The Yorkville Enquirer reported on Oct. 2, 1873 – “In Chester near the Depot a dwelling occupied by a Mrs. McCormick was destroyed by fire which also destroyed her kitchen.”
The Yorkville Enquirer of May 7, 1890 reported – “Mr. Israel McNinch has added a new front to his home near the G C and N Depot.”
City Directories and History: 1908 – John H. Simpson (ARP Minister),
The McNinch family of Chester, S.C. were heavily involved as stone masons, tombstone cutters, and overall work in granite. The S.C. Artisans Database lists Robert and Samuel as the primary McNinch artisans with younger members of the family listed in the 1860 Census as: A.N., T.H. and Robert, all young men who presumably went to fight for the Confederacy. Read the account of John H. Simpson brining two McNinch coffins home from the war.
On August 22, 1862 Simpson visited Winder Hospital and found John McNinch of Chester District at his son, John’s grave. Sam McNinch, a second son, at the point of death, succumbed the next morning and was interred at the hospital. Simpson put the father on the train for home. Over the next two weeks Simpson made arrangements, obtained the necessary papers, (“passports,”) had the two brothers exhumed and placed in coffins. In the meantime Simpson located William Grier, one of his college friends, who lost a leg at the Battle of Williamsburg and spent a year in captivity. Grier had been exchanged and Simpson found him in a hotel, took him to a hospital, obtained a medical discharge, secured a “passport” and took him on the train with the McNinch corpses. Simpson’s brother, Isaiah, met them in Charlotte and took the McNinch brothers home to Chester for burial.
J. Michael Miller, ed., Transcribed by Mary Law McCormick, Echoes of Mercy – Whispers of Love: Diaries of John Hemphill Simpson, 1861, 1862. 1863 and 1865 War Between the States (Greenville, South Carolina, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., 2001), 214-14, 217, 120, 124, 129 n51 described the note.
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