Memoir of family by Kate Kennedy Hinton:
Grandmother Evans was a Bates, they were of Welsh descent. The Bates, McCarter, and Evans families first settled in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. Afterwards the Bates and McCarter's moved to Abbeville district S.C. Catherine Bates married John McCarter. Her daughter Catherine married Richard Evans, whose family was English. They lived about three miles south of Chesterville, S.C. They raised a large family of honorable, high-toned children, with more than the average intelligence. Grandfather Evans was a large handsome man highly cultivated and very fond of books. He died of heart disease while sitting in his chair. He was a Revolutionary war soldier. Grandfather and grandmother lived very peacefully with their children on the farm until the war broke out, when grandfather had to leave wife and children, take down his shotgun and fight for his country under the noble and brave Sumter. He fought in the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, Hanging Rock, Ninety- Six, Eutaw Springs and other battles in this part of the country. Grandma had to make a living for her children, the oldest about ten years of age. Grandpa said the most delicious morsel he ever ate was some cold mush when in the war, having had nothing to eat for so long. Grandma suffered very much from the Tories, at one time they came and took all her beds, and destroyed and turned their horses into the grain she had hauled up. She said she did not know what she would have done if it had not been for the kindness of a British officer who gave her a ring which she prized very much. They were surrounded by Tories, some being their nearest neighbors. Once when the children had smallpox, the Tories came at night, masked. They put out the light, stripped the clothes off the bed, and left the children with no covering in winter. Grandmother took up the stones in the hearth and hid her knives and spoons. She had hid a jug of honey by burying it in the earth. The Tories tried to find it, but they could not, so they told John, her little boy, if he would tell them where it was they would give him a gun. So - boy like - he told them, but he never got the gun. After the war in their comfortable home, at night, all seated round their huge fireplace, the girls would card the cotton into rolls to spin next day. The boys would roast apples and potatoes and drink cider, while one would read some good book. Katie and Anna had benches inside the fireplace, which was whitewashed. They could look up at the stars from their warm seat. The boys made Katie a bench to walk on, so she could spin on the big wheel. The old folks had a small plastered room for themselves, which was something in advance of the times, where they sat and read. Katie and Anna each owned a colt. They would run off to the pasture and make bridles of pea vines for the colts, and stand on their backs and gallop around the field. Katie was a grand rider when she was over seventy years of age. Grandma had a brick oven, on Saturday they baked bread for the week. They filled the oven with apples, potatoes, and bread. They had coffee when the preacher came to see them. They drank milk other times. They had plenty of milk and made their own butter and cheese. There was a shelf overhead in the kitchen where they laid the cheese to dry. Saturday was spent rubbing up their pewter dishes, which they kept as bright as silver. They traded in Charleston, and rolled their tobacco in hogsheads a distance of over 200 miles. The Evans sisters were a very handsome set. I have heard my father say that Aunt Hannah Curry was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. They were of pure Grecian type, dark eyes and hair, fair complexion, splendid heads, and almost perfect limbs. I think grandma must have been superstitious. When one of her cows got sick she sent for one of her neighbors, who was supposed to understand cow diseases. He would pass the cow through a blue tank and cross his hand with silver, and then the cow was supposed to get well. Great- grandfather McCarter was a very intelligent man. He had a newspaper controversy with John C. Calhoun's father. Katie Evans was sent to her grandmother's (McCarter) in Abbeville district to school. She went to school with Patrick and John C. Calhoun. Dr. Moses Waddel was teaching at the time. A number of his students became state and national leaders. Katie married Major John Kennedy on 20th of January 1807, when she was about 18 years of age. They had nine children and raised them all but one. (George died at 18) All settled in Chester but one. John Kennedy married Martha Potts and moved to Mississippi. My father and mother lived on the hill in Chester for sixty-five years. Father hunted deer on Chester Hill where the town now stands. There were no houses except an old blacksmith shop. The land was owned by a man of influence named Stewart. Being the crossroads it was determined to have the town at that place. It is said that the community met at the Big Spring and had a jug of whiskey, that influenced by Stewart and his guid (good) whiskey, they decided the matter. Father lived to be 97 years of age and mother 83. Grandfather Evans was a good Baptist. I have some of his writings, as good Baptist doctrine as I have ever read. I can recollect my Aunt Polly going to Woodward Church of which she was a member. Sunday morning she would mount old Jenny, a quiet old horse, and buttoned up in her riding skirt until she looked like a sack of meal, and with her big black silk bonnet on, which was so big that she had no need of an umbrella, she would trot along the five miles to church, all alone most of the time. I have a housewife made from a piece of calico of grandma Evans' dress bought a short time after the revolution. She paid 75 cents a yard for it. I also have a chest and table, which was her dining table before the war. Uncle Curry brought from the Warm Springs the first hyacinths that were ever in Chester.
