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Conn. Their one daughter, Victoria, tempted to sever the joint with a passed away a few years ago in knife, Th blood and shock, which EDGEFIELD GOVERNORS Sweden, where she spent her brief WAS BORN AFTER rsulted from the wound, stirred life married life, leaving three fine chil in the supposed corpse and Mrs, dren. Sketches of Nine Chief Executives of South Carolina and Five In 1898. when war was threatened MOTHER BURIED Erskine arose from her crypt, alone, Lieutenant Governors. with Spain, Governor Evans offered and walked the short distance home. his services to President McKinlry. As Mrs. Erskine approached the IS, and when War was declared he was hear By Miss Hortense Woodson. commissioned a major and detailed Data Confirming Le family residence, her husband, as inspector general upon the staff of gend Received At ing the noise outside remarked: "If General Keifer, First division, in the I didn©t know my Margaret was dead, EVAN& man©s influence was thrown to him, Seventh Army corps, commanded by and such popular feeling as developed Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. He devoted hia Erskine I©d say that was her footstep oh Edgefleld. While John Gary Evans against making a lawyer the heir of efforts to protecting the health of the g*v«r established his residence in yonder walk." And Henry Erskine an agricultural movement was check soldiers and met with considerable Due West, May 22. A legend be Wfefleld as a citizen, this was the mated by the refusal of Tillman to success, requiring rigid enforcement was quite correct for his wife, natural place for him to call home of sanitary regulations. The division. came actual history here today miraculously, had returned alive. made her « a boy, when his mother comply with the request of other can Which had been stationed in Florida, when Erskine©s Theological Semi Six months later on June 22, 1680, home here with her brother, Gen. didates that the nomination be made was ordered to Cuba and arrived as nary received an original source, a Martin W. Gary, fearless "Bald Eagle" by primary, and by his promise to the Spaniards evacuated the city. she gave birth to Ebenezer Ers of Edgeneld. make Ellerbe the successor of Evans. copy of Ebenezer Erskine©s sermons John Gary Evans was born at kine. Evans was nominated without opposi Major Evans was transferred to the printed in 1728, from H. T. Patter- Cokesbury in Abbeville county, the tion by the Democratic convention of The latter upon attaining man on of Gen. Nathan George Evans and staff of Major General Ludlow, who son, prominent Columbia banker, September and was elected in Oc vifis military governor .-f Habana and hood, disagreed with Scotch church Victoria Gary Evans. After attending tober. 1894, over Pope, who ran as confirming a story that "Ebenezer teachings and led dissenters in fhool at the Cokesburv Conference &n independent candidate, by an over placed Major Evans in charge of the Erskine, early Scotch church seces chool, he went to Union college, civil government of the city. Major forming the Seceder church at whelming majority." first municipal Ichenectady, N. Y., in 1881, where ne John Gary Evans was the youngest Evans organized the sionist, was born six months after Oairney Bridge, near Klncross, took a high stand, being elected court of the island after American liis mother©s burial." man ever elected governor of South ideas and installed as chief of police Scotland, on Dec. 5, 1733. Later his president of his class in his junior Carolina, being 31 years of age at the j A startling memoir, penned on the year. In the meantime, after the time of his election. General Menocal. doctrines spread to America where d«ath of his father, his mother had Returning to South Carolina. Mr. fly leaf of the volume, describes come to Edgeneld with her children. He was inaugurated as governor Evans made his home in Spartanburg. they took root in the Associate Re December 5, 1894, at the same time where he has continued the practice j Mrs. Henry Erskine©s death, inter Here the youth. John Gary Evans. W. H. Timmerman of Edgeneid be- ment and consequent revival by a formed Presbyterian church. Ers came for vacations and visits. And oi© law. In 1904 he was a delegate to kine College, an A. R. P. institu hare today at Oakley Park, the mag caijJr lieutenant governor. Following the national Democratic convention grave robber. The cryptic thief in nificent old home around which clus the oath of office, administered by In 1912 he was chairman of the state tr-jls i n At a no?, howtver, pi ay ed tion founded in 1839, was named ter many cherished memories of the Chief Justice Mclver of the supreme Democratic executive committee and court, Governor Evans made his in a delegate to the Baltimore conven benevolent role. For strangely his for Ebenezer Erskine and his young past, his sister. Miss Mary Evans, re- was pro ides and talks with scintillating augural address, which tion when Wilson was nominated. In ghoulish act restored Mrs. Erskine©s er brother, Ralph. nounced a sound and able document. 1914 he was unanimously elected The volume containing this his recollection of times that have passed. said of it: life, saved Ebonezer, her unborn, It was Miss Evans who presided as The Columbia Register chairman of the state Democratic ex torical data, now Erskine College official hostess at the executive man "The address gels down to solid ecutive committee and it was through son, and altered Presbyterian church sion in Columbia when her brother subjects and deals with them in a his leadership that the primary rules history. Ebenezer Erskine. thru this Seminary property was published strong and forceful manner, which were changed. He devised the plan was governor. will obtain respect for his views even amazing incident, was literally pro at Howie, Scotland, in 1728. It was Following his academic career, John of personal registration of voters. brought to America in 1795 by Adam Gary Evans entered the law office of if it does not secure acquiescence in Edgefield delights to honoi her illus jected from the grave to establish hia uncle, Maj. W. T. Gary, in Au- them. It is the strongest political trious sons, whose names have been the S~c^der church out of which Kedsie, H. T. Patterson©s lineal an fiuta. Ga.. and was admitted to the addressmade.