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A Message from the South Carolina
State President :
My Theme for this administration:
Caring and Communication are the keys to Interest and Participation.
My Scripture:
"These things I command you, that you love one another."
John 15:17
A Thought to Live By:
If a thing is worth doing at all, it’s
worth doing well.
South Carolina
State Society Officers 2007 - 2009:
President: Mrs. Ronald J. Horton (Wilma)
1st Vice President: Mrs. Ben G. Alderman, Jr. (Ann)
2nd Vice President: Miss Mary Charles Armstrong
Chaplain: Mrs. Robert E. Rutledge (Addie)
Recording Secretary: Mrs. James T. Gallahorn, III (Pat)
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Richard K. Johnson (Theresa)
Organizing Secretary: Mrs. Thomas C. Lind (Dot)
Treasurer: Mrs. Thomas L. Aldinger (Laurie)
Registrar: Ms. Beverly R. DiThomas
Historian: Mrs. David E. Moffat (Bonnibel)
Librarian: Mrs. Burton B. Gale (Phyllis)
Organization
of the South Carolina State Society:
The South Carolina State Society was accepted by
National April 15, 1955. The first meeting was in November 1955.
The South Carolina State Society has twenty (20)
Chapters:
BLUE RIDGE - Organized May 19, 1989
CAPT. JOHN CHAPPELL - Organized Dec. 3, 1954 (El Paso, Tx) transferred
to SC – Nov 1955
CAROLANA - Organized Dec. 1, 2002
CHARLES TOWNE - Organized June 19, 1982
CHICORA - Organized April 30, 1988
COLONEL JACOB BLACKWELL - Organized July 29, 2005
COLONEL JOHN ROBINS - Organized Feb 10, 1971
DR. HENRY WOODWARD- Organized Dec. 2, 1973
DR. THOMAS FINCKLEY - Organized Jan. 29, 1977
GOVERNOR ROBERT GIBBS - Organized Jan. 10, 1963
HENRY TYLER - Organized Feb. 17, 1979
HILTON HEAD ISLAND CHAPTER - Organized Sep. 5, 2007
HOBCAW BARONY - Organized July 11, 2004
JACOB VAN DER VER - Organized May 3, 1977
JOHN BOSWELL - Organized Dec. 19, 1964
KENELM WINSLOW - Organized March 19, 1973
LORD ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER - Organized Oct 30, 2004
PEE DEE - Organized Feb. 18, 1960
REEDY RIVER FALLS -
Organized Feb. 14, 2006
TIEGE CANTEY - Organized Jan.20, 1972
Recent Happenings
of the South Carolina State Society:
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SC Honorary State President, Mrs. Thomas A. Stallworth (Mary
Jane)
SC State Presdient, Mrs. Ronald J. Horton (Wilma)
President General, Mrs. Richard Hemmingway (Ruth)
At the National Conference, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
on April 14, 2007 Installation of State Presidents
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Pertinent Facts About the South
Carolina State
Society:
HONORARY PRESIDENTS GENERAL
Mrs. Frank P. Copeland
Mrs. Douglas N. Swanson
HONORARY VICE- PRESIDENT GENERAL
Mrs. Harvey W. Tiller, JR.
SERVING ON NATIONAL LEVEL
Mrs. Frank P. Copeland, Jr.-Bylaws Committee
Mrs. Ben Alderman-Credentials Committee
Miss Mary Charles Armstrong-Credentials Committee
Mrs. Beverly DiThomas-Registrar General's Committee
Mrs. Thomas A. Stallworth-Awards, Gist, and Special Activities
Committee Chairman
and One Hundredth Anniversary Committee
Miss Diane C. Watts-Heraldry and Coats of Arms Committee
National Chairman/Publication
STATE OUTSTANDING JUNIOR MEMBERS
Miss Sharon Rouse (1976) NATIONAL WINNER
Mrs. Harold Dean Hall (1978)
Mrs. Douglas E. Fagan (1980) NATIONAL WINNER
Mrs. John A. Morris (1981) NATIONAL WINNER
Mrs. Thomas W. Phillips (1982)
Miss Sally Wray Tiller (1983)
Mrs. David D. Purcell (1984) NATIONAL WINNER
Miss Claudia Elizabeth Tiller (1986)
Miss Mary Grey Reddick (1987)
Mrs. Harold Clinton Taylor (1988)
Mrs. Thomas P. Russo (1989)
Miss Nancy Virginia Robertson (1991)
Mrs. S. D. T. Hawk (1993)
Miss Robbie Wise Moseley (1994)
Mrs. Robert P. Minus (1995)
Society Calendar of Events:
February 15-16, 2008 State Conference,
The Clarion Hotel, Columbia, SC
April 26, 2008 BOM meeting, Ft. Jackson Officers
Club, Columbia, SC
Historic Sites Marked by the
South Carolina State Society and its Chapters 1961-2007:
South Carolina Society
1. Governor Thomas Smith. South Carolina governor-1693-1694.
2. Dr. Henry Woodward ,surgeon and first permanent settler of South
Carolina.
