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Edgefield in Edgefield County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
First Baptist Church / Village Cemetery
 
First Baptist Church Marker Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
1. First Baptist Church Marker
 
Inscription.
First Baptist Church
Founded in 1823 as Edgefield Baptist Church, with Basil Manly, Sr., pastor; Matthew Mims, clerk; and Arthur Simkins, moderator, this church led in the establishment here in 1826 of Furman Academy and Theological Institution. William Bullen Johnson, pastor here 1830-52, served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention 1845-51; Robert G. Lee, a former pastor, served in 1948-51.

Village Cemetery
Burial place of three S.C. Governors: F.W. Pickens, 1807-1869; J.C. Sheppard, 1850-1931; John G. Evans, 1863-1942; and the families of Gov. Pierce H. Butler and Gov. M. L. Bonham. Also buried here are Francis H. Wardlaw, 1800-1861; Preston S. Brooks, 1818-1857; Matthew C. Butler, 1836-1909; and John Lake, 1870-1949, missionary to China.
 
Erected 1967 by First Baptist Church, Edgefield, SC. (Marker Number 19-3.)
 
Location. 33° 47.45′ N, 81° 55.65′ W. Marker is in Edgefield, South Carolina, in Edgefield County. Marker is on Church Street, on the right when traveling north. Click for map. Marker is on the church grounds. The cemetery is located on the property to the immediate north of the church building. Marker is at or near this postal address: 212 Church Street, Edgefield SC 29824, United States of America.
 
Other nearby markers.
 
Village Cemetery Marker Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
2. Village Cemetery Marker
 
At least 10 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Booth-Toney Shootout of 1878 (about 600 feet away, in a direct line); Israel Mukashy Building (about 600 feet away); Turner's Country Store (about 600 feet away); The Jewish Merchants of Edgefield (about 700 feet away); Lynch Building (about 700 feet away); Industrial History (about 700 feet away); Religion & Education (about 700 feet away); Welcome to Historic Edgefield (about 800 feet away); Governors and Lieutenant Governors from Edgefield (about 800 feet away); J. Strom Thurmond (about 800 feet away). Click for a list of all markers in Edgefield.
 
Also see . . .
1. A Biographical Sketch of Basil Manly, Sr. by Dr. Tom Nettles. Basil Manly, Sr. was another of the major architects of Southern Baptist life. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
2. From a Manly Sermon Delivered April 8, 1849 at Pleasant Grove Church, Fayette Co., Alabama. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
3. Descendants of Matthew Mims. Born June 16, 1780 (Edgefield District, South Carolina; died October 6, 1848). (Submitted on January 31, 2009, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
4. Arthur Simkins. Legislator, born on the eastern shore of Virginia about 1750; died in Edgefield, South Carolina, in 1826. (Submitted on January 31, 2009, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
 
Rev. Basil Manly<br>(1798-1868) Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott
3. Rev. Basil Manly
(1798-1868)
Founder and first minister of Edgefield Baptist Church. Manly was extremely important to the founding of the institution which would eventually be known as Furman University.
 

5. Furman University. National liberal arts university founded in 1826 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
6. William Bullein Johnson. South Carolina Baptist leader and first president of the Southern Baptist Convention. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
7. Southern Baptist Convention. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
8. Southern Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based, mostly conservative Christian denomination. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
9. Robert G. Lee. Robert G. Lee was pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee from December, 1927 until April 10, 1960. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
10. Pay-Day -- Someday, a Sermon by Robert G. Lee, D.D. Transcription and recording of Lee delivering his famous sermon, written in Edgefield in 1919. The recording was made during the mid-1950s. (Submitted on January 31, 2009, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
11. Francis W. Pickens. Francis Wilkinson Pickens (April 7, 1805 – January 25, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of South Carolina when the state seceded from the United States during the American Civil War. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
 
Rev. William Bullein Johnson<br>(1782-1862) Photo, Click for full size
Southern Baptist Archives
4. Rev. William Bullein Johnson
(1782-1862)
Johnson also has ties to churches in Anderson, South Carolina. He is buried in the Anderson First Baptist Church cemetery.
 

