8171. Benjamin Smith Rhett Jr.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Benjamin Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: 4 South Carolina Cavalry
Regiment Name Expanded: 4th Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry (Rutledge'
Company: K
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: B.S./Rhett, Jr.
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State
October 13, 1893
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 12. - B. S. Rhett, for seventeen years treasurer of the Northeastern Railrod, died today, of apoplexy, aged sixty-two years.
Montgomery Advertiser
June 22, 1922Dr. P. Sauve Rhett, one of the popular young men of Montgomery and an esteemed employee of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company died about 4 o�clock yesterday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. R. Taber, 720 South Perry Street, after an illness of several weeks duration.
But few of Dr. Rhetts friends knew that he was ill and those who knew of his illness did not realize his condition was critical. The news of his death spread rapidly over the city and came as a shock to his friends.
Dr. Rhett was taken ill about three weeks ago with malarial fever and up to a few days ago was improving but a sudden change in his condition developed yesterday Tuesday afternoon and from that time to his death he grew gradually worse.
Dr. Rhett was born October 4, 1867, in Charleston, S.C. and was a son of the late Benjamin S. Rhett, a distinguished citizen of that city and a member of the celebrated Rhett family of South Carolinsa. He was educated in the schools of Charleston and at the University of Virginia. After leaving college at Charlottesville, Dr. Rhett entered the Medical School at Tulane University at New Orleans and was graduated from that institution.
He practiced his profession for some years in Mississippi but gave it up several years ago because he found it unsuited to his taste. Dr. Rhett came to Montgomery about seven years ago and has since that time made his home in this city. He was a man of fine mental attainment. His affable disposition and polished manners made him friends wherever he went and to know him was to like him.
Two sisters, Mrs. E. R. Taber of Montgomery and Mrs. I. D. Hasell of Charleston survive him.
Albert Rhett Taber was a physician and surgeon.
Philadelphia Inquirer
November 24, 1879William Crumby Claghorn, a well-known citizen, died yesterday at his residence on North Fifteenth street after an illness of six weeks of congestion of the brain, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
He was the oldest son of the late John W. Claghorn, and a brother of James L. Claghorn.
He was brought up to the mercantile profession with the house of Caleb Cope & Co. Subsequently for many years he was in the dry goods business. The latter part of his life he devoted to the accountant profession, in which he had a particular talent for unraveling the most complicated and intricate accounts. In this respect he had very few equals. He was an active and consistent member of Dr. William Suddard's Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a warden. He was connected with many charities. He was Past Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance of Pennsylvania. He was courteous and gentlemanly to all, and was ever ready to do an act of kindness to the needy. His character was that of an honest upright, high toned merchant, and a thorough Christian.