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Hopsewee Rice Plantation Home
Open To Public This Summer
Mountville
News
BY MRS. L. R. ADAMS
Hopsewee, a typical Low-
Country rice plantation home
of the early eighteenth century,
is open to the public this sum
mer.
The historic home is located
12 miles south of Georgetown
ot U.S. 17. Recently acquired
by the James T. Maynard fam
ily, the plantation was the home
of Thomas Lynch, a South Car
olina delegate to the Continental
Congress, and the birthplace of
his son, Thomas, Jr., who sign
ed the Declaration of Independ
ence. Lynch constructed the
home between 1735 and 1740 on
a bluff overlooking the North
Santee River.
Both father and son were dis
tinguished political figures.
Thomas, Sr., was also suppos
ed to sign the Declaration of
todependence, but he died en-
route to Philadelphia. A space
was left on the document for
his signature.
Hopsewee is one of the most
unusual of the old plantation
homes. In each room, including
the kitchen, Adams candlelight
molding is a part of the in
terior finishing. The four rooms
on each of the two main floors
open into center halls that ex
tend the entire length of the
house.
The house is built of black
cypress on a brick foundation
covered by scored tabby.
Though the home has often been
vacant, it has never been a-
bandoned and is basically the
same house built by Lynch
some 230 years ago.
At the rear of the old house
is a large circle of camellias
planted by John Hume Lucas
who owned the home in 1846.
The shrubs, which have reach
ed a magnificent height, ap
parently formed part of the
plantation’s entrance. Lucas’
intention seems to have been to
bring his visitors through a
long driveway between rows of
live-oaks ending with the
camellia circle.
Two cypress shingled out
buildings probably served as
kitchens during plantation days.
Each house has a large fire
place on one side of the chim
ney and a double fireplace on the
other. The division was for a
hot fire and simmering fire.
The Maynards stress that
their purchase of Hopsewee is
a preservation rather than a re
storation. The home will be open
Tuesday through Friday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and other days by
appointment. Admission charge
is $1.25 for adults, $.75 for stu
dents, and children under six
will be admitted free.
Mr. Quinton Chapman of
Charleston and Mr. Clyde Chap
man of Sanford, Fla., spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Chapman.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Padgett
and girls of Spartanburg and Mr.
Jimmie Lynch of Union spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Lynch.
Mr. S. B. Goodman and Mrs.
J. M. Wham spent the weekend
attending the wedding of Miss
Sandra Goodman.
The Baptist Church Bible
School was held last week.
Friday afternoon after the com
mencement the children enjoyed
a picnic supper.
Visitors of Mrs. Blanch C.
Badger over the weekend were
Misses June and Jean Glass
who are attending the University
of N. C.
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Miss Jacobs
On Dean's List
Miss Edna Jacobs of Clinton
has been named to the Dean’s
List at Salem College. The list
ing recognizes students who
have an academic average of 3.3
or higher for the semester.
Miss Jacobs, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Jacobs
of 512 W'alnut Street in Clinton,
will be a senior at Salem Col
lege where she is majoring in
psychology.
She is president of the Sa
lem College chapter °f the
YWCA to which all students
belong.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Miller
and children of High Point, N.
C. spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. P. H. Miller. Little
Miss Sara Nash of Florence also
spent Sunday night with her
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. P.
H. Miller. They came especi
ally to celebrate Mr. and Mrs.
Miller’s 50th anniversary. The
whole family including Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Finley, Miss Lynn
Shouse and Mr. and Mrs.Tryon
Face and baby girl of Colum
bia were dinner guests of Dr.
and Mrs. Lee Rodgers at their
lake home on Lake Greenwood.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Winne-
briner Mrs. Grace Watts and
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Watts spent
Sunday with Mrs. M. GeneShea-
ly on Lake Murray.
Mrs. Maude B. Bryson is
spending some time in Green
wood with her son-in-law and
daughter Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Blake.
Hamer In N.C.
Marine Private First Class
W'llliam L. Hamer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Hamer of 300
W. Maple St., Clinton, is now
serving at New River Marine
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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., June 26, 1970—8-C
LION OF THE YEAR’ — Kelley Waits, left, re
ceived the Joanna ‘Lion of the Year’ award re
cently at a meeting of the Joanna Lions Club. Mr.
