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Freeman Family Tree
The Freeman Family Tree, compiled and contributed by Nikki Parsons, begins with William Owen Freeman, born in NC in 1780 and died in Hemingway, SC in 1830. He married Jane Cumbie, who was born in 1780 and died in Hemingway, SC in 1832. -
Cribb Family Tree
This Cribb family tree was curated by Nikki Parsons. It begins with Daniel Cribb, his birth name was Daniel Creb. He was born in 1660 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England and died in 1709 in England. -
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Eady Family
Southern Rights "Sud" Eady (1860-1935) holding daughter Mary Elizabeth Eady, and wife Kate Allen Eady (1872-1955). -
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Erskine Shaw Stoddard, 1921 Wofford Yearbook photograph
Erskine Shaw Stoddard (1900-1947) in 1920. He was a native of Laurens County but moved to Johnsonville in 1924, shortly after marrying Kathleen Thompson (Stoddard Venters). E. S. Stoddard was in the farm supply business and also operated a cotton gin. He also served on the Florence County Board of Education and was a superintendent of Johnsonville school. He died unexpectedly in 1947. -
Johnsonville School Trustees, 1942
L to R: Percy Delance Poston, DeGideon Bryant "Gid" Haselden, Wallace Herbert Meng - Chairman. -
William Andrew Lawrimore and Family
William Andrew Lawrimore (1871-1962) and his wife, Annie Stacia Watson (1877-1950), were farmers and operated a country store at Muddy Creek. William and Annie's last name is sometimes spelled Lowrimore interchangeably.
Their children were:
Willie James Lawrimore 1899–1979
Victor Blue Lawrimore 1900–1984
Mary Agnes Lawrimore Woodberry 1902–1991
Annie Lawrimore Ginn 1904–2008
Percy Buck Lawrimore 1906–1969
Rufus Brice Lawrimore 1908–1987
Jacob Baker Lawrimore 1910–1982
Edna Lawrimore Barfield 1912–2002
Gracie Lawrimore Edwards 1912–2009
Arris Bradford Lawrimore 1914–1985
Marvin Jackson Lawrimore 1916–2000
Carrie Bell Lawrimore Huggins 1918–2016
Fred Bill Lawrimore 1920–2007
Ruby Lawrimore Stone 1928–1965 -
Johnsonville High School Baseball 1950
Images show: Delance Poston and John H Jones; Batboys Briley Taylor (6th grade) and Robert RJ Venters (4th grade); Wilson Cain (2nd Base) and Lenair Altman (catcher); Harry Gaskins (outfield) and John Louis Gaster (shortstop). -
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Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman family reunion 1983
Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman Hanna Descendants reunion 1983.
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Ann Marie Hanna, Myrtle Ree Hanna, John Linwood Hanna. -
Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman family reunion 1983
Five children of Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman at family reunion 1983.
Sitting left to right: Ellen Hanna Chandler, Pearl Hanna Eaddy, Linwood Hanna.
Standing left to right: Carrie Hanna Prater and Hessie Mae Hanna Altman. -
Carolyn Prater Ward, senior portrait 1950
JHS Gold and Black 1950 -
George Allen Avant, Senior Portrait, 1959
Gold and Black Yearbook, 1959 -
Betty J. Brown Ross Senior Portrait 1970
1970 JHS senior portrait of Betty J. Brown Ross. Betty attended the segregated Stuckey School before graduating from Johnsonville High in 1970. -
Stonewall Jackson Hughes Family circa 1896
This photograph shows Stonewall Jackson Hughes (seated, black hat) with his wife, children, and parents. Stone Hughes and Sarah Martha Thompson were married on March 22, 1879.
Front row seated, L to R: Wallie Jones Hughes, Sarah Martha Thompson Hughes, Jay Hughes, Stonewall Jackson Hughes holding Grace Hughes, Sidney Lenair Hughes, John Wesley Hughes, and Celia Cribb Hughes.
