John H. Wells
Cheraw, July 4 -
John H. Wells died suddenly at 8 o'clock yesterday morning of
heart failure, aged 32 years. He had been feeling badly
for a week, but Sunday he motored with his family to Cameron,
N.C. to see B. C. Melver, superintendent of the Cheraw
schools. On the way back he had automobile trouble and
overexterted himself. On reaching home he called a
physician and soon felt better. Yesterday morning he let in
the negro man to start the kitchen fire and retired again to
bed. At 8 o'clock when he was wanted for breakfast he
was found dead in bed.
Mr. Wells was a prominent fire
insurance man, and was for years one of the trustees of the
Cheraw schools, and secretary of the vestry of St. David's
church. He was very popular on account of his
genial and wholesouled disposition. Some years ago he
married Miss Lillie Hendrix of Cheraw who, with four
little children, survives him. He also leaves his
mother, two brothers, Ed M. Wells of Darlington, H. E. Wells
of Columbia, and four sisters, Mrs. William Ballinger of
Greer, Mrs. E. C. McGregor of Columbia, Mrs. P. B. Huntley and
Miss Mildred Wells of Cheraw.
The funeral services will
be held tomorrow morning; interment in St. David's church
yard. (The State - July 5, 1916)
Elizaabeth Jane
Reddy
Died...December 3d, in Cheraw, Mrs.
Elizabeth Jane Reddy, in the 48th year of her age. She
was a native of Meath, Ireland. (The Charleston Mercury -
December 13, 1859)
Gideon Walker
Duvall
Cheraw, July 23 - At about 9 o'clock this
morning little Gideon Walker Duvall, aged four, only son of
Mr. and Mrs. G. Walker Duvall, passed into rest, after a short
illness. He had been taken by his father to Wrightsville
Beach to spend Sunday with his little sisters and coming home
on Tuesday, developed measles on the train. Pneumonia
set in and death was the result. He was a sweet child
and a favorite with older folk as well as with children. (The
State - July 24, 1914)
Mrs. Mary A.
Gay
Jefferson, Feb 16 – Mrs. Mary A.
Gay, widow of the late S. L. Gay, died Sunday evening,
February 12, at 7:30 o'clock, at her home, after an illness of
several months.
Mrs. Gay was the daughter of the
late George W. and Elizabeth Brewer. She was in her 75th year.
She was an earnest and devoted member of the Methodist church,
a loving and affectionate wife and mother and a kind
neighbor.
The funeral services were held
at the home Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Her pastor, the
Rev. W. U. Jerman, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Pittman and the
Rev. Mr. Johnston, officiated. Interment was in the Jefferson
cemetery.
She is survived by one daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Gay of Cheraw, two sons, W. B. Gay of
Hartsville and R. Bruce Gay of Jefferson, and one grandchild,
Mary Elizabeth Gay of Hartsville. (The State – February 17, 1922)
George
Kennedy, Esq. post master of Chesterville, So.
Ca. This old and respectable citizen, departed this life
on the 8th inst. in the 63rd year of his age. He died
happy in those good and conscious reflections which are the
result of pure undeviating integreity, and it be necessary to
attach to his character, any distinguished merits by which his
memory may be known to the world, suffice it, that as an
honest man, he was upright and unequivocal in rectitude; that
as a charitable one, he fed the hungry, gave drink to the
thirsty, and clothed the naked; that as a husband, he was kind
and provident, as a father, affectionate and endearing; that
as a good man, he obeyed, reverenced and feared his God, and
loved his neighbour as himself. This forms tha character
of the deceased, and by it his name is honorable
remembered. A golden cenotaph may deck the resting place
of the nighty; but a virtuous life is the purest record of the
tomb...P. F. B. (South Carolina State Gazette and Columbia
Advertisor June 23, 1827)
February 21, 1917
Porter, Charles Wesley
Mr.
Charles Wesley Porter died Monday afternoon at the home of his
son-in-law, Mr. John W. Clark, near Pageland. He had
been in failing health for several years and had been confined
to his bed for several weeks. His condition had been
growing worse and it had been know for some time that he could
not live.
Mr. Porter was a native of Anson
County, was 73 years old, and is survived by two sons, one
daughter, and five half brothers. The sons, Mr. C. W.
and Mr. James Porter, live in Eldorado, Arkansas. The daughter
is Mrs. J. W. Clark.
The funeral service will be
conducted Tuesday afternoon about 3 o'clock by Rev. J. W..
Quick at Rose Hill Church and the body will be buried in Old
Rose Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Porter was a Confederate
veteran and a good citizen. He had been a member of the
church ever since the war and he had been a member of Rose
Hill since it was organized. He frequently expressed his
conviction that he was prepared to die stating that he was
ready and unafraid to answer the final summons...SC#1
Col. Cash Dead
The
Man Who Fought The Last South Carolina Duel
The New
York Times - February 28, 1888
transcribed by Dena
Whitesell
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 27.—CoL E. B. C. Cash, the
famous duelist and "fire eater," who killed Col. William M.
Shannon, a prominent lawyer, in a duel in August, 1880, and
who subsequently for 10 days detied the entire power of the
State to arrest him, died at his home in Chesterfield County
on Saturday of paralysis, aged 66 years. He was buried
yesterday in the grounds adjoining the Cash mansion, beside
his son, Boggan Cash, a young desperado, who was shot and
killed by a Sheriff's posse five years ago while resisting
arrest for the murder of the Town Marshal of
Cheran.
Before the abolition of slavery Col. Cash owned
large plantations and several hundred slaves. At the outbreak
of the war he was one of the first in the field, and commanded
the Eighth South Carolina Regiment at the first Manassas
battle. He was a bold and desperate fighter. After the war he
settled upon his lands and planted. He was a great sporting
man and owned fine horses. He had a very quick temper, and
since the war had killed four men. Two of these were negroes,
whom he killed for some slight provocation. In 1880 Cash
fought the famous duel with Col. Shannon. The difficulty grew
out of a quarrel between the ladies of the two families
regarding the division of some property. Col. Shannon,
although an old man, accepted Cash's challenge and was shot
through the heart. The people of the State condemned this duel
so severely that shortly afterward the Legislature passed the
anti-dueling law, putting the duelist on the same footing with
an ordinary murderer. The Cash-Shannon duel was therefore
probably the last which will ever be fought in this
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