Abbeville-Greenwood County ScArchives News.....Buchanan, Samuel Turner Notable Career June 29, 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 August 14, 2014, 4:34 pm The Index Journal June 29, 1933 The Index Journal Thu Jun 29, 1933 A NOTABLE CAREER Samuel Turner Buchanan, who died Tuesday at his home in Piedmont, was a native of Greenwood county and a man whose career was notable in it's material success and in the development of a well-rounded character. His relatives and his friends in this , his native county may well be proud of the record. Mr. Buchanan began work for the Piedmont Cotton Mills at twenty-five cents the day. And from a doffer boy at twenty-five cents for a day's work he became twenty years ago superintendent of that mill, then greatly enlarged and known as one of the largest textile plants in the South. He had worked at Piedmont from 1881 to 1890 continuously, rising from doffer boy to "head doffer" and then to "second hand" in the spinning room. In 1890 he went to the Beaumont Mills in Spartanburg county as overseer of spinning but in a year or two he was back at Piedmont. But shortly he was offered a position in a mill at Tion, Ga. and he was there four years. His next move was as superintendent of a new mill at Greensboro, Ga., and he was there for seven years. In the year 1903 he returned to Piedmont as superintendent of the Piedmont Mill, then doubled and trebled several times in capacity from what it was when he began work as a doffer boy under Superintendent J. F. Iler at twenty five cents the day. He was still superintendent when death came to him last Monday. Mr. Buchanan was as said above, of the Abbeville-Greenwood Buchanans. He was a first cousin of the late George W. Buchanan, the well known contractor and builder, and was also a first cousin of Mrs. W. R. Buchanan, though not related to her husband , Mr. W. R Buchanan, who lives on the Laurens road. "Sam" Buchanan, as he was popularly known, was the son of Andrew J. Buchanan and Victoria Cobb, of the "Piney Grove" section of this county, a community about two miles northwest of Greenwood. His family connections, Buchanans, Cobbs and Turners, is large still in this county. It is related of him, in a sketch written by J. W. Wigginton, of Anderson, some years ago and published by Mr. Wiggington under the ____?: Some Piedmont Mill Men, that is father and mother, Mr. and Mrs A. J. Buchanan, removed from their native community to Rome, Ga., after the War between the States. Samuel Turner Buchanan was then a mere tot, having been born February 5, 1867. His father died there after a few years and his widow and her young son, then seven years old, returned to the old home community, "Piney Grove," to live. When the boy was fourteen years old, the cotton mill appeared a more desirable place to work than the farm and his mother removed to Piedmont. Mr. Wiggington in his sketch says: "The late J. F. Iler was then superintendent of the Piedmont Manufacturing Company at that time and gave young Buchanan a job as doffer in the spinning room where he worked a full month without pay and then went on the payroll for the handsome amount of twenty - five cents the day. We remember having heard Mr. Buchanan make a statement in years gone by, in substance, like this: "Fellows, I was proud of that job, even if I did have to work a month without pay, but so far as I was personally concerned the pay cut mighty little ice. They just paid off once each month, and if I hadn't put in full time and worked on the last day of the payroll I didn't get anything at all. If I had put in full time my mother always gave me the last days's pay. And to me, then, that was some money." In other words, all the spending money young Sam Buchanan had then was twenty-five cents the month. It was a hard beginning. His life was not cast then in easy places but he had the right stuff in him and he came through. He died greatly beloved and respected and his career should be an inspiration to youth of today whic cannot conceive of the hardships which were so general in the South when this young lad started out in life. Samuel Turner Buchanan was a native of Greenwood county to be remembered with esteem and with pride. He overcame obstables so great that they cannot be understood clearly