ABRAM HUGUENIN

(October 5, 1838 - February 11, 1885)

Autobiography

of

Capt. Abram Huguenin, C.S.A.

1875 PREFACE

I propose to write a sketch of the history of the Huguenin family from their arrival in this country from Europe for the benefit of my own family, and name. I prepared an accurate history some fifteen years ago, which was lost by the raid of that land at home, which spread through South Carolina in 1865. The data which I then was able to collect, living in Beaufort County, I am unable to draw from now, whilst living in Richland, but mindful of the shortness of life, (alas very short to my family), I will do the best I can now in hopes of making this more perfect hereafter.

"Fairie Knowe" near Gadsden, S.C. Jan 1875.

In the Secretary of States office in Columbia S.C., the entry in Grant Book "FE page 27 is as follows. Lot of land in the town of Purrysburg granted February 2, 1735, Thos. Broughton, Gov. to David Huguenin, and in 1738 tract of one hundred acres to same party and same county - Gramville - dated, September 16, 1738.

In 1743 on November 11, is entered Abraham Huguenin, 200 acres, Gramville Co., Daniel Huguenin, 200 acres, Gramville Co. , David Huguenin, 200 acres, Gramville Co., Margaret Huguenin, 200 acres, Gramville Co.

I construe these entries to mean that David Huguenin first mentioned is the father of the four who obtained grants in 1743, and these must have been minors or at least very young when their father came over. David who obtained a grant in 1735, must have been born about 17l0, and could carcely have been my grandfather's father, who was born in 1778. He undoubtedly was the grandfather of my grandfather, born in 1778. Daniel Huguenin must have died young. Margaret nay have been the Wife Huguenin who intermarried with Rev. Mr. Lejau and is buried at Goose Creek Church. Abraham, is the brother who went North see Appendix "A".

David Huguenin and his family, I am now satisfied came to this country with Baron John Jean Purry, and from him Purrysburg was named, they undoubtedly left France for Switzerland, and from there, came here. November, 1761. - Read a petition of David Huguenin setting forth that he had been many years in the province had had no land granted him and was desirous to obtain lands for Cultivation having a

Wife, two children, and four Negroes. Therefore praying for four hundred and fifty Acres on the great Ogechee within half a mile of land granted David Stephens.

May, 1762. - David Huguenin 450 Acres in St. Philip's Parish.

September, 1763. - Read a Petition of David Huguenin setting forth that he had granted him four hundred and fifty Acres of Land and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife, three children, and ten Negroes. Therefore praying for three hundred Acres on the great Ogechee joining Land there granted William Elliott and about three Miles from the Land before granted him.

December, 1763. - David Huguenin granted 300 acres, in St. Philip's Parish. Bounded on the southeast by Daniel Nunes and William Elliott, southwest by the Canouchee River and James Read. (Grant Book D, page 363)

June, 1770. - Read a petition of David Huguenin setting forth that he had Seven hundred and fifty Acres of land granted him and was desirous to obtain an additional Tract having a Wife, four children, and thirteen Negroes. Therefore praying for three hundred acres in St. Philip's Parish and St. John's Parish.

October, 1775. - Read a petition of David Huguenin of this Province Carpenter, setting forth, that He was desirous of improving a Lot in Hardwicke; and therefore praying for the Lot known by the No. 40 in the said town.

At what time the two brothers, Abraham and David Huguenin emigrated to America, I am not positively certain but that they came from Switzerland I always knew. E.D. Huguenin in Appendix "A" says that they came to this country, at the time that the Marquis of La Fayette did, and with him, but this is evidently a mistake as will be seen by facts beyond dispute, in the course of this history. I have always supposed my immediate ancestor was the younger brother, but if E.D. Huguenin, to whom I will hereafter refer to as E.D.H., is correct, my immediate ancestor David Huguenin was the elder, and I am the head of the Huguenins of America. The family left France to escape persecution on account of their religion, at what time I am not certain, but most probably about the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 1685, and settled in the L'ougle, Switzerland. Some returned to France at the Revolution, and a Huguenin is sometimes mentioned in history as a distinguished Jourdist and orator, some drifted to the Netherlands, and many years ago in 1835, my father Julius G. Huguenin then a law student of the distinguished James L. Petigru, was accosted on the streets of Charleston, S.C., by Mr. Huckenwraith of the firm of Huckenwraith & Wragg, who said to him "Walk to my office, I have something for you." He then told him he had met in the Netherlands a Count Huguenin, an old man, who asked if he knew any Huguenin's in Carolina, and upon being answered in the affirmative, he told him they were of his family, that he had an only son Wm. ?? Huguenin, a Capt. of Engineer to the King of the Low Country, and that he wished to correspond with the family, as they were his heirs, should his son die without issue. He then asked Mr. Huckenwraith to dine with him the next day, which he did, who described him as a man of great wealth and dignity. Upon the departure of the guest, the Count sent to the Huguenin's the copper plate upon which the Arms of the Huguenin's are engraved, now in my possession, an impress colored of the same, and the Capt., a certificate upon which is stamped in the paper the word "Holland," of the authenticity, that these arms appertain, and belong solely to le Famille Huguenin.

