Horry County ScArchives Obituaries.....Lewis, Everett Tally November 17, 1887 ************************************************ 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: Patti Burns Patti.Burns@hgtc.edu May 12, 2007, 2:07 pm Horry Herald November 17, 1887 Everett Tally Lewis Everett Tally Lewis died Tuesday morning Nov. 15th, 1887 after a protracted and painful illness. His sufferings at time were extremely excruciating and he bore them heroically. He was born in Horry County, January 19th, 1839. He was raised on a farm and was early taught industry and economy. He came to Conway a short time before the late civil war and attended school. He volunteered as a private in the Brooks Guards, J. H. Norman, Captain. This Company was placed in a camp of instruction on North Island, near Georgetown and became Co. B of the Tenth Regt. S. C. V. under the command of the late lamented Gen. A. M. Manigualt. At the reorganization he was elected 2nd Lieut. and was later promoted to the 1st Lieutenancy of the Company. He served throughout the war in the Western Army with conspicuous gallantry and bravery. He was cool and deliberate under fire and thereby inspired his men with confidence and they did some excellent fighting. He escaped without any serious injury. After the cessation of the hostilities he returned home and commenced a mercantile business in Conway, in connection with others. After a few years the co-partnership dissolved and he conducted business on his own responsibility. Scrupulously honest, affable and attentive to business, he succeeded in accumulating quite a handsome property, which was nearly all swept away by fire in a few hours. He had not long returned from New York with a well selected assortment of goods and had them arranged for display and sale when on the night December 24th, 1883, fire broke out and consumed nearly everything. There was no insurance. It was a crushing blow from which he never recovered. His creditors indulged him and provided for his continuing in business. But he never regained the normal elasticity and cheerfulness that formally characterized his buoyant spirit. He severed two terms from 1866 to 1874 as Clerk of Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas. Kind, considerate and polite he discharged the duties of this office efficiently and very acceptably. He connected himself with the Methodist Church under the ministry of Rev. J. Thos. Pate in 1182. After this he became a pretty regular attendant on the public ministrations of the Sanctuary. He was quite and undemonstrative in manner, a good citizen, and the community will feel his loss keenly. Before his death he remarked to a friend in attendance at his bedside that he had surrendered to God and prayed that He would take him to Himself and then said: This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/horry/obits/l/lewis195gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb