James Grieve (apple) were delivered to the city markets via train or horse-and-cart, but because they bruised easily they had to be carefully packed in laundry-type wicker baskets filled with straw. The fruit cannot sustain modern supermarket handling, and so they are now only grown in gardens and for direct sale to consumers. Nonetheless, James Grieve is considered a good apple because it is exceptionally tasty, it produces fruit every year, it is disease-resistant, and it is a good polleniser for other apples. It may drop early in warm weather. It is also a good apple for making apple juice. James Grieve (apple)
William Ashmead Courtenay for burial at Magnolia Cemetery. William Ashmead Courtenay William Ashmead Courtenay was the forty-sixth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving two terms from 1879 to 1887. He was born on February 4, 1831, a son of Edward S. Courtenay. From 1850 to 1860 he was occupied in the publishing and book selling business. In 1860, he accepted a position as the business manager for "The Charleston Mercury," a leading political newspaper of South Carolina. He joined the Confederate military in 1861 and served throughout the Civil War. Following the war, Courtenay was destitute, and he worked in Newberry, South Carolina,