Compatriots, South Carolina Division Sons of Confederate Veterans And Friends I received the following email from Kelly Hinson of North Carolina, Secretary of the Southern Soldiers Remembrance Foundation (SSRF). As you will see, the organization is looking for ancestors of SC Soldiers who lie at rest in Hollywood cemetery. If you are able to [...]
Maurice Bessinger July 14, 1930 - February 22, 2014 Maurice Bessinger, 83, of West Columbia, died Saturday, February 22, 2014. A Korean war veteran, a gentlemanly demeanor, a businessman who grew a restaurant business that employed 200 employees, a devout Baptist who supported missionaries abroad. Maurice was a Life member of the South Carolina [...]
Dr William Columbus Cauthen Dr. William Columbus Cauthen was born on 20 Dec 1825 in Hanging Rock, Kershaw, SC. He died on 4 May 1865 in Hanging Rock, Lancaster, SC. Graduated from the Medical School of Transylvania College in Lexington, KY in 1847. Set up his office in one corner of his father's home in Hanging Rock. Dr. William [...]
The South Carolina Division-Sons of Confederate Veterans side of the NCAA boycott inline with the NAACP of gaming events being held in this state has never been about money. It has always been about holding the line for what is right and just as a free people of a sovereign state. Only those two organizations [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Racing against time, South Carolina archeologists are digging to uncover the remnants of a Civil War-era prisoner-of-war camp before the site in downtown Columbia is cleared to make room for a mixed-use development. The researchers have been given four months to excavate a small portion of the 165-acre grounds of the [...]
Judge Thomas Jefferson Withers Thomas Jefferson Withers was born in 1804, in Ebenezer, near Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina. He was among the nine children of Randolph Withers of Virginia and Sarah Bailey Withers of Virginia, (daughter of Captain Thomas Bailey, Revolutionary War hero) who were both buried in Ebenezer, South Carolina. In 1825, [...]
Private William Martin Raborn William Martin Raborn served as a Private in the 19th. South Carolina Infantry in Company D. William was born 1830 in Edgefield, South Carolina. He was a farmer, and a member of Dry Creek Baptist Church. He served as a Sgt. in the Defied Milita. The Raborn Family has been in [...]
On Sunday a crowd formed around the grave of Confederate Sgt. Berry Greenwood Benson in North Augusta on Sunday. The group was gathered at Sunset Hill Cemetery to celebrate the birthday of the honored Civil War veteran in a program put on by the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Sgt. Berry Benson Camp. MIKE ADAMS/SPECIAL-Wayne [...]
Richmond, VA, July 1896. Hart’s Battery group Richmond for the United Confederate Veterans Reunion, July 1896. 1. William J. Murdock 2. Porter R. Pearson 3. J. S. Livingston 4. Dempsey S. Salley 5. Col. Louis Sherfesee 6. William Selving 7. H. J. Carney 8. F. M. Bamburg. 9. D. Paul Sojourner, gunner at Trevillian Station [...]
Sergeant Adam Martin Knecht Adam Martin Knecht was born 1833 in Hessen, Germany. He left with his younger brother Peter Knecht, and caught a ship out of Rotterdam in 1854 and arrived in New York. He made his way South and ended up in Oconee South Carolina. Adam Martin Knecht married Frannie Frick of Pickens SC, and [...]