12. John C. Sheppard. John Calhoun Sheppard (July 5, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was Democratic Governor of South Carolina from July 10, 1886 to November 30, 1886. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
13. John Gary Evans. John Gary Evans (October 15, 1863 – June 27, 1942) was Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 1894 to 1897. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
14. Pierce Butler. Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 - February 15, 1822) was a soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
15. Milledge Luke Bonham. Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813 – August 27, 1890) was a American politician and Congressman who served as the Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
16. Francis H. Wardlaw Biography. Member of the Secession Convention and one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
17. Preston Brooks. Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, known for physically beating senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
 
Rev. Robert G. Lee<br>(1886-1978) Photo, Click for full size
By Unknown Source
5. Rev. Robert G. Lee
(1886-1978)
Lee was best know for a sermon entitled "Pay Day Someday." This sermon was delivered over 1,200 times during Lee's lifetime.
 

18. Matthew C. Butler. Matthew Calbraith Butler (March 8, 1836 – April 14, 1909) was an American military commander and politician from South Carolina. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
19. First Baptist Church, Edgefield. (Submitted on October 19, 2008, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.)
 
Additional comments.
1. Basil Manly II: Distinguished Baptist Leader Had Important Ties to Edgefield by Carol Hardy Bryan
The Manly family American roots are found in the state of Maryland. Thomas Manly married Mary Ford, daughter of John Ford of St. Mary’s County, MD. The couple had eight children. Mary Ford Manly died about 1756, and Thomas decided to move to North Carolina with his son Basil and four unmarried daughters. Thomas tragically died during the voyage, and Basil, a young lad of fourteen, arrived in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina with the responsibility for his four sisters. He took the advice of a friend and moved up into Bladen County to make a home.

Basil participated actively in the American Revolution by forming a body of Home Guards called "Manly’s Band." He was commissioned as a captain in the American Army. In 1793, Captain Basil Manly married Elizabeth Maultsby (1768-1855),
 
Francis W. Pickens (1805–1869) Photo, Click for full size
By Harper's Weekly, circa 1860
6. Francis W. Pickens (1805–1869)
South Carolina House of Representatives (1832–1834)
Representative from South Carolina's 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1834–1837, 1839-1841); 6th District (1837–1839, 1841-1843)
South Carolina Senate (1844-1846)
United States Minister to Russia (1858–1860)
Governor of South Carolina (1860-1862)
 
daughter of William Maultsby, II, and Ann Evans.

Captain Manly later moved to Chatham County where he established a home site known as "Oak Mount" about three miles north of Pittsboro. He and Elizabeth had six children: Charles (1795-1871), Basil (1798-1868), Matthias Evans (1801-1881), Maurice Ford (1804-1828), Louisa Sophia (1807-1888), and Julia Ann (1810-1831). The Manly boys received instruction from William Bingham at the famous Bingham School in Orange County. The school was established at Pittsboro in 1793, moved to Orange County, and finally to Asheville. One of the school’s scholarships was later named the Manly Scholarship in honor of its early patron, Captain Basil Manly.

Charles Manly attended the State University at Chapel Hill and graduated first in his class in 1814 at the age of nineteen. Basil had to suspend his own studies and take charge of the family farm after his father was injured by the attack of a mad bull. During the same time period, Basil’s mother was baptized and joined the Baptist Church at Rocky Spring. This event had a obvious positive affect on young Basil, who told about the event in a letter which he wrote to a friend many years later:

I was a wild boy; but it pleased God to call me by his grace before I was grown into the fellowship of His Son and to lay upon me impressions of duty that I must preach the Gospel.
 
John Calhoun Sheppard (1850-1931) Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott
7. John Calhoun Sheppard (1850-1931)
South Carolina House of Reps (1876-1882)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1892-1886)
Governor of South Carolina (1886–1886)
South Carolina Senate (1898-1904, 1919-1920)
 
My father was old, very proud of any evidence of talent in his children, and anxious to set them forward in their worldly prospects. One of his sons has been governor of the State of North Carolina [Charles], another has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of that State [Matthias]; and he fondly hoped that I too might reach some honorable distinction in the world. He was himself brought up a Catholic; and had a hearty contempt of the condition and prospects of most of the preachers that were common in that day, and especially Baptists and Methodists, who were generally uneducated. When he saw that I had joined the Baptist Church and was beginning to pray in public and to speak in the meetings, altho he was so delicate of my feelings that he never expressed to me his disapprobation, yet it grieved him sorely. He would come to the meetings were I was to perform, and sit and weep profusely the whole time of the service. At length when he would not but see that my mind appeared decided and that I wished to become a Baptist preacher, he asked me outright one day, what was my purpose and plan of life. I felt that the time had come for me to make an explicit avowal of my wishes. So I opened my mind decidedly and fully, yet most respectfully to him. I expected him to disapprove and remonstrate. But what was my surprise to see him burst into tears, and putting both his aged hands on my head,
 
John Calhoun Sheppard, Jr. Monument (left)<br>John Calhoun Sheppard, Sr. Tombstone (right) Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
8. John Calhoun Sheppard, Jr. Monument (left)
John Calhoun Sheppard, Sr. Tombstone (right)
Monument Inscription:
Sacred to the memory of
John Calhoun Sheppard, Jr.
Second son of John Calhoun Sheppard, and
Helen Wallace Sheppard Born June 18, 1888
Died July 9, 1914
-----
Farewell loyal and lovable son till we meet again.

