I suspect we are talking about the same line. James KESLER is a friend of mine. I need to get his paperwork that I helped him with a few years ago. I won't see Jim and Sue 'til April 26th. They lived in Conyers, GA for years. Gerre Byrd -----Original Message----- From: scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of cat5hall@msn.com Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:50 AM To: scgreenv@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Fw: General AndrewPickens & the KEASLER HOME Gerri, What is the birthdate of your Henry Keasler and who was his wife. My husband has Keaslers/Keslers that were in SC, then removed to GA and back to Greenville/Anderson area. Henry Keasler b. c1805 m. Lucinda Wardlaw -------------------------------------------------- From: "Gerre Byrd" <ggengard@comcast.net> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:07 AM To: <scgreenv@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Fw: General AndrewPickens & the KEASLER HOME > Linda, please tell me more about the KEASLER line. I have a very good > friend by the name of Jim KEASLER. I helped him trace his line back to a > Henry KEASLER in SC. Is this your line? I have no records to share, but > can get them from Jim when we meet in Athens the end of this month. > > Look forward to hearing from you. > > Gerre Byrd > > -----Original Message----- > From: scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:scgreenv-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of > mizzldnsc@bellsouth.net > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:27 PM > To: scgreenv@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Fw: General AndrewPickens home being unkept > andunmaintained by CU > > > Hello Herb, > You helped me a couple of years back finding the Keasler home there in > Lebanon. > I am surprised to hear this about Hopewell House. I and several family > members got permission from Clemson to go through the home a couple of > years ago. We wanted to do so because my great grandfather, Johnny Mack > Landreth, was overseer there for many, many years when it was the Cherry > farm. My grandmother, Vivian McAbee, spent most of her childhood in the > house and we had heard many things about it. The gentleman at CU was > delighted to hear from us, said they had plans to restore it and wanted > any > information we had. My uncle, now in his 80s, remembered a great deal > about > it from when he was a little boy. They tape recorded everything he said > about where the orchards and outbuildings were. We were told that they > intended to renovate it and open it for tours. We check ever so often > but, > as you say, nothing seems to have been done. I am saddened to hear this. > I > don't remember the gentleman's name that took us through the house. As > you > say, there's plenty of mon! > ey, so > wonder what happened. > Linda D. > -------------- Original message from "herb_316" > <herb_316@bellsouth.net>: -------------- > > >> >> >> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 5:15 AM >> Subject: General AndrewPickens home being unkept and unmaintained by CU >> >> >> GENERAL ANDREWS PICKENS HOME "HOPEWELL" 4-6/2008 >> >> >> >> It was interesting to see the Old Pendleton Newsletter article on Gen. > Andrew >> Pickens and his home. Hopewell.. However Hopewell is not currently > occupied and >> is in a bad state of repair, witnessed by many pictures I have taken of > the home >> and site. >> >> >> >> I had been by Hopewell and am currently watching it for the potential for > some >> one to be doing something to keep the home up and as a notable place for >> maintaining our Heritage in SC. >> >> >> >> When I visited "Hopewell" I found the brickwork in disrepair, paint was > peeling >> off the outside walls. A room upstairs had the window open and something >> sticking in it - a pure source for rot. The front porch boards were all > loose >> and not kept in repair. Numerous holes in the boards in the wall, the out >> building was rusting away. The main roof had been replaced on Hopewell >> but > the >> front porch roof needs to also be replaced. I did not get a chance to >> view > the >> interior. >> >> >> >> To me it said CU is just waiting for it to rot down, so one can say like > CU did >> for Col Simpson's old home outside of Pendleton, "It can't be repaired >> and > needs >> to be torn down." >> >> >> >> I personally thinks it is a disgrace for all the money CU gets from the > State >> and other sources, from their documents over $646 Million per year, to >> not > take >> care of the property. >> >> >> >> To back up what I say here is another example you can see on Lebanon >> Road, > near >> Mack Smith's Store in Anderson County, SC. I live about 1/4 mile from >> this >> location.. >> >> >> >> I went by to review the agriculture equipment auction at the Simpson > Station on >> Lebanon Road. Joe Douthit, a true benefactor to Clemson U., had a once > stately >> and well up kept two story home for his residence on the property, not >> historical in the same aspect as Hopewell, but reminiscent of old SC > upstate >> homes. CU has owned this property since about 1965 when they bought Joe >> Douthit's old farm from the residue of the payments by the Feds for the > Hartwell >> Lake land CU owned before flooding. They gave $300/acre for the land in > 1965. >> The home has been rented since that time as well as the old Harold > Hunnicutt >> residence on the Douthit station, which is also in need of repair, one > example >> is that the roof is showing rust. >> >> >> >> I walked around the old Joe Douthit home taking pictures just as I did >> for > the >> Hopewell place. At Joe Douthit's home it seems no repairs or paint has > been used >> on the place since 1965. The roof is rusting out, mold and moss are about > 2 >> inches thick on other parts of the roof, the front porch is rotting out > and >> buckling, the top deck porch and veranda area is rotting, the whole place > needs >> painting. The chimney has holes showing through it where the grout has > fell out. >> It is a disaster waiting to rot also. >> >> >> >> I went to OP District Commission. They said it is not our place to do > anything. >> They claimed CU was going to do repairs on Gen. Andrew Pickens home. Well > if you >> look around at the Perks for the faculty and the students at CU you ask > yourself >> what about our Heritage? >> >> >> >> Are we not proud of General Andrew Pickens to at least save and maintain > his old >> home place? We need someone at CU that cares about SC Heritage. >> >> >> >> In addition there is no historical marker on the road showing it is > Hopewell. >> There are no markers in the yard or on the home that says it is Hopewell. > But >> having been born here and lived a few years here I and others know it is >> Hopewell, the home of General Andrew Pickens.. >> >> >> >> I ask simply why can't General Andrew Pickens old home Hopewell be kept >> up > and >> maintained, and furnished like Tom Clemson's old home and put on display > for all >> to view who are proud of their SC Heritage? It would make a major > historical >> attraction if handled correctly and maintained. >> >> >> >> If not please tell me why. >> >> >> >> Please help get this item on the CU agenda of doing something about it >> for >> maintaining our SC Heritage. >> >> >> Herb Hendricks >> Retired NASA Physicist >> 2418 Lebanon Road >> Pendleton, SC 29670 >> Herb_316@Bellsouth.net >> 864 2616636 >> Group Administrator Hendricks DNA Project >> Secretary Hendricks Family Association >> Current Research Families; Major, Smith, Craig, Hendricks, Eskew, > Rochester >> Web site = http://www.familytreedna.com/public/hendricks >> >> Visit the Greenville County, S.C. GenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scgreenv/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCGREENV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > Visit the Greenville County, S.C. 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