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The History Of Long
Cane A. R. P. Church
(By Miss Alma Young, Fairfield
Home Demonstration Club.)
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You often see automobile drivers
who. help support the evolution
theory.
Long Cane was originally a fort,
(Fort Long Cane) for the protec
tion of settlers from the Cherokee
Indians who had been pushed
back beyond the mountains of
Northern Carolina, in Pickens and
Oconee counties. Then the Fort
became a place where the inhabit
ants assembled for religious serv
ice before moving to the groves of
the present church location.
Fort Long Cane, now Long Cane
Church, was on the east side of
Long Cane Creek and nearly a mile
from present location east of the
old Andrew McCombs’ Mill, (now
known as Bradley’s Mill) and north
of Davis’ Hill, around which pres
ent road curves leading down to
the creek. Andrew McCombs had
a King’s grant to lands joining on
west side of Long Cane from the
mill. Long Cane was Fort Long
Cane as early as 1760 or 1761. Be
fore going to the Flat Woods, the
Calhoun settlement was on Long
Cane aijid land laid out for some of
the party is within less than two
miles of present bridge over Long
Cane Creek.
Dr. Thomas Clark was the first
pastor of Long Cane. He was born
in Gallaway, Scotland, about 1722.
He was said to be a graduate of
Glasgow University and was licens
ed to preach in 1748. He labored
in Ireland, Ballibay County, for
about sixteen years. JDn May 10,
1764, Dr. Clark and 300 of his mem
bers set sail for America from
Newry, Ireland, and landed in New
York, July 28, 1764, where his con
gregation divided; part set out for
Long Cane and Cedar Springs, Ab
beville County, and others, the
greater part, posted up the Hud
son. Dr. Clark came over from
Reddrum Strenboden, near Balli
bay, Ireland. His wife was Eliza
beth Nesbit Clark. She died De
cember 10, 1769, and is buried in
the Caleon’s Presbyterian Church
grave yard. She was 32 years old.
Robert Clark, their son, was born
in 1755 and died July 10, 1762. He
is also buried in Ireland. Anoth
er son, Ebenezer, was bom July 4,
1753; then a daughter, Elizabeth,
bom 1758; another son, Benjamin,
was bom about 1760. He became
a physician and lived and died in
Abbeville, S. C. His grave is un
known to us.
Dr. Clark became pastor over the
first church between New York and
Canada. In 1769 Dr. Clark visit
ed the portion of his congregation
that went to South Carolina. In
1782 he resigned the N. Y. pastor
ate and in 1786 was installed pastor
of Long Cane and Cedar Springs.
Before accepting Long Cane and
Cedar Springs pastorate, Dr. Clark
made three, if not four, trips south
preaching at various churches en
route and establishing missions.
He remained in charge of the
southern congregations until he
died of appoplexy December 26,
1792, and is buried at Cedar
Springs, S. C., near where he lived
at the time of his ministry here.
Before Dr. Clark organized the con
gregation of Long Cane (so called
from the creek on the west bank of
which the house of worship was
built) part of his congregation
would meet with the people out
in the open and have prayer, sing
and talk about religion.
Then, after Dr. Clark’s arrival
here, they had a shelf built be
tween two large oaks, (these trees
are still standing, but were struck
by lightning on May 26, 1931) to
lay the Bible on. There was no
cover over their heads except the
beautiful elements. The first
church was of rude logs. Another
was erected during Dr. Clark’s min
istry and in 1856 the present
church was erected. It is of wood
44x64 feet with a 10 foot porch and
gallery around three sides. Long
Cane has been without a pastor
several times, the longest being
twenty years. The sh3lf was stand
ing at the time of the centennial.
There are members of Long
Cane living today, who remember
the shelf well. There was a small
house built with a chimney at one
end (near where services were 1
held in the open) where you would
go in to meet with the session if
you wanted to accept Christ and
become a member of the church.
On the 24th day of February, 1790,
Rev. Thomas Clark, M. D., Rev.
Peter McMullen, Rev. John Boyes,
Rev. David Bothwell and James
Rogers, probationers, together with
ruling elders, James McBryde and
William Dunlap, met at Long Cane
and organized the Associated Re
formed Presbytery of Carolinas and at its fall meeting.
