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Book Title: A History Of Marlboro County

CHAPTER XXXII.
METHODIST CHURCHES.

  A sketch of the Methodist churches of Marlboro properly begins with the Beauty
Spot church, the mother of Methodist churches. The first house of worship was
built there in 1783 on land given by Turbet Cottingham. It was "built of logs,
covered with long boards held in place by weight poles, and the seats were split
pine logs." That primitive church may have been inconvenient and uncomfortable,
but the day of small things should never be despised. The zeal and devotion
there displayed by those early Methodists has perhaps been an inspiration to
those coming after them: at all events, zeal and devotion to their church and
religion have characterized the Methodists of Marlboro, and to-day they are
stronger numerically than all the other denominations combined. They have
twenty-two active churches, and all well located and actively at work.

  The first itinerant preachers who visited Beauty Spot were Jeremiah Mastin and
Hope Hull in the year 1783. They at first preached in the private houses of the
neighborhood till the church was finished. The first Quarterly Conference held
at Beauty Spot was on 23d February, 1788. Bishop Asbury presided and preached
from Isaiah 36:1-6.

  In 1810 the congregation at Beauty Spot erected their second church. It was a
neat frame building. During that year the first camp-meeting was held at Beauty
Spot and the last one held there was in 1842. Robert Purnell, the first local
preacher in Marlboro, was one of the early members of Beauty Spot church. He
preached in the county for fifty years, and died in 1830. The name is now
extinct in the county, but his descendants are here.

  The third church was built in 1839. It was 60x45 feet and cost more than $
1,100. It was a large, roomy church for that day and was used by the
congregation forty-four years. It was erected by John McCall, of Darlington,
under the supervision of Rev. Thomas Cook, Eli Thomas and Thos. S. Covington. In
1883, when the fourth church was built, a new site was selected on the same
road, but two miles further east. When it was built the old church was sold at
public outcry, and purchased by a gentleman who has not removed it, and there it
stands to-day on the sacred spot of ground where repose the ashes of those who
in the years gone by worshipped within its walls. The present house of worship
was completed and dedicated June 17th, 1883. Rev. T. J. Clyde preached the
sermon and Rev. Lewis M. Hamer delivered an historical address. The cost of the
building was $2,000. It was erected by Mr. Bounds, under the direction and care
of P. M. Hamer, Crawford Easterling, David Easterling and L. D. Hamer.

  Among some of the local preachers who have from time to time preached at
Beauty Spot may be mentioned A. H. Adams, Wm. K. Breeden, Thomas Cook, Allen
Edens, John Jones, Chas. Manship, Cornelius Newton, Richard Welch and Wright
Wilson. Some of the prominent male members were Eli Thomas, Robert Bolton, Jas.
H. Bolton, John H. Hamer, Thomas Cook, W. J. Cook, and John Murdoch.

HEBRON.

  Hebron Methodist church is located in the center of one of the garden spots of
the county. The farms lying adjacent to the church are very fertile and are
cultivated with great care and system. Highly respectable, industrious and
intelligent people live on the farms and justly pride themselvvs [sic] on being
able to make an entire success of farming. The church is about six miles
southeast from Bennettsville and was built in the year 1848. Its original
membership went out from Beauty Spot, the mother church. The Hebron Academy
building stands near the church, and hard by is the cemetery, noted far and near
as being the neatest and best cared for cemetery in this whole region of
country. A few years ago, 1879, a handsome new church was erected.

  About 1760 Ivy's church (now Clio) was situated near what is now Dunbar. It
was afterwards moved to a point one mile below the town of Clio, and there they
worshiped until 1885, when a church was built in Clio. They have had five
churches. One was burned in 1866 by the incendiary's torch.

PARNASSUS.

