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Would Be Cheaper to Make
Mr. Wood Deed lo City Hall
This Is Comment of Judge E. H. Callaway, In Letter to
Mayor Smith, Giving His Opinion As to “Legality and
Wisdom” of Latest Wood Proposal For Developing
the Canal
Judge K. H. Callaway, who has
been representing the city in the
matter of the J. W. Wood canal lease
proposal*, has furnished Mayor Julian
M. Smith the following opinion con
cerning the latest Wood proposals,
W’hieh was submitted to city coun
cil last Monday night by Councilman
W. T. Gary:
Augusta, Ga., October 17th, 1924.
Hon. Julian M. Smith,
Mayor City of Augusta,
Augusta, Ga.
My Dear Sir: In reply to your re
quest for my opinion as to the legal
ity and wisdom of the latest propo
sition from Mr. J. P. Wood, embodied
In the proposed contract in an ordi
nance introduced in council on Mon
day night. T beg to reply as follow*:
The contract set forth in the ordi
nance. proposes to turn over to Mr.
Wood the canal with all of the rentals
for the 10-year period after March
7»h. 11*26 for an annual payment by
Mr Wood from now until March 7th,
1926 of $45,000. and after March 7th.
1826 for $75,000 per annum. This
canal Is to be turned over to Mr.
Wood for a period of 30 years at these
annua) rentals.
LEGALITY OF THE
PROPOSITION.
Basing my opinion upon a decision
rendered by the supreme court of
(Georgia and delivered by Judge
Bleckley In 1879 and reported in #3
Ga. 772 to 785, The City Council of
Augusta has no legal right to enter
into any such contract, and if it
should pass such an ordinance and
enter into such contract, any present
user of water power from the canal
who has expended money In the con
struction of buildings and In the pur
chase of equipment for manufacturing
plant* along the banks of the canal
for the purpose of operating the same
with water power from the canal,
could enjoin the enforcement of any
Itioh contract whereby the city placed
Itself out of control of the water
power In the canal.
In the Millers case, cited above,
the Millers had constructed n flour
and grist mill on the banks of the ca
nal below the Augusta factory, upon
the faith of the city’s offering water
power for the operation of the mill,
and having gotten Into some contro
versy with the city over t)
lion of a wasteway, lessening the
water power in the second levelof the
canal at their mill, the city threaten
ed to withhold the use of water pow
er from said canal to the Millers, and
I 11m that Um Millers
had no contract with the city.
The? Millers brought a suit to en-
Jo'n the city from withholding the
water power, or lessening the same
at their mill by the proposed waste
way.
The superior court granted n non
suit and the Millers carried the esse
to the supreme court where the de
cision of the lower court was re
versed. In the court's decision, Judge
Bleckley used this lauguags:
“t—From the act of incorporation
nnd other legislation touching the
'» « a iiiil. t<*g» tl>« r with tlx- re,
erd of this case. It may be collected
that the runs! whs constructed for
manufacturing as wall as other pur
poses, and n prime object was to en
< outage the building of mills and fac
torial along Its banks for the sake
of the water power It affords; that In
putting i> ng it before the
public, an invitation was extended to
napttal to come forward and embrace
Its advantages as a manufacturing
*it« and that front time to time
have grown up which
Have you met
Oh Henry!
£yyi
wM \ \
When I feel Dyspeptic I just
Take a few “Pape’s Diapepsin”
Instantly! 'All Stomach Distress like Indigestion, liases,
Heartburn, Flatulence or Acidity Goes
Anytime; \s n*n food hit* *>ack and
itteals don't fit »migly you can correct
your digestion and have your disor
dered atomach acting fine—almost at
once'
Million* of folk* depend upon this
pirn pant, harmleia corrective, dlges
Bring Back Youth!
TILFHEN YOU find yourself
//l. » W slipping away from youth*
k'v-.'-wm m Activities, take heed. Old Age
. 1 hn» flashed his danger signal.
Wm MJ '* '* time to get a new hold,
\ WY to rebuild the organs that are
ImA breaking down. Let Munyon's
yjftgM Paw Paw Tonic help to bring
back refreshened vigor.