Tombstone Inscription:
John Calhoun Sheppard
July 5, 1850
Oct. 17, 1931
Helen Wallace Sheppard
July 17, 1853
Mar. 19, 1948
 
he sobbed out, "God bless you, my son."

After some conversation on the subject, he gave his full consent to my wishes, and put money into my hands to complete my education under Dr. Maxcy at South Carolina College.

Afterwards, when I was fully embarked in the ministry (1824), hearing he was ill, I hastened to attend him, and was with him in his last hours. He asked me to pray with him often, and seemed to be sustained and comforted by the hopes of the Gospel; and I remained with him until he died.


At the age of sixteen, Basil was sent away to the Bingham School to resume his education. He was acutely aware of his "wretched state as a sinner before God." One day while he was out walking he heard a Negro man praying aloud. Going up to him he expressed his wish to participate in the prayer. While they knelt together, Basil found pardon of sin and peace with God. From that time Basil’s Christian walk took on heartfelt enthusiasm.

Basil united with the Baptist church at Rocky Spring and was baptized by Elder Robert T. Daniel August 26, 1816. Soon after this he was sent as a delegate to the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, and was made clerk of that body. It was while returning home from that meeting that he was pressed to lead his first public exhortation and prayer at an evening meeting in the house of William Marsh. Basil Manly was licensed
 
Preston S. Brooks (1819-1857) Photo, Click for full size
Library of Congress
9. Preston S. Brooks (1819-1857)
South Carolina General Assembly (1844-1846)
Representative from South Carolina's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives (1853-1856, 1857)
 
to preach April 26, 1818...It was evident to young Manly soon after his conversion that he had been called to the ministry, but even at the opposition of his father Basil adhered to his conviction. Rev. William Tomlinson Brantley, a native of Chatham county, encouraged his young friend and school-mate by urging him to go with him to Beaufort, South Carolina, where he was a pastor and college president Brantley housed Basil in his own home and provided free use of his books and counsel. In December of 1819, he was admitted to the junior class in South Carolina College. He spent the summer of 1819 in the Georgia town of Eatonton with memorable results. Basil Manly became an active member of the Baptist church in Columbia during his college days and even filled the pulpit for a time after the death of Dr. Jonathan Maxcy. That college year he had a particularly "deranged state at college." He wrote to his father from college 5 Oct 1821:

Dear Father, I once more address you, and probably for the last time from my room in college. My summer’s excursion into the country (Edgefield District) restored my health and activity, and I am brought back to my arduous business in a state both of body and mind pretty well prepared to encounter it...My summer’s residence in the village of Edgefield....has paved the way for an engagement to live during the next year.

Basil
 
Preston S. Brooks Monument Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
10. Preston S. Brooks Monument
The inscriptions on the monument recount Brooks' military and political career, ignoring the beating Brooks brought upon fellow lawmaker Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Inscription reads:
Preston S. Brooks
Born in Edgefield Village
August 6th 1819
Elected to the State
Legislature in 1844
Elected Capt. of Company D
Palmetto Regiment, in 1846
And Served during
The Mexican War
Elected to Congress in 1853
And died in Washington City
January 27th 1857
 
graduated first in his class on December 3, 1821. It seems that some of the "Spirit of Edgefield" existed in young Manly. As the Manly book puts it A discomfited competitor for the honor, giving way to vindictive and furious passion, went to the class meeting armed with a dirk, and endeavored to fix a quarrel on young Manly. Failing in this, and more exasperated by a coolness that his violent words could not disturb, he rushed upon him and endeavored to plunger the deadly weapon into his breast. The blow was warded off, and before the assailant knew what was going on, he was disarmed; and then, it is said, a fitting chastisement was inflicted by the slender, smooth-faced, gentle preacher whose laurels he had contested and whose heart’s blood he would have shed. "Bodily exercise profiteth little," but in this instance the young man’s labors in plowing the fields of old Chatham had given him a vigor and endurance which rendered him excellent service in self-defense...The fellow sneaked off without desiring to renew the contest, and the boys threw up their hats and swore it was the best fight they had ever seen a Baptist preacher make.

