Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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; A Bit of Local History C<?niinued from Page Two. can* to quarrel with the goven m? lit, but it was quite diilYrei wish the Scotch-Irish, who ha cocue to Carolina because of the church, and they based the 8<><'ial and civil system on church polity of their own. The had a church in 1754, and pel haps sooner. McCrady says tin if tne old St. Philips Church wt a uart of the Constitution i South Carolina as Westnnnste Abbey was of the British Coi Stitution, so around ' Old W?> haw Church," in LancasterCoui ty, the 'first, church above ()i angeburg, was formed the settlr incut which guve tone an thought to the whole upper par of the State. The little Jos churc had nothing of an ecclesiastic* appearance. The iuaide was uti ceiled, unpainted, and uncushior ed, with straight-back pews an rough Sunday School bonchei and a cdip was laid against th door to keep it from blowin open. ''And when a strange stands in the church yard anion the graves, he Iisb a feeling o one who conies to the burin place of a race now extinct. There are stones in this grave yard so old that every trace o the inscription is lost,upon man emit.)* nf arms were once ensrrav ed: one tomb bears the dat 1754, and several are dated 1S0( Among the Scotch-Irish wh settled here in 1765, were th Jacksons. They came by way o Charleston, and hurried to th home of Mrs. Jackson's sistei Mrs. George McCamie. Andrev Jackson, Sr., "took up a claim on Twelve Mile Creek, in what i now Union County, N. C., tei miles from Monroe and eigh miles from the Waxhaws. Durinj the next year he seemed to pros per, but before he had made i comfortable home tie died slid denly in March, 1767, in his twen ty-ninth year. The burial of Andrew Jackson Sr., comes to us as tradition whirl has been preserved and treasure! tlia /\l/loat i \\ Q \ \ i f u ti f a /if t U Waxhaws, and told by them as 1 they were lending you some ol< relic of the Jackson family.? While tradition may have addei some to the telling of thin burial yet we have it from one of th oldest inhabitants, who got hi information from Mr.Reece Mas sey. The friends and relatives fror Waxhaw came and prepared th body for burial, and then mad ready for the midnight wako.The company was regaled wit good cheer, of which whiskey wa the most important, and the nigh ended in a noisv and almost riot ous demonstration. Mr. Masse saitl that the corpse came in fo his share, too. Early the nex morning they started through th woods to Waxhaw Church, wit the corpse on a sled, which wa drawn by a mule. Several time the procession stopped to drin mnr < whigkav Whfii IIipl' i-u m to Waxhaw Creek, the driver ha to po.lip the stream Rome distant* to find a suitable ford. The part was in a hilarious humor an when they heard I*at, the drivei calling out that he had crosser they started out for a frolic, l'a fearing that he would be left i the woods with the corpse, trie to overraKe tnem. w nen necam in Right of the others, they notice that the sled was bouncing, an calling to I'at to halt, they foun that he had lost the corpse. Thi gave the gay party somethin | serious to think of, hs thev !>?- ??? back the bushes on the roadside for two miles, and found the _ corpse on the bank of the creek, with face downward. This mude them more quiet,and they carried ,j the body to Wax haw Church yard, where now a few stones ,, mark the grave. n After the burial, Mrs. Jackson ,, went to her sister, Mrs. McCamie, r. and it. was in this home, tw > weeks later, that Andrew Jack l8 son, Jr., was born. Perhaps, he ,1 owed less to birthright than anv ,r other great man iu all history.? All that is left of the MoCamie cabin now is a pile of rocks, over, grown with weeds and bushes.-At the time of Jackson'B birth. , tiie exact boundary between (j North and South Carolina was not t tixed, but the land 011 which the h McCamie house stood was under (j the unquestioned jurisdiction of South Carolina. But soon after 11 1 A.: i 1 i uiy Huupuuu ui iiit? reuerHi \yoii* stitution, in 17S'J, the boundary line between the two States was e straightened by John Floyd, and p by this survey the McCamie cabin r was located eighty rods north of p the South Carolina line, in what was then made Mecklenburg, but now Uuiou County, N. C. Mr. v Rodman, of Waxhaw station, owns this birth-nlace now. and he f has olFered it with one acre of land to the Daughters of the American Revolution, on condie tion that they build a monument j on the house site. Having accepted the offer, they have put an n iron fence around it and will prov bably erect a monument soon. Within a thirty mile square, e including the Waxhaws, of which ' a small portion is in North Caro ^ hna, much of the history of our country centers. Here, the Meeks lenburg Declaration of Indepen11 deuce was drawn up one year 1 ahead of that of Philadelphia; * here the battle of King's Mountain was fought and the tide of the Revolution in the South was turned ; here is the birth-place of the great victor