Use Munyun'a Paw Pnw Pills
m : MUNYON'S
PAW PAW TONIC
~ Th ~ u H °~" with IRON and NUX
AT ALA. DRUGGISTS Satisfaction guarantee,! or money rrfumied
MUNYON’S, Scranton. Pa.
are wholly dependent upon it for
water to work them and keep their
machinery in motion. The canal is
iho property of the City of Augusta
:uvl the mill ;tM) f
rnenta belong severally to various in
dividuals or companies. There is thus
a water supply owned by the city,
and reciprocally a water-demand on
the part, of those who have invested
their capital in buildings nnd ma
chinery contiguous to the canal.
“In the case of each establishment,
the flow and waterhead appropriate
to It had to be foreseen when It wad
erected; and on and before its golnfc
into operation, an adjustment of Its
fixtures and machinery had to tako
place to the then condition of tho
canal so as to fit it for receiving and
applying the water. This Involved ex
pense. and any material change of
tho canal thereafter, requiring a new
adjustment, would, of course, involve
further expense. Indeed, it might be
possible to make changes in the ca
nal on a scale which would work ruin
to one or more of the establishments,
while others of them, perhaps, would
be greatly benefited. Again, it Is es
sential that all reasonable expecta
tions of a regular and continuous
supply of water, on payment of the
established water-rents or rates of
compensation, be met, and
none disappointed. Bach mill or fac
tory is dependent for profitable work
on drawing from the canal as much
wuter ns it needs, and when it needs
it. Tho city keeps a water meter,
so to speak, and tiio patrons of the
canal have repaired to that market
and, at great expense, put them
selves in a situation to use the water.
In the nature 6 things the doing
of this has brought them Into cir
cumstances where they must have It
or sustain heavy losses for want of
It Between them and the city are
special relations which do not hold
between the ordinary proprietors of
adjacent property. Generally, one
man is not pledged to let or sell to
nnother what be owns, or to allow
him the use of It; but there are some
oiinsi-publlc occupations In which
there is an Implied undertaking on
the part of those who engngo In them,
to serve, so far as they reasonably
can. all comers. Tho keeper of an Inn
must receive and entertain guests;
the keeper of a toll bridge or ferry
must suffer travelers to cross; a com
mon carrier must ullow them seat* in
his vehicle, nnd a keeper of a custom
mill must grind for ail who bring
their grain nnd offer It for the pur
pose Ho we think the owner of n
canal, constructed in part for manu
facturing purposes nnd afterwards
held out as a source of water sup*
ply, must, after expensive machinery
has been set up along its banks on
tho faith of obtaining the needed sup
ply, furnish each and every establish
ment a sufficiency of water. If to do
so be reasonably within Its power,
nnd If tho customer is willing to pay
nnd offers to pay nt the usual rate.
This duty In the case of the Augusta
Canal holds good whether there lit
any express contract between tho
parties or not. Doubtless, under the
terms of the charter, those patrons
Who make express contracts nnd re
new them from tlino to time, would
have the preference, no that If any
have to he dlsapnolnted for want of
means to servo all. the non-contract-
Ing natrons would ho tho-solo suf
fers.'*
Tho court further held ns follows:
“The canal, and all of the estab
lishments deriving from it their sup
ply of water are tied together, nnd
me and antacid tr> keep their stom
achs In prime condition
Just rat a few tablet* of "Psps's
Diapepsin" whenever your atomach
bothers >nu Pletreaa just vanishes.
Your druggist guarantee* a 60-c«nt
package to plraae you Ad*.
constitute a kind of special business
moccunlty.”
The court also used the following
expression:
“Perhaps a useful point of view
would be to contemplate the entire
outfit, embracing the canal and the
aggregate investment in mills and
factories, as one great trust property,
with different beneficiaries interest
ed in different parts of it, and sup
posing it to be committed to one and
the same board of trustees, let the
question bo whether this or that al
teration in the canal could be made
without a breach of trust toward
some one or more of the beneficiaries,
or, on the other hand, whether it
could be •omitted without a failure of
duty to others. When various per
sons embark their capital together,
each retaining a several ownership
In his own and a separate control of
its management, none are to be in
jured without an adequate reason for
it in the fair and jurlcious prosecu
tion of the general scheme, nnd with
such reason, those who happen to
suffer must submit to the sacrifice."
