History of Edgefield County from the Earliest Settlements to 1897

1897. Early days in Edgefield County, South Carolina, are explored through a mixture of historical events and colorful tales in this reprint of History of Edgefield County from the Earliest Settlements to 1897 by John A. Chapman, originally published in 1897. The 3-color cover is printed on 80# card stock and protected with a vinyl sheet. The booklet, printed on 60# opaque paper, contains 260 pages. However, because we use a 2-up format on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, it has the equivalent of over 520 pages from the original book. One small section was missing from our source book, involving parts of two original pages. Chapter headings, sub-titles, etc.: First Settlement, Roving Traders, Building Fort Keowee, Conference at Saluda Old Town, Settlers of Various Nationalities -- Culbreaths, Hazels, Abneys, Towlses, Carsons, and others; Ferries at Saluda, Stewart Settlement; Perrys, Colemans, Trotters, Inconveniences of the Settlers, Changes in the Names of Places, Opening of Public Road, Christian Priber, Obstructing Water Courses, Education, the Butler Family and a Memoir from General William Butler, Muster Roll with List of Capt. Zachary Smith Brooks' Company, Story of George and Sampson Pope, Journey of Washington, Abney Meeting House, Roads & Ferries after the Revolution, Mount Willing, Catlett Connor, Townships, Information on Militia in 1775, Correspondence between Major Mayson and Colonel Thompson in 1775, Seige of 96 in 1781, Tory Marauders, Cunningham's Raid, Condition of the County at the end of the Revolution, Settlers from Maryland, Dr. J.C. Ready, The Yellow Jacket Company, a Fight at Edgefield, the Aurora Borealis display, Secession at Mount Willing, Ministers, Colonel Sam Watson, Captain Tom Bates and others, Origin of Mount Willing's name, Mad Bill Abney, John A. Crouder, Westside, Parksville, Rehoboth, Skipper's Georgia and the Dark Corner, Fruit Hill and Vacinity, Capt. James Ryan, Le Roy and Samuel Hammond, the Pickens family, Capt. Richard Johnson, Michael Watson, Francis Salvador, the Martin family, Mrs. Cruger, Mrs. Dillard, and Mrs. Thomas, Pickens and Williamson, Fort Galphin, Norris Township, Rev. Alexander Travis, Nicholas Stallworth family, William Barrett Travis, hero of the Alamo, Mark Butler Travis, Colonel P.D. Bowles, John F. Grimke, Judges Richard Gantt, William D. Martin and Ephrain Ramsey, James J. Caldwell, John S. Jeter, Edmund Bacon, John Dunlap, Abraham Giles Dozier, Charles Goodwyn, John S. Glascock, Nathan Lipscomb Griffin, George McDuffie, Thomas H. Pope, Eldred Simkins, Lieutenant Colonel John C. Simkins, Charles Martin Gray, the War of 1812, the Tillman Family, W.B. Dorn, the Edwards family, Kansas Troubles (leading toward the Civil War), the 7th Regiment, Soldiers' Relief Association, Hamburg, Francis Hugh Wardlaw, John E. Bacon, Col. Joseph Abney, Officers of the 22nd Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Joseph Quattlebaum, William Walker, Reconstruction Period, Dr. John Landrum, Col. James C. Smyley, Col. James P. Carroll, Gen. R.G.M. Dunovant, Andrew J. Hammond, Col. James Tompkins, Preston S. Brooks, William Gregg, Col. James B. Griffin, Gen. Martin W. Gary, Col. W.C. Morange, the Blocker family, Wounded Officers, Mark Madison Abney, Capt. James Pope Bean, Major Cicero Adams, Joseph Matthew Abney, Pickens B. Watts, Joseph Haddon, the Ouzts Settlement, Churches, Schools, Poems, Newspapers, Societies, Doctors -- W. Brazier, Elbert Bland, William Butler, A.W. Burt, Wall Burt, H. Burt, M.W. Abney, E.J. Mims, J.O. Nicholson, John Lake, W.W. Geiger, N. Meriwether, A.G. Teague, T.H. Pattison, J.F. Adams, W.Scott Sheppard, William D. Jennings Sr., George M. Yarbrough, William Coleman, Charles M. Burkhalter, and Garrett, Historical Hints of Edgefield, Description of the County, Under the Oaks at Lanham's, Penn's Drug Store, Waters family, Robert W. Jennings, Col. David Denny, Gen. James Jones, Col. T.P. Shaw, the Scott family, the Martins of Martintown, Werts family, the Haltiwanger family, James Sheppard family, Col. Lewis Elzey, Anne Kennedy, the Fires of Edgefield, the Pine House, Ninety-Six Riflemen, and many other Civil War units, Poem called "The Confederate Flag," Mrs. Lucinda Horne, the Citadel Academy, Troops in the Florida war, Troops in the War with Mexico. The book does not have a biography section but it does contain names of numerous early Edgefield County residents. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 11" x 8.5". Private Press.