of New Orleans, and one of the most widely re'? spected Americans; and from ti nere came a group or men wno 1 have used more constructive powe er than any other group on the t American continent. :1 Patrick Calhoun first settled - here, then went to Abbeville il county, but after the Long Cane I, Massacre he came back to the e Waxhaws, where he married Miss s Craighead ; after her death, going i* back to Abbeville, he married Miss Caldwe)', the mother of our n great statesman. In the Waxe haws, Andrew Pickens met liee becca Calhoun, whom he married. _ From here came William H I, Crawford, who divided Calhoun's s votes for the presidency, in 1824. I William Richardson Davie, a soldier who covered Uates'retreat y from Camden with honor, who became Governor of North Caro . una, Minister to France, and . founder of the University of I, Nortli Carolina, grew to manhood s in this old parish; and tiring of M honors in later years, he canie |< back to spend his last days in his old Ik me, Trivoli, facing the Ca (J t.iwba River, and to he hurled in WhxIiuw Church yard. Some of y the other great men whose first <t homes were in the Wuvnawu r. wurt-: S'ephen 1). Milier, jurist, Governor of South Carolina and tt United States Senntor ; J. Marion m Si trims, the greatest surgeon of d his time; William Smith, Judge e on the State bench, United States d Senator, was twice voted for as d Vice President in the electoral d college; Dr. John Drown, one of is the first professors of South Carog lina College ; Dr. J as. H. Thorn wi ll, iin eminent pre ?< ? r aii' orator, ami President 1 Snuti Carolina College; and across the North Carolina line, J*s. K Polk was born. From the Waxhaw*, thestScotch Irish Presbyterians havt spread all over the upper portion of South Car lira. These people were Ifltval and they ? xpeettd l lie King to he honest. The children were taught those principles which lay the foundation of good citizenship and which make great men and women. The mothers valued ail education as the moRt helpful thing that they could give their children, and they made many sacrifices, such as only a mother can make, that their eons and daughters might have good instruction. As soon as a neighborhood was settled, a preacher was employed, and soon a teacher. The school system was not de veloped, but it was the best that they couid do. The people sub scribed to the support of the school and if a man was not able to pay his part of the expenses, the other patrons paid it for him. The log cabin school house was low and about fourteen feet wide and twenty feet long, with a large fireplace in one end and punch eon seats for twenty or twenty five pupils. The minister was usually the teacher. The k'pub lie reader" was of first importance in the curriculum. In 1776, the authority and power was given to Dr. Humphreys to found an academy which grew for many years after the Revolution. The newspaper supply was one small folio a week from Charles ton, anil a bundle of papers from Philadelphia once a month. O ? of these Philadelphia papers containing the Declaration of Inde pendence,came to theWaxhaws in Auguptot 1779, anil Audrew Jack son used to boast of having been selected to read the Declaration to forty patriots in front of his Uncle Crawford's store. The people were almost unanimously Whigs, and the few who were not, were the first settlers. For some time, the war was a thing that they read of, but it came home to them when nearly every one suffered because of the battle of Stono Ferry, June 20, 1776. Col. Davie's regiment wasin the thickest of this battle. One of the bloodiest scenes of the | war was in the Waxhaws, when Tarleton rushed upon Col. Bu ford, .vhile unprepared, and un armed men were hewed to pieces. This was a charge of which the British have justly been asham ed. "It was a cold blooded massacre, and Tarletou's quarter became a proverb for wholesale cruelty." The wounded were taken to the church, which was turned into a hospital. A few of the women staid to nurse the soldiers and the others fled. ( V?r ii mi u 111 u' ormu pumnarl ilu-oii i miles from Lancaster town, near the Bob Crockett plantation, and from tins point they plundered the country, and before they left thev burnt the church. The soldiers came from the war and found their farms ruined and all of their goods stolen. Since that time the Waxhaws have changed very much, but they are the Waxhaws still. Marie Craig, '07. /-M 1 A LiaDDage Giants I am again ready to till your orders for earl\ ami late varieties of cabbage plants 'Ihey are grown in the open air near salt water, ami wili stand hard cold without injury. Trices, $1.50 per 1,000. K^ecial prices ou larger lots. And special inducements to dealers. W. P. OA Kit, I Meggetts, 8,0. I I THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, LANCASTER,Tt f RESOURCES $200,000.00. 1 " T&! Carter, ACCOUNTS I J. D. Funderburk, of farmers, firms and * O. P. Heath, business men gener- m Chas. D. Jones, ally .. ? Ira B. Jones, M R. C. 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