Standing L to R: unknown, Virginia Cribb, Martin Altman, unknown
A majority of this family is buried at Ebenezer Methodist Church cemetery in Muddy Creek, Williamsburg County. -
Marion Todd and Fleety Altman Todd
Marion Cornelius Todd (1910-1982) and Fleety Altman Todd (1911-1999).
Fleety was the daughter of Charles Haskel "Charlie" Altman (1884–1939), and Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Matthews (1889–1979). Marion was the son of Marion Sylvester Todd (1882–1964) and Mary Bell Phipps Todd (1885–1918) -
Bob Eaddy and John James Altman
Image shows Bob Eaddy and John James Altman, first Postmaster of Vox, with horses. -
Olin and Eulalie Stone in front of their home on Eaddy Ford Road
Olin and Eulalie Stone lived on Eaddy Ford Road near the Vox Highway. Their daughter Evelyn Pauline Stone Emery lived here until she passed away in 2015 at the age of 99.
The home was built circa 1880 by E. F. Prosser. Olin Stone purchased the home from E. F. Prosser when the Prossers moved to Johnsonville in 1911.
The old home burned in the years after her death. -
Olin and Eulalie Stone with children
Standing, L to R: Alston Willie Stone, Lamar Etrick Stone, Marvin Donald Stone, Gracie Stone, Effie Mae Stone, Annie Lou Stone, Fannie Stone, James Nathaniel (Son) and Marion (Tink)
Seated: Olin Bascom Stone, Eulalie Susan Altman Stone, Evelyn Pauline Stone -
Reverend James Powell
Reverend James Napoleon Powell (1888-1969) served as the first pastor for New Home Free Will Baptist Church in Possum Fork -
Members of New Hope FWB Church
Members of New Hope Free Will Baptist Church in Possum Fork. Pictured are Nellie Ruth Miles, Katie Hughes, Alfred E. Miles (pastor), Archie Powell, Blondell Stone, Earline Powell, and Elsie Powell -
Evelyn Willis and Caroline Lovett
Back of photo reads "This is a snap shot of Caroline (the other twin) and me - it was made about 4 years ago, but still looks just like us." -
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Reverend James Ruet Gilland
James Ruet Gilland (1810-1877) was a minister of Indiantown Church from 1858-1867. He was born on a farm near Greencastle, PA. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1836 but his failing health led him south, where he taught high school at Statesburg until entering the Theological Seminary at Columbia, graduating in 1840. He had one daughter, Mary Jane, by his first wife Mary Rebecca Hutchinson. After her death in 1843, Gilland married Mary Caroline Gibbes.
He was assigned to several locations in SC before his assignment began in Indiantown in 1858. In 1867, feeling the church had been so broken up by the war so as to be unable to support him, he headed West to work in AR, MO, and MS. He returned to Indiantown in the fall of 1877, spending his remaining months with his daughter, Mary Jane Gilland McCutchen. -
Hemingway Community Leaders, 1950s
A Group of Community leaders in Hemingway, SC at the A & J Restaurant in Hemingway.
Left Front to Back: 1 Mrs A.W. Ragsdale, Mrs Z.H. McDaniel, Mrs. June Huggins, Mrs. Harry Anderson, Mrs. Merritt E. Morris, Mrs. Thea Lewis, unknown, Mrs. Inez Wilson Galloway, Mrs. John J. Snow, Mrs Rosa Eaddy Standing: Pete Doster & Mr. Merrill Brown.
Right Front to Back: Mrs K.E. Creel, Mrs. Lou Ann Wilson, Mr. Merritt E. Morris, Mr. Carroll Morris, Mr. A.W. Ragsdale, Mr. Willie Hemingway, Mr. Clarence Snowden. -
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Arthur Wellman welcomes first foreign shipment of Wool, 1954
Officials observe the first of regular imports of foreign wool in North Charleston, imported for the new Wellman Combing Company in Johnsonville.
L to R: J. J. Lamb with Palmetto Shipping, W. H. Robinson, V.P and manager, Arthur O. Wellman, and L. W. Bishop, director of the SC Development Board. -
Mr. Fiver, Dr. J. G. Ulmer, O.G. Huggins, 1929
Dr. John Gordon Ulmer, Sr. (1899-1974) was born in Brunson. He was a son of Captain Henry Martin Ulmer and Janie Free Ulmer. He was married to Ruth Harmon.
