The following information was provided by Anna:
Died on the 23rd ult. [December 23, 1912] at the home of her nephew, Elias Earle in Oconee County, Miss Frances Harriet Earle.
She was laid to rest on Christmas eve in the family burial ground at the old Beaverdam plantation, where sleep three generations of her ancestors.
The eldest of seven children, she survived them all and passed away in her 79th year.
Her father, the late Mr Elias Earle, removed from his plantation to the then primitive town of Anderson when the deceased was but five years of age, and her long life was practically identified with that progressive city.
Called upon while yet in her teens to assume the head of her father's household, she filled the position with great dignity and stood for all that was highest and best in her State and community. She was carefully and brilliantly educated and was possessed of extraordinary talents, strength and intellect and force of character.
Her acquaintance with literature, powers of conversation and retentive memory were excelled only by a Macaulay, while her literary style was modeled upon the purity and simplicity of Addison.
She was a skillful musician and a scientific botanist. With the aid and under the supervision of the late Dr Lewis R Gibbes of the College of Charleston, she made a collection of the Flora of Upper Carolina. The flowers were exquisitely arranged in several volumes, which it was her intention to bequeath to Furman University, but unfortunately they, together with an invaluable scrapbook, prepared during the war, were destroyed by fire. Such a loss is irreplaceable.
Miss Earle was intensely patriotic. Descended from pioneers who were conspicuous in shaping the history of the State, she felt a deep and personal interest in all that pertained to its welfare. Her efforts in behalf of the soldiers during the war were notable. it was largely through his daughter's influence that her father invested a hundred thousand dollars in Confederate bonds, greatly to the disgust of his financial advisers.
A blow from which she never recovered was the death of her brother, Wilton R Earle. He was killed at eight o'clock in the morning by the first shot fired from the famous "Long Tom" at first Manassas. A younger brother, Preston, entered the service at sixteen, was severely wounded, but fought to the end.
In early life Miss Earle connected herself with a Baptist Church. As she never did anything by halves, she threw herself, with all the energy and enthusiasm of her nature, in to everything that pertained to the advancement of this denomination. Her intellect, her weath and social prestige made her a potential factor in the wonderful progress of this denomination in the up-country.
Of the divine admonition to consider the past, she was ever mindful, and, among those who received her benefactions, there are many to rise up and call her blessed.
Jan 5, 1913 The State
Died on the 23rd ult. [December 23, 1912] at the home of her nephew, Elias Earle in Oconee County, Miss Frances Harriet Earle.
She was laid to rest on Christmas eve in the family burial ground at the old Beaverdam plantation, where sleep three generations of her ancestors.
The eldest of seven children, she survived them all and passed away in her 79th year.
Her father, the late Mr Elias Earle, removed from his plantation to the then primitive town of Anderson when the deceased was but five years of age, and her long life was practically identified with that progressive city.
Called upon while yet in her teens to assume the head of her father's household, she filled the position with great dignity and stood for all that was highest and best in her State and community. She was carefully and brilliantly educated and was possessed of extraordinary talents, strength and intellect and force of character.
Her acquaintance with literature, powers of conversation and retentive memory were excelled only by a Macaulay, while her literary style was modeled upon the purity and simplicity of Addison.
She was a skillful musician and a scientific botanist. With the aid and under the supervision of the late Dr Lewis R Gibbes of the College of Charleston, she made a collection of the Flora of Upper Carolina. The flowers were exquisitely arranged in several volumes, which it was her intention to bequeath to Furman University, but unfortunately they, together with an invaluable scrapbook, prepared during the war, were destroyed by fire. Such a loss is irreplaceable.
Miss Earle was intensely patriotic. Descended from pioneers who were conspicuous in shaping the history of the State, she felt a deep and personal interest in all that pertained to its welfare. Her efforts in behalf of the soldiers during the war were notable. it was largely through his daughter's influence that her father invested a hundred thousand dollars in Confederate bonds, greatly to the disgust of his financial advisers.
A blow from which she never recovered was the death of her brother, Wilton R Earle. He was killed at eight o'clock in the morning by the first shot fired from the famous "Long Tom" at first Manassas. A younger brother, Preston, entered the service at sixteen, was severely wounded, but fought to the end.
In early life Miss Earle connected herself with a Baptist Church. As she never did anything by halves, she threw herself, with all the energy and enthusiasm of her nature, in to everything that pertained to the advancement of this denomination. Her intellect, her weath and social prestige made her a potential factor in the wonderful progress of this denomination in the up-country.
Of the divine admonition to consider the past, she was ever mindful, and, among those who received her benefactions, there are many to rise up and call her blessed.
