[814] members of the Presbyterian church. While he is still a student of law, yet both he and his wife spend a portion of their time in pursuing literary studies and keeping abreast with the best current literature. They still cherish with mingled pride and sadness the recollections of the achievements of the Confederate soldier and the hallowed memories of the ‘Lost Cause.’
Enoch B. Rice
Enoch B. Rice was born in Anderson county, S. C., November 30, 1841. He is the son of Ibzan and Barbara (Breazeale) Rice, both natives of Anderson county. The father was the son of Hezekiah Rice, who came from Virginia to South Carolina, and the mother was the daughter of Enoch Breazeale, a Revolutionary soldier. Enoch was reared in Anderson county and was going to school in Anderson when the war broke out. In April, 1861, he volunteered in Company B, Fourth South Carolina regiment, with which he served one year, or until the expiration of his term of enlistment in 1862. Then he re-enlisted in Company C, Palmetto sharpshooters, with which company he served to the end of the war, surrendering at Appomattox. His service was rendered as a private and he participated in the following battles: First Manassas, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and the engagements attending the siege of Petersburg, also the battles of Raccoon Valley, near Lookout Mountain, siege of Knoxville and several other small engagements. He was never absent from the post of duty and yet was so fortunate that he was never wounded or captured. Returning home after the war, Mr. Rice lost no time in idle repining, but has given his attention to farming, mercantile business and the operating of machinery. For a number of years he ran a steam thresher and cotton gin, and now operates a three-gin mill in Belton, and is also proprietor of an oil mill at that place. He is a member of Camp Anderson, U. C. V., and of the Baptist church, and is one of the most substantial and prosperous business men of the town of Belton, where he has made his home for many years.John Peter Richardson, ex-governor of South Carolina, was born in Clarendon county, September as, 1829, son of John Peter Richardson, who represented South Carolina
