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My uncle, J.K. Gourdin IV, wrote a 46- page memoir just before he died in 2004. This is a continuation of his memories of life in Pineville in the 1930s and 1940s. I have edited his words but not his thoughts. Aunt Mattie. Aunt Mattie (Martha Marie Gourdin) and her twin brother, Uncle Charlie, were born in 1875, the youngest siblings of J.K. Gourdin III. More ... Florence, S.C., was just a railroad junction prior to the Civil War; however, during the war the little town became host to several major Confederate institutions: a hospital, a prison, and a cemetery. More ... |
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