Dr. Ulmer graduated as valedictorian of his high school and graduated from The College of Charleston with honors in mathematics and science. He completed his medical studies at the Medical College of South Carolina and served an internship at Roper Hospital in Charleston.
He moved to Hemingway in 1923 and began his practice July 12, 1923. Dr. Ulmer completed 50 years of practice prior to his illness.
During the 50 years, he delivered about 6,000 babies and was known as the "baby doctor". During one month he delivered 28 babies. In his family practice he came into contact with almost every family in the tri-county area he served.
When he came to Hemingway in 1923 it had a population of 200 and no doctor.Dr. Hemingway had died earlier from injuries in an explosion of his sterilizing machine.
Dr. Ulmer opened his practice in the drug store in Hemingway, but had very little office practice. He mostly made house calls on the dire roads of Williamsburg, Georgetown and Florence Counties.
During the depression he delivered babies in homes lit by firelight or candlelight. He was often paid with produce or ham instead of money.
Dr. Ulmer was honored by the residents of Williamsburg, Georgetown and Florence counties on October 15, 1972 when Dr. John Gordon Ulmer day was held in Hemingway. One of his many honors that day was the establishment of the John Gordon Ulmer Scholarship at the Medical College of South Carolina of Charleston.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church of
Hemingway. Dr. Ulmer was a charter member of Hemingway Civitan Club. In 1967 he was awarded the Distinguished Citizen's Award by the Hemingway Jaycees. He was a member of the Indiantown Masonic Lodge of Hemingway and the Hemingway American Legion Post.
Dr. Ulmer was a member of the American Medical Association, The S.C. Medical Association and the Williamsburg County Medical Society.
While at the Medical College he was a member of the John L. Dawson Medical Society.
He had a son, John Gordon Ulmer, Jr. of Chapel Hill, N.C.; a daughter, Mrs. Edward Dixon Harrill of Fairfax, Va.; a sister, Miss Rumel Ulmer of Brunson; a brother, S. Eric Ulmer of Allendale; four grandchildren. -
Mary Scott Legette Weaver
Portrait of Mary Scott Legette Weaver (1873-1961) with children, Janie & George Legette. Mary was a Native American born in the Pee Dee who passed away in Hemingway in 1961 at the age of 89.
This story of her life was posted by Rebecca Whiting on
ancestry.com:
Miss Mary was a Native American. She had children by two different marriages and later married a man by the name of "Weaver". Mary was known for her chiseled features and beautiful long hair, cut short in her portrait. She was also known for sitting on the front porch of her home, smoking a pipe. Included in the Federal Government's "round up" and disbanding of the tribes, Mary was sent with most of her people to North Carolina where most still remain. The theory was to disband the tribes by merging them, so that specific tribal cultures, traditions, leadership and unity would forever be lost. It is believed that Mary was originally either Pee Dee Indian or Catawba Indian. Both tribes are local to the geographic area where Mary chose to stay. The Pee Dee Indians' primary surname is "Scott"; however, the Catawba were fearsome warriors that defeated the Pee Dee Indians and kidnapped most of them into a life within the Catawba tribe. The Catawba Indians were also called "Flat Heads" as they would mold infant male's heads to slant the forehead. They were known for painting their faces white with one black eye. Catawba warriers were used to catch runaway slaves. Many slaveholders marched new slaves in front of the Catawba warriers to instill fear in them and prevent them from escaping. The Indian Census shows a Mary Scott applying for transition to the West, and history does show that the bulk of the Catawba Tribe was moved westward. Mary Scott was denied transition and appealed the decision. This is an indication that Mary was Catawba Indian or a Pee Dee Indian who wanted to be with the Catawba, but due to the commonality of the name "Mary Scott", this cannot be considered a proven fact.
