Horry County ScArchives Obituaries.....Burroughs, Frankllin G., February 25, 1897
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Horry Herald March 11, 1897
F. G. Burroughs
Horry County has lost her foremost citizen, the poor of the county white and 
black have lost their best friend, the community has lost its most public 
spirited man, the family have lost a devoted husband and father and the writer 
of this mourns the loss of a staunch and faithful friend of thirty five years 
acquaintance. 

He was a father, brother, and faithful adviser to me from the day when I 
entered his employment, a poor boy as clerk, Jan. 1st, 1868 to the day of his 
death and difference in my worldly circumstances made no difference in his 
always kind treatment. It was a marked characteristic of the big hearted man 
that he never judged a man by his clothes or his money. Prince and pauper were 
alike his fellow men, who have made their mark in the world, was a man of 
strong likes and dislikes and he could not be too kind to a friend or an 
employee so long as the trusted one proved faithful, but such was his contempt 
for deceit and betrayal of a trust, that confidence once betrayed was lost 
forever.

He was born in Marion County, N. C., of poor, hardworking parents, on 28th of 
December 1834. He moved to Horry County after reaching his majority and was 
employed by a relative, formerly a prominent citizen of the county but had 
started in business for himself just before the Civil War broke out. He was 
among the patriots of the day to respond to the country’s call and was at 
North Island, near Georgetown, S. C., with his Company, The Brook’s Guard, 
afterward Co. B 10th S.C. Regiment, when the first gun was fired at Fort 
Sumter. He was splendid solider served from the beginning of the end to war, 
as a private solider, persistently refusing office. He was captured on the 
16th Dec. 1864 in the front of Nashville, Tenn., and remained a prisoner till 
after hostilities ceased. His prison treatment and suffering would have driven 
him to take the oath of allegiance to the United States to save his health if 
not his life, if he had been a weaker or less loyal member of his country, as 
many of his companions did, but he was brave to the last and was spared to 
return home to his family. Soon after his returned he entered into business 
partnership with an old friend, Mr. W. D. Gurganus, under the firm name of 
Gurganus and Burroughs. 



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