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HUGUENOTS O T?he Little Band of Fi Settled at Bordeaux Houses Built foy Stai From thc Ab hi [This article was originally a con tribution to tho Charleston Neus and Courier and was published by that paper in its Sunday edition of Dec. 5, 1897. The name of tho author wan not given at that lime, but tho artiole was reproduced by order of tho Hu guenot Sooiety of South Carolina and included among tho papers published in No. 5 of the "Transactions" of the Society, with the information that it was written by Mr. John Altheus Johnson, of Washington City.J South Carolina has many places of historic interest upon which the pen of the novelist will some day throw a glamor. When the time shall come that the writer for our Southern coun try shall want charaotors for a story in which he may tell of qualities that give domestic joy and content, and that canoe life to ran smoothly into a green old age-an age crowned with thc glory of children's ohildren-he can turn to the soene of the old Hu guenot lifo at Bordeaux, in ?bbeviiie County, and, reviving a ohapter in history, have in abundance the mate rial for his story. The little band of French Protestants, two hundred and twelve in number, who Bottled at Bor deaux in 1764 and peopled the hills and valleys of the surrounding coun try, ronstttuto in themselves and their immediate descendants a community rioh with examples that show thc simple virtues which make charming tho individual and pleasant the homo life. In many of the members of that community all the functions of body and mind inhered to an extreme old agc and accompanied thc owners to thc brink of tho ?iver, and when thc Bumuionn Goally came to thc owners to pass over they went quietly, leav ing as a memory behind them a life tilled with charity and kindness. Mary Anns LoRoy, a little black eyed girl of 12 summers, was in the number winch thus crossed the Atlan tic in 1764 and faade their homo in Abbeville County. She married Joseph Bouobillon, who in. tho latter part of the Revolution commanded the company which the French settlers maintained for operation against tho Tories, by whom they were constantly harrassed. The colony was allowed from the beginning to do militia duty u??e? its own separate organization, and a company had been organized be fore leaving Charleston, where thc . little band had landed in April, 1764. 1 The little woman above named, after the death of Capt. Bouchillou, married Lazarus Oovio, who bore to his death j! the marks on "his leg of a gunshot wound received at the battle of Cow- ' pens. Lissomeness of body and viva- 1 city of spirit remained with that little ' woman until her death in November, ' 1839, and many were tho stories she J told to her listening grandchildren of * the depredations of the Tories and the 1 early adventures of tho Huguenot * fathers in Abbeville. Two of her ' grandchildren by her last marriage ' are the present James Louis Covin and Philip Augustus Covin, of Mount 1 Carmel, brothers, both now upwards * of 60 years of ago. Two other grand- ?J children by thc same marriage are the * venerable sisters, Mrs. Elisa Anno 1 Webb and Mrs. Lucinda Susan Foun- y Min, their maiden naroo being Thomp- * eon, both of whom, born in Abbeville ' . County, the one in January, 1812, the c ? other in April, 1813, having married, 1 went to Alabama, where they now c live, the one at Shorter, in Maoon c County, the other at Montgomery, 1 and are able eaoh of them as they sit in the quiet of a.serene sunset to re- i te i ve the homage that is so beautiful, < rendered at the hands of loving ohil- 1 dren and grandchildren. Another of tho grandchildren of the little woman above named, a grand child by her first marriage, was thc late Joseph Leonard BoucbiHoo, of Bordeaux, who died in September, 1889, and who before bis death was able to ennmerate over seventy per sons desoended from him and his wife, living in five different States, chil dren, grandchildren and great-grand children, and when tho wife, ber own days numbered, gaye directions as to the final hour and pronounoed ber blessings by name upon ohildren and grandchildren, many of whom were in -???U?? Sb?w?, li waa in tho samel bouse io wbiob her husband, sixty nine years before, bad brought ber as a brido-tho houeo in wbiob her ohil dren bad been born, ber daughters married, and from wbiob abe bad sent the three youngest of her sons to the . war, ono of whom was to lose a leg- at Ohioamauga and another an arm at , ?Fredericksburg. Louis Oovin, the father of James i ?iouis and ht Philip Augustas, above ' named, died in July, 1880, 82 years of 4ge? and hts wife, theii^iother, i n F ABBEVILLE. 