Douglass House
Dr. J. E. Turner House
Douglass House Site
Dr. J. E. Turner House Site
Charles Welsh House
Kenny Scott House
Charles Welsh House
H. E. Watson House Site
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Sara Hazel Ellis: A Mr. Douglass, whose given name I don’t recall, lived here across the street from our house. After the house was remodeled, Dr. J. E. and Helen Hursey Turner lived here. The house sat up high off the ground; it burned in the fall of 1978. Dr. Turner was a dentist in town, and his first office was on Main Street upstairs over the grocery store near the Bank of Chesterfield. Later, he moved to an office on Green Street.
I recall that the Turners had a tennis court in their yard. Mrs. Turner had been married before, and by that marriage she had two girls, Barbara and Jackie. Barbara married Charlie Brooks Teal, and Jackie married Carl Johnson. Jackie and her husband died in an automobile accident on Highway # 1 just north of Camden, SC, leaving a very young son, Jimmy, whom the Turners adopted and reared. Dr. and Mrs. Turner also had three daughters of their own: Ernestine, who died from leukemia; Allianne; and Frances Scott. Alliane married Howard Duvall from Cheraw, and Frances Scott married Tim Moore, a coach from the lower part of the state.
I recall a time when Jimmy came to our house with a monkey which the Turners owned, and the monkey, which was named Jerry, got loose inside our house. "Miss" Allie (Hursey), Helen’s mother, who lived with the Turners, came to the house to catch the monkey. An additional memory about Carl and Jackie's accident is that Polly Campbell (later Chason) and Sarah Andrews (later Tarlton) were also in the car with them. They were both seriously injured and had long recovery periods.
James W. Jenkins: Charles and Sylvia Douglass Welsh first built a home on the right side of the former Turner property and recently built a new home on the west side. Their daughter, Linda Welsh Scott, and her husband Kenny bought the first house and and have moved here from Tavern Branch.
Elizabeth Ann Gaddy Rivers: The westernmost part of this property facing West Main Street was once the site of the H. A. and Siddie Grady Watson house. He was always called Mr. "Aitche" (H. A.). I can barely remember him, but Plume knew him well because he used to help Mr. Watson pick cotton. The Watsons were across-the-street neighbors of the Lonnie Rivers family.
Their son, Burris "Bunk" Watson, married Louise Gaskins, the sister of Plume's mother, Lealla Gaskins Rivers.
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