Unquestionably under this decision,
nnd it is the law of this state with
reference to the Augusta Canal. The
City Council can make no disposition
of the Augusta canal different from
Its present use without the express
consent of the present users of water
power from the canal.
But it may be said by Mr. Wood
and it is intimated In the ordinance
nnd contract that it would be his pur
pose to make contracts with the pres
ent. users of the water power from the
canal, to substitute therefor, contracts
for the use of electric power to be
generated from the water power in
the canal by Mr. Wood, at prices to
be agreed upon.
In view of the comparatively re
cent experience of the power users in
Augusta from the Stephens Creek
Bower Diant, which must be fresh In
the minds of all power users In Au
gusta. it is highly improbable that
any present users of water power
from the Augusta canal would enter
Into any contract with Mr. Wood or
any company or corporation which he
might organize.* Mr. Wood was the
promoter of the Stephens Creek
hydro-electric development, and rep
resented the Georgia-Carolina Dower
Company in obtaining contracts from
Augusta manufacturers for the use of
electric power from the Georgia*
Caroliria Power Company. After the
control of the Georgia-Carolina Pow
er plant was obtained by the Augus
ta-Alken Hallway & Electric Corpora
tion, this latter corporation, with the
aid and assistance of Mr. Wood, went
before the Georgia Railroad Commis
sion and had these contracts, before
they bad expired, set aside, and bad
the power rates considerably in
creased, and this the Georgia Railroad
Commission was expressly authorized
by law to do, and much higher rates
ware placed upon these users, and are
now being collected by the Augusta-
Aiken Railway &• Electric Corpora
tion. Dots Mr. Wood, or any of his
supporters in city council, think for a
moment that the present users of
water power from the canal would en
ter into any contract of any charac
ter with Mr. Wood for tlie substitu
tion of electric power at any price
when they must know that Mr. Wood,
or his corporation, could go before
the Railroad Commission at any time
and have such contracts! set aside
and higher rates enforced against
them? it naturally follows that no
verbal Agreement, no written con
tract, nnd no bond which Mr. Wood
might execute, could possibly pro
tect such power users in the enjoy
ment of any contract or agreement
which they might make with Mr.
Wood, or his nutioMates, or corpora
tion,
Therefor#*, if The City Council en
ter* into the proposed contract with
Mr Wood or any similar contract, it
will do no with the probable certainty
that tho people of Augiißta will not
see a Mingle kilowatt of electric energy
generated from the canal, other than
such might he generated by the
Augusta-Aiken in its present plant,
for the next 30 years, and the result
of Jth<* contract will only be, to block
the city for that length of time in
d< \ t loping i ome 6 000 01 1,990 hofit -
power from the low-head wnter in the
canal, selling the same during the
day and using the same at night in
lighting the streets, stores, residences,
etc., of the city, thereby saving to
the people of the city practically 20
per /Cent of the present cost of lights,
and in adtdtion thereto converting
some $990,000 annually as net pro
fit* Into the treasury of the city to
lessen tAxes
But even the city, should It develop
any part of the low-head water
power In the canal, would have to
first obtain contractor with tht low
hesd water power users under tho
principles of law cited above.
The present power users from tho
canal having such vested rights as
outlined above In Judge Bleckley's
decision, the city could enter into con
tracts to substitute electric- power
for water power with these parties,
without the danger of any Railroad
Commission or other body abrogating
such contracts.
AS TO THE WISDOM
OF THE WOOD PROPOSALS.
