Go to http://www.hchsonline.org/index.html then to the category listed. Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Antioch Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Bellamy Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Beulah Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Carter Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Chestnut Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Durant Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Gause Cemetery (Waccamaw) Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Graham Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Hardee Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Todd Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Sarvis Graveyard Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Price Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Mount Leon Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Holly Hill Cemetery Source: Waccamaw Records webmaster@hchsonline.org

Can anyone tell me where I could find the history of Antioch United Methodist Church (located off the Pee Dee Road (Hwy 24) on SR 63)? Does anyone know who the preacher is? Thanks! Marci-Jo Mishoe Charleston, SC

Hello everyone, Just wanted you to know I'm back from the land of "moving hell"! Just getting caught up with emails today. Hope all is well. Pam

Hey everyone. I've had trouble finding out what Causey family my ggg grandfather Daniel Causey belonged to. I found his wife's family last night though, maybe someone will recognize him now. Daniel's wife was named Armenta Hardee, she was the daughter of Lorenza Hardee and Polly Cox and she had a sister named Amanda. Daniel and Armenta lived in Loris, I believe. Daniel and Armenta would've been born in the mid-1800's. Their son, my gg grandfather John Pinckney Causey, was born in 1882. Also. does anyone have any info about Lorenza and Polly's families? I just discovered them so I don't know anything about them. I'm also looking for a William Lexington Barnhill who was married to Delphi Jane Skipper. I just found the obituary of their son on the HCHS website. Apparently, William Lexington Barnhill was known as Willie L Barnhill. Does anyone recognize him by that name? I believe William and Delphi were married in 1901 so they were probably born in the late-1800's sometime. Thanks everyone. Nick ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 Category: Land Records Document: Ebenezer Brown, Sr. to Ebenezer Brown, Jr. Deed of Gift for 62 acres of Land. Filed for Record Sept. 6, 1877 Source: Glenda B. Moore Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/land/ebenezerbrown.html http://www.hchsonline.org/ webmaster@hchsonline.org

Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Platt Cemetery Source: J. Stuart Platt Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/cemetery/platt.html http://www.hchsonline.org/ webmaster@hchsonline.org

Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 Category: Cemetery Records Document: Pleasant View Baptist Church Cemetery Source: Everett Floyd Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/cemetery/plevie.html webmaster@hchsonline.org

Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Category: Biographies Document: Rebecca Wilson (Clark) Snyder Teaching Days, Little River, SC Source: Independent Republic Quarterly Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/bio/rebeccasnyder.html Content: Teaching Days, Little River, SC (First Teaching Job - Sept., 1919 - May, 1920) Rebecca Wilson (Clark) Snyder [Rebecca Wilson Clark was born August 16, 1899, in Laurens, South Carolina. She graduated from Winthrop College in 1919 and taught school in North and South Carolina until her marriage to Theodore Snyder, a builder and a farmer, in 1931. With Mr. Snyder she had four sons, Theodore, Jr., John, Charles, and Henry. During her marriage she lived first in Cedar Mountain, North Carolina and later on a farm near Walhalla, South Carolina where she resumed teaching for another 11 years before retiring. She lived a long and productive life documented in a memoir completed in 1987, three years before her death on April 2, 1990, at the age of 90 in Greenville, South Carolina, where she lived after the death of her husband in 1970. Rebecca Clark Snyder is survived by her four sons.] When I graduated from Winthrop College in May 1919, I was offered several teaching jobs. My good friend, Alpha Bolt, and I accepted work at Little River, SC, a village on Little River Inlet, near the ocean and Cherry Grove Beach, as well as Conway, SC. Our three-room school house was a one-story building painted white, having huge wood stoves in each room for heat. When a play was to be given, or if cake walks and box suppers were on, two of the rooms could be "thrown together" to give added space. In the spring, sand fleas were so plentiful they got into our rooms, nearly disrupting classes. One reason for this was the "no-fence law," so hogs and pigs liked living under the schoolhouse, and they spread the fleas. At our complaints, the trustees had the hogs and pigs removed and boarded up all sides of the openings. Getting from our home town of Laurens to Little River was one round-about-way and took many hours. Alpha and I took the CN&L (Columbia, Newberry, and Laurens) train to Columbia, spent the night there, catching an early morning train to Florence, changed trains in Florence for Chadbourne, NC. Arriving there we were met and driven, over oyster bed roads, to Little River. It was just as complicated going back home to Laurens. Little River consisted of one very large general store, run by the Stone family. Here, you could buy anything from food to clothes; a bank, one or two smaller stores, a Methodist Church, and a "good many" homes. There was one doctor available, Dr. J. H. Stone. The location of the town was on Little River Inlet, there were many beautiful live oak trees, hung with gray moss, flowers of many varieties, including yellow jessamine. It was not far to the North Carolina line, and many people went to Wilmington, NC, to shop. When the rum boats came in from Wilmington, you would hear groups of sailors, high on rum, near town, singing as loudly as did Long John Silver when he let out with "Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest, ho, ha, ho, and a bottle of rum!" The school was supposed to operate only eight months, paying a teacher $80.00 per month. We three teachers decided to raise money and extend school one more month. This we accomplished by having cake walks, box suppers, and oyster roasts. What fun it was to raise money this way! We made enough to teach the extra month. At the small Methodist Church we three teachers took part in all activities. I was chosen to teach the men’s Bible class (me—only twenty years old and never having had a Bible course in my life!) Alpha Bolt was the organist, and Nettie Mitchell taught the primary Sunday School class. We were so inexperienced, all except Nettie, who had taught there the year before. When any person died, we teachers were asked to keep a wake all night before the burial. We were glad to do this for the families, but how hard to keep awake all night long! Usually someone would serve us hot coffee around midnight. Once or twice we were called upon to sit up all night with ill people. I recall one night, especially, when I was sitting up with a little girl who had fever. I was to massage her with alcohol to cool the fever. There was no electricity, and as the lamp was turned quite low, and as I was very drowsy, I reached for the alcohol and got the wrong bottle. I gave the child a good rub-down with Coca Cola. The little girl survived. Good ad for Coca Cola, if they see this! There was a flu epidemic that lasted several weeks, so we three teachers pitched in and helped the family where we boarded. All members of the family were ill. We pumped water from a pump in the back yard, we cooked the meals, and we helped all we could until the family recovered. And we taught every day, too! As the house was heated by fireplaces in each room, it was not easy to bring in wood, build fires, and take up ashes. We were young. We survived! I shall never forget my introduction to venison, many sea foods, and the pleasures of oyster roasts. Swimming at Cherry Grove Beach, moonlight picnics, square dances, shopping in Conway, a trip to Wilmington at Thanksgiving, en route to Spring Hope, NC, to visit my Aunt Martha Rebecca Gardner, cutting hair for small pupils, helping coach the girls’ basketball team, getting up plays—memories! Several days per week I taught piano lessons after school. I had six pupils. At the closing recital, held in the parlor of the home where I boarded, I made a "foxy poppa." After I though I had introduced each pupil as she went to play, lo and behold, I forgot to call on _____ Stone. Her mother arose from the chair and said, "Miss Clark, you did not call on _____ to play." I could have vanished, had it been possible, for my overlooking the daughter of one of the school’s trustees. Anyway, I begged her pardon, called on her to play, and that was that—a mistake I really was sorry I made. As I taught grades 8, 9, 10, and 11, plus three pupils in the third grade, my hands were more than full. A big help was a "pony" for use in teaching Caesar; another was having correct answers in my math books. To add to my chores, I was asked to help with the girls’ basketball team. Alpha and Nettie and I coached as best we could, and our team did very well playing against other small schools. Little River was in a picturesque setting of beautiful live oak trees, hung with moss. At the docks we enjoyed seeing boats of many kinds. Once a lovely yacht owned by Mr. Eaton (writing paper millionaire) docked there for several days. We teachers were invited aboard to see the yacht. I told Mr. Eaton that our school had no library and I hoped to start one. He had a good selection of books on board and gave them to me to start a school library. During the year we presented two plays: one was at the commencement season. It kept everyone busy. There was always something going on, even in this little remote settlement. I cherish the memories of my first year of teaching. Naturally, we three young teachers met young men who escorted us about. I shall never forget J. Marion Cox, Walter Bessant, and Clyde Bellamy. They were attentive to the three of us, took us to square dances, to ride, and added variety to our work-filled days. As I am nearing eighty-seven, there soon will be no one of that group. Memorable are the trips to Cherry Grove Beach for picnics and swimming. In 1919-20 no houses or condos stood there. I recall only one building near the beach. It was a large shed used by fishermen. One Sunday, in the little church, the pastor referred to the teachers in a very stern manner, saying we should not go swimming in bathing suits, but should wear dresses. I wonder what he would think of bathing suits in 1986, were he living. Teachers were called upon for all sorts of extras. One mother asked if I would trim her little girl’s long hair—a queer request for a teacher, but I told her I’d try to do it. The little girl was about eight years old and very quiet. I took scissors and clipped her hair as best I could, when, lo and behold, I clipped one small notch on her ear! I was overwhelmed by this, but the spunky child looked up at me and said, "Miss Clark, it didn’t hurt a crumb’s worth." What a year! What memories! What experiences! [ Biography Index ] [ Home ] This site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society P.O. 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Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Category: Places & Things Document: The Dimery Settlement Indian Descendants in the South Carolina Low Country Source: Independent Republic Quarterly Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/places/dimery.html Contents: The Dimery Settlement Indian Descendants in the South Carolina Low Country By Forest Hazel When one examines a map of Horry County, one is struck by the wealth of place names of American Indian origin. The county is bounded by the Little Pee Dee and the Waccamaw Rivers, and marked by such exotic sounding localities as Socastee and Wampee. Yet most of the county residents today are unaware that many of their neighbors have a significant amount of American Indian ancestry, and that most of these can be traced back to the area in Dog Bluff Township known as the Dimery Settlement. The Dimery Settlement has been largely forgotten by most of Horry County’s citizens, but at one time, during the early decades of this century, it was frequently mentioned in local newspapers, usually with speculation as to the origins of its inhabitants. Uncertainty about the exact racial origins of the various families living in the Dimery Settlement created something of a local mystery, and was the cause of several legal cases brought because members of the settlement allegedly married "outside their race." Systematic research began on the history of the Dimery Settlement in the fall of 1994, when a group of Indian people in the Horry County area, with assistance from a grant from the Administration for Native Americans, hired the author to begin assisting them in their quest for Federal Acknowledgment as the Chicora-Waccamaw Indian Tribe. There were several theories advanced to explain the existence of this distinct group of people: (1) they were remnants of the tribes such as the Waccamaw which had once lived in Horry County; (2) they were derived from some foreign race such as Spanish or Portuguese; (3) they were the result of a combination of Civil War deserters, escaped slaves, and Indians, all living in the swamps near Gunter ’s Island around the time of the Civil War; or (4) they were an offshoot of the so-called Croatan Indians (now Lumbee) of Robeson County, North Carolina. None of these theories is supported by historical records that have come to light to date. What is known for sure is that in 1809, in Marion County, John Dimery married Elizabeth Hardwick, and by 1813 they had moved to Horry County where he purchased 300 acres of land from William Lewis. This tract, for which he paid $50, was described only as being "in Gunter’s Islands", which lies on the east side of the Little Pee Dee River. An examination of other land plats indicate that the Dimery land was probably not directly on the river, but somewhat to the east, on the north side of Brunson Swamp. This land, with more acquired by John Dimery and his sons in later years, would form the heart of the Dimery Settlement. John Dimery first appears on the Horry County Census in 1820 as a "free person of color", presumably living on his land in the Dog Bluff section. It should be noted at this point that the fact that John Dimery and his family were counted as "free colored" should not be taken to mean that they were necessarily of African descent. An examination of records from various areas of the South in the first half of the 1800s shows that nearly every group now identified as Indian was counted as "colored" on the Census, as well as in many local records. The Nottoway and Ginkaskin of Virginia were all counted as "free colored" in 1830, even the ones still living on what was left of their reservation lands. The Meherrin, Chowan, and Saponi descendants of North Carolina were all listed as "Mulattos" or, simply, "colored," after moving off their reservations and adopting European lifestyles. In some cases this was a deliberate effort on the part of non-Indians to forestall any effort to reclaim land; in other cases it was simply a matter of the Indian people no longer seeming like "real" Indians in the eyes of their neighbors after losing so much of the traditional culture. It is very unusual to find Indians listed as such after about 1780 in any part of the South. The last apparent mention of the Pee Dee and Waccamaws came in 1755, when John Evans mentions in his journal that the Cherokees and Natchez Indians killed some Pee Dees and Waccamaws "in the white people’s settlements." The location of the tribes at that time is uncertain, some believe they were living near the present-day Moncks Corner, SC. In any case, it is clear that the Dimery Settlement people did not consider themselves to be of African descent. In a newspaper account from the April 23, 1921, Horry Herald concerning a dispute between two of the families in the settlement, it states, "They are mixed as to race, claiming that they have Indian blood in their veins." It is possible that there were other Indian or part-Indian people living in the Dog Bluff area when John Dimery settled there. It is also possible that that was the reason he bought that land there. It is a historical fact that there was a late Woodland Period Indian village site located near Jordanville containing examples of pottery from the Pee Dee period., which is generally thought to cover the 1200-1650 A.D. period. So it is possible that there may have been a vague recollection in Dimery’s family of their people having once lived in that region. It is an interesting thought, but one which is unfortunately not supported by any hard evidence at this point. By 1850 the Dimery Settlement had grown to at least four families, those of John Dimery, Willis Thompkins, Cockran Thompkins, and Sara Cook, for a total of some 27 individuals. Oral tradition states that around this time John Dimery gave the land for Pisgah Church, and his family may have been the so-called "free colored" members who attended the church in its early years. There are supposed to be some Dimerys buried near Pisgah Church in a small cemetery. There is no indication that the Dimerys lived in any way differently than their neighbors, no mention of any particular Indian customs or language, and they appear to have participated in the rural society at least to a limited extent. The Indian people raised cotton, corn, and later tobacco, much the same as their neighbors, and participated in community activities such as hog killings, barn raisings, and wood sawings where community members combined their efforts to help individual members of the settlement. An article in the Horry News dated December 23, 1876, gives a "List of Colored Voters in Horry County who voted the Democratic Ticket at the General Election on the 7th of November 1876." This list shows that in Dog Bluff Township, David Turner, George Cooper, Jas. B. Cook, J. L. Dimery, Willis Tompkins, John Dimery, James Dimery, and David Dimery all voted Democratic. The community had grown large enough by the 1870s that it was decided to form a church which would serve the needs of the Dimery Settlement. On March 25, 1878, Sara Desda Turner, whose son Hugh G. Turner would later become one of the most successful farmers in the area, sold two acres of land to John and James Dimery (two sons of the original John Dimery) "for the use of church purposes." A wooden church was constructed on the site in 1886. Ellis Cooper, one of the Indians who helped build the church, was also one of the pastors there. In the August 11, 1887, Horry Herald, it was announced that on September 7 Rev. J. W. Todd would preach at the "Dimerys Church." The official name of the church soon became Bethel, or Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, and had grown to a congregation of over 100 before it burned in 1983. The church is gone, but the cemetery still remains and is well tended by relatives of the persons buried there. Rev. Elwood Ammons, one of the pastors there, and a grandson of Ellis Cooper, raised money to erect a fence around the cemetery, which helps preserve the site. Shortly before World War I a second Indian church was built in the area, across Brunson Swamp on what is now Jeno Road. This church, called Holly Hill Free Will Baptist Church, was smaller than Bethel and was attended mainly by the Hatchers and some of their relatives. Charlie Dimery was remembered as one of the leaders of this church, the "head man" who found pastors to come and preach at the church. One custom formerly practiced by members of the Settlement was that of decorating graves with seashells such as whelk and clamshell. This is a practice found among many coastal Indian tribes, and probably represented one of a very few cultural survivals. A school also existed in the Settlement at least since 1909. It was apparently referred to as the Dimery School in its early years, although the official name in the county records was Pine Level School. The school, along with the churches, served as a focus for community activities and provided social structure for the settlement. Pine Level School also served as a source of controversy in the larger community, due to the somewhat uncertain ethnic status of the children who attended. Excerpts from the October 18, 1923 issue of the Horry Herald article headlined "Dimery Pupils Seek a School" make this clear. The somewhat lengthy report begins, "The long-standing contest over the admission of children of the Dimery Settlement in Dog Bluff, to schools set apart for white pupils was due to come up here before the county board of education on Tuesday of last week. . . . There was a proposition made in line with the petition to set apart what is known as the Pine Level School in the Rehobeth District as a school which could be attended by the Dimery people and their relatives, and by people of the like kind from other school districts in that part of Horry County. . . . ." The white trustees of the school had, in 1922, attempted to force the teacher, Minnie Sellers, to class the school as a colored school. When the parents found out, they withdrew their children and petitioned the county board of education to rectify the situation. The community leaders (including several intermarried whites) who signed the petition included R. B. Nobles, H. G. Turner, A. B. Dimery, W. H. Elvis, Noah Hatcher, Mary Hatcher, Gatlin Johnson, Vander Hatcher, D. W. Caines, and Walter Caines. The result was that some of the students were allowed to attend the Aynor schools for a few years, and then the Pine Level School was opened again, once again classed as a white school. The Horry Herald printed the 7th month honor roll for Pine Level School on April 2, 1936. The students named included Joy Turner, Norton Turner, Eugenia Turner, Jay Turner, Mack Cooper, Zula Elvis, Beulah Elvis, Julian Turner, Annie Turner, Mattie Nobles, Louise Hatcher, Loyd Turner and Margaret Elvis. In 1949 a survey was done of all the county schools, at which time it was reported that the school, which was two rooms, had no electricity or running water. It was also reported that part of the ceiling was out. The school had no library, but was serviced by the county bookmobile. Average daily attendance at the time of the survey was 14 students. This school operated until 1955, when it was closed permanently after the enrollment declined to about 9 students. The first years of this century also saw several interesting court cases involving members of the Dimery Settlement. At least four cases arose out of the South Carolina laws prohibiting miscegenation, or marrying outside of one’s own race. In two of the cases white men, Daniel Alford (1908) and Furman Hughes (1921) were prosecuted for marrying "Negro" women, Susie Dimery and Patty Dimery, respectively. In the other two cases, two brothers, W. I. Hatcher (1908) and Julius Hatcher (1905) were charged with being "Negros" and marrying white women, Manda Mishoe and Martha Mishoe, respectively. Only in the case of Furman Hughes was the defendant convicted, and that seems to have been because he plead guilty to the charge. He was sentenced to a year at hard labor or a fine of $500. In the other cases, the defendants were not convicted, and some of the Horry Herald accounts are instructive concerning prevailing attitudes of the time. In the February 16, 1905, account of the Julius Hatcher case, the writer states "Absolutely no proof was made showing the presence of Negro blood in Hatcher’s veins. . . . The Hatchers are a dark-skinned people, but if there is any Negro blood in them, no one knows when or whence it got there--if anything it may be Indian or Spaniard." Each of the cases seems to have arisen out of a matter of personal spite held by the prosecuting witnesses against the defendants involved, since there were other intermarriages between whites and members of the Dimery Settlement with no issue ever being made of the matter. One interesting note on Julius Hatcher is that he is remembered by several of his relatives as having been an "Indian Doctor" who used herbs and roots to heal, and that he moved to Scranton, SC, and ran a small store where he dispensed his medicines. The Hatchers were an excellent example of how uncertain a position members of the Dimery Settlement, and similar people in the South, occupied in official records such as the Federal Census. The Federal Census for 1920, for example, records William I. Hatcher, living in Galivants Ferry Township as white. His brothers Noah, Julius, Robert and Vander, living in Dog Bluff Township, are recorded as Mulatto, and their uncles, Peter and William, Living in Robeson County, NC, are enumerated as Indians. This sort of treatment led many of the Indian people in the settlement to leave the area, moving a few counties away to places where they felt they could be treated more fairly. The Hatchers, Coopers, and Dimerys among the Lumbee Indians of Robeson county, NC, are all connected with the Dimery Settlement. One of the last traditional healers among the Lumbee was Vernon Cooper, a nephew of the Ellis Cooper who helped build Bethel Church in the Dimery Settlement. These Coopers came from the Marlboro County area, and claimed Cheraw ancestry. Several families drifted back to Marlboro county, near the area of the old Cheraw Indian settlement, which appears to have been the area where many of the families originated. The original John Dimery says in the 1850 Census that he was born in North Carolina, which, if accurate, was probably just over the border in either Anson or Columbus county, NC. There are Dimerys in both areas early on. His children usually stated that he was born in South Carolina. The Hatcher name appears to originate from a white family of Indian traders who lived along the North Carolina/Virginia border in the early 1700s and who traded with the South Carolina tribes. There is much that may never be known about the history of the Dimery Settlement, But is clear that the citizens of Horry County who are connected to it by blood can be proud of the ties they have with the original inhabitants of this country. The rest can learn with interest about an unusual ethnic island which adds its flavor to the richness of Horry County’ s history. The Independent Republic Quarterly Vol.29 No.4; Fall 1995; pp 32-36 [ Places & Things ] [ Home ] This site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society P.O. Box 2025 Conway, SC 29528 A non-profit organization for historical and genealogical purposes. Donations are both welcomed and tax deductable. ©1999 All rights reserved. Report errors to webmaster@hchsonline.org Last Updated Saturday, June 19, 1999

Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Category: Places & Things Document: Heyday of the Movies in Conway Source: Independent Republic Quarterly Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/places/movies.html Contents: Heyday of the Movies in Conway By William T. Goldfinch One day while visiting the Horry County Museum, located in Conway on Main Street at the site of the former post office, I commented to the receptionist about there being a motion picture theatre a half block away. The young lady, who was not a Conway native, looked at me in astonishment. She found it difficult to believe that a 999 seat theatre was in such close proximity to her place of employment! That made me wonder how many residents of the town are either unaware that it ever existed or that the auditorium still graces Main Street, behind the original entrance which is now occupied by two other businesses. When I grew up in Conway in the forties and fifties the Carolina Theatre played a major role in the lives of the citizens of the town and of the county. Alas, today there is not even one movie theatre in Conway! Who would believe that in 1955, the year that I graduated from high school, there were two movie theatres operating downtown, the Carolina and the Holliday; one theatre for the colored people, the Hillside located on Race Path Street just off the corner of Race Path and Highway 378; and two drive-in theatres, the 501 Drive-In on Highway 501 a few miles west of town beyond the crossroads at Cultra Road as well as the Conway Drive-In on Highway 701 just across Crabtree Creek! During three brief periods Conway contained two first run motion picture theatres in operation to Myrtle Beach’s one! The periods referred to are October 1, 1947-February 7, 1948, all of 1952, and October 1, 1953-December 31, 1953. During the period September 15, 1954-August 15, 1955, the Carolina operated basically as a first run house and the Holliday as a second run facility. My primary purpose is to comment on the movies in downtown Conway during my formative years. However, a brief history of the motion picture business in Horry’s county seat is imperative, although much information in that regard is at best scanty. According to an article in the Horry Herald dated May 22, 1947, the first movie ever shown in Conway was exhibited in an open lot at the rear of the Kingston Hotel. That location is at the site of the Holliday Theatre where the last movie shown in a movie theatre was presented in August, 1986. The article commented that the showing of that movie in an outdoor setting "had nothing but the sky for a roof." I thought it interesting that recent performances in the burned out Holliday Theatre building were done in the same fashion. The original screening was operated by Jim Skipper. His equipment was said to have been purchased by "a foreigner" who installed it at one of the buildings on the eastern side of Main Street north of 4th Avenue. McQueen Quattlebaum later purchased the equipment and continued the operation at the same site, which is located at about the same place as the front of the Carolina Theatre. He called his "theatre" the Casino. Mr. Quattlebaum closed up his operation when the Pastime was opened. I have been unable to verify the date that the Pastime opened. The earliest mention that I have found regarding the Pastime is an ad in the Horry Herald, March 6, 1919. The 1947 article stated that the Carolina Theatre was completed in 1935, an error, as that theatre opened August 6, 1936. THE PASTIME THEATRE Situated across the street from the Carolina Theatre was the Pastime Theatre. It closed in August, 1936, upon the opening of the Carolina. That building which remained in existence until it was torn down in May-June, 1947, captivated my imagination. The front of the building was rather stark, lacking a marquee. Instead, it had a sign in the shape of a "T" which hung out over the sidewalk. It said "THEATRE" in large letters across the top and "PASTIME" vertically beneath. At the entrance was an inset where the ticket office protruded. To its left was the door to the auditorium. Out on the sidewalk was a door on the right which led to the projection room and balcony. When the Pastime opened it was said to be a modern playhouse, the equal to any in a town of Conway’s size. It was where the first sound movie played in Conway. A record was utilized to be played while the reel was shown. Coordinating the two was indeed a task, I am told. The Pastime was built by H. G. Cushman and managed by his father-in-law, A. B. McCoy. The closed Pastime Theatre intrigued me and I wanted to go inside and examine it from one end to the other. Many tales had been told to me about the theatre, arousing my interest in it. My sister, Claire Goldfinch Riggs, related just how she and her friend Jackie Frierson Nelson would remove the cushions from surrounding seats and stack them up so that they could get a better view of the screen. My mother, Jewell Pepper Goldfinch, would tell me about the rats roaming the theatre, which caused a neighbor of ours to spend more time watching the floor than the screen while attending a show! (In fact, when the Carolina opened, popcorn was forbidden. A movie with no popcorn--who can believe it? I recall when popcorn came to the Carolina in the late forties!) I am told that a certain patron would always sit in the same seat, chew tobacco, and spit the juice on the wall! My brother-in-law, Alton Oliver, who worked at one time as a projectionist at the Pastime, related how certain boys would slip in without paying and how the manager would cane them if they were caught. In May, 1947, my chance to enter the theatre finally came! It was opened in order to tear it down. I had previously dreamed about the interior of the building and to my amazement it looked in minute detail exactly as I had dreamed it would. En route to a show at the Carolina, my friend Johnny Long and I discovered the doors of the Pastime open and went inside. We examined it all over. Time has dimmed my memory of the details of the interior, but I do recall an ornate stamped metal ceiling, side lights that protruded from each side wall with scalloped frosted shades. The theatre was small and I doubt if it had as many as three hundred seats. Its popcorn machine, which could be seen through the ticket window from the street was still there eleven years after its closing. THE CAROLINA THEATRE The sixth of August, 1936, must have been a most exciting day in Conway’s history. At 7:45 that evening, the Carolina Theatre opened its doors to the public. At the time of its opening, it was said to be the third largest motion picture theatre in the state of South Carolina. The announcement of the first performance in the facility stated that "No expense was spared in procuring the very best materials that money could buy" in bringing this building to Conway. "Entrance to the main auditorium of the theatre is from Main Street through a hundred and twenty foot lobby. This lobby is very attractive with its terrazzo floor, stamped metal ceiling, rough textured walls, and latest type of lighting fixtures and display stands. Entrance to the balcony is from Fourth Avenue." The auditorium contained the "latest type cushion-seat-and-back chairs, modernistic lighting fixtures, handsome carpets and draperies, and contains a spacious stage, completely equipped." The theatre was air cooled and heated with the air being "purified." The sound equipment was the RCA High Fidelity Sound System—"the finest money can buy." In fact that was the same sound system used at the time in Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The first movie shown at the Carolina was "Private Number" starring Robert Taylor and Loretta Young, with news reel and comedies also on the bill. Thus began a 29 year run with two interruptions. At times there were live performances provided, such as celebrity appearances, stage shows such as the WSM Grand Ole Opry, and one particular attraction that I recall. On Saturday, August 26, 1950, hundreds of children crowded into the theatre to see "Cheetah," Tarzan’s famed chimpanzee--or so we thought! The monkey was very large and feisty. When the manager of the theatre, Mrs. Edna Copeland, introduced the act, "Cheetah" took out after her and chased her off the stage. Then he leapt forward into the audience, like lightning, climbing row after row of seats, and then scaled a column, bounding into the balcony where he caused a great commotion before being summoned back to the stage by his owner-trainer. That poor chimp was killed in Darlington in the 1950s when he was left in a car on Main Street. He found some matches and set the car on fire. Only in the last couple of years did I learn that this chimp was not the real Cheetah, whom I saw recently on television, looking like an old man, smoking cigars! The "Cheetah" we saw was owned by a man in Darlington. However, we did get to see "Lash" LaRue in person. I cannot forget the skill with which the cowboy star cracked that bullwhip! When I was in high school in the fall of 1952, William Lundigan, a matinee idol, came to Conway with some starlets promoting the movies. One of these starlets was Pat Crowley, who was in a popular television show, "Please Don’ t Eat the Daisies," some years after she came to Conway. Incidentally, Mrs. Copeland, the manager of the Carolina in the forties until the fall of 1950, kept order with an iron hand. If you misbehaved, she would ban you from the theatre for perhaps a month--and she kept track of it, too. Your sentence could not be mitigated, no matter who you were. She sat in the auditorium during every performance and watched over the theatre like a hawk. And she was backed up in her job by the theatre’s owner. After she left the Carolina, no one else kept things running as smoothly as she did. During the years she was at the theatre, her husband, Bill, was the projectionist. The Carolina was first closed December 31, 1952, for renovation. It reopened October 1, 1953, and remained open and in operation until June 15, 1965. In 1964 it was closed for a few weeks after a fire which did some damage. The opening of the new, completely renovated Holliday Theatre signaled the end of the Carolina. The last motion picture which was shown at the Carolina was "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" with Richard Crenna and Shirley MacLaine. I went to the theatre that evening with mixed emotions, being certain that it would probably never reopen. As I left the theatre and walked out of the entrance onto Main Street, I saw for the last time a sight that will never be repeated: Conway’s Main Street at night with both theatre marquees ablaze! The Holliday marquee was lit, touting its opening to the public on June 17th. The Carolina was built by H. G. Cushman and first managed by A. B. McCoy. It was sold in August, 1940, to B. B. Anderson of Mullins, owner of the Anderson Theatre Company. Later the Hollidays of Galivants Ferry acquired an interest in it. In April, 1958, operation of the Carolina was taken over by Stewart and Everett Theatres of Charlotte, NC. THE HOLLIDAY THEATRE Construction of the Holliday Theatre in 1947 was a great event for me, a boy of ten who all but worshipped the movies. Conway was going to have two motion picture theatres, somewhat like a big city! Conway was growing as there was a great deal of construction in town in the years immediately following World War II. The theatre’s lovely marquee with its moving lights fascinated me. In the newspaper article about the theatre’s opening, the writer compared it to any theatre in a large city. I recall watching the marquee arrive in town on a truck and seeing its installation. How exciting it was! It was painted a sort of pine bough green, with the area behind the name "Holliday" being painted orange. The vertical sign hanging above the marquee was painted yellow. The neon on it was also yellow. The name "Holliday" was in green neon and in the center of the marquee was a circle of orange neon. The rest of the neon was blue, except for the neon above each side of the marquee, which was pink. This fine electric sign dominated Main Street, which it still does. It was painted blue the first time in 1952 or 1953, being repainted in 1965 and in 1994. The theatre was built by Joseph W. Holliday and John Monroe J. Holliday of Galivants Ferry as a memorial to their father, George J. Holliday. It had 650 seats, a "cry" room for mothers with small children, and certain seats were said to be larger than others to accommodate more robust patrons. It was designed to be "as near fireproof as it is possible to build," an interesting fact in light of the building being gutted by fire some forty-two years later. The main entrance to the theatre was on the right of the front, leading to a corridor approaching the ticket window at the rear on the left. Access to the lobby and auditorium was gained through two double doors. The front of the building contained a marble facade at street level. On the left of the front was the entrance to the balcony. In between the two entrances was an office occupied by Dr. V. B. Morgan, an optometrist. To the left of the ticket window was a staircase which led to the second floor where there were offices and an entrance to the balcony. When there was an overflow downstairs, a section of the balcony was designated for white patrons, the balcony being reserved for colored moviegoers. I recall sitting up there once and feeling rather strange that a single strand of rope marked off the white section from the other. Of course, had there been an overflow of blacks in the balcony, no part of the main auditorium would have been provided for them. By the time that the theatre was renovated and reopened in 1965, all patrons were able to utilize all sections of the theatre as should have been the case from the beginning. When the theatre was opened in 1947, a seat in the balcony was far better than one on the main floor. Balcony seats were more comfortable and, because of the height of the small screen, some neck strain was evident for the main floor patrons. The first movie shown at the Holliday Theatre when it opened its doors on October 1, 1947, was "The Foxes of Harrow" with Rex Harrison and Maureen O’ Hara. It was announced that the better movies would be shown for four days--unheard of at the time in a town the size of Conway. And during the rather short period of time that the theatre was open, many of them did play for four days. The theatre abruptly closed February 7, 1948, apparently a sudden decision as a couple of weeks before, its patrons were invited to come and enjoy its new heating system, which had replaced the original for some reason. It was reopened January 1, 1952, closed December 31, 1953, reopened in September, 1954, and closed for a ten year period in August, 1955. During that eleven month period, it was operated by A. C. and Ernest Williams as a second run theatre. During its first and second operations, it was leased by the Hollidays to the Anderson Theatre Company of Mullins. While the Holliday operated in 1953, 3-D movies were shown. How many of us remember the special glasses we were required to purchase in order to enjoy the thrill of seeing a movie with depth! In this, the Holliday is unique, since 3-D movies were short lived, and I do not believe that one in that process was ever shown at the Carolina. In 1965 the theatre was completely renovated, bearing little resemblance to its original self. There was a new lobby across the front. The marble that had previously adorned the street level facade was replaced. The original 650 seats were reduced to a much smaller capacity. However, the threatre was beautifully appointed, had new push-back seats and many features which made it quite up to date. Sad to say, before it closed its doors in August, 1986, the Holliday had been allowed to deteriorate. The lovely marquee began to burn out, so that when it was illuminated, very little of it remained operative. Finally, the operators simply ceased to turn it on. The final offering was "Top Gun" with Tom Cruise. After closing, the theatre became a church and was used as such until it was destroyed by fire in January, 1990. Efforts are being made to restore the theatre. At the opening of the Main Street bridge in February, 1994, I made a small donation to the Holliday’s restoration. I requested that my contribution be used to once again light the marquee, as one of my fondest dreams is to ride over the Main Street bridge at nigh, see the bridge lights glowing, and to see as well the Holliday marquee ablaze with light. A part of that wish is to see the bridge lights painted to match the bridge as those lights were originally. What an improvement that would be! OTHER THEATRES In 1947, there appeared in the Horry Herald an article announcing the forthcoming construction of "a theatre for the colored people of Conway." This theatre, the Hillside, operated from its construction off and on until the mid-1950s, I believe. It was not a large motion picture facility, had a plain facade with neon outlining it. There was a sign hanging vertically over the entrance which read "Hillside Theatre." Having never been inside it, I unfortunately am unable to describe its interior. The building was torn down, probably in the 1960s. The first drive-in movie, the Conway Drive-In, opened in the late forties. When it opened, it did not have individual car speakers, but two loud speakers, one on each side of its screen, the back of which faced Highway 701. On a summer night the sound from the movie could be heard as far away as the six hundred block of Laurel Street where I lived. Since it was outside the city limits, it could have Sunday movies. My aunt lived near the theatre and close to her home was a church where a lot of shouting took place during services. The church complained about the Sunday movies, particularly the noise that those loudspeakers made. My aunt quipped that she could not understand their complaint, since that congregation made so much noise itself that she was certain that they could not possibly hear the noise from the drive-in! Later the drive-in acquired individual speakers. As I recall, that took place at the time that the 501 Drive-In Theatre was opened in June, 1951. The Conway Drive-In did not long survive the opening of its competition. The Anderson Theatre Company built the 501 Drive-In, which had a run of several years. I recall going to its first movie, but I must admit that I do not recall the title. It was a free movie offered before the theatre had its real opening on June 10, 1951, with Gary Cooper and Ruth Roman in "Dallas." This drive-in had individual speakers, space reserved for colored patrons, and was the equal of any drive-in in the area. There is now a restaurant at the location of the theatre which is utilizing the same building that housed the concession stand and the projection booth. If you pass that restaurant, you will readily see that there is a second floor room above it. Also, if you look closely in the woods behind it, you can still see portions of the screen, which faced the highway. With the closing of the Holliday Theatre in 1986, an era in Conway suddenly vanished. In fact, there are presently only a few downtown theatres remaining in South Carolina. The last one in Columbia recently closed. In Florence, the only remaining single auditorium theatre saw its last performance on August 15, 1994. However, the Carolina in Conway remains, patiently waiting until it is demolished or becomes something different. There is a saying that what goes around comes around. In this case it appears not to hold true. How many of us recall Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s "Leo the Lion" visiting Conway on a tour of the nation? Some are able to remember seeing "Gone with the Wind" for the first time at the Carolina, the Holliday or the 501 Drive-in. There are those of us who fondly remember such things as fire drills at the Carolina in the 1940s, the Saturday cowboy movies, cash nights at the Carolina on Wednesdays, the Saturday and Wednesday serials, the news reels, shorts, cartoons and comedies, as well as the late shows on Saturday nights. Does it seem possible today that Sunday movies were forbidden until the 1960s within the city limits of Conway? What fun it is to reminisce about the Conway of my youth. In my opinion, movies are best shown in a theatre on a large screen. Perhaps one day again Conway will be able to enjoy this particular pastime within its city limits. If it ever does, I hope that I will be able to be in attendance! The Independent Republic Quarterly Vol.29 No.4; Fall 1995; pp 5-16 [ Places & Things ] [ Home ] This site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society P.O. Box 2025 Conway, SC 29528 A non-profit organization for historical and genealogical purposes. Donations are both welcomed and tax deductable. ©1999 All rights reserved. Report errors to webmaster@hchsonline.org Last Updated Saturday, June 19, 1999

Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Category: Genealogy Charts Document: Cox Family Members Missing for 70 Years Located Alextress Foster Cox Family Source: Independent Republic Quarterly Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/genealogy/coxfamily.html Contents: Cox Family Members Missing for 70 Years Located by William B. Prince, Jr. In 1989 the Alextress Foster Cox reunion was organized in Horry County by the grandchildren of Alextress Foster Cox and Jennie Eva Newton Cox. The reunion met the first time on Saturday after Thanksgiving 1989 at the Sweet Home Baptist Church Fellowship Hall and has met there each year since then. During the past five years, birth dates, full names, and current addresses have been collected and recorded for the eleven children, forty-six grandchildren and sister of Alextress Foster Cox. All through the years, the mysterious loss of a brother of Alextress Cox was a concern of the older family members. Alextress in the "fifties" is remembered as saying that he would give anything to know what happened to his brother, Grover Cleveland Cox. His belief was that his brother and his family were destroyed in a hurricane in Florida during the 1920s, when a bad hurricane hit the southern part of Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Alextress Cox passed away in 1965 within three months of each other and the concern for the missing family remained dormant until the reunion was started and the missing brother, Grover Cleveland Cox, became a big void in the family records. I, William G. Prince, Jr., grandchild of Alextress Foster Cox, and researcher for the reunion, set out to determine if there were living descendants of the missing brother that could be located. The only information available was a few notes I made when visiting my grandparents while I was in College during the fifties. This information was a follows: My grandmother stated that Grover Cleveland Cox left Horry County to go to Florida when Edna, my aunt, was about one year old (1906). He and his family were living near Green Cove Springs, FL, and had five children. She stated that letters stopped about 1923 and that no one was ever able to contact them again. She was convinced that they had been destroyed in the big hurricane in the twenties. In 1989, I visited the Clay County Court House at Green Cove Springs and discovered records verifying that Grover Cleveland Cox was married to Lelia Johnson in 1906 and various land deeds for property that he received through the land grant program. The family was listed in the Clay County 1910 census and two daughters, Aileen and Anna were named. At this time the 1920 census was not available. Further study indicated that he had sold most of his property to the government for an air base that still is in the area and all the records ended in the twenties. The daughters could not be further tracked due to marriage. It appeared that the search had come to an end with no finding of any of the family. One last thread of hope hinged on the fact that I asked some of the senior folks at the courthouse if a hurricane had come through the area in the twenties and they stated that one had not. So this left the possibility that maybe they had moved to south Florida and sure enough had been destroyed. Another assumption was made that maybe a male child had been born after 1910 and, if so, maybe he was named Grover Cleveland Cox, Jr. Then it was assumed that he or his children might have moved to the Jacksonville, FL, area in pursuit of work over the years and may still be living there. A review of the Jacksonville phone directory revealed that a Grover Cleveland Cox did live in Jacksonville. A call was made to him in 1989 and, after a long discussion, as to his ancestors, it was concluded that he was not part of the Horry family as he descended from the Waycross, GA, area. During March 1994, another visit to Green Cove Springs did not reveal any new information as they were not in the Clay County 1920 census records. A review of the 1910 census tape indicated that the wife’s father had migrated from Georgia to Florida. This was overlooked during the search in 1989. It was then reassumed that the Grover Cleveland Cox in Jacksonville must be involved as a descendent. On March 17, 1994, I called him a third time and we again concluded that he was not my relative. Near the end of the conversation, he stated that, during the previous month, he was in a contractor’s office in Fernandina Beach, FL, and when he told his name to the receptionist she became very amused. She stated that she was an acquaintance of a Grover Cleveland Cox who lives in the development that they were working on. She went on to say that maybe this Mr. Cox was the person I was looking for. After talking to Mr. Cox in Jacksonville, I decided that I would try to contact the Grover Cleveland Cox in Fernandina Beach and sure enough the directory assistant gave me a phone number. I made the call and after a short discussion as to why I was calling, and who I was looking for, this Mr. Cox told me that he was the one I was looking for. Needless to say, this was the greatest thrill of my family research experiences. Further discussion revealed that he had eleven brothers and sisters and that ten of them were still living. He said that his parents had lived to be old and were buried in Hampton, FL, which is in the next county to Green Cove Springs. I concluded that each family group moved to different areas of their respective counties and lost touch, rather than the Florida family being lost in a hurricane. Further contacts were made during the summer of 1994 and records of names, ages, and addresses of the Florida group were obtained for the reunion records. The 1994 Cox Family Reunion was dedicated to the find of the Cox family of Florida, with special recognition of the living children of Alextress Foster Cox, his sister Jennie Cox Barrineau, and the found brother, Grover Cleveland Cox. They are: Alextress Foster Cox Mrs. Elma Cox Stevens* Loris, SC b. 1912 Mrs. Lena Cox Martin Loris, SC b. 1916 Mrs. Myrtie Cox Vaught* Loris, SC b. 1919 Mrs. Nell Cox Prince Loris, SC b. 1921 Jennie Cox Barrineau Mr. Hiram T. Barrineau* Linden, AL b. 1923 Mrs. Catherine B. Harter* Georgetown, SC b. 1926 Grover Cleveland Cox Mrs. Anna Cox Tyre* FL b. 1910 Mrs. Mary Jane Hicks* FL b. 1911 Mr. Woodrow W. Cox FL b. 1918 Mrs. Evelyn Cox Hicks FL b. 1920 Mrs. Inez Cox Coleman FL b. 1922 Mrs. Zelma Cox Courley NJ b. 1923 Mr. James Earl Cox FL b. 1925 Mr. Grover Cleveland Cox, Jr.* FL b. 1927 Mr. Ray Alvin Cox FL b. 1928 Mr. Charles Robert Cox* FL b. 1931 * In attendance at the reunion on November 26, 1994, at Sweet Home Baptist Church near Longs, SC. There were approximately 100 relatives present at the reunion with nine of the children of our grandparents, great aunt and great uncle. This is the first time the local group had ever met the Florida group and the joy was overwhelming on both sides, as some of them are past 80 years in age. This Cox family descends from: John Cox and Sarah. ( 8 children) John fought in the Revolution, died February 3, 1830 Their son, Josiah Cox married Elizabeth Willson (8 children) Josiah and Elizabeth’s son, Alexander John Cox m. (1) Martha Elizabeth _____ (6 children) (2) Lavina Sarvis (5 children) (3) Susan Elizabeth Byrd Evans (5 children) Alextress Foster Cox, Jennie Frazer Barrineau, and Grover Cleveland Cox are children of the third marriage. Two children did live to adulthood and marriage. Their descendants extend to great-great-great-grandchildren. John Cox and Sara lived on land grant property near the Tilly Swamp Baptist Church on Highway 90, north of Conway, SC. John or his father was one year old when he departed from England to come to America. Should anyone have further information on John’s ancestry, I would appreciate a contact for sharing information. Address: William G. Prince, Jr., 2413 Robin Crest Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169. The Independent Republic Quarterly Vol.29 No.2; Spring 1995; pp 16-18 [ Genealogy Charts ] [ Home ] This site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society P.O. Box 2025 Conway, SC 29528 A non-profit organization for historical and genealogical purposes. Donations are both welcomed and tax deductable. ©1999 All rights reserved. Report errors to webmaster@hchsonline.org Last Updated Thursday, Saturday, June 19, 1999

Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Category: Afro-American Deed Document: Henrietta Paisly Lot No. 35 Source: Files of Catherine Lewis Location: http://www.hchsonline.org/afro/henriettapaisly.html Contents: Henrietta Paisly Deed Notes made from the SC Code, v. 11. In v. 11, p. 77: Act No. 2789, 1839, An act concerning the office and duties of clerks, registers of mesne conveyances, and commissioners of locations, Section xxv: "The Clerk is authorized and required, on the petition of any male free person of color over the age of fifteen years, to appoint any respectable freeholder of the District in which such free person of color shall reside, guardian of such person, on his acceptance in writing, of such trust, and giving a certificate of the good character and correct habits of such free person of color, and the Clerk shall file such proceedings in his office, but need not record the same as heretofore required by law." Horry County Deed book B, p. 539: South Carolina ) Horry District ) Know all men by these presents that I Josias T. Sessions for an in consideration of five dollars to me in hand paid by Robert Munro trustee for Henrietta Paisly a free colored woman, to transfer all my right title and interest to the within lot no. 35 to the said Henrietta Paisley her heirs and assigns forever witness my hand and seal this 20th Sept 1836 in presence of us Neel McMellan Josias T. Sessions James Beaty South Carolina ) Horry District ) Personally appeared James Beaty who being duly sworn saith that he was present and saw J. T. Sessions sign and deliver the within instrument for the use and purposed therein contained and that Neel McMellan subscribed with deponent as witnesses to the same. Sworn to before me this 20 Sept 1836 S. M. Stevenson James Beaty C.C.P. (Recorded 25th Sept 1836) [ Afro-American ] [ Home ] This site is owned by the Horry County Historical Society P.O. Box 2025 Conway, SC 29528 A non-profit organization for historical and genealogical purposes. Donations are both welcomed and tax deductable. ©1999 All rights reserved. Report errors to webmaster@hchsonline.org Last Updated Saturday, June 19, 1999

