Sonny Seawright, Chairman of the Edgefield Heritage Jubilee Festival, set for Saturday, September 28, 2013, is announcing the plans for the coming festival. The Saturday festival will be 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. And, unlike the festivals of the past decade, the 2013 festival is being held on the Square in Downtown Edgefield. Seawright made […]
The Edgefield Lion’s Club had its monthly meeting on Monday, July 8, 2013, in the Edgefield United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Lion President Arlene Traxler welcomed members and welcomed the guest speaker, Mary Louise Resch, Lions Club Development Director, whom currently serves as the Director of Development for the Lion Foundation of South Carolina. After […]
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Funeral Services for Mrs. Virginia M. Derrick, age 79, will be held Saturday, July 13, 2013 at Philippi Baptist Church at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Josh McClendon officiating and burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Bland Funeral Home July 12, Friday evening from 6-8 […]
The Corps of Engineers opened the spillways for testing at Lake Thurmond Dam Thursday afternoon, July, 11. A sizable crowd, estimated to be in the thousands, was on hand to see the event. The test of the Thurmond Dam spillways followed the opening of the upstream reservoir spillways at Lake Russell and Lake Hartwell. All […]
NEWBERRY, S.C. – Raymond Kiefer Wicker, 83, of Newberry, formerly of Chappells, died July 9, 2013. Born June 27, 1930 in Newberry, South Carolina, Ray was the son of the late Laurence David and Ruth Dominick Wicker. He lived in Newberry until his graduation from Newberry College in 1951. Upon his graduation, Ray became an […]
– By Anne Sawyer – The power went out for some on Martintown Road this morning, Thursday, July 11, before five a.m., which stirred one family in the Merriwether neighborhood to suspect that a tree had fallen as many have done so with the heavy rains. Indeed, a tree had fallen across the road and hit […]
The Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society and Old Edgefield District African American Genealogical Society are hosting a “Southern Studies Showcase” in Edgefield on September 20 and 21, 2013. Genealogical and historical societies from all over South Carolina and parts of Georgia are being invited to participate in this two-day event. Last year the Showcase brought […]
Johnston Farmer’s & Artist’s Market every Thursday, from 4 – 6 p.m. in front of the Library/Warehouse on Calhoun Street. (Next week it will be open July 3, Wednesday). Edgefield Farmers Arts and Crafts Market: On the Town Square every Sat. through first Sat. in Sept. 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. $5 per day. For more info call […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Amanda Aminee Garrett Evins departed this life on Monday, July 8, 2013 at University Hospital in Augusta, Ga. Aminee was the last surviving daughter of the late Tandy and Cleora Garrett of Edgefield, S.C. Arrangements are incomplete.
Two from Edgefield County participated in the much-written-about and much-talked-about reenactment of the Civil War Battle at Gettysburg which took place over a 3-day period, the weekend of June 27-30. Rob Keck and his son-in-law Curtis Wright were among those who came together with10,000, in all, representing both sides of the action in that memorable […]