When Eustace Bellinger Pinckney of Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina, serving in the Confederate War, met and fell in love with lovely young Mary Martha Porcher, called "Daisy" of Calhoun Plantation, Bluffton, South Carolina, he wasted little time before asking her father, James William Porcher for permission to seek her hand in marriage. To his endearing words of proposal Miss Daisy politely responded, " I thank you for your friendship Mr. Pinckney." Out came Eustace's desperate appeal - "Damn the friendship, Miss Daisy, I want love!"

    After the war in 1867, Eustace and Daisy with their little children moved from Walterboro, South Carolina to Calhoun Plantation to care for her aging father.