The bayonet holes came from the Yankee soldiers trying to rip the painting from its frame.Ĭaroline Ann Kaigler (George, John, Andrew) married Joseph Archibald "Archie" Wolfe in 1826 and had eleven children: He said if she stayed in the house, they would not burn it. One of the Federal officers saw her and said she looked so much like his mother. Kaigler to leave the house so they could burn it, but she refused. No! The scars on the canvas were made by thrusts of Yankee bayonets when Sherman's Army was on their march through the South Carolina countryside on their way to Columbia. Perhaps the canvas has deteriorated or rotted with age, you may think. But the first thing that will attract you to this painting are the several holes which have been ripped in the canvas. The dress she is wearing was her wedding second-day dress. He was a contractor for the first railroad from Branchville to Columbia called the South Carolina Railroad - now owned by the Southern Railroad. In the Catherine Kinsler Kaigler Exhibit in the Calhoun County, SC Museum, there is a large portrait of Catherine that rested on the mantel in the parlor of their home in Sandy Run. to Miss Catherine, daughter of the late William Kinsler, all of Lexington District. Married on Thursday, the 10th instant, by the Rev. George Kaigler (George, John, Andrew) married Catherine Kinsler ( - ) on and had four children:Ĭatherine Kinsler Kaigler - John and Henry KaiglerĬolumbia Newspapers: the South-Carolinian COLUMBIA NEWSPAPERS: THE SOUTHERN CHRONICLE Picture provided by Janie Reid Kaigler West and Betty Anne West West Schauer John Geiger Kaigler (George, John, Andrew) married Harriet Heath ( - ) on and had eight children:
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