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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 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