South Carolina Political Collections Oral History Project
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICAL COLLECTIONS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Interview with Charles E. Boineau Interviewer: Wilma M. Woods Dates: April 6, 12, 14, & 18, 1995 Location: South Carolina Political Collections University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Topics: Republican Party in South Carolina and Mr. Boineau’s role in the early Republican movement Transcribers: Andrew Daniels and Phil Warf, August 1995 South Carolina Political Collections Oral History Project Boineau Interview, Page 3 [Tape 1, April 6, 1995, Begins] Woods: Why don't we begin simply by a brief biographical background, your family history? Now I understand that you were born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Charles and Bessie Trippett Boineau. Could you describe your early life and childhood? Boineau: My father was in the brokerage and storage business here in Columbia and in 1931, went out on his own and started Boineau's Moving and Storage. We were living in Columbia at that time, until my mother, Bessie Trippett Boineau, was asked by her mother, my maternal grandmother, to move to Boykin, which was outside of Camden, to help save the plantation which my grandmother had inherited. It was [located] part in Kershaw County and part in Sumter County. Woods: Was that the Midfield...? Boineau: Midfield's Plantation, right. It was quite an undertaking and my mother had no knowledge of farming, but when Mamma, as we called...she was Bessie Cash Irby. Incidentally, my grandmother was the daughter of Colonel Ellerbee Bogan Crawford Cash, who fought the last legal duel in South Carolina. I often joke that since Colonel Cash was successful and was the winner of the duel, I was around to be the first Republican.
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