The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 05, 1927, Image 8
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CANDY for MOTHER, of course,
on HER DAY! Because she is as
young at heart as she ever was—and
candy is the gift that will take her
biack to yesteryear—when beribboned
boxes of candy from her beaux were
common occurrences—and because it
is renduiscent of the joy of her youth.
But more than anything else, it
will give her joy and happiness be
cause it » an indication that she is
not forgotten.
MOHER’S OWN BOX is exquisite
—a selection of the finest chocolates
and bon bons attractively boxed and
decorated with a souvenir picture on
the cover. One, two, and five pouTS
sizes, at $1.00 per pound.
OTHER ATTRACTIVE BOXES
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Fancy
Groceries
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1 take pleasure in announcing to the peo
ple of Barnwell and surrounding territory
^ that I have opened an up-to-date Grocery
btore in the Ellis Building, next door West of
L. Cohen s, and have a complete line of
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES.
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My goods are fresh and new and my
prices Brewery reasonable. You are invited
to make your purchases here.
T. D. CREIGHTON ,
Ellu Building Bwnwell, S. C.
MANY ATTEND
ANNUAL SltVICE
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COUNTY CROPS
TOTAL MILLIONS
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jWM» planted aad the per acre value
was $117.00. The aame acreage was
planted in sorghum, which produced
12,250 gallons, with a per ecre value of
$52*0.
Asparagus yielded the fanners
5484,000,' the idpre^ge being 2,700!,
from which 157,000 crates were cut.
This wee more than half of the produc
tion of the enltdre State.
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Fifty-three thousand crates of
cantaloupes were harveeeed from 500
acres and were marketed for $88,200.
The county produced 8,000 ham
pers of snap bean* on 100 acres, the
vaftue being $19,000,
The value of the cucumber crop was
$352,000, the acreage was 2,900 and
845,000 bushels were harvested.
Five thousand acres were planted in
watermelons, from which 2,050 cars
were loaded, ‘the value of the crop
was placed at $180,000.
On Jianuaipr 1, 1927, as shown by
the Same report, there were on Barn
well County farms 4,000 mule* valued
at $379,400; 575 horses with a total
value of $43,521; 1,675 milk cows
with a total value of $67,000; 25 sheep
and lambs valued ait $125, and 9,300
swine writh a totail value of 111,600,
which together with other cattle made
a total value for livestock on Barnwell
Courtty farms, $687*15.
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hating the Cross and the United
States flag, entered the building, fol?
lowed by the Rev .'ftTlf. Marshall,
Beaufort, who preached a most elo
quent eermon. Hit sermon was taken
from a passage in the lesson for the
day, the 12th verse of the sixth chap
ter of John, “Geither up the frag
ments.”
Mr. Marshall, in announcing that
the collection would be used for the
| purpose of restoring the tombstones
h the churchyard^ stated that four
unknown donors-had contributed $200
to preserve the magnificent arch back
of the altar. > 1
Following the slpendid service, which
was a great inspiration to all present,
many K)f the visitors enjoyed picnic
dinners under the live oak trees on the
grounds adjacent to the church prop
erty, while- other*), upon invitation of
the owner, availed themselves of the
opportunity cf visiting the old Tomot-
ley Estate, now owned by ‘a- North
erner. _*•
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Because only a comparatively small
number of South Carolinians appar
ently taro aware of the many beauti-
ful historic' shrines that are within
the borders of their State and* wrHh
the hope that many Barnwell County
people may be jnduced to visit them,
the following sketch from the pen of
N. L. Willett, of Augusta, is repro
duced herewith;
There is nothing more stirring
than many cf the fine old shrine* of
Europe, and to vieit and enjoy them
show refinement, culture and imagin
ation. Here in America we do not set
up shrines nor visit them—except in
Massachusetts, but there is more an
cient and honorable history around
BeauArt, South Carolina, than ob
tains anywhere in Massachusetts.
But Beaufort has no historians, while
on the contrary nationalized shrines
at Plymouth, Lexington and Concord
are visited yearly by thousands of
devotee*. While there are several old
fort* Spanish. English and French, at
Beaufort that antedate probably any
thing in America^nd which carry won
drous histories, yet if Beaufort could
have two shrine* of publicity and
nationalized, I should give preference
to the site of the old French Huguenot
fort known as Charlesfort pn Parris
Island, and erected in 1562, and the
remarkable historic ruins known as
the Sheldon Parish Church, located
m the old days in the Prince William
Parish and intimately connected with
her sister parish nearby, St. Helena
at Beaufort. Charles fart is the oldest
fort site in America as built by immi
grant*, and the rhuich is one cf the
oldest and certainly the most weirdly
l»eautiful and fascinating of all ecrel-
iaatiual ruin* in the United States.
Indeed, I saw nothing in Europe that
carried such an appeal to me as this
i Id Sheldon Church. * .
The Church.-
The church took its name from the
balikirk in which it was built. It was
built about 1712. Sheldon Hall stood
seve-ral acres South of the church and
was named from the family seat of the
Bulls in England, and it* pretentious
architectural plan was identical with
the family seat in the rrtother country.