'ench [Protestants who in 1764-One of the the [Refugees Still SS rids. wilie Medium. April, 1886, at 81. Their maternal auot, Mary Anne Rogers, nee Covin, died in 1879, also in her 84th year. Pierre Oaillebeau, of Bordeaux, who died in December, 1854, at the age of 86, and who was the maternal uncle of Joseph L. Bouchillou, above mentioned, was the father by his wife Jane, nee Bellottc,of cloven children, only two of whom failed to reach three-score years, and Ave of whom passed four score, the limit named by the Psalmist as the extreme of human life. Mrs. Joseph ino Bollotto, ncc Bou chillon, of tho Willington neighbor hood, died in October, 1894, at the age of 83. Mr. Benjamin E. Gibert, of Well ington, is still hale and hearty, with eighty-four years upon him, and his mother, who died in January, 1889, had attained to 96 years. She was.? Moragne, an aunt of Allen Moragne, now living at Bordeaux, whose father died in October, 1881, at 78 years of age. Mrs. Mary E. Davis, neo Mor agne, now liviog at Talladega, Ala bama, and whoso pen has given her a place among tho writers of the South, has passed thc four sooro limit. Some of thc sweetest of tho verses written by Mrs. Davis are lines which describe Heenes and incidents at Bordeaux, the place of her childhood homo. What a beautiful light is cast by the following simple words upon a picture of Bordeaux homo-life in the olden time. Thc picture is as lovely as a poem from pastoral life. The words arc taken from some reminiscences written by Mrs. Davis in Juno, 1893. Referring to her cousin Mary (Mrs. Sayre, nee Moragne), whoso mother had died soon after thc babe was born, she says: "This infant of days was nourished in tho tender bosom of dear, good, mother Bouchilion, and thus became tho 'foster Bister' of Jo sephine, now Mrs. Bellotte. A ten der intercourse has been kept up by the families. Mary, the babe spoken of, is yet living at Cartersvillo, Geor gia, and is now (1893) in her 83rd year.' ' Removals to other States and inter marriages with other blood havo left but little of tho puro Huguenot in the neighborhood of the original settle ment. John Andrew LcRoy, of the younger generation, is cno of a very few whose blood is still exclusively of French origin. His grandfather, John LoRoy, died in February, 1872, ic his 35th year, and his grandmother, Susan LoRoy, nco Bollotte, in May, 1892, on her 90th birthday. His father, in his 75th year, is still living, thc em bodiment of tho gent?o traits that dis tinguished thc Bordeaux Huguenot. His grandfather on tho mother's side lied in Juno, 1887, at 85. On that ride of tho family he runs into tho jluillebeaux; and, by the way, he >wns the old homestead of the origi nal settler, Andre Guillebeau, and ives in the identioal house that Andre juilt, who was a houso carpenter by :rade. Andre was the father of Pierre, above mentioned, and in one >f the Bkirmishos of tho Revolution received a wound in the hip, fruin vhioh he was a oripple the remainder )f bia life. The h ou a o here mention sd is tho last now standing of the mes built by tho original settlers. It iras constructed of hewn logs of large lize, neatly dove-tailed together at the mda, and was evidently comfortable md commodious. By the way, one of the LeRoys ;Mary, who was born March 1, 1793,) narried a James Ilemphill and went to Alabama. The writer is not aware whether the present editor of the Ne ic a and Courier is in any wise con nected with that union, but he does not doubt that the woman, like others of her race, passed the octogenarian mark before she died, and oommnni oated good blood and good habits to her offspring. . Tho health, fruitfulness and longev ity of themselves and their immediate descendants speak volumes as to the composition and character of the old Bordeaos: Huguenots. They were a people who delighted to live under the quiet of their ( vn vine and fig tree, and they exemplified in their daily li vea the dameatie. anti an?!?! V!?iTJ.?? that make uwest and attraotivo hornee, the place where good oitisenship has its abode. Not one of those old French or of their descendants was ever called upon in a Sessions Court to answer a criminal charge. Their names were synonyms of honesty and business integrity in every community in which known, and all over tho Southern oountry to-day aro people who esteem it a greater honor to have in their* veins tho blood of thoso old Huguenot pioneers of Bordeaux than if it were thc blood of dukes and of earls. Thc writer of this article has before him a copy of a letter which a gentle man living in another State, a de scendant of one of tho Huguenot set tlers at Bordeaux, wrote to his mother on learning of the death of his grand mother. This letter so beautifully commemo rates a typical family of the old Huguenots that the following quota tion from it is here made: "My dear mother: The tears come and I can't help it. I seem hardly to realize that grandmother, too, bas passed on and left to us only a hallowed memory. Thc thought stirs me from my earliest childhood. So much that is dear clusters about the old place. Changed it may be, but in memory it is the same old place 1 knew in my child hood. Grandfather is there, and everything is as of old. Tho happy days of childhood! What a halo in vests them in after years! And what a treasure to have the recollections of a lovely home-life to draw from. It is not given to many families tc Tiave the old roof-tree that we had. The idea of a home running back unbroken far nearly three-quarters of a century, and during all that time presided over by the ones who planted it. How prolific of sentiment, and what a heri tage to the ohildren! It .was given to the dear one now gone to see her ohil dren and grandchildren grow up around her, and then she was still further spared to bless ber great-grandchil dren, and all under the same roof to which she was taken as a bride. In these long, peaceful lives that extend over and cmbraoe f >ur generations there is muoh that is affecting. 