JimBob's Roadside Shrines: April 2014

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

April 29th Another highway 178 Fatal- Satero Navarro

Not able to find out any information about this one...

April 29 2014 A sad one near North SC on Highway 178

Couldn't get the name on this one, believe last name is Toland- Just a young kid....

April 29 Highway 178 near Estill, SC Pamela Simmons

Couldn't find out much on this one from Google, she was 25.

April 29 2014 Andrew Kendrick- Highway 178

Passed this one on the way into Pelion also- Google search didn't provide any further clues...

April 29 2014 Lexington County SC John Snuffer

Seems poor Mr Snuffer was struck down at 1:30 in the morning, while walking down Highway 178, near Pelion SC.

He was 46, and from the town of Swansea.

Lexington County (WLTX) - South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers are investigating an accident that happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday after a vehicle struck a pedestrian. Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman said that John Snuffer, 46, of Swansea was walking northbound on Highway 178, near Washboard Road in Pelion when he was hit by a Chevrolet Envoy driven by Wayne Liva of St. Matthews. Authorities said Snuffer was pronounced at the scene due to multiple body trauma. The accident remains under investigation by the Lexington County Coroner's Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

April 27 2014 Highway 225 Greenwood SC.

This one was near the house in Greenwood- Caught it this morning on my way to tour some National Register sites.

I'm thinking it may be a young lady from the way it was decorated- The flowers were a bit wilted.... Hadn't been tended to very recently.

Friday, April 25, 2014

General William Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, SC

Visited the good General during my Charleston trip on April 24, 2014.

William Moultrie

Birth:	Nov. 23, 1730 Charleston South Carolina, USA
Death:	Sept. 27, 1805
Major General William Moultrie. Born in Charleston, S.C., November 23, 1730. Second in command of Charleston's defenses during the American Revolution. He was taken prisoner when Charleston fell to the British in 1780. Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1783-1784. Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1784 and Governor in 1785. He was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1787 and was again elected Governor in 1792. Moultrie published in 1802 Memoirs of the American Revolution. He died in Charleston on September 27, 1805, and is buried on the grounds of Fort Moultrie, which is named after him.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

New category- Jim Bob sees dead people

I have regularly visited the graves of the famous, not so famous, and so forth, so I've decided to add this category to the Shrine page.

Today, I stopped in at Bethel Church on the Callison Highway here in Greenwood to call on William Jennings Bryan Dorn.

Dorn was the congressman from this area for many years, and I met with him on several occasions.

William Jennings Bryan Dorn (April 14, 1916 – August 13, 2005) was a United States politician from South Carolina who represented the western part of the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1975 as a Democrat.

Dorn, named after William Jennings Bryan, was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1938 and to the South Carolina Senate in 1940. He served in the Army Air Force in Europe during World War II.
Dorn was first elected to Congress in the 1946 election. In the 1948 election, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate seat that was later held by Strom Thurmond.
Dorn returned to the House in the 1950 election. Dorn was known for his work on issues related to the military and civil rights^{[citation needed]}. He left Congress to run for Governor of South Carolina in 1974. He lost the Democratic primary to Charles D. Ravenel. However, Ravenel was later ruled^{[by whom?]} ineligible to run as not meeting the residency requirement of the state constitution. A special state convention then chose Dorn as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by Republican James B. Edwards, one of the few disappointments in what was generally a big year for Democrats. In 1978 Dorn again sought the Democratic nomination for Governor but was eliminated in a three way race. In 1980 he was elected chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.