The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 26, 1922, Page 7, Image 7
A Spectator at
History s Maying
Bishopville, Oct. 21.?This city
has the distinction of being the home
of a remarkable centenarian. Mrs.
Abagail DuRant, who has lived in
this community all her life, celebrated
the 100th anniversary of her
birth July 3, 1922. The 101st year of
her life found her in good health,
self-reliant, vigorous for her years
and with the fine intellect and keen
interest in affairs that has always
marked her.
Mrs. DuRant is the daughter of
James Rembert, who was of French
Huguenot stock. She was born on
her father's plantation near this
place. A large part of this beautiful
plantation, which contained more
than 5,000 acres, was inherited by
her and has been in her possession
for over 67 years. Mrs. DuRant was
married 84 years ago. Her husband
was JOnn u. -Lruriant, granusuu ui
Henry DuRant of the American Revolution.
Mrs. DuRant has lived through the
anxieties and sorrows of five wars, I
She had relatives constantly in peril
during the Indian war in Florida in
1832. When the Palmetto regiment;
marched to the Mexican war, Caleb'
Rembert, her only brother, was onej
of its brave volunteers. She never j
saw him again, as he died from disease
and was buried in the City of
Mexico during the seige of that
stronghold. To the Confederate war
went her husband and two sons,
David and James. This great war
took its deadly toll, too, as James
died from disease in the Confederate
hospital at Charlottesville, Va. Then
came the Spanish-American war and
the anxieties connected with the peril
to her grandsons engaged in it. And
finally the World war, in which were
engaged many grandsons and greatgrandsons,
one greatgrandson, Hugh
Merritt, having made the supreme j
sacrifice.
Naturally the Confederate war
made the greatest impression up her,
and she talks most interestingly of
her experiences. Like so many other
brave Southern women, during that
period she worked unceasingly to
keep the plantation going, to care for
the young children at home and to
cheer and aid loved ones in the field. I
She must have realized that the j
end of the Confederacy was near, i
when one Saturday night in March, |
- 1865, while she and her five young
daughters were seated at the supper
table, there rushed into the room,
entirely unexpectedly, more than a
dozen Union soldiers. They ransacked
the house and made merry with
brandy which they found. They formed
part of Sherman's army, camped a
..few miles away.
On the Sunday following hundreds
of Federal soldiers pillaged her place.
They took horses, cured meats, chickens
and everthing to eat that they
could find. They burned the barns
and outbuildings and the gin with
hundreds of bales of cotton, but they
left her home standing. For a week,
she says, nothing was cooked in the
"big house," for the soldiers would
stand around the store while the food
was being prepared and would eat it
as fast as it was cooked, so sue naa
. to stop trying to prepare anything.
The only food which she and her
young children had during that time
was brought to them secretly by
faithful negro slaves. She did not go
to bed for a week, but just slept for
a few minutes at a time, day or
night, in chairs.
During this weelrofficers interviewed
her constantly, trying to get in?
formation as to the whereabouts of
the men of her family and threatening
to burn her home if this information
was not given. Sometimes
they would make preparations to
carry out their threats by pulling
brands from the fireplace and would
boast of having burned Columbia.
With brave calmness, which she still
evidences, she told them that she
did not know where her men folk
were and that if she did she would
not tell.
Probably no one else, in South
Carolina has lived through as much
history as Mrs. DuRant. She was
born the year after the death of the
great Napoleon, when the world had
been recently torn with wars, and
she lived to see, nearly 100 years lat.
er, practically the entire world in
arms again.
As a girl and young woman, she
heard constantly of the great political
questions that were beginning to
divide the North and South. She recalls
vividly when nullification was a
vital issue and South Carolina prepared
to resist forcibly the tariff laws
of the nations, and she, with other
South Carolinians, took pride in the
debates of the great Calhoun and
Webster. She remembers, too, the intense
interest of that day in the question
of free and slave states, and how
this finally brought on the Confeder
ate war.
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PROGRAMME
.
j 5th Sunday Unions, Barnwell Ass'n.
Oct. 28 and Possibly 29.
Union No. 1 meets with Spring
Branch church; No. 2 with Friendship
church; No. 3 with Elko church; j
No. 4 with Sycamore church.
Saturday, October 28th.
10:30 a. m.?Devotional: No. 1,
N. H. Fender; No. 2, C. C. Morris; |
No. 3, S. A. Hair: No. 4, G. J. Anderson.
10:45 a. m.?Enrollment of delegates
and miscellaneous business.
11:00 a. m.?Sermons as follows:
No. 1, L. H. Miller; No. 2, M. B.
Buckley; No. 3, O. B. Falls; No. 4,
C. M. Robinson.
12:00 m.?Topic: The Bible doc-j
trines of election and predestination
and their practical value. The fol- j
lowing brethren will lead the dis- j
cussion, followed by general discussion:
No. 1, 0. J. Frier; No. 2, J. F.
Davis; No. 4, J. R. Cullom. Rev. G.
C. Epps will discuss stewardship and
tithing at this hour at No. 2 instead
of the above topic. Dinner.
2:00 p. m.?Devotional.