Georgia. “To the members of the j First, Rev. Bradley was ordained
A. R. P. Church Long Cane is a and installed pastor of Generostte
Gilgal,” for here our fathers camp- land Concord, S. C., in 1837, where
ed the first night after they cross- ( he labored until the fall of 1883.
ed the Jordan, and here in the
language of Holy Writ, they pitch
ed their Monumental Stones.” Dr.
Clark was at one time unrighteous
ly imprisoned at Ballibay, but while
in prison he wrote letters, preach
ed and administered Baptism.
Three of the couples he married
during his confinement came to
America and were afterwards his
parishoners in Long Cane, S. C.
Before Clark died, with pen in
hand he was writing a formal let
ter to his old congregation at
Ballibay, “What I do thou knowest
not now, but thou shalt know here
after,” his pen propped from his
hand.
The New York portion of Clark’s
colony went up to Stillwater, New
York, in Washington County, and
settled at Salem. After Clark’s
death Long Cane was without a
pastor for four years; then Peter
McMullen was appointed as supply.
He was pastor at Due West. Mc
Mullen came to Due West from
Ahoghill, Ireland, in 1788. Many
settlers from about Due West came
from the same part of Ireland.
This community is to this day
known as Hogskin. McMullen later
moved near Fayettville, Tenn.,
where he taught and occas
ionally preached when urged. It
is said he frequently closed his ser
mon, his face bathed in tears, with
this suggestion, “Do as I say do—
not as I do.” He was the only
educated minister in that section
of the state: McMullen died while
in Tennessee and is buried near
Fayettville.
The second pastor installed at
Long Cane was Alexandra Porter,
April 2, 1798. Porter was the first
native son of the churches. The
Porters settled on the , southwest
side of Parson’s Mountain, (Little
Mountain) and were neighbors to
their kinsman, James Foster’s fam
ily, who were on the southeast side
of same mountain. He was edu
cated at Dickson College. In 1813
he moved to Preble County, Ohio.
A colony forming a church went
with him from Long Cane and
Cedar Springs and organized a
church in Preble County, Ohio, in
the Beachwood settlement. He died
in 1835 and left one son to carry
on his ministerial work. Another
son who was a physician also left
three daughters. “He died in the
triumphs of faith, talking on his
dying couch of death as of a fam
iliar friend, rejoicing in hope of a
glorious immortality at God’s right
hand.”
John T. Pressly became pastor
February 28, 1828. In 1931, demit-
ting other charges, he became pro
fessor in A. R. P. Theological Sem
inary at Allegheny, Penn. He
was an honor for over fifteen years
to our synod. He died August
13, 1870. (The A. R. P. bell at Troy
church was a gift from his daugh
ter.) From 1831 to 1837 Long Cane
church was vacant again. Then
W. R. Hemphill became pastor for
eleven years. The next minister in
charge was Rev. H. T. Sloan when
he accepted in 1850. He was a
brother of A. S. Sloan, sons of
Cannon Creek churches, Newberry
County. Rev. Sloan was a long,
fruitful one. He ^nly had one
charge and for forty years he lab-
He was then installed the first pas
tor of Troy, S. C., in the spring of
]1884. He demitted this charge
in 1889 and at the meeting of Pres
bytery at Ebenezer, Ga., on Decem
ber 5, 1891, he became pastor of
Long Cane and continued the hon
ored- pastor until the fall of 1930,
during Presbytery at Troy, S. C., he*
resigned on account of infirmities
of ^ge.
He had served faithfully for
forty years. Mr. Bradley has }ed
a busy life. In addition to the du
ties of the pastorate he began the
publication of the “Psalm Sing
er,” which continued for two years
and was sold to Rev. Warrington,
Beaverfalls, Pa. Rev. Bradley also
proposed the famous pastoral let
ter issued by the A. R. Synod is
sued in 1882. He is descended of
distinguished parentage on both
sides of his ancestry and was rear
ed in choice surroundings of early
life. He was a vigorous, fearless
preacher, true to every conviction
at any cost, is a diligent student
and an impressive speaker.
After Rev. Bradley’s resignation
as pastor of Long Cane it was
again without a pastor, but
through the efforts of the members
at Long Cane they were able to se
cure Rev. W. C. Kerr of Abbeville,
S. C., who is the present pastor.
Long Cane has over one hundred
members at present.
