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Gold and Black 1981
JHS Gold and Black 1981 -
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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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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. -
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. -
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GREAT Town Program Progresses, 1977
Johnsonville continues progress toward a South Carolina Great Town recognition. 14 April 1977 -
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Ground Breaking
Groundbreaking for Dr. Charles Maxwell's new dentist office on Broadway. 4 August 1977 -
Ground Breaking for Johnsonville's Dentist Office, 1977
Ground breaking for Charlie Maxwell's dentist office. -
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H. M. Floyd and Secretery A. P. Hughes - 1949
Floyd and Hughes at Johnsonville High School, 1949 -
H.M. Floyd
H.M. Floyd was the principal of Johnsonville High School -
Halfway House, 6-20-1974
The Johnsonville-Hemingway Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse has leased this
house as a combination counseling center and "crash pad" to be run by Alvin
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Hanna Cousins on Sunday Morning
Hanna cousins on Sunday morning before church, 1945.
Back: Vander Hanna and Marian Hanna. Front: Mary Hanna, Laura Jean Eaddy, Thomas Hanna.
These photos were taken in front of the house of Jame "Bubba" and Lillian Hanna, who often took their nieces and nephews to church on Sunday at Johnsonville First Baptist.
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Hanna cousins on Sunday morning before church, 1945.
Hanna cousins on Sunday morning before church, 1945.
Veda Eaddy and Thomas Hanna (hiding by the column).
These photos were taken in front of the house of Jame "Bubba" and Lillian Hanna, who often took their nieces and nephews to church on Sunday at Johnsonville First Baptist. -
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Hanna's Chapel, Vox, 1954
These photos show members of Hanna's Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church on Vox Highway in 1954. This sanctuary was in place before the current bricked sanctuary that still stands. -
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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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Hemingway High School Library
Hemingway High School Library -
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Hemingway Teacher Ida Venters circa 1905
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. -
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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. -
Henry Lewis Hanna in his WWII Naval uniform
Henry Lewis Hanna in his WWII Naval uniform from William German and Pearline Keefe Prosser's album. Connie Owens Hanna was his first wife. -
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