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Notes for Henry Edison EADDY

The marriage of Henry Edison Eaddy and Eliza Huggins produced many
talented and creative men and women. Eaddy was himself unique, a
self-taught engineer, mathematician, and writer, he had unbounded
intellectual curiosity and inventiveness inherited by his children,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren. The enormous household expanded
to take in orphaned grandchildren and nurtured originality, ingenuity,
and a drive for achievement.

OBITUARY OF HENRY EDISON EADDY

The "County Record" reported the death of its columnist in the florid
style of the period.

"It is the painful duty of the 'County Record' to chronicle the death of
Mr. Henry E. Eaddy, well known as the "Sage of Possum Fork". He died at
his home near Johnsonville Friday morning about 2;30 o'clock."

"Mr. Eaddy was a man of rare personality. He was a self-made man in
every sense of the term. Intellectually he was a genius, being an expert
mathematician. He was a civil engineer by profession, a hospitable
Christian gentlemen in his home, and a man of charming manner to all who
came in contact with him. He was of unusual vitality, both physically
and mentally for one of his advanced age, having celebrated his eightieth
birthday in March. The evening prior to his death he ate supper and was
in his usual happy frame of mind and apparently in good health as he had
been for some time and fell asleep. At 2:30 Friday morning he was found
dead."

"Mr. Eaddy was born and reared and spent his long and useful life in the
vicinity of Johnsonville. In his young life he married a Miss Huggins of
Timmonsville, a daughter of the late Rev. J. S. Huggins, inventor of the
first cotton planter used in the South."

"He had represented the County of Williamsburg in the State Legislature
several terms (first elected in 1890, Boddie, p. 463) and during all his
public life he strove to render his county efficient service."

"Mr. Eaddy leaves a widow, five sons, and two daughters: Messrs. J. A. of
Bushnell FL; C. L. of Linden, FL; John M. of Kingstree; S. O. of
Johnsonville; Dr. A. G. of Timmonsville; Mrs. Joseph Hugh Hanna of
Gifford; and Mrs. R. B. Dickson of Johnsonville."

"The funeral service, conducted by Rev. E. P. Hutson, took place in Old
Johnsonville Methodist Church at 4 p.m. Saturday, and interment was made
in the church burying ground. Six of his grandchildren acted as
pallbearers. The funeral exercises were very largely attended."

He served in Co. F. 4th Cav. (Artillery), SC, CSA.

Source: "The Call to Arms" by Danny H. Smith.

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