  In the years prior to 1835 the Methodists in the Parnassus community worshiped
at Mossy Bay. The location of the old church is yet well-known on account of the
graveyard. The dust of our forefathers buried there has long since mingled with
the mother earth. There they worshipped; there they lie buried, and from thence
their bodies will arise on the great resurrection morn. The site of the old
church is in the immediate neighborhood of J. R. Townsend's residence. In that
day there was also a Methodist church called "McLeod's church," located near
where Berry Alford lived. It was on the McLeod land, and was doubtless built by
or through the instrumentality of Donald McLeod, grand-father of Mrs. W. Z.
Donaldson and D. McD. McLeod. During the year 1835 a church was built at
Parnassus; the membership of Mossy Bay and "McLeod's" churches united and made
the new organization. The church was built by John Sinclair, and the dedicatory
sermon was preached by Rev. Nicholas Ware, a local preacher who lived in the
Brownsville neighborhood and preached in the lower section of the county. Our
forefathers worshipped at both of the old churches, and then our parents and
grandparents attended the Parnassus church. Some of the prominent members and
attendants at Parnassus in the long ago were Thomas Barnett, James Galloway,
John L. McRae, Thomas Kinney, Daniel John, James Spears and W. R. Smith. The
last named was a Methodist preacher and lived in the neighborhood of the church
and frequently preached. The present church building was erected by Mr. H. G.
Lucas just prior to the late war. It is well located, in a thickly populated
community and has a large membership of substantial, pious and devout people.

  Zion church, located a few miles west from Parnassus, near John C. Townsend's,
has been organized and built since the war, and belongs to the Blenheim Circuit.

BENNETTSVILLE CHURCH.

  On the 21st of June, 1834, Col. Wm. J. Cook conveyed one and a half acres of
land to Thomas Cook, John L. McRae, Wm. Dudley, John McCollum, Alexander J.
Miller, Jas. C. Thomas and Alexander R. Brown, as trustees for the Bennettsville
Methodist church. The deed was not recorded till 1846. It is fair to presume
that the church was built within a year or two after the conveyance was made.
The town of Bennettsville had even then begun to show signs of growth and life,
and the Methodists residing in town up to that time had held their membership at
Beauty Spot. The members residing in Bennettsville doubtless experienced some
difficulty in reaching their place of worship, and influenced by the belief that
Bennettsville would some day grow to be a town of some size and importance,
wisely determined to build a church in the young town. The Baptist congregation
had just two • years previously built a new house, and this might have provoked
them to good works. Let the causes influencing them be what they may, just ten
years from the completion and occupancy of the new court-house they took steps
towards the building of the first Methodist church. It seems strange that the
people of Bennettsville should have waited eight or ten years after the
completion of the court-house before a church was built in the town. The
Baptists living in the town at that time worshiped at Saw Mill and had just
built a new church there in 1820; so it was natural that they should wait awhile
and be well convinced that Bennettsville was to be a reality before beginning
another new house. But the Methodists needed a new house at Beauty Spot when the
town was founded, for in 1839 they erected a new building at Beauty Spot.

  The first church, built more than sixty years ago, was a plain square building
without steeple, portico or other architectural adornments. It was covered on
four sides, forming a quadrangular roof, ending in a sharp point at the apex.
Two doors opened from the street and led you directly into the body of the
church. The house was never painted and the bell was swung to a frame platform
outside the church. The singing was done by the congregation without the aid of
an organ or cornet. Major Townsend or Judge Hudson, with the aid of a silver
tuning fork, could be relied on to "raise the tune." In the "amen corner" of the
church devoted to males (for males and females each occupied their own portion
of the church) sat Col. Wm. J. Cook, Dr. Crosland, Wm. Dudley, John McCollum,
James C. Thomas and Rev. Thomas Cook. In the opposite corner sat Mrs. Fannie
Easterling, Mrs. Sarah Cook, Mrs. Jas. C. Thomas, Mrs. Little and Mrs. Rowe.
They have all gone to their reward.

