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Town of Calhoun, South Carolina Oral History Collection

PayneE Cassette 1, Side 2

Media

Part of Interview: Payne, Eva

Title

PayneE Cassette 1, Side 2

Source

Eva Payne Interview

Date

Unknown (presumably in 1988)

Description

Cassette 1

Side 2

00:25: Eva's mother not only inherited land from her father, but also inherited much of her brother Hal Boggs's land on account that he was not good with business, and let things lapse.

2:40: Her grandfather Aaron Boggs was from around the Pickens area. Aaron was the overseer of the Fort Hill Plantation. Megginson states that the residents at the time may have been Andrew Pickens Calhoun.

3:40: At one tine Aaron Boggs lived at Cherry's Crossing, but in his later years lived at a spot known as "Pleasant Curve."

9:40: Eva doesn't believe that Aaron Boggs inherited much; rather she thinks that he made his money off of the elevated prices of cotton in the years immediately following the Civil War. Eva states that Aaron never actually owned slaves. He instead paid his workers a salary to work for him. He had a large farm and an enormous amount of land.

16:00: Aaron Boggs property stretched from his house all the way to the Ravenel Bridge.

17:19: Eva's grandmother Elmira was a wonderful, cheerful person. A reserve seat was always kept for her during Clemson graduating exercises.

19:30: The Boggs and Stephens families are well known in the local area.

21:30: Aaron Boggs had possession of several Calhoun antiques such as a piano and a four post bed.

23:53: A local train passes by the house. Eva has been around trains all her life. As a youth she would play around the trains and the depot. She admits that she was a bit "wild" as a youth, and was a "tomboy." Her sister Gracia didn't share her want for adventure.

26:21: Eva believes the original depot burned, though the newer one stands in about the same spot.

30:15: Eva can recall that Ramsey and Colonel Doyle were both depot agents.

31:48: Audio ends.

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