Contributor: lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
Grandmother Evans was a Bates, they were of Welsh descent. The Bates, McCarter, and Evans families first settled in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. Afterwards the Bates and McCarter's moved to Abbeville district S.C. Catherine Bates married John McCarter. Her daughter Catherine married Richard Evans, whose family was English. They lived about three miles south of Chesterville, S.C. They raised a large family of honorable, high-toned children, with more than the average intelligence. Grandfather Evans was a large handsome man highly cultivated and very fond of books. He died of heart disease while sitting in his chair. He was a Revolutionary war soldier. Grandfather and grandmother lived very peacefully with their children on the farm until the war broke out, when grandfather had to leave wife and children, take down his shotgun and fight for his country under the noble and brave Sumter. He fought in the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, Hanging Rock, Ninety- Six, Eutaw Springs and other battles in this part of the country. Grandma had to make a living for her children, the oldest about ten years of age. Grandpa said the most delicious morsel he ever ate was some cold mush when in the war, having had nothing to eat for so long. Grandma suffered very much from the Tories, at one time they came and took all her beds, and destroyed and turned their horses into the grain she had hauled up. She said she did not know what she would have done if it had not been for the kindness of a British officer who gave her a ring which she prized very much. They were surrounded by Tories, some being their nearest neighbors. Once when the children had smallpox, the Tories came at night, masked. They put out the light, stripped the clothes off the bed, and left the children with no covering in winter. Grandmother took up the stones in the hearth and hid her knives and spoons. She had hid a jug of honey by burying it in the earth. The Tories tried to find it, but they could not, so they told John, her little boy, if he would tell them where it was they would give him a gun. So - boy like - he told them, but he never got the gun. After the war in their comfortable home, at night, all seated round their huge fireplace, the girls would card the cotton into rolls to spin next day. The boys would roast apples and potatoes and drink cider, while one would read some good book. Katie and Anna had benches inside the fireplace, which was whitewashed. They could look up at the stars from their warm seat. The boys made Katie a bench to walk on, so she could spin on the big wheel. The old folks had a small plastered room for themselves, which was something in advance of the times, where they sat and read. Katie and Anna each owned a colt. They would run off to the pasture and make bridles of pea vines for the colts, and stand on their backs and gallop around the field. Katie was a grand rider when she was over seventy years of age. Grandma had a brick oven, on Saturday they baked bread for the week. They filled the oven with apples, potatoes, and bread. They had coffee when the preacher came to see them. They drank milk other times. They had plenty of milk and made their own butter and cheese. There was a shelf overhead in the kitchen where they laid the cheese to dry. Saturday was spent rubbing up their pewter dishes, which they kept as bright as silver. They traded in Charleston, and rolled their tobacco in hogsheads a distance of over 200 miles. The Evans sisters were a very handsome set. I have heard my father say that Aunt Hannah Curry was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. They were of pure Grecian type, dark eyes and hair, fair complexion, splendid heads, and almost perfect limbs. I think grandma must have been superstitious. When one of her cows got sick she sent for one of her neighbors, who was supposed to understand cow diseases. He would pass the cow through a blue tank and cross his hand with silver, and then the cow was supposed to get well. Great- grandfather McCarter was a very intelligent man. He had a newspaper controversy with John C. Calhoun's father. Katie Evans was sent to her grandmother's (McCarter) in Abbeville district to school. She went to school with Patrick and John C. Calhoun. Dr. Moses Waddel was teaching at the time. A number of his students became state and national leaders. Katie married Major John Kennedy on 20th of January 1807, when she was about 18 years of age. They had nine children and raised them all but one. (George died at 18) All settled in Chester but one. John Kennedy married Martha Potts and moved to Mississippi. My father and mother lived on the hill in Chester for sixty-five years. Father hunted deer on Chester Hill where the town now stands. There were no houses except an old blacksmith shop. The land was owned by a man of influence named Stewart. Being the crossroads it was determined to have the town at that place. It is said that the community met at the Big Spring and had a jug of whiskey, that influenced by Stewart and his guid (good) whiskey, they decided the matter. Father lived to be 97 years of age and mother 83. Grandfather Evans was a good Baptist. I have some of his writings, as good Baptist doctrine as I have ever read. I can recollect my Aunt Polly going to Woodward Church of which she was a member. Sunday morning she would mount old Jenny, a quiet old horse, and buttoned up in her riding skirt until she looked like a sack of meal, and with her big black silk bonnet on, which was so big that she had no need of an umbrella, she would trot along the five miles to church, all alone most of the time. I have a housewife made from a piece of calico of grandma Evans' dress bought a short time after the revolution. She paid 75 cents a yard for it. I also have a chest and table, which was her dining table before the war. Uncle Curry brought from the Warm Springs the first hyacinths that were ever in Chester.