Mary left North Carolina and returned to South Carolina and received a grant of a large parcel of land in South Carolina by the Federal Government. Her first born, a daughter, was Lilllie Scott. It is unclear whether Mary was ever married to Lillie's father. If she was married to Lillie's father then her maiden name would not have been "Scott" and she may have no link to the Pee Dee Tribe. However, if "Scott" was Mary's maiden name then the likelihood of her being a member of the Pee Dee Tribe increases. Lillie grew up to marry Isaiah Washington Stuckey, the son of freed slaves, Pompey Stuckey & Sallie Stubbs Stuckey. Lillie bore Isaiah several children, one of whom was Rayfield. Rayfield grew up to marry the lovely Dorothy Timmons, a light-skinned woman of color; however, referred to as a "mulatto" on all official censuses and documents. -
John and O'Rella Cox Huggins Family
This photo was taken at the home of John Samuel Huggins near Johnsonville, SC. The home later belonged to a son, Tonlis Huggins. He was the only child who remained in the area to farm.
Front L to R: Vera Lou Miller (baby), John Samuel Huggins, Violet Pearl Huggins, O'Rella Cox Huggins.
Back L to R: James Massebeau Huggins, Wilna Capitola Huggins, Liston O'Neal Huggins, Tonlis Faifa Huggins, Albie Demain Huggins -
James Carthen Prosser
James Carthen Prosser smiles in this portrait. -
John Coachman and Lula Venters Altman family, 1907
John Coachman Altman's family was living in Johnsonville by 1900 according to census records.
Pictured L to R: Charlie, Annie, Fannie, Monnie, Meddie, Lula holding Hollie, James, Irby.
Sitting: Fred, Shellie, Rollie, Leroy -
Julius and Lillie Belle Altman Family
This image was taken at the 50th wedding anniversary of Julius Spiers Altman and Lillie Belle Altman.
1st Row L to R: Julia Elizabeth Altman, Julius Spiers Altman, Lillie Belle Prosser Altman, Phontella "Bink" Altman Griffis
2nd row: Lena Belle Altman Clemmer, Willia "Bongie" Altman McCutchen, Willie "Billie" Parks Altman Swenson
3rd row: Franklin Altman, Sweeney Lee Altman, Mayo Altman
4th row: Thurman Altman, Laries Alex Altman -
Johnsonville High School Junior Class, 1949
Maisie Poston Ballou is standing to the left. This photo is taken in front of the old Johnsonville High School, now the District Office for District 5. -
Charlie Prosser, C.O. Powell, Pete Hanna, Delmus Abrams, log cabin 1934
The Log Cabin, AKA the canteen or the cannery from Johnsonville High School. Constructed in 1934 by Charlie Prosser, C.O. Powell, Pete Hanna, Delmus Abrams. -
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Students at Old Johnsonville School circa 1904
1st Row: Lillian Cockfield Powell, Myrtle Poston Redfern, Eva Venters Grimball.
2nd Row: Hattie Cribb Newell, Myra Oliver
3rd Row: Eunice Huggins Brown, Zelma Ginn.
Professor S. H. Brown stands in the back
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William Arthur and Bertha Mae Cribb Altman
William Arthur (W.A.) Altman Jr. (1921-1984) and Bertha Mae Cribb Altman (1925-1991). W.A. worked at Haselden Brothers Ford. He was the son of William Arthur Altman Sr. and Wilma Grace Edwards. Bertha Mae Crib was the daughter of Charlie Anderson Cribb and Nettie Baxley. Mrs. Altman attended Pleasant Hill High School. -
Vox Elementary School 1955-1956
Several photographs and documents related to the 6th and 7th grade at Vox Elementary School, 1955 and 1956.
Files include:
Cora Collins - teacher
A letter from Mrs. Henry D. Powell
Vox 6th Grade, 1955
Vox 7th Grade, 1955
Vox 7th Grade, 1956 -
John Henry Woodberry, 1914
John Henry Woodberry as a cadet at Westpoint. -
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Trinity Methodist Church youth, 1956
First Row: Larry Taylor, Andy Richardson, Ammondine Taylor, Freddy Brown, ?, Randy Huggins, Nancy Taylor, Jean Furches.
