Thomas Heyward Academy - Rebel Yell Yearbook (Ridgeland, SC)

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DURING OUR NATION'S BICENTENNIAL YEAR IT IS ONLY PROPER THAT WE PAUSE TO HONOR OUR OWN COMMUNITY AND THE HERITAGE THAT HAS BEEN LEFT TO US. WE ARE PROUD OF OUR FOREFATHERS WHO ENDURED MANY HARDSHIPS IN THEIR DEVOTION TO THIS NATION AND WE SINCERELY HOPE THAT WE CAN FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE AS WE PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE. ABOVE, THE TOMB OF THOMAS HEYWARD, JR. 11746-18091 IS LOCATED AT OLD HOUSE WHERE HE WAS BORN. HE STUDIED LAW. AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR IN LONDON AND SOUTH - CAROLINA. HE SERVED IN THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, A PROVINCIAL CONGRESS IN CHARLES TOWN, AND A MEMBER OF THE STATE'S REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL OF SAFETY. HE WAS NAMED AS A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUR MEN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. HE WAS PI A CAPTAIN OF THE CHARLES TOWN BATTALION OF ARTILLERY. AT THE END OF THE REVO- JUDGE HEYWARD'S BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY MANSION WAS AT WHITE HALL. HERIT GE LUTION, HEYWARD RETURNED HOME AND RESUMED HIS DUTIES AS LAWYER AND JUDGE.

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FOR HIS CONTINUING DEVOTION TO THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY WE PROUDLY DEDICATE THE 1976 REBEL YELL TO MR. DANIEL G. DEMPSEY. AS OUR HEADMASTER HE HAS GIVEN TO US HIS TIME, HIS PATIENCE, AND THE GUIDANCE NEEDED TO HELP US DIRECT OUR LIVES TOWARD A BETTER FU- TURE. THANK YOU, MR. DEMPSEY FOR YOUR DEVOTION TO THOMAS HEYWARD ACADEMY. F., - - -- - .1 Z.Ci..--.,,,f 'E,.w..,. N , :,: 55i'i .. 0 - 'Ms-w DEDI C

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LEFT: HOLY TRINITY EPISOPAL CHURCH. IN GRAHAMVILLE, THIS HUNDRED YEAR-OLD BUILDING RESULTED FROM ACTIVITY OF A CONGREGATION THAT BEGAN BEFORE 1820. IN LATE 1864 THE CHURCH, BEING USED AS FEDERAL HEADQUARTERS, ESCAPED THE FLAMES OF WAR WHEN NEARLY EVERY BUILDING IN GRAHAMVILLE SUCCUMBED. BUT THE CHURCH'S ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS WERE DESECRATED AND LOOTEDQ EVEN ITS BIBLE WAS CARRIED AWAY. THE HOLY COM- MUNION SILVER WAS SAVED BY A YOUNG MEMBER WHO SLIPPED INTO THE CHURCH AND BROUGHT IT OUT, ALMOST UNDER THE NOSES OF THE OFFICERS. IN 1928, THE LONG STOLEN BIBLE WAS DISCOVERED IN THE AT- TIC OF A NEW YORK MUSIC PUBLISHER AND WAS RETURNED BY HIM. A UNION OFFICER'S SCRIBBLED NAME IS LEGIBLE ON THE FLY- LEAF. THE BIBLE IS NOW A TREASURED KEEPSAKE OF THE CHURCH. BELOW-ROBERTVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH. THIS OLD AN- TIBELLUM CHURCH IS ALMOST CONCEALED BY THE LIMBS OF LIVEOAKS PENDANTED WITH SPANISH MOSS, AND ITS REFURNISHED WHITENESS SPARKLES FROM A WOODLAND SETTING.