The reports which you have 1n
hand from Mr. Hunter, disclose that
there Is now In actuul uso from the
water of the canal, some 13,500 horse-
Dowei »*f tin- , iffiroslmiUly 8,300
horsepower hue alrt&dy been leased
ft cm March .tit. 1 at 111.00 per
horsepower, aggregating $90,200. Ap
proximately 1,000 horsepower has
been leased to the Augusta Factory
tinder Its contract, In perpetuity, for
$5,000; the King Mill Is contesting its
right tO tIMI UN of 1,300 hOTStpoWtl
In perpetuity at $5.50. If the King
Mill wins, this will add an additional
$6,000. If the King Mill loses, it will
add an Additional $13,200. This leases
only the 2,800 horsepower, now used
by the Augusta-Alken Hallway »v
Electric Corporation, and if it de
clines to execute the new contract at
511 00* some other partita will take
It. and that will add approximately
$30,800. which, conceding that the
King Mill will win, (which I do not
concede) will bring a total aggre
gate annual rental, after March 7th,
1926. of $133,100, and If the King Mill
loses, $06,000 additional, or $139,700
This is rental enough to assure
the city r net Income in the rental
of horsepower from the canal for a
10-year period beginning March 7th,
1926. of at least $125,000 a year. Why
these rentals should be turned over
to Mr Worn! for an annual rental of
$75,000 a year. It is difficult for me
to conceive That would amount to
a net profit of at least $50,000 a year
for Mr. Wood, for a period of JO
years, or. during the entire period, a
million and a half dollars, besides
blocking the city In ever obtaining
from the canal the electric power to
operate Its own lighting plant In the
city.
It seems that the statement of the
proposition answers the question as to
the Interest of the people of the cltv.
Mr. Wood Is a very fine cltlien. \Va
do not know who he is to ehnr* this
tremendous Income with. He has not
seen fit to take the of Au
gusta Into his confidence and make
public hla associates or backers in
nla proposed enterprise, but regard
less of that It would seem that If Mr.
Wood Is to be rewarded for what he
has done, or what he Is expected to
do in Augusta, ft would be very much
cheaper for City Council to make him
a deed of gift to the City Hall and
lot. than to turn over to him the
canal and the rentals therefrom for
a period of 30 years from which he
would get a net profit above his pro
posed rental to the city, of at le**t
$504>0() a year, without the expendi
ture of a dollar.
Very truly vours.
K II CALLAWAY.
VOLUNTEER CREW
Will Sail Hospital Ship
Across Ocean
1 .ONDON- a volunteer crew of
four will rail a 100-foot hoapltnl
ship acroaa the Atlantic from Yar
mouth to Labrador nest aummer.
Despite the rlaka they will run,
they will not be paid a penny for
their aervlce*
The ahip. "Strathcona, the Sec
ond," la to he used in connection
with miaslcnary work among the
flaherfolka along the labrador
coast. It ta designed to replace the
"Strathcona.” which wa* wrecked
off the Ijihrador coaat a rear and
a ha’f ago
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
Geneology of Lamar Family
Story of Local and Southern Interest From Pen of
C. R. Lamar Appears In Montgomery Advertiser
An article appearing in the Mont
gomery Advertiser from the pen of
C. It. Lamar is of quite unusual in
terest to Augustans in that there id
traced through the story the genea
logy of the Larnar family, of which
the late Joseph Rucker Lamar, of
Augusta, former associate justice
of the United States Supreme Court
was a prominent member, and of
which the Lamars’ of the Beech
Island section near Augusta in
Aiken County, S. C., are descen
dants.
The earliest Lamars to settle in
this immediate section emigrated
from Maryland In 1755, and descen
dants of one of the brothels re
siding in Augusta and in closeby
territory, are well known.
A chart of the Lamar family
w f as compiled some years before the
Civil War by Rov. J. H. Larnar of
Augusta, father of Joseph Rucker
Lamar, w'hich is now in the hands
of C. U. Lamar, of Montgomery,
Ala., that is of such inestimable
value ah no modern authority
could give. In that chart is traced
the Journeyings of the Lamars from
Maryland to this section, and their
spreading to other parts of the
South. Southern history is replete
with activities of the Lamars in
both private nnd public life, and of
its more prominent members.
THE STORY OF
LAMAR GENEALOGY
The story of “Lamar Genealogy,
by C. It. Larnar," Is as follows:
The old time interest felt by
Georgians In the question of Lamar
genealogy, which has been for sev
eral years In a state of abatement,
lias been passing during recent
months, through a period of re
crudescence, producing much inves
tigation and expert research. I am
giving herewith the oldest family
chart, without the use of. which all
this work must prove more or less
unsatisfactory. This chart was pre
pared some years before the Civil
War by Rev. Dr. James S. Lamar,
who had the very finest opportuni
ties for gathering the facts together
with the most scrupulous care, and
the most conscientious exactness in
doing so. In 1854 immediately
after his graduation, he accepted
the pastorate of a leading church in
Augusta, (la., which city had been
the center around which all
branches of the family had revolved
since 1755. when the ancestors of all
the Southern Lamars migrated
from Maryland and settled lmme-
weak.
