William H. Harrington Annals of Newberry, Part Two by John A. Chapman, page 606 Dr. William H. Harrington was a native of Newberry County and was born at Newberry Village on the 17th of Nowmber, 1816. He received a good education, read medicine and graduated from the Medical College Of Charleston, settled at Newberry and on the 18th of November, 1841, married Miss Sarah S. O'Neall, daughter of Hon. J. B. O'Neall. After her death, which occurred in August, 1857, he married Mrs. Hollingsworth, nee Griffin, in December, 1858. While his home was at Newberry he rep­ resented the county in the Legislature for two years. He left Newberry in 1865 and removed to Mississippi, where he died at his home in Crawfordville. His remains have been brought to Newberry and interred in the Calmes Cemetery, where his maternal grandparents, his own parents and many more of his kindred are sleeping. He was the father of Mrs. Dr. Sampson Pope, the late Mrs. J. Wistar Gary, and the late Young John Harrington, and of Mrs. Thomas J. Lipscomb, of Columbia, S. C. He leaves a son, Dr. Belton Harrington, and a daughter, Mrs. Kier, in Mississippi, and a son, Hugh O'Neall Harrington, in Texas. His widowed sister, Mrs. Nancy Moon, still lives at Newberry. He was a good man.