Waits is immediate past president of the club.
Making the presentation is Claude Lawson, a char
ter member and former president of the club.
Limey, Salary
AH About Worts
Sgt. Hanna's
Unit Flies
Largest Plane
Staff Sergeant Fred F. Han
na Jr., son of Mrs. Joan Reece
of 28 Peachtree St., Clinton, is
a member of the first unit to
fly the world’s largest aircraft
on operational missions.
Sergeant Hanna is an aircraft
maintenance technician with the
437th Military Airlift Wing at
Charleston AFB. The Military
Airlift Command (MAC) unit
recently received their first
operational C-5 Galaxy, a huge
jet transport.
The Galaxy entered service
wity MAC, which provides
global airlift for U.S. military
forces, as a new measure in
heavy logistical support. Its
size, volume, versatility and
performance are expected to
make it the Air Force’s most
efficient cargo transport.
The sergeant, a 1967 grad
uate of Clinton High School,
attended Altus Junior College
and Florida State University.
His wife, Sandra, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond E. Botts of Rt. 2, Abbe
ville.
In the old days, sailors a-
board ahips bound on long
voyages were particulnrly
susceptible to a mysterious
illness known as scurvy,
which is characterized by
hemorrhaging, weakness and
finally death. In the great
age of exploration that follow
ed Columbus’ discovery of
America, voyages at sea grew
longer and more numerous,
and the toll caused by this
dreaded disease increased ac
cordingly.
James Lind, a Scottish phy
sician, undertook a study of
the disease in an attempt to
determine its cause. He final
ly concluded that the lack of
citrus fruit in the sailors’ re
stricted diet was responsible.
Lind’s studies were at first
rejected as nonsense, until
Captain James Cook ordered
his crew to use lime juice a-
long with their hardtack and
salt pork during his great
voyages in the 1770's. In
three years of exploration,
Cook lost only one man to
scurvy. In 1795, the British
admiralty made limes a part
of the navy’s regular fare.
The lime, in helping to keep
the ship’s crew healthy, thus
played a part in England’s
eventual domination of the
seas and the building of her
great empire. Sometimes in
derision, seafaring men from
other countries would refer to
a British sailor as a Limey.
Eventually, the term came to
be applied to all Engliahmen.
If wages today were paid
in accordance with the mean
ing of the word talary, you’d
be taking home a load of salt
Because salt, in ancient
times, was not as easily ob
tainable as now, Roman sol
diers received a special allow
ance to buy it. In Latin, this
food seasoner and preserver,
which is also a necessary part
of the diet, is called taL The
soldiers’ “salt allowance” was
thus designated as talarium,
from which we get our word
salary which applies today to
all “fixed regul*r wages.”
The phrase “Not worth his
salt” also probably dates back
to these times.
Landscape was originally
pronounced “landshape” and
literally means “the shape of
the land.” Back in the times
when Old English was in
use, the sA-sound was written
not as sh but as sc, which in
modern pronunciation has
been changed to an entirely
different sound. —NsMmmI fr*n
She charmed her snake-catching hubby
by losing 79 pounds
"At 223 pounds, I was the hippiest girl in Jackson
ville, Florida," said Wannette Davis. And she added:
"If I had been a rattlesnake, my husband would have
appreciated my size." Her husband, it so happens,
catches snakes and sells them to reptile shows for
money.
Wannetre’s husband never embarrassed her in front
of people, though. But at home, he’d kiddingly say:
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the table till it groaned. She’d take turnip roots and
boil them with neck bones, then add corn bread to
the pot liquor and come up with the most delicious
dumplings evgr. These mostly wound up on her hips,
along with sausage sandwiches and home-baked
peach cobblers and pineapple upside-down cakes. Is
it any wonder that she gained 50 pounds when she
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While she was on the Ayds Plan, Wannette used to
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Here is Wannette Davis at 223 pounds. And wearing a
splashy plaid at that.
Before and After Measurements
Before
After
Height
5'5'A'
5'5V4'
Weight
223 lbs.
144 lbs.
Bust
46'
36'
Waist
37'
27'
Hips
54'
40'
Dress size
22‘/2
14
This is how she looks at 144 pounds. And nobody's touched
up this picture.
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