Second Row: Wayne Taylor, Lester Perry, Stafford Perry, Brenda Taylor, Linda Taylor, ?, ?, ?, Linda Marsh, Dorothy Rogers.
Back: Bernie Huggins,Walter Brown, Louin Collins, Busman Haselden, ?, ?, Wilma Perry, S.R. Ballou, Sammy Marsh -
Henry Edison Eaddy
Obituary for Henry Edison Eaddy
It is the painful duty of the County Record to chronicle the death of Mr. Henry E. Eaddy, well known as the "Sage of Possum Fork". He died at his home near Johnsonville Friday morning about 2:30 o'clock.
Mr. Eaddy was a man of rare personality. He was a self made man in every sense of the term. Intellectually he was a genius, being an expert mathemetician. He was a civil engineer by profession, a hospitable Christian gentleman in his home, and a man of charming manner to all who came in contact with him. He was of unusual vitality, both physically and mentally for one of his advanced age, having celebrated his eightieth birthday in March.
The evening prior to his death he ate supper and was in his usual happy frame of mind and apparently in good health as he had been for some time and fell asleep. At 2:30 Friday morning he was found dead.
Mr. Eaddy was born and reared and spent his long life in the vicinity of Johnsonville. In his young life he married Miss Eliza Louisa Ann Elizabeth Huggins of Timmonsville, a daughter of the late Rev. J.S. Huggins, inventor of the first cotton planter used in the south.
He had represented the county of Williamsburg in the State Legislature several terms. He was first elected in 1890. He was one of the original founders of the Old Johnsonville Methodist Church and Trinity Methodist Church in Florence County and supervised the construction of the Old Johnsonville Church. During all of his public life he strove to render his county efficient service.
Mr. Eaddy leaves a widow, the former Eliza Huggins, five sons and two daughters: Messrs. J.A. of Bushnell, Fla.; C.L.of Linden, Fla.; John M. of Kingstree; S.O. of Johnsonville; Dr.A.G. of Timmonsville; Mrs W. A. Hanna of Gifford; and Mrs. R.B. Dickson of Johnsonville.
The funeral service, conducted by Rev. E.P. Hutton, took place in Old JohnsonvilleMethodist Church at 4 p.m. Saturday, and internment was made in the church burying grounds. Six of his grandchildren acted as pallbearers. The funeral exercises were largely attended. -
George Samuel Briley Huggins
George Samuel Briley Huggins was wounded at the battle of 2nd. Manassess and was crippled. He was a prayerful, christian man, and used to walk the old foot-logs across Muddy Creek Swamp every Sunday to attend Old Johnsonville Church.
George Samuel Briley Huggins served in Co. "K", 6th Regiment, Confederate States Army, commanded by Capt. William Smith Brand, of Sumter District. Source: Morris Watsongen
George Samuel Briley Huggins was born June 18, 1831, eldest son of Rev. John Samuel Huggins of Timmonsville, inventor of the first cotton planter used in the south and his wife Zilphia Ham. He was the grandson of George Huggins, one of the largest landowners in the Darlington District who was elected to the 32nd General Assembly and his wife Letitia Montgomery. He was the great grandson of Captain John Huggins, Justice of the Peace for the Darlington District in South Carolina, who commanded a troop of Cavalry in General Francis Marion's Brigade in the Revolutionary War and his wife Elizabeth White Simmons. He died Nov. 28, 1914. His will was probated Jan. 2, 1915 at the Williamsburg County Courthouse, Will Book E, Page 29.
He married his first wife, Elizabeth Timmons on March 3, 1853. Elizabeth was born March 21, 1839 and died at Johnsonville on November 11, 1833. Elizabeth was the mother of all his children. After Elizabeth died, he married Emily Timmons Stone Eaddy, a widow and sister of his first wife, on March 11, 1884 at the Old Johnsonville Church. This date was Emily's birthday. After the death of Emily in 1900, he married Narcissa Verline Carter on September 21, 1905.