3. Society Hill Library-The library was first incorporated December
20, 1823.
4. Site of the First Methodist Church in Darlington, SC. Built in
1831.
Captain John Chappell Chapter-The
Granby Locks- To commemorate the “Rise and Fall of Granby”
and to honor Nicholas Hane and his Descendants.
Charles Towne Chapter-Old Saint
Paul’s Parish at Stono Flats. The original parish was created
under the Church Act of 1706. The church was built in 1708.
Chicora Chapter- Chapter-Frink’s
Neck, Little River Neck, Horry County, SC. Nicholas Frink was pioneer
planter and landowner from 1736-1820.
Colonel Jacob Blackwell Chapter
Buffalo Baptist Church Cemetery, Blacksburg, SC,
Feb. 11, 2007
Colonel John Robins Chapter
1. Picken’s Chapel Church Cemetery established by Pickens
family in late 1700’s. Marker was placed to honor 25 Revolutionary
Soldiers buried in the cemetery. .
2. Grave Marker of John Richard (Dickey) Campbell. He was grandson
of Thomas Campbell, emigrant colonizer from Scotland. He and his
wife settled in the area in 1802.
3. Old Pickens Presbyterian Church. Building was once the old Pickens
Courthouse.
Dr. Henry Woodward Chapter
1. Belvidere School Site, St. John’s Island, SC. One room
school begun in 1898 and continued until 1920.
2. Re-dedication of the Dr. Henry Woodward Marker. Dr. Woodward
was he first permanent settler of SC. Original marker placed by
the State Society and removed during renovations of The Arsenal
Museum.
Dr. Thomas Finkley Chapter-Beulah
Baptist Church, Hyman, SC. Many chapter members are descendants
of the Hyman family.
Duke of Marlborough Chapter-Edward
Crosland House. Oldest house in Bennettsville, SC
Governor Robert Gibbs Chapter-
1. Chapel of Trinity United Methodist Church-Charleston, SC-Marker
listing persons buried in the original church. Also plaque honoring
William Hammett, founder of church in 1791.
2. Chamber of Commerce created in Charleston, SC in 1773.
3. “Idylwild Plantation”-Florence County, SC. Home of
Moses Sanders Haynesworth, a Confederate War Veteran.
4. Site of Mt. Bethel Academy-First classical academy outside of
Charleston. Established and dedicated by Bishop Francis Asbury in
1795.
5. Reverend John Harper’s Gravesite- A volunteer for missionary
service in the West Indies and later a circuit-riding preacher from
South Carolina to Massachusetts. He founded Washington Street Methodist
Church in Columbia, SC in 1803.
6. Site of the First Methodist Church in Darlington, SC.
7. Washington Park in Charleston, SC-Marker to honor Colonial Governor
Robert Gibbes.
Henry Tyler Chapter-
1. Silver Bluff Baptist Church-Aiken, SC. The nation’s oldest
black church.
2. Research assistance in locating the original layout of the city
of Aiken, SC.
Jacob Van der Ver Chapter-The Elms
Plantation and the Ralph Izard Historical Parlor. The Izard family
built the Elms Plantation in 1682, on land acquired through the
Proprietor’s grants and purchase. Only ruins remain today
of the house.
John Boswell Chapter-
1. McMakin’s Tavern. A stagecoach stop established around
1790. The home has been in the Robinson family since 1840 and has
been placed on the National Register of Historical Places.
2. The Captain James Miller House-Home of Capt Miller, who came
from England with his father to Virginia and later South Carolina.
The house was built circa 1830 and given to the Edfiefield Historical
Society by Robbie Wise Gross, mother of Sabra Wise Mosely, Honorary
State President SC Society CDXVIIC.
Mary Sterling Heatly Russell Chapter-Marker
honoring Mary Sterling Heatly Russell, the first white child born
in the colony.
Pee Dee Chapter
1. Trinity Methodist Church Original Site. The first Trinity church
building was erected in 1792.
2. Colonel John West II, West Point, VA. The Richmond Chapter of
VA co-sponsored this marker. Colonel West was in the Virginia Militia,
House of Burgesses and rendered great service to the colony.
3. All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, Pawley’s Island, SC.
Teige Cantey Chapter
1. Old Cantey Cemetery-Family Burial Ground established by Joseph
Cantey, grandson of Teige and Elizabeth Cantey who came to South
Carolina in 1672.
2. The Church of the Holy Cross-Marker commemorates the church which
began in 1770 as a Chapel of Ease to St. Mark’s Episcopal
Church in Clarendon County, SC. In 1850 a new church was built on
the site.
3. Rembert Church Cemetery-cemetery and church were in existence
in the early 1780's. Francis Asbury preached there frequently and
mentioned in his journal on December 4, 1805, that he buried Abijah
Rembert, great grandson of immigrant Andrea Rembert.
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