Johnsonville SC History

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  • Home where Eliza Baxley Perry and and Llewellyn Perry lived when first married - 1st 2 children born here - Edna Grace and Eunice.jpg

    Home where Eliza Baxley Perry and and Llewellyn Perry lived when first married - 1st 2 children born here - Edna Grace and Eunice
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    Ida Venters Edmond (1882-1931) taught in a 1-room school in Hemingway near where Mrs. Morris's home was later located. She was a daughter of Nelson and Susan Humphreys Venters.
  • John Baker and Grace Perry at Mrs Baker's home - April 7 1926.jpg

    Edna Grace Perry (1892-1971) was a daughter of Llewellyn Francisco "Zeke" Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870-1942). She was a well-known school teacher at Prospect. Grace Perry and John Baker were sweethearts, but Grace's mother wouldn't allow her to marry and said she was needed at home. Grace never married.
  • Old home - Jessie, Nancy, Grace.jpg
  • Phil Helbig in DC.jpg
  • Rowland Perry.jpg

    Roland Perry ( 1896-1953) was a son of Llewellyn Francisco Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870–1942)
  • Nan Perry Helbig, Grace Perry with Nancy Helbig Hirst, Llewelynn Perry.jpg

    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.jpg

    Taken at the Perry home on Perry Woods Road between Johnsonville and Hemingway, April 1949
  • Prosser's Dept Store circa 1980.jpg

    These photographs show the block around Prosser's Department Store on Broadway Street in Johnsonville, including the buildings that housed Friendly Dry Goods and Shop N Save. To the left in the cross-street photo is the building built as the new Johnsonville State Bank. It later became City Hall and now houses the Magistrate's Offices.
  • Broadway Street circa 1980 Looking Eastward.jpg

    This image, taken circa 1980, looks across the railroad tracks toward Nettles IGA and the outbuildings fronting Broadway Street. These brick buildings replaced an older cafe called Poston Lunch on the same site. Cortez Cox was a long-time tenant and ran Cox Barber Shop here for many years.
  • Cribb Family Tree.pdf

    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.
  • Freeman Family Tree.pdf

    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.
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