today and furnishes another illustration of the saying that there is more in the man than there is in the land. Correction was printed in The Index Journal Thu Jul 2, 1933 Late S. T. Buchana Born In Abbeville County "White Lick" The late Samuel T. Buchanan for twenty years superintendent of the Piedmont Mills, was a native of the White Lick section of Abbeville county, Judge W. P. Greene explains in a personal letter of appreciation of an editorial on the career of Mr. Buchanan in last Thursday's Index Journal. Judge Greene's letter will be of interest to all friends of Mr. Buchanan. He says: " I have read with great interest your editorial on the life and accomplishments of Mr. Samuel Turner Buchanan. It is in no way an overstataement of the accomplishments of a man who suceeded through his own industry and good judgement, I could not add to what you have said if I tried. I wish, however, to express my appreciation of all that you have said and to hope that more men may be inspired by his life and example to do as well as he did. "There is one statement in the editorial which I think might be corrected. It is true that Mr. Buchanan's father and mother were natives of that part of Abbeville county which is now within the limits of Greenwood county, but Mr. Buchanan himself was not born in Greenwood county. Only a few weeks ago he spent a day with me and while here we undertook to locate his birthplace. At that time he told me that during the school year 1865-1866, his father who was a school teacher taught at what we call the "Buzzard's Roost" in this county, and the following year (1866-67) he taught at White Lick near Abbeville. White Lickk is a section rather than a place and therefore it was not easy to determine just the point where his father did teach. After making some considerable inquiry we were unable to locate definatey just the point where the school was over which the father presided. It was probably at Old Bethel Methodist church, but I am not sure of this. However, Samuel Turner Buchanan was born near Abbeville in the White Lick section, while his father presided over this school and was therefore a native of what is still Abbeville county. As you indicatee, however, his accomplishments were such that both Greenwood and Abbeville counties may be proud to claim an interest in him." Yours very truly, W. P. Greene Abbeville, June 30, 1933 Additional Comments: 1870 Rome, Floyd, GA 59 Buchanan, And J. 36 SC Victoria 30 SC John W. 10 SC Manerva 8 GA Geo. A. 5 SC 60 Mary E. Nichols 30 Ga Jas W. 11GA Martha A. 9GA Nancy M. 4 GA 61 Catherine RAmsey 35 NC Sam T. Buchanan 3 m Ga *** Wm O. Ramsey 21 NC Daniel G. " 16Ga Sarah S. " 8GA Marietta " 3GA Joseph Powell 21 Job Laborer AL Sallie Ramsey 13 f /w house servant Ga 1880 Greenwood, Abbeville, SC Name Age Victoria Buchanan 41 Mary Buchanan 18 George Buchanan 15 Sam Buchanan 13 Susan Buchanan 10 Andewella Buchanan 6 John Buchanan 21 1900 Grove, Greenville, SC Name Age Joseph Pool 65 Mary E Pool 59 Walter Pool 21 Annie M Pool 13 Bettie Trowbridge 12 Lillie Bachman 31 Inez Bachman 7 Andrew J B 4 Hallie B 2 Carrie Turner 51 1900 Cross Anchor, Spartanburg, SC NameAge Victoria A Buchanan 61 Susan Buchanan 29 Andrella Buchanan 22 Fred Buchanan 8 1910 Grove, Greenville, Sc Name Age Samuel T Buchanan 43 Lillie C Buchanan 41 Ines Buchanan 17 Andrew J Buchanan 14 Hallie Buchanan 12 1920 Grove, Greenville, SC NameAge S T Buchannan 52 Lilly C Buchannan 51 Leona Booker 22 1930 Grove, Greenville, SC NameAge Samuel T Buchanan 63 Lillie C Buchanan 61 Ernest W Goldsmith 38 Inez Goldsmith 37 Inez Goldsmith 12 South Carolina Marriage Index, 1641-1965Бе Name: Andrew Buchanan Spouse: Vickie Cobb Marriage: 1774-1890 - Abbeville, South Carolina buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Piedmont, Greenville Co. SC 1850 Saluda, Abbeville, SC NameAge John W Cobb 36 Mary P Cobb 35 Mary Ann E Cobb 13 Victoria Cobb 11 Charles Cobb 8 Emily Cobb 6 William Cobb 4 America Cobb 0 Amos Lipford 21 1860 Abbeville, SC NameAge Jno W Cobb 46 Mary Cobb 45 Chas Cobb 18 Emily Cobb 14 Henry Cobb 12 America Cobb 9 Thomas C Cobb 6 Andrew Cobb 3 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/abbeville/newspapers/buchanan90nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/scfiles/ File size: 9.2 Kb