Run-down /
Comtofow
THE DOOR of opportunity flings
wide Its portuls only to the
man who is up and doing—who Is
filled with pep nnd punch—with
rich, red blood tingling through his
system. Mountain size obstacles
to ant hills and ambitions
become accomplishments to these
sort of men.
Where is the employer who
seeks the nmn who is physically
run-down?. The man without stam
ina to withstand the knocks and
gaff of the hurrying, scurrying
world of business?
S.S.S. Is tho long established and
time honored creator of red-blood
cells. You c annot expect to get
very far up the ladder unless you
are equipped with a body that Is
strong and vigorous. S.S.S. will
start you on your way. Don't al
low tho "Door of Opportunity” to
be closed to you because you havo
not tho stamina to withstand tho
gaff—because your nerve power
Is lacking. Build up your system!
S.S.o. made of carefully selected
and scientifically prepared and
proportioned herbs and barks
makes you fit! Get back that old
time punch! When opportunity
knocks bo ready to answer the
call!
kT 8. S. i. .old st all Rood dm*
•torw in two alfea. Th« larg.r
•i» i, more economic*!.
C You Fed
6ke YourvJf Atfxln
Loveliness
. \ A Clear
\V >. Healthy Skin
■kN lf\ fcrtfc b JL E ,sr£:
New Treatment tor
Varicose Veins and Ulcers
Swollen veins are dangerous and
often burst. Sufferers are advised to
get a two-ounce, original bottla of
Kmerald Oil (full strength), at How
ard Drug Co., and start to reduce the
veins and bunches at once.
Physicians recommend Kmerold Oil:
It is used in hospital practice and a
small bottle will last a long time, be
cause It is very concentrated and a
little goes a long way. Apply night
and morning with a soft brush as di
rected until the swelling is reduced to
normal.
So marvelously powerful ts Kmerald
OH that swollen glands and even
goitre disappear when used steadily.
Adv
tendefTskin
■ all winter long with V
IMENTHOLATUM I
smoothing
diately across the Savannah River
from Augusta. This was by no
means his first .acquaintance with
the section, or with his relatives
who lived there, for X have heard
my father tell of his visits to his
home near Augusta back in the
early thirties. He continued for
more than twenty-five years to .be
the pastor of this Augusta church,
and was then made its pastor emer
itus, in which relation he remained
to the time of his death. He
brought to this task great intellec
tual vigor, wide personal contact
and acquaintance with the mem
bers of the family and the pain
staking care and Industry for which
he was celebrated. His method
shows his fitness for the task.
After his data was all tabulated in
proper form, and the chart printed,
sections were cut out and sent to
the particular branches of the
family embraced in each, in order
that each might enter new addi
tions which had been made to the
family since his last information
concerning them. My brother. Hon.
William Harmong Lamar, of Wash
ington, D. C., has in his possession
one of these sections that was sent
out before 1860. Justice Joseph R.
Lamar took great interest in this
work of his father and carefully
checked over all his work, as his
correspondence with my brother
shows.
But this chart has a value which
no modern authority could possibly
give, however learned, and con
scientious and reliable. On its
margin and over the signature of
its distinguished author is found
this remarkable statement: “This
table may not be absolutely cor
rect. and is known to be deficient.
It embodies the Information poss
essed by my father, Philip Lamar,
with such additions and corrections
as have been able to make since his
death. Hoping that it will be ac
ceptable to all who hear the name. I
have published it in this form as
an offering to them."
NO EXTRAVAGANT CLAIM
OF INFALLIBILITY
Herd i« the modesty which at
tends merit. Here is not extra
vagant claim of infallibility, such as
are frequently made by the half
baked genealogical performances of
these degenerate days. Not only is
modesty sometimes lacking, but the
very power to appreciate it is gone,
and so-called genealogists are ac
tually discounting this work of Dr.