I have heard since that the Count has gone to meet his relatives in another land, and that the Captain is now Count, and General but enough of the Count, and Juroudist, now for the Huguenins of the South. E.D.H. tells the history of the northern branch in Appendix "A". The brothers then emigrated as I said before, either to Georgia or South Carolina. David Huguenin hunted awhile with the Cherokee Indians, then married a Wife Bourquin of Georgia, bought up land on the Ogeechee River, settled, and had several children, of whom none survived, but the eldest, David (both brothers brought means with them)(David married a wife Kenny of Barnwell County, a relation of his fathers second wife, and my great-grandmother on the paternal side). After fighting in the Revolutionary War, David Jr. moved to South Carolina with his father, David was Colonel of the Militia, (then some honor) and was known as the handsomest man of his day. He died young leaving four children to my grandfather's care. William J., who married Miss Cropp of Skidaway Island, Georgia a young lady of good property, who had two daughters Leonora and Marion. William was by Profession a lawyer, he died at the age of twenty seven, being just elected to the House of Representatives.

Leonora married Alex Gaillard, and died leaving one daughter, Theodora who intermarried with Edward Guerard and has two children, Nora and Edward. William J. is buried in the Huguenin graveyard. James son of David above mentioned married a Miss Barnard of Georgia, killed Maynard in a street fight in Tallahassee Florida, went to Texas where he died State Senator. Mary daughter of David married Kelly of Savannah and had one son, who was of no account. Elizabeth married Mr. McLaws of Augusta Georgia, and had three sons and one daughter, who is unmarried. William H. the eldest son is a lawyer of ability in Augusta, Georgia, married Miss Boggs (now dead) and has three children. He was Colonel of Reserves the last of the war.

David Huguenin the son of David the emigrant, who came here in 1735, after the death of his first wife, married Miss Sarah Kenney of a fine family in Barnwell County, of Irish descent, the family is now extinct in South Carolina, and returned to Georgia, where at his plantation on the Ogeechee, my grandfather Abraham Huguenin was born; Whilst he was yet a suckling child, the British came upon his plantation (he was so deaf as to be exempt from military duty), burnt his houses, stole many of his Negroes, (I have heard a hundred), the escaping to the woods. After this he with his family and what Negroes he could gather, started on horse-back, (after directing the rest to follow), to join Major General Nathanael Greene's army encamped upon Bees Creek, a tributary of the Coosawhatchee River, and upon the journey they came so near starving that he (my grandfather) sucked the blood from his mothers breast, and his father gave five guineas in gold, for a roasting pig, he joined Greene at last, and when Greene retired he settled upon the land (confiscated of the Tory Baron, one of Lockes Barons Rose) eight hundred acres of which he bought, and built the house, the chimneys of which alone are now standing, (the house in good preservation having been burnt by the Yankees January 1865). The chimneys stand at the end of the avenue, near the Huguenin grave yard. Here the old man worn out with his trials at last died of small-pox contracted from a visit to Charleston in his chaise, leaving four children by this wife Anne, Eliza, Abraham and John. Eliza died very young of fever, and of her, I will mention a beautiful dream of my grandfather's when this sketch reaches him.

David Huguenin the émigré's son, was so deaf that he had to be written to, and so aristocratic that he would associate with but few, so irascible as to have whipped a school-master unmercifully for a piece of cruelty to one of his children, (my grandfather) and yet so utterly devoid of fear, as once armed only with a pole to have attacked a panther, which he found devouring a deer, which he had just caught, and that so successfully, as to have driven it off from the deer, which he carried off with him in his chaise. He died about 1796 at his old home alone, as he had lived, with his family; and is buried in the Huguenin graveyard just where a mock orange tree was growing, when last I stood in that sacred Place.

Anne married Myers (Col.) of Savannah, Ga. I have heard my father say that he heard from his father, that he (Myers) was a very fine fellow, of great humor, he died young, leaving two daughters, one of which married Longworth and was drowned in the "Pulaski" (steamer), the other married Benjamin Cropp and has a large family in Alabama. Some years after the death of Myers, Anne married the Rev. John Beck, much against the wishes of her family, a Presbyterian pastor of good estate. He died leaving four sons, and two daughters, Joseph Huguenin, Josiah, David Huguenin and James Huguenin, Anne and Emily Beck. Joseph Huguenin married and moved to Texas. Josiah married Miss. Ford whose mother was a Burnett, and moved to Colleton County, where he died leaving a large family.

