On the above map, the home of William Percival, a house which stood until the end of the 20th century, was at the corner of what is now (2017), Williamson and Mobley’s Store Roads. This is the location of the popular Boyd’s Produce Stand.  A Percival decedent once informed R&R’s co-founder, WBF – “My grandfather, Mr. Percival never lifted a finger to work.  He was a true gentleman farmer who had been raised in Columbia…..and move to the blackjacks to farm….”

AN OLD SWORD W. S. Percival, of Ogden, has in his possession a sword which his deceased father, Spencer L. Percival, who died less than a year ago, carried while he was captain of a company of cavalry home guards in Columbia before the Mexican war. The sword is made of Damascus steel, shines like silver and is in a good state of preservation. The sheath is of pure silver. Mr. Percival was an orderly sergeant in the Mexican war, but did not carry the weapon there. It was supposed to have been burned at the home of Mr. Percival’s sister in Columbia, when her home was destroyed by Sherman’s men during his raid on Columbia, but it was carried off by one of the Yankee soldiers named Sherwood. Twenty years later he was traveling through the South and stopped in Columbia and made inquiry about the Percival family and found the same lady whose house had been burned 20 years previous. He informed her that he still had the sword which he carried away on that occasion and that he would be glad to send it to her as soon as he returned home. In this way the sword which Mr. Percival never expected to see again was returned. -The Record (Rock Hill, SC), June 7, 1907