years
tentious sayings. Talking to my father one day on the mat-
ter of their accumulating years he said “old age is always ten
years ahead of us.” Discussing the marriage of a mutual
lady acquaintance he expressed the hope that she had done
well and when my father, who had paid a recent professional
visit to her home, gave him some information as to her new
environment he replied, “Well Doctor, that isn’t living much.”
Referring one day to the prospective marriage of one of his
wards to a minister of some distinction he said, “He is an
educated. Christian gentleman,” and then-turning to my broth-
er and myself he continued, “Boys that is as high as you can
go.” During a visit of the writer to his home in the heated
term he admit that I’m lazy, but I must
said, “I don’t like to
confess to an indisposition to doing anything this hot weather.”
Standing six feet three or four inches in height, weighing two
hundred and twenty five pounds or more, and of markedly
erect bearing he was a fine specimen of physical manhood.
He was the son of John, and the grandson of Alexander
and Isabella Carswell, who came to America from Ireland
about 1765 or 1770. My good friend and relative Mrs. Ella
Salter who is a grandaughter of Judge Carswell’s sister Nancy,

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wife of Rev. Nicholas Murphey, has traced this line back to
Lord Rut'hven, first Earl of Gonrie and the head of the ‘'House
of Cassiles” in the following direct course of descent. Isa-
bella,wife of Alexander Carswell, was the daughter of Wil-
liam Browne, who was the son of Lady Jane (Gordon) Browne
who was the daughter of Lady Isabella (Ruthven) Gordon,
who was the daughter of Lord Ruthven, First Earl of Gonrie,
etc. She has informed me further that the Isabella aforesaid
was Robert Bruce, William Wallace,
a lineal descendant of
Sir. James Douglas, hero Bannockburn, and probably other
of
Scottish Chiefs. The connecting links between Isabella and
these old-time worthies have not as yet been “diskivercd,” but
my friend is satisfied that they exist and that if she were in
Scotland she could “sholy” trace them out. A year ago while
my time was largely occupied in gathering genealogical data
for these sketches, my brother Samuel on meeting Alma,
R.,,

my youngest born, asked her if I would be in my office on the

following day. “No sir, he is going to Wrens, Ga.” “What
for?” he asked, and she replied, “I think he is going there to
find out what kin I am to Adam.” And so as I belong to the
CarswelL line through my grandmother, Eleanor Carswell
daughter of Edward and granddaughter of the aforesaid Isa-
bella, it may be that if life lasts with my friend Ella and her
genealogical energies do not suffer an eclipse she may succeed
in carrying our mutual line back to Adam, or at least to Noah,
or possibly to the traditional Irishman, who seated upon the
topmost pinnacle of the tallest mountain in the deluge-girdled
world, with the whirling waters only ‘a few feet below him,
asked Noah as the floating Ark passed by to take him* aboard
and when the request was turned down, replied, “Go on with
your old boat, I don’t think there is going to be much of a
flood anyway.”
My friend has also given me the gratifying information
that we are justly entitled through our Carswell, Brown, Mur-
ray, Cassiles,Ruthven, Gordon connection to a whole lot of
“Scotch Plaids” too numerous to be scheduled here. Some
years ago there came to my inner consciousness an overween-
ing desire to look again upon my pictured face and form as
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it appeared in all its childish beauty when the world with me
was young, very young. The only documentary evidence on
that line still existent was an old time daguerreot 3^pe presented
by my father to his near relative Matthias Clark of New' York
more than fifty years ago. Through the kindly courtesy of
James O. Clark, son of Matthias, the picture w*as returned to
me and as my children looked upon it, one of them said, “Papa
wasn’t pretty even when he was a boy,” which of course was
very consoling and comforting to me. But in addition to this
I found that my good mother had gowned my little form for
the occasion in a costume bearing a broad conspicuous figure,
which suggested to my friend Judge Eve the convict stripes,
with w'hich his service as County Commissioner had made him
quite familiar. And I wondered why my youthful symmetry
of face and form had been adorned in this peculiar w^ay. But
the mystery is solved and the problem no longer vexes my
righteous soul. This gorgeous habiliment must have been
simply and solely one of the numerous and flaring Scotch
plaids to which I w'as justly, legally and genealogically en-
titled.

My friend tells me further that the name “Carswell” is

derived from the old Scotch w'ord “carse” which means alluvial
land bordering a stream. Walls built to protect these lands
from overflow' w'ere knowm 'as “carse-w'alls” and their ow'ners
James or John of the “carse-wall” were finally designated as
James or John Carsw^ell. Bishop John Carswell was a promi-
nent and distinguished member of the tribe in the i6th century
and made the first translation into the Gaelic language, the
work being John Knox’s Liturgy, and the Gaelic version being
known as “Carsw’ell’s Prayer Book.”
Judge John W. Carsw'ell married Sarah Ann Devine and
to them W'ere born tw'o children, a son and a daughter. The
latter Anna Eliza iNfoselle w'as married to iMajor Wm. A.
Wilkins and their children Inez (Jones), Lily (Neely) ami
Wm. A. Jr. live in Waynesboro, Ga., and Nina (Scutter) in
Athens, Ga. The son John Devine married Linda Royal who
bore him two sons John D. Jr., of Savannah, and Porter w'ho
married Arabella Walker and w'ho died some }^ears ago.
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of the last century, was sold after the war
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was burned a few years later and was never rebuilt. The fol-
lowing incident of his service on the bench of the Inferior
Court was given me years ago by his associate, Judge Joseph
A. Shewmake. Major William Bennett, sixty years ago was
one of the “characters” of the Waynesboro bar. He and Dr.
Edward Carter shared the distinction of being the most bril-
liant and entertaining talkers of Burke and for this reason
they probably avoided coming into colloquial contact with
each other. When Judge Carswell entered upon his judicial
duties he found that Major Bennett had been occupying pro-
fessionally an office in the Court House for a long, long time
and no charge had been made against him for rent. The sug-
gestion was made that he be requested to ante up for all of
the back rations and a bill was accordingly presented. The
Major had represented the county in a little case involving
a small amount and when the court convened for the transac-
tion of county business he rendered as an ofifset to the rent
account a bill for professional services equaling exactly the
charge against him, not a cent more and not a cent less.
After reading the bill Judge Carswell said. “Major, this seems
to be a rather exorbitant charge for the service rendered,” and
the Major with a twinkle in his bright, brown eyes replied,
“Judge, my conscience is always equal to any demand made
upon it and to every emergency that confronts it.” What the
final outcome was I do not recall. Judge Carswell’s late years
were spent in M'aynesboro where his remains now rest. His
son John Devine died in comparatively early manhood and
his wife and daughter Mrs. \^dlkins have been dead many
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JUDGE JOHN W. CARSWELL,
 DR. SAMUEL B. CLARK.
He was my father and as I write his name today tho’ four
and forty years have passed since on an Autumn day in 1864 I
looked into his face for the last time as I bade him goodbye to
take my humble place again under the Southern flag, there
comes into my heart in undiminished tenderness the infinite
reverence and love it bore him through all my boyhood years.

* * *

In 1803 or ’04 Charles Clark, born at Westfield, N. J., in

1780, came down to make hishome in Georgia. He was the
son of Charles Clark, Sr., who in 1813 was President of the
New Jersey Senate. He was also, I feel assured, a descendant
of Richard Clark, who in 1620 came over from England as a
ship carpenter. This conviction as to his descent is based
upon the perpetuation of family names and the further fact
that Abraham Clark, the ‘‘signer,” with whom my father
claimed kinship, was a descendant of Richard. I mentioned
this fact once to my friend Mrs. John P. Dill, whose father
Ralph P. Clark was a native of Westfield, N. J., and she
laughingly replied, “Oh, every Clark in New Jersey claims
kinship with Abraham.” And yet despite my good friend’s
pleasantry I still think that the facts make out a prima facie
case for our descent from this old time ship carpenter.
Charles Clark located for a time in Savannah and married
while there Eleanor Carswell daughter of Edward, who was
the eldest son of Alexander and Isabella Carswell. x\nd now
before bidding my ancient sire Alexander and his good wife
Isabella a final but not as my young friend, Roger Winter,
would express it “an elaborate adieu,” it may not be amiss to
say that this couple brought into the world the following
seven children in the years named: Edward 1755, Agnes 1757,
John 1760, Alexander 1762, James 1765, Matthew 1768. The
late Matthew J., and J. Frank Carswell of Hephzibah were
sons of Alexander, who was the son of John. The Late Dr.
E. R. Carswell was the son of Matthew and the grandson of
John. J. Frank Carswell of Augusta is the son
of Wm.
Alexander, grandson of Alexander and great grandson of John.

153
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ariT* A1'(i wariluK earocl tabn*xalA ,o.1xi n'M

9197/ rffidiiriqaH lo naw«t*D rin*t3„.l bn* .-I
wariJUM a!*!
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IK ^a 1 alfiJ ariT
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lo noibnerp aril b«* 7/ariilRM lo no«i aril as'W
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 Charles Clark remained in Savannah only a little while
and removed to Burke Co., where he built the home now owned
by Mrs. Louisa Clark near Blythe, Ga. Here the remaining years
of his life w^ere spent and here he died in 1852 at the age of
72. Eleanor, his wife, brought to him’ seven sons and daugh-
ters who grew to maturity, Charles E., Jane (Brown), Samuel
B., Sarah (Brown), James W., John W., and Mary Eleanor
(Rheney). In 1825 mj grandmother, Martha J. Walker
bought a small tract of land in the community in which the
Anderson homes were then or afterwards located and built the
residence in which fhe writer was born. It was almost an
exact counterpart of the home described by Thomas E. Watson
in ''Bethany” as belonging to his grandfather. Nov. i6th, 1837,
my father then a young physician, married Martha Rebecca
Walker and bought then or later my grandmother’s home,
adding in later years a larger tract of land bought of John D.
Mongin. In 1848 to meet the wants of a growing family he
replaced this primitive residence with a larger and more
modern home, within whose walls through all his later years
he lived and loved and labored until, worn down by the added
duties imposed by the absorption of younger members of his
profession into Confederate service, on a winter day in Feb-
ruary ’65 the angels ."touched his eyelids into sleep.”

THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

This old-time Southern home embowered in oak and elm,
its front gracedby tall colonial columns, still stands in all its
pristine strength and charm. Within the enclosed and shaded
yard there stands a walnut tree that found its permanent habi-
tat by accident rather than design. During my mothers girl-
hood she was playing in her owm backyard one day when her
brother, afterwards known as Col. A. C. Walker, attempted to
take a walnut from her hand. To foil him in his purpose she
ran around the old dwelling and while hidden from his view
she buried it hurriedly and went her way. He failed to find
its hiding place and she failed to recover it, and the tree towers

T54
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tXiSt ,dldi, ,voK »iadiJ5Jt>qa‘ti^7firl oi ^igjrolad e* “xnadlaS'* or
BOoada5I eritisM barnfiSi ^fioiobvdi? i{ntj<y'< & oadt tarhai x^”^
tOffiori e'TadJt>mbfrBi^ X^ id^^uod bne tadUW
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«®ax Tfj«l £id Il« d^ijo-nw' efiew oeoifW nJdliwjjamori fnahoiw

babbfi adJ OTOw^Jiimi boiddfl hoc bavol brta baril ad
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I

DR. SAMUEL B. CLARK-

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a
in midair today more than height and has borne
fifty feet in
its toll and more.
of fruitage for fifty years
This old homestead with its broad domain of nearly a
thousand acres, wears the distinction of being the only one of
the fifteen original Brothersville homes that is now occupied
by descendants of its old-time owners. Eight of them have
gone to ashes and all save three have passed to other and alien
hand-s. It bears the further distinction of having preserved
within its walls for three score years an itemized account of
its original cost, save only the timbers hewn by my father’s

slaves from .his own forest lands. These well preserved

records now in my possession reveal to me further the exact
day in 1848 when my boyish feet began to climb the hill of
knowledge under the guiding aegis of an old field school and
the precise date in a later year when I walked the earth mon-
arch of all I surveyed in my maiden pair of boots. They give
me the cost of those boots and of every article of apparel that
gowned my form in all my boyhood years. They give me
likewise the annual and total expense of my education from
that Spring day in 1848 until the Summer day in i860 when
my graduation came. They record every dollar of income
received by my father for medical service rendered on the
Sabbath, all of which was scrupulously given away to church
or charity. They reveal my father’s dealings with his slaves,
the gifts in money that he made to them,, the advances made
upon the crops he allowed them to cultivate for themselves and
their total income from these crops ranging in amount from
smaller sums to more than fifty dollars. They record many
other things besides and among them every item in the cost
of this old home save the heavy timbers already named. My
father paid for material, for painting, plastering and masonry
$1,540.12, and to Joseph Boulineau for building $1,505.51!^.
Since reviewing this record I confess to some curiosity as to
the special consideration for which that surplus one and a
half cents was paid to the builder. I recall the fact that during
the progress of the work Joseph Boulineau would frequently
lose his gimlets and other small tools in the mass of shavings
that covered the hall floor where his work bench stood and my

155
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6 year old eyes and fingers would ferret them out, and time
and time again he told me that he was going to give me a
white rabbit for my boyish service. The work ended and he
went his way. For days and weeks and months I watched and
waited with eager, anxious eyes for the advent of Brer Rabbit,
but he came not and now that sixty years have passed I have
practically given up hope.

* sfe

And now I close this sketch with an evening scene in

the long ago at this old home. Edgar A. Poe once took the
public into his confidence as to the construction of poetry
in general and of “The Raven” in particular. In this charming
essay he makes the statement that the closing verse of that
world famous poem was the first to find expression in his
weird and rhythmic fancy. Some years ago I began the
preparation of a series of sketches on the old slave days and
under the shadow of so illustrious a precedent I had penned
their closing feature in the following pen picture of

AN EVENING SCENE AT THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

And now there comes before me a picture whose softened
lights and shadows hands that pen
will never fade until the
these lines are cold and pulseless. It is an evening scene at
the old homestead., The twilight shadows have fallen o’er
grove and field and wood. The cares and toils of the day are
done. The faithful slaves have finished their daily tasks. The
farm and driving stock are housed and fed, while from the
barnyard the tinkling bells of the resting kine grow faint and
fainter on the drowsy air. The evening meal is ended in the “Big
House” and the cheery old oak fire is casting fitful shadows
on the whitened walls. Beside the hearthstone with book in
hand sits one with saintly face and thinning hair while scat-
tered here and there within the circle of the glowing lamplight
the children con their lessons for the morrow’s school. The
tall old fashioned clock that has ticked away for half a century
chimes out the Four of nine and books and lessons are laid
aside. Out on the rear veranda a sweet toned bell summons
 bto -.*n d
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s'" Wo' *'’ ni^g* amiJ }»«

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bns badM*v» I erilnom hn*
isi-ow bn* tv*b lO^ -V^ ei.

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;VBrf l^bt.a**q ,v*tl ai*n

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sril itool' sonO
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ma X,
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banartoa.asorfw.aiulaiq # am >-«oiad eamoo
Uiw ewobari* *>«*
naq l*i!l eb«*rf'*riS.Iilnri ab*l lavjn

Jjaals^rf bio ari

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av*ri 6av6le, liiWli*} sriT
sHt' ieel x«flb m’'*' '’Olia^na
,ba^ b,n*' baW»orf ai* ilaoia
qn.vnb bn* nn*|
moi5 aJiriw
aril
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amlaan a*
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aril W a^uoH
smV.«. «l aia d*o Wo viaoda
aill .bn*
r^obfriS liriift
abhaB elUw bonaJ.dv/ aril no ,,
ni ilood rfiiw anoiMlnnari aril

-l*a«Midwnisri ^nlDftiril bn* aa«^xH«i“ '

aril oirilt « anailt i.n*

ld?.;iqit)*l sniwoJs aril 5o
s'wonom aril loJ eno.eal liariJ ooa ii
. ariT . .loorfa* .

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Viulnaa * H«ri lol

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; the dusky slaves and led by old “Aunt Hannah'’ they come
with quiet step and reverent air to take their places in the
waiting hall. From its accustomed place the sacred book is
taken down and lips, that now have long been silent, repeat the
words of Isreal’s poet king: “The Lord is my shepherd; I
shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul
Yea though walk through the valley and the shadow of death
I

I will fear no evil, for thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,”
•
Or the lesson read, it may be, is from the Master’s holier
lips: “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, be-
lieve also in me. In my father’s house are many mansions, if
it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place

for you.”
And now as the reading ends and the book is closed, the
keys of the old time organ are touched by girlish fingers and
in the chorus of sacred song the voices of “Master and Mistuss”
j

and of the children blend with the stronger, sweeter tones of .[

the old time slaves, rising it may be beyond the narrow, cof-
'

fined pale of our material sense, beyond the music of the

spheres to chord with softer, holier ministrelsy on the unseen
shore. And now as its echoes die aw^ay they kneel together, j

and sometimes the master and sometimes the slave leads in I

the simple prayer, that in touching faith goes up to the common

—
[

Lord of all. And now the service is ended no not ended for !

on all the hearts that kneeled there in childish faith and trust, j

whether bond or free, the benediction of that fireside hour

through all the years has rested and is resting still.

* * 5f:

A PSYCHIC MISTERY. |

In connection with the picture drawn above there oc- j

curred a strange coincidence, whose mystery I never yet have ;

solved. Rev. Charles T. Walker, whose gifted tongue and ,

brain have justly given him the name of the “Black Spurgeon”
and who is conceded to be the most eloquent minister of his
race, is the youngest son of old “Aunt Hannah” named above

157
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bioJ adl" TgnisJ iaoq a’ttyt*! \o tbiow
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tam Tolmo 5 3

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to aanoJ
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in his early life
services. After I this sketch there came into my
had penned
mind the thought that possibly his religious life, which in these
later years has found such'wonderful development, might have
had its awakening at this fireside Bethel in the old
earliest
slave days. For days the thought grew on me and then while
weighing the propriety of adding it to the sketch as a prob-
able fact, there came to me from ''Charlie” as I have always
known him, a letter which read in part as follows "I intended
:

giving you a copy of my book w'hile in Augusta, but was sud-

denly called to New York by the death of one of my deacons
and I failed to find opportunity to see you. I send you a copy
today by mail. You will find in it that I have attributed my
earliest religious impressions to the family services in your
father’s house, when he gathered his negroes into the hall to
join in the family devotions. I can remember today the first
hymn I ever heard him sing; I can repeat words that he used
in his prayers. I have never been able to get away from the in-
fluence of those old-time family services.” The very thought
that for two days or more had stirred my own brain cells was
finding voice at the point of Charlie’s pen in his New York
home a thousand miles away. Was this simply and solely a
coincidence, or was it the result of some strange psychic force,
some w'eird, ethereal mental agency that takes no note of space
and yet some day will find its master and be made to do his
bidding by some Marconi of the future? The reader can take
his choice.
*

My father was born Feb. 26, 1812, married Martha R.

Walker Nov. i6, 1837, and died Feb. i, 1865. There were born
to them four sons and four daughters, viz C. Edward, born
:

Oct. 31, 1838, married Martha ‘B. Allen Feb. 27, 1868, died
June 29, 1883 William H., born May 14, 1840, died unmarried
;

Mch. 29, 1867: Walter A., born Mch. 5. 1842, married Sarah
E, Reney Oct. 24, 1880: Samuel R., born Feb. 15, 1844, married
Evalina L. Allen Nov. 27, 1873 M. Eugenia, born Feb. 9, 1846.
;

married George W. Hughes Feb. 27, 1868; Mary Anna, born

January 21, 1846, died Sept. 4, 1864; C. Edwina, born May 7,
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Sept. 2, 1855.
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to my father’s worth, that comes unbidden from my heart to-
day. It may be that no humancan claim perfection and
life

yet if his knew aught of fault or blemisE in all the years from
boyhood to the grave, no human eye could see it. In lofty
purpose and in lowly unremitting faithfulness to duty, he
lived above the common plane of men, serving his generation
by the will of God, doing justly, loving mercy, walking humbly
in all the paths his Master’s feet had trod and dying in the
noontide of his usefulness, he left to those who loved him, a
name as pure and stainless as the snows that winter winds
have heaped upon his grave.

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 WILLIAM EVANS.
The Evans family is of Welsh origin and its earliest im-
migrants came to Am.erica in ante Revolutionary days. Daniel
Evans served in that war as a member of Capt. Patrick Carr’s
Burke County Rangers and possibly in other commands. He
lived in Burke County not far from the present site of Story’s
mill and he and his wife “Polly” gave to the world a number
of children only three of whom bear personal relation to these
records, viz: Robert H. and Martha J. to whom some atten-
tion has already been g’ven, and the subject of this sketch.
William Evans married Mahala Wiggins and lived for a
time at Mount Enon. About 1840 he located at Brothersville
and his home is still owned though not occupied by one of his
surviving daugliters. Five children were born to him, Leoni-
das, Floyd, Claudia (Crockett), Sarah Eleanora (Walker), and
M. Sophronia. Only the two last named still survive. Wil-
liam Evans died during my boyhood, but I recall his stalwart
frame, his fondness for fox and deer hunting and his staunch
adherence to the Baptist faith. His son Floyd was my boy-
hood schoolmate and when our academic days were ended I
went to Emory College and he to the Kentucky Military In-
stitute at Frankfort. In the summer of ’61 an entertainment
was given at the old Poythressville Academy near McBean for
the benefit of the soldiers and Floyd, Bill Wimberly, my
brother and myself were present. We had all arranged to go
to the front and were talking in light and jocular vein of the
life before us when Floyd said, “Boys you may laugh and joke

about it, but we are not all coming home again.” In sad ful-
fillment of his prophecy the war had not grown old befdre his
young and manly form was sleeping in a soldiers grave. My
classmate, Wimberly, came back again but maimed for life by
a cruel minie at Gettysburg while my brother brought from the
field before the end had come a fatal lung affection and his
young life faded out in the bloom of early manhood. The
writer alone came out unscathed by ball or shell or fell

disease and yet despite this fact within these later years an
enterprising manufacturer of artificial legs has plied me o’er

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 and o’er again with letters, circulars and other advertising
stuff insisting that I allow him to supplement my walking
outfit wdth this added and in his opinion, absolutely needed
equipment. Many years ago! was playing with a little child
a child too young to place a seal upon her lips, and as she
played she said to me, “Your legs looks like they was all

breeches,” and I could scarce deny the soft impeachment. And

so it may be that my manufacturing friend had based his zeal
and misplaced interest in my locomotive welfare upon the fact
that nature had failed to give me, bodily at least, any "visible
means of support.”