David Huguenin Beck was a young lawyer of fine promise and was killed in a street fight by Col. B.G. Allston (my mothers first cousin) in the town then standing of Coosawhatchee, they had a difficulty and Beck knocked Allston down, they met again at Coosawhatchee, one going down, the other coming up the street, each with the left arm to the other, when opposite Beck exclaimed, turn you damned scoundrel and defend yourself (I should in justice to Beck say Allston had spit at him "saying all the waters of the Savannah can't wash that out"), both wheeled, leveled their pistols, Beck's snapped, Allston's fired, hitting Beck in the forehead with three buckshot, he staggered forward, and fell the brains oozing from the wounds. Allston advanced a few paces, looked upon the wreck he had done, and exclaiming "I would give worlds to recall that shot, turning upon his heels, and drove from the town. That night, the poor old mother came, and as she looked upon the prostrate, yet still withering form of her best beloved, and handsome son, held down in his agony by four of his friends, exclaimed "Col. Allston I forgive you, may God do the same". Roman matron, burst from the men with their sobs, a soliloquy by which she ever afterwards went. He is buried in the Huguenin graveyard, his tombstone still standing, aged 21 years and three months.

James H. married Miss. Gillison, and moved to Florida where I suppose his family still live.

Anne married Rogers of Savannah, and is buried in the Huguenin Graveyard.

Emily married Williams of Savannah, and still lives I believe.

Mrs. Anne Beck my grand Aunt was a noble old lady, did her duty in this world, and I suppose has long ere this, reaped the reward prepared for those, who act well their part. Would to God there were more like her.

John Huguenin was two years younger than my grandfather, he married Eliza Valard, a very beautiful woman, and after living in South Carolina awhile moved to the neighborhood of Savannah, Ga. where he

was taken with pneumonia, and from bad treatment. it ran into consumption, after visiting Cuba and other places, for his health, he returned home to die, leaving three Children, Edward, Eugenia and Melvenia. Eugenia married Rose a Scotchman of great wealth, who failed a few years after, they lived very unhappily, separated, and she died very young.

Melvenia married Thomas (Edward) of Liberty County, Ga. Thomas died years ago, leaving a large family, she was living in Savannah, Ga., when I was there last 1864.

Edward married Miss. Baker of, or near Savannah and had one daughter Rosa, who married Delaney of Athens, Ga., he was killed at Gettysburg, Colonel of the Ga. Regt. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss. Fort of Macon, Ga., Daughter of Dr. Fort a member of Congress from Georgia, and died during the war leaving a large property valued at a million dollars, and three children, one son Edward, and two daughters.

Abraham Huguenin my grandfather "aye" he was the noblest Roman of them all, was born on the Ogeechee river in Georgia, in August 1778, (see family bible) and in his infancy was brought to Carolina and settled with his family upon that soil, where he lived and died, and where he spent nearly three fourths of a century; af ter the death of his father which was followed not long afterwards, by the death of his mother, and the property divided which was left by the carelessness, and indifference of his father, he found himself at the age of eighteen, at the head of his father's family with the property much reduced, and the indigo culture so little renunciation that fifteen thousand per hand, gross, was the profit. Determined to do something for his family (all the-schooling of his life, was but eighteen months) he proposed to his brother that they leave the plantation to support his half brother's orphan children, and that he and John should go upon the Savannah River, each selecting two of their young Negroes and bind themselves to a machinist, what was there making rice threshing water powered machinery. They went, and bound themselves for two or three years, after the end of the first month John in a fit of passion, threw down the jack-plane which he held in his hand, with the exclamation "what would my father say to see his son with a jack-plane in his hand" and returned to the plantation. My grandfather fulfilled his contract and there began that wonderful formation of character, which was to show itself so prominently through life. On his return, he was warmly welcomed by his fathers friends, who gave him business. Prominent amongst these was General John McPherson, who hired him and several of his carpenters, and upon his completion of the task said we are proud of our young men like you." When about twenty two, he married my grandmother Anne Maria Gillison daughter of Derry Gillison, and his wife Rebecca Beathson.

Derry Gillison came to Coosawhatchee from Massachusetts, with a number of Negro shoe makers, and established a tannery, and converted the leather into shoes, which he sold to the planters. He amassed a large fortune, which he invested in Negroes and land, my grandmother was a great beauty, an only daughter and very much spoilt, besides which she was quite heiress. Derry Gillison and his wife are buried in the graveyard at Coosawhatchee, and around the graveyard there was an earthwork fort during the last war. In 1806 my father was born the first grandchild, about this time my grandfather was elected Captain of the Euhaw Light Infantry, which he commanded in the War of 1812 - 14 with Great Britain, and he tried to get a fight with the British at Beaufort, Haddrell's Point and at Hilton Head, was