2:45 p. m.?Topic: The claims of
our denominational paper, led by
the following brethren, followed by
general discussion: No. 1, Dr. Geo.
F. Hair; No. 2, Dr. J. R. McCormack;
No. 3, R. E. Woodward; No. 4, Guy
I Martin.
3:45 p. m.?Rev. G. C. Epps will
speak on stewardship and tithing at
l union No. 1, at No. 3, W. M. Jones;
No* 4, J. L. Bragg. At union No. 2
the Bible doctrines of election and
predestination will be discussed by
Walter Black, or D. W. Heckle, followed
by general discussion during
this hour. Miscellaneous business
and adjourn.
As some .churches have objected
to dinner on the ground and some
pastors object to being away from
their pulpits on Sunday the programme
committee has left it with
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service, and its own programme for
I same.
SEAT IX SENATE
GOES TO GEORGE
Atlanta, Oct. 17.?With 26 counties
yet to be heard from in today's
special senatorial primary, the nomination
of Judge Walter F. George of
I Vienna to succeed the late United
j State senator, Thomas E. Watson,
I was virtually assured, according to
incomplete unofficial returns compiled
tonight by the Atlanta Constitution.
Judge George had a decisive majority
of 250 county unit votes or 41
more than the 209 necessary for
nomination, the Constitution's returns
showed, and of the 136 counties
tabulated he had carried 104 as
compared with 24 for Gov. Thomas
W. Hardwick, who was credited with
96 county unit votes.
Seaborn Wright of Rome was running
a poor third. He carried his
home county of Floyd and five
others, which gave him a total of 20
unit votes.
John R. Cooper of Macon had not
carried a single county, according to
The Constitution's figures.
The Constitution's returns indicated
that Maj. C. E. McGregor of Warrenton
had won the nomination over
his four opponents in the race for
state pension commissioner to succed
the late Judge John W. Lindsey.
Nomination in a Democratic pri^
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mary in ueorgia is wusiueieu as
equivalent to election, and it is
thought certain that the nomination
will he confirmed in the regular election
on November 7.
Explaining Him.
A theatrical manager bought and
staged a play and then became cursed
with the usual doubts. He felt that it
would never go. The author stood in
the wrings at dress rehearsal, very
proud and confident, in irritating
confident, in irritating contrast -with
gloomy manager. One of the stage j
hands was a person of peculiar as-j
pect, and just to make conversation 1
the author asked. "Who 19 that
strange-looking, fellow?"
"That!" said the manager. "That's
an Eskimo."
"Why in the world an Eskimo?"
asked the author.
"Why," said the manager wearily, I
"we had to get somebody that could
stand the frost around here opening
night."
Would Tote Hi? Own Bundle
An old Irishman was struggling
along the high road with a heavy
bundle when friend passed in a cart.
It was a hot day, so the friend thinking
Pat would be glad of a lift, said:
"Jump up here, old man." Pat was
delighted and after climbing up,
rested his bundle earefully on his
knee.
"Put your bundle on the seat,"
and his friend.
"Oh, no," Pat4 answered. "Bince
you are eo good as to gife me a ride
Oi'll not he after asking yen te earry
e tudle as well!"
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Nor America "Close."
Conway Field.
Thank goodness, the Near East
isn't really near.
Destroy cotton stalks now.
TAX NOTICE.
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The treasurer's office will be open |
for the collection of state, county, :
school and all other taxes from the
loth day of November, 1922, until j
the 15th day of March, 1923, in- |
elusive.
From the first day of January, j
1923, until the 31st day of January, j
-1923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be '
added to all unpaid taxes. From the j
first dr 7 of February, 1923, unt-i the |
2Sth day of February,1923, a pen- i
alty of 2 per cent, will be added to all i
unpaid taxes. From the first day of '
.March, 1923, until the 15th of |
March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent. I
will be added to all unpaid taxes.
The Levy.
For State purposes 7 1-2 mills |
For county purposes 7 mills |
Constitution school tax....3 mills j
For highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills j
Total 19 mills
Special School Levies.
Bamberg, No. 14 21 1-2 mills
Binnaker's No. 12....W 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 ....4 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 9 mills
Denmark, No. 21 16 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 19 mills
Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 12 mills
Hutto, No. 6 6 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 12 mills
Lees, No. 23 8 mills
Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills
Little Swamp, No. 17 8 mills
Midway, No. 2-. 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 10 mills
Olar, No. 8 16 mills
Oakland, No. 15 8 mills
St. John's, No. 10 8 mills
Salem, No. 9 12 mills
mi.... .mi. XT/% A 8 mills
J. Ui ec-.uac, -z
West End, No. 25 10 mills
All persons between the ages of 21
and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers
and sailors, who are exempt at
50 years, are liable to a poll tax of
$1.00.
Capitation dog tax, $1.25.
All male persons who were 21
years of age on or before the first
day of January, 1921, are liable to a
poll tax of $1, and all who have not
made^r turns to the auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
first day of January, 1922, and thereby
save penalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of November, 1922 to
the 15th day of March, 1923.
In addition to the above levies
there is a three mill levy for drainage
on all property in the town of
Bamberg and some of the surrounding
territory.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer of Bamberg County.
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