MOSES P. GREEN.
The marriage of Martha Anderson, daughter of Augustus
H., to Moses P. iGreen has already been noted in the Anderson
feature of these records. This union and Moses P.’s change
of residence from Burke County to Brothersville occurred
probably in 1847. After his marriage Moses P. built a hand-
/ some residence near the Anderson home and occupied it until
the Augusta and Millen branch of the Central R. R. was being
constructed, when he sold his Brothersville holdings to Mrs.
Seaborn Augustus Jones and built him another hom*e near
Green’s Cut, a station which takes its name from a railroad
cut that ran through his large plantation. He was the son of
Jesse Green and was one of the wealthiest citizens of our com-
munity. I have been told that he kept at one time eighteen
horses simply and solely for the use of himself and family, not
one of these animals ever having occasion to cultivate the ac-
quaintance of either plow or wagon. His children have been
already named as descendants of Augustus H. Anderson.

COL. EDMUND B. GRESHAM.

George Walker, .the immigrant who came to Burke
Irish
County with his brother 1745, had among his
Thomas about
twelve children a daughter Margaret, w^ho was married to
John Jones. There came of this union three children, Mary,
Margaret and John. Mary, daughter of John and Margaret

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Jones was married to Job Gresham, and if she developed the
sweetness of the old time Mary of Bethany and her husband
ran the patient schdule of his ancient namesake, their married
life must have been ideal in its happiness. There came to them
two sons,’ John J., who entered the legal profession and made
his home in Macon, and Edmund B., the subject of this sketch.
After practicing at the bar for a time John J. abandoned the
law and became a successful banker.
The marriage of Col. E. B. Gresham to Sarah Anderson
and the building of his residence near the site of the old
Elisha Anderson, Jr., home have been already noted in the
Anderson sketches. Though a de facto resident of Brothers-
villeand an active promoter of its social, educational and
material interests, he retained his citizenship in Burke, repre-
senting that county many times in the General Assembly and
as a member of the Secession Convention, that severed for a
time Georgia’s relation with the Union. He was a successful
planter and a man of kindly, genial nature and gentle, generous
heart. He confessed to me once that he had never made a
horse trade without worsting himself, and this was
in his life
perhaps to his credit. On one occasion I heard him say, “Do
a man a wrong and you’ll hate him for it all your days,” and I
am sure through all his years he never had occasion for such a
cause to bear ill will to any human being.
After his death in 1872 his family occupied the old home
for a time but later sold- it and removed to Waynesboro, Ga.
Eight children were born to Col. Gresham and his wife Sarah
Mary J., Sarah Adeline, Job A., J. Jones. Hattie G., Rosa V..
Oscar and Maggie. Mary J. married first Jesse Green, and
after his death Dr. G. B. Powell children, Jesse and Walter
;

Green and Lewis Powell. Job A. married Dollie Lassiter

children, Ida, Emmett, Margaret and iMilledge. J. Jones mar-
ried Ella Lassiter; children, Mamie, Orrin, Nellie and Arthur.
Hattie married Robert Burton, and while “Burton’s Anatomy
of Melancholy” may possibly adorn the shelves of her clever
husband’s library I am sure that it has found no place in their
happy home life. Ro^a, whose Aeolian fingers drew melody
from the old-time organ when the writer was playing a soprano

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role in the Brothersvillechurch choir, married my old friend
Dick Milledge, the cleverest man in the State. There were
born to them six children, John, Kate, Hattie, Richard, Rosa
and Adeline. Oscar married Lola Scales children, Wiley and
;

Fannie. Dora married Gilbert Banks but left no issue. Of

those who survive, Sarah Adeline, Job A. and J. Jones are
now residents of Waynesboro, and Hattie (Burton) of Mid-
ville.

And now I trust my old schoolmate. Miss Addie Gresham,

who has been my constant friend since the old days when as
children we played “Hail Over” and turned each other down in
the big spelling class at the Brothersville Academy, will par-
don me an incident or two personal
for closing this sketch with
to herselL Our human life is made up largely of little things
and these are only minor chords in the rhythmic cadence of
its never ending psalm. Years and years ago, we stood chat-
ting pleasantly on the porch of the old Brothersville church
when a young lady came up the broad steps and she and Miss
Addie greeted each other with a cordial handclasp and with
a mutual kiss whose fervid warmth would have done credit to
a pair of maiden lovers. As her friend’s form disappeared
within the church door. Miss Addie turned to me and said,
— —
‘Walter, who was that?”
During my recent residence at Hephzibah and soon after
the death of Rev. Young J. Allen, she came to the village
to secure from his relative, Mrs. V. L. Davis, some information
to be used in a memorial exercise in the Waynesboro church.
As she stood at the depot awaiting the train that would bear
her homeward, we were chatting again when a young girl

came forward and extending her hand said, “I expect you have
forgotten me Miss Addie.” And she replied, “Yes child, I do
not recall you.” And then I said to her, “Whenever I fail to
identify the girls, I tell them that my failure is due to the fact
that they have grown so much saw them
prettier than, when I

la€t,”and then she turned upon me a sober, reproachful face

as she answered, “I have quit telling stories,” and the curtain
fell.

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 HENRY D. GREENWOOD.
Of the Greenwood antecedents, I have no information.
Henry D. must have had an ancestry or he would scarcely
have been here, but none of his progenitors have volunteered
the necessary information and weather conditions just now are
not specially favorable to genealogical research. The calendar
that hangs before me has printed in flaring capitals on
its pages and the summer sun is raining down caloric on the
just and on the unjust without regard to race, color or previous
condition of servitude. Long years ago in my schoolboy days
I was required to translate into limpid English the Satires of

old-time Juvenal written eighteen hundred years ago. One

day there came into my lesson the phrase “Julius ardet,” and
not being a mind reader and having no convenient opportunity
of conferring with the old Roman Satirist as to what he in-
tended to say, I rendered it “Julius burns.” :My teacher kindly
informed me that the proper translation was, “July is hot.”
And it has been hot through all these vanishing centuries, too
hot indeed to be digging at the roots of old family trees. I
know however that Henry D. had a broth^er Edmund, a sister
who married Ruddell and probably one who became the wife
of a McCall. He married Harriet, daughter of Elisha Ander-
son, Jr., built a summer home at Brothersville and occupied it
as late as i860, and possibly through the years of war. Only
one child came" to them, a son John, who was for a time my
schoolmate. His hearing and his speech were both defective
and he was never able to articulate distinctly. He always
called me “Water Lye” tho’ I do not know that he spelled his
version of my surname precisely that way.
Henry D. was a man of large, muscular build and a prac-
tical joker of no mean distinction as the following incident
will show.
The
4th of July celebration held in Brothersville in i860
had as one of its features an elaborate basket dinner furnished
by the hospitable ladies of the community and to which every
attendant upon the exercises was an invited guest. While
Mrs. Greenwood was preparing her contributory share to this
feast, Henry D. gathered a supply of green persimmons and
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the aid of a single grain of sugar, or a single drop of flavoring
of any kind whatsoever. To such of my readers as may be un-
familiar with the personal habits of the festive persimmon,
that never loses its acrid, astringent flavor until sweetened by
the alchemy of the frosts, the following stories may be
Winter
educational. Gen. Jubal Early riding in rear of his army
corps at a stage of the war when the Confederate Commissary
department was in a semi state of collapse, spied a straggler
from his command partially hidden in the spreading branches
of a tree that stood by the roadside. “What are you doing up
that tree?” the General sternly asked. “Drawing my stomach
up to the size of my rations by eating green persimmons,” the
soldier answered, and Early went 'his way.
A hungry traveler saw beside his pathway a shapely per-
simmon tree laden with its wealth of emerald fruit and to
allay the lonesome feeling in his epigastrium he ate with
greedy appetite the pungent pulp, but when his lips began to
take on unfamiliar curves he sat him down to meditate with
sorrow on the aftermath. Another traveler passing by and
noting the puckered mouth said to him, “My friend are you
trying to whistle?” And the sttfiferer replied, “Whithle nothin,
I’m pithened.”
And amid the tempting dishes that graced the menu on
so
that long gone July day there lay the Greenwood persimmon
pie wearing upon its flaky crust no sign to indicate the sorrow
that lay beneath. do not now recall how many of the guests
I

were taken in by its outward and seeming innocence, but I

know that Judge John W. Carswell was among them. Frequent
allusions to it during the after dinner hours fretted the Judge’s
nerves a little and when a boy attempted to twit him he said.
‘T ate the pie but I do not care for every whipper snajiper on
the ground to joke me about it,” and this unsavory triumph of
the culinary art becarne only a chastened memory.
After the war the Greenwoods remained on their Rurke
plantation and their Rrothersville home passed into other
hands. My friend John, I think, was never married and this
special branch of the Greenwood family is probably extinct.
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 SEABORN AUGUSTUS JONES.
The blcx)d of the Jones tribe tinged so thoroughly the
strain and lineage of our community that Jonesville might
properly have been added as an "‘alias” to its title. Four of its
old time homes were presided over by charming matrons, who
had borne before their marriage the name of Jones. One of
its clever residents married a widow Jones. My grandwother,
Martha Jones Walker, one of its earliest settlers, was the
grandchild of William Jones who married Mary Jones, and in
the early ’50s the family of Seaborn Augustus Jones purchased
the home of Moses P. Green and became residents of the
village.
in 1725 there died in Petersburg, Va., a Peter Jones, who
was the ancient sire of all this goodly tribe. He must have
been a man of some was named in his
note, for Petersburg
honor. He had the known as
further distinction of being
“Sweat House Peter,” having acquired that title by reason of
the fact that he builded and owned the only “sweat house” in

his community for the curing of his own and his neighbors
crops of tobacco. He was also somewhat as to lineage, his
father Abram being the son of Richard Jones of Wales, who
married Lady Jeffries.
This Peter of Petersburg and sweat house fame had a son
bearing the same name and Peter the Second had three sons,
Abram, Henry and William, who migrated to Georgia in ante
Revolutionary days, located in Burke County and became the
progenitors of the numerous Jones contingent in this and other
sections of the State. William Jones lived near the present
site of Story’s Mill andwas its original builder and owner.
•The Jones tribe before or after their advent in Georgia de-
veloped tw'O marked characteristics, first for marrying their
kinsfolk and second for giving their male progeny the name
of Seaborn. I have been informed that the original owner of
—
the name was born at sea was literally sea-born, but if he
was a scion of this particular Jones tree he must have lived, as
the rural preacher said of Moses, “away back in the fu-char,”
for this section failed to hold a sea among its material assets.