at Hilton Head, when the British sloop of War, Moselle went to pieces, returning after the war, he became engaged in a difficulty with Judge Huger, and they had reached the dueling ground when the anticipated duel was prevented by the kindness and entreaty of Col. Postell an old man, grandfather of Mrs. J.L. Pilgrim. He engaged assiduously in planting cotton, and soon getting a large ascension to his property, began to be very prosperous and successful, at the same time he was very generous and charitable, I will mention two instances. At the sale of the property of Hr. James Strobhart (a friend of my family) he asked grandfather to let his coachman, certainly and do not send Jessie back to me", that was all the title he ever afterward had to Jessie. The other I heard the party Mr. Goettee tell myself, he said he came to grandfather's house Roseland and said to him, " Sir, I am in great distress the sheriff is about to sell my house, and even my wife and children, for a debt of $500.00'" " is that all Goettee " with that remark he went to his desk and took out a draft for $500.00 on his factor, " there go and pay the debt, and relieve your family." " But Captain let me give you my note," Damn your note Sir, pay me if you are able if not it makes no matter " I paid him said Goettee, but never forgot the kindness. He was a member of the Legislature, and of the Nullification convention of 1832. He continued to live on his ancestral acres, though early in his life he moved from his father's home, and built Roseland about a mile off, which he continued to improve to the day of his death, in his sixty eighth year he was taken with cancer of the stomach, and after consulting the best physicians, the good old man returned to his home to die, he lingered in great agony until the 11th of April 1846, when with his wife and children around him, after having the Bible, read to him, and "Jesus thou art the sinner's friend " sung, he asked my father to open the windows that he might look once more, on his old home, after a long look he said "close the shutters, I am one with earthly things all is vanity" then asking my father his first and best beloved child, to take care of all, he said "I see something coming up from my feet, something dark, I am getting very, very cold, pull up the covering" he then deliberately laid his feet together, stretching himself at full length, on the bed and folded his arms upon his breast, just then, Dr. Strobhart exclaimed "Great God, see how the old Roman can die, and burst into tears in which a number of his friends joined. The old man having settled his head comfortably in the pillows, lying as if laid out, turned one last lingering, and longing look on my father, (his constant companion for years) then as if animated, with the spirit of a soldier, he raised his voice, with his eye still fixed on my father, and in a tone of command, uttered his last words on earth, "lower that pillow Sir" my father, gently drew away the middle pillow, the proud head fell back, and the gallant and fearless spirit that had animated old Captain Abram Huguenin, had fled forever. Thus passed away a man that any family might have boasted to be descended from, the pure, the true, the brave, the generous, the hospitable, the Christian Carolinian, when shall we look upon his like again? He had one daughter, who married Wm. F. Colcock and died a few months after marriage without issue named Sarah Rebecca, a beautiful woman, father and daughter sleep their last sleep in the Huguenin graveyard. My grandfather was a perfect giant in strength, and it is said that no man ever stood up under his blows. He died universally lamented, and his funeral was the largest I ever saw in the county, persons coming from twenty miles distant to do honor to the last of a well spent life. He left three children, my father Julius G. Huguenin, Cornelius M. and Emmeline L. who married Wm. F. Colcock after the death of his first wife Sarah, and died in 1858 of yellow fever on Sullivans Island leaving Emmeline S. my favorite cousin, who died in 1861. Wm. F. married Miss Henrietta Toomes. Cornelius J. a lawyer, Henry Hay, Frank Pierce, Marian H., Wary A., who married Dr. Dewers and Theodora 0. who married Charles G. Hukon. Wm. F. Colcock is a lawyer by profession son of

Judge Colcock. He was for many years speaker of the House of Representatives (State), member of Congress, and at last Collector of Customs at the Port of Charleston under the administration of Pierce and Buchanan, he is still living a hole hearty old man of seventy two. My Aunt also left an infant daughter Adelaide.

Cornelius was left independent of his father by the will of Thomas Gillison his Uncle, and began life with the fairest prospects. He married early Miss. Adelaide M. Barksdale of Charleston, and returned to his plantation to plant. He spent his life quietly with the usual sports of a country gentleman, drove his fast horses, hunted, shot, and fished and died in his fortieth year, near his Retreat plantation, leaving five children, Thomas A., who graduated with distinction at the State Military Academy, traveled in Europe, was made assistant professor. Entered the Army, 1st S.C. Infantry Regulars, was stationed on Sullivans Island at Fort Wagner, was the last commander of Fort Sumter and at the battle of Averysboro, by the death of Detreville was promoted to Major, he bore through the war a gallant record, since the war he married a Miss Freeman and is living on Mount Pleasant.

Anna who married Wm. Hukon Wigg, my present law partner.

Ella who married Patrick Henry a man from Spartanburg.

Cornelius M. who married Miss. Davis of Charleston, S.C. and is engaged prosperously in business there.

Maria who is unmarried.

Julius G. Huguenin my father was born December 19, 1806 at Roseland, and amid great rejoicing in the family, for he was the first grandchild, and my grandparents had been married six years without children. After going to various schools near home, he was sent to the school of Plattsprings, from there, to the school of the Rev. Mr. Brantley in Augusta, from there, he was sent to Charleston and put in the law office of James L. Pilgrim Esq., where he soon developed his fondness for society, and drove his buggy and horses about town at the age of twenty. He then fell in love with Miss. T.O. Gaillard and the following January 31, 1827, at the age of twenty, he married her, and returned to the county to plant, his father started him on Coles Island, near Broad River, and after a time he exchanged the island for Bees Creek, he soon yen for planting, but after being married a few years five I think, his beautiful wife died, leaving an only child, Julia Theodora who died the year I was born 1838 the brightest child in the country, he had several besides, all of which died young and infant.