Lamar, because, forsooth, he ad
mits that it is not “absolutely cor
rect,’’ and is “known to be defi
cient.” Of course there are no
known errors or known misstate
ments, for. as an honest man. lie
would correct such faults as there.
It is correct as far as he knows, hut
he has enough acquaintance with
intellectual philosophy to know that
all human knowledge is relative
and absolute knowledge is possi
ble only to the Deity, nnd he posi
tively refuses to claim absolute
perfection for his chart. What a
contrast between these words, and
some that fall from the lips of
vapid pens of some latter day gen
ealogists. Modesty does not seem
to he their “long suit,” and omnis
cience is one of their smallest ac
complishments. , .
But a perfect chart might have
deficiencies. Ood gave a revelation
which is absolutely perfect so far
as freedom from error boot, and
vet He does not reveal all truth
for the reason that we could not
apprehend the infinitude of it"
depth nnd height and reach Mam
things were left out of Lamar
chart knowingly and
My grandfather. Harmong Lamar
had a brother. Znohnriah, who a
left out. though he was a very pr
minent nnd very widely known
man in his day. But he never mar
ried nnd consequently left no ues
cendants to be traced by ™ e “ n! \
a chart. Charts originated in the
olden times ns a means of tracing
lineage, for the purpose of estab
lishing the right to estate and titles.
A name on a chart which does not
represent descendants is still sup
posed to be a cumberer of the
ground and even it has been put
on for strictly ornamental purposes,
and by reason of its prominence
and its lustre, it has always sooner
or later been left oft to make room
for some other name which means
progeny. N<S one can reasonably
find fault with this rule in chart
making and no amount of fault
finding could change the rule, but
it does frequently embarrass us.
when we run across the record of a
man who has been so omitted nnd
who happens to have had the same
name ns nnother who nppears in
the chart. The records of the two
became confused in our minds nnd
those who are hasty and inconside
rate among us are likely to make
loud complaints against the chart
makers. With a foolhardy dash of
the pen we "make a correction" as
we vainly suppose, saying that
these chart makers were removed
many long years from the facts,
forgetting that we ourselves are
removed, many many long yeara
more All genealogists are ex
cusable for saying that "all charts
must omit names eventually, whv
not now?’ But few genealogists
however, hsve confessed this as a
"deficiency.” and It is very ungen
erous to construe this ss the con
fession cf a fault or nf an error.
CAME TO CAROLINA
FROM MARYLAND
The severest criticism aimed at
this chart has been because of such
an omission as we have spoken of.
Robert 8. this Is to say, Robert of
the third American generation,
came to South Carolina from
Maryland with his brothers, Tho
mas 3 and John 3. In the latter
part of the year 1765. and had
tS which are easily 1 •
Immediate! ynrross the Savannah
River from Augusta. Ga. His wife
ta called Sarah In the records and
they had four sons, Robert 4.
Thomas 4. Philip 4. and James 4
Now. Robert 4 was never married
and as Dr. J. S. I-amar found no
descendants..to be traced through
him. he was omitted from the
chart, accorlng to the rule every
where prevalent. Rut some years
since, my brother. William Har
mom t.amar. who has been for
thirty-live years a close student of
I.nmar genealogy, snd who had
accomplished more for that cause
than any other living man. dis
covered from the records of Mary
land that Robert Lamar 4. In 1771
had signed a deed to perfect a de
fective title given by hla father.
Robert Tamar S. when he removed
from Maryland. In 1776. Now
Robert 4 signed this Instrument as
•t'he heir of Robert Tamar." and
the Inference was natural that he
was the only son. as well ss the
only heir, snd my brother (the re
cord of whose nubile service may
be found in "Who's Who In Am
erica”), sc decided. Justice Joseph
Rucker Tamar wss so thoroughly
convinced through conversations
with my brother, that he altered
with his pencil the chart of his
father now in my hands to con
form with this view, and the bro
thers of Robert 4, Thomas, Philip
and James, were put down as his
children.
Much has been said in certain
quarters in regard to this alleged
mistake in this chart as if with the
purpose tc weaken its authority.