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.X orre cf the Judges or the InErior Court for the eountv of t<X.:
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'Vot: arc thcrcfcrc hereby authorifed and rcquircti to <io and perform dl

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tions. Sometimes it was Seaborn Augustus and then Augustus

Seaborn, sometimes Seaborn Henry and sometimes Henry
Seaborn, as in the case of the present Col. Henry Seaborn
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records as the untiring, unexcelled and unpaid agent of the
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ried Martha Jones and James, their son, m^arried another Jones,
and Seaborn son of James married Margaret Jones. William
brother of Abram married Mary Jones and their daughter
Mary, my great grandmother, not finding a Jones eaxctly to her
taste, married a relative, Daniel Evans, for the Jones and
Evans blood had mingled in Virginia. William, Jr., son of
William, married two sisters of Daniel Evans, and Thomas,
son of William, married another sister of Daniel. In evidence of
this generalfamily tendency, Col. Henry S. Jones is descended
from two of the brothers, Abram and Henry, and his bright
little son Willie Henry Jones includes in his ancestral lineage
the full trio, Abram, Henry and William, as do also the children
of my two brothers Samuel and Edward. In further evidence
of the Jones strain in the cummunity, Nancy Jones, daughter
of William, Jr., and Mary and granddaughter of William, Sr.,
who married Samuel Bugg and afterwards Alexander Kennedy
lived at ‘‘Goshen,” which while not known as a Brothersville
home was only a mile away.
Aside from the characteristics named above, this ii'oodly
race has been notable in other ways. John J. Jones, descen-
dant of Abram, served as a member of Congress in the later
’50s, and for long years was the foremost citizen of his county.
Col. A. C. Walker and Gen. Reuben W. Carswell, descendants
of William Jones, were both tendered Congressinal honors
and both declined. John A. Jones served for one or more
terms as State Treasurer. Seaborn Jones of Columbus was
one of its leading lawyers, and Seaborn Jones of Augusta is
named by its historian. Col. C. C. Jones, as one of its most
prominent and influential citizens. Afany of them have gone
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of equal honor and distinction, but according to the statement
of a prominent member of the tribe made in the presence of
the writer “only one of the name has ever gone to the dogs.”
The Seaborn x\ugustus Jones of this sketch was the son
of Thomas and grandson of Abram Jones. He was never
himself a resident of Brothersville save for a year or less as an
inmate of the home of James Madison Reynolds, but his family
soon after his death in the early ’50s, purchased and occupied
the Moses P. Green home and remained there for some years
after the war. He was married to Maria Law and as a result
of their marriage there were two daughters, Mary, who became
the wife of Wm. H., Chew, and Ida, who married Philip Jones.
There were also two sons, Thomas and Seaborn Augustus,
both of whom died in early manhood unmarried. The oldest
daughter Mary, or Mollie as she was more generally known,
died some years ago leaving two sons, Benjamin and Hull, and
a daughter, Ruth, who is living with her husband in New
Jersey. Ida and her children, George, Seaborn, Sydney (Ren-
froe) and Ruth, are living in Burke County.
They were both charming girls, lovable women, and I
entertained for them both a very warm and tender esteem.
Writing of them today there comes back to me a quaint remark
made by the elder sister when she was only a girl and almost
a child. Some allusion had been made in her presence to
another girl, who had developed symptoms of affectation, of
seeming to be what she was not, and my young friend IMollie
said, “I would rather be natural if I have to be a natural fool.”
Seabie the youngest child was a partial cripple* from early
boyhood and died when less than thirty years of age, but a
more perfect gentleman I have never known. Honor, manli-
ness, truth, gentleness, w'ere written in every lineament of his
face and his unfailing courtesy lingered even as his waning
footfall touched the border land. I sat by his bedside when

only a few hours of life were left to him, when even whispered

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his sister’s willing hands could render that failed to bring from
his whitening ‘‘Thank you sister.” Before his
lips a grateful
health had failedhim he attended with me once a Methodist
District Conference at Thomson, Ga. During the session I
was invited by a friend to spend the night at his home some
miles away from the town. Before leaving I presented my
friend Seabie to a young lady resident and asked her to look
after him in my Another friend standing by said,
absence.
“You are wasting —
words that boy can run his face anywhere
in the world,” and few faces have had better right to such a
tribute.
The old home has failed to feel the pressure of its owners’
footsteps for many a year and was recently sold to J. E.
Roberson of Augusta.
* * *

In connection with the Jones home it is only proper that

another inmate should find a place She was a
in these records.
niece of Mrs. Jones and her name was Kate
Wakelee. She C.
was a Northerner by birth but came South about 1850 to make
her home with her aunt. She was a woman of culture and of
marked literary talent, contributing frequently and acceptably
both to the x\ugusta and Waynesboro press. Two of her lit-
erary efforts adorn the pages of an old scrap book now in my
possession. In the later ’50s she had written for the Waynes-
boro News a sparkling pen picture in verse of a number of
prominent young men, who were residents of Waynesboro or
other sections of Burke Count)^ and giving to each a soubriquet
suggested by some personal characteristic of the party re-
ferred to. One of the victims to whom the title of “Bank Bill”
had been applied, responded in rather sarcastic vein and the

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 following extracts constitute the opening and closing lines of
her reply.

'‘Dear ‘Bank I’m worried and puzzled tonight;

Bill’

’Tis hard to beblamed when the heart is all-right;

I thought with sly mischief to tease a few friends
And then by acknowledging all make amends,
But I find some are wounded, who never were meant,
A misprint has thwarted the kindest intent,
So with errors of printing and errors of guessing
I’m in a dilemma that’s almost distressing.
^

I wait a true penitent, am I forgiven?

Each penitent tear is a pure pearl in Heaven.
With “buenos noche” dear Mr. “Bank Bill,”
this
Pleasant dreams, happy wakings,
i Melanie Maxwell.”

After the first Battle of Manassas she wrote a very pretty

tribute in verse to the memory of Gen. Francis S. Bartow,
which was published in the Augusta Constitutionalist. She
also secured a prize ofifered by the Field and Fireside for the
best story written for. its columns.
She was a teacher by profession and an optimist by nature.
She never seemed to see the dark side of anything or anybody.
I knew her for a long time and I cannot recall a single instance

in which she spoke uncharitably or disparagingly of any hu-

man being. She was always bright and witty and a charming
correspondent. Her last years were spent at the home of her
cousin, Mrs. Ida Jones, and her death was a very sad one.
Sitting in her room some years ago before a glowing fire and
busied with pen and paper, her dress became in some way
ignited and before aid could reach her she was fatally burned.

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 REV. J. H. T. KILPATRICK.
Was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, July 24, 1788,
migrated to Louisana in early manhood, taught in one of the
State schools for a time and fought as a soldier under Andrew
Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. He mar-
ried a Miss Tanner in that State by whom he had one son,
Robert T., who became a physician of some distinction. In
1822 he came to Georgia, located in Burke County and chose
as his second wife Harriet Eliza, daughter of Batt Jones and
granddaughter of Abram Jones. By this marriage there came
to him two sons, Washington L. and James H., and three
daughters, Eliza, who was married to Matthew J. Carswell,
Mary who became the wife of J. Frank Carswell, and Sarah
who married Rev. Wm. H. Davis. In 1831 or ’32 he began to
spend his summers at Brothersville, occupying a residence
near the “Miller Spring,” and probably the former home of
Elisha Anderson, Sr. In 1834 he made the village his per-
manent place of residence, building his home on the site where
his remaining years were spent and where he died Jan. 9. 1869.

Like Zaccheus of the old Jewish days, Father Kilpatrick,

as he was familiarly termed in his later years, was low of
stature, but a man of strong mental gifts, broad culture and
earnest consecrated spirit. Few families in Georgia have
wielded a stronger and wider influence for good than he and
his two able and devoted sons, and no trio of the same name
and blood have done perhaps so much to spread the special
tenets of their own religious faith as they.

Like many other preachers of his day. he never grew

weary in well doing either in sermon or prayer.
The following came to me long years ago. but
story
I amunable from personal knowledge to vouch for its un-
embellished truthfulness. One evening at the family service
of prayer one of his daughters, then a little girl, fell asleep
while on her knees. When she awoke the petition to a throne
of grace was still unfinished and turning to her sister kneeling
at her side she whispered, “How far has he gotten?’* and when

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the low toned answer “Just to Jerusalem,”fell on her ears she

said, “I’ll have time my

nap then,” and her sleepy
to finish
eyes wandered again into dreamland.

In boyhood and in manhood I was thrown into more

intimate association with Rev. Washington L. Kilpatrick than
marked my personal knowledge of his father and younger
brother. For three years he was my teacher at the old Broth-
ersville Academy and for whatever measure of knowledge I
may have been able to garner into my boyish brain I am
largely indebted to his patient and skillful tutelage. I have
always felt and feel today that few men in Georgia, or out of
it, have ever been gifted with fuller equipment mentally and

temperamentally for successful labor in the schoolroom than

was he. Indeed his aptitude to teach and his power of il-
lustration as he stood before his classes, fell nothing short of
genius. As a preacher he was able, earnest and successful and
as a pastor no man was more beloved. In our last interview
not long before his death, he took my father as his theme and
in warm and loving words he paid a glowing tribute to his
purity as a Christian, his usefulness as a man and to his con-
stant, unremitting faithfulness in every field of duty. His
kindly words are lingering with me yet and I am sure that his
own radiant life, that even then was rounding to its close, had
won in fullest measure through all his years the tribute that
his kindly lips were paying to another.
He was twice married, first to Sarah Shick of Savannah
and last to Emma Hudson of Brothersville.

His surviving'children by his first marriage are George P.

of Waynesboro, Lizzie (Hunter) of Decatur. Ga.. Henry H.
of Burke County, Sarah fHamilton) of Grovetown, Ga., Eliza
(Gaffney) of LaGrange, Ga.. and by his second. Dr. Andrew
J. of Augusta, Ruth (Landsdell) of Laramie, Wyo., Emma G.
and Derrelle D. of Hephzibah, Ga.
Rev. James H., the younger son. left Brothersville in my
boyhood to take up his residence at AVhite Plains, Greene
County. He shared his father’s and brother’s talent and for

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fifty years and more he filled large space in the labor and
councils of the Baptist Church in Georgia. His retention of a
single pastorate for more than half a century attest his merit
and his faithfulness. So. far as the writer knows, this record
has no duplicate in any pastoral charge in any denomination
in Georgia. The sisters, Mary and Eliza Carswell and Sarah
Davis, did not figure so prominently in the public eye as did
their father and brothers, but they married well, lived well,
died well, and their gentle, generous lives have found reincar-
nation in their children, who from many sections in this and
other States “rise up and call them blessed.”

