Thomas William Graham

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Horry Herald (Conway SC) Mr. T. W. Graham Dead

He was a public spirited citizen of McClellanville

Meclellanville, January 19-Special: Mr. T. W. Graham died on the 16th at 8 am. He was born on the 25th of October 1849, entered the Arsenal at Columbia in October 1874, and retired before Sherman's army seeing active service in the death throes of the Confederacy. As many other youths had to do at this time forego an education for the help of parents and relatives.

Mr. Graham finding his father's estate involved from security debts went to work and cleared up the debts, turning the property all over to his mother and sisters, and then started in for himself.

He married Miss Frances J. Sessions December 28, 1871, and settled Grahamville on the Waccamaw which received his name. He carried on a prosperous business till he removed from there to McClellanville, where he carried on a large business till broken up by the storm of 1885. He then threw all of his energy and resources into rice planting on the Santee, thinking all that necessary to resuscitate the languishing business was energy and perseverance, but he went down like all his predecessors before the raging freshets.

Mr. Graham always took an active part in politics from 1876, even naming one of his sons that was born that year "our own Hampton."

His daughter, Mrs. Roland Hughes, arrived from Savannah Ga., in time to see her father alive, bearing the tedious ride up from Mount Pleasant with an infant, four weeks old.

Mrs. Graham survives him, with five sons and two daughters.

Many of the pupils of the High School attended his funeral this afternoon, conducted by the pastors of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. At the grave the three Masons present went through a portion of the Masonic burial service he being a Mason.--News and Courier

Three sisters survive him here viz, Mrs. L. D. Causey, Mrs. M. A. Westbury, and Mrs. M. B. Price.

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