Rev. A. A. JAMES was
born July 26, 1824, in Yorkville, S.C., where he attended
the schools of the place until 1844, when he went to the
Ebenezer Academy and prepared for college. Under the
instruction of Rev. P.E. BISHOP, he entered the junior class
of Davidson College, N.C, in 1846 and graduated in 1848,
taking the first honor in his class. He entered the Theological
Seminary in Columbia in Oct., 1848, and graduated in 1851,
going directly to his present pastoral charge. When the War
Between the States began, the 18th South Carolina Volunteers
were organized with four companies from Union, two from
Spartanburg, two from York, one from Anderson, one from
Darlington, numbered one thousand men. The colonel, GADBERRY, would
not appoint a chaplain, but submitted the appointment to a
vote of the regiment and A.A. JAMES was elected. He reported
immediately for duty and continued to hold services and
minister to the sick and wound! ed until the close of the
war. Then returning to his pastoral charge, he has preached
regularly to the present time.
[ The foregoing report comes from
MISS ANNA C. HAMES, Secretary JOHN HAMES CHAPTER, U.D.C.,
Jonesville, S.C.]
Generously transcribed and submitted by
Nancie
O'Sullivan