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Im Jeffrey Jones from York, SC and I love music and sleeping and eating. I am a Biology major and plan to be a pediatric oncologist.

Monday, December 2, 2019

Monday, November 25, 2019

Remembering From The Past to Present

Born the 12th of November 1805 Michael Patrick Walsh was born in Charleston SC and was the son of a poor farmer. When we went to the library I wasn't able to discover much on him and later I found out why. Upon seeing the death card at the Charleston Library which was almost impossible to find Walsh died of consumption which was tuberculosis at that time. What I found to be interesting is that Walsh had a pervious condition which weakened him and his immune system. On his stone it is said he fought along time for many years to survive and he ended up dying. Walsh was never a land owner and was never married although he had a companion for many years.

The plaque on Walsh's stone was why I found him so interesting. It seemed that near death he had a complete turn around in life and accepted his faith and began to turn his life towards God. Also on his stone it mentions his companion which I could not find anywhere because he was never married. The library nor find a grave had anything about him having a wife. He also had a twin brother who became a preacher less than a year after his brothers death.

I have came to the conclusion that Michael Patrick Walsh could have possibly been mentally handicapped or could have had some form of birth defect that caused him to contract diseases way easier than most normal people. In the 1800s especially being from a poor family twin births were way more rare than today and if twins did happen one would usually not make it or be born with some kind of defect. Healthy twins were almost unheard of in this time period. I believe that Walsh was sickly and near death turned his life around and became a lot closer to God near his end days and his companion was either a very close friend or a girlfriend at the time of death.

I was going to try to contact Jerry J. Walsh which was a descendant in some way to Walsh but he had very recently died in Lancaster. Not much information could be found but what i could find helped me to draw an outline of Walsh's life and it was interesting learning about a man that completely turned his life around at death and affected so many people. He died June 3rd 1836 at the age of 31.

Monday, November 18, 2019

Old Chalestonian Proposal

For my Old Charlestonian project I would like to do Michael Patrick Walsh. He is buried at my church graveyard Second Presbyterian and died June 3rd 1836. I want to do this man because of one of the quotes on his grave marker. The entire thing made him sound truly interesting.

Monday, November 11, 2019

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Amazing Rural Graveyard

As I walked through the black iron gates of Magnolia cemetery I would have never imagined what it was like. Beautiful gravestones covered every inch other than the driving and walking trails. As soon as you walk in if you walk 15 of so steps you will see a beautiful pond overlooking the rest of the cemetery and a marsh close behind it. I was taken aback seeing all new types of gravestones and trying to pick 3 favorite from the many amazing stones found there.

Magnolia is huge spending 150 acres it has many curving walking trails and driving trials and has 2 ponds and a marsh area with birds and stone everywhere. Just imagine being in a cemetery where 35,000 people are buried in one place. People from past and present are buried together in plots separated by the trails. The cemetery also has 7 confederate generals that we learned about in class. There was also some Hunley servicemen which died on the first confederate submarine of the civil war!
The stone showed above is one of my 3 favorites I was able to see. its a beautiful marble cross with flowers in the shape of a cross on it. The name on the stone was Marino but there was no dates or even a first name that i could find on the stone. I just thought it was a very cool and beautiful stone.
This is my next favorite stone and this one is probably my favorite stone of all its so beautiful and has an amazing back drop behind the first pond when you come in. Its the Pinckney gravesite where Thomas Pinckney and his wife are buried.
Lastly the Lipinski mausoleum would be my third favorite it is so beautiful and modern and is so well taken care of with trimming and all sorts of watering. It is also really cool that Tara Lipinski an olympic ice skater would want to be buried around here. It is truly beautiful.

Monday, October 28, 2019

An Empty Grave?

The "Gravestone" of Elizabeth
Hutchinson in front of the
Robert Scott Small building.
On a campus centuries of years old you would think that there would be many mysteries yet to be discovered. You would be wrong. In front of the building I'm sitting in now there is a memorial of Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson which is Andrew Jackson's mother. The stone reads that Hutchinson is buried near the spot of the stone but that couldn't be more wrong. But to know the story behind the burial you have to understand Elizabeth Hutchinson.

Through-out her life Hutchinson was very active in protecting her family and it eventually caused her death from cholera. She arranged a trade to release her two sons from a prisoner of war camp
on one occasion and on another she searched the Charleston harbor to find her nephews which was when she died.
This is a monument where Hutchinson is
believed to be buried in Waxhaw SC.

With such an influential woman you would think that we would know her place of burial or maybe even have a painting of her, you would be wrong. Hutchinson is surrounded by mystery and we know little about her life and even less about her burial. The stone that is at the College of Charleston now originally was about 2 and a half miles away from campus and was moved because it was being neglected in the location where it was according to a 2011 article posted by The Post and Courier. However the location of the monument isn't the strange part; no one knows where she is buried some think it is the original place of the marker others think it is located at College of Charleston and another group she is buried in Waxhaw South Carolina.

Even as her son Andrew Jackson became president he couldn't find her burial location and since then no one knows the true burial place of Elizabeth Hutchinson according to another article by History of American Women. Her burial is a mystery that lives on around the College of Charleston although not very well known it is still an interesting piece of history.

Monday, October 21, 2019

Mystery Of My Great Grandpa Solved

For several years my great grandfather has been a mystery. My family has discussed him several times but I never even knew his name. Over fall break I went home and talked to my grandpa about
his father and discovered my ancestor for the first time. My great grandpa's name was George Dargain Wyatt and he was born February 26 1910. He grew up in a small rural town of Hickory Grove South Carolina and graduated high school there as well. As a young man Wyatt
lived around battle fields in World War One.

My Great grandpa and his
cousin and 2 of his sisters in 1986
My Great Grandpa and Great
Grandma 
 He fought and returned to Hickory Grove where he was married his girlfriend since the age of six my great grandma Vera Alma Dover. He had 12 kids and was married at 22. He worked in a bleachery for all of his life and my grandpa said he complained every single day before and after work and when he retired he still complained about it. While working at the bleachery provided an honest living my grandpa lived during prohibition and him and his brother Gat ran a large moonshining business as well. He died February second 1992 and is buried at Canaan United Methodist cemetery under a die on  base.

 My great aunt told me the story of how she bought her first coat because of this. "It all started when i first found out about the business," she started. "I would go in the building every time they started to make the moonshine and every single time they paid me a dime to leave. I saved up and bought my first jacket." This story like all of the others i found sort of funny
My Great Grandma and Grandpa
in 1966
there was never a sad story about Grandpa Wyatt. Another my grandpa told me was when he came home from Vietnam and got back to their house his whole family had moved and didn't leave a note or call or anything.

Grandpa Wyatt was a large man in the community around Hickory Grove as well he helped build several houses that are still standing today and built the first gas station in Hickory grove. He also had a bull which was the meanest in the upstate or at least that's what everyone has told me. My grandpa and great grandpa went fishing one time in my grandpas brand new truck and the bull rammed the door and tailgate off. He also chased my great grandpa up a tree and grunted at him everyday when he got off work. My great grandpa was a great man and did many things for the community and even made moonshine. I am glad I got the chance to talk to my grandpa about his dad.