Extracts from his diary describe his early residence in Edgefield:

I arrived in Edgefield village at the request of certain citizens of that place, chiefly Matthew Mims and Abner Blocker, on Jan. 23, 1822, under an engagement to
 
Matthew C. Butler (1836-1909) Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott
11. Matthew C. Butler (1836-1909)
South Carolina House of Representatives
(1860-1861; 1866-1868)
United States Senator from South Carolina (1877-1895)
 
preach there one year. I joined Little Stevens’ Creek Church by a letter from the Baptist Church of Columbia, on the Saturday before the first Sabbath in February 1822, and was ordained to the ministry by the Brethren John Landrum and Enoch Brazeale, in said church, on March 10, 1822. The Baptist Church in Edgefield was constituted on the third Lord’s Day in April, 1822.


Manly’s impact on the village is highlighted in a letter he wrote November 25, 1822, to Mr. Alexander McDonald of Beaufort, South Carolina:

God has indeed in a most signal manner blessed the church to which I belong during this year. I have counted up the number baptized and find it to be 146. Weekly additions are made, and I hope that there are many more precious souls yet to join themselves to the Lord within the bound of that church. The work is spreading. I was called last week to baptize by a neighboring destitute church. Nine followed their Lord into the watery grave. I have another appointment to preach and baptize at the same place. To give you an idea of the spirit of the people even where the revival has not yet appeared; I was called to marry a couple one night last week some ten or twelve miles from this place. After the ceremony was over and supper ended, the whole assembly, which was large, both old and young, insisted I should preach to them. I remembered the exhortation
 
First Baptist Church - South View Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
12. First Baptist Church - South View
 
of the Apostle, "Be instant in season - out of season." I propounded the question "Wilt thou go with this man?" and endeavored to persuade them to adopt in reference to Jesus Christ the answer of the lovely maiden, "I will go." I saw and felt during the worship that a sense of eternal things had taken hold of their minds. Even the bride wept profusely. When I had closed and was looking for a hymn to dismiss with, a number of young persons, all dressed in their finest for the wedding, rushed up, as if unable longer to restrain themselves, and in a flood of grief fell down before me and begged me to pray for them. It was truly a solemn time. "Enoch Bacon is not among the subjects of this work of grace".


He was married December 23, 1824 to Sarah Murray Rudolf. She was the daughter of Rev. Zebulon Rudolf who served Red Bank Baptist Church. They had five children, including Basil Manly, Jr. (b 29 Dec 1825 Edgefield, SC) and Charles Manly (b 28 May 1839 Charleston, SC).

Immediately after graduation he taught school in Edgefield, South Carolina as he was mentioned in the history of Little Stevens Creek Baptist Church in the Edgefield Chronicle of March 29, 1890:

It was at this place, on the 2nd Sabbath in April of the year 1823 that the Rev. Basil Manly, Sr., was ordained as a minister. Revs. Jno. Landrum and Enoch Braziel conducted the ordination
 
First Baptist Church Front Entrance Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
13. First Baptist Church Front Entrance
A similar entrance was also used on the Edgefield United Methodist Church. Both churches, in fact, share a similar design.
 
service. Dr. Basil Manly, Sr., whose name is now familiar in every Baptist organization in our "Sunny South" was then a young man stationed at Edgefield C. H., if we mistake not, engaged in teaching. He was, after ordination, elected pastor of our church, and served until 1825. Our oldest people speak of him as being in every respect the greatest pastor our church has had the fortune to be supplied by.

He, that is, Dr. Basil Manly, Sr., of blessed memory, left upon the church an impress which has lasted long; he left in the bosom of his congregation a love which has been bequeathed to succeeding generations. His fame has been written on brighter pages than ours, and nothing that we could say would add greater lustre to his name than Baptist annals have already recorded. We speak of him as pastor of our church. The love which the church had for him was extraordinary, second only to the love which he excited in its members for the Martyr of Calvary. During his pastorate, a spiritual inundation swept over the church. Many were added to its numbers, and the zeal of the whole church was increased. Tradition speaks of a revival during his pastorage, probably in the year 1824, the most notable in the early history of our church and some of our old people are now living who united with the church then; and many who united afterwards, dated their renewal of life as beginning with
 
First Baptist Church - South View Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
14. First Baptist Church - South View
 
this revival. There was a strong Baptist age in our community, and we must ever regret that the records of this period and periods before this have been destroyed.


