William Eustace Pinckney, born 1863, died 1957; Pinckney Point, circa 1954.
"When you say you want to be friendly, I think you want to be friendly to those people buying lots - not to us," said Mary Pinckney Easterling Powell. Powell, at 95, is the elder stateswoman of the Pinckney family and has chronicled its geneology"
From "Developer details Pinckney plan" story published in Bluffton Today, Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The following are excerpts from "Back Over Home," written by Mary Pinckney Powell. Copies of the book are available online at www.pinckneyfamily.com
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When Eustace Bellinger Pinckney of Walterboro, Colleton County, South
Carolina, serving in the Confederate War, met and fell in love with lovely
young Mary Martha Porcher, called "Daisy" of Calhoun Plantation, Bluffton,
South Carolina, he wasted little time before asking her father, James
William Porcher for permission to seek her hand in marriage. To his
endearing words of proposal Miss Daisy politely responded, " I thank you for
your friendship Mr. Pinckney." Out came Eustace's desperate appeal - "Damn
the friendship, Miss Daisy, I want love!"
After the war in 1867, Eustace
and Daisy with their little children moved from Walterboro, South Carolina
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| On Calhoun Plantation life was like a world into itself. The 1860 South Carolina Slave Schedule listed the number of slaves owned by James William Porcher as 66. Nero, his overseer, could read and write, a number of slaves were sent to Savannah to learn the blacksmith and boat building trades. James Porcher, of Hugenot descent, was a skilled artisan. He built boats, carriages, made clocks, sundials, carved hunting horns, and ground corn by windmill power. His grandchildren held him in deep respect and devotion. | ||||||||||||||||||
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