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.
John Baker and Grace Perry at Mrs Baker's home in Florida - April 7 1926
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.
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, 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
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.
Broadway Street in Johnsonville looking east across the railroad, circa 1980
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.
The Cribb family, starting in England and moving through descendants including those in Johnsonville, SC.
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, compiled and contributed by Nikki Parsons
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.
Home where Eliza Baxley Perry and and Llewellyn Perry lived when first married - 1st 2 children born here - Edna Grace and Eunice
Daughter of Zeke and Elizabeth Baxley Perry
This is likely Edith Perry Nettles but currently not 100 percent identified.
Grace Perry (left) poses with an unidentified woman - possibly at Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church
Llewellyn "Zeke" Perry with daughters and family
L to R: Llewellyn "Zeke" Perry, Edna Grace Perry, Coit, Kathleen, Viola, and Eddie
Nan Perry Helbig, Grace Perry with Nancy Helbig Hirst, Llewelynn Perry
Janet Perry, Nell Perry, and Nan Perry Helbig in Bridgeport
Janet Perry and Nell Perry - Roland Perry's youngest daughter and wife - with Nan Perry Helbig in Bridgeport, 1956
Llewellyn, Nan, Evelyn, and Elizabeth Perry
Debbie Miles, Rev Billy Miles, Tony Hanna
Eaddy Home Main Street Hemingway later Lighthouse drug and alcohol rehab - 1974
Hemingway Lions Club new officers induction - John Galloway in dark suit, Mayor W.B. Harmon middle second row