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From: Robert Hemphill <>
Subject: Mom, McCaslan, Ssaife, Kennedys, Jordans, Dickson, Hemphills. Etc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:06:25 -0400


Hi all,
These two letters are a little personal but also informative on
the above families.
I hope you find something of interest

Delete it or read it. The ball is in your court.

Bob H.
___ Friday, 24July1998

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2Jan1957 Letter from Grace Hemphill Rogers (1887 - 1976) to Mom,
Cleo Millwee Davis Hemphill (1889-1965).

Jan. 2 - 57
Dear Millwee, - I have a letter from a friend of mine who is at
that Old Folks Home in Traveler's Rest. She says a Mrs. Scaife is
there. She wants to know what I know about her. This woman was
Liza McCaslan. She attended Long Cane and Cedar S.[prings]
Churches, graduated in Columbia. Taught school, married this
lawyer and they lived in Washington, D. C. Two daughters live in
W. DC. One son is at Clemson. She has a good memory, talks of
Mrs. [Hannah St. Clair Lind] Coleman (1872-1968), says her father
& our father [Senator Robert Reid Hemphill 1840-1908] were good
friends. She talks of the Hemphill Family a great deal.- 87 years
old [= b. 1870].

Do you know her? Is she kin to you? They took Miss Mae Robertson
there last week. * * * *
Love etc., G. H. R.

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Letter from Mom to Aunt Grace in Abbeville, SC.

Greenwood, S. C.
428
Cothran Street
January
10, 1957
Dear Grace:
Your letter in regard to my cousin Eliza Scaif received
and am so glad to have news of her. She was the daughter of
Cousin Miller McCaslan who taught school for years in Laurens, S.
C. When I was a small girl, about 7 or 8 years old [1896-1897]
Mr. Scaffe taught school in Troy. That was when we [Mom's Davis
family] first moved back to South Carolina from Little Rock Ark.
He was my first school teacher and I was devoted to him. I was
staying for a time in Cousin Tump and Cousin Emma Kennedy's home
[where?] with Mary Kennedy my playmate when Cousin Eliza's baby
almost died and the scene of those near tragic moments have
remained in my mind clearly through the years. The little boy got
well. I know that my mother [Frances Jane McCaslan Davis
1867-1924] kept up with them and other members of that family for
years but I have not known anything of them for so long that I
wonder if any remain. I will write to her if you can give me her
address, Her mother was Seppie Jordan and has a large connection
in Abbeville County. One sister married an Owens in Laurens and
lived in Clinton, S. C. My mother visited her and another sister
who was not married at that time.

We have had notes and cards from the folks in Savannah [Grace's
daughter and grand daughter]. I am glad they are getting along so
well. I know you miss them.

We think we will likely be over some afternoon soon. The
beginning of the year is always a very busy time with James
[Calvin Hemphill, Architect 1889-1970, my father]. He works too
hard all the time.

We had a very quiet Christmas. None of the children came home.
Dorothy's [my brother George's (1925) wife's] father [Charles
Henry Thrower 1864-1957]is very sick and she and the children will
be in Baltimore for some time - until after the operation which he
may not survive. Pat and Jim [my brother James, Jr. (1920) and
wife] and the boys went to visit her mother this year. We had
first hand news from Bob [me 1922] and Rees [mine 1925] as Pola
Zeigler Dickson [1791-1985] Rees's mother and George Dickson
[1929-1995] her brother went to Cleveland to see the new baby,
Jane Howell Hemphill [Mrs. Dempsey], born Sept. 22nd. They
reported a very happy celebration with snow for Christmas.

With all good wishes to you for the New Year,
Affectionately yours,
Millwee
(Millwee Davis Hemphill)

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