tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183756192024-03-18T23:28:57.228-04:00Caswell County North CarolinaCCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.comBlogger1836125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-41931052492965616532024-03-17T11:03:00.003-04:002024-03-17T11:03:33.790-04:00John W. Stephens Slain by Men of His Own Political Party and Not by Ku Klux<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Says J. W. Stephens Not A Carpetbagger: Geo. F. Ivey Says Man Assassinated in Yanceyville Probably Was Slain by Men of His Own Political Party and Not by Ku Klux</span></p><p>(Special to The Charlotte Observer) Hickory, Oct. 12 [1935] -- J. W. Stephens, whose assassination in Yanceyville during the reconstruction days led to a declaration of martial law and indirectly to the impeachment of Governor W. W. Holden, was not a carpetbagger and there is evidence he was slain by men of his own political party instead of Ku Klux Klansmen, according to George F. Ivey, well-known Hickory manufacturer.</p><p>Mr. Ivey, a brother of J. B. Ivey of Charlotte, says he has information tending to prove that the "inside story" of the Stephens assassination, reported in a recent press dispatch from Danville, Va., is incorrect. The news story told of a deposition which Capt. John G. Lea of Danville made in 1919 and locked in a vault until it was disclosed after his death.</p><p>In his witnessed statement, Captain Lea, who was on organizer for the Invisible Empire in Caswell County in 1870 and who died several days ago at South Boston, Va., names Col. J. T. Mitchell and Thomas Oliver, now both dead, as the actual executioners of Stephens. The Lea statement, witnessed and attested by the late Col. Fred Olds, declares Stephens was condemned to die by the Caswell Klan which accused him of arson. The Klansmen swore never to reveal to others who participated in the enterprise until the last one was dead. Captain Lea was the last, according to the Danville story, succumbing at South Boston, Va., in his 92nd year. He did, however, make the deposition in 1919 at the urgent request of the North Carolina Historical Commission and locked in a vault.</p><p>Mr. Ivey, who formerly lived in Caswell County, is familiar with the circumstances of the Stephens death, or at least with the local stories there. The courthouse where the man was killed during a political rally is still standing and visitors are shown the very room in which the body was found. Continuing, Mr. Ivey declared:</p><p>No Carpetbagger</p><p>"J. W. Stephens was not a carpetbagger. A carpetbagger was a corrupt man from the North who came to the South at the end of the war with all his possessions in a carpet bag -- a valise made of carpet instead of leather. Stephens was a native of Rockingham County and was for many years known as 'Chicken Stephens' by reason of his being convicted of stealing chickens from Thomas Ratliffe of Wentworth. He left his watch and pistol to secure his fine, went to Caswell County and was duly elected a member of the Legislature, which was composed almost entirely of negroes and men of Stephens's stamp.</p><p>"It seems that at that time the election in North Carolina was held three months before the general election, and Governor Holden and his crowd were exceedingly anxious for the State to go Republican for its effect on the other Southern States. As the election drew near -- remember, it was in July -- the State seemed to be peaceful and there was no excuse for sending Federal troops to guard the polls. According to the story, believed for many years, Stephens was assassinated by his own party in order to have an excuse for drastic action. It was not intended to kill him, but when he recognized his assailants, his death became necessary.</p><p>Holden Told Bailey?</p><p>"Several years after this, Rev. C. T. Bailey, a Baptist minister, who was the father of the present North Carolina Senator, Josiah W. Bailey, and at that time editor of The Biblical Recorder, stated that Governor Holden, while in a penitent mood, told him that the Republican party had much to do with the crime and that the prosecution was discontinued because there was evidence which would incriminate influential members of that party. A public statement to this effect was published by Rev. Mr. Bailey early in October, 1876.</p><p>"It is said that history is never correctly written until long after the events have taken place, in this case, even after 65 years, it is not at all certain who killed Stephens. The statements of a man in contemplation of death (such as that of Captain Lea) will usually receive much weight, but there was no opprobrium attached to the deed in question and thousands of good men thought his death was well deserved. We must remember that the war had been ended only a few years and thousands of men had been killed legally. Much bragging was done about the exploits during the war, and a little about this matter would not seem out of place."</p><p>Major Lee Latta expressed the opinion that the minister referred to was Doctor Skinner, pastor of the Raleigh Baptist church, who reported the confession of Holden and that Doctor Skinner was severely criticised for revealing matters told him in confidence by one of his members. Mr. Ivey said it is, of course, possible that Holden told substantially the same story to both Doctor Skinner and Rev. Mr. Bailey.</p><p><i>The Charlotte Observer</i> (Charlotte, North Carolina), 13 October 1935, Sunday, Page 31.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-19714908615484706082024-03-14T12:20:00.002-04:002024-03-14T12:20:51.854-04:00"From Days of Reconstruction: Story of the Arrest and Prosecution of a North Carolina Sheriff in Trying Days" by Captain Ball 1910<p> "From Days of Reconstruction: Story of the Arrest and Prosecution of a North Carolina Sheriff in Trying Days" by Captain Ball</p><p>"I am here enjoying the fine air and scenery of a most beautiful country. Keuka Lake is a gem among the smaller lakes of New York State. Wild Indian tribes formerly had uncontrolled possession and one can look out upon this charming lake and almost can hear their war-whoops and in imagination can see the canoes of the dusky warriors darting across its pellucid waters.</p><p>"All fighting men have some sort of a battle-cry. I do not think the war-whoop would disturb me very much, for I have often heard the rebel yell, which, although disagreeable, was not wholly effacing.