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w '1 up, Sir riM and ~. PUBLISHED SEMI-\VEEKLY. WINNSBORO' S. C.) TUESDAY, JUNE 'a, 1901. ESTABLISHED 1844. WTO -Are Sli~u THIS Welt Piques, W Dimity Cords, Fancy Colored Lawns, Cc Swiss, India Linen Longcloth, Irish Lir bleached and unbleat Lawns, Victoria La Leno Stripes, Mer< Striped Lawns, Sw Stripes, Sea bland Tuckings, Persian I White Puffings, Whit Allover Embroiderie Figured Pongre, M great many other r find elsewhere. WE CAN, WE WILL, V EST VALUE F1 Come to us if you u of your dollar develo] D. V.WE EDERIN'TON FAIILY. (From Ederington's His tory) Inasmuch as it is expect( t I hat the author of a work shou a some degree be known to i ieAers, either personally 4 y'- wiuadao sketch a short account of n fa mily As to my ancestry, Te ut meagre knowledge, Su< as I recollect from my fathei detail and one or two other sou ces. My paternal grandfathe Wm. Ederington, emigrated fro: Wales in the early settlement Virginia and located in what w afterwards called King Goorl county, later be removed to Sta ford county. He married a Heh He, or she was related to t] Metcalfs, Fitz Hughs, and oth distinguished families, I ha' heard my father, as well as n ~'Virginia correspondent stat whose letters were destroyed wil my dwelling in February, 186 by Sherman's army. Our fami furnished two governors f< Kentucky, Governors Helm at Metcalf. My grandfather, as heard my father say, was a met her of the House of Burgesses : Virginia, before the Revolutional War. He rode to South CJar< lina before the war and surveye and entered a large tract of lar on Ro~ck Creek, Fairfield Count; near Broad River, returned i Virginia, and not long afterwari he died. My grandmother r< moved shortly after his deat with several of her sons at daughters and settled on th tract in South Carolina. My p; tornal uncles were all engaged the Revolutionary War, my fath, being the youngest son, did n<4 engage in it until near its clos I heard him say that he volui teered at the age of sixteen und< Capt. Charnal Durham and e: camped at Four Holes for son > time awaiting orders, bat so< after Sir Henry Clinton evacuate Charleston and the corps wi disbanded and the soldiers a left for their homes and we: nearly starved before they reacht their destination, being afraid1 call at any house or allow ther selves to be seen, the counti * through which they had to pal being infected with tories. Pea< was soon after declared. Thr< of my uncles remained in Vi ginia until after the war, th< movcd to South Carolina a1 settled on the land their fath< -; had bought. My uncle Jam, Ederington remained only a f years, then moved to Kentuel and many years after to Missis ippi and there died, upwards of hundred years old. My fath -was the only one of five brothe WVEEZK. ite Mulls, Colored Mulls, Corduroy, Dimity Specks, lored Organdies, Dotted , Satin Plaids, English ens, Butcher's Linens, in hed, Black Embroidered wns, French Organdies, :erized Corduroy, Satin iss Mulls, Leno Crincle Batiste, Black Fancies. ,.ayns, Plain Nainsooks, e an.I Black Allover Laces, s, Black Spangled Nets, trcerized Sateens, and a ovelties that you will not TE DO GIVE THE GREAT )R YOUR MONEY. ant the purchasing power ed to the fullest extent. ilker & Co. who remained on the old home ;stead, and his grandson, A. L. Ederingtonis now living there. d; My grandmother married a second d time during the Revolution John ;s Davis from York District and )r her eldest' daughter married his o I son, James Davis, who lived near y Monticello and died there in 1822. I One of my aunts married Ephraim - ,h Lyles, son of Ephraim, the first a settler, near Lyles' Ford, another -- aunt married Purney and another r, a McManus. Two of my uncles n married in Virginia, the oth4ers in >f this State. My fathe iiarried s Frances Crosswhite of Newberry e District. Her mother was a f- widow when she left Culpepper a. County, Virginia, and moved to e South Carolina before the Revo- t r lutionary War and settled on t e Little River in Newberry county. y She afterward married George , Griffin who moved on Broad 3 hRiver near Ashford's Ferry where ' , both died. My father moved to ~ y a plantation he bought for my I r brother, but exchanged his old I d hemestead for it in 1821, and died f I there en Beaver Creek where hisr -remains are interred. He died I n in June, 1824, aged sixty years. ' y His small plantation was devised I - to me after the death of my I d mother, but she allowed me to f d sell it and I bought land of Maj. 8 , Thos. Lyles in 1827 and we move d 1 o to it, where she died April, 1829, s at the age of sixty-two. My I -eldest brother, Jesse, married I i, Elizabeth Webb in 1810, an esti- 1 d mable and pious lady. He and fi s she both died in 1863. Their l1 - eldest son, Win. H. Ederington I n married in Mssissippi, lived in r Louisiana and after the late war, e t died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, v . of yellow fever in 1881. He had I - been a wealthy planter, had two I r sons, William and Henry Clay, t - the latter now living in Fort 1: e Worth, Texas, a wealthy banker. s n Jas. F. Ederington, my brother's 1 d Fecond son, is also living in Fortt Ls Worth a dealer in landed estate. ( l11 Henry C. has a family but James I e F. never married. Robert J., hisi d third son, died in Texas since I o the war and was never married. v - Harrison E., his fourth son, died r y in Waco. Texas, about 1850. My f a brother John moved to Kentucky c e about 181~3 and married and died r e there. My brother Francis never r - married, he died about 1832 ini n Union county. My eldest sister, I d Mildred, married William Fant f r: in 1817 and moved to Ui.mon . E county in 1821. He died in 1854,v w she afterwards lived in Fairfield I v with her son Dr. F. H. Fant and - died there in 1886 at the advanced a age of ninety-nine. Her oldest er son, 0. H. P. Fant, is living in merchant. He married Lizzie Jones, an intelligent and estima ble lady. They have five children alive, two married. The eldest married a wealthy Kentuckian, Win. Arnold, who is living near Richmond, Kentucky, and has but one child, a promising daugh ter. The second daughter, Jessie, married Dr. Jas. K. Gilder, of Newberry, an intelligent gentle man and worthy citizen of that town. F. W. Fant, the eldest son, married in Kentucky. He is a lawyer and settled in Spartan burg," S. C. The other two sons, John and Willie, are young, the former is in his father's store in Newberry, the latter at school in Spartanburg. Dr. F. M. E. Fant was born in Union, S. C., prac ticed medicine successfully for many years and moved in 1867 to the place where I had been burnt out by the yankees. He still follows his avocation and is be ides a good practical planter. Dr. Sam Fant, my sister's third ion, practiced medicine several years in Union and Laurens coun ties, he moved to Newberry not long after our civil war and was mgaged in the drug business un il his death, October 8th, 1886. [n 1871 he married Fannie Lyles, ;randdaughter 'of Maj. Ephraim Lyles, of Newberry, an intellec :ual and estimable lady. They lave four promising children, ;hree daughters and a son. My second sister, Elizabeth, married Wm. Vance, of Laurens county, n 1820. He lived and died near \ilton. He was industrious, ionest and economical, a success ul planter and worthy citizen. Ie died about 1837, leaving nine hildren, quite a charge for my ister, but she brought them up o labor and taught them lessons )f morality and economy. She noved to Mississippi about the rar 19-57 and died there a few rears afterwards. He- ,children noved to the west also, except he youngest, Susan, who married lichard Satterwhite and lived in ewberry, where she died since he war. Carr E' Vance's only laughter, Mrs. Kinard, died in ewberry county in 1885. She vas an estimable lady and left an >nly son, who is at school in ewberry. One of her brothers, . K., is on the farm she left, the >ther, Carr E., is living in Texas. dy third sister, Sallie, married )avid Vance and lived near Mil on, Laurens county, and died here in 1832. She left four sons, 11 are now dead except the eldest, losborough, who is living in 3ossier Parish, La.; he never aarried. Another son, White ield, lived and died in the same arish in La. He married twice, oth times Gilmers. He died a ew years ago, leaving two child en I believe. The reader will ardon this lengthy mention of ay family I hope, when I assure uim that it is not intended so auch for the general reader as or my own relatives. I will now ive a little sketch of my own ife. I was b~orn at my father's old omestead on Rock Ci eek in airfield county, S. C., February th, 1803. I was sent to old eld school masters, where I arned but little until 1816 when was sent to Jas. R. Wood, of ewberry county, who was an ificient teacher. I afterwards ent to him in Monticello and oarded with him, intending to irepare myself for a teacher of le English branches. I returned ome at the end of the year and ecured a school worth 0300 and oard. I was dissuaded from his enterprise by my friends, Dr. eo. B. Pearson and Dr. Harris, romising to make a M. D. of me I would attend Mr. Hodges' atin school about ten months, hich I did in 1822, but after I eturned I had to attend to my ather's