June 18, 1999 Dear List Members: I am hoping to make connections to our kin and fellow descendents of the following persons, if you are researching them or know of others that are, then please get into contact with me. I am in particular looking for pre-1910 photos, diaries, letters, and other mementoes that will help "breathe life" into my book that I am writing for the Causey Family and related lines, which it seems means just about half of Horry County. We have the equipment necessary to visit your site to photocopy or photograph your heirlooms so that they do not need to leave your hands: 1. Francis Ella and William Hal King 2.William Beaty, dod May 1914, buried at Camp Ground Cemetery (looking for the burial spot of his sister Emily Beaty Causey, thought to be at Camp Ground Cem) 3. Zebedee J. "Sonny" Causey, wife Nora Graham, buried at Camp Ground 4.Robert Paul and Sarah Margaret Causey Green, both at Camp Ground 5.Sam H. and Charlotte Causey Singleton, both at Hebron Cem 6. Asa Garden "A.G." and Francis "Franny" Martin Causey (daughter of David P. and Sarah Martin) 7. David, Owen, Samuel, and Zebedee (#I) Causey 8. Possible "Lee" surname links with Causey pre-1820 I am sorry that time limitations do not allow me to give detailed responses to researchers early in the process but if you will check the archived info that I have already provided and then contact me I would be more than happy to help start you in the right direction. Sincerely----Julian

i am the daughter of william edwin hardwick of nichols, s.c. my father was born in horry county, the son of willim e. hardwick and mary elizabeth holt cannon hardwick on february 16, 1903. my grandfather died approximatey 6 weeks after the birth of my father. I have been told that he is buried under the methodist church on main street in conway. my father and his stepsisters didn't have enough money to move his grave before the church was built. I have been told that heen told that he was a probate judge or clerk of court for the county. after he died my great uncle john holt was elected or selected to his former position. , Phyllis Hardwick Bernard

