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

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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.

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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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ABOVE, THE EUHAW BAPTIST CHURCH ESTABLISHED IN 1745 BY CERTAIN PLANTERS OF THE EUHAW, OR IN- DIAN LANDS . AT ONE TIME THIS CHURCH SEATED 1000 SLAVES OWNED BY THE WEALTHY PLANTERS. IT LATER SERVED AS A SCHOOL AND A MEETING PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE BUILDING PICTURED ABOVE IS NOT THE ORIGINAL, BUT WAS BUILT ONE YEAR -AFTER THE FIRST, CHURCH .WAS ,BURNED. NOW 230 YEARS OLD, THIS CHURCH IS STILL HOLDING SER- VICES, AND IS ATTENDED BY QUITE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. RIGHT, THE PURRYSBURG MONUMENT, A MARKER OF STONE DEPICTING THE SITE OF OLD PURRYSBURG. IT STANDS UPON A LOW BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE SA- VANNAH RIVER NEAR HARDEEVILLE. IT WAS ERECTED IN THE 1940'S BY THE HUGUENST SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. PURRYSBURG IS NAMED FOR COLONEL JEAN PIERRE PURRY, WHO PERSUADED THE BRITISH GOV- ERNMENT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY OF 600 SWISS IN CAROLINA.