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Captain Henry William McMillan

 b.  8 July 1809, Barnwell District, S.C.
  d.  7 June 1871, Barnwell County, S.C.

Captain Henry William McMillan was second Worshipful Master of Hope Masonic
Lodge for the years 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1871 up until his death on 7 Jun
1871.  Mr. Frank Strickland got a picture of Henry William McMillan from
Mrs. James Calvin "Jack" McMillan, Jr. of Denmark, Bamberg Co., S.C., a
number of years ago, to hang in the Lodge..  Mr. Roy Fender, secretary of
Hope Lodge, told me that Hope Lodge had been moved three times.  He said,
"that Hope Lodge was established in 1866 but that he didn't know the
location of the Lodge at that time.

Died, suddenly, at his home, in Barnwell County, S.C., on the morning of the
7th instant, Captain Henry W. McMillan, in the sixty-second year of his age.
Brother McMillan rose very early that morning, as was his habit through
life, and after attending to the feeding of his stock and working in his
garden, went in to breakfast, ate quite heartily, and at the table was very
cheerful and lively, indulging in pleasantry and humor with different
members of his family.  Soon after breakfast he started out to the field,
accompanied by his little grandson, to whom he was talking as they walked
along, when suddenly he fell.  The little fellow, seeing that something
serious was the matter, ran immediately back for his grandmother, but before
she could reach him, which was only a few minutes from the time he left the
house, he was dead.  Truly, "in the midst of life, we are in death."  Of our
deceased friend and brother, so suddenly taken away from among us, it is
high and just praise to say that he will be greatly missed, in his family,
neighborhood and church.  The sorrow and sense of loss in his death were
unmistakabley testified in the large concourse of people, from all the
surrounding country, who assembled around his grave.  Brother McMillan was a
warm hearted man, and was as happy in doing acts of hospitality and kindness
as others were in receiving them.  No one could enter his house and not feel
at home.  He had been a member of Springtown Baptist Church forty-four
years, and had the confidence and love of his brethen.  He was buried with
Masonic honors, of which order he was an honored member.  May his friends
and brethren recognize, in his sudden removal from our midst, a solemn call
from God to "work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can
work.
                                                          J. G. W.

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