Founding of Rival Towns Kept First Community From Growing - 1951
Article discusses how Old Johnsonville and the Venters Community didn't grow as fast as Johnsonville and Hemingway.
A yearbook showing the students and faculty of Francis Marion Academy in Hemingway, for the 1967-1968 school year.
Franklin Evander Hanna and Julia Grier Hanna
Franklin Evander "Vander" Hanna (1858-1918) and Julia Ann Grier Hanna (1850-1900) were farmers who owned most of the land along the Vox and Midway Highways and bound by Deerfield Road and Lynches River. Prior to 1870, Vander's family owned land in what is now Indiantown. Vander was the son of Joseph Franklin Hanna and Mary Ellen Timmons and the grandson of Hugh Hanna, who most Hannas in the Johnsonville/Vox area are descended from. Their children were: Thomas Franklin Hanna (Nekoda Laharp Altman) 1881–1938 Margaret E Hanna (James Rothy Grier) 1883–1915 Arthur Seabrook Hanna (Mary Ether Brown) 1886–1945 Barney Mack Hanna (Annie Sue Haselden) 1887–1959 Floyd McCoy Hanna 1892–1919
Freedom Train Rolls Into the Pee Dee, 11-4-1976
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.
From Troubled Farm Town to Thriving Community - 1970
Article describes Johnsonville's progress from 1912 to 1970
Front view of the soda fountain in the old Johnsonville Pharmacy, 1978
Front view of the soda fountain in the old Johnsonville Pharmacy taken in 1978. The prescription area was located behind the wooden lattice where the light is shining through. Perhaps the most unique item was a square/cube shaped scooper for ice cream cones. Over the years, ice creams from Sealtest, Borden and Pet Diaries were served. Various sodas, malts, milk shakes and snacks were sold. John "Jack" Keels Allen was the long time pharmacist/owner.
L to R: widow Elise Baxley Carter, sisters Verline, Edna, and Esther Carter, mother Octavia Stone 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.
Gamble House Architecturally Significant WO 11-11-76
Geneva Dunahoe Douglas and Algie Poston Cox at Poston Lunch
George Allen Avant, Senior Portrait, 1959
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.
Glenn Strickland, Lois Hanna, Vander Hanna
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.
Johnsonville District Office, Regina Graham, and Livingston "Bo" Bishop
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.
Heidi Bishop Dumm and Livingston "Bo" Bishop
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.
Ned and Mary Dean Huggins and Livingston "Bo" Bishop
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.
JHS Gold and Black, 1946. A note at the beginning states that this is the 5th issue of the Johnsonville annual.
11th Edition of the Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville Schools
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.
Johnsonville Public Library, Florence District 5
JHS Gold and Black yearbook, class of 1961
JHS Gold and Black Yearbook, class of 1963
A file containing the Johnsonville Gold and Black, 1964
File of the Gold and Black yearbook, 1965
Johnsonville Gold and Black Yearbook, 1966
Gold and Black yearbook for Johnsonville schools
Gold and Black Yearbook, Johnsonville, 1968
Gold and Black Yearbook featuring the class of 1969
Gold and Black Yearbook, Johnsonville High School, 1971