! HISTORY OF UNCLE
JIMMY DANNELLY
ANTI-BELLUM PREACHER OF
WIDE REPUTATION.
' Brusque and to the Point.
Did Not Stand for Vulgar Display and
Was Down on Hypocrites?Also
Was Bitter Against Immorality.
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In old-ante-bellum days, and especially
in the rural sections, preachers
were of an entirely different order
from the ministers of the gospel in
these advanced and modern times.
They were clerical shoulder-hitters,
who did not mince or choose their
words and believed in and preached
hell fire and brimstone. After one of
these fiery sermons the hairs on the
heads of the terrorized congregations
stood out like quills upon a fretful
porcupine. You could almost smell the
brimstone and broiling flesh as they
depicted the horrors of torment, that
was the sure heritage of unpenitent
sinners.
One of the most noted preachers of
the south was an old wooden-legged
Methodist named "Uncle Jimmy Dan,
nelly," who lived about one and a
half miles from Lowdesville, Abbeville
district, South' Carolina, near
the old Smyrna church. He officiated
in the early fifties. He was a stoutbuilt
man and I should say weighed
around 180 pounds. His home'was,
within sight of Smyrna church, and j
close to the old camp-ground of that
name. This church has been moved I
to Lowndesville and the railway from
Anderson passes within a few feet of
the large graveyard belonging to the
chnrch nrt.-i in which manv of the re
markable men of that section are
buried.
"Uncle Jimmy" Dannelly hated
three things above all else: Foppery
and gaudy apparel: inattention to
services during his long-winded sermons,
and immorality. Some of his
denunciations from the pulpit against
the latter sin were so str ng and exjjfl
pressive as not to be printed at all.
"Uncle Jimmy's" fame as a preach.
Ier spread over the state and he was j
once invited to preach a sermon in a
- fashionable church of Charleston. S. j
C. He had a piercing, high-pitched j
voice. After mounting the pulpit and i
taking his text, the old gentleman, |
' / ; glancing over the building and then
throwing his eyes into* tne gallery,
J set apart for slaves in many city
churches before the war, began his
discourse with: "I was told when
invited to* preach in this great city:
and to this gaudily-arrayed congrega-1
tion that they were very refined peo-!
pie and I must be careful what I said, j
. lest I offend their sensitive ears.!
?From the number of mulattoes I see
sitting in the gallery, I should judge
that the people of Charleston are in- j
deed refined. Yes, the same kind of <
refinement that brought about the de- j
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah." \
He then delivered a powerful sermon ;
on the subject, and told his hearers if
\thev did not repent their city deserv
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ea tne same iaie as uruugai uu mc
destruction of the Dead Sea towns.
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And he could not bear anything:
like a display of pride or hvpocricy. i
There was a member of his church, a i
wealthy man, whom I shall call Ben-j
jamin Blank. This man built a real j
nice new home, the best in the neigh. |
borhood. of which he was very proud. |
Once at Smyrna "Uncle Jimmy" i
preached a strong sermon about peo-!
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pie in their old age, instead or aevot- j
Ing their wealth and time to the cause !
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of God. were spending their sub- j
stance in riotious living and the erec- j
tion of fine nalaces to live in.
After services the house-builder ap jjrV'
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proaehed Uncle Jimmy, who was
surrounded by a number of his flock.
. and remarked: "Brother Dannelly, I
do not think you did me the right
thing today in preaching that sermon
about my new home. It was
my money, I put in it and every dollar
was honestly earned."
T D1 d n L- fVlQ (lid
L/OUKlIlg <X t iJi UIIICI ijiu.ii iv wu ^
man camly replied: "Benjamin, you
x are mistaken about my having the
shanty you built in my mind when I
selected my subject for today. I referred
to a house the Alstons erected
Jnear
Charleston. Why they would
not use the hut you built and are so
proud of for a garden house. If you
had not been so mean and closefisted
and stingy, you would have
built a decent house for your family
long ago. Benjamin, I was not shooting
at you. but my little shot from
the pulpit today did not come within
two hundred miles of you."
When "Uncle Jimmy" first came to j
Lowndesville to preach, a leading!
member of his congregation, who had j
* a fine farm and prided himself on '
building higher fences, naving ifatter j
horses and better clad slaves than j
any of his neighbors, approached the;
old man and remarked, "Brother
Dannelly, I want to say that I am
a very poor man and have but little,
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j but you are welcome to share it. I
want you to take dinner with me today."