</p><p>"I lived for twenty-five years among the people who had uttered it and found them with hatreds and affectations like other people. While living there, many things worth of notice and remembrance passed under my observation. I now recall the trial of a North Carolina sheriff by a military commission in Charleston.</p><p>"I was employed in the years 1867-8 in the services of the Second Military district, comprising the Carolinas, as assistant judge advocate of the district, under General Ed. R. S. Canby. I have never seen General Sickles but once and I am sure he never heard of me. So the silly story that I was his private secretary was a pure invention. (The insufferable meanness of stating as the truth what is not known to be true, for a supposed political benefit, is inconceivable to honest minds.) It would have been no disgrace, however, to have been private secretary to General Sickles, many of whose General orders have been retained in the statutes of North Carolina.</p><span></span><a href="https://ncccha.blogspot.com/2024/03/from-days-of-reconstruction-story-of.html#more">Read more »</a>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-66315296179820228062024-03-10T13:07:00.002-04:002024-03-10T13:07:33.205-04:00Bank of Yanceyville Vault Air Conditioned: The Daily Times-News (Burlington, North Carolina), 25 Oct 1938<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Bank of Yanceyville Vault Air Conditioned: 1938!</u></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLvl-vMzDwHj4wzT27B44NMkVPWrgPjafcKt3InDizonE2YtLDv05zLqVBndECqOaSobPqT4s7crSF3NnrAJbrqXNzJairrJTW8CFkJ2HzKtkIlYhx0qyTS3uCW20ZYK7qCOeXXwPd75obbLYPsMAAZkyGyd-PJG6ml8Deo5g0GZh8Fzj1-_m/s1495/Sam%20Bason%20Rotary%20Club%20Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1495" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLvl-vMzDwHj4wzT27B44NMkVPWrgPjafcKt3InDizonE2YtLDv05zLqVBndECqOaSobPqT4s7crSF3NnrAJbrqXNzJairrJTW8CFkJ2HzKtkIlYhx0qyTS3uCW20ZYK7qCOeXXwPd75obbLYPsMAAZkyGyd-PJG6ml8Deo5g0GZh8Fzj1-_m/s320/Sam%20Bason%20Rotary%20Club%20Photo.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br />There are a number of interesting things about the bank that Sam Bason built at Yanceyville in Caswell County . . . not the least of which is no doubt a seasonal banking policy . . . and at this time of the year the hourly schedule is no more than lettering on the windows a.m. to 3 p.m.<p></p><p>It is 'bacco time in Caswell . . . and growers home from widely scattered markets in North Carolina and Virginia want to stop by on their way home and make a deposit or visit the strong box in the vault . . . and a community like Yanceyville is one in which business is on a community plan, accommodating.</p><p>"Its just impossible for us to close when our patrons want to see us," Mr. Bason said. "Of course, it is quite different in the summer when the farmers are in the fields and only the town folk have their banking to attend to. The schedule [on the window] is then maintained."</p><p>]Photograph: Samuel Murphey Bason's Yanceyville Rotary Club photograph. It is not associated with this newspaper article.]</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiseJca5MHSOk2gmGcgWEv2B1MxbgEUgD27o_V8g-Tg2R1kAUz3YEWslbpuXYgwbKhQ-JabO5wFj5oJNgQXw745zso8NCVKVtWZzRAM2usk3LYdsqAp51Q_cv0eikBPItGR9JIAL2OF1nZwhqAE_JYJW_Kpk9S4GfRMZaT5tYTro_bBE9R1Ns45/s4924/Bank%20of%20Yanceyville%20086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4924" data-original-width="3606" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiseJca5MHSOk2gmGcgWEv2B1MxbgEUgD27o_V8g-Tg2R1kAUz3YEWslbpuXYgwbKhQ-JabO5wFj5oJNgQXw745zso8NCVKVtWZzRAM2usk3LYdsqAp51Q_cv0eikBPItGR9JIAL2OF1nZwhqAE_JYJW_Kpk9S4GfRMZaT5tYTro_bBE9R1Ns45/s320/Bank%20of%20Yanceyville%20086.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><br />Back in 1921 when the bank was built, it was regarded as the best appointed of any bank in a town the size of Yanceyville . . . and even today some of the appointments are more modern than may be found in large city banks. its resources are about $500,000, falling down a bit during summer when it becomes necessary for some to "borrow" from savings to make crops, take care of farm and household necessities and so on.<p></p><p>"It looks like a fine spot for a holdup," a visitor remarked to Mr. Bason.</p><p>"Not so good," he answered. "You see, there isn't much money in sight on the counters at any time. Here is what we do with it. Put it through this slot . . . like posting a letter at the post office . . . and it will be fifteen minutes later before we can get a dollar of it.</p><p>"We figure that while the bank robber would be waiting for the lock to open, persons would enter the bank and he would be foiled . . . probably walking out and disappearing."</p><p>[Photograph: Bank of Yanceyville under construction. Image not associated with this newspaper article.]</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJb2WsVSqPYDDHW3cruvWD4uZ0Gw3_-bZizul9ao1xlH-PdDQwxC9Q1dn1m8FIMndSU-kUYw3lqNypBodr9-jAwdJCwG7DES39w7qCE5jJDxZFmrNAeRJ4nGBr80jT2E6eltFuvWr2G_cqJduHgpphOpIxEK4WNXo08kvZvPHQl6S8bg_0R0Jp/s1003/Bank%20of%20Yanceyville%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1003" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJb2WsVSqPYDDHW3cruvWD4uZ0Gw3_-bZizul9ao1xlH-PdDQwxC9Q1dn1m8FIMndSU-kUYw3lqNypBodr9-jAwdJCwG7DES39w7qCE5jJDxZFmrNAeRJ4nGBr80jT2E6eltFuvWr2G_cqJduHgpphOpIxEK4WNXo08kvZvPHQl6S8bg_0R0Jp/s320/Bank%20of%20Yanceyville%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />The most valuable piece of equipment, however, is an electric ventilating system within the big vault, an emergency air conditioner "just in case."<p></p><p>"Sometimes," Mr. Bason continued, "a bank robber will force members of the office staff into a vault and slam the door in his face. That's bad! Experts say that a man might live in our vault without fresh air for a period of two hours . . . and if two persons were confined the life span would be cut in half. Imagine that!</p><p>"But you press this little button here and old air is forced out and new air forced in. It means that such a victim could live without discomfort almost indefinitely, certainly until rescued from the tomb."</p><p>[Photograph shows vault in background; not associated with this newspaper article.]</p><p>Sam Bason is a product of Alamance County, where he was reared on the Haw River . . . going to Caswell some twenty years ago to become an outstanding citizen of Yanceyville and the surrounding community. He has become thoroughly "acclimated" and wouldn't trade his business address nor his domicile for a swanky front on Park Row.