To make him confess, the Mayor ordered him to be severely whipped, in consequence thereof he died, and Shultz was indicted for murder, imprisoned many months at Edgefield, and narrowly escaped ending his turbulent and eventful life on the gallows.
His father was Nathan George Evans, a Confederate general, and after his father died in 1868, he went to live in Edgefield with his uncle Martin Witherspoon Gary.
Rhydon Call's mother was the daughter of Rydon G. Mays, an Edgefield, South Carolina physician and planter
In 1868 he established a school for freedmen in South Carolina, and a year later was made assessor of internal revenue for Edgefield district.
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U.S. Route 25 (Edgefield Road) is the main road through the community, leading north to Interstate 20 just outside the CDP.
Strom Thurmond (1902–2003), Edgefield (South Carolina) Town and County Attorney (1930–1938), Circuit Judge, Governor of South Carolina (1947–1951), United States Senator (1956–2003), Presidential Candidate (1948).
After a bitterly fought 1876 campaign, his second term hinged on disputed votes from Laurens and Edgefield counties, where the counts greatly exceeded the population, and overwhelmingly favored his opponent, ex-Confederate Wade Hampton III.
The Edgefield Advertiser described it as a Confederate flag with the following additions, where one side is a Palmetto tree overtopped with the Crescent, with the name ‘Edgefield Hussars’ gilded on a white bar.
She did not visit the segregated South until 1942, when she met relatives in Edgefield.