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Mona Burris: Long Cold Days, 2-5-1976
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. -
Mona Burris: Looking to Spring , 1-8-1976
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. -
Mona Burris: On New Years Eve - Johnsonville High School, 12-31-1975
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. This article was published by the pager on December 31, 1975. -
Mona Burris: Spring Fever Hits, 3-11-1976
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. -
Mona Burris: Teachers Get Theirs, 1-26-1976
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. -
Mona Burris: Trip to France 1-15-1976
Mona Burris Dukes was a Johnsonville High School Student who wrote for The Weekly Observer. -
Morgan and Octavia Carter portrait
Morgan Ham Carter (1869–1933) and Octavia Elizabeth Stone (1873–1952). This was an oval portrait that hung in the family home. -
Morgan Ham and Octavia Carter
Morgan Ham Carter (1869–1933) and Octavia Elizabeth Stone (1873–1952). -
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Morgan Ham Carter holding Edna and Elnora
Morgan Ham Carter (1869-1933) holds daughter Edna Carter and granddaughter Elnora Hanna. The family's horse and buggy is in the background. -
Morris Funeral Home 1949
Morris Funeral Home, 1949. This was before the office or chapel were added. This was originally the home of the Oliver Family. The home was built around 1900 and became Morris Funeral Home in 1947. -
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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. -
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Nan Perry Helbig, Grace Perry with Nancy Helbig Hirst, and Llewellyn Perry, circa 1952
Taken circa 1952 as the Helbig family was leaving at the end of a 2 week vacation in Johnsonville. Nancy Helbig Hirst remembers: "Aunt Grace always sent us off with a whole fried chicken and one of those old-fashioned pound cakes - and she actually weighed some of the ingredients! She was often up cooking by 4am so she could send us off with food. I have such wonderful memories of those times! -
Nancy Helbig Hirst held by Grace Perry, April 1949
Taken at the Perry home on Perry Woods Road between Johnsonville and Hemingway, April 1949 -
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Nettles IGA
Originally Turners IGA, Ted and Peggy Nettles took over the business and ran it for years. The new IGA - KJ's Market - replaced Nettles IGA. KJ's is located on highway 41 and opened in February 2013. -
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New Hope Free Will Baptist Church, circa 1950s
Image shows the old sanctuary for New Hope Free Will Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith, located on New Hope Road in Possum Fork. This sanctuary was replaced by a new building in the 1960s.
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Notice of Johnsonville Election - Bonds for School, 1915
Describes bonds for the building of the new Johnsonville School District 15 in Williamsburg County and elections held at Johnsonville Hardware Company. -
Ocean Forest Hotel postcards
Tom McCutchen remembers:
The Ocean Forest Hotel has long been torn down but it was magnificent.
My parents were wonderful dance partners and went there to dance in one of the ballrooms after they were married on a few special occasions. I remember them taking me to Myrtle Beach in the summer of 1960. At the time, we lived in West Virginia. It had an impressive presence as you approached from Kings Highway US 17 with an enormous roundabout and the bellman would open the car doors and direct everyone into the lobby. For a youngster, it really was a special treat!
Mr. Dexter Stuckey and a business partner bought the property in 1973.
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Octavia Carter holding a grandchild
Octavia Elizabeth "Sissy" Stone Carter (1873–1952) stands in her yard with a grandchild. -
Octavia Carter on Porch
Octavia Elizabeth "Sissy" Stone Carter (1873–1952) sits on her porch in Vox, SC. She was the widow of Morgan Ham Carter (1869–1933). -
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Old Johnsonville High School Diploma, 1915
1915 Diploma, Old Johnsonville High School. Ottis Guinan Huggins was an honor graduate. -
Old Johnsonville Methodist Church
Old Johnsonville Methodist Church - original sanctuary. 1872-1960. -
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Old Johnsonville School
Old Johnsonville primary school was located beside the Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church on Highway 41 near Ard's Crossroads. After it was torn down, Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church expanded its cemetery to the footprint once occupied by the school. -
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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