Prosser's Department Store and surrounding buildings, Broadway Street in Johnsonville SC, 1980
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.
R. M. "Sonny Buck" Cook Shares Joy of Inauguration, 2-10-1977
R. B. Huggins's shop, The Johnsonville Motor Company, was located on Broadway
Railroad crossing downtown, Johnsonville SC
View of the old railroad crossing lights from Broadway looking West toward Railroad Avenue. Prosser's Department Store is visible.
Ray Ballou and Rusty Cantey Perform a Balancing Act at Johnsonville Railroad Tracks, 7-25-1974
Ray Ballou and Steve Dukes Are Graduated from Citadel, 5-18-1978
Photo displayed at the Centennial celebration of Rehobeth Church in 2009. A few of those pictured are Cortez, Merlyn, Gail, and Pam Cox, Ronald Cox, Cletus Cox, Sherrell Cox, and Vaughn Eaddy.
Request for new Johnsonville Post Office - 1956
Johnsonville's postmaster requested a new post office - from the News and Courier in Charleston, Dec 2, 1956.
Retired Hemingway Teacher Minnie Gibson Shares Cherished Souvenirs, 1-6-1977
Retired Johnsonville Barber Audry M Browder Displays Prize Tomatoes, 3-7-1974
Reverend Ebenezer Francis Newell, age 71
Birth: Aug. 30, 1775 Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass. Death: Mar. 8, 1867 This is the portrait in Rev Newell's book - Life and Observations of Rev EF Newell. This portrait was painted by WO Bemis, engraved by J Sartain of Philadelphia He married his first wife, Fannie Butterfield on October 21, 1810. He married his second wife, Polly Blanchard on February 12, 1826.
Reverend James Napoleon Powell (1888-1969) served as the first pastor for New Home Free Will Baptist Church in Possum Fork
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.
Photo from Williamsburg Pictorial History Life info from Memorial Volume of the Semi-centennial of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina
John Morgan Timmons (1800-1863) was the founder of Timmonsville, SC. He was for 45 years pastor of Elim Baptist Church at Effingham, a large landowner, and a businessman. He was a Signer of the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860, and died in 1869, He and the Timmons family are treated extensively in the book Happy Heritage, by Mrs. R. B. Cannon, The State Company, Columbia, South Carolina, 1943.
Ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Johnsonville Pharmacy
A crowd begins to gather before the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Johnsonville Pharmacy on August 14, 1982. Tom McCutchen, Jr., RPh is standing near tree and mother Willia "Bongie" Altman McCutchen is wearing the black dress near Dr. Allen's car.
Richard " Rich" Prosser was a son of Eldridge Franklin (E.F.) and Lillian Camillia Cox Prosser. Photo from the William German and Pearline Keefe Prosser Photo Album
Richard “Rich” & Lennie Wise Prosser with 1925 Model T
Richard “Rich” & Lennie Wise Prosser pose here with a 1925 Model T Ford. Rich and Lennie founded Prosser’s Department Store on Broadway Street in Johnsonville. Photo taken circa 1937.