On October 29, 1825, the church in Edgefield presented a formal request for Manley to continue his labors there for three Sundays a month for a salary of $800. The fourth Sunday Manly was to serve at Little Stevens Creek.

In February of 1826, the Church in Edgefield received a request for Basil Manly to fill the position of pastor at the First Baptist Church in Charleston. The previous pastor, Dr. Richard Furman, had died in 1825. This request was reluctantly granted and Manly moved to Charleston. The decision, however, was fraught with distress and tears. On the margin of his sermon notes of his last sermon in Edgefield are these words, "My last sermon (wept not preached) at Edgefield, March 19, 1826." He left with a reminder to his church in Edgefield that the Southern Baptist Convention had already resolved to place in Edgefield a literary and theological institution. It was during his eleven-year tenure at First Baptist Church in Charleston that he played an instrumental part in the establishment of Furman University In Edgefield.

In 1837 Manly was unanimously elected to the presidency of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Throat trouble from his "incessant preaching" played a
 
Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
15. Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery
 
part in his anxious deliberation to accept the position. In 1855 Dr. Manly accepted a call to the Wentworth Street Baptist Church in Charleston which had been formed partly from the First Baptist Church. He remained for four years. It was during this period that one of the dearest wishes of his heart was accomplished, the founding of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1859, he returned to Alabama as State Evangelist.

When the inauguration of the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, took place, it was Manly who served as chaplain. Dr. Manly’s death occurred December 21, 1868 at the home of his son, Basil Manly, in Greenville and he was buried in the family lot in Springwood Cemetery in Greenville. Manly’s accomplishments are too many to list here, but his achievements and impact are still felt in the many institutions and organizations he gave so much of his talents, time, and material means to provide and sustain. (Source: Quill: Official Publication of the Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society, March/April 2003.)
    — Submitted January 30, 2009, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.

2. The Spirit of Edgefield
by Hortense Caroline Woodson
Carved on her tombstone, located in the cemetery.
(Air: The Bells of St. Mary's)

The Spirit of Edgefield,
Whatever betide,
Is calling her children,
From far and from wide;
Or far out to sea,
They hear her voice calling,
"Come back, sons, to me!"

The Spirit of Edgefield
Is calling today
Her young men and maidens,
Her youth to the fray
To build a great nation
As strong men of yore;
A challenge she offers:
"Go forward once more!"

Old Edgefield, dear Edgefield,
Thy children all love thee,
Thy great men, they good men,
Wherever they be,
Turn back to the scenes oft'
Remembered in story
Thy children all come back
Come back
To thee, to thee.

Old Edgefield, dear Edgefield,
Thy children all love thee,
Thy great men, they good men,
Wherever they be,
Turn back to the scenes oft'
Remembered in story
Thy children all come back
Come back
To thee, to thee.
 
Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
16. Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery
 
    — Submitted January 30, 2009, by Brian Scott of Greenville, South Carolina.
 
Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
17. Village (Willowbrook) Cemetery
 
 
First Baptist Church Sign Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
18. First Baptist Church Sign
 
 
Thurmond Family Plot Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
19. Thurmond Family Plot
Senator and former South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond's marker is to the far right.
 
 
Detail of Styalized Palmetto Tree Used in Many of the Iron Fences Around Plots Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
20. Detail of Styalized Palmetto Tree Used in Many of the Iron Fences Around Plots
 
 
Monument to the Unknown Confederate Dead, erected 1908 Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
21. Monument to the Unknown Confederate Dead, erected 1908
The South Carolina Division of the Children of the Confederacy re-dedicated this marker Nov. 23, 2008. This marker was originally dedicated on Thanksgiving Day 1908. (Wendy Gilbert of Clarks Hill, South Carolina)
 
 
Hortense Caroline Woodson Monument Photo, Click for full size
By Brian Scott, October 10, 2008
22. Hortense Caroline Woodson Monument
Author, Scholar, Historian
"The Spirit of Edgefield"

Born in Edgefield July 7, 1896
Died in Edgefield October 20, 1990
Daughter of Reverend Tucker Everett Woodson
and Agatha Abney Woodson
Author of many works related to the history of Edgefield
A half century of service to
the Edgefield County Historical Society: 1939-1990
Vice President, Treasurer, President, President Emeritus
----------
She loved Edgefield with all her being and
Edgefield loved her as it loved no other.
----------
 
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