</p><p>Now he has become a member of the highway commission from the fifth district . . . and that means laying plenty of bumpy roads and proposed trails on his office desk. It brings visitors by the individual, group and delegation, with a little petty change left on the counter at the drug store and sometimes at the grocers.</p><p>He's a genial fellow. He'll talk about the history of Caswell, the rural background, and the coming first industry . . . a hosiery mill . . . and he'll discuss national affairs in business and politics. And before you go, he'll say "Wait just a moment, I want to give you one of the latest road maps. It is a dandy.!"</p><p>"I'll say it is," remarked a visitor in his office yesterday. "It's the third one you've given me!"</p><p><i>The Daily Times-News</i> (Burlington, North Carolina), 25 Oct 1938, Tue, Page 4.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-46269658687615042352024-03-03T13:33:00.003-05:002024-03-03T13:33:54.005-05:00 Brothers W. B. Horton and W. P. Horton in NC Senate<p> Brothers in NC Senate: W. B. Horton and W. P. Horton</p><p><i>The News and Observer</i> (Raleigh, North Carolina), 9 Jan 1927</p><p>"Rather an unusual circumstance is that two of the members of the [North Carolina] State Senate are brothers. They are W. B. [William Banks] Horton, of Yanceyville, and W. P. [Wilkins Perryman] Horton, of Pittsboro. . . . </p><p>The following is excerpted from the <i>Chatham Record</i>:</p><p>"Thomas Horton brought his wife and children to Chatham from Kansas City, when W. P. was a tot. Both the father and mother of the Senators are Virginians. But the wanderlust carried the father to Texas and later to Kansas City, where he was a merchant, till one Christmas he happened to visit his sister in this county [Chatham County, NC], Mrs. Pete Carter, and found the climate so much to his liking as compared to that of Kansas City, where the snow was then half-leg deep, that he straighway moved his family to Chatham and became a farmer, being located seven or eight miles from Chapel Hill.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcJR6GUI09XZF35K1fFuW8QSovn8GerhG4I4yz-a7niHSfu6LYeDyTIJjemEY03jQqBSwWXpkwrEJV3neXVrie43cwg9b8ys-dD45QJqbm2xFd72welUYTFiE4KU3Qlsbt2tNOeCrYkA_KBKo4LS7STkr4j_OfMpkRCblx4wIZoJutEhossoB/s485/W.%20B.%20Horton%20News%20and%20Observer%201927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="303" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcJR6GUI09XZF35K1fFuW8QSovn8GerhG4I4yz-a7niHSfu6LYeDyTIJjemEY03jQqBSwWXpkwrEJV3neXVrie43cwg9b8ys-dD45QJqbm2xFd72welUYTFiE4KU3Qlsbt2tNOeCrYkA_KBKo4LS7STkr4j_OfMpkRCblx4wIZoJutEhossoB/s320/W.%20B.%20Horton%20News%20and%20Observer%201927.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />"Here the boys grew up. When W. B., was a youth of seventeen or eighteen the wanderlust seized him and he ran away and joined the navy, in which he served 24 years. While Josephus Daniels was secretary of the navy in the first Wilson administration, it will be recalled, he opened examinations for midshipmen to the enlisted men, thus giving them an opportunity to secure rank along with the graduates of Annapolis. W. B. Horton, then having served for nearly a score of years, was fortunate enough to rise from the ranks and thus served as an officer during the World War.<p></p><p>"The war over, he resigned, studied law at the University and at Wake Forest, and began to practice at Yanceyville. He has already served a term in the house of representatives and now goes to the senate, thus rapidly rising in civil affairs after giving 24 years to the navy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4q_gC7KVmJXTmKWY52iuLBJ2BzJAas_MY_P_OHIgY17GJIRyQwxRqDv7x-BitmKKoU4_NUHrdz_0DMd0Ah3UjAfm6NYEI6FsgsrEdLk4AY5syxJIW-uNJ8J7biVKHcMF8NBbO8sGzlFoZs-i19lkj6teGdmUSiIwuzVs9oy43lZ0sQHUjjPq/s490/W.%20P.%20Horton%20News%20and%20Observer%201927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4q_gC7KVmJXTmKWY52iuLBJ2BzJAas_MY_P_OHIgY17GJIRyQwxRqDv7x-BitmKKoU4_NUHrdz_0DMd0Ah3UjAfm6NYEI6FsgsrEdLk4AY5syxJIW-uNJ8J7biVKHcMF8NBbO8sGzlFoZs-i19lkj6teGdmUSiIwuzVs9oy43lZ0sQHUjjPq/s320/W.%20P.%20Horton%20News%20and%20Observer%201927.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><br />"W. P. can barely remember living in Kansas city and consequently feels himself a native Chathamite. He has already once ably represented his county in the senate [North Carolina Senate]."<p></p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-9176963567799606232024-02-26T11:25:00.000-05:002024-02-26T11:25:08.416-05:00History of Journalism in North Carolina: 1881"History of Journalism in North Carolina: A Story of the Men Whose Labor Has Done More for Progress and Education in North Carolina Than Any other Body of Men"<div><br /></div><div><i>The News and Observer</i> (Raleigh, NC), 14 August 1904</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1881, in response to an invitation from the North Carolina Press Association, Governor [William Woods] Holden delivered an Address on the History of Journalism in North Carolina, which will be of much interest to every reader of this edition of <i>The News and Observer</i>. It is, therefore, printed below in full:</div><div>__________</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnhpV6guwweSA2e9A58aLqwRsR69yJDKvml8W2PL6s_WQSVWCdhQ1cN_UEp7JihEPItlPWP8GD1231c1O4Fs4nVqvPXrsM85RIGTXTAS6L57o2U-TJTg8xO_qcEcWK8hk-s5H4ttlaZLutdUAMevtJI9jM5G8l3JhpmjOcOGJPsvSnojiQc0U/s423/William%20Woods%20Holden%20The%20News%20and%20Observer%20(Raleigh%20NC)%2014%20Aug%201904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnhpV6guwweSA2e9A58aLqwRsR69yJDKvml8W2PL6s_WQSVWCdhQ1cN_UEp7JihEPItlPWP8GD1231c1O4Fs4nVqvPXrsM85RIGTXTAS6L57o2U-TJTg8xO_qcEcWK8hk-s5H4ttlaZLutdUAMevtJI9jM5G8l3JhpmjOcOGJPsvSnojiQc0U/s320/William%20Woods%20Holden%20The%20News%20and%20Observer%20(Raleigh%20NC)%2014%20Aug%201904.jpg" width="290" /></a></div>[Following are excerpts from the Holden address of relevance to Caswell County, NC.]</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the oldest editors in the State is C. N. B. Evans, Esq., of the Milton "Chronicle." Mr. Evans was born in Norfolk County, Virginia, in 1812. He has worked as a journeyman in Columbia, S.C., in Raleigh with Philo White, in Richmond, Virginia, in Hillsboro, with Dennis Heartt, and elsewhere; and once was on the eve of going to Buenos Ayres, to work on a paper half English and half Spanish, but was deterred by a civil war which suddenly broke forth in that quarter. His first connection with the press as editor was with the Greensboro "Patriot." In 1835, when this paper was sold, Mr. Evans became the purchaser. He conducted the paper for sever years and sold to Lyndon Swaim and M. S. Sherwood.