Rev. James H. Kilpatrick married first Cornelia Hall of

Greene County, and his surviving children by this marriage
are Hugh, who occupies a position on the Judicial bench in
Texas, and James, who is a professor in some institution of
learning. He married last Edna Heard of Augusta, Ga., and
four children of this union survive, Heard, Professor in Colum-
bia University, N. Y., Sarah (Jenkins), Helen and Howard.
He died during the present year, 1908, at the age of 75.
The Kilpatrick home was twice burned, once in 1869 and
once at an earlier date. It was rebuilt in the later year by
Matthew J. Carswell and was owned by his children unitl 1904,
when it passed into the possession of the writer.

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 ROBERT MALONE.
Of this old-time resident I know nothing personally, for
the reason that he died during my childhood or at an earlier
date. He merchandised both in Augusta and Savannah and in
the ’30s of the last century be built a summer home at iBroth-
ersville, which after his death his family occupied permanently.
This home he beautified with a long avenue of cone shaped
cedars stretching away from its front, while the yards sur-
rounding the residence were all aglow with blooming flowers
of every tint and hue. A tall white pine planted by his hand
is standing today near the old dwelling.

He married Nancy Rutherford of Sandersville, Ga., and

there were born to them two sons, James F. and William T.,
and three daughters, Laura (iMongin), Andicce (Pierce), and
Fannie Henry (Varner). James F. practiced law for a short
time in Augusta but abandoned the profession and devoted
himself to his planting interest in Burke County. He married
Nellie Hill and two of his children. Annie (Tarver)^ and Kate,
now live in Augusta, while another daughter Marion (Holley),
is a resident of Birmingham, Alabama. I had the privilege of

hearing James F., in a temperance address at the Brothersville

Academy in my boyhood, and later in a political speech at a
Breckinridge and Lane meeting in the Presidential campaign
of i860. He was a man of engaging address and a fluent and
graceful speaker.
On the latter occasion Toombs was expected but failed to
show up and Jno. J. Jones. Jno. D. Ashton and James F.
Malone occupied the morning hours. He died at his country
home in comparatively early manhood.
William T. married Mary J. Evans, and there came to
them three sons, Thomas, Robert and William, and two-
daughters, Fannie (Burton) and Mamie (Hatch).
In my boyhood he began the study of medicine in my
father’s office, but his strong aversion to scenes of pain caused
him to abandon his purpose of entering the medical profession.
During his early manhood he played very sweetly on the
violin and the old-time serenades with which he and Jonie
Reynolds and Bob Murphey and the Turknett boys enlivened
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 the midnight Summer hours were very much enjoyed. After
entering the communion of the Methodist Church, he laid
aside the instrument and would never strike its mellow chords
again. One day he came to my father’s home and my brother
brought out his violin and asked him to play “Home Sweet
Home.” He took the instrument in his hands, tuned it per-
fectly and then laid it on the table without drawing from its
sleeping strings a single note.
He served under Gen. Wheeler and was killed in an en-
gagement with Kilpatrick’s cavalry near Waynesboro, Ga.,
in the winter of ’64 and I am sure no better, purer man fell
under the Southern flag. A maj'ority if not all of his de-
scendants are living at Bartow, Tennille and other sections
of Jefferson County.
Andicce Malone was married to Rev. Thomas F. Pierce,
an eloquent and distinguished Methodist minister, whose
effective service as a pastor and Presiding Elder lasted for
more than fifty years. Three daughters were born of their
union, Foster (Thornton), Mattie and Kate (Williams).
A lady friend has recently told me that their mother was
conceded to be the prettiest woman who attended the ball
given to Henry Clay on his visit to Augusta in March 1844,
and she probably tripped the light fantastic toe with the great
Commoner on that occasion.
Fannie Henry was married to Samuel D. Varner and her
-daughter, Jennie (Newsome), and her children are now living
at Decatur, Ga.
In 1850 a Division of the Sons of Temperance was or-
ganized in Brothersville and steps were taken to erect a hall
or temple for their use. In this work Fannie Henry, then un-
married, rendered very active and efficient service.
She organized a Fair at the Brothersville Academy, the
proceeds of which went to the building fund, and her labors
in its behalf were untiring and unremitting. A site for the
building was donated by my father and the hall was com-
pleted and dedicated in 1851. Nelson W. Murphey was mar-
shal of the day, Rev. J. H. T. Kilpatrick, Sr., made the opening
prayer, L. D. Lallerstedt, of Augusta, installed the officers

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and Rev. W. G. Conner, Pastor of St. John Church, delivered
an able and eloquent address. During the exercises, in grateful
recognition of the valuable aid of their fair friend, the Division
through Rev. \V. L. Kilpatrick presented to her a handsome
Bible.
But the energies of this charming representative of the
Malone name were not confined to the erection of Temperance
Halls. She possessed marked literary talent and the files of
the religious press of that day would show many contributions
in verse from her gifted and rhythmic pen. Five of these
poems have been preserved on the pages of the scrap book
already referred to and the following brief extracts are taken
from them. The opening stanzas of a poem entiled “Pere
Le Chaise’’ read as follows

*^Here rest the dead, their silent sleep

Unbroken by life’s busy dream.
No more through their cold bosoms sweep
The current of it’s ruby stream.

No more times’ faintly sounding shore

Heaves up before their sightless eyes.
Their wearid hearts are tossed no more
By vain ambitious burning sighs.”
The following stanzas are taken from a poem based upon
the Psalmists prayer, “Oh that I had the wings of a dove.”
“Oh for thy wings sweet dove.
With sunlight floating o’er thy peaceful breast,
That with them I might flee away
And be at rest.

But I must linger here.

Till life’s fast waning lamp shall cease to burn,
And mourn with bitter tears the dust
In memory’s urn.

Yet, Father, hear me now.

And grant when nature yields the painful strife.
To waft my spirit home and give
Eternal life.”

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breathe in every line a devotional spirit of the purest type.
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The Malone home was occupied for a time after the war
by the family of iWilliam T., but was later exchanged for a
residence and farm near Bartow, Ga. The building still stands
but it is only a semblance of its former selft.

JOHN D. MONGIN,
Belonged to an old South Carolina family cultured and
courtly, and wearing in their blood the traditional courtesy
and courage of their Palmetto lineage. One of the tribe had
faced the muzzle of a rifle on the dueling ground, but with
what result I do not now recall. John D. came to Georgia
probably in the early ’30s, married Laura, daughter of Robert
Malone, and built a home not far away from the IMalone resi-
dence. Three daughters came of this union, Laura (Reynolds),
Mary Astrepia (Redding) and Fannie. There were also four
boys, Daniel William, Robert Malone, John and Albert. The
two older boys were my school mates and Daniel William was
my comrade for a time in the ist Ga. Regiment.
John D. was fond of a good horse and always kept a fast
roadster for his personal use. Driving to Augusta one <lay. he
chanced to strike* the Louisville Road immediately in front of
his neighbor, Rev. J. FI. T. Kilpatrick, who was holding loose
rein over an uncomely sorrel, that belonged apparently to the
“Plug” variety. John Di chatted pleasantly with the minister
for a time and then with a courtly bow said to him, “I want
to reach the city at an early hour today and I trust therefore
that you will excuse me for driving on.” Rev. J. FI. T. nodded
acquiescence and John D.’s fast roadster was given the reins.
After trotting at good speed for a mile or two he turned to
see how far he had distanced his companion and found to his
surprise that he could lay his hand on the homely sorrel’s nose.
Chagrined a little by the result, he took the whip from the
socket and gradually increased the speed of his horse until in
modern vernacular he was doing his “levelest best,” and still

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anoTaradi Umi I bna x^^^ '*wpH vhaa ns is x^^ adt daaai ot
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the sorrelwas not a length behind. John D. finally gave up the
effort,having become satisfied that while his steed’s ungainly
competitor was, in the language of Bishop ]\Iarvin, ‘‘not much
on looks,” he had a “get there” attribute in his make up that
made amends for his plebeian appearance.
In the Fall of i860 the Mongin home was sold to Wm. T.
Timmerman, a native of South Carolina who had merchandised
in Augusta for a time as a member of the clothing firm of
Hora, Wise & Co. The Hall of the Sons of Temperance, after
suspension of that Order, had been converted into a dwelling
and this was occupied for some years by the Mongin family.
In one of the early years following the war they removed to a
rice plantation near Savannah, and my information is that none
of them now survive save Mary Astrepia, who had married a
second time and was living some years ago near Midville, Ga.
John D. attended in his boyhood the Citadel Academy in
Charleston and my first acquaintance with the science of war
was made under his tutelage in the Spring of ’61 on the ground
of the old Brothersville Academy. Daniel William married a
Miss Anthony of Augusta but of the other matrimonial al-
liances made by the younger children I have no information.

Wm. T. Timmerman and his family went into the Mongin

home and were therefore ante-bellum resi-
in January, 1861,
dents of Brothersville for only a little while, but their intelli-
gence, high standard of morals, and charming social qualities
fitted them into our rural village groove most delightfully.
William T. had married Mrs. Martha Dobey of Edgefield
County, S. C., one of the most lovable women I have ever
known, and there came with them to their new home three
children of her former union, Mary K., Sarah C., and Elbert,
with two sons and two daughters of her later marriage.
Joseph A., George W., Maria and Mattie. Some years later a
third daughter, Lula, was born to them. The home was oc-
cupied by the family until its loss by fire in one of the early
years following the war. After a temporary residence in the
Brothersville Parsonage and the Temperance Hall building

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Wm. T.,bought the old Robert Evans home that lay in the
and here after some years he died. He
outskirts of our village,
had served gallantly as a Confederate officer and when in the
days of Reconstruction it was thought advisable as a precau-
tionary measure to establish a military organization in the
community for the protection of person and property he was
made its commander. If necessity had arisen we would prob-
ably have bloomed out as a regular branch of the Klu Klux
Klan and I am sure that our commander’s Carolina blood
would have made effective use of our white gowned organiza-
tion. After his death his widow spent her remaining years in
Augusta,
Sarah C. Dobey was married to the late Edmund T.
Murphey and Joseph A., entered the Methodist ministry and is
now an honored and able member of the North Georgia Con-
ference. My genial friend Mary K., is at this writng an inmate
of her sister’s home and when we meet she never fails to give
me a courteous invitation to call, and in the recent past has
rarely failed to be ‘‘out” when I complied with the request.
I scarcely think, however, that this was due to any mental
telepathy that gave her premonition of my coming. George
W., is also a resident of Augusta while the younger girls
have married and are living in South Carolina.
“Thus endeth the second lesson'* in the story of “Ellerslie”
the old time Mongin home.