Roland Perry ( 1896-1953) was a son of Llewellyn Francisco Perry (1868–1957) and Elizabeth Hortensia Baxley (1870–1942)
Root Doctor Ellen Goss Reveals Remedies, 4-28-1977
Rosa Belle Eaddy Woodberry Dickson (1869-1953) was the first female mayor in South Carolina history.. She was a role model of the independent female who lived in the area of Johnsonville, South Carolina area between 1868 and 1953. She was a truly a person of exceptional ability and especially so for the time in which she lived. This multi-talented woman chose to be a school teacher and thus became another of the Eaddy family to make her most valuable contribution in development of the youth of her community. Rosa Belle Eaddy was a principal, teacher, pianist, music director, and reformer at Old Johnsonville. The school was located between Hemingway and Johnsonville, South Carolina. She held radical views for her time and place and once created an uproar over the use of the community water dipper commonly used in the schools of that era. This was a practice followed by families at home and difficult to oppose publicly. She had each child to furnish his own drinking vessel to counteract the spread of water borne diseases. Time has proved her correct and added to the respect held for her by those who knew her. Rosa Belle Eaddy was a strong and forceful woman who was profoundly respected in her community and church. She was reported to be a dramatic teacher who could leave a lasting impression on here students in the public school as well as the Sunday school classes. Among her practical skills were those of carpentry used to build her own house and she shoed her own horses. She was elected as Mayor of Johnsonville in 1925, becoming the first woman mayor in South Carolina. In this office, she readily exercised her authority to arrest persons found violating the law. Rosa Belle Eaddy first married Wattie Gamewell Woodberry with whom she had four sons and one daughter. Two of of her sons graduated from the U. S. Military Academy, and both were inventors of and holders of numerous patents. After the death of her first husband, she married R.B.W. "Willie" Dickson. No children were born to this marriage. At the age of 85 years, she died in Lynchburg, South Carolina and was survived by three of her sons: Brigadier General John Henry Woodberry of Greenville, South Carolina; Clarence Oswell Woodberry of Poston, near Johnsonville, South Carolina; and Lieutenant Colonel David Lemuel Woodberry, I. of St. Petersburg, Virginia. One brother, John Mallard Eaddy of Spartanburg, South Carolina survived her passing.
Ruby Lee Chandler, Tom McCutchen, Jr. RPh, and Wilma Powell, McCutchen's Corner Pharmacy and the Sewing Center, 1984
(L-R) Mrs.Ruby Lee Chandler, Tom McCutchen, Jr. RPh. and Mrs.Wilma Powell outside front entrance to McCutchen's Corner Pharmacy and the Sewing Center on April 27, 1984 before the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony for the pharmacy.
S.B. Poston - left - with associates in storeroom - circa 1920
Photo shows Sylvester Briley Poston, businessman and first mayor of Johnsonville, in one of his stores. others have yet to be identified.
Sylvester Briley Poston, first mayor of Johnsonville.
S.B. Poston (left) stands in a store with other workers. This was most likely in the "Poston Block" - a group of stores and businesses at the Northwest corner of Broadway St. and Railroad Ave.
Saint Luke Colored School served black students near Kingsburg during segregation. The school was closely associated with and located near Saint Luke A.M.E. Church at 539 Chinaberry Road, Johnsonville.
Saint Mark Colored School served black students in the Kingstree area during segregation. The school was located near the current location of Saint Mark A.M.E. Church at 1532 Kingsburg Highway.
Sally Bertha Keefe Lyerly Hanna (1898-1938) - married William Bailey Lyerly then Nickolas Bernard Hanna. Photo from the William German and Pearline Keefe Prosser photo album.
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.
Zilphy Hunsucker Durant-Granddaughter of Ellen Hanna Chandler
Samuel Davis Hanna and Viola Victoria Altman Hanna Descendants reunion 1983. From left to right: Ann Marie Hanna, Myrtle Ree Hanna, John Linwood Hanna.
Zilphy Hunsucker Durant - Granddaughter of Ellen Hanna Chandler
Sanford Doc Ballou and Christine Poston at Poston Lunch
Dolly worked for Fairalee and Percy Poston. She married Willie Woodberry and they had daughters named Betty Jo Wilson and Louise Wilson - both worked at Wellman. Willie and Sarah lived in one of the first homes in Hickory Hill. For a time she lived in a garage apartment at the Poston house on Railroad Avenue. This photo was taken in the Poston kitchen.
Saw Man Huggins, Mac & Barbara McClendon
Elm Street, Johnsonville, SC; Mac McClendon owned and operated the sand pits just outside Johnsonville
Sawman Huggins and Jim Huggins at Huggins Brothers Lumber Company
Ottis Sr. and Jim Huggins in front of the "Little Store" in the lumber mill area, circa 1952. Huggins Brothers Lumber Company was by Ottis "Sawman" Huggins Jr. (1922-1985). It was located at Ards Crossroads by the railroad track. Huggins established the lumber company in November, 1919 when he returned from WWI.