George Samuel Briley Huggins was a trustee and one of the original founders of Trinity Methodist Church. He was also one of the original founders of the Old Johnsonville Methodist Church where he served as a minister. He also supported the Ebenezer Methodist Church at Muddy Creek where he served as a steward and was a minister.
After the war, he returned to his farm near Muddy Creek, SC and to the ministry of the Methodist Church at Muddy Creek and Old Johnsonville.
One of his granddaughters, Lillian Maude Buck McDaniel, recalled that as a child her mental image of God somehow incorporated the characteristic features of her grandfather - the strong but kind face, the leonine head of white hair and beard, and the authoritative tone and demeanor. She describes him at prayer, at home and in church , where he knelt, stiff knee and all, to address his Lord in a manner she was convinced that elicited a readier response than most mortals were privileged to receive. She also remembered that he was so earnest in prayer that he would forget the passage of time and would sometimes have to be nudged by his wife to realize that others wearied more easily than he.
At Christmas time, George Samuel Briley Huggins would personally pour the Christmas sillibub - Portion Control! He was known for his good wines,also dispensed judiciously.
He enlisted in Co. K, 6th South Carolina Regt.at its organization under Capt. W. S. Brand of Clarendon, on the 22nd of April, 1962. He served with the Company, except for a few months recuperation furlough, until the surrender at Appomattox on the 9th of April, 1865. He was wounded by a minnie ball blasting through his right knee at the Second Battle of Manassas on August 30, 1862. His name appears on a list of prisoners taken and paroled at Warrenton, VA,
headquarters for the Army of Potomac, 11th corps, on 29 September 1862. After his recovery at home, he was placed on detached service to the Commissary Department in Williamsburg county and reported to J. B. Chandler. He was lame for the rest of his life.
On June 18, 1908 more than 75 family members gathered at his home for a birthday celebration that included food, fellowship and musical entertainment by the children. This article was printed in The County Record on June 25, 1908. -
Brigadier General John Henry Woodberry
Brigadier General John Henry Woodbury (1889-1974)
Woodberry was born in Johnsonville on Feb 22, 1889 to Wattie Gamewell Woodberry, Sr. and Rosa Belle Eaddy (first woman mayor in South Carolina history). He was the great-grandson of Henry Eaddy. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1910 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1914. Afterward he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Cavalry.
He was transferred to the Field Artillery in 1916. During World War I, he was assigned to the Ordinance Department and participated in the design and construction of the aerial bombs used by Gen. "Billy" Mitchell in the test bombing of a captured German battleship. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1918 and was transferred to the Ordinance Department in 1920. Between World War I. and II., General Woodberry studied at Army Industrial College, 1927-28; Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1929-33; and the Army War College, 1934-35. He served in 1934-1939 as a member of the General Staff of the War Department. In World War II., General Woodberry served as Chief Ordinance Officer for General Douglas MacArthur's supply service (Southwest Pacific Area, 1944-45).
General Woodberry enjoyed a successful career of 37 years with the U. S. Army. He held numerous patents on munitions of war. Among these were artillery fuse devices for control detonating waves used in most Army high explosive ammunition. He also developed cavalry machine gun equipment and conducted research and development in anti-aircraft and armored cars. An automobile tire pressure indicator was one of his civilian patents.
In 1945, he was appointed Ordinance Officer, Army Service Command D, Japan Army of Occupation and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. Retirement came for him in 1946. Gen. Woodberry received the Legion of Merit, was a member of the Army Ordinance Association, and wrote many technical papers on ordinance detonation. He was a Mason and a member of the Founders and Patriots of America. He and his wife are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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John Briley Altman and Ethel Cox Altman.
John Briley Altman and Ethel Cox Altman. Ethel was the daughter of William James "Uncle Billy" Cox and Sarah Jane Stone Cox. John Briley was the son of was the son of John James Altman, first Postmaster for Vox. -
William James "Billy" Cox and Sarah Jane Stone Cox
William James "Billy" Cox Jr (1842–1921) and Sarah Jane Stone Cox (1850–1924) were the founders of Rehobeth Pentecostal Holiness Church.