</div><div><br /></div><div>The first paper in Milton was by a Mr. Perkins, in 1818. He was succeeded by Benjamin J. Cory; he by John Campbell, Jr., who died in Weldon a few years since. Mr. Kenyon succeeded Mr. Campbell, and the former having failed in 1831, Nathaniel J. Palmer, Esq., established the Milton "Spectator." Mr. Palmer died prematurely, from an accident many years ago, at his residence, Cherry Hill, near Milton. He was a native of Orange, a brother of John C. Palmer, Esq., of Raleigh, the latter of whom is a brother-in-law of Philo White.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1841 Mr. Evans rented the old "Spectator" office and began the publication of the Milton "Chronicle." At the close of the war the "Chronicle" stopped, and Mr. Evans published for two years a paper in Danville, Va. Next, with his son, Captain T. C. Evans, he published the Hillsboro "Recorder" for two years, and then sold to John D. Cameron. Next and last, in 1873 he revived the "Chronicle," and now, in his 69th year, he is still conducting the paper he established forty years ago. Mr. Evans, though by no manner of means a romantic person, has certainly led an eventful and romantic life. He is a capital editor. Like Xavier Martin, he sets up much of his editorial in his composing stick, without stopping to write it out. "Charley Evans," as he is called by his friends, could not do a dishonest thing if he were to try. It is the wish of the whole press of the State, whether he belongs to this association or not, that his last days may be his best days, and that he may long be spared to his family, his readers and his friends.
. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>An editorial convention was held in Raleigh, November, 1837. The papers represented were the . . . "Spectator," Milton. [Other papers not listed here.] These men were so modest that their names were not even recorded in the proceedings.
. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>I am painfully sensible, Mr. President, of the omission and imperfection of this address. I have referred only to the oldest presses and to the oldest editors and ex-editors, with incidental allusions to modern editors and writers for the press. I think have not commended unduly those I have mentioned. I regret I could not sketch the lives and services of all those laborers in the fields of mind, whether present or absent on this occasion. I would respectfully suggest that the Association appoint some one to continue the history of the press at each communication of your body, and when, in the judgment of the Association that history shall have been fully written, that a committee be appointed to condense it into a book, to be printed for perpetual preservation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the dead, not already mentioned, trained writers for the press, but not editors, I recall the following: . . . Archibald D. Murphy . . . Bedford Brown . . . Bartlett Yancy . . . Romulus M. Saunders . . . Others might be added. Some of these were editors for a short time, but editing was not their profession. . . . Archibald D. Murphy was one of the finest scholars and writers of his day. Some of his ablest papers in the way of reports may be found in the journals of the State Senate from 1812 to 1818 inclusive.</div>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-59513918120431887232024-02-25T11:34:00.006-05:002024-02-26T09:38:39.863-05:00Rabbit Shuffle Pond Rabbit Shuffle Pond<div><br /></div><div>Not to be outdone by "Frogsboro," "Rabbit Shuffle" now has an acknowledged location -- sort of. Click image to see a larger version.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHpJa_SjBMkBvnpHLtHdzIOmvZULvDpscc_VFawHb1yNhtd9I87laDk0uFHT5yln5y1Wtl4J-aHrF4lv52qi8VLyphfFaF3NuptiaKsDov68WQ0DJs1vY8mBB9VCwFbQj2Oyg4B9jcwue4mufkjGLRJVCYIZ9wdbe_kj2yvX3Yy00QGjH9uxXV/s1179/Rabbit%20Shuffle%20Pond.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="1179" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHpJa_SjBMkBvnpHLtHdzIOmvZULvDpscc_VFawHb1yNhtd9I87laDk0uFHT5yln5y1Wtl4J-aHrF4lv52qi8VLyphfFaF3NuptiaKsDov68WQ0DJs1vY8mBB9VCwFbQj2Oyg4B9jcwue4mufkjGLRJVCYIZ9wdbe_kj2yvX3Yy00QGjH9uxXV/w400-h138/Rabbit%20Shuffle%20Pond.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-37174965560721754942024-02-20T12:15:00.004-05:002024-02-20T12:15:32.622-05:00 Confederate Amnesty and Pardons<p> Confederate Amnesty and Pardons</p><p>As Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency, his attitude toward Confederate leaders seemed to signify punishment and prosecution for the rebellion. Many southern leaders fled the United States, going to Mexico, Canada, Europe and other countries. He doubled the number of classes not pardoned under the Lincoln's general amnesty. Johnson's proclamation of May 29, 1865, for example, did not include anyone whose personal property exceeded $20,000. Several mitigating factors however led Johnson to greater clemency, such as the attitude of Lincoln for reconciliation and Secretary of State William H. Seward's similar leniency towards the former rebels.</p><p>"President Andrew Johnson Pardoning Rebels at the White House", Harper's Weekly, October 14, 1865.</p><p>Those excluded from general amnesty had the option of applying to the president for a special pardon, and much of Johnson's time was spent in granting those pardons.</p><p>The following oath was required under Johnson's 1865 proclamation:</p><p>I, _____, do solemnly swear or affirm, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder. And that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves, so help me God.</p><p>There were exceptions to the granting of general amnesty:</p><p>The following classes of persons are excepted from the benefits of this proclamation:</p><p>First – All who are or shall have been pretended civil or diplomatic officers, or otherwise domestic or foreign agents of the pretended Confederate Government.</p><p>Second – All who left judicial stations under the United States to aid the rebellion.</p><p>Third – All who shall have been military or naval officers of said pretended Confederate Government above the rank of Colonel in the army or Lieutenant in the navy.