A number of the South’s most
prominent ministers of the Asso
ciated Reformed Presbyterian Sy
nod have been born in the
Long Cane parish, among them be
ing Dr. John T. Pressly, and son.
Dr. Joseph Pressly, of Erie, ?a.;
Dr. E. E. Pressly, Dr. David Pressly,
Dr. J. E. Pressly, Rev. Joseph Mc
Creary, Rev. William Patton, L. L.
D. r Rev. W. W. Patton, Rev. John
Hemphill, Rev. James Weed, Rev.
S. P. Robinson, Rev. J. C. McDon
ald, Rev. R. F. Bradley, Rev. E. B.
Kennedy and Rev. I. N. Kennedy.
Hundreds of infants have been
presented at the altar for the
christening ceremony during the
century and a half of Long Cane’s
existence. Many’s the funeral pro
cession that has wound its way to
the burial ground nearby; the
muffled tread and the voice of the
minister, “I am the Ressurection
of the Life,” have been reverbe
rated through the silent church
hundreds of times. Here the hum
ble pioneer who had “finished the
fight” received the final tribute
from the pastor, who with him, had
braved the terrors of the savages
in the battle for life in a new
country; and with the parsing of
time, soldiers of a dissevered, and
later, a reunited country, have
made their last march to the altar,
borne by reverent hands, and later
consigned to the little church
yard, where their ashes now mingle
with those of the patriotic ances
tors. A short distance away, is
the burial ground of the slaves who
served their masters with a devo
tion unparalled.
Long Cane church is about 4 1-2
miles northwest of Troy, S. C., and
is in McCormick County. Although
this religious institution has exist
ed for a century and a half, .stand
ing sentinal-like, in its grove if
cedars that reckon their age with
that of the church itself, strange
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T T. MARTIN
Main Street, McCormick, S. C. ’Phone 43
California Girl
of Ditties
year 1C30 when Miss Roberta Isa-
ibella Wilson (she being a member
and Mr. Matthew Moo're Cox of
Hazelwood. N. C., plighted their
vows at the church’s altar.
ored among his people. “He tend-. . ,
, , , * to say, no marriage has ever been
erly bore in his arms the lamos of, ^ ^
v. ,,, , , . consummated therein during the
his ilock, placing upon their A , ......
,, i * Zi, 4. f century and a half of its existence
brows the seal of the covenant of , .^ T ^
, ,. , . , until early m November m the
baptism and when these had grown J
to the estate of manhood and wo
manhood he united them in wed-, ^ T ^ ,,
, ... , of Long Cane from childhood)
lock with pious admonition, and, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . ^
when later on the reaper came, as
he so often did and with sickle
keen reaped the bearded grain, in
melting tones and more melting
words he consigned them to their Forage crops are more likely to
last resting place.” be profitable on alkali lands than
It was during Rev. Sloan’s pas- are cr °P s grown foi fruit or seeds,
torate that the present building sa y s U. S. Department of Ag-
was erected. It is a beautiful i riculture. Certain meadow and
specimen of architecture. No pasture grasses, sorghum, barley,
change has been made in the body anc * r y e » as ( c y°P s * sweetclover,
of the handsome building since its anc * ra pe give fairly satisfactoiy
erection, though repairs have been results where the salt content of
made from time to time. Rev. so ^ * s no ^ excessive. Alfalfa
Sloan died of paralysis February stand a moderate quantity of
13, 1894. His monument in marble alkali if the grower can get a
stands in front of the church at stand. Sugar beets are somewhat
Cedar Springs tolerant, but the size and quality
The next pastor we take up i- of the roots are inferior when
Rev. R. F. Bradley, whom we all
know. He became pastor of Long
Cane on December 5, 1891. He ,
. ^ „ length and strength. There is more
was born m Abbeville county Sep- B . ...
much alkali is present. Cotton is
fairly resistant, but in strong al
kali soils the fiber suffers in
tember 22, 1846. In early life he
had the advantage of neighboring
schools and high schools taught by
Rev. E. L. Patton near Long Cane
and was graduated from Erskine
in 1869 and from Erskine again in
chance of getting a good stand if
the crop is planted as soon as pos
sible after a rain or heavy irriga
tion.
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None of the girls has runners in
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