EDGEFIELD, S. C. – Memorial service for Mr. Raymond Oliphant will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, January 12, 2012 at Bethlehem Baptist Church with the Rev. Edward Lloyd officiating. Mr. Oliphant, a native of Edgefield County was a graduate of Strom Thurmond High School. He was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church. Survivors include his […]
Want to get your line in the water and reel in the big one, but you don’t feel confident with your angling skills? The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has a class for you. Family Fishing Clinics is an introductory class to fishing. The clinics are sponsored by the DNR Aquatic Education Section and […]
Three years ago Mrs. Essie Nicholson, Director of WIU (Women in Unity) Learning and Development After School Center, began to pray asking the Lord for a new facility in which to better serve the students and the Edgefield community. Recently the Lord answered her prayers. The center received a grant from the United States Department […]
Free Workshops: Edgefield SC Works Center, 400 Church St., Room 306, Edgefield, Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 10 a.m. Networkers Group Session – topic – “Clarifying Your Work Values” Learn the characteristics and traits employers value in an employee; 11:00 AM “Job Search Lab” Designed to give individualized help with job search and using the SCWOS system; 1:30 […]
Susannah Hammond was hunting with her father Bill Hammond when she harvested this 9 point deer on Friday afternoon while hunting on family woodland. This was the largest of the three deer that she has harvested.
I just thought I would comment on the passing of Mrs. Rearden. From different articles I have read about her, she exemplifies an OUTSTANDING American and a GREAT Lady. The thing that caught my eye was her getting a drivers license in 1965. My father passed in late 1978 and the following summer I paid for my […]
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. – Mr. Sammie D. Gilchrist died Tuesday, January 1, 2013, Funeral services were held 12 noon Saturday, January 5, at China Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Luther Garrett, Pastor. Interment was in the church cemetery. He is survived by five sisters: Mary Barnes of Johnston, Claudia (Garcia) Lawton of Beech Island, […]
TRENTON, S.C. – Ronnie Johnson, 48, of Trenton, SC passed away on December 31, 2012. Funeral services were held Friday, January 4, 2013 at Simmon Ridge Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Interment was in the church cemetery. He leaves to cherish his memory: his mother, Mary A. Johnson of Trenton; one daughter, Rhonda Gray of […]
This article ran in the print edition of The Advertiser on May 7, 2008. — September 7, 1898, Mamie Julia Lewis was born. On the day of the celebration of her continuing life, May 3, 2008, at Springfield Baptist Church on Highway 25 in Edgefield County, the now 109-year-old Mamie L. Rearden, married with children […]
by Bob Cramblitt – The face vessels made by African-Americans 150 years ago in Edgefield, South Carolina, might have been small, but they told big stories — stories of cultural movement, human survival, spiritualism and technological prowess, according to Jon Prown, director for the Chipstone Foundation. Under curator Claudia Mooney, Chipstone has created Face Jugs: […]