The Yorkville Enquirer reported on March 2, 1892 – “Mr. R.E. Sadler will move into his new house on Johnston Street this week.”
The YV Enquirer reported on Jan. 25, 1893 – “Capt. W.L. Roddey wishes to retire from the mercantile business. He began business in Rock Hill in 1866. His firm W.L. Roddey and Co., will be reorganized and will become the Roddey Mercantile Company with a capital stock of $50,000. The corporators are: W.L. Roddey, J.E. Roddey, J.F. Reid, S.L. Reid, A.F. Ruff, and R.E. Sadler.”
City Directories and History: Rosa B. Strait, recorded that – ” living next door to us on Johnston Street were the Sadlers: Mr. Rufus Sadler and his children and Miss Carrie, the bookkeeper and caretaker. Mrs. Sadler, nee Lillie Crawford (Dr. T. A. Crawford’s sister), died when one of the children was born. My mother nursed the infant, Rufus, for a time alone with me. The children were Mary, Hope, Lillie Earle, Maggie Lee, Etta, Carrie and Rufus. They were all fun-loving and filled with a sort of native gaiety. I used to love to go over when they were eating dinner. I know it was bad manners for me to do that but there was so much laughter and fun at the long table and I adored the crisp, brown muffins cooked in fancy-shaped tins and would always accept when offered one.” Courtesy of the YCGHS—June 1998
R&R Note: It is unclear as to the sequence of events and if Mrs. Guess recalled the numerous individuals who resided next to them a #133 Johnston in chronological order. The house is normally referred to as the Adams house but later it was lived in by the Rufus Sadler family as outlined by Mrs. Guess. The 1908 Rock Hill City Directory records numerous members of the Sadler family living at this address as does Wm. B. White’s Tour of Rock Hill. See the History Thread link to the Sadler Farm for additional information.
The Sadler children were these: (1) Mary Crawford, who married Daniel Calvin Stevenson; (2) Price Harris, d.s.p.; (3) David Hope, who married Margaret Williams Hardee; (4) Lillian Earle, who married James Thornwell Neely; (5) Etta, who married David Hill Henry; (6) Rufus Earle, Jr., who married Julia Owens; (7). Caroline A., who married George Bobo Dean; and (8) Margaret Lee, who married Buist…
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