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 ALEXANDER MURPHEY.
This old-time resident has already received recognition
in the write up of his father, Edmund Murphey, and not
much is left to be added. He was a man of large body, large
soul, large family and owned a large wife, a large house and a
large plantation. His Brothersville home was a sort of double
barreled affair, two houses in one. This arrangement was
probably necessitated by the fact that when his last marriage
occurred, both he and his wife included among their personal
assets a goodly batch of children, who had come to them
through former matrimonial alliances and an apartment house
had to be provided for their accommodation. This segregating
policy may have been adopted also to prevent their respec-
tive olive plants from marrying each other, but if so it failed
very signally as has heretofore been recorded, of accomplishing
that purposes. “Uncle Aleck’’ had also a large fund of humor
to which he sometimes gave play at his own expense. ,

Southern planters in those old days were accustomed to

entertaining their guests by giving them a ride over their
crops. I have been told that Uncle Aleck had phenomenal
tact and talent for so arranging the ride or drive as to let his
visitor’s eyes rest admiringly on every blooming, luxuriant
field of corn and cotton through all his broad acres but never
letting them fall on any that gave a promise of inferior yield.
He died long years ago and while a man of rather un-
usual girth, few waistbands I am sure have held within their
circling limits a larger store of human kindliness and genuine
homely grace.
The Murphey home was sold to John S. Byne and oc-
cupied by his family for some years following the war. It was
burned many years ago and was never rebuilt. The land is
now owned by David S. Holmes.

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 JAMES MADISON REYNOLDS.
The Reynolds home faced the Walker’s Bridge Road and
stood about midway between the residences of William Evans
and Moses P. Green, the latter being known later as the Jones
Place. It was built in 1837 occupied from that year by the
Reynolds family as a summer residence. The enclosed yard
was shaded by shapely water oaks and with its broad grove
extending to the public highway it became one of the most at-
tractive homes in the community. Its owner James Madison
Reynolds was the son of Joseph, who belonged to a Revolu-
tionary family in Maryland and who had married Eugenia
Heyser of Hagerstown in that State. William Heyser father
of Eugenia established the first bank in Hagerstown eighty
years or more ago, and this institution is still in existence.
Joseph Reynolds migrated to Georgia in the early years of the
last century and after his death Eugenia, his Avidow, was mar-
ried to Judge Atton Pemberton. James Madison married
Mary Ann daughter of Thomas who was the youngest child
of Abram Jones. By this marriage there came to them three
sons, Robert A., who married Laura daughter of John D. Mon-
gin, J. Jones, who married first Rosa V. and afterwards Lizzie
W. both daughters of James Anderson, Sr., and John W. who
married ^lary, daughter of Judge Joseph A. Shewmake of
Burke County. Two daughters were also born of this mar-
riage, Eugenia H. (Rushing) and Lila J. (
Jones). Of the
surviving children, John W. with his wife and children, Hon.
Joseph S., Julius and Lila (Reynolds), are living in Augusta.
Eugenia (Rushing) and daughters, Susie ^fay Dreger) and
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Lila, are living in Atlanta, and Lila (Jones) and children.

Franz A. and Annie are residents of Augusta, (^la. Robert A.
lived for a time at the home built by William Barnes but after
the war moved with John D. ^fongin to the coast near Savan-
nah and died there many years ago. J. Jones died in Waynes-
boro where his widow and son Joseph noAv live, the other
surviving son, Foster P.. being a resident of Hephzibah. James
Madison owned large planting interests in Burke County and
was probably the wealthiest citizen in the community. He

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was a man and attractive personality but spent most
of culture
of his time in Burke and I knew little of him personally.
Some days ago his son John W. and I were riding together
when he recalled an incident of our boyhood days that he will
pardon me for reproducing here. We were schoolmates for a
time at the Brothersville Academy and then his father placed
him under the tutelage of Columbus C. Richards of Wrights-
boro, Ga. During his vacation I spent a night at his home and
his good mother at the evening meal gave me the first cup of
chocolate my lips had ever tasted, while John was kind enough
to read to me a poem that he said he had written for recitation
at the closing exercises of the school. Its rhythm did not sug-
gest either Byron or Moore, Longfellow or Poe as its author.but
it jingled well and my boyish heart could but envy his ability to

woo the muse so successfully. A little later I saw the poem in

published form but failed to find my friend accredited as its
author. I saw' it again and again and his name w'as always
missing and then there dawned upon me reluctantly the con-
viction that I had been the victim of misplaced confidence.
Many years ago, like many other undistinguished Ameri-
cans, I played the role of a rural pedagogue. One day while
engaged in this pleasant pastime a little pupil showed me a
selection he had made for declamation on the following Friday.
He seemed to think it a literary gem that had probably never
before charmed my mental vision, but when I had read its
opening lines,

“You’d scarce expect one of my age

To speak in public on the stage,”

Iwas prepared to assure him that I had not only met it some-
where in my travels, but had a speaking acquaintance with it.
And so it may be that the readers eye has chanced to fall

some time in life upon the early rhythmic offspring of my long

time friend John W. which jingles thusly,
“
’Tw'as the night before Christmas, all over the house.

Not a creature was stiring, not even a mouse.”

or w'ords to that effect.

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Crana Son of James Madison Reynolds.
 Ah well, John and I were both boys then and little boys
at that and I am glad to say that his reformation was early
and complete. He hung his harp upon the willows, abandoned
the role of a poet laureateand never played on my credulity
again. When we meet now our memories and our lips go back
together through the long gone years and our hearts grow
mellow as our feet grow bare and suntanned once again.
The Reynolds home was sold many years ago and- after
passing through the hands of Amos W. Wiggins, Dr. (Baldwin
B. Miller, and Samuel G. Story, Sr., it became the property in
recent years of Rev. Charles M. Carswell.
Some months ago my friend John W. was surveying the
adjoining Jones place and when the work was ended he rode
over to the old home, whose portals he had not entered in
forty years. After walking through the old familiar hall,
feasting his eyes on the grounds his boyish feet had pressed
and naming to its owner the room in which his baby eyes
first saw the light of day he drove to the residence of his
nephew, Foster P. Reynolds, a mile or so away. He had been
there but a little while when his nephew saw an ominous pil-
lar of smoke climbing skyward in the direction of the old
home. Driving rapidly to the place he found the dwelling in
flames and in a little while it had gone to ashes. No plausible
explanation could be given of the origin of the fire, and so I
offer one here without making any charge for the service. Pos-
sibly in the warmth of welcome extended to its former inmate
after an absence of forty years, the old home overdid the thing
and brought on a case of spontaneous combustion.

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 ABSALOM W. RHODES.
The family record of this old- time citizen has been given
Lewis Rhodes, but the personality
in the sketch of his father, of
Absalom W. deserves some additional notice. He was one of
the indispensables in the community, having served simultan-
eously and effectively as Postmaster, mail carrier, private ex-
press agent and general utility man for a long, long, time. In
addition to these more public duties he was always ready
•through some process of conjuration to remove the unsightly
excrescences known technically and anatomically as hypertro-
phied cutaneous papillae from hands shapely or unshapely and
to do so without fee or reward pecuniary or otherwise. If the
reader fails to recognize as old acquaintances the individuals
named above I do not mind saying to him that they are known
to the unprofessional mind as warts. How my old friend
Absalom W., or any other claimant of this mysterious art,
managed to accomplish the result with the simple means em-
ployed has always been to me an unsolved problem. He was
a man of some peculiarities and one of these was his aversion
to calling his friends by their names. In my earlier years it
was his habit to address me as ‘‘Steamboat.” Whether he
gave me this title as a pet nanie or for the reason that steam
and I were rather antipodal in our general characteristics or
because the name was easy of pronunciation I have never
known. He -was also something of a humorist or he would
not have told me the following story. During one of his semi-
weekly trips to Augusta for the village mail he saw his friend
John Trader lying in the shade near his growing corn. Think-
ing that he might be ill Absalom W. made some inquiry and
received in response, “O, I am simply ‘laying by’ my crop.”
His usefulness to the community may be shown by a sin-
gle illustration. During my boyhood John Anderson, son of
James, and then in early manhood was stricken with fatal lung
trouble and went to Tampa, Fla., hoping its sunny skies and
unchilled air would bring health again to his wasted form. FTe
died there and as no railway line tapped the southern section
of the State. Absalom W. drove by private conveyance from In-^

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remains to his old home for interment in the family burying
ground. He and his good wife lived to extreme old age and
the Rhodes home remained in possession of his children until
a few months ago when after sheltering four generations of
the name and remaining a family heritage for a hundred years
it passed into other hands.

A BROTHERSVILLE HOME COMING.

It seems honor of inaugurating
a little strange that the
the “Home Coming” movement in Georgia should be due to a
little rural community nestled away in rustic seclusion amid

the sylvan shades and pine laden air of Richmond County,

and yet the old-time village of Brothersville, whose name and
fame have largely faded from the minds of men, merits that
distinction.
This social reunion of its ante-bellum residents, this happy
renaissance of the Old South, was scheduled to begin Oct, 21,
1903, and the invitations closed with these words: “Come and
let us renew around the old hearthstones the tender grace of a
day that is dead.”
On that red letter day these wanderers from the scenes of
their early years came back from Macon and Midville, from
Waynesboro and Augusta, and from other sections to receive
glad and gracious welcome at the home of Samuel R. Clark,
the old-time home of Dr. Samuel B. Clark, builclcd in 1848 and
dedicated to God and to Christian fatherhood and motherhood
in the infancy of its home life by a special religious service, a
home on whose time honored walls there have rested for sixty
years “the dews of Zion and the smile of God.”
Through all the years of absence their hearts had turned
back lovingly to the old village and to the fair familiar grounds
their childish feet had trod. And as they looked into each
others faces once again, as they clasped hands around the old
hearthstone and renewed the goodly fellowship of other days,
the joy and gladness of their meeting and the mellowed ten-
derness of their intercourse through all their stay together

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time friendships and recalled the tender memories of the long
ago, their hearts grew young again, “the sere and yellow leaf”
took on a tinge of green and they forgot for a time at least that
for them all there were “silver threads among the gold.”
They rode ground where they had romped
to the old school
and played in childhood and if the foot-worn pathway to the
spring had not been covered by the plowshares cruel touch
they would have quaffed again the limpid waters that quenched
their childish thirst. They visited the old post office, that in
bygone years had been their Mecca on Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoons and Miss Addie Gresham forgetting that forty
years had passed asked for her mail. With bared heads they
entered the old church where they had kneeled long years ago
and walked with mellowed hearts among the graves of their
sainted dead.
As they trod the old familiar paths and talked in tender
tones of the long ago, they could but feel with my old friend
Joe Lewis, that sweet to lay aside for a time the burdens
“it is
and cares of later life, to let the spirit of dreaming return, to
catch the far-off twinkle of the lights that childhood saw and
to revel again in the music gushes that gladdened the morn
of life— sweet to feel upon our furrowed brows the breath of
unseen wings, the touch of unseen hands, that opened glory’s
morning gate and poured the light and minstrelsy of Heaven
upon our cradles.”
Eighteen of the old time residents were present at this
Home Coming and the provision for their comfort and enter-
tainment made by their hospitable host seemed absolutely per-
fect in its appointrpents, while a kindly Providence smiled on
them in their gladness in three bright and balmy Indian Sum-
mer days. Among the invited guests were three of their old
time slaves on whose heads had fallen the frosts of more than
seventy winters. They were gladly welcomed and enter-
tained, not as social equals it is true, and yet in a way that
gladdened their old hearts and brought back many a tender
memory of “Marster and Mistiss” in the old, old days.