In December 1833 my father married my mother Miss Eliza Lousiana Morrall, daughter of George W. Morrall and his wife Phoebe Fripp. G.W. Morrall was a barrister of some reputation in Beaufort County, and at one time State Senator. My mother was quite a beauty, and one of the best and purest women I ever Knew, a most exemplary Christian from her youth up, she died in Feb. of l86l, after a protracted illness of many months from consumption of the bowels, and is buried in the family graveyard at Roseland. She died as she had lived a quiet, devout Christian. My father owning two enormous plantations, and two hundred and forty Negroes, lived in much style and luxury, he never was a candidate but once for office, and the he ran at the head of the ticket-viz. the convention (succession) of 1852, after that he retired to private life, the enjoyment of his property, and the education of his

children. He was a great sportsman and killed as many as seven deer a day, firing a single barrel at each deer, and has killed twenty five snipe in twenty six shots, flying over him, he kept a fine pack of hounds, and a brace of pointers. At the breaking out of the war, finding, his place overrun with soldiers, and being constantly annoyed by their pilfering, I induced him to move to the upcountry to a place near Hopkins, S.C. loaned to us by Captain Adams, but he still continued to fret after his old home, where he was born, and over the soil of which he had passed over half a century, his health declined, and on the 16th of August 1862, he died at Hopkins, S.C. in the fifty eighth year of his age, attended by my brother and myself who reached him a few days before he died. We carried his body to Roseland, and his funeral was preached by his friend Rev. Arthur Wiggfall. He is buried alongside of my mother. He left two sons Abram and Julius G. Huguenin, and a daughter Mary Caroline, who was born in June 1846, she went to various governesses until the breaking out of the war. When she was sent to St. Mary's at Raleigh N.C. at the close of the war she married Joel R. Adams son of James W. Adams (his first cousin) son and daughter of James Adams and his wife Sylvia Goodwyn, and Joel Adams and his wife Mary Hopkins and great-grandson of Joel Adans and his wife Grace Weston, she has now five children Gordon W., Julius B., Sally H., Mary H., and James W.

Julius G. Huguenin was born on the 2lst of March 1840 at Point Comfort near Roseland, and was remarkable from his childhood, for his beauty, we (two brothers) went to school at Mrs. Richardson's, then two years to our Uncle Ed Morrall as private tutor, and two years to Ed Thomas. We were then sent to Charleston, to Mr. Rivers (afterwards professor in S.C. College) where we studied three more, in May 1853 we went to Bluffton and in Jan. 1854 to Beaufort. I to receive private instruction from T.J. Wells, Julius to go to Beaufort College, from there in l855 he stayed at hone, and went to Mr. Smith at Grahamville, then to Mr. Thomas at the same place, in the winter of 1856 he went to the University of Va. and in the fall of 1858 entered the Medical College at Charleston as a student of medicine, in the spring of 1860 he graduated, and on the 10th of May married Miss. Mary H. Adams, daughter of James W. and Sally H. Adams, at the residence of her father near Columbia, to whom he had been engaged some months, a charming woman, who has made him an excellent wife, he returned home to pursue his profession, and on the 2lst of May 1861 near Columbia his first and only child was born Julius G.

At the breaking out of the war he moved his family to Columbia, and in the winter of 1861 became an extra aide to Gen. Robert E, Lee, from hence, he transferred himself to the staff of Major General Pemberton. He was then in 1862 appointed 1st Lieutenant, Company A. 1st Battery South Carolina, Sharpshooters, and assigned to duty as Adjutant. He with the Battery was encamped at Grahamville, Moultrie, Coosawhatchee, Pocotaligo, James Island; Georgetown (Battery White) in the fall of 1863 the Battery was amalgamated with the Charleston Battery making the 2nd South Carolina Regt. he served sometime at Fort Sumter, (then under Lt. Col. Stephen Elliott) and in the spring of 1864 was ordered to Va. participated in the Battle of Cold Harbor, and others, and at Petersburg in command of his company, captured more Yankees than he had men in his company, reached the breastworks, and was shot in the groin and side, was recommended for promotion by General Hagood for gallant conduct, and would have been Lt. Col. of the Regt., at the last reorganization, had the war lasted two months longer. After being shot, he was carried to the hospital where he was taken with pleurisy, recovering, he was sent home and in October 1864 returned to duty, in February 1865 was sent to Fort Fisher where after that

place fell, he with his Regt. were captured, confined for awhile in the Old Capital prison, then sent to Fort Deleware, from there after the fall of "The banner of the bars" he was sent home where he reached July 4th, 1865. He settled in Richland County, and commenced to practice medicine, and plant, lost a good deal of money in 1867 but on the whole has been very fortunate, and having complete control of certain people, there is no doubt if his health last, that he will be a man of wealth. He has vast energy, and good judgment, for history smiles on him in all things, and being always, or almost always fortunate, he knows not the pain of hope deferred.

