10/16/2016
FROM john D. evans and Debbie Landreth Hayes---Not too long ago, Debbie and I became duriously indignant anout the demolition of the Old Corner Iva Drug Store. Built in l906 by Mr. W. T. A. Sherard for his soon to be brothwer in law, Dr. John Ernest Watson, agraduate of the Medical College of Georgia. His homwetown was Mt. Carmel, S. C. How he knew Virginia Sherard of Mofferttsville, S. C. I do niot know. They eventually married and by then Dr. Augustus Gilmer and Mary AlkanzaClinkscales moved from the Little Generostee A R P Church section because the Savannah Valley Railroad was laying track from McCormicj , S. C. to Anderson, S.C. (a part of the scheme for connecting this railroad with Knoxville, Tn. Dt Cook, several years before, had paid to Mrs. . Betsy Brown (Mrs. H. H. Brown) $2.50 per acre for 100 acres of land extending from Church st on the south, to property of Jackson Mills on the north; then fromOld River Road to juyst beyond Cwetral St (on the 1906 map it is called Center Street. He and Mrs. Cook built a large two stoery home with a cupola at the highest apex of the roof--and here on the corner of Broad St. and E. Front st (some maps call it Railroad st.) His children were as follows
Charles Abner Cook, ..died after two years and is buried at Little Generostee ARP church graveyard
Iva Alkanza Cook wsho would ebentually marry Robert David Bryson of Laurens County, S. C.. Mr. and Mrs.Bryson bought the home of Mr. W. Frank McGee bought the home of Mr. W. Frank McEe
Essie Rebecca Cook (not to be confused with alfred and Edward'sd sister, Essie Pauline Cook-who lived upstairs over Cook's Five and Ten Centas store, General Mdse, Caskets and Furniture. Essie Rebecca Married Foster Bryson of Woodruff and they raised a large family there--she was the first to leave Ivaa and make her home elsewhere
Alfred Augustus Cook, graduate of Furman University and Gupyon Jones School of Mortuary Science in Atlanta--he would eventually marry Mary Campbell of downtown Antreville, daughter of Mr. Jim Campbell--no childfen
William Edward Cook, a school teacher and Principal a t Barnes and Iva Grammar School. Edward would eventually marry Vivian Marguerite Pruitt of Starr (sdhe was raised in the home that once belonged to Tink and Tommy McGee. Her father, Mr. Lawrence Pruitt of Starr, worked for the U. S. mAIL sERVICE AND ON THE SIDE HE FARMER. hE WS ALSO AN AVID HORTICULTURALIST. He laid out a master plan for the grounds surrounding the two story white home. a very formal design---I have seen one two page spread in the Anderson newspaper showing the results of hias labor with spring bulbs, crepe myrtle, deodoara cedars, wysteria, boxwood, , mock oranges and lemon,huge cherry trees, flowering peaches,