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ness could be compressed into any human hearts than shone in
every face at this reunion.
The appointed days' sped all when the
too swiftly and
parting hour had come the goodly company gathered in the
spacious parlor for the closing scene. The faithful old-time
where fifty years before
slaves were given places in the hall,
they had joined in the family devotions with their sainted
master. The company had thought to sing at parting, “God
be with you till we meet
again,” but their hearts were all too
full to give it One. of thier number voiced in simple,
utterance.
earnest prayer their gratitude to God for the blessedness
of this reunion, for the Providence that had spared them to
renew the tender associations of the hallowed past, for the
precious home influences that had blessed their childhood and
had lingered in their hearts and lives through all these years
and then with quivering lip and broken voice pronounced the
old familiar benediction that they had heard from infancy.
With misty eyes the parting hand was given and then they
went their ways to meet no more, it may be, this side the sun-
set, yet carrying with them in their mellowed hearts a warmer

friendship for each other, a deeper, fuller trust in God and

with it all a bright and shining memory of this glad and sweet
renaissance of glorious Auld Lang Syne.

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 HEPHZIBAH.
Our little town was born October 24, 1870. Rufus B.
Bullock, defacto but not dejure Governor, having on that date
given his official sanction to an Act of the General Assembly,
granting it municipal being with all the powers, rights, privi-
leges, immunities and communities, hereditaments, issues polit-

ical or otherwise, and appurtenances thereto belonging or in

any wise appertaining. In area at least it was a lusty infant
at its birth, extending like the spokes of a mammoth wagon
wheel, one mile in every direction from the school building
as its center or its hub. This wheel arrangement has at least
one marked advantage in the fact that it gives the wife of the
teacher, who occupies the hub, additional reason and excuse
for addressing him as “Hubbie.’’ The town’s imaginary boun-
dary, which no engineer, civil or uncivil has ever been required
to locate, is of necessity an exact circle and it was possibly
given this rounded form for the reason that its residents actual
and prospective would be required to act upon the square, and
would in this way solve the old unsolved and unsol vable prob-
lem of squaring the circle.

ITS NAME.
When the movement to establish a denominational High
School within the limits of the Hephzibah Baptist Association
culminated in i860, Brothersville, Ga., was selected as its loca-

titon. Succeeding and superseding the old Brothersville Acad-

emy the Schocl began its opening session in the spring of
1861 and for ten years under the guiding hands of such able
and efficient teachers as Vincent T. Sanford, Lincoln L. Veazy,
W. L. Kilpatrick. Rev. W. BI. Davis and Jas. J. Davis, it

grew in honor and in usefulness. To the two original dwell-

ings that stood near the site of the school there had been

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added in ’62 the home of Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, in ’63 or ’64

the home of Berry Farmer now owned by Frank \V. Carswell,

in ’67 the home of J. Frank Carswell and in ’69 the home of

Rev. William H. Davis, the old-time dwelling of Rev. J. H. T.
Kilpatrick after its loss by fire in the last named year having
been rebuilt by Matthew J. Carswell. With a growing school
and increasing population there came a need for corporate

powers and a corporate name. With the school officially

located “at Brothersville, Ga.,” standing for a decade on

Brothersville soil, midway between the old Brothersville homes
of Rev. J. H. T. Kilpatrick and Absalom W. Rhodes, both of
whom had made liberal donations of land for its benefit, with
three old-time Brothersville residents, A. W. Rhodes, Col.
Edmund B. Gresham and Dr. Samuel B. Clark in its initial

Board of ^Managers, the first having been Postmaster of the

old community through all its history and the last two having
controlled the destinies of the old Brothersville Academy and
having contributed liberally both in cash and patronage to the
new school, it seems a little singular that the old name was
not retained.
It was a goodly name, a brotherly name, a name honored
and stainless through all its history, a name fragrant with the
kindly deeds of a kindly people, a name blessed by the happy
memories of an ideal old-time Southern Community, but the
old days were gone and the old name has gone with them into
the grave of the unreturning past, with never a stone to mark
the mound where lies its sleeping dust.
And yet the seeming strangeness will disappear when we
consider the reasons ‘that controlled the powers that be in
making it. The first was evidently the phenomenal euphony
and sweetness of the title given our town. Let the reader
repeat a half dozen -times the name of Flephzibah and then the

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following lines from “Drifting,” and he will recognize at once
how charmingly alike they are in melody and rhythmic cadence.
Hephzibah, Hephzibah, Hephzibah, Hephzibah.

“Today, so mild,
Is heaven’s own child.
With earth and ocean reconciled
The airs I feel
Around me steal
Are murmuring to the murmuring keel.

I heed not, if

The hippling skiff

Floats swift or slow from cliff to cliff
With dreamful eyes.
My spirit lies
Under the walls of Paradise.”

-But its euphony is not its only claim to public favor. It

has another and I will have to coin a word to name it — its

unspellability. Few children, past the kindergarten stage at

school, would trip at Brpthersville but college graduates stum-

ble and stumble oft at Hephzibah. Even in the official record

of the town’s incorporation, the published Acts of 1870, the

name is not correctly spelled either in the index, the title or the
body of the Act. I doubt if twenty-five per cent of those who
live beyond its limits can give correctly its orthography. Some*
years ago I chanced to bear a sort of honorary relationship to
the distribution of its mail. The manifold and multiform
versions and perversions of the name so impressed me that I
began a record of them and in a period of perhaps eighteen
months I had a bonafide list of 86 distinct and separate Heph-
zibahs. In response to a request to furnish something for a

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verses

HEPHZIBAH WITH THE VARIATIONS.

Near Georgia’s Eastern boundary line,
Embow'ered in groves of oak and pine,
From city’s dust and din remote,
There lies a rural town of note.

Of note we mean not for its size.

Nor wealth that in its coffers lies,
Yet noted still and known to fame
For its peculiar much-spelled name.

It matters where or when

little

The place received its cognomen,

No name in old or modern days
Is spelled in half so many ways.

A postal friend whose inclinations

Leads him to note these variations,
Has more than eighty on his list
In which the name was spelled and missed. —
A few of these we quote below
The names capacity to show
With every varied transformation
To stir a mail clerk’s indignation.

There’s Hepsheber and Hephsibah

With sometimes “h” and sometimes “r”
And Hepicomb and Hexabee
And Hepsibagh with an extra “g.”

There’s Hepsiville and Hepsebell

.\nd Hepheibal with a single “1”
There’s Hephsabeth and Hcpsivar
Hephizibel, Hesphizibah.
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 There’s Hephisbar, Hepsebia,
Hexperherville and Hipsibah,
. There’s Hepsebal, Hepzibui
And Hepbestya knocked into pi.

There s Hepsidar by a son of Ham

That looks a little like Hepsidam,
And Hepsyrbur spelled with a “y”
That beats Bill Arp’s orthography.

But space would fail for me to tell

Of each and every awful “spell”
That has attacked our village name
And yet it lives on “all the same.”

And now if they will read with care

The Book of Kings and then Isaiah,
The scribling public near and far
May learn to spell it HEPH-ZI-BAH.

Our town began its having on the credit

corporate life

and two mercantile

side of its municipal ledger seven dwellings
emporiums cornmonly 'known as “general stores,” though
hardly of the “Department” type. On October 24th, 1907, it
reached its thirty-seventh birthday and as during these years
there have been exactly 37 additional residences of the Anglo-
Saxon persuasion erected within its limits, it would show an
average annual increase of one dwelling per annum. .If this
rate is maintained through the coming centuries it will not
require the talent of a “Philadelphia lawyer” nOr the aid of a
post-graduate course in higher mathematics to figure out the
comforting conclusion that if this old planet of ours can man-
age to steer clear of “the wreck of matter and the crush of
worlds” for the limited period of ten thousand years our town
will by that date have just reached the halfway station on its
pathway to the “metropolis” stage of its corporate existence.
My genial and clever friend, Jacob Denning, while on a
Masonic visit to our burgh some months ago, casually re-
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marked to me, “You have plenty of room for a town out here,’'
and the statement is eminently correct. Our capacity for ex-
pansion in a material way is only equalled by our inability to
measure up to the opportunities presented. With Augusta,
Waynesboro, Blythe, Belair and Gracewood lying from six to
eighteen miles away our “open door” for a “Greater Hcphzi-
bah” is practically limitless. The gifted and eccentric Rev. \\\
Watkins Hicks, D. D., in a sermon I chanced to hear, long
years ago referred in his characteristic way to “the ghost of
murdered opportunities,” that throng and haunt our pathway
from childhood to the grave. And so it may be that in the
unfilled spaces that lie along our public thoroughfares and on
the gleaming hilltops and through the shaded valleys that form
our broad domain as yet uncrowned by home or hearthstone,
these weird and wandering phantoms of the unseen world
are reveling today. The late Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, once a
loved and honored resident of our town, in a school comedy
written more than fifty years ago described Waynesboro, Ga.,
as being “very pleasantly situated on both sides of the Big
Road.”
Our little town has improved on its surburban neighbor,
by locating itself on both sides of two “Big Roads.” For
fifteen years of its early life its railway connections lay twelve
or fifteen miles away, but through the former courtesy of Col.
Mitchell, and the present grace of the Southern road, we are
bound by Augusta, Gibson, Sandersville, Ten-
ties of steel to
nille and all intermediate points, while our “Big Road” con-

nections cover practically the larger part of Xorth America.

