The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 14, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
Historic Lancaster.
What a Visiting Editor saw
on the Occasion of his Trip
to Fork Hill and Bethlehem,
Two of Rev. R. J.
Blackmon's Churches.
The Rev. V. I Masters, editor
of the Baptist Tress, published
in Greenwood, 6. O., who recently
pieached lor Rev. R J. Blackmon
at Fork JULi 1 i and Bethlehem,
this county, in accordance with
an lOuncement previously made
m '1 he News, gives, in part, the
following account in his excellent
journal ot his visit to Lancaster:
Yesterday I was with Pastor
K. J. rJIackmon at rork Hill and
Bettilehem churches. And if
wa> a lovely, very agreeable day,
with large and interesting congregations
at the churches. Fork
Ilili church is about a hundred
yenrs of age and has about 3"0
mem?bers. It stands, a lovely
building seating 600, in a stately
grove of native forest of oak
sprinkled with pine, on the brow
of a ridge, lor 300 yards along
llie crest of which exleuils by the
roadside the cemetery where the
great great grand parents of the
present generation were buried
long ago. The wind sings its
eternal song ainid the pine tops
and oaks and on Sunday the birds
were rehearsing for their sum
mer-long choral.
WHERE RESTS ONE REVERED
Down within a hundred steps
r\f ilia nroaonl till i Idi itCT. flllilp
W1 ' |/lVOVMV ^ ~ ? 1
near 1 lie place where the pulpit
stood of the old building no gone,
lies buried the body of the lam
ented and long-revered John S.
Croxton, who died May 24, J 899,
and was 'or many years there an
honored pastor of the Fork Hill
church. Lie was born in 1831
and ordained to preach in 1858.
His long career of pastoral service
was in the Moriah association,
which is the district organization
ot the Baptist churches of
Lancaster county. lie was the
modera'or ot the association from
1874 till his death.
A substantial mon ument
marks his resting place and a
fresh mound of earth on which
fresh flowers from loving hands
were lying, inarms wnere was
placed at bis sole but two months
ajio her who had been his helpmate
through a long life.
ROAD GEOUOE WASHINGTON SUK
VEYED.
Sunday afternoon we drove
northeast,?Brot her Black moil
anil I,?to Bethlehem church,
where a pleasant service was
held. In going we drove along
a historic road. It is tire old road
from Chailotte to Camden, and
thence to Columbia and Charleston.
It was surveyed by George
Washington, when lie was scrying
the government before his
national and age-long promi
nonce c'imc. Tradition, Blackroon
says, has it that Washington
walked the mail and made the
survey.
It was well surveyed. It is a
hilly country, but this road avoids
anything like a heavy grade. By
the way, the descendants might
keep up the historic highway
better without being accused of
being proud, expensive or overparticular.
Blackmon drives a
spirited horse, and the road is
beset with unsu-pjeted pits an 1
snares, sale only lor passage at
ox pace.
ALLANT RT VOLUTION AH Y SOLDI JCHS
RKST HERE.
By tlie roadside in the edge of
a lonely forest near ? farm-house
stands a monument about which
every young Carolian should
know, and about which many do
not know. It is a diaft of marble
rising len feet,two feet square
where it joins the pedestal. It
commenierates the dastardly he
havior of the English colonel,
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at this point either killed or
wounded nearly the entire command
of Col. Abraham Buford,
atler the latter had surrendered.
A space thirty five feet long
and eight feet across is enclosed
with heaped flint stones, nearly
white, stretching away lrom the
monument. Here rest the bodies
of 84 gallant revolutionary soldiers.
But let the marble shatt tell
the story. Beginning on the
south tide, continued on the east
and ending ou the north, is the
following inscription :
INSCRIBED ON TI1K MARBLE SHAFT.
''Erected to the memory and
in honor of the brave and patriotic
American soldiers who fell
in the battle which occurred at
this place on the 291h of May,
1780. between Col. Abraham
Buford, who commanded a regiment
of 350 Virginians, and Col.
Tarleton of the British army,
with 350 cavalry and a like num
her of infantry.
"Nearly the entire command of
Col. Buford were either killed or
wounded and 84 gallant soldiers
are buried in this grave. They
left their homes for the relief of
Charleston, but hearing at Cam
den of the surrender of that city,
wese returning. Here their lives
were ended in the service of
their country.
