Eric Emerson, agency director and state historic preservation officer of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, pulls out the original 1860 Ordinance of Secession from climate-controlled archives. Descendants of signers of the 1860 Ordinance of Secession gathered Sunday at the department to hold a memorial service for the signers. The event, sponsored by the South Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, is part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Ordinance of Secession.
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Angela Cox of Columbia takes pictures while Betty Myers, also of Columbia and dressed in a replica Civil War day dress, attend a memorial service for the signers of the 1860 Ordinance of Secession Sunday at the SC Department of Archives and History.
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Pelham Lyles, right, the director of the Fairfield County Museum in Winnsboro and a descendant of the 1860 Ordinance of Secession signer William Strother Lyles of Fairfield, admires a painting of the President of the Secession Convention, David Flavel Jamison, being held by Jamison's descendant, David Jamison Rutledge of Spartanburg. The painting, according to Rutledge, has 2 bullet holes courtesy of wayward shots of a "drunken Yankee soldier."
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Val Green is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession signer the Rev. Henry Davis Green of Sumter.
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James L. Dunlap Jr., of Six Mile, is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession signer Benjamin William Lawton of Barnwell.
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Martha Van Schaick, of Lyman, is the President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Marvin Spearman, of Chapin, is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Mauldin and Jacob Pinckney Reed, both of Anderson.
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John Wilson Jamison III, of Birmingham, Ala., is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession signer David F. Jamison of Barnwell.
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Daniel Williams, of Graniteville, is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession Signer Joseph Josiah Brabham of Barnwell.
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Betty Jane Miller, of Barnwell, is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession signer Lewis Malone Ayer Jr. of Barnwell.
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David Jamison Rutledge, of Spartanburg, is a descendant of David Flavel Jamison of Barnwell, the President of the Secession Convention.
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Pelham Lyles, of Fairfield County, is a descendant of Ordinance of Secession Signer William Strother Lyles of Fairfield.
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