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This file is copyrighted and contributed by: Lisa Wilson ==================================================================== January 1999 Early Organizations, Clubs, Newspapers, Doctors, & Lawyers - Sumter Co., AL "In the time just after the Civil War there was a purely social organization of unmarried men know as the D. V. V.'s (Dum Vivimus Vivamus). Among the members were: James R. GARBER, B. L. GARBER, Jos. B. GARBER, Jno. Lewis BROWN, P. Bestor BROWN, Reuben T. THORNTON, Jas. P. SPRATT, J. G. LAKE, Thos. B. STONE, E. W. SMITH, A. G. SMITH, J. C. RICHARDSON, Thos. D. COBBS, E. W. HOOKS, T. E. LOCKHARD, W. J. PRAYTOR, and D. H. TROTT, Jr." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Salmagundi Club of the 1880's - a social organization: Miss Lucy ASHE, Miss Lily HIBBEN, Miss Minnie HIBBEN, Miss Jennie BARKER, Miss Lizzie CALDWELL, Miss Mary BALDWIN, Miss Saiven PARKER, Messrs. Jas. L. PARKER, R. P. WETMORE, S. F. MELLEN, J. L. MELLEN, J. H. LITTLE, Jno. McQUEEN, Frank HERR, Emil BROWN." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the Eighteen Nineties some ladies organized the "Twentieth Century Club", the object of which was to read and discuss books, etc. Among the members were: Miss Hettie JONES, Mrs. Stephen SMITH, Miss Hattie BRADSHAW, Miss Mattie SPROTT, Mrs. Jas. P. SPRATT. Miss Bessie TARTT, Mrs. John H. NORVILLE, Mrs. H. L. MELLEN, Mrs. Jas. A. MITCHELL, Mrs. W. K. PICKENS, Mrs. Jas. L. PARKER, and Mrs. QUARLES." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Among the early members of the Primrose Club were: Mrs. M. B. QUARLES, Mrs. Stephen SMITH, Mrs. J. P. SPRATT, Miss Hettie JONES, Mrs. Fred H. JONES, Miss Nellie GIBBS, Mrs. W. W. PATTON, Miss Margaret SPROTT, Miss Lizzie SCRUGGS, Miss Nellie DeLOACH, Miss Florence DeLOACH, Miss Julia S. TUTWILER, Mrs. R. B. CALLAWAY, Mrs. Jas. L. PARKER, Mrs. BRANCH, Mrs. BACHMAN, Mrs. TRAVIS, Mrs. W. P. TARTT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Early lawyers of the very early days were: Sam'l B. BOYD, Tully CORNICK, Peter DOTY, James HAIR, Am. H. GREEN, Murray SMITH, Wm. M. INGE, Sam'l W. INGE, Lemuel F. WHITEHEAD, Robert H. SMITH, John Little SMITH, Samuel CHAPMAN, Jos. G. BALDWIN, E.M. VARY, James T. HILL and T.B. WETMORE." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Among the doctors of early days were: R.H. DALTON, J.L. McCANTS, Wm. Harris COLEMAN, E.T. GARRETT, M.B. POSEY, Joseph A. SMITH, R.T. GIBBS, H.F. ARRINGTON, A.M. GARBER, and R.L. HUNTER." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The first newspaper seems to have been "The Voice of Sumter" first issued on March 1, 1836. W. B. OCHILTREE and T. K. THOMAS, Editors and D. H. TROTT and T. K. THOMAS, Publishers and Proprietors." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The following ladies are or have been members of the Colonial Dames of America: Mrs. Fred H. JONES, Mrs. C. W. McMAHON, Mrs. Jas. L. PARKER, Mrs. W. H. ZIEGLER, Mrs. L. A. WARD, Miss Lilah McMAHON." A charter establishing the Bigbee Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was granted May 15, 1913. The Charter Members were: Mary STANSELL BROCKWAY (Mrs. D. S.), Lula CHAPMAN, Lilybeck CHAPMAN COBB, Bessie GULLEY, Nina Bohn HALL (Mrs. LAPORTE), Mary H. JOHNES (Mrs. Fred), Bessie BRADSHAW LITTLE, Mary E. McCONNELL (Mrs. R.P. MORROW), Gage WINSTON McMAHON (Mrs. C. W.), Mabel Clare RANDALL WRENN, Lily ASHE PARKER (Mrs. Jas. L.), Alice BOLTON PATTON, Anna CHAPMAN, Julia Olive PRAYTOR, Lula BRADSHAW ROGERS, Mary B. SMITH, Mattie ROUNTREE STEPHENSON, Margaret TURNER TRAVIS, and Olive WINSTON WHITE." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in 1900. It is said that some of the records were destroyed in a fire. The earliest applications for membership are dated July 15, 1900. Among the first members were: Mrs. Reuben CHAPMAN, Mrs. W. D. BATTLE, Jr., Mrs. M. E. WHITEHEAD, Mrs. C. J. BROCKWAY, Miss E. C. GIBBS, Miss J. S. TUTWILER, Miss Charlotte T. GIBBS, Mrs. Jas. P. SPRATT, Mrs. Emily R. LAWRENCE, and Miss Florence DeLOACH." From the Sumter County Site Sandra Johnson Coordinator Permission to Post