© 1 Governor Evans has yet so closely allied with the history of grew the Associate Reformed Pres cestor. __ bar in 1885. He established himself South Carolina. Theirs were master in Aiken for the practice of law in The fight for a constitutional con minds whose brilliance has not been byterian sect and Erskine College. Vl*> .S^©lL©^rit © 1*. . i * 1888, and in 1888 was elected to the vention was the main issue of 1894, dimmed by the passing years. Louis C. Galloway, head of the legislature from Aikert county and which Tillman advocated and won, (End of Set if * Erskine College history department, re-elected in 1890, being Reform and September 10, 1895, the third con leader of that body. His work was vention of the people of South Caro- j after thoroughly examining the fly thorough and brilliant, and as a re lina since the Confederate war met to leaf notes in the book, scribbled by mit he was elected to the senate in frame a new constitution for the state, a Louisa Wood, an old A. R. P. 1892 by an overwhelming majority. and Governor Evans was president of A writer in the Aiken Journal and the body, adherent, substantiated the dtory Review describes him aa a parliamen Of that convention, Francis B. Sim- as true. Until this discovery, lv kins says, "That it registered very tarian whos« "skill, indefatigable accurately the wants and desires of, said, the narrative had been handed work and brilliant oratory" made him the dominant element jf South Caro down from generation to generation a leader of the Reform party in the lina is proved by the fact that it still in legendary form, purely as folk senate. remains as the fundamental law of the "His triumphant yictoriea over the state, although other monuments of lore, without conclusive proof. powerful opposition in the senate nat TiI]manism have been destroyed in "Erskine is exceedingly fortunate urally made him one of the foremost the changes of time." in securing this rare book from Mr. men of the state,©1 sayg the writer, Evans served as governor slightly and when the term of Tillman ex longer than two years, 1894-1897. The Patterson," Professor Galloway pired he was elected by & majority of constitution of 1895 changed the meet stated. "The volume, one of four, 25,000 votes to lead the Reformers as ing time of the general assembly and bridges a wide gap in church his governor, carrying nearly every coun the inauguration of the governor to ty in the state. A great deal of Gov January, thereby lengthening Gov tory. Mrs. Erskine©s return from the ernor Evans© success .vas due to his ernor Evans© term into 1897. grave was more than a miraculous originality and fearlessness. He was In 11% Tillman desired the election incident. It shows how the divine the first advocate of abolition of the of Evans as his colleague in the two-mill school tax and proposed in United States senate and Ellerbe as hand of providence weaves thru his- s stead that the white people should governor. Evans failed of election by tory like a scarlet thread." educate their children and that the Mrs. Henry Erskine, an epileptic Negro people should educate their a narrow margin. He did not receive victim, according to the story, suf race. He introduced th» dispensary in the first bili which became law. believing this th* majority necessary fered from nervous disorders for to be the best solution of the liquor primary (first statewide primary) and question. was defeated in the second primary many years often at times lapsing The governor©s race pf 1S94 was by Earle, Tillrnan©s old opponent. into unconsciousness for several between four Tillman partisans, Wil The same year Evans was elected hours. So her death at Dyrburgb. liam H. Ellerbe, John Gary Evans, by the state Democratic convention Berwickshire, Scotland, in January J. E. Tindal and Sampson Poe. While as a delegate to the national conven Tillman at first favored Ellerbe, it is tion, where he was an ardent sup 1680, following a long coma, waajaot said that Evans, hlg chief rival, de porter of Bryan for president. In na unexpected. © veloped qualities of leadership which tional politics Governor Evans was al attracted Tillman. He had served ways for low tariff. He fought the A few hours after Mrs. Erskine©s Tillman faithfully and capably ai a high protective tariff policy of the interment in the family vault, the member of both houses of the general Republican party as robbery of the church sexton, remembering a val anembly* Southern farmer. He advocated is "He was able to stir his audiences suance of currency by the national uable ring left on her finger, secured by the keenness of his apprehensions government on warehouse receipts for secret access into the chamber. Af and the brightness of his remarks." tot to and farm products. »ays Francis B. Simkim. "In addi In 1897 Governor Evans married ter opening Mrs. Erskine©s coffin tion he was able to win to his side Miss Emily Mansfield Plume, daugh iand falling to loosen the ring from of Waterbury ©he artful Irby, who pulled for him ter r>f D. S. Plump 1 her .swollen hotvi. Ihn .srxton at •\\e necessary wires of the Tillman in."!>in©> The remit was that TU1-