Abram Huguenin the fourth of that name of the Southern branch of Huguenins was born in Beaufort town October 4, 1838 (the oldest son of the eldest son, of the eldest son leaving male representatives, of the eldest son, David Huguenin of the two émigrés), six weeks after he was born, he was brought home and his mothers milk disagreeing with him, his life was saved under Providence, by his namesake and grandfather, who procured him a foster nurse (oh mistaken kindness dear old man, how much better would it have been to have let me bring my way to that land of joy, to which alas, I may never now enter, but you could not then know the fiery trials, the heart burning, the sorrows and disappointment, which awaited your unfortunate grandson, how much of anguish our selfish love of, offspring entails on others, brought in this world without our knowledge, or consent, buffeted by fortune, torn by sorrows in life, we are taken away, when we least like to go.)

My childhood was much the same as that of other boys, except that from my earliest recollection I was seized with a violent desire to be loved, which I only found in the heart of my mother. My father's feelings were I fear, more of pride than love, at least such love as I wanted, I was studious, fond of the society of older men, proud, kind-hearted, generous, full of life, and mischievous at the same time, but I can say, my mischief never degenerated into cruelty, I loved my brother and yet I would tease him until we fought, which ended in my getting four times the whipping that he would receive. Still I can recollect when not ten years old, my grief, when he fell from a log striking his side (which nearly occasioned his death) and my lonely prayers to God to spare him, and when he had the scarlet fever, and I was ordered from the room, how I would sneak back and lie by him, to cheer his spirit in truth, only four people ever understood me, my mother, a cousin now with the blest, my first wife, and my last, who only understood me when the portals of a better world were being opened to her view "to late". In my boyhood I came near being drowned, the bank of Bees Creek giving way with me, I was saved, when I rose for the third and last time by my father, at another time, I was saved by my grandfather who seized me by my collar and leaped with me from his sulky, which his horse immediately smashed to pieces, after various falls from horses, and other scrapes, with numerous fisticuffs in which, sugar of lead, to my black and blue eyes, and raw beef steaks to my lips played no insignificant part. I entered South Carolina College as a freshman, at sixteen years of age, and before I was there three months had two fights, after which I was left alone, in my sophomore year, I was accidentally shot in my right eye, by the rebound of the ball from a parlor pistol in the hands of Whitmarsh B. Murray who showed so little feeling about it, that upon my return to College, I sought every way of getting a fight out of him, but without avail. Here to date my first great grief, after staying in College in great pain a week, I went home, stayed there awhile, and then went to Charleston, and stayed with my Aunt Mrs. Colcock, a month, under treatment from Dr. Bellinger and Dr. Geddings, who, finding my eye did not improve, gave me no hopes of ever

seeing out of it again. I returned to College, rooming with Marion K. Alston from Fairfield, who was killed at Gettysburg. (a man who loved me with the love of no man) After many a bright and happy hour in those walls I graduated in 1858 (I had been engaged to my cousin Miss Emmeline S. Colcock since my seventeenth year, and although the engagement was broken off by mutual consent, we still entertained the same sentiments for each other) I went home and asked my father's consent to my marriage with my cousin, this without positively refusing, he arguing upon the prospect of deformed children, and by keeping me away from her, and throwing me, amid dissipation for the time, kept my thoughts from my gentle cousin. He got me appointed contrary to my wish, aide de camp to Gov. Gist, gave me a splendid outfit, and sent me to Charleston to the races, balls, and reviews followed in fast succession, and at last I returned home to study law with Mr. Fickling, after one year, finding I did not progress as fast as I ought, I went to Charleston to study law in the office of Gen. James Guivous in company with his son James, my college friend, and John S. Preston Jr. after a most delightful year. I went to Columbia in November and was admitted to the bar, being one of three of a class of twenty six, completing the examination. Behold me now at 22 full of life, health, and joy, heir to wealth, well educated, and of good taste, and say if I had not reason to think that the world was paradise for me. In December I was appointed on the staff of Gov. Pickens, and the State seceded from the general government. I in January went to Charleston, and being taken unwell returned home, where not long afterwards, I had to mourn the loss of my mother. In June of that year 1861 I became engaged to Miss. Mary A. Adams and in the fall went to Va. And associated myself with the Palmeth guard, Kershaws Regt. and at Flint Hill taking up a paper saw the death of my first love (my cousin). I returned with the winter the Yankees then intending to attack the coast of South Carolina. I joined the Beaufort Dist. troops, was detached to have timber cut, to block the Coosawhatchee River, was appointed extra aide to General Donaldson of Tenn., was sent by him to Richmond with letters to-procure a commission, but Congress adjourned, previous to my arrival. Returned home, and joined the Charleston Light Dragoons, and in the fall of 1862 was detached by Col. Colcock, 4th S.C. Cav. as secretary, in the spring I got leave of absence and arrived here, to see my intended wife, Miss. M.A. Adams dying of consumption, and a few days after my return to camp, heard of her death. The second time that fortune had sported with me, for with her I anticipated much happiness. In April 1863 I was appointed Quartermaster, 1st Batt. S.C. Sharpshooters with the rank and pay of Captain of Cavalry and was encamped with the Batt. at Coosawhatchee, Pocotaligo, James Island, Georgetown, and at James Island again, where, when the two Batt. were formed in 27th S.C. Vol. I being the younger Quartermaster, was sent to the post at Green Pond, where I stayed under Gen. Robertson nine months as Post quartermaster and Commandant of the Post. stayed until 1875. (Sept). I planted in 1869, but the caterpillars coming upon me again, I sold out, all but the entacted property, and moved to the up-country and rented "Reeves" from Mrs. Davis, failed the first year, the lands being in bad order, but the second year had great success, and bought this place from the estate of Mr. David Adams, planted the first year with tolerable success, the next year having to submit in the spring to an operation, which kept me on my back until the last of June, my crop was eaten up with grass, by which I was thrown in debt, from which I am only now 1876 emerging, added to which, I had to build a house to which has kept me in a hard struggle.