"The cruelty and the barbarous
massacre committed on this occasion
by Tarleton and his command
after the surrender of Col
Buford and tiis regiment, origi
nated the American war cry :
Remembe " T irleton.'
' A British historion confesses
ot this battle that, 'The virtuo o!
humanity was totally forgot.' "
Why do not we South Carolinians
do more to fasten in the
minds of posterity the gallant
and chivalrous deeds ot our dis
languished past. For heroism,
courage and patriotism the Carolinians
of the oklen time had no
superiors and few equals. This
was abundantly proven on many
a ha'tie field, and yet the school
children scarcely know that seor
es of significant revolutionary
engagements were 011 Carolinians.
Hut every one ot them
knows <if a certain Hunker Hill
and looks in his school history a'
the inevitable picture of the
splendid marble shaft which on
Massachusetts sod properly ssg
nalizcs this engagement of the
war which won American independence.
Heroism and gallantry are yet
alive in Carolina, hut if anything
'could make us believe the contrary,
it is the seemingly slug
gish indifference ol the people to
Carolina's glorious past Cannot
the State Historical association
do something to arouse a
popular interest in the chivalrous,
patriotic deeds of the an
ceutors in the long ago? Tlie jr=
Daughters ol the Revolution have
clone something, and should ? O [H
Tnore. It is a reflection on the
people ot our Sta'e that with so A.
much ot inspiring history they
-eem to know and c<re very li'tie
about it. Theseltish interests
ot the hour, the passions ot pat
tisau stii:e, seeiu to possess the
hody politic, and a man who
would advocate in the legislature
the proper marking and protect
ing of the scores ot places on our y,
soil where American histoiy was
made would presumably be con- oi
sidered by his confreres a freak.
Such ailvocac}' would not be a in
vote getter, for the ordinary
voter knows and cares nothing
about it. "=
If it is too gloomy a picture I j"
have drawn, I wish some one
would show inc. I will herald
his melioristic presentation gladly
and as far as I can.
AT BET1ILEH?M AND HOMEWARD.
I have been betrayed from ray
intended story. At Bethlehem,
a church in which some good
Baptists are sandwiched between
a deal of amiable circumambient
Methodism, I met among others.
Brother E B. Lingle, the esteemed
moderator of the Moriah as
sociation, and a thorough-going
Baptist and splendid man.
We rode back home, glad the
Sunday preacher toil was over,
cogitating along the way to the
tune of the wind in the pines
how Georcre Washington survey ..
n n ?
ed thai road long ago, wonder- "==
ing if lie really did survey it, and SI!
if we could by rights hold him
responsible when a wheel all un ffl
announced sunk into sudden S
quagmire, jolting the dignity w
??ut of us and lifting to clothing
and face moistened mother earth, fM
wholesome no doubt, but unde ^
sired as a skin-emollient. wd
Brother Blackmon is a tine ^
man and is doing fine work. He 0
has five churches,?Fork Ili'l Ij
Flint Ridge, Bethlehem, Taxa
haw, Charlesboro,?and they are
all developing under his vigorous
leadership. lie is a son of Broth
er J. 8. Blackmon and has six
brothers and tour sisters, all es
teemed and useful members of
society.
Sheep Notes.
A ewe led largely on corn is
liable to have a weak lamb and
milk fever.
Make mutton the main object,
but put as much wool on the
hank of sheen sis nossihle.
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Unless you feed enough to visibly
increase wool and tlesh,
your money is wasted, as far as
profit is concerned.
Sheep with wet leet,deteriorate
very rapidly, henco, troin this on,
care should be taken to use plenty
ot dry bedding in the yards.
Dropping ot the wool, due to
an inflammatory condition of tin
skin, is a certain result of moldy
or smutty loddcr. ^
Exercise is absolutely necessa- J
r/ on the part ot the dam for the 2
proper development of the young a
she carries; this applies to the
ewe as well as other classes ot
stock. a?
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When an ewe Irom any cause '*
tp
loses her lamb, she may he put
in n separate pen and used as a A
wet nurse to help out lambs r?j
that are short. IV
nO secure the biggest crops of corn. .
fertilizers must be used liberally,
pply at least 500 pounds to the acre?with
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