'Chil dren's children are the crown of old men, and thc ?!?ry of the ohildren are their fachers.' Verily, can the chil dren of her who has just gone rise up and call her blessed. Length of days is from the Lord." It was a membor of tho French colony at Bordeaux, Dr. John Do LaHowe, who was allowed the honor of naming the county, and he called it "Abbevil?o" in remembrance of the little town in tho north of France, of which, as well as of Bordeaux in their native country, the Huguenot settlers had vivid recollections. Dr. De LaHowe, who died in Jan uary, 1797, left his estate in perpetuity to educate and train in manual and domestic labor twelve boys and twelve girls, twenty-four at any ono time be ing the quota established under the provisions of the trust. And the noble charity--the Lethe Institute thus founded by the little Frenohman has remained through all these years to bless orphaned ohildren of the county, "who were homeless or needed help. It was the French people who in duced the Bev. Moses Waddel io move his sohool from Vienna to the confines of their own settlement, where it be came famous as the "Willington Academy," and the "Willington OutsTcii M s si zs plc ssc?uCrisl tul?lo* os which says: "In memory of tho lie v. Moses Waddel, D. D.. who founded this church," stands to-day within a stone's throw of the site where stood the famous achoo! house. Only a little valo or depression in the woods interveued between the church and tho sohool house, and the nucleus, and ohief support for years, of the church thuB formed was the Huguenot element.of the community. Indeed, before the organisation of the Willing ton Churoh and before the removal of his school from Vienna, the Rev. Mr. Waddel had organized* a church among thc French people at tbs old Liberty Spring, about a mile distant from the site of the old French town, and was regularly ministering lhere, a placo ffhioh is five miles f?om> the Willing ton Churoh. It is not the purpose af this arliolo to make detailed descriptions of the individuals mentioned in it, but the following description of Pierre Guilla beau and his wife, taken from a lettes written by a lady who knew them Wall in their latter days, may stand a? a sample: "The old man. was small rn person, courteous in> hi? address, graceful in every aot, yet simple aa a ebild. In bis own house you weald find him seated in his large armchair,, dressed in a round-about jackey, with a white cotton oap on. his head, which he reverently laid aside in all his ad dresses to the Divine Being. Ia his family he striotly adhered lo his native tongue, buA, for many yeats he filled the office ef soling elder in an English speaking churoh. She was a sweet-looking, gentle-hearted ?id lady. In person and manner they were both perfeot speeimens of tho Parisian French." No ono a?? ?ver boss cesrers?se o? thc hose life of ese cf those eld couples who did not ever after iu memory have a picture of conjugal happiness and domestio poaoo. . Hand in hand they had j our ney od together, eaoh faithful and attentive to tho other, loved by all about them, and now, in a oheerfnl old ago, honored by a posterity that extended to tho third and sometimes to tho fourth genera tion. With somo pf tltem the last day seemed Hot so mush to be death as a simple translation from life-no lingering antecedent sickness-ho prior unconsciousness for days-just a peaceful passiug away of tire spirit. It was to escape the religious in tolerance that was constantly hunting them out for persecution that the lit tle band of French Protestants of which we have made mention expa triated themselves and sought the forests of America in the hope they could there have a home that wonld be safe from oppression. It was not long, however, before they had taken up arms and joined in a contest whioh sras to give the land to which they had come politioal as well as religious liberty. And as with them, so with their descendauts-they have never been wanting in the discharge of a patriotio duty. They furnished a company for service in the war of 1812; they contributed a volunteer oompany in 1835 for the war with the Seminoles in Florida; they were rep resented in the war with Mexico, and they partook of the sentiment and shared the fortunes, it is needless to say, of those who stood for the Con federacy whioh embraoed our Southern country. The writer of this article onoe had the acquaintance of a gentleman who had known the Bordeaux people from his boyhood.. Upon his head the years in their flight had left their sil ver. Ile hsd never married, and it was in touching language that he re vealed in the confidence of a friend ship the seoret of his heart. He said (and these are his exsot words): "I once loved a Frenoh girl. She was a Huguenot, fair and beautiful as ever trod upon a flower. It was my first love. The best affection of my heart was hers; but, in an hour when I was little thinking, the death angel eame and carried her sweet spirit to the celestial city. Her face was beauti ful, ita features regular, calm and ?bin; and her eye, oh! how fascinat ing! Those dark eyo.i, lustrous with love's meaning, haunt mo to this hour and will continue to haunt mo to my grave. Sho is roy guardian spirit. She walks with mo; she is with me in every place day and night. That earthly sweot smile which was hers I sec it still. Oh! what bitter, burn ing tsars como to my eyes while I write. "Her body sleeps not far from the waters of thc lovely and beautiful Savannah, but her kindly spirit is following me, I know; and when I reaoh the spirit land she will be there to welcome mc. She was a Huguenot." 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