Month: March 2017
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A Life of Purpose: Remembering Sue Flinn James, St. John’s High School, Class of 1930
John Updike, one of my favorite writers, once said, “I think I’d be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.” Well, let me stand witness: Sue Flinn James’s life had a purpose.
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TODAY IN DARLINGTON COUNTY HISTORY
On March 20, 1890, J.L. Coker, Jr. developed one of the first methods for producing paper from native pine wood pulp. With the assistance of his father Major James Lide Coker, J.L. Coker, Jr. formed the Carolina Fiber Company in order to manufacture and market wood pulp and paper, specifically wrapping paper via the sulphite…
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“My Favorite Human”: Thinking About Lt. William Grover Farrow
What do we owe our fallen soldiers? That’s the question I was turning over in my mind one morning in March as I drove to work down Billy Farrow Highway. Speeding past Baptist churches and modest houses and farmland, I thought about Lt. William Grover Farrow and his short yet exemplary life. A few days…
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TODAY IN DARLINGTON COUNTY HISTORY
On March 12, 1785, statewide efforts finally culminated in the passing of the County Court Act, which created Darlington County.
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The Jacob Kelley House – Encampment of the Third Division, Fifteenth Union Army Corps
Today in Darlington County History, March 1-3, 1865, This house, the home of Jacob Kelley (1780-1874), was used as a Union headquarters on March 2-3, 1865 by Major-General John E. Smith, Commander of the Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. During the encampment by Federal forces, the mills near Kelley Town were run for the benefit…