In the spring of 1877 having gone back to my profession in 1873, I became engaged to Miss. Julia A. Mauson, a lady whom I knew years before and we were married on the 2nd day of June 1874 at

Summerville near Augusta, Georgia. We left Augusta that evening for my home and for a year and a half were as happy as two people could be, except when I was annoyed by the continuous and continued visits of her relatives, a mother and a worthless brother. Whom I bore with, in order to give her pleasure and make her contented. Expecting her confinement she went to Charleston, where on the 20th I had only left her the night before, she was seized with convulsions and on the 2lst of March 1876 gave birth to a still born male child, she lingered until the 7th of April when she died, I bought a lot in Magnolia Cemetery and on the ninth of April buried her there, it being impracticable to carry the body to Roseland. I that night returned home, where her family accompanied by a certain actress Miss. Roman came in a few days to gather the spoils, at last after most contemptible behavior, thank God they left me to my grief, and my child, since then I have been dragging out my existence here, lonely and alone, with my little son now L877 ten years old what fate may have in store for me, I know not, but it certainly cannot be much worse , than the past, for I can almost say "I have buried one; and all, and here unloved and alone, I for the present, may be forever, with these lines close.

"The darkest hour of the night is just before the morning"! A new day appears to have opened to Carolina "Prostrate State" and to me. June 1st, 1877 I was appointed Trial Justice by Gov. Hampton, when I dissolved my partnership with U. H. Wigg, and opened an office on my place, and in July visited Charleston to see my cousin Leonora C. Guerard, with whom I had been corresponding for nearly a year, and became engaged to her, visited her again in October, and on the evening of 15 November 1877, we were married at No. 26 Bull St. by the Rev. Wm. H. Campbell, and left town that night on the night line, and arrived home at 6 A.M. next morning. Nora is the great-great-great-grandaughter of David Huguenin the son of the émigré, whose grandson Wm. J. Huguenin, I mentioned as being buried at Roseland, and whose daughter Leonora C. Huguenin intermarried with Alex D. Gaillard, and whose daughter Theodora C. intermarried with Edward P. Guerard, so by marriage with her the two branches of my family are united, and she has her grandmother's maiden name.

Sometime near the close of the last century, my grandfather's sister lay dying at the Huguenin home in Beaufort District, of what was then called dilious fever but without doubt what is now known as typhoid fever, he had been so wanting in his attention and devotion that one evening when he looked particularly weary his mother said to him, my son go and lie down, and if your sister gets worse I will call you, it was one of those beautiful moonlight evenings of the early fall. Going to his room the young man threw himself on his bed, in his clothes, and was soon fast asleep. How long he slept he never knew, but suddenly there fell upon his ears the sweetest strains of music that mortal ever heard, the music grew louder and louder, and then coming up the avenue-(which passes by the graveyard) he perceived a beautiful chariot, drawn by snow white horses and filled with musicians, all dressed in pure white, following, the music came chariot after chariot each containing four lovely young girls about his sisters age, except the last which contained but three, they came to the gate, and all paused by the gate leading to the garden, before stopping except the last which stopped immediately at the gate, when one of the young girls or angels called Eliza! Eliza! to which his sister replied " wait a little I will soon be with you ", In a short time his sister came out dressed like the others, took her place in the last chariot, the music commenced again, the procession started up the avenue that last chariot now first, and the music behind, at the end of the avenue, they went heavenward, and as the last chariot disappeared, as the last

stains of the enchanting music fell upon his ear, he felt a hand upon his shoulder, he opened his eyes, and by him stood his mother, " get up my son, your sister's dead." He lived to near his allotted time, to near the threescore and few, but the impression of that dream never was effected, and he often said that no earthly power could make him change his belief as to the glorious, and blissful, and eternal destiny of that sister. They have met again at last.

