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James L. Haynsworth is the great-grandson of WIlliam C. S. Ellerbe. He is the owner of Ellerbe’s Mill on Rafting Creek. Garner Sanders built the original structure about 1835. The executors of his son, William Marion Sanders, sold the mill pond and plantation to his first cousin, William Crawford Sanders Ellerbe in 1861. In April 1865, General Edward E. Potter of the Union Army made what is now known as “Potter’s Raid” from Georgetown. When a detachment of this army passed Ellerbe’s Mill, a freed slave held the owner’s Masonic apron before the mill house door. The commander of the unit, also a Mason, spared the mill. Foremost among a host of assets and talents was Jim’s incisive intellect. After graduating from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York City, he focused on creativity with three advertising firms in New York, Atlanta and Columbia, South Carolina. He also had a number of personal interests, among them his unique and historic home near Rembert, South Carolina, and the Society of Cincinnati, which he served for years as genealogist and vice president and from 2000 to 2001 as president. His many achievements include designing the South Carolina Bicentennial Medal, the Statehouse carpet and numerous awards from the Art Directors Club of Atlanta and the Southeastern Art Directors’ Exhibitions. His associations include membership in the Church of the Ascention (Hagood, South Carolina), the Society of Cincinnati, the Columbia St. Andrews Society; the Society of the High Hills of Santee (Sumter County, South Carolina) (founding member and president), and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. of Massachusetss.
Date Published: January 10, 2007
JAMES L. HAYNSWORTH III
REMBERT -- Memorial services for James Lafayette Haynsworth III, 79, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the Church of the Ascension, Hagood. The family will receive friends following the service at Millvale Plantation.
Jim Haynsworth died peacefully of heart failure at 1 a.m. Monday, Jan. 8, 2007. Born in Atlanta on July 27, 1927, he was the son of the late James Arthur Haynsworth and Susan Kirk Haynsworth of Hagood, where he was reared from childhood. He enjoyed a wide circle of friends, most of whom shared his enthusiasm for family history and genealogy, which with his recent declining health occupied most of his time.
Foremost among a host of assets and talents was Jim's incisive intellect. After graduating from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York City, he focused on creativity with three advertising firms in New York, Atlanta and Columbia. He also had a number of personal interests, among them his unique and historic home near Rembert, and the Society of Cincinnati, which he served for years as genealogist and vice president and from 2000 to 2001 as president.
His many achievements include designing the South Carolina Bicentennial Medal, the Statehouse carpet and numerous awards from the Art Directors Club of Atlanta and the Southeastern Art Directors' Exhibitions. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. His associations include membership in the Church of the Ascension, the Society of Cincinnati, the Columbia St. Andrews Society, the Society of the High Hills of Santee (founding member and president), and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. of Massachusetts.
Jim was a 1947 Gold Stars graduate of The Citadel. In 1959, he married Mary Elizabeth Hurst of Conyers, Ga. He is survived by his sister, Mary Alden Carrison; his children, James Haynsworth IV (Gina) of Columbia, Elizabeth Haynsworth of Venetta, Ore., and Susan Haynsworth of Taos, N.M.; grandchildren, James Lafayette V and Hudson Rochambeau Haynsworth and fiancée, Kay Gordon.
Memorials may be made to the Society of the High Hills of the Santee, in care of William Barksdale, secretary, 1119 Princeton St., Columbia SC 29205.
Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is assisting the family. [1, 5] |
1927 - 2007 (79 years)
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