Ward, SC Funeral Services for Mrs. Kathy Jean Cockrell Edgerley, age 60, will be held Monday, December 19, 2016 at 11 am at Double Branch Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial to follow in Spann Cemetery. The family will receive friends Sunday evening from 5-7 at Bland Funeral Home, Johnston. Mrs. Edgerley died Thursday, December15, 2016. […]
On Dec. 15, 2016, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office arrested Dameion Edwin Thomas (36-year-old) of Aiken, S.C., on 2 counts of murder in connection with the October 9, 2016, deaths of Charles and Andrea Deas of Edgefield. Mr. and Mrs. Deas were found deceased following a fire at 374 Marigold St. in Edgefield. Mr. Thomas […]
The year 1999 was my last as an active duty Navy Officer, and as the Christmas season approached I found myself working as a defense contractor. My new employer won a contract to see how Defense Department computers would react to what was then the unknown new idea of Y2K – the year 2000 – […]
In last week’s editorial (http://www.edgefieldadvertiser.com/2016/12/thoughts-on-pearl-harbor-part-one/) I shared some initial thoughts on two competing cultures, and their success in the last 75 years producing resilient societies. I tied that theme to the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, comparing the 1940’s jewel of our republic, Detroit, to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; cities […]
This has been a very big year for David Drake, the superb 19th-century Edgefield artisan also known as Dave the Potter. In April, he entered the South Carolina Hall of Fame; in July, over thirty members of what is thought to be his family came from as far away as Washington, DC, to honor him […]
Edgefield, SC – Effie Moore McDowell, 94 of Mims St., wife of the late Felix Lake McDowell, died Tuesday December 13, 2016 at Edgefield County Hospital. Funeral Services will be held Thursday December 15, 2016 at 2 PM at Berea Baptist Church with the Rev. Bruce Cooley officiating, burial to follow in Sunset Gardens Memorial […]
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office was notified Dec. 6 of the suspected theft of 19 car batteries from a location on Mosely Drive in Trenton. According to the ECSO report on the incident, the property owner stated that unknown subjects had entered the property and taken the Delco batteries which were, in total, estimated to […]
Saluda, SC – Funeral services for John Richard Williams, age 69, will be held Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 2 pm at Bland Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Mt. of Olives Cemetery . The family will receive friends at Bland Funeral Home from 1:00 – 2:00 prior to service. Mr. Williams died […]
Johnston Edgefield Trenton Middle School’s Library Media Specialist, Betsy Painter, took on the mission to acquire American Flags for each of the JET Middle School classrooms. Mrs. Painter did not have to go far. American Legion Post 30 of Edgefield took on the project to provide the needed flags and last Monday presented 35 classroom […]