He expected "Uncle Jimmy" to contradict
his expression of poverty and
thus feed his vanity. The old man
saw at a glance his object and replied:
"I thank you brother Jones,
but there are plenty of well-to-do
members in the church who are better
able to entertain me, and I make
it a rule never to impose on the poorer
members of my little flock. I will
not take from your family a part of
their pittance. I will call and see
you when passing, but do not deprive
*-/-m V fomilv trv on tort Q i n m P " And
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he never could be induced to take a
meal there, although Brother Jone9
did everything possible to make
"Uncle Jimmy" realize his true condition.
My father says that "Uncle Jimmy"
was noted for his long-winded sermons
and when another preacher was
invited to fill his pulpit always closed
with an exhortation as long as the
sermon.
One day at Smyrna, after a lengthy
discourse by a visiting preacher, "Uncle
Jimmy" arose, and opening his
Bible in a new place, began to exhort
sinners. My father says that himself
and several other members of the
congregation got up and started down
the aisle to leave. "Uncle Jimmy"
waited until they neared the door,
when he closed the Bible and thundered
out, pointing to the truants,
"All of you who were drunk yesterday
can go out and get water while we
sing."
Once a gay party of young ladies
and gentlemen from town come to
Smyrna to a big meeting, gaudily
dressed, and during the services began"
to whisper and giggle. "Uncle
Jimmy" pointed them out and administered
a severe rebuke, telling them
that if they could not behave in
I ph?r<>h tn remain at home and keep
| away from Smyrna, as their room
I was worth more than their presence.
After services, one of t^he male escorts
of the party approached "Uncle
Jimmy" outside the church door
and said: "Mr. Dannelly, I will let
you know, sir, that those were respectable
young ladies you sing'ed
out in church today for rebuke and I
will say to you that if you do not
apologize, your clerical robes and
wooden leg will not protect you."
"I am glad you corrected the impression
that these young women
made on my mjnd. I took them, from
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to be some strumpets you young men
had picked up on the streets and desecrated
the house of God with their
presence. And now, young man, in
regard to your punishing me, I will
say that in my younger days I used
to be something of a scrapper. I
drank and committed all manner of
sins. In fact, I lost my leg while
running a horse race on Sunday while
drunk. Now, if some of the brethren
will hold my coat, in about sixty seconds
I will give that young puppy
such a trashing as he has not Jiad
since his father took him into the
woodshed." These young folks did
not attend any more revivals at Snfyrna.
But "Uncle Jimmy" once got the
worst from a visitor to camp-meeting.
A gaily dressed young man from the
courthouse attended services and took
a seat in front of the pulpit. He began
twirling his gold-headed cane while
"Uncle Jimmy" was in the midst of a
sermon. Stopping short in his discourse
the old preacher remarked,
pointing to the young man: "My
young friend, let me say to you there
are no gold-headed canes in heaven."
The instant retort was, "Yes, nor
wooden-legs, either."
During a camp meeting at old
Smyrna "Uncle Jimmy" was half sick
and broken down. Turning the pulpit
over to a young minister from a
town church, he told the congregation
that he would retire to his home and
rest that night, as there seemed to be j
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new minister delivered what he
thought was a powerful sermon and
on calling for mourners, the altar rail
u:as crowded. So elated was he that
he sent a delegation to the home of
Brother Dannelly, who lived near by,
to bring him to the I3nt to help pray
for the vast number of penitents. The
old man reluctantly left his bed, and
walking into the stand, looked upon
the mourners, strung around the rail.
After taking a good look at the penitents
he turned to the young revivalist
and remarked: "Bad haul, my
young brother. Throw oa: your net j
and try again. I have been convert
ing that same old gang regularly at I
every camp meeting for the past ten j
years and they are not worth trvlngi
to save. The last one of them will J
forget before the end of the week all
about your prayers, and be drinking, j
gambling and frolicking." With this!
verdict "Uncle Jimmy" turned his
back and returned home, leaving the !
young minister to do his own con-;
verting.
In his latter vears "Uncle Jimmy" j
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married a second time, to a a old maid j
from Anderson county, who had been J
exceedingly kind in nursing him j
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NIGHT WATCHMAN KILLED.
G. W. Smith Loses Life in Pursuit of
Robbers.
Greenville, Sept. 30.?G. W. Smith,
56, night watchman, was instantly
killed in the suburbs of the city at
5 o'clock this afternoon by a negro,
Will Hood, former prisoner in the
city stockade.