farm, which required all f my time and care. I have ever had cause to regret not eading and practicing the heal g art, but I would have done so Lad I had the means. As I be ure stated, my father soon after iedl and I moved in 1827 to here I am now living and en ;aged in a mercantile enterprise ith John Smith as partner, and iso ran a farm. John Smith oon after died; he was an esti nable, high-toned gentleman rom he Wateree settlement; he had formerly been a partner in a store with Maj. Thomas Lyles. My school and class-mates at the Monticello school in 1822, when I took my first course in Latin, were John P. Hutchinson, Daniel Dansby and Franklin Davis. The old course of Latin was a tardy one, compared with the present. I could almost have gone through with all of the classics in ten months in the way Latin is now taught. I studied assiduously, determined to leave my class as soon as possible, which I did and entered the next highest with stadents who had been sonie two and some three years in that b.udv. I had as class-mates: 'Win. B. Means, Robert Meins, Jas. B. Davis, Wm. K. Davis and C. De Graffenreid. I recited with these until October and said an extra lesson every morning in Cicero. These, together with Wm. M. Myers, Thos. B. Woodward, Jos. A. Woodward, Cullen Powell, John H..Means and myself were boarding with Col. Jonathan Davis, and our sleeping apart ments was in his old store-house recently fitted up for that pur pose. Being the greater part of the time from under the obseiva tion of our host and tutor, the reader may well imagine we had a nice time of it, yet the larger number of us were quite studious. This was the first school, strange as it may appear, in which aiy of' us studied geography, although several of the students were fair Greek scholars. Our tutor, Mr. Hodges, a grada-te of the South Carolina College, urged us to the importance of geogr.tphy and wrote to Columbia for Cammings' geography and atlas for us, a small book and atlas that: would be laughed at by the sturIent of the present day. The maps were not colored; I borrowed ia paint box and painted mine, the only colored one in school. iSilas H. Heller, afterwards a la and member to our legisl' was also one n, mr1 advanced in the classics. was from Newberry countv; boarded with Mr. P1hilip Plarson, Sr. I must not forget\ an un pleasant obstacle to our progress, viz.: the Bible lesson; we of our own accord, recited Bible lessons on Sunday evenings. Mr. Hodges after a while neglected to come, and wished to hear the recita tions on Monday mornings. We rebelled against that and he sus pended us for two weeks. At the expiration of the given time only two returned to his school, S. H. Heller and myself; we came back n our own terms, viz., to drop he Bible lesson on Monday morn ngs. There were seven students ho rebelled against the Bible essons, and the five who did not eturn caused tihe school to wvane and no doubt Mr. Hodges regret ed the rash course he adopted.1 He was a native of Abbeville :ounty, a contemporary of J. C. alhoun, and I think they were n the South Carolina College ogether. Mr. Hodges afterwards ecame an eminent Baptist reacher. I closed my mercan ile life in 1840 and bought land n Broad river and ( o aducte l wo farms until 1867, when I had ecome too feeble from old age to nanage free labor, and sold both lantations to my nephew, Dr. . M. Fant, to whom I was in ebt. I then taught free schools mtil 1881 when I was compelled rom debility to discontinue. I gain ask pardon of the reader or trespassing on his patience on giving the uninteresting history f my long life. It has been a -gged journey to pass througlh, nore so in consequence of ill ealth in my early and middle ife, wvhich I give as an excuse for ever having married. Thiere are no remarkable char cteristics in our family to notice; s a general tiling we are indus rious, honest, candid and impa ient. Some of the descendants f the stock who emigrated from Virginia are physicians, and only me lawyer. I have never known oe of the family to run for office; vhen I was a member of the Buckhead troop of cavalry, I was he only exception. A vacancy ocurred for cornetist, and I found y name posted on the 01ld Buck ead store for that office, without onsultation with me. I was electe by a nearly unanimous EXAMINE M Rock Hill Bu --BEFORE C.n get you a good mule "Ben," the short-horn bull, summer. Three dollars for th< Send us yoi postal card take pleasur you, as soon - new illustrat Tho 'W ish~ Noc] Hartsvill WA SIL for 3, Eve and' =ed W', W ote, receivig 'eVeuLy out 01 eventy-three. 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