  About 1871 the present building was erected on the site occupied by the old
church. It was made a station in 1883 and has been served by T. E. Wannamaker,
J. L. Stokes, J. W. Daniel, W. S. Wightman, E. O. Watson and now (1897) is again
under the care of Rev. J. L. Stokes.

BOYKIN.

  A preaching place was established about one hundred years ago at Boykin; about
the same time a school was established there and was taught by Lemuel Boykin,
from whom the place took its name.

  A fine spring of freestone water near the church doubtless influenced the
establishment of this educational and religious center. The spring has been
flowing through all these years without cessation or diminution, yielding from
one hundred to two hundred gallons per hour of as pure water as any in the
country. It is not definitely known when the first schoolhouse or church was
built. The earliest recollection of some of the oldest people indicates a small
log schoolhouse in which Barnabas Wallace, afterwards a prominent planter in the
vicinity, taught. Many years before the war, a good framed school building was
erected, principally through the efforts of Rev. Cornelius Newton, who lived
about three miles southeast of the place and always took a lively interest in
its educational affairs. About 1845 or before, Robert Fairly taught school for a
number of years at this place. He was a famous teacher, and much loved by
scholars and patrons. He came from the Scotch settlement of Richmond county,
North Carolina. James Stewart also taught here. He was a Scotchman and bachelor
and famous for his wit and peculiarities of disposition. Alexander J. Stanton
also taught there many years. He was a man of positive disposition and wielded
the "rod" with a master hand. He was Tax-collector for two terms and died
several years ago, leaving a large and interesting family. Thomas W. Huckabee,
who has been mentioned elsewhere, taught there from about 1850 to 1855. And
various other men have occupied the teacher's chair in that school, which has
done its work in training the best citizens this county has known.

  There were three church buildings erected there from the beginning; the first
was built of hewn logs dove-tailed at the corners; the second was a frame
building about 30x40 feet, and it stood, as did the first, on the south side of
the road. This building was erected about 1830. It had the usual high pulpit,
and benches made from heavy plank with a six-inch board about high enough to
strike the shoulder blades for a back. The last church, which now stands there,
was built in 1859 or i860 by H. G. Lucas, who built several of the churches in
the county and died a few years ago at Parnassus, and was followed just two days
after by his wife. This church is 40x60 feet, and is one the best church
edifices in the county. It has sheltered one of the largest memberships in this
section of country. Barnabas Wallace, Samuel Odom, Sr.; Younger Newton, David C.
Newton, Tobias Calder, John W. Stubbs, Thomas Barrentine, Needham Ryal and
others had their membership here in the generation before the last. Of the last
generation were such names as James M. Gibson, Noah Gibson, Robertson Adams,
Jephtha Adams, Ebenezer W. Goodwin, Giles Newton, Anderson Newton, William Peel.
The last named could neither read nor write at the age of nineteen years, when
he married, but began to study, learned to read and write and has read the New
Testament through one hundred and fifty-eight times, word for word, since 1844.

  James W. Gibson and Noah Gibson were brothers and together with William, Eli,
Ziba, Nelson M. and the Rev. Thomas Gibson were the sons of Nathaniel Gibson.
They were all reared near the North Carolina line, and were strong men,
physically, intellectually and morally, and have made their impress upon the
communities in which they have lived. The Rev. Thomas Gibson, who lived over the
line in North Carolina a few miles, was a surveyor and a local minister of fine
reputation. His labors in and around Boykin church were abundant, and "none
named him but to praise." He was a sweet, spiritual, Christian gentleman. All
these brothers are dead except Eli, who is seventy-two years of age and has been
a member of the Methodist church for fifty years, and Nelson M., of Mc-Coll, who
has reached his three-score and ten and calmly awaits the summons to go up
higher. He has been a close personal friend of the author of this history for
fifty years, and has been frequently called "his Methodist deacon at Beaverdam."
The Gibson family is of English extraction. Noah was very successful as a
merchant, and by his skill in business and his industry amassed a large fortune.
He was the father of Francis B. Gibson, who is his worthy successor in the
mercantile business at Gibson, North Carolina. Noah left several sons and
daughters, all of whom occupy prominent positions in church and society. James
M. Gibson lived within about half a mile of Boykin church. He reared a large
family and always took a prominent part in church and school matters. These and
other prominent laymen among the Odoms and Quicks and other families were reared
under the influence of Boykin church, nearly all having crossed over the river
prior to this record. Most of them left families and descendants who are
worthily sustaining their record for piety and good citizenship.