</p><p>Fourth – All who left seats in the Congress of the United States to aid the rebellion.</p><p>Fifth – All who resigned or tendered resignations of their commissions in the army or navy of the United States, to evade duty in resisting the rebellion.</p><p>Sixth – All who have engaged in any way in treating otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service, as officers, soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities.</p><p>Seventh – All persons who have been or are absentees from the United States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.</p><p>Eighth – All military and naval officers in the rebel service who were educated by the government in the Military Academy at West Point, or the United States Naval Academy.</p><p>Ninth – All persons who held the pretended offices of Governors of States in insurrection against the United States.</p><p>Tenth – All persons who left their homes within the jurisdiction and protection of the United States and passed beyond the Federal military lines into the so-called Confederate States, for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.</p><p>Eleventh – All parties who have been engaged in the destruction of the commerce of the United States upon the high seas, and all persons who have made raids into the United States from Canada, or been engaged in destroying the commerce of the United States upon the lakes and rivers that separate the British Provinces from the United States.</p><p>Twelfth – All persons who at the time when they seek to obtain the benefits hereof by taking the oath herein prescribed, are in military naval, or civil confinement, or custody, or under bonds of the civil, military or naval authorities or agents of the United States, as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offences of any kind either before or after conviction.</p><p>Thirteenth – All persons who have voluntarily participated in said rebellion, and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over twenty thousand dollars.</p><p>Fourteenth – All persons who have taken the oath of amnesty as prescribed in the President's Proclamation of December 8, A.D., 1863, or an oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States since the dates of said proclamation, and who have not thenceforward kept and maintained the same inviolate – provided that special application may be made to the President for pardon by any person belonging to the excepted classes, and such clemency will be liberally extended as may be consistent with the facts of the case and the peace and dignity of the United States.</p><p>______________</p><p>The North Carolina Convention of 1865-1866 was convened to determine the minimum requirements for readmission to the Union.</p><p>State Convention, Adjourned Session, 14 June 1866:</p><p>"Mr. [Bedford] Brown presented a petition from a number of citizens of Caswell County, in favor of amnesty for offenses committed during the later war, which was read and referred to the committee on General Amnesty."</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-59367458511994851722023-12-10T12:30:00.004-05:002023-12-14T12:49:09.258-05:00National Register of Historic Places (Caswell County, North Carolina)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BREjN-DPA2hKwb77FbwN7JCsMhK6VeZ3zYfIxuZCgoIoOfkMYPBPG66zkce4aixAggFr7Wca8oob1pzkcCHmoTaIk0riUgDqSLluanaP2RtCaJvTe_LOc_UOaqTgH6tUM8xdXhUf9nZXSJ5Dp_2m1qf-l5lBX5czxxIJ4A9n2nHbqdIxKA/s3717/Yellow%20Tavern%20(Union%20Tavern_Thomas%20Day%20House)%20NRHP.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2741" data-original-width="3717" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BREjN-DPA2hKwb77FbwN7JCsMhK6VeZ3zYfIxuZCgoIoOfkMYPBPG66zkce4aixAggFr7Wca8oob1pzkcCHmoTaIk0riUgDqSLluanaP2RtCaJvTe_LOc_UOaqTgH6tUM8xdXhUf9nZXSJ5Dp_2m1qf-l5lBX5czxxIJ4A9n2nHbqdIxKA/s320/Yellow%20Tavern%20(Union%20Tavern_Thomas%20Day%20House)%20NRHP.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br>The <a href="https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/division-historical-resources/state-historic-preservation-office/architectural-surveys-and-national-register-historic-places/north-carolina-national-register-historic-places/nc-listings-national-register-historic-places#C" target="_blank">National Register of Historic Places</a> is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation. The first Caswell County property to be listed in the National Register was the Milton State Bank in April 1973. Since then, two historic districts (Yanceyville and Milton) and twenty-three individual properties have been entered for a total of twenty-five National Register listings in the county. The Union Tavern (Thomas Day workshop) in Milton also has been recognized as a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/index.htm" target="_blank">National Historic Landmark</a>. See photograph.<div><br>
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County: Caswell (North Carolina)<div><br></div><div>1. <a href="https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/CS0005.pdf" target="_blank">Bartlett Yancey House</a></div><div>U.S. 158, Yanceyville<br>12/4/1973</div><div><br>2.<br><a href="https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/CS0003.pdf" target="_blank">
Brown-Graves House and Brown's Store</a><br>
SW of Yanceyville on NC 150<br>
Locust Hill<br>
1974-07-15<br>
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While as yet no deed of violence has been reported, a number of the farmers have grave fears that their crop might be destroyed.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1eFaTh22RAXUvOPgb5Vt5Doy_pb-1302vqMTtnEFOxUvLWma8AiuO_zbNg3kcJ60gFsV0NYDXrmJEJiZBO1c6C8xW29sY7qOdo1CARQLXf90ynZHPfwmGf9ZuvU28EQ6nfBY-1ySD7omi5DRiNcQWknWzRWALHddFB5EcKElAh538-fva_xi/s346/tobacco12%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="330" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1eFaTh22RAXUvOPgb5Vt5Doy_pb-1302vqMTtnEFOxUvLWma8AiuO_zbNg3kcJ60gFsV0NYDXrmJEJiZBO1c6C8xW29sY7qOdo1CARQLXf90ynZHPfwmGf9ZuvU28EQ6nfBY-1ySD7omi5DRiNcQWknWzRWALHddFB5EcKElAh538-fva_xi/s320/tobacco12%20(2).jpg" width="305" /></a></div><p><br /></p>"The notices appear to have been freely posted for a distance of about eight miles by some unknown parties, and all of them warn the independent growers to pool their tobacco and not sell it at auction on the warehouse floor. 