Clarence Lawrence Glymph, Sr., born in Newberry, South Carolina, to George and Minnie Glymph, married Dollie Ruff and had seven children. In 1920, he moved his family to Gaffney and opened Glymph's Market on East Meadow Street, where a credit system benefited both customers and the business. He promoted college education, supported home ownership, served for many years as chair of the Deacon Board of Limestone Baptist Church, was a commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, chaired the Negro Division of the Red Cross-Community Chest Campaign, and as a member of Masonic Lodge #117 served as Past Master Treasurer and on the building committee that planned and built the present Limestone Lodge. In 1952, after threats by the Carolina Ku Klux Klan and a typed note saying that it was not customary for the colored race of South Carolina to hold public office, he withdrew from the Gaffney city council Democratic primaries, leaving H. Crawley Porter unopposed in a Negro-dominated ward. Glymph's Market, established in 1920 in a wooden building on Meadow Street, moved into a brick building constructed in 1940 at 310 North Petty Street to house the market and other businesses; as of 2023, it is the last remaining structure in that business district that was erected and owned by a Black businessman. His son Thomas William "T.W." Glymph, born in Newberry in 1916, moved to Gaffney in 1920, worked in the market, completed high school in Gaffney, graduated from Tennessee State University, and after World War Two returned to manage the market, where he installed a walk-in cooler and refrigerated showcases, built three apartments to generate profits, and became known as an outstanding butcher. Dollie Ruff Glymph supported her husband while raising their seven children, kept a yard full of flowers, and she and her husband enjoyed spending time there with family.