  The traveling preachers who served this church were those who were from time
to time assigned to the Bennettsville Circuit, and their names are given
elsewhere in this volume. Cornelius Newton, Henry Covington, Aaron Turner, James
Turner and James Odom were local preachers who were members here and did their
faithful work here and in other parts of Marlboro, and even across the North
Carolina line. Cornelius Newton married the daughter of Rev. Robt. Purnell, who
is elsewhere named as the pioneer local preacher of the Beauty Spot section.
Cornelius Newton was born 25th December, 1797; was a son of Younger Newton and
grandson of Giles Newton, Sr., who came to this county from Henrico County,
Virginia, in the latter part of the last century, and was the great progenitor
of all the Newton family in this country, which has grown to great proportions
and intermarried with the Adams, Gibsons, Fletchers, etc., till its relations
number in the hundreds, perhaps. Cornelius Newton is the only one of the local
preachers whose complete history we have been able to get. He was married, as
stated, to a daughter (Dorcas) of Robt. Purnell on 31st December, 1818, and
joined the church in the summer of 1820, and embraced religion in October, 1821,
appointed class leader in 1822 and licensed to exhort in 1830; licensed to
preach in 1834; ordained Deacon in 1838; and was recommended for Elders' Orders
in 1842. He reared a large and interesting family, many of whom still survive;
among them Cornelius D. Newton, Joseph Newton and Hope Hull Newton. He was a
successful planter and a faithful soldier of the cross, and after "having served
his own generation, by the will of God fell on sleep" in the summer of 1878.
Among those who labored in this vicinity in later years as local preachers were
Wm. K. Breeden, who lived in the Smyrna section, and Andrew Adams, who still
survives and was born and reared in the vicinity of Boykin church. Who can tell
how much the local preacher has had to do with the successful growth of
Methodism in this and other sections?

  Boykin, sixty years ago or more, was a famous camp-meeting place, and during
these annual summer convocations, ministers, local and itinerant, went from
other sections of country and heartily engaged in the services. Time and space
both forbid telling more of the history of this church and community. A chosen
people; a chosen land, and the deepest spiritual influences from time immemorial
are enough to evolve a superior type of Christian civilization, just such as has
long been and doubtless will continue to be in the vicinity of Boykin church.

EBENEZER.

  About 1856 or 1857 Rev. P. E. Bishop, the pastor of the Bennettsville
Presbyterian church, appreciating the fact that a section a few miles south from
Bennettsville was comparatively destitute of Gospel privileges, determined to
carry the Gospel to that community. He was assisted in his efforts by Rev. Paul
F. Kistler and Rev. J. A. W. Thomas, and a union church was built. It was called
Pine Plains and services held alternately by the three preachers named. The
Methodist faith largely predominated in the community and Rev. P. F. Kistler was
doubtless the first preacher to preach a sermon to the congregation which formed
the Ebenezer M. E. Church. His first sermon was preached beneath the spreading
branches of a large oak tree, near the spot where the church now.stands. About
the year 1858 the first church was built, and the dedicatory sermon preached by
him. Rev. Mr. Kistler yet lingers on the shores of time, and resides at Bamberg,
S. C. He married a sister of Dr. J. T. Jennings, of Bennnettsville. The
membership came from Beauty Spot and Hebron. About 1892 the old church was sold
to Mr. R. M. Edens and a new house built on the site of the old one. The
Ebenezer church belongs to the Blenheim Circuit.