'If you do, you must bear the consequences.' Another notice reads: 'Pool your tobacco or you will smell fire.' Neither of the above notices was signed, but the supposition is that they were inspired and written by parties who are in sympathy with the movement of the Bright Tobacco Growers' Protective Association of Virginia and North Carolina, the object of which organization is to discontinue the placing of tobacco on the warehouse floors to be sold at auction, but to place it in warehouses operated under the auspices of the association, to be held until prices deemed just and reasonable can be secured. <p></p><p>"In short, the union farmers hope by this method of pooling tobacco to advance the price and believe that they, as producers, should fix the price rather than the buyer. In justice, however, the Farmers' Association, it can be stated that neither as a body nor as individuals have any deeds of violence or threatening methods been countenanced. The officers of the association and the leading members in public speeches made on various occasions have violently opposed any rash act, and declare that the purpose of the association was to advance the price of tobacco only by honest and legal methods. The Tobacco Growers' Protective Association is backed by some of the most prominent and respected farmers of this section, as well as many substantial business men, and the body should not be held responsible for the act committed by any individual.</p><p>"The fact that practically all of this season's crop of tobacco is not in the barns increases the alarm of the Caswell farmers, who are inclined to take the notice seriously. All efforts to find out who are responsible for the threatening notices have proved futile."</p><p>Source: <i>Daily News</i> (Greensboro, NC), 4 October 1908.</p><p>__________</p><p>The photograph is not associated with the newspaper article. Click image to see a larger version.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-29674932188247957762023-09-18T22:32:00.000-04:002023-09-18T22:32:13.531-04:00 Great Damage in Caswell County: 1908<p> Great Damage in Caswell County. Special to The Observer.</p><p>Reidsville, Aug. 29. -- "It is learned that the damage in Caswell County resulting from the rain storms is very heavy. All of the corn crops located on the banks of the Dan River and the creek near Milton have been destroyed as well as the melon patches in the low grounds.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8rE9XL97Jrwyx6FOUDJhEExA1kq11zMmpwhA-0XHXcrLHVkKrpufNZmmLszBMc9vvM6DEznCsGqRlPi7hcdAPyPp2Hn3v1xnrHWHjggcUOQWrNhduVZfsNpAumEA5WYmMz80h2OY11u2mTWG02_vTrcR8q6qIsDEl1lGZ4BIy8Ym2Q4vrXZG-/s583/Covered%20Bridge%20Over%20Country%20Line%20Creek%20at%20Milton,%20North%20Carolinags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="583" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8rE9XL97Jrwyx6FOUDJhEExA1kq11zMmpwhA-0XHXcrLHVkKrpufNZmmLszBMc9vvM6DEznCsGqRlPi7hcdAPyPp2Hn3v1xnrHWHjggcUOQWrNhduVZfsNpAumEA5WYmMz80h2OY11u2mTWG02_vTrcR8q6qIsDEl1lGZ4BIy8Ym2Q4vrXZG-/s320/Covered%20Bridge%20Over%20Country%20Line%20Creek%20at%20Milton,%20North%20Carolinags.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />"The Country Line Creek, running between Rockingham and Caswell Counties, is about 30 feet above its normal height, the waters extending from 150 to 200 feet from the banks. The covered wooden bridge crossing the creek at Milton was in grave danger Wednesday of being washed away. One of the approaches was washed away, but the bridge was saved by the use of large cables, which were attached to trees. The toll bridge across Dan River at Milton is now out of danger."<p></p><p><i>The Charlotte Observer</i> (Charlotte, NC), 30 August 1908.</p><p>The above photograph is not associated with the newspaper article. Click image to see a larger version.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-69057807849710986152023-09-18T21:49:00.004-04:002023-09-18T21:49:19.160-04:00 The "Little Caswell County Child" - 1908<p> The "Little Caswell County Child"</p><p>The Women Teachers Are Working to Rear Boys Who Will Be Successors of Murphey, Saunders, Yancey, Graves and Bedford Brown.</p><p>The following clipping from a Caswell newspaper will be interesting to teachers throughout the State:</p><p>"The Thanksgiving entertainment given by the Blackwell's school, near Quick, on the 26, we are advised, was a complete success in every particular. The day was an ideal one for the out of doors entertainment. The school house and grounds were beautifully decorated and arranged. Mrs. Graves, the teacher, and the children deserve great praise and commendation for their persistent and untiring efforts. Nothing was left undone by them that would add success and enjoyment for the occasion.</p><p>"It was indeed a great day for the 'Little Caswell County Child.' Among the teachers present were Mmes. Graves, Turner, and Misses Rice, King and Graves. Prof. Hickerson, of the Ruffin Graded School, was also in attendance.</p><p>"The children of Mrs Graves showed careful and painstaking training, and acquitted themselves with great credit. After the exercises by the children, Supt. Anderson was introduced. He took for his subject 'The Little Caswell County Child.' He paid a tribute to the little Caswell County child of the past, that develops in manhood into such lives and services as was given by Calvin Graves, Romulus Saunders, Bedford Brown, Archibald Murphey and Bartlett Yancey. In the course of his remarks he took occasion to say that North Carolina was possibly more indebted to Archibald Murphey and Bartlett Yancey than any other men, because it was the genius and wisdom of these Caswell County giants nearly a hundred years ago that made public education possible for all the children of all the people of North Carolina, and stated that if our people will respond to the cry of the little Caswell County child, as it begs for the light of learning and intelligence, there will arise worth successors of those men who in the past made Caswell matchless among counties."</p><p>Source: <i>The News and Observer</i> (Raleigh, NC), 17 December 1908.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-13701392958028660682023-09-17T17:20:00.000-04:002023-09-17T17:20:29.769-04:00Yanceyville NC 9-11 Memorial<p> By Debra Ferrell</p><p>The Caswell Messenger Editor 14 September 2023</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc_cG4jilUD4lQVlSmAOzPv8rYYif4ePXa3XZ-0RLlBhg_HTI8J0MNOKzZ3dfjL_4t5QLcs-YCrQW9YICbH3T1nymrSC68ADoFus80uYB7aqFgV_ETM5dCLoDXBfoTvX17Y-4DYeo6KWNjyrkAiAQGo09zYI5afTtLXecQLByZKRhredkwxxl/s500/911%20Memorial%20in%20Yanceyville,%20NC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc_cG4jilUD4lQVlSmAOzPv8rYYif4ePXa3XZ-0RLlBhg_HTI8J0MNOKzZ3dfjL_4t5QLcs-YCrQW9YICbH3T1nymrSC68ADoFus80uYB7aqFgV_ETM5dCLoDXBfoTvX17Y-4DYeo6KWNjyrkAiAQGo09zYI5afTtLXecQLByZKRhredkwxxl/s320/911%20Memorial%20in%20Yanceyville,%20NC.