Contributor: lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
Memoir of family by Kate Kennedy Hinton:
Grandmother Evans was a Bates, they were of Welsh descent. The Bates, McCarter, and Evans families first settled in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. Afterwards the Bates and McCarter's moved to Abbeville district S.C. Catherine Bates married John McCarter. Her daughter Catherine married Richard Evans, whose family was English. They lived about three miles south of Chesterville, S.C. They raised a large family of honorable, high-toned children, with more than the average intelligence. Grandfather Evans was a large handsome man highly cultivated and very fond of books. He died of heart disease while sitting in his chair. He was a Revolutionary war soldier. Grandfather and grandmother lived very peacefully with their children on the farm until the war broke out, when grandfather had to leave wife and children, take down his shotgun and fight for his country under the noble and brave Sumter. He fought in the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, Hanging Rock, Ninety- Six, Eutaw Springs and other battles in this part of the country. Grandma had to make a living for her children, the oldest about ten years of age. Grandpa said the most delicious morsel he ever ate was some cold mush when in the war, having had nothing to eat for so long. Grandma suffered very much from the Tories, at one time they came and took all her beds, and destroyed and turned their horses into the grain she had hauled up. She said she did not know what she would have done if it had not been for the kindness of a British officer who gave her a ring which she prized very much. They were surrounded by Tories, some being their nearest neighbors. Once when the children had smallpox, the Tories came at night, masked. They put out the light, stripped the clothes off the bed, and left the children with no covering in winter. Grandmother took up the stones in the hearth and hid her knives and spoons. She had hid a jug of honey by burying it in the earth. The Tories tried to find it, but they could not, so they told John, her little boy, if he would tell them where it was they would give him a gun. So - boy like - he told them, but he never got the gun. After the war in their comfortable home, at night, all seated round their huge fireplace, the girls would card the cotton into rolls to spin next day. The boys would roast apples and potatoes and drink cider, while one would read some good book. Katie and Anna had benches inside the fireplace, which was whitewashed. They could look up at the stars from their warm seat. The boys made Katie a bench to walk on, so she could spin on the big wheel. The old folks had a small plastered room for themselves, which was something in advance of the times, where they sat and read. Katie and Anna each owned a colt. They would run off to the pasture and make bridles of pea vines for the colts, and stand on their backs and gallop around the field. Katie was a grand rider when she was over seventy years of age. Grandma had a brick oven, on Saturday they baked bread for the week. They filled the oven with apples, potatoes, and bread. They had coffee when the preacher came to see them. They drank milk other times. They had plenty of milk and made their own butter and cheese. There was a shelf overhead in the kitchen where they laid the cheese to dry. Saturday was spent rubbing up their pewter dishes, which they kept as bright as silver. They traded in Charleston, and rolled their tobacco in hogsheads a distance of over 200 miles. The Evans sisters were a very handsome set. I have heard my father say that Aunt Hannah Curry was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. They were of pure Grecian type, dark eyes and hair, fair complexion, splendid heads, and almost perfect limbs. I think grandma must have been superstitious. When one of her cows got sick she sent for one of her neighbors, who was supposed to understand cow diseases. He would pass the cow through a blue tank and cross his hand with silver, and then the cow was supposed to get well. Great- grandfather McCarter was a very intelligent man. He had a newspaper controversy with John C. Calhoun's father. Katie Evans was sent to her grandmother's (McCarter) in Abbeville district to school. She went to school with Patrick and John C. Calhoun. Dr. Moses Waddel was teaching at the time. A number of his students became state and national leaders. Katie married Major John Kennedy on 20th of January 1807, when she was about 18 years of age. They had nine children and raised them all but one. (George died at 18) All settled in Chester but one. John Kennedy married Martha Potts and moved to Mississippi. My father and mother lived on the hill in Chester for sixty-five years. Father hunted deer on Chester Hill where the town now stands. There were no houses except an old blacksmith shop. The land was owned by a man of influence named Stewart. Being the crossroads it was determined to have the town at that place. It is said that the community met at the Big Spring and had a jug of whiskey, that influenced by Stewart and his guid (good) whiskey, they decided the matter. Father lived to be 97 years of age and mother 83. Grandfather Evans was a good Baptist. I have some of his writings, as good Baptist doctrine as I have ever read. I can recollect my Aunt Polly going to Woodward Church of which she was a member. Sunday morning she would mount old Jenny, a quiet old horse, and buttoned up in her riding skirt until she looked like a sack of meal, and with her big black silk bonnet on, which was so big that she had no need of an umbrella, she would trot along the five miles to church, all alone most of the time. I have a housewife made from a piece of calico of grandma Evans' dress bought a short time after the revolution. She paid 75 cents a yard for it. I also have a chest and table, which was her dining table before the war. Uncle Curry brought from the Warm Springs the first hyacinths that were ever in Chester.