BETHEL.

  Bethel M. E. church was built in 1875 or 1876, during the pastorate of Rev. J.
M. Carlisle. He gave it the name and told the people how to pronounce it, and
impressed upon the people the fact that the accent should be placed on the last
syllable, and that a hyphen should be placed between the two. Bethel is really
old Level Green with a changed name and location. Level Green church stood where
George M. Webster now resides. The land (one acre) upon which it stood was, upon
the 28th day of August 1844, deeded to John Jones, Philip Barrentine, James
Moon, H. H. Williams, Benjamin Moon as trustees, by Ananias Graham and wife. The
church was therefore built about 1845, and the membership went from Beauty Spot,
the mother of Methodist churches, and from Bennettsville, which had been built a
few years before. From some cause Level Green languished, and perhaps died, but
its successor, Bethel, is destined to be a strong church. It is in a thickly
settled community of prosperous young farmers who will be able and willing to
give it their support.

BREEDEN'S CHAPEL.

  Not many years ago Mr. Joel Hall and others built a brush arbor, and invited
the Rev. Wm. K. Breeden to preach for them. He preached for sometime under the
arbor, but Mr. Hall, not being satisfied, determined in his old age to have a
church near him; he canvassed the country for subscriptions and donations, was
successful, and to-day there stands on the hill, just in front of his late
residence, a large, beautiful church bearing the appropriate name of Breeden's
Chapel, and long may it stand among the lonely pines, a monument to the efforts
of Mr. Hall, and of the piety, Christian character, and Godly labors of the man
whose name it bears. The church was built in 1887. They have both gone to their
reward; Mr. Hall several years ago, and Mr. Breeden in 1896. From the time Mr.
Breeden entered the ministry in the early sixties to the time of his death, his
life was full of useful work.

BETHLEHEM.

  The history of Bethlehem M. E. church, in the extreme southern part of the
county, is similar to that of other churches. They began with a log house. The
date of organization is not known; but it is well known that our fathers
attended a camp-meeting held there in their youth, and that would make Bethlehem
one of the old churches. They have had at least three houses of worship. The
present house was built by H. G. Lucas about 1858 or 1859.

SMYRNA.

  Smyrna was first located a few hundred yards from where it now stands, and
quite near to J. F. Breeden's place, formerly the Wm. Pearson place. A house was
built where the church now stands, about 1846 or 1848 for a gentleman, not now a
youth, remembers attending service there the 15th of April, 1849, "the day of
the big snow" in April. His recollection is that the church was new and had but
recently been completed. The present church was built by Samuel Sparks in 1884.
Mr. Sparks, while building it, fell from a scaffold, and was quite badly hurt.

PINE GROVE.

  It is safe to say that Pine Grove has been a place of worship for more than a
century. The Quakers first worshipped there, but, as has been already told, on
account of slavery they moved to the Northwest and the other denominations used
their house. Rev. Cornelius Newton remembered attending a revival meeting held
jointly by the Baptists and Methodists early in the present century at what is
now Pine Grove church. During the progress of the meeting a "young man, riding
in a gig, came up to the meeting ground, alighted and made his way into the
congregation near the altar, and paid very respectful attention to the services
then in progress. After the close of the services, his acquaintance was sought,
and it was ascertained that he was a Baptist minister (Rev. W. Q. Beattie) who
had just finished his education and journeyed South to preach the Gospel. He was
invited to preach at the next service, and he charmed the whole congregation
with his graceful speech and melting words, and many were the shouts that were
raised as he eloquently portrayed the glories of salvation, and when he would
have ceased, cries of 'go on,' 'go on,' spontaneously arose from the congregation."

  It has not been ascertained when the present church or the ones preceding it
were built. In 1871 and a few years succeeding, a camp-meeting was held at Pine
Grove—the last held in the county but perhaps not the first held at Pine Grove.

