George O. Fulmer — Johnston, SC

Johnston, SC — George Owen Fulmer, 77 of Riegal Rd., husband of Sarah Brownlee Fulmer, died Saturday August 5, 2017. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday August 8, 2017 at 2 PM at Philippi Baptist Church with burial in church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 PM before the service at […]

Joseph E. King — Johnston, S.C.

Johnston, SC — Mr. Joseph Emmet King, 89, of Lakeview Dr., husband of Mrs. Grace Harris King, died Saturday August 5, 2017. Funeral Services will be held Monday August 7, 2017 at 2 PM at Bethlehem United Methodist Church with burial to follow in Sunset Gardens Memorial Cemetery. Mr. King was an Edgefield Native and was […]

Restoration Grant Awarded – Horn’s Creek Church

Restoration Grant Awarded – Horn’s Creek Church

The Edgefield County Historical Society announced today that the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor has awarded a $50,000 grant for the restoration of Horn’s Creek Church.  This grant, which has to be matched dollar-for-dollar, will enable the Society to rebuild the foundation pillars, install a new roof, replace the windows and doors, and paint the […]

Greg Anderson Appointed New Probate Judge

Greg Anderson Appointed New Probate Judge

The Advertiser has learned that Greg Anderson has been appointed by Governor Henry McMaster to be Edgefield County’s new Probate Judge.  Anderson will replace long-time judge Bobby Peeler who officially retired from the post July 15 after 26 years of holding the office.  However, at the request of the governor, Peeler has continued to stay […]

Steven B. Blizard — Johnston, SC

Johnston, S.C. – Steven Barry Blizard, 68, of Calhoun St., husband of Elaine Prichard Blizard, died Wednesday August 2, 2017. A Memorial Service was held Sunday August 6, 2017 at 6 PM at Edgefield Mercantile Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 PM before the service at the funeral home. Mr. Blizard […]

Teresa Y. Culver — Edgefield, SC

EDGEFIELD – Mrs. Teresa Yount Culver, age 46 of Edgefield, SC, passed away Monday, July 31, 2017 at the home of her parents on Jonesville-Lockhart Hwy. Union, S.C. Mrs. Culver was born in Augusta, GA., October 11, 1970, a daughter of Cecil and Jimmie Bates Yount. She was a graduate of Jonesville High School and […]

Churches Changing Communities 2017 – The Most Rewarding Vacation of my Life

Churches Changing Communities 2017 – The Most Rewarding Vacation of my Life

There was much excitement in and around Edgefield during the week of July 9-14. Members from the twenty Southern Baptist churches that make up the Edgefield Baptist Association engaged in a week of service and ministry. Over 140 missions volunteers came together to conduct ministry projects and repairs to local homes.This is the 8th year […]

Religion, Politics, and “Paying It Forward”

Religion, Politics, and “Paying It Forward”

Based on a desire for commonality among many churches, the Revised Common Lectionary is now in use throughout the English-speaking world. In the U.S., its sequence of Bible readings for each Sunday is followed not only in my own Episcopal Church but also in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Missouri Synod, Presbyterian, United Methodist, […]

Dear Editor — Comments on Plans for Square

Dear Editor — Comments on Plans for Square

I have been following the letters and/or comments in the paper about the Streetscape proposals.  Quite frankly, I and a number of folks that I talk with on Saturday a.m., while we are at the Saturday Market, seem to think that the overall plan is a totally waster of money. My question to the Town […]

McKendree to Celebrate 200 Years

McKendree to Celebrate 200 Years

A Family has helped to Hold the History Not one century, but two have passed since the founding of McKendree Methodist Church, up on Highway 378 between Highway 25 and Faulkner Mountain Road. This church was first called Sleepy Creek Church, known in name by a nearby creek.  It was probably a mile or so […]