the close of his life, I knew him intimately and well, as his home was then at Newberry, and I found him to be a man of strict integrity of character, a devoted Christian, zealous in every good word and work and entirely free from Pharisaical bigotry and exclusiveness. Some years ago, a few years before his death, at the meetings of our Prayer Circle, which was an occasion for devotional exercises, frequently the tears might be seen rolling down his cheeks when moved by feelings of adoration and of love. At such times it was good to be with him. Being very social in his disposition and nature, in his youth he was fond of the dance, and he has told me that of an evening, after the business of the day was over, he would gladly ride a dozen miles in order to engage with young people in the dance, or other social amusements of the time. same social disposition after his conversion made him love the house of God and the fellowship of religious people.

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He represented Newberry District in the Lower House three terms, two terms in the Senate-except one session-having resigned on account of ill health. Afterwards he was elected again and served four years. He was an ardent States Rights man, and when the dark days of trial came he was ready, and pledged all that he had in defence of what he thought was right. Without hesitation, without scruple, he signed the Ordinance of Secession with as firm and high a heart as the men of 1776 signed the Declaration of Independence.

He was twice married. Three children are still living: Thomas S., son of his first wife, practicing law at Columbia, and also Librarian of the Supreme Court, was Second Lieutenant Third Regiment S. C. V. during the war, serving with honor and doing his duty faithfully; and Robert, son of the second wife, and his sister, Mrs. Simkins, wife of Lewis W. Simkins, Esq., of Laurens C. H. There were other children, Elizabeth, known to me as Bettie, a lovely, frank-hearted girl whom I knew from her childhood. She became the wife of Captain Clark Wardlaw, and died too soon for those who loved her. She left one child, which did not long survive her. Captain Wardlaw has also passed away. Nancy (Nannie) died unmarried.

I have never known a man for whom I had a warmer feeling or a more devoted attachment than I had for Colonel Robert

Moorman. He was warm-hearted and deeply religious, and I always found him a true man and a firm friend. The following lines, being the conclusion of a poem entitled "The Walk," and descriptive of a three days' pedestrian tour into the country and back, fitly express the feelings I had for him :

THE DAY AFTER.

I miss one friend who lately passed away
From earth's dark clouds to heaven's eternal day;
He was a man whose heart was free from guile,
Who sought in life his God's approving smile;
The poor, the weak, the sorrowful, distressed,
On him with confidence could lean and rest.
As man, as father, neighbor, husband, friend,
In him the virtues all did sweetly blend.
No more this side the grave I'll see his face,
But if there be a heavenly dwelling place
Where good men go, I hope to meet him there,
And breathe with him that pure celestial air,
Where death comes not, the weary are at rest,
Nor throes of pain disturb the peaceful breast.
Yes, Moorman, yes, in that immortal land,

I'll meet thee, know thee, clasp thy true right hand.

Joseph Caldwell died June 25th, 1888. His was a long and useful life, being about eighty years of age at the time of his death. He was a man of strong natural good sense, and though he was always a farmer, never having made law a study, yet I have heard it remarked of him by one who knew him well, that he was about as good a judge of law as any lawyer at Newberry. His sound judgment was relied upon in 1860 as of one into whose hands the interests of the State being committed, they would receive no detriment. As we have seen, he signed without hesitation the Ordinance of Secession. Children and grandchildren were about him in his declining years to cheer him at the close of a long and worthy life.

John P. Kinard, one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession, had the honor of representing his native county in the Legislature, in the House and also in the Senate; he has also been Sheriff of the County. He lost his wife, a devoted and good wife, November 1, 1882, aged sixty-three years. He was then left alone, the sole survivor of five sisters and four brothers. He died suddenly at the residence of Mr. H. O. Henson, at Kinards, September 3, 1890, aged about eighty years,

and was buried at Beth Eden Lutheran Church graveyard. One grandson, son of Dr. W. M. Kinard, is a student in Newberry College.

These four, Simeon Fair, Robert Moorman, Joseph Caldwell, and John P. Kinard, having been thought worthy to represent the District of Newberry in the Secession Convention, have acquired a conspicuous and eternal position in the history of the District of Newberry and the State. As a fitting conclusion to this chapter, it is well to give a brief sketch of two eminent citizens of Newberry, not actors in the civil war, who have passed away: Chancellor Job Johnstone and General H. H. Kinard.

Chancellor Job Johnstone was born June 6, 1793, and was the son of John Johnstone,* who came to Newberry in 1806, already a married man and the father of several children. It is thus seen that Job Johnstone was not a native of Newberry, being about thirteen years of age when his father moved here. He was born in Fairfield, near Winn's Bridge. Judge O'Neall in his Annals says that John Johnstone was poor when he started in life, but that by persevering industry and energy he became quite wealthy, and was able to educate his children liberally and to provide for them handsomely.

Job Johnstone, after graduating in the South Carolina College in December, 1810 (being the youngest graduate who, up to that time, had received a diploma), in 1811 entered the law office of John Hooker, at York, where he remained one year. The next year he was in the office of Mr. Clark, of Winnsboro. Without completing his studies in the law, he quit and went home, where he spent about two years, devoting his time to general reading. In 1814 he concluded to take up the study of medicine, and began under the direction of Dr. Davis, an eminent physician in Columbia. He took a course of lectures in New York, and in 1817, having graduated, he returned to Newberry and

* John Johnstone and four of his brothers (whose ancestors were Scottish) emigrated from Derry, Ireland, two of them previous to, and the others just after, the Revolutionary war. They spelled their names always with the t, but most of them dropped the final e. One of them wrote his name Johnstown. Chancellor Johnstone formerly wrote his name without the final e, and nearly all his equity decrees are so signed, but in later life he replaced the final e and spelled his name as it was originally written by his Scottish ancestors -E. H. A.