But It is found not to be a mistake
at all. and that skilled and learned
genealogists, the very best of their
class, and truly scientific in their
methods, had made a real mistake
in trying to correct an imaginary
one. In the summer of 1923 while
going through the records at Co
lumbia, S. C., I found that one of
the very oldest grants made to the
Lamars in that state was surveyed
in 1756 for “Sarah Lamar, sons of
Robert Lamar, deceased.” Thus it
apnears that Robert 4, the only
heir of his father, was not his only
son, and was not the only heir of
hia mother. Sarah, whose name in
that far off time was "as ointment
poured fourth” in the letters which
have come down to us. I subse
quently found abundance of evi
dence in the records at other places
to corroborate the chart at this
point nnd at every other point
which I subjected to close ana
lysis.
PROPERTY GOES TO
CHILDREN OF BROTHERS
According to a deed of gift made
Just before his death by Robert
Lamar 4. all his property eventual
ly was divided among the children
of his “brothers, Thomas, Philip,
and James Lamar.” I have
from county to county and from*
State to State, delving into tho
Legal Records left by the Lamars,
wherevef'l could find them, and I
have never found anything which
casts discredit upon the chart of
Rev. J. S. Lamar. But I wish to
examine one other feature of its
internal evidence of its own truth.
In the marginal note already re
ferred to, it is stated that the chart
“embodies the information possess
ed by my father, Philip.” Now, in
formation is knowledge at first
hand from a competent witness.
If this is what we are seeking, here
i 3 a good place to find it: and the
burden of proof is upon anyone
who questions the truth of the
chart. I am not saying that we
should not seek among contem
poraneous records for facts which
corroborate or correct its state
ments. I myself have been dili
gently engaged for some years past
in this very work, and have had
abundant success, ns will appear, T
trust, when the comprehensive his
tory of the Lamar Family which I
have in preparation, shall emerge
from the press. It is my purpose,
as far as it is possible, to see for
mvself, but this does not mean. I
trust, that I must refuse to see a
fact which has been pointed out to
me merely because it has been
pointed out. One who believes
everything that he hears, even
when told by a man who has every
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opportunity to know the facts, and
who bears the highest reputation
for veracity. One who believes
everything he hears is not so great
a simpleton as the one who believes
nothing that he hears, even when
told by a man who has every oppor
tunity to know the facts, and who
hears the very highest reputation
for veracity. Philip, the father of
Rev. James S. Lamar, had excep
tional opportunities to know the
things about which he speaks to us
through Lis sor, fop his father was
the Philip, whom we have already
had under review, as one of the
four sons of Sarah Lamar, viz:
Robert, Thomas, Philip and James.
We have seen that Robert was old
enough in 1771 to sign a deed and
that James was old enough in 1756
to be named by his mother in her
application for a grant of land.
This means that they were all born
in Maryland, before the Lamars
migrated to South Carolina, and
ail had grown in the same South
Carolina community, shown by the
location of their respective grants
to have been a very compact one,
in the midst of their first cousins,
the children of the three Lamar
brothers, Thomas, Robert and
John, who head the three grand di
visions of the chart. There is a
pardonable clannishness in people
of the same country who meet in a
foreign land, and that feeling is
intensified when they are from the
same community, and experience
the renewal of old neighborly in
terests: but when to these ties are
added those of blood, and super
imposed upon these the bonds of
religious fellowship, and then when
all these are wrapped up together
•by the memories of religious per
secution which has followed them
from city to city, from land to
land, and made them fugitives in
the earth because of their love to
God, their kindness to men. their
devotion to truth, such as charac
terized the French Huguenots, we
are not surprised to see them settle
apart from others, in communities
of their own, where for generations
they intermarry with each other
and enjoy a fellowship which a
indeed admirable. Bishop Francis
Asburv in his journal constantly
speaks of the beautiful lives ot
these Hugenot settlements, which
he visited as often as possible as he
passed through Virginia, Maryland
nnd South Carolina, partaking ot
their princelv hospitality, admiring
their polished manners and paying
tribute to the saintly characters to
he found among them. Such were
the Lamars of Philip’s day and
that I’hilin possesses information
of about his Uncles and Aunts and
Cousins, ire told what he knew.
He was told to tell it: “When thou
liest down, and when thou nsest
up. and when thou walkest by the
way.”