  A good school has for many years been kept up at Pine Grove. The Academy is
just across the road opposite to the church, both being in a beautiful grove of
majestic oaks. Under such men as Robert Johnson, J. Monroe Johnson, Hope Newton,
Hamilton, Craven and others, along with the unanimous hearty support of the
patrons, educational as well as religious interests have been maintained at Pine
Grove.

  There are a number of other Methodist churches in Marlboro, but the difficulty
of obtaining information, and the lack of space, will preclude a more extended
notice than a mere mention of their names. Antioch, Hickory Grove, Shiloh, New
Hope, Beulah, Manning's Chapel, Pleasant Hilt, Oak Grove, and McColl.

  In the preparation of the foregoing chapter invaluable assistance has been
kindly rendered by Rev. L. M. Hamer, Rev. J. L. Stokes, H. H. Newton and others.

CIRCUITS AND PREACHERS.

  The circuit embracing the churches of Marlboro was first called Pee Dee. It
embraced territory lying North at least as far as Rockingham, and presumably
extended down the Pee Dee river, perhaps to its mouth. The name was changed from
Pee Dee to Rockingham Circuit in 1832, and a parsonage established at
Rockingham. At the close of the year 1845 the circuit was reduced in size and
the name changed to Bennettsville. A parsonage was built in Bennettsville, and
H. H. Durant was the first preacher to occupy it in 1846. At that time
Bennettsville Circuit doubtless embraced all the churches located in Marlboro.
Now the same territory is covered by five circuits and one station; named as
follows: Bennettsville Station, and Bennettsville, Brightsville, North Marlboro,
Blenheim and Clio Circuits. Bennettsville was made a station in December 1883.
The pastors have been T. E. Wannamaker, 1884; J. L. Stokes, 1885-6; J. W.
Daniel, 1887-90; W. S. Wightman, 1891-2; E. O. Watson, 1893-95; J. L. Stokes,
1896, and now serving. The parsonage originally stood on the same street and and
[sic] just south from Judge Hudson's, on the lot now belonging to Mrs. Barnes.
It was sold and another built on the opposite side of the same street. In a few
years it was disposed of, and a handsome two-story structure erected in East
Bennettsville.

  Bennettsville Circuit is now composed of four churches, Pine Grove, McColl,
Beauty Spot and Smyrna. The parsonage is located at McColl.

  Brightsville Circuit was set apart from Bennettsville Circuit in 1849, and is
composed of Boykin, Bethel, Anti-och and Breeden's Chapel. The parsonage is near
Gibson Station, North Carolina. This Circuit has been served by G. M. Boyd, R.
W. Barber, P. A. Murray and B. M. Grier.

  The churches in North Marlboro Circuit are New Hope, Oak Grove, Ebenezer,
Shiloh and Pleasant Hill.

  Clio Circuit was first known as South Marlboro, and was a part of the
Bennettsville Circuit till 1874. The churches now composing it are Clio,
Bethlehem, Beulah, and Manning's Chapel. The parsonage is at Clio. The preachers
who have had charge are J. T. Kilgo, G. T. Harmon, J. C. Bissell, G. M. Boyd, D.
D. Dantzler, F. Auld, R. A. Child, John Owen and J. B. Traywick.

  Blenheim Circuit was a part of the Clio Circuit until the close of the year
1887. The churches forming it are Hebron, Parnassus, Ebenezer and Zion. G. M.
Boyd, W. H. Kirton, J. A. Porter, J. W. Ariail, L. F. Beaty, T. G. Herbert, Sr.,
and P. B. Wells are the preachers who have been in charge. The parsonage is
located at Blenheim.

  The following list gives the names and date of service of the preachers who
have had charge of the Bennettsville Circuit since the year 1821 and up to date.

