A quick return to cool things around downtown Gaffney.
Today, I visited the Gaffney family cemetery, which is a peaceful spot a couple of blocks from my office at City Hall. It’s a small cemetery, with weathered gravestones that are difficult to read – a true sign of the implacable way Time marches on.
Michael Gaffney was an Irish immigrant who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, founded the town of Gaffney and – judging from his grave marker – led quite the interesting life.
The marker sums up Mick’s life in a very Irish way, reading:
Michael Gaffney, born in the town of Granard, Longford Ireland, September 29, 1773, died September 6, 1854. He was a man of unusually strong mind. Strength of appetite and passion were its natural features. After a life of many trials, considerable worldly success and long continued struggles with the sins and evil of the world around, he died a well-established member of Providence Baptist Church of this neighborhood with the triumph of faith on his lips.
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