He was the author of "The Annals of Newberry" and "The Bench and Bar in South Carolina."
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“General O'Neall was a practicing lawyer when I [the author] went to Lexington. He then represented Newberry in the House of Representatives, and as Speaker was distinguished for the rapid and correct dispatch of business, having a clear, loud voice, a fluent delivery and quick perception, and being one of the most rapid pensmen in the State. On the bench, he usually made up his mind at the outset of a case. In sentencing those convicted in the Court of Sessions, he threatened them loudly and severely and then generally let them off with a light penalty. Tom Hendrix (Hamlet) was once brought up before him for being drunk and disturbing the Court, and when the Judge asked him what reason he could give against being sent to board with the Sheriff, his reply, "May it please your Honor, he don't keep a good table," so pleased the Judge that he was discharged. Isaac Vansant, the Sheriff, swore that he kept a better table than Tom Hamlet ever sot down to. As Chief Justice, Judge O'Neall presided over the Supreme Court for many years, and he was President of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company from the beginning to the completion of that enterprise. He was a great and good man, an honor to the State and District that produced him....” From “Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806 to 1876,” by Edwin J. Scott, Charles J. Calvo, Jr., Printer, 1884,Columbia, S.C., page 132.
additional info. provided by Frances P. Quarles
additional info. provided by Ray
“General O'Neall was a practicing lawyer when I [the author] went to Lexington. He then represented Newberry in the House of Representatives, and as Speaker was distinguished for the rapid and correct dispatch of business, having a clear, loud voice, a fluent delivery and quick perception, and being one of the most rapid pensmen in the State. On the bench, he usually made up his mind at the outset of a case. In sentencing those convicted in the Court of Sessions, he threatened them loudly and severely and then generally let them off with a light penalty. Tom Hendrix (Hamlet) was once brought up before him for being drunk and disturbing the Court, and when the Judge asked him what reason he could give against being sent to board with the Sheriff, his reply, "May it please your Honor, he don't keep a good table," so pleased the Judge that he was discharged. Isaac Vansant, the Sheriff, swore that he kept a better table than Tom Hamlet ever sot down to. As Chief Justice, Judge O'Neall presided over the Supreme Court for many years, and he was President of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company from the beginning to the completion of that enterprise. He was a great and good man, an honor to the State and District that produced him....” From “Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806 to 1876,” by Edwin J. Scott, Charles J. Calvo, Jr., Printer, 1884,Columbia, S.C., page 132.
additional info. provided by Frances P. Quarles
He was the author of "The Annals of Newberry" and "The Bench and Bar in South Carolina."
additional info. provided by Ray
“General O'Neall was a practicing lawyer when I [the author] went to Lexington. He then represented Newberry in the House of Representatives, and as Speaker was distinguished for the rapid and correct dispatch of business, having a clear, loud voice, a fluent delivery and quick perception, and being one of the most rapid pensmen in the State. On the bench, he usually made up his mind at the outset of a case. In sentencing those convicted in the Court of Sessions, he threatened them loudly and severely and then generally let them off with a light penalty. Tom Hendrix (Hamlet) was once brought up before him for being drunk and disturbing the Court, and when the Judge asked him what reason he could give against being sent to board with the Sheriff, his reply, "May it please your Honor, he don't keep a good table," so pleased the Judge that he was discharged. Isaac Vansant, the Sheriff, swore that he kept a better table than Tom Hamlet ever sot down to. As Chief Justice, Judge O'Neall presided over the Supreme Court for many years, and he was President of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company from the beginning to the completion of that enterprise. He was a great and good man, an honor to the State and District that produced him....” From “Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806 to 1876,” by Edwin J. Scott, Charles J. Calvo, Jr., Printer, 1884,Columbia, S.C., page 132.
additional info. provided by Frances P. Quarles
additional info. provided by Ray
“General O'Neall was a practicing lawyer when I [the author] went to Lexington. He then represented Newberry in the House of Representatives, and as Speaker was distinguished for the rapid and correct dispatch of business, having a clear, loud voice, a fluent delivery and quick perception, and being one of the most rapid pensmen in the State. On the bench, he usually made up his mind at the outset of a case. In sentencing those convicted in the Court of Sessions, he threatened them loudly and severely and then generally let them off with a light penalty. Tom Hendrix (Hamlet) was once brought up before him for being drunk and disturbing the Court, and when the Judge asked him what reason he could give against being sent to board with the Sheriff, his reply, "May it please your Honor, he don't keep a good table," so pleased the Judge that he was discharged. Isaac Vansant, the Sheriff, swore that he kept a better table than Tom Hamlet ever sot down to. As Chief Justice, Judge O'Neall presided over the Supreme Court for many years, and he was President of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company from the beginning to the completion of that enterprise. He was a great and good man, an honor to the State and District that produced him....” From “Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806 to 1876,” by Edwin J. Scott, Charles J. Calvo, Jr., Printer, 1884,Columbia, S.C., page 132.
additional info. provided by Frances P. Quarles
Inscription
Late Chief Justice of the State of South Carolina
This marble raised by the
hand of Conjugal affection
covers the mortal remains of
John Belton O'Neall, late
Chief Justice of the State of
South Carolina.
He was born April 10th 1793,
and died December 27th, 1863,
aged 70 years, 8 months,
and 17 days.
"Thy dead men shall live,
together with my dead body
shall arise." Isa. 26-18
"I will ransom them from the
power of the grave. I will
redeem them from death.
I will by thy plague, O, grave.
I will by thy destruction."
Hos. 13-14.
Gravesite Details
Grave site located in Section B4
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