Hood was being pursued by officers
when Smith got in his path and
was instantly killed by the negro
who fired three shots into the aged
man's heart. Hood himself was seriuosly
if not fatally injured by the officers
joining in the chase, more than
4 0 shots being fired. Eugene Bearch,
negro, who was with Hood, was also
orroctad and hnth are heiner held in
the county jail tonight. Talk of mob
violence may cause both to be transferred
to Spartanburg for safe keeping,
officials stated. '
Hood and Bearch are alleged to
have entered a store at a local mill
village this afternoon and both were
being pursued by a number of officers
and citizens. Mr. Smith, hearing
of.the chase, stepped into his back
yard at 32 Alonde street, when the
negro pullei a gun and fired four
times, three bullets piercing Smith's
heart and the fourth entering his
arm. As Mr. Smith fell mortally
wounded, the officers began firing
on/3 Unnd nrae corirmolv wniinded be
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fore being captured.
If you want to buy or sell anything
use The Herald Want column.
while he was sick during some of his
preaching tours through that country.
But he caught a tartar in bis second
wife. Once when the old man walked
up the steps of old Smyrna church
to fill his appointment, he found his
pulpit occupied by his wife, who was
telling the congregation what a vile
old hypocrite their minister was.
"Uncle Jimmy" stood for about a minute
in the doorway, listening to the
abuse by his better half, when he
hobbled back home and left the pulpit
to her.
The old minister is buried in the
Smyrna graveyard, but the inclosure
around the grave, and even the |
mound, have long since disappeared. |
Mp was a remarkable man of his day!
and generation, and ranked as a
preacher alongside of Lorenzo Dow.?
Larry Gantt in the Yorkville Enquirer
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The above will be read with interest
by a number of Bamberg county people,
as the Rev. Dannelly referred to
was a close relative of the Dennellys
of the Ehrhardt section.
S. G. MAYFIELD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Federal.
Office Opposite Southern Depot.
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TEACHER'S EXAMINATION.
By order of the State Board of
Education, the regular teachers' examination
will be held at Bamberg
on Friday, October the 7th, and Saturday,
October the 8th, 1921, beI
ginning promptly at 9 o'clock each
morning. This examination embraces
three groups of questions?the
first for Primary Certificates, the
second for General Elementary Certificates
and the third for High
School Certificates.
The Primary examination embraces
the following twelve subjects?
English, Grammar, and Language,
Arithmetic, Playground and Community
Activities. S. C.. U. S. and
General History, Geography, CiviC3
and Current Events, Literature, Pedagogy,
Health, Nature Study, School
Law, Manual Training.
The General Elementary examination
embraces the following twelve
subjects?English Grammar and
Composition, Arithmetic, History, U.
S. and S. C., Geography, Civics and
Current Events, Spelling, Reading,
Pedagogy, Physiology and Hygiene,
Nature Study and Agriculture, School
Law, Algebra.
The High School examination embraces
the following twelve subjects j
?Grambatical Analysis and Composition,
Literature, Principles of Teach- j
ing, American History and Civics, i
Science, (General Science, Physiology,
Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Agri-1
culture, Home Economics?seven of?
J A ^ \ A rrf Lmnf ip A 1 ?
lertJU, ic^u;icu;, n.ni,umv/i,iu,
gebra, Geometry, Foreign Language
(Latin, French, Spanish, German?
four offered, one required), Ancient
and Modern History, School Law.
Each applicant may choose the examination
he or she prefers in accordance
with the certificate he or she
desires.
All who are interested are urged to
take the examination of their choice.
W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education.
Sept. 19, 1921.
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Mrs. Nora Sanders, E. Main St..
Bamberg, says: "The muscles in my
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Pursuant to a decree of
Circuit Judge, signed at Chan
day of September, 1921, now (
Court for Bamberg County, I
est bidder tie entire stock of
the entire stock of Coffi:
the store formerly operate
said stock and fixtures i
first in blocks and then
same brings more selling
will be knocked down in that r
sale will be had at the said st(
S. C., on the 3rd day of Oct
o'clock a. m. and continue unt
fixtures are finally sold and <
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cash. At the same time and
the highest bidder, for cash, t'
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all notes, and bills receivable
Kinard.
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His Honor, Hayne P. Rice, ^
ibers, Aiken, S. C., on the 2nd \
)n file in the office of Clerk of
will offer for sale to the highFurniture
and Fixtures, also ^
ns and Caskets, now in ^
d by M. A. Kinard; the J
vill be offered for sale, ^
as a whole, and if the
in blocks then the same
nanner, or vice a versa. Said
)re in the Town of Ehrhardt, ,
ober, 1921, beginnings at 41 M
il the said stock of goods and M
disposed of. Terms of sale, M
place, I will offer for sale to
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