Be* idea two colonial governors, the
Bull family furnished one surveyor
general to the colony of Carolina. The
Bull grants extended from the Savan
nah to the Combahee River. They
were great patrons of the Sheldon
Church. They presented it with the
silver plate whch is still in use at the
McPheft-sonville Church. Et is said
that General Stephen Bull entertain
ed at his place, Sheldon Hall, every
Sunday sixty or seventy gentlemen
from the surrounding country. The
church every Sunday was largely at
tended and one nJt infiequently saw
on Sunday sixty or, more old closed
family coaches draiwin. up in front of
the church, each with its coachman
and a footman in* the little dicky seat.
It was known as being undoubtedly a
.swell place of worship, and ev^ry soul
in Prince William Parish made it a
point every Sunday to wiorship in this
church.
During the Revolutionary War the
,dopdwo(rk lofi ttye church wa# partpall 1 y
destroyed by fire by an accident on the
part of troopers, c.r directly, perhaps
by General Tarleton’s men. The wood
work of the house again was burned
later by either loyalists or patriots, it
is net known which, ithe Bull ffraily JHirfeh Churchyard, viz; William Bull,
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Barnwell, South Carolina.
there was a cairebaker for these
ruins, who used, rent free, these glebe
lands. One camnot understand why
the Episcopal church of the South, as
it ought to do, has not lately put
new care-taker over. them.
Its Furniture.
The bricks and furniture -of the
church were aM brought from Eng
land. The walls are remarkably thick,
three and one-half to four feet, and
are in perfect repair. The door-wry
and the chancel windows were im
mense affairs, taking up nearly all
of the front a nd rear ends of the
church. Along the two sides were
large windows, and into these side
walls were built extremely semicircu
lar bastions of brick that extended
from the top to the bcAtom, giving
it somewhat the appearance of a for
tress. The plaster on the side walls
is in perfect repair, and probably
wan made fn-tn burnt oyster shell.
Along the inside walls are stiH to be
found tiny Httle marble shelves on
which the candles which lighted up
the building were placed.
There are It Teas! six"bastions along
each of its walls. In front of the
ohurch and forming once a covered
p rtico. are some five arge and tall
round brick columns, thus giving the
church the form of a Greek temple.
This church would cost in the todny
at least $80,000. It showed the quality
and the requirements of the men who
built it and w-orshipped there. I
doubt if in all New England up to
the Revolutionary War there was
a church coating a* much as did this
church, and I wonder, too, if there w a s
a dwelling there that was the equal
in pretentiousness to Sheldon Ha!l.
This gives us an idea, I assert, of the
high standing and the wealth and the
dignity of these . old Episcopal wor
shippers in Prince William Parish.
Sacred Ruins.
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The church yard n a large one and
^thickly studded with immense Live
Oaks at least a hundred and seventy-
fiVe years old, and evergreen, which
stand like ever living sentinels about
the sacred ruins, and from alll of the
limbs of th^se^ trees and swinging al
most to the very ground hang* Spanish
moss, gray and mournful, and which
sway with every wind. There lie here
Some of the Bulls, Middletons, Chis
olms and many others antedating the
above. The Bull monuments carry the
family coat of arms. The insorip-
tions off them tell of .the lives of
patricians and noblemen.
These old churdh ruins fit into noth
ing of today. To the visitor driving
over to jt e mile away from the Shel
don railway station on the Charleston
and Western Catclrnia Railway and
.who comes suddenly upon it, its view
as strange as if there stood before
him one of St. John’s visions as let
down for the moment out of the skies.
The Bull Family.
The Bulls were the most distin
guished, richest, and most powgrftl
of all the early English settlers. Three
of them were buried in the Sheldon
there followed an ancestry so distin-
gukhed and blue-blooded as to be
without parallel in this country. John
Bull died in seventeen hundred and
sixty-seven (1767). He had large es
tates owning all of Bull’s Island, to
day known as Coosaw fsiimd.
Blackville Wins Two.
In an exciting game of baseball on
the local diamond Friday afternoon,
Blackville to:k the big end of a 7 to 4
score. Both teams had two bad in
nings, bat while the visitors succeed
ed in scoring three runs in each of
them, Barnwell could only push two
runs across. —
Tuesday afternoon, Blackville was
again victorious in a swatfest, the
score being 22 to tl.
The teams were made up of a com
bination of high school players and
others.
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thus bejng divided in their allegiance
But the church and the Bull residence
were again rebuilt, but both wej-e
again burned during the Civil War,
thia time intentionally by Sherman’s
raiders. At the thhe of the Revolu
tion there stood in front of the church
,a leaden equestrian atatue of William,
Duke of Oramge, after whom the par
ish was named. Around the old
church are 'gM>e lands, apdeeiuatical
and non-taxable. Twenty yean ago
the youngefj in seventeen hundred and
severity-five (1775), who was Lieu
tenant Governor cf South Carolina
and captain in the Tuscarora and
Yemassee Indian Wars and who held
half a dozen other high office*' Gen
eral Stephen Brill who built Sheldon
Hall and practically built Sheldon
Church, and who owned almost the
whole of Prince William’s Parish.
Ha was one of the moa* picturesque of
all of the early settlers and from him
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