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />It was an emotional day for many on Monday, September 11, as the Town of Yanceyville held the long awaited dedication service for the 9-11 Memorial that features a portion of a steel girder from Tower Two of the World Trade Center following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2011. Many eyes filled with tears as Mayor Alvin Foster welcomed the crowd for this "solemn remembrance of what the memorial means."<p></p><p>DH Griffin donated the core beam from salvage work the company performed on the Twin Towers. Senator Phil Berger, President Pro Tem NC State Senate, says he knew from the start that he wanted to help with the project to create this unique memorial in Yanceyville that is the third component of special memorials that includes monuments to veterans and fallen public service members. Those two monuments are directly in from of the Yanceyville Municipal Building. The 9-11 monument is across from them right next to Fidelity Bank.</p><p>Yanceyville council member Keith Tatum was relentless in pursuing funding for the project.</p><p>Interesting facts:</p><p>The beam weighs around 3,100 pounds per square foot.</p><p>The memorial is built upon the site of the old Ford building that DH Griffin demolished for the Town starting that relationship.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCwHpUe7-bi4KHNNjUOlv60c1Hzk-5TFXctsNwVIByqrp_FiXaKGUounOIPvj3zft3EgJ_dMvYf_9BHruA7cbkIQcRPPxRkcM-iKmz-_Avu8K6Z6mdPXVktzPYN4O349CYGEI_OhaWdy23_rlIO8Ynht1gRq7bvotDicMgXO46-YJF3DWsYpD/s831/911%20Memorial%20in%20Yanceyville,%20NC%20The%20Caswell%20Messenger%20Sep%202023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="831" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCwHpUe7-bi4KHNNjUOlv60c1Hzk-5TFXctsNwVIByqrp_FiXaKGUounOIPvj3zft3EgJ_dMvYf_9BHruA7cbkIQcRPPxRkcM-iKmz-_Avu8K6Z6mdPXVktzPYN4O349CYGEI_OhaWdy23_rlIO8Ynht1gRq7bvotDicMgXO46-YJF3DWsYpD/s320/911%20Memorial%20in%20Yanceyville,%20NC%20The%20Caswell%20Messenger%20Sep%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Mayor Foster pointed out that the memorial is part of the town's economic development that adds to the appeal of the area and promotes livability.<p></p><p>"The memorial reminds us of the attack on the United States by terrorists 22 years ago. Thousands have died whether from the attack itself or from the War on Terror that followed. Thousands still suffer from physical or mental ailments," said the mayor.</p><p>He asked the crowd if they remembered what they were doing on the day of the attack. "When the first tower was hit, we thought it was accidental. Minutes later when the second tower was hit, that illusion was shattered. Then came the flight crashing and the attack on the Pentagon."</p><p>VFW Post 7316 and American Legion Post 89 posted colors with Naomi Totten singing the National Anthem. Prayer was rendered by Rev. Paul Robinson.</p><p>Sen. Berger shared how his first idea of what the memorial would look didn't compare to the actual beauty of the beam and its setting. "I’m blown away with the design," he said as he complimented the landscape and visionary leadership that led to its creation. He pointed out that everyone was there to remember the lives lost and commended our country for demonstrating the resolve to stand against oppression.</p><p>"This is a piece of history whose purpose here is to signify strength and remind us of one of our darkest days. It will stand as a reminder to all of us. When I heard about it, I immediately went to work looking for funding."</p><p>Former Senator Hugh Webster was approached and said yes to showing strong support for Caswell County to acquire this coveted beam.</p><p>Following a ribbon cutting, everyone was invited next door at the Richmond-Miles History Museum where the Caswell County Historical Association hosted refreshments supplied by the Town of Yanceyville.</p>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-44315910100722832022023-07-26T10:59:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:59:36.053-04:00Rock AcademyRock Academy<br>
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Perhaps the longest-lived and most influential school of this period was the Rock Academy and its successor. In 1867 James S. Dameron opened a school in northwestern Caswell County which he called the Ruffin Select School. Shortly afterwards a permanent building was erected and it came to be called the Rock Academy because it was constructed of rock.<div><br></div><div>Associated with Dameron at one time or another in the operation of this school were Miss Jennie Roberts, Miss Alden Combs, Miss Allen Courts, Elder P. D. Gold, and John W. Gilliam. A large number of young people in the neighborhood were educated here. Among them was John B. Cobb who afterwards left the county to seek his fortune. In 1921 he provided $20,000 for a school building nearby which became the first consolidated school in the county. The building was dedicated to the memory of Cobb's parents and was known as Cobb Memorial School. Cobb and his daughters made further gifts to the school and the plant was enlarged.<br>
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Former Bartlett Yancey Coach Lindsey Page has been selected for induction into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. As the 27th group of inductees to join the prestigious hall, bringing to 148 the number enshrined, Page joins seven others this year: Donnie Baxter of Asheboro, Ronnie Chavis of Pembroke, Lawrence Dunn of Raleigh, Doug Henderson of Greensboro, Larry Rhodes of Gastonia, Robert Steele of Salisbury, and Jim Taylor of Shelby. Page and the others will be honored during special halftime ceremonies at a football at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill on Saturday, Sept. 22, when North Carolina takes on East Carolina. The new class will be officially inducted at a special banquet next spring.<br />
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“I’m very humbled by this,” said Page. “As a coach, you never aspire to that.” The induction is two years in the making, and due in large part to the work of Donna Hudson and Kay Satterfield, and numerous local people who vouched for Page. “I share this honor with<br />