Jan 5, 1913 The State
The following information was provided by Anna:
Died on the 23rd ult. [December 23, 1912] at the home of her nephew, Elias Earle in Oconee County, Miss Frances Harriet Earle.
She was laid to rest on Christmas eve in the family burial ground at the old Beaverdam plantation, where sleep three generations of her ancestors.
The eldest of seven children, she survived them all and passed away in her 79th year.
Her father, the late Mr Elias Earle, removed from his plantation to the then primitive town of Anderson when the deceased was but five years of age, and her long life was practically identified with that progressive city.
Called upon while yet in her teens to assume the head of her father's household, she filled the position with great dignity and stood for all that was highest and best in her State and community. She was carefully and brilliantly educated and was possessed of extraordinary talents, strength and intellect and force of character.
Her acquaintance with literature, powers of conversation and retentive memory were excelled only by a Macaulay, while her literary style was modeled upon the purity and simplicity of Addison.
She was a skillful musician and a scientific botanist. With the aid and under the supervision of the late Dr Lewis R Gibbes of the College of Charleston, she made a collection of the Flora of Upper Carolina. The flowers were exquisitely arranged in several volumes, which it was her intention to bequeath to Furman University, but unfortunately they, together with an invaluable scrapbook, prepared during the war, were destroyed by fire. Such a loss is irreplaceable.
Miss Earle was intensely patriotic. Descended from pioneers who were conspicuous in shaping the history of the State, she felt a deep and personal interest in all that pertained to its welfare. Her efforts in behalf of the soldiers during the war were notable. it was largely through his daughter's influence that her father invested a hundred thousand dollars in Confederate bonds, greatly to the disgust of his financial advisers.
A blow from which she never recovered was the death of her brother, Wilton R Earle. He was killed at eight o'clock in the morning by the first shot fired from the famous "Long Tom" at first Manassas. A younger brother, Preston, entered the service at sixteen, was severely wounded, but fought to the end.
In early life Miss Earle connected herself with a Baptist Church. As she never did anything by halves, she threw herself, with all the energy and enthusiasm of her nature, in to everything that pertained to the advancement of this denomination. Her intellect, her weath and social prestige made her a potential factor in the wonderful progress of this denomination in the up-country.
Of the divine admonition to consider the past, she was ever mindful, and, among those who received her benefactions, there are many to rise up and call her blessed.
Jan 5, 1913 The State
Died on the 23rd ult. [December 23, 1912] at the home of her nephew, Elias Earle in Oconee County, Miss Frances Harriet Earle.
She was laid to rest on Christmas eve in the family burial ground at the old Beaverdam plantation, where sleep three generations of her ancestors.
The eldest of seven children, she survived them all and passed away in her 79th year.
Her father, the late Mr Elias Earle, removed from his plantation to the then primitive town of Anderson when the deceased was but five years of age, and her long life was practically identified with that progressive city.
Called upon while yet in her teens to assume the head of her father's household, she filled the position with great dignity and stood for all that was highest and best in her State and community. She was carefully and brilliantly educated and was possessed of extraordinary talents, strength and intellect and force of character.
Her acquaintance with literature, powers of conversation and retentive memory were excelled only by a Macaulay, while her literary style was modeled upon the purity and simplicity of Addison.
She was a skillful musician and a scientific botanist. With the aid and under the supervision of the late Dr Lewis R Gibbes of the College of Charleston, she made a collection of the Flora of Upper Carolina. The flowers were exquisitely arranged in several volumes, which it was her intention to bequeath to Furman University, but unfortunately they, together with an invaluable scrapbook, prepared during the war, were destroyed by fire. Such a loss is irreplaceable.
Miss Earle was intensely patriotic. Descended from pioneers who were conspicuous in shaping the history of the State, she felt a deep and personal interest in all that pertained to its welfare. Her efforts in behalf of the soldiers during the war were notable. it was largely through his daughter's influence that her father invested a hundred thousand dollars in Confederate bonds, greatly to the disgust of his financial advisers.
A blow from which she never recovered was the death of her brother, Wilton R Earle. He was killed at eight o'clock in the morning by the first shot fired from the famous "Long Tom" at first Manassas. A younger brother, Preston, entered the service at sixteen, was severely wounded, but fought to the end.
In early life Miss Earle connected herself with a Baptist Church. As she never did anything by halves, she threw herself, with all the energy and enthusiasm of her nature, in to everything that pertained to the advancement of this denomination. Her intellect, her weath and social prestige made her a potential factor in the wonderful progress of this denomination in the up-country.
Of the divine admonition to consider the past, she was ever mindful, and, among those who received her benefactions, there are many to rise up and call her blessed.
Jan 5, 1913 The State
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