1821 John Boswell and_____ Tradewell.
1822 Jeremiah Norman and Morgan C. Turrentine.
1823 John Boswell and Malcom McPherson.
1824 Nicholas Ware and Elias Sinclair.
1825 Elias Sinclair.
1826 J. L. Jerry and J. Hartley.
1827 Joseph Moon and W. T. Smith.
1828 _____ Groover, W. M. Wightman and _____ Culverhouse.
1829 John H. Robeson,_____ Humbert and  Wm. Murrah.
1830 Noah Lany, Samuel W. Capers and John McColl.
1831 Wm. King, Jackey M. Bradley and_____ Boseman.
1832 Wm. King, _____ Allen and Wm. Whitby.
1833 Joel W. Townsend and John L. Smith.
1834 John Watts and J. W. Welbourn.
1835 Allen McCorquodale and A. W. Walker.
1836 John H. Roberson and Thos. Sumter Daniel.
1837 John H. Roberson and John McMackin.
1838 Chas. S. Walker and Paul A. M. Williams.
1839 Theophilus Huggins and Wm. C. Clark.
1840 Wm. T. Harrison and Wm. A. McSwain.
1841 Abel Hoyle and Miles Pucket.
1842 Ira L. Potter and A. Richardson.
1843 Jacob B. Anthony and John W. Vandiver.
1844 Lark O'Neal.
1845 M. Robbins and Robt. J. Limehouse.
1846 Henry H. Durant.
1847 Marcus A. McKibben. 
1848 Dennis J. Simmons. 
1849 James W. Wightman.
1850 John A. Porter.
1851 Jackey M. Bradley.
1852 John H. Zimmerman.
1853 Robert P. Franks.
1854 Lewis M. Little.
1855 Lewis M. Little and John W. Crider.
1856 Henry M. Mood and John W. Crider.
1857 Henry M. Mood and J. E. W. Fripp.
1858 Paul F. Kistler and J. M. Cline.
1859 Paul F. Kistler and E. F. Thwing.
1860 R. R. Pegues and A. H. Harmon.
1861 R. R. Pegues and_____ Allston.
1862 Tracy R. Walsh and J. B. Campbell.
1863 Tracy R. Walsh and R. R. Pegues.
1864 J. A. Porter and M. C. Davis.
1865 J. A. Porter and M. C. Davis.
1866 T. R. Walsh and A. McCorquodale.
1867 T. R. Walsh and R. R. Pegues.
1868 M. L. Banks.
1869-1870 Claudus H. Prichard.
1871 John A. Porter.
1872 J. A. Porter and J. F. England.
1873 John A. Mood and L. M. Hamer.
1874 John A. Mood and Dove Tiller.
1875 John M. Carlisle and J. L. Stokes.
1876 John M. Carlisle and D. G. Dantzler, 
1877 Thomas Mitchell and Thomas E. Gilbert. 
1878 Thomas Mitchell and J. W. Tarbox. 
1879 T. Mitchell and F. Hauser.
1880 J. W. Murray and_____ Graham.
1881 J. W. Murray and P. B. Murray. 
1882 J. W. Murray and J. E. Beard. 
1883 Thomas J. Clyde and John C. Kilgo
1884 Thomas J. Clyde and J. A. Harmon.
1885 Thomas J. Clyde and E. G. Price.
1886 Thomas J. Clyde and E. 0. Watson.
1887 James C. Stoll and John A. Rice.
1888 James C. Stoll.
1889 George M. Boyd.
1890 W. H. Kirton. 
1891-1894 W. S. Martin.
1895-1896 J. S. Beaseley.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF MARLBORO COUNTY,
WITH
TRADITIONS AND SKETCHES OF NUMEROUS FAMILIES.

REV. J. A. W. THOMAS, AUTHOR.

A wonderful stream is the river Time
  As it runs through the realms of tears 
With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme,
And a broader sweep and a surge sublime
  As it blends with the ocean of years.
                        —TENNYSON.

ATLANTA, GA.:
THE FOOTE & DAVIES COMPANY,
Printers and Binders.
1897.


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