EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Mrs. Loretta Blair Patten, of Preacher Lane, entered into rest July 29, 2014. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2, 2014 at China Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Luther Garrett, Sr. officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Patten, a native of McCormick County, was a […]
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. – Mrs. Louise Tanksley Samuels, 100, of W. Five Notch Road, entered into rest July 30, 2014. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday, August 4, 2014 at Mt. Transfiguration Baptist Church with the Rev. Clarence D. Hill officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Samuels, a native of […]
ALBANY, Ga. – Maxie Ray Prince, 81, of Albany, GA died Friday, August 1, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Mackey Funeral Home, Greenville, SC. Rev. Ken Kessler will officiate. Interment will follow in Greenville Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Born in Edgefield, SC, […]
Mark your calendar. For the first time, the H. L. Hunley Exhibit is coming to Edgefield County. On Friday, September 26th, the Hunley will be in Edgefield in the Piedmont Technical College parking lot. The exhibit will be open from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. There will also be Living History demonstrations by […]
Opinion – By Robert Scott – This essay’s subject sounds totally outlandish in 2014, doesn’t it? Well, if we are talking about the Federal Government, unfortunately it pretty much is. The only agreement between our two political parties is to agree that the national government is totally dysfunctional and absolutely nothing will be accomplished. Their […]
MCCORMICK, S.C. – Huguenot descendants and other persons interested in French Huguenot history will gather at John de la Howe School in McCormick County on Sunday, August 3rd to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Huguenots at New Bordeaux in August 1764. French reformer John Calvin (1509-1564), born Jean Chauvin, preached that […]
Find The Advertiser and Dave in this new novel Reviewed by David Marshall James This emotionally expansive, visually lush novel would have been irresistible as a screen project for producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk, fifty-plus years ago. Although Margaret Bradham Thornton’s first novel takes place during the early 1990s, it could have been […]
The Advertiser is celebrating a new writer coming on board. She is Kortlyn McPeek, who is fairly new to the area, her parents having moved to this county a year ago. Kortlyn is an articulate, vivacious young woman, two years out of college, and eager to use her writing skills for this newspaper. Our meeting […]
Family and friends gathered at the Greene County Historical Society’s Vaughn-Morrow House in Eutaw, Ala., on July 19 for the retirement of COL Cheryl Ann Elliott-Dawe from the United States Army Nurse Corps following more than 30 years of service. COL Elliott-Dawe and her husband Dr. Lloyd A. Dawe who is an employee of the […]
The Little Miss & Teen Miss South Carolina Pageant was held recently in Hartsville, SC, with 126 contestants from across South Carolina competing during the week. Over $30,000 in scholarships were awarded along with other prizes. The pageant also presented a check for over $30,000 to Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital. For more information, please visit […]