Our commercial growth has hardly kept pace with our
advancement on other lines, though our mercantile establish-
ments have increased from two general stores to eight biisinc>.s
houses conducted on either general or special lines. The old
school comedy already referred to, contained the further state-
ment that the commercial activity of old time Waynesboro was
confined largely to the sale of “rum and red calico.” Wivile
our town is probably not amenable to either of the last named
charges an analysis oT its sales would probably reveal the fact
that coca cola was among ks leading articles of commerce.
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Our public utilities not yet turned over to public ownership
are a public gin and saw mill located near the center of the
town and as my friend Benjamin Franklin would say the
residents of that section “pay rather dearly for the whistle" in
the loss of their morning naps.
Our town has not only a corporate name but a corporate
government consisting of a board of commissioners, whose sole
duty seems to consist in being elected. -My old friend and col-
lege mate, Syd Lewis, of the Sparta Ishmaelite, once left upon
record the statement that the corporate authorities of the town
in which he then lived were known as a board of intendants.
but that the name was a misnomer, that they should have been
called a board of intenders, as they were always intending to
do something, but never did it. While our board may not be
connected with this old-time corporation by any ties of blood
they seem to be related by a sort of mental kinship. Their ,

summer vacation spreads over the entire calendar year. No

municipal problems vex their righteous souls. The teeming
undergrowth rears its head in tropical luxuriance over the wide
expanse of our beautiful (Broadway, intercepting the vision and
marring materially the charms of its Italian landscape. The
emerald grass canonized and glorified by the gifted pen of
John J. Ingalls, weaves in the summer sunshine its glistening-
carpet across our sidewalks, compelling lovelorn swain and
maiden to traverse their meandering way in single Indian file.
Tortuous gullies seam our footpaths, widening and deepening
with every falling rain and no official hand is there to stay them
in their course, for the Board is sleeping the sleep of the just
with never a thought of the seaming gulf or the green and
growing grass.
Our professional assets consist of one attorney at law,
two M. D.’s of the Allopathic persuasion, one Homeopathist
and one of no particular school of medicine, who engineers a
furniture infirmary where chairs, tables and other household
goods sufiFering from nervous or other prostration are nused
back to their pristine health and strength. Our sole and single
attorney, who is not likely to remain "single" always, varies
his professional duties by conducting for the benefit of the

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public a private express line on the Augusta Southern road.
For a score of years he has carried on this delightfully enter-
taining work “without the fear of punishment or the slightest
hope of reward.” A personal witness of his constantly recur-
ring and never-ending trials and tribulations along this line 1
have felt that his patient endurance of the affliction for all
these years deserved some recognition, and I have tried to
voice such feeling in the following verses:

THE HEPHZIBAH EXPRESS

I have dealt with the “Southern” and “Adams” too.
But in all the years of a long life through
I have met with none either near or far

Like the daily express to Hephzi-bah.

Ithas no office of brick or stones

And its only agent is Col. Jones,

Who for possibly twenty years or less

Has run for the public a private express.

On the evening train he sits or stands,

With his patient arms and his patient hands,
While porters are handing him bundles galore.
From millinery, grocery and dry goods store.

“Will you kindly take this package.” they say,

“Out to Mrs. B. or Mrs. A?”
And they heap them up till the car seat groans.
All labeled, “In care of Col. Jones.”

And the “Col.” smiles with a faraway smile.

As he looks at the constantly growing pile.
And thinks of a winter that has no rain.
And a heaven unblessed with a “package” train.
The days may come and the days may go,
But summer’s heat and in winter’s snow.
in
Unless there’s a wreck on the curving rails.
The “Package” business never fails.

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 No fee is charged for the service given,
And he has but one day’s rest in seven,
And I wonder sometimes when his work is done
And his final journey has begun,
Who’ll take his place on the “Hephzibah run.”

And again sometimes I can but fear,

When the summons comes he will seem to hear,

As he launches out on the silent sea,
“Won’t you take this package to Heaven for me?”

Ah, well, perhaps in the by and by,

When he lives in the realms beyond the sky.
Of the stars that are given his crown to bless.
One will be labeled “The Jones Express.”

Our town like all progressive communities has a surburban

resort, whose character and color are possibly influenced by
the prevailing denominational tint in our population. It is our
natatorium, commonly known as “The Pool” where the
nymphs and naiads of the village sport and splash and catch
cold and redbugs through the long summer afternoons. The
trolley system, through which this resort is rendered accessible,
belongs as yet to the domain of what might properly be called
“speculation in futures,” but a one horse wagon line chape-
roned by one of the accommodating matrons of the village
furnishes free transportation to visitors and natives alike with-
out regard to educational or property qualifications. When
the mercury in the thermometer begins to cultivate a friendly
acquaintance with the freezing point and al fresco bathing
ceases to be one of the luxuries of life, a walk to the “Chalk
Bed” brings the flush of health to the cheeks and weariness to

the limbs, but this pastime is confined largely to the “frying

size” members community. As already intimated we
of the
also have a school, around which the town revolves as a sort
of horizontal “Ferris Wheel” or “Merry Go Round.” It is a
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high school two stories and a belfry. In its earlier life it
became ambitious and sought through legislative enactment
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tobecome the half of a college, with authority to confer degrees
upon its sweet girl graduates but not upon its boys. I chanced
through a scarcity in legislative timber to be a member of the
General Assembly when this ambition developed and was
asked to draft the necessary bill. While doing so, I became
puzzled to know what the degree was called. I had never had

the privilege or the pleasure of graduating at a female college

and I began to make inquiries. I applied first to my friend
Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., whose father for many years had
guided the destinies of a female college, but he was unable
to enlightenme. I then went to Hon. x\. O. Bacon, who had
spent his life under the shadow of the Wesleyan Female Col-
lege at ^lacon, but he pleaded similar ignorance. I then
sought out my friend Hon. iGarnett McMillian, a very gifted
man, whose early death after his election to Congress gave
Benjamin H. Hill the opportunity to enter the National
Forum and to floor James G. Blaine on the Andersonville
issue. When the inquiry was made i\Ir. McMillan said. “W'ell
let’s see. The first degree in a male college is Bachelor of
Arts. By parity of reasoning the first in a female college
would be 'Old Alaid of Arts.’ Try But being a bachelor
that.”
myself, not only of Arts but otherwise at that date and unwil-
ling to lower my rating with the fair sex. I failed to try it.
In evidence of the fact that the pupils of our school do
their own thinking and refuse to accept the dictum of any
textbook without personal investigation as to its correctness,
the following incident is given. Riding many years ago with
a primary member of the institution, whose childish intellect
had just been brought into maiden contact with the mysteries
and miseries of prjmar>' Geography he said to me. “There’s
something in that book I don’t understand.” “W'hat is it.'”
I asked. “Well it says that there is three times as much water

as there is land, and I don’t know how to believe it.” And

then pausing for a moment with a far-away look in his eyes,
he continued, “But if you take papa’s mill pond and all the
creeks, maybe its true.” IMy little friend has probably numd
many other mysteries lying along his pathway since that day.
but he has a habit of finding some solution and he has grown
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up to cultivated, courteous and useful Christian manhood, an
honor to the school and the community in which he lives. He
has come into personal contact with the ‘‘Big- Pond” and the
little inland lake that turned his father’s mill wheel does not

cut as much ice nor as much water either as it did in his

childish fancy.
Our town has a hotel, which through no fault of its present
owner but through some idiosyncrasy of its original projector
consists largely of veranda. It is not a “House of Seven
Gables” but it is a house of many stories, most of them being
of drummer origin.
-Of course our town has a postoffice. No progressive
municipality could get along very well without that important
adjunct to its official machinery. Located in elbow touch with
the railway station it is the Mecca towards which the footsteps
of our population “without regard to race, color or previous
condition of servitude” tend at morning and afternoon train-
time, some on account of the mail, some on account of the
female and some to see the train, which has paid us its daily
visits for more than a score of years, but has never lost its
interest to our rustic eyes. Our postoffice is presided over by
a charming and comely maiden whose official service has been
embalmed by some “inglorious Milton” in the following verse

“And now com_es Miss Alva of Post Office fame,

.Whose face at the window is a picture in frame.
Whose labors have given her a patience immense.
And whose patrons supply her with plenty of sense (cents').

Yet I fear when her life work is ended for aye,

And she stands at the gate in the “Sweet Bye and Bye,”
St. Peter will say when she wants to go through.
Pm afraid on your life there’s some postage that’s due.”

And now pleasantry aside, we have a real nice town whose

rounded limits hold a clever, intelligent, generous and hospit-
able people. The moral needs of the community are supplied
by two handsome village churches, served by able and faithful
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has won a wide reputation in this and adjoining counties and
gives promise of added and increased usefulness in the years
to come. Crowning an elevated plateau, three hundred feet
and more above the level of Augusta, our largest suburb, the
ozone in our pure pine-laden air filters through our ancient
forest trees bringing the glow of health to pale and fever-
wasted life and joy and gladness to the hearts of all. We have
as yet no canal, no “water works” and no electric lights save
in the bonnie glint and gleam of our fair maiden’s eyes. Hut
some day these will come and then we’ll stand before the world
and say, this is a town.
The goodly men who brought it into being, J. H. T. and
W. L. Kilpatrick, William H. and James J. Davis, ^latthew J..
J., Frank and Dr. E. R. Carswell, and others of their kind, have
years ago been laid unto their fathers, but the fragrance of
their gentle, generous lives and the influence for good they
wrought in this community still lingers in our midst, a living
benediction, for truth and virtue and patient loyalty .to duty
never yet have died.
And now in winding up this little story, this ringing out
the old and ringing in the new, this Hail and Farewell
! I do!

not know that I can give it better or more fitting ending than
in the closing words of a little tribute my memory laden pen
once tried to pay to old-time Brothersville, my Lost .-\rcadia,

and here they are :

“Since those old days this modern Eden has in the passing
years, like all things human, suflfered from chance and change.
Time the tomb-builder, has not been idle and his remorseless
fingers have wrought within its limits some saddening meta-
morphoses. The old-time worthies, whose manly forms once
graced its sylvan shades, have long since gone to dust, and
their descendants called by the tyranny of changed conditions
to other scenes have scattered far and wide. The fair colonial
homes they built and from whose hospitable boards they
,

“scattered plenty o’er a smiling land.” are standing yet, but

their capacious halls and shaded groves, with few exceptions,
now echo to the tread of strangers. The old school ground
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hood now feels the plough-share’s cruel touch, and corn and
cotton grow and bloom and fruit and die on soil made sacred
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were wont to gather on quiet Sabbath mornings to offer prayer

and praise and under whose sacred shadow their dead were
laid away, now lifts its spire toward heaven within the pre-
cincts of a near-by modern town, while their City of the Dead
lies in pathetic solitude save only when its sacred broken
soil is

to receive another silent tenant to bosom. its Even the sough-

ing pines stirre;.d by the autumn winds yield to the listening
ear a sadder music than of yore for change “dark, stern, all
pitiless” is written everywhere.
But no cloud is said to float upon the ambient air but has
its silver lining, and the picture I have drawn has too its fairer

side, its light as well as shadow. Nearby the limits of our pris-
tine village a railway line has .laid its shining bars, and from
dhe ashes of the old the new has sprung, for Hephzibah has
come and come to stay. The name is not so typical perhaps
nor so euphonious as that its predecessor bore, and may be
worrying to those who write it because of its phenomenal
capacity for being spelled amiss, but barring this misfortune
and in spite of it I trust the coming years may find amid its
groves of oak and pine, in lieu of that fair Eden we have lost,
another Paradise Regained.

(THE END)

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