EUREKA!!!!!...{:) Major Revelation relative to relations related to my relatives!!!!!! Hot diggety dog!!!!....{:) I did receive the copies and we truly appreciate your SIGNIFICANT help!!!! Total excitement!!!! Thank you very much!!! James BRATCHER is my mother's grandmother, Helen Bratcher's (married to Samuel M. ANDERSON) grandfather...will provide additional ANDERSON/BRATCHER family information as soon as I come down from CLOUD Ninety-nine!!!...{:) We will keep in touch! Cousin Dan Fairfax 2629 Somerset Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37217 Home email: dfair777@home.com =============================== -----Original Message----- From: MaplesR@aol.com [mailto:MaplesR@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 4:28 PM To: DFairfax@nespower.com Subject: Re: Patriarch - DAVID ANDERSON, Conway, SC Dan, Yes, information appears correct. This David Anderson (d. 1849) is the father of David Russell Anderson , my great Grandfather. This David Anderson (d. 1849) is also the father of John G. and Thomas Jefferson Anderson, your ancestor. John G. and Thomas J. are the two previous sons that Rebecca had before she married James Bratcher. Do you know if she had any children by James Bratcher? Bratcher was probably the third marriage for Rebecca since she had a daughter Mary Jane before she married David Anderson. Mary Jane married A.A. Williams and they named their son David Anderson Williams. Becky

Hope this helps some folks...Dan Fairfax. Old Hollywood Cemetery - Lumberton, NC (Intersection of 5th Street East at Old Whiteville Road across from Community Police Station) Amy Caroline ANDERSON Hayes (Hayes Family Plot area) August 25, 1851 May11, 1942 (married to Nathan Hayes) Alice E. ANDERSON (Hayes Family Plot area) January 4, 1841 October 20, 1921 (sister to Amy) China Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery - Cerro Gordo, NC (5 miles east of intersection of "Rough'n Ready Road" and Chadburn Road) [Located adjacent to intersection of Old Stage Road - SR 1300 and China Grove Road - SR 1420] Elizabeth NOBLES Anderson January 26, 1911 December 6, 1934 Chadburn City Cemetery - Chadburn, NC (1 mile east on Strawberry Boulevard, on left) Norley "Teny" ANDERSON June 24, 1927 August 15, 1996 Bernice R. Anderson (wife of Norley) October 22, 1935 LIVING Riverside Cemetery - Highway 9 SC - Nichols, SC (East of Nichols) James D. ANDERSON April 13, 1918 March 10, 1992 Dorothy C. (cox?) ANDERSON August 22, 1927 Living/headstone beside James D. Anderson Riverside Cemetery - cont. #2 Pauline F. (fairfax?) Anderson October 7, 1915 Living/headstone beside C. Hoyt ANDERSON C. Hoyt ANDERSON March 24, 1912 July 7, 1972 Hickory Grove Baptist Church Cemetery (Highway 905 SC at intersection with "Old Reaves Ferry Road") "Infant Son" of Prudie H. and Freeman G. ANDERSON April 17, 1936 Graham Cemetery (Below Bratcher Road on "Old Reaves Ferry Road" Turn off HWY 905 SC onto "Old Reaves Ferry Road") Alice ANDERSON 1903 -1967 (beside Madison Anderson) Madison ANDERSON 1900 - 1964 John Robertson ANDERSON March 2, 1925 September 4, 1951 Sam ANDERSON (married Ethel McDowell) January 3, 1906 March 7, 1973 (brother - Madison Anderson) Ethel McDowell November 28, 1909 July 3, 1987 Tal L. West (married Ollie ANDERSON) December 20, 1902 September 23, 1982 Graham Cemetery - cont. #2 Ollie ANDERSON West 1902 - 1947 Price Cemetery (beside "Price Plantation House - White Frame, on "OldReaves Ferry Road", off of HWY 905 SC) Mack ANDERSON August 31, 1903 August 18, 1942 Virginia ANDERSON December 7, 1933 March 5, 1981 John D. ANDERSON (beside Josephine Jo Anderson) 1928 - 1990 Price Cemetery cont. #2 Josephine Jo ANDERSON 1929 - 1989 Timothy Chad ANDERSON September 29, 1976 September 15, 1996 J. D. (Dave) ANDERSON (m. Ossie Ola EDGE Anderson) June 7, 1901 February 23, 1945 Ossie Ola EDGE Anderson June 20, 1911 April 20, 1985 Blanch ANDERSON ("Daughter of J. B. & Frances ANDERSON) January 5, 1910 December 28, 1930 John B. ANDERSON March 14, 1867 December 31, 1943 Mary Frances Anderson 1873 - 1957 ANDERSON Cemetery (Hwy 19 SC off of Hwy 905 SC at back-end of side road which is west of Hwy 472 SC that intersects with Hwy 19 SC) [the Strickland, Lee and Lupo farms were on HWY 472 SC], {Side road is marked "CEMETERY RIDGE ROAD", some mobile homes} Daniel M. LUPO (married Rosa ANDERSON) August 12, 1886 October 27, 1952 Rosa ANDERSON Lupo November 20, 1889 June 7, 1963 John D. ANDERSON (married Fannie LUPO) May 3, 1871 July 11, 1947 Fannie LUPO Anderson October 14, 1857 May 31, 1942 Eva M. ANDERSON January 3, 1923 May 3, 1981 Anderson Cemetery cont. #2 Francis B. ANDERSON (m) June 24, 1912 July 17, 1978 Jesse ANDERSON August 19, 1911 - ? Marian ANDERSON May 29, 1907 November 21, 1960 Prudie HARDEE Anderson May 12, 1908 August 7, 1970 Freeman G. ANDERSON June 8, 1905 August 8, 1975 Leona ANDERSON Sawyer September 14, 1928 - ? William H. "Bill" SAWYER October 1, 1926 January 10, 1990 John Ollie ANDERSON February 10, 1881 February 16, 1971 Trixie HOLT Anderson September 27, 1887 July 18, 1973 Mary A. Anderson ("mother of Lois, Evelyn & Jimmy") January 19, 1913 June 6, 1946 John D. Anderson ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") December 20, 1915 February 11, 1995 Robert T. ANDERSON ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") August 24, 1908 April 27, 1981 Henry H. ANDERSON ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") October 4, 1910 April 11, 1984 ANDERSON Cemetery cont. #3 Daniel C. ANDERSON 1852 - 1906 Eliza Matilda ANDERSON 1864 - 1908 Robert Harley ANDERSON (married Leonora Adine Anderson) August 8, 1850 March 16, 1912 Leonora Adine ANDERSON (married Robert Harley Anderson) May 2, 1848 September 11, 1919 Flora May ANDERSON Jordan April 17, 1918 February 16, 1945 J. Quince ANDERSON (married Brookie E.(EDGE?) Anderson) July 29, 1891 October 6, 1957 Brookie E. Anderson May 5, 1896 November 2, 1990 Bethlehem Fellowship Church Cemetery (On Hwy 905 SC, north of Hwy 66 SC - North of Conway, SC) Fannie ANDERSON Hardee March 29, 1870 August 10, 1927 Letha Bell ANDERSON Chestnut June 28, 1920 - ? (married to Lundy M. Chestnut) Lundy M. Chestnut March 17, 1914 Rhett GORE Anderson (married to T. Bradley ANDERSON) August 1, 1898 September 20, 1965 T. Bradley ANDERSON December 21, 1894 October 9, 1969 Bethlehem Fellowship Church Cemetery cont. #2 Levi Owen ANDERSON March 3, 1887 July 1, 1971 Maude Jane CHESTNUT Anderson (married to Levi Owen Anderson) September 8, 1892 December 31, 1971