Contributor: lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
Grandmother Evans was a Bates, they were of Welsh descent. The Bates, McCarter, and Evans families first settled in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. Afterwards the Bates and McCarter's moved to Abbeville district S.C. Catherine Bates married John McCarter. Her daughter Catherine married Richard Evans, whose family was English. They lived about three miles south of Chesterville, S.C. They raised a large family of honorable, high-toned children, with more than the average intelligence. Grandfather Evans was a large handsome man highly cultivated and very fond of books. He died of heart disease while sitting in his chair. He was a Revolutionary war soldier. Grandfather and grandmother lived very peacefully with their children on the farm until the war broke out, when grandfather had to leave wife and children, take down his shotgun and fight for his country under the noble and brave Sumter. He fought in the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens, Hanging Rock, Ninety- Six, Eutaw Springs and other battles in this part of the country. Grandma had to make a living for her children, the oldest about ten years of age. Grandpa said the most delicious morsel he ever ate was some cold mush when in the war, having had nothing to eat for so long. Grandma suffered very much from the Tories, at one time they came and took all her beds, and destroyed and turned their horses into the grain she had hauled up. She said she did not know what she would have done if it had not been for the kindness of a British officer who gave her a ring which she prized very much. They were surrounded by Tories, some being their nearest neighbors. Once when the children had smallpox, the Tories came at night, masked. They put out the light, stripped the clothes off the bed, and left the children with no covering in winter. Grandmother took up the stones in the hearth and hid her knives and spoons. She had hid a jug of honey by burying it in the earth. The Tories tried to find it, but they could not, so they told John, her little boy, if he would tell them where it was they would give him a gun. So - boy like - he told them, but he never got the gun. After the war in their comfortable home, at night, all seated round their huge fireplace, the girls would card the cotton into rolls to spin next day. The boys would roast apples and potatoes and drink cider, while one would read some good book. Katie and Anna had benches inside the fireplace, which was whitewashed. They could look up at the stars from their warm seat. The boys made Katie a bench to walk on, so she could spin on the big wheel. The old folks had a small plastered room for themselves, which was something in advance of the times, where they sat and read. Katie and Anna each owned a colt. They would run off to the pasture and make bridles of pea vines for the colts, and stand on their backs and gallop around the field. Katie was a grand rider when she was over seventy years of age. Grandma had a brick oven, on Saturday they baked bread for the week. They filled the oven with apples, potatoes, and bread. They had coffee when the preacher came to see them. They drank milk other times. They had plenty of milk and made their own butter and cheese. There was a shelf overhead in the kitchen where they laid the cheese to dry. Saturday was spent rubbing up their pewter dishes, which they kept as bright as silver. They traded in Charleston, and rolled their tobacco in hogsheads a distance of over 200 miles. The Evans sisters were a very handsome set. I have heard my father say that Aunt Hannah Curry was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. They were of pure Grecian type, dark eyes and hair, fair complexion, splendid heads, and almost perfect limbs. I think grandma must have been superstitious. When one of her cows got sick she sent for one of her neighbors, who was supposed to understand cow diseases. He would pass the cow through a blue tank and cross his hand with silver, and then the cow was supposed to get well. Great- grandfather McCarter was a very intelligent man. He had a newspaper controversy with John C. Calhoun's father. Katie Evans was sent to her grandmother's (McCarter) in Abbeville district to school. She went to school with Patrick and John C. Calhoun. Dr. Moses Waddel was teaching at the time. A number of his students became state and national leaders. Katie married Major John Kennedy on 20th of January 1807, when she was about 18 years of age. They had nine children and raised them all but one. (George died at 18) All settled in Chester but one. John Kennedy married Martha Potts and moved to Mississippi. My father and mother lived on the hill in Chester for sixty-five years. Father hunted deer on Chester Hill where the town now stands. There were no houses except an old blacksmith shop. The land was owned by a man of influence named Stewart. Being the crossroads it was determined to have the town at that place. It is said that the community met at the Big Spring and had a jug of whiskey, that influenced by Stewart and his guid (good) whiskey, they decided the matter. Father lived to be 97 years of age and mother 83. Grandfather Evans was a good Baptist. I have some of his writings, as good Baptist doctrine as I have ever read. I can recollect my Aunt Polly going to Woodward Church of which she was a member. Sunday morning she would mount old Jenny, a quiet old horse, and buttoned up in her riding skirt until she looked like a sack of meal, and with her big black silk bonnet on, which was so big that she had no need of an umbrella, she would trot along the five miles to church, all alone most of the time. I have a housewife made from a piece of calico of grandma Evans' dress bought a short time after the revolution. She paid 75 cents a yard for it. I also have a chest and table, which was her dining table before the war. Uncle Curry brought from the Warm Springs the first hyacinths that were ever in Chester.
Contributor: lili li née Loretta McKay Masters
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