Appendix A

Letter from E. D. Huguenin of New York to William J. Colcock, cousin of Abram Huguenin.

New York, Dec. 15th, 1812

W.J. Colcock Jr.

Dear Sir: The reason I have not answered your letter long ago, is not because I am not interested, in my family history, but because I am always so very busy, and not much given to letter writing. It would be impossible at this time to give you anything like a history of the Huguenin family. At one time I took some pains to inform myself of my family history, pedigree too, but of late years I have not given the subject much attention. The family North and South is "one and the same", but French, not German or Swiss. My grandfather Abraham Huguenin is the brother you speak of, on what year he left Charleston I don't know of course, but that he once lived there is a well known fact here. He came North about the time of the attack on Charleston by the English, and settled at Kinderhook, Columbia County, N.Y. He there married Antonette Von Volkenburg an only child of a Knickerbocker gentleman of great wealth and estate, I don't know how many children he had but my Grandfather Lambert was the second oldest son. The Hon. Daniel S. Dickenson's mother was one of the daughters. My Grandfather married Miss Katherine Quackenbose. She had an only brother who married my Grandfathers twin sister Antoinette, they were also Knickerbockers, and lived in Tyron County, now called Montgomery (through them I am hair to the Trinity Church property). My father was the second oldest son also named Lambert, he married my mother in the same county, I am again the second son named Edgar Daniel 32 years old, married and have one child. You say there were two brothers, I always supposed there were three, and two remained in South Carolina, but I may be mistaken on that point. The family was originally French, but emigrated to L'ougle, Switzerland on account of religious persecutions in France, they being Protestants. Some of them afterwards returned to France, and I am almost sure our Forefathers came directly from there, about the time of if not with General La Fayette. French history shows that a man of the name of Huguenin took a prominent part in the overthrow of Louis the sixteenth, there are two gentlemen in New York of that name besides myself, they are from L'ougle Switzerland, and are of that branch of the family, I know them very slightly as they are decidedly foreign. They say the family is the same, and that there is but one. My father, and all his brothers and sisters are dead, and the name is almost extinct in this State. There are in the West several descendants of Daniel Huguenin (my Grandfathers brother) a graduate of West Point, who won distinction and lost a limb under General Scott in the Canadian wars, I am named after him. He visited his relations in the South, and some of your people must surely remember him. At that time he lived at Oswego, N.Y. My great Grandfather and his wife both died at my Grandfather's house in Montgomery County, consequently his papers too

remained in my immediate family, I also was born in the sane house, and would be delighted to show you it should you ever come North. It is a miserable ruin now, having been sold many years ago by my Uncle. Abraham who was afterwards killed by his horses running away with him. My great Grandfather claimed that he left land in South Carolina, that would some day be worth considerable. He made a will in favor of his oldest son James which was witnesseh by gentlemen living in South Carolina, and these names occur, Abraham Huguenin, Abram Provost, John Myers, and William Fayette, all of the lower of Georgia, and South Carolina. The names Abram and Abraham both occur in the will, the last named Abraham refers to my great grandfather, and Abram to some one in South Carolina. Possibly your grandfather, who was probably his Abraham's brothers son, certainly not his brother if the name is correct as there could not have been two brothers with names so similar as Abraham and Abram, if I knew the brothers name in South Carolina I could arrange it at once. I know that about 40 years ago a lawyer was sent South about this will that a meeting was held at my grandfather's house, names and dates collected, a Power of Attorney given by the only surviving daughter of James Huguenin (the legal heir whose name was Montigue), money was furnished, and the man sent South. Nothing came of it except that Mrs. Montigue lost her Power of Attorney, and the others their money, I believe the lawyer said he could not find any of the name. I could tell you much more concerning this but it is of no account, It does seem strange that after the lapse of so many years, the correspondence should have been opened, and too hope it may lead to a reunion of the two families. I am quite alone here as far as my fathers family is concerned. They all having died young, I have two brothers in the West whom I have not seen for years, I had another brother who was killed in the war, I could have written to some of you long ago as I have a paper in my possession taken from your grandfather's house by my brother during the war, He was an officer in the 144th N.Y. Volunteers, when stationed at Folly Island they made a raid up the Pocotaligo River of course they destroyed all that came in their way, and while in your Grandfather's house learned by the papers he found there that it belonged to a person whose name was the same as his own, and whose family was the same as that of which he was a branch; I hope you will do him justice in believing that he did all in his power to prevent the destruction of the property. The papers are valuable only as curiosities, one in particular dated 1819 is a bill of sale of a Negro wench named Jenny. The bill is made by Abraham Huguenin to Henry Richardson, and witnessed by Thomas Cochran of Charleston, The other is a letter from one of the sons who I should judge was in the Confederate army, to some one at home. I was in the war four years which ruined my health. I had also four brothers in the war. I have given you as near as I can my pedigree. If you have any questions to ask, I will be pleased to answer them if I can and hope you will favor me with your family tree, root and branch.

Yours very truly

E.D. Huguenin

78 Franklin St. N.Y.