RESIDENCE GIVEN AS /
BARNWELL DISTRICT y
Philip Lamar, Sr., was still alive
in 1806. when he witnessed a deed
made by Philip Lamar, Jr., to Jacob
Zinn; and Philip Lamar, Jr., was
still living in the old home settle
ment as late as 1818. as his work
as surveyor in the county shows.
He retained his business interests
there as late as 1834. for he sold
at that time, a tract of land on
Horse Creek, though his place of
residence is given as Barnwell Dis
trict, S. C.. which district then ex
tended to within a few miles of the
ancestral home. Both father and
son had heavy land transactions.
The elder Philip haft a partner in
the land business by the name of
William Evans, and during the year
1790 they had four land grants, one
for 960 acres, one for 1,000 acres:
one for 999 acres: and one for 512
acres. A large acreage from these
princely estates is still in the hands
of this branch of tho family,
spreading aroHnd stately old man
sions. and cultivated by the happy
descendants of former slaves, who
were brought over by the slave
ships of Gazaway Bugg Lamar, in
"the days that are no more.”
John Lamar 3, who was my
great-grandfather, was the one of
the three brothers migrating from
Maryland in 1756 and had several
grants near the other two. on the
Savannah River, in the township of
New Granville: but in 1759 he ob
tained a grant on the opposite bluff
of the River on the Georgia sidp.
where he made his home. How
ever he continued his holdings on
the South Carolina side and was in
constant communication with his
relatives there. The river did not.
divide them, but was rather a
means of connection, for it const!-
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tuted the great highway of those
days, as the early settlers following
the example of Indians, traveled
much in boats which were manned
by skilled oarsmen from among
their slaves. Besides, the Sand
Bar Ferry was at hand and was
owned first by Zachariah Lamar, ol
the Georgia family, and then for
manv years by Miss Betsy Lamar,
an old" maid who belonged to one
of the South Carolina families.
The Lamars from both sides ot
the river went to Augusta, their
common trading and marketing
point, by way of the Sand Bar
Ferry Road, w'hich was a cele
brated thoroughfare of early times,
and they could not have been al
together ignorant of their rela
tionship to each other even had
they been extremely indifferent in
regard to such matters. Then, too.
John Lamar 3, had a son, John
Lamar 4, w r ho was my great grand
father and a Captain in the Revo
lution, whose first wife, Mary Eli
zabeth Bugg, belonged to a family
living among the South Carolina
Lamars, w’hose lands were in sight
across the river. After her death,
he was married to Priscilla Bugg of
the same family: and after her
death, his son, Basil Lamar, the
father of the celebrated Gazaway
Bugg Lamar of Augusta, was
brought up by the Bugg family
among his Lamar kin, on the South
Carolina side.
This Basil Lamar was first cousin
to Philip, the father of Rev. James
Lamar, who made the chart. They
were born and brought up in the
same vicinity, and both became
leading business men there. There
they doubtless met with strangers
who sometimes took them for bro
thers, and they were compelled to
explain their relationship, hence
they could not have lived in total
ignorance of these things.
Of course there are people in the
world who do not know who their
uncles and grandfathers were; but
there aro others who could not help
konwing, and this chart comes to
us from the latter class. If you
find a man who doubts this in the
face of the facts, let him alone; for
if you should save him from his
doubts there would he nothing left
of him.
Any chart of the Southern
Lamars that does not begin with
this primary line through Thomas
1. and Thomas 2. and then run
thence through three co-ordinate
lines which are headed by the bro
thers, Thomas 3. Robert 3. and John
3, is spurious. It is not innocently
It may be based upon facts n
It may be based upon facts: but the
“deficient” hut fatally defective,
facts are too few In number to
lead to a just conclusion. No man
should have so much respect for
a few facts as to refuse to collect
ail facts. In the long run. which is
the only run worth running, a
chart which bases wide generaliza
tions upon narrow and imperfect
process of induction will come to
grief. It will be overtaken, like
Orestes, by its own fury follies,
which never fail to follow up crimes
committed against the familv
bonds. Facts recorded in Georgia
are all important, but they are no*
of themselves a sufficient basis for
a tree of the Lamar Family.
There are other Lamars who
never came South, but that is an
other story.
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