Hope this is helpful for Anderson Folks...I am related to ANDERSON and HAYES...{:) These listings are from my field trips from 1996 - 1998. Any comments or questions...puh-lease direct to dfair777@home.com that's me ...{:) Dan Fairfax Nashville, Tennessee Old Hollywood Cemetery - Lumberton, NC (Intersection of 5th Street East at Old Whiteville Road across from Community Police Station) Amy Caroline ANDERSON Hayes (Hayes Family Plot area) August 25, 1851 May11, 1942 (married to Nathan Hayes) Alice E. ANDERSON (Hayes Family Plot area) January 4, 1841 October 20, 1921 (sister to Amy) China Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery - Cerro Gordo, NC (5 miles east of intersection of "Rough'n Ready Road" and Chadburn Road) [Located adjacent to intersection of Old Stage Road - SR 1300 and China Grove Road - SR 1420] Elizabeth NOBLES Anderson January 26, 1911 December 6, 1934 Chadburn City Cemetery - Chadburn, NC (1 mile east on Strawberry Boulevard, on left) Norley "Teny" ANDERSON June 24, 1927 August 15, 1996 Bernice R. Anderson (wife of Norley) October 22, 1935 LIVING Riverside Cemetery - Highway 9 SC - Nichols, SC (East of Nichols) James D. ANDERSON April 13, 1918 March 10, 1992 Dorothy C. (cox?) ANDERSON August 22, 1927 Living/headstone beside James D. Anderson Riverside Cemetery - cont. #2 Pauline F. (fairfax?) Anderson October 7, 1915 Living/headstone beside C. Hoyt ANDERSON C. Hoyt ANDERSON March 24, 1912 July 7, 1972 Hickory Grove Baptist Church Cemetery (Highway 905 SC at intersection with "Old Reaves Ferry Road") "Infant Son" of Prudie H. and Freeman G. ANDERSON April 17, 1936 Graham Cemetery (Below Bratcher Road on "Old Reaves Ferry Road" Turn off HWY 905 SC onto "Old Reaves Ferry Road") Alice ANDERSON 1903 -1967 (beside Madison Anderson) Madison ANDERSON 1900 - 1964 John Robertson ANDERSON March 2, 1925 September 4, 1951 Sam ANDERSON (married Ethel McDowell) January 3, 1906 March 7, 1973 (brother - Madison Anderson) Ethel McDowell November 28, 1909 July 3, 1987 Tal L. West (married Ollie ANDERSON) December 20, 1902 September 23, 1982 Graham Cemetery - cont. #2 Ollie ANDERSON West 1902 - 1947 Price Cemetery (beside "Price Plantation House - White Frame, on "OldReaves Ferry Road", off of HWY 905 SC) Mack ANDERSON August 31, 1903 August 18, 1942 Virginia ANDERSON December 7, 1933 March 5, 1981 John D. ANDERSON (beside Josephine Jo Anderson) 1928 - 1990 Price Cemetery cont. #2 Josephine Jo ANDERSON 1929 - 1989 Timothy Chad ANDERSON September 29, 1976 September 15, 1996 J. D. (Dave) ANDERSON (m. Ossie Ola EDGE Anderson) June 7, 1901 February 23, 1945 Ossie Ola EDGE Anderson June 20, 1911 April 20, 1985 Blanch ANDERSON ("Daughter of J. B. & Frances ANDERSON) January 5, 1910 December 28, 1930 John B. ANDERSON March 14, 1867 December 31, 1943 Mary Frances Anderson 1873 - 1957 ANDERSON Cemetery (Hwy 19 SC off of Hwy 905 SC at back-end of side road which is west of Hwy 472 SC that intersects with Hwy 19 SC) [the Strickland, Lee and Lupo farms were on HWY 472 SC], {Side road is marked "CEMETERY RIDGE ROAD", some mobile homes} Daniel M. LUPO (married Rosa ANDERSON) August 12, 1886 October 27, 1952 Rosa ANDERSON Lupo November 20, 1889 June 7, 1963 John D. ANDERSON (married Fannie LUPO) May 3, 1871 July 11, 1947 Fannie LUPO Anderson October 14, 1857 May 31, 1942 Eva M. ANDERSON January 3, 1923 May 3, 1981 Anderson Cemetery cont. #2 Francis B. ANDERSON (m) June 24, 1912 July 17, 1978 Jesse ANDERSON August 19, 1911 - ? Marian ANDERSON May 29, 1907 November 21, 1960 Prudie HARDEE Anderson May 12, 1908 August 7, 1970 Freeman G. ANDERSON June 8, 1905 August 8, 1975 Leona ANDERSON Sawyer September 14, 1928 - ? William H. "Bill" SAWYER October 1, 1926 January 10, 1990 John Ollie ANDERSON February 10, 1881 February 16, 1971 Trixie HOLT Anderson September 27, 1887 July 18, 1973 Mary A. Anderson ("mother of Lois, Evelyn & Jimmy") January 19, 1913 June 6, 1946 John D. Anderson ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") December 20, 1915 February 11, 1995 Robert T. ANDERSON ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") August 24, 1908 April 27, 1981 Henry H. ANDERSON ("son of John O. & Martha T. ANDERSON") October 4, 1910 April 11, 1984 ANDERSON Cemetery cont. #3 Daniel C. ANDERSON 1852 - 1906 Eliza Matilda ANDERSON 1864 - 1908 Robert Harley ANDERSON (married Leonora Adine Anderson) August 8, 1850 March 16, 1912 Leonora Adine ANDERSON (married Robert Harley Anderson) May 2, 1848 September 11, 1919 Flora May ANDERSON Jordan April 17, 1918 February 16, 1945 J. Quince ANDERSON (married Brookie E.(EDGE?) Anderson) July 29, 1891 October 6, 1957 Brookie E. Anderson May 5, 1896 November 2, 1990 Bethlehem Fellowship Church Cemetery (On Hwy 905 SC, north of Hwy 66 SC - North of Conway, SC) Fannie ANDERSON Hardee March 29, 1870 August 10, 1927 Letha Bell ANDERSON Chestnut June 28, 1920 - ? (married to Lundy M. Chestnut) Lundy M. Chestnut March 17, 1914 Rhett GORE Anderson (married to T. Bradley ANDERSON) August 1, 1898 September 20, 1965 T. Bradley ANDERSON December 21, 1894 October 9, 1969 Bethlehem Fellowship Church Cemetery cont. #2 Levi Owen ANDERSON March 3, 1887 July 1, 1971 Maude Jane CHESTNUT Anderson (married to Levi Owen Anderson) September 8, 1892 December 31, 1971

Now on the site Obituaries From Horry County Newspapers (1861-1914) Publication No. 1 Waccamaw Records Abstracted by Catherine Heniford Lewis It can be found at http://www.hchsonline.org/obits/abstracts.html

Wanda, I was working on it, and had many offers of help from people, when I was called to go work at that five-sided puzzle palace (aka the Pentagon) in support of Operation Allied Force back in March. The 12-hour shifts will soon be a sweet (NOT!) memory, and my life should return to normal, whatever that is! Anyway, I'm willing to jump back in, but would like to know if this is still something we can/should do, or if we should start planning it for next year. What do y'all think? Vicky ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda Martin <wanda@thuntek.net> To: <SCHORRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:08 PM Subject: [SCHORRY-L] Reunion > Hello all, > > Since I asked earlier this week about the reunion I have received 4 > or 5 letters wanting to know if I found out anything. So far I haven't > heard anyone say it is still on. I think it was shelved as September was > so far away. My plans are still to go to Conway (I've told so many down > there I was going to visit) but if we are not having the reunion I may > change the dates of my visit. If anyone knows anything about the reunion > still being planned please let the list know. > > Thanks, > > Wanda > > > ==== SCHORRY Mailing List ==== > Web Sites of Horry County Listmembers. > 1. Jim Farmer farmer@visa.com > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jotajota/ > 2. Marty Grant martygra@icomnet.com > http://www.martygrant.com/ > 3. Mike Cooper http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2544/ > 4. Craig Smith craig@cityathletics.com > http://www.cityathletics.com > 5. Steve and Eileen Worthington <irish1@netins.net> > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/5512/ >