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Grave of John Witherspoon
Grave of John Witherspoon (1742-1802), located at the old Aimwell Presbyterian Church burial grounds, Old River Road at McWhite Road.
John took control of Witherspoon's Ferry (now Venters Landing at Johnsonville) after his older brother Robert Witherspoon died with no issue in 1787. Witherspoon's Ferry had already been in use during the Revolution, and this spot served as the backdrop for General Francis Marion's commission to lead the militia.
John and Robert were both sons of Gavin Witherspoon and Jane James, who came from Knockbracken, Ireland to Williamsburg. John was a patriot during the American Revolution, serving as a private with Marion's Brigade in the Britton's Neck Regiment for 244 days in 1780 and 1781.
In 1801 it was ordered that a Ferry should be re-established and vested in John's care. John married Mary Conn and had one child, Elizabeth, who later married David Rogerson Williams, Governor of South Carolina from 1814-1816.
John Witherspoon died in 1802, and according to the terms of his will, the ferry was re-established and vested in John D. Witherspoon, executor and friend, for a term of 14 years beginning in 1815, “in trust for and having the sole benefit of the incorporated Presbyterian Church at Aimwell on the Pee Dee River." John's will also stipulated that William J. Johnson be given rights to the Ferry site under condition:
"It is my will and desire that the trustees aforesaid or their successors shall give William Johnson the present use of the lands aforesaid the exclusive privilege of leasing the lands aforesaid for a term of 12 years provided the said William Johnson on the wisdom of the said trustees aforesaid shall conduct himself with propriety."
It was John Witherspoon who vested the ferry lands in William Johnson, who later established the post office at Johnsonville which became the town we know today. -
Grave of Hugh Hanna
Located at the Hanna Family Cemetery, Vox. Hugh Hanna was the first Hanna in Johnsonville and the ancestor of most Hannas from the Vox community. -
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Grace Perry, 1950s
Edna Grace Perry (1872-1971) was a daughter of Llewellyn Francisco "Zeke" Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870-1942). She was a well-known school teacher. Her obituary from 1971 speaks of her life and career:
FLORENCE MORNING NEWS, MAY 22, 1971
Miss Grace Perry, 78, retired school teacher, landowner, farmer, and church benefactor died Friday after a long illness. She had taught school for 38 years prior to her retirement and actively managed more than 1000 acres of farmlands...
Miss Perry was born near Hemingway, a daughter of the late Llewellyn Francisco and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley Perry. She was a graduate of Winthrop College and begun her teaching career in Ft. Myers, FL, where she taught elementary school for a year prior to returning to South Carolina.
Her teaching career in South Carolina spanned 37 years, in schools from the Piedmont to the Pee Dee, but most of her teaching was in Florence County. She had taught in the Johnsonville school system for a number of years prior to her retirement in the late 1950s.
Miss Perry was a member of the Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church and has been memorialized by the church as its benefactor. During the past several years, she personally contributed funds to the church which were used to renovate and refurbish the old, wood-frame structure into a modern brick church, replete with central heating and air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting, a Colonial-style frontage and edifice.
She also contributed funds for the construction of an education building for the church and subsequently presented the church with an especially manufactured electrical pipe organ. A plaque memorializes her contributions as "gifts of love for her God, Christ, and fellow man."
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Philip R. Helbig of Johnsonville, and a few nieces and nephews.
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Gold and Black 1981
JHS Gold and Black 1981 -
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Gold and Black 1974
Gold and Black 1974. This issue includes detailed history on the Johnsonville school system on the eve of the completion of the new Johnsonville High School. Great photos of school history are found here. -
Gold and Black 1972
Gold and Black yearbook 1972 -
Gold and Black 1971
Gold and Black Yearbook, Johnsonville High School, 1971 -
Gold and Black 1970
Gold and Black Yearbook, 1970 -
Gold and Black 1969
Gold and Black Yearbook featuring the class of 1969 -
Gold and Black 1968
Gold and Black Yearbook, Johnsonville, 1968 -
Gold and Black 1967
Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville schools -
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Gold and Black 1964
A file containing the Johnsonville Gold and Black, 1964 -
Gold and Black 1963
JHS Gold and Black Yearbook, class of 1963 -
Gold and Black 1962
Gold and Black yearbook, 1962 -
Gold and Black 1961
JHS Gold and Black yearbook, class of 1961 -
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Gold and Black 1958
Gold and Black yearbook, 1958. -
Gold and Black 1957
Gold and Black Yearbook, 1957 -
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Gold and Black 1955
Gold and Black 1955. the 1954-1955 year was the year the Johnsonville Elementary School was built. This yearbook features the final year that the old school cafeteria was in use before students began sharing the new elementary school cafeteria in the adjacent school building. -
Gold and Black 1950
11th Edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville Schools -
Gold and Black 1949
10th Edition - Gold and Black 1949 -
Gold and Black 1946
JHS Gold and Black, 1946. A note at the beginning states that this is the 5th issue of the Johnsonville annual. -
Gold and Black 1942
Johnsonville School Yearbook - Gold and Black 1942. Special thanks to Pamela Chandler Cantey for providing this rare copy, and to the Johnsonville Public Library for assisting with digitization. -
Gold and Black 1941
1941 is the third edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville. All of the photos are hand-pasted into the document. This copy has been edited to enlarge and improve the original photographs, and used 2 copies as source records. Both copies were missing some photographs. -
Gold and Black 1940
1940 is the second edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville. All of the photos are hand-pasted into the document. This copy has been edited to enlarge and improve the original photographs. Any missing photographs were missing from the source document provided by Livingston "Bo" Bishop and his granddaughter, Heidi Bishop Dumm. -
Gold and Black 1939
First edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville. All of the photos are hand-pasted into the document. This copy has been edited to enlarge and improve the original photographs, and used 3 copies as source records. All copies were missing some photographs. -
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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. -
George Allen Avant, Senior Portrait, 1959
Gold and Black Yearbook, 1959 -
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Funeral for Morgan Ham Carter
Esther, Lamuel, Octavia, and Edna Carter gather graveside for Morgan Ham Carter's funeral. Morgan Ham Carter died in 1933 and is buried at Eaddy Ford Cemetery in Vox, SC.