City Directories and History: “Dr. B. G. Pitts of Darlington has supplied the following interesting tradition concerning the naming of Lydia, a prosperous community in Darlington County on U. S. Highway 15, about 14 miles west of Darlington. “The naming of Lydia. … It is an old tradition [that the town was named by] ! . . one Captain Lee, pioneer farmer of about a century ago, the father of Dr. Henry G. Lee, Oren D. Lee and Arthur Lee, whose farm house stood just where new Lydia now is. Captain Lee, being a devout reader of his Bible, habitually carried it to the field where he attached it to his plow handles, and read while he plowed and plowed while he read. After reading his Bible in the Book of Acts, Verse 14, concerning Lydia, the good woman who with Paul and Silas held the first prayer meeting down by the river side, he resolved that the new Post Office then being established should be named Lydia. “The Captain Lee home was located in close proximity to the Old Gully Camp Ground.” (Contributed by T.E. Wilson)
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
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