There are two mentions of the name "Waring": Scott is describing property in Columbia" "Mr. Parr built a fine brick dwelling on the Northeast corner of Plain and Sumter Streets, which was afterwards owned by John Waring, Dr. H.H. Toland, J. Duncan Allen, and Dr. R.W. Gibbes till burnt by General Sherman." Still Columbia: "Robert Waring, another old settler, quit playing Backgammon with Major Guignard because the Major laughed as much when losing as when winning a game, and thus deprived the victor of one half of his satisfaction." Still in Columbia: "Among the respectable colored people that accumulated property were Mary Purvis, mother of Christopher Haynesworth, Jim Patterson and his wife Sally,Sarah Haynes, Green Guignard, Nero Waring, Richard Holmes, and Joe Randall,trumpeter to the Cavalry." The title of the book is: Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806- 1876 by Edwin J. Scott. It was first published in 1884 by Charles A. Calvo, Jr. Columbia, SC. It was published in 1980 by the Lexington Historical Society and reprinted by The R.L. Bryan Company in Columbia,SC