the players I coached, the principals that supported me, and the superintendents. I share it not only with the professional people I’ve worked with, but with my entire family. It’s been a good run. So many people have helped me.”<br />
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Born in Caswell County and a 1962 graduate of Elon College, Page began his teaching and coaching career right after that at Bartlett Yancey. For 34 years, he was the head men’s basketball coach, winning seven conference championships and a North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A championship in 1988. His teams posted an outstanding 519-325 record during that stretch and the gymnasium was named in his honor in 1988. He also coached baseball at the school for 15 seasons and was athletic director for 20 years. He came out of his coaching retirement in 1999 to coach the women’s team at BY and posted 65 additional wins including a trip to the regional tournament coaching through 2006.<br />
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He has been recognized by the NCHSAA before, with a Special Person Award in 1997 and a Distinguished Service Award a year later. He also coached in the North Carolina Coaches’ Association East-West basketball all-star game in 1988. Page has a lot to reflect upon over his stellar career. After playing one year at Elon, he decided he wanted to be a high school teaching coach. “I never deviated from that goal,” said Page. Superintendent Tom Whitley offered him a job at BY, with Buck Page, one of his mentors. The two coach Pages decided the younger would coach girls the first year, and they’d switch the next year, giving him boys. He taught Spanish, math and science for a year, then just health and P.E.<br />
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“I started at BY in 1962, and within two years, all the high schools in the county were consolidated into one school. In the late 60s, we had a ‘freedom of choice plan’, and had six or seven black students at our school. And in 1969, we were totally integrated.” Page said everyone had a lot of adjustments to make, and it was the most difficult time of his career. “We had to blend in players from all the different schools, to function as a unit. I told them, ‘you don’t have to like each other, but you have to respect each other,” he said. “These athletes had played against each other. But we were very successful.”<br />
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The 1971-72 basketball team went 24-2. “We had a real good ball club. People really caught on to Sleepy (Claude Taylor). When you’re a superstar, you’re sometimes hard to coach. But he was very likeable. And it helped with integration, to be honest.”<br />
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By the 80s, Page was proud to have Keith Claiborne and Dana Elliott on his team. “We played in the Dean Dome. I believe everyone in Caswell County was there,” he laughed. “We had a tremendous following. The place would be full. That was the golden era of our basketball.”<br />
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Several BY athletes have had their jerseys retired, and have played some college sports. “I’ve always enjoyed watching and following them. I hope they do well. That’s the biggest thing, to be productive citizens. The fact that they’re good athletes just adds to it.”<br />
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Through the years, Page has had opportunities to leave Caswell County. “But there was always something that kept me here. Mainly my family He and his wife Myra have four children, Barry, Steve, Carla, and Leslie. “When you are a coach, it’s not a job, it’s a way of life. I spent an awful lot of time away from home. But Myra was very supportive, and my sons played for me. Leslie played basketball, and Carla cheered for a couple of years. So it was always a family affair. That’s what helped me survive as long as I did.”<br />
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For the last 15 years at BY, Page’s teaching load was lightened, and he served as industrial coordinator, keeping tabs on students with jobs. He retired in 1998 after being full-time for 38 years. But the new superintendent asked him to teach driver’s ed. “I’ve been doing that for 14 years, and enjoy it. I go to BY two to three afternoons a week.”<br />
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Still being involved with students, Page sees differences in the teens through the years. “This is the ‘me’ generation. But you gotta have collective goals to be successful.“ He offered some advice to the athletes. “You always want be a good representative of yourself, your family, and your school. You always want to be presentable. A pet peeve of mine is sagging britches.” And it brings back a memory from the 70s. “We were in the middle of the Vietnam war, which we couldn’t win. Hair got long. Our team was very good. It was Tim Jernigan and Sleepy’s last season. Tim had long hair. Now, I really liked the kid. But when the season was about to start, I asked him to cut it to a neat length. He said he’d cut it, but wouldn’t cut it again until we lost. But we won 18 in a row! His hair had gotten a little long!”<br />
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Page, who turned 73 a few weeks ago, said he doesn’t work for the money, but for good health. He participated in Senior Games, softball, and 3-on-3 basketball. “I’m really taking it one year at a time. I don’t want to be sitting in the house with a remote in my hand all day long. I enjoy getting out,” he said. “I hope to stay active. It would be nice to die at second base, or playing golf, said Page. “It shows you were productive until you passed away.”<br />
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Source: <i>The Caswell Messenger</i> (Yanceyville, North Carolina) 22 August 2012.CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-46951810176037083572023-07-26T10:53:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:53:10.474-04:00Womack's Mill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUI5eJmrzWfMqEOs4UCnQKVHnX9sCUbLooJT5PDymH7iCWy_aexFv-h4YUp57wn8xpmpNoUQrRq5IjSwM4TCXZzfhocFtzSHKurxAuH_zkrZplw3-d8FGgBUEepv7fJhtFjCKge_lGm-rxEFSng_WZG12g6RFdCUxkrcVFzsxAmWK6i5h6TniZ/s950/womacksmill2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="950" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUI5eJmrzWfMqEOs4UCnQKVHnX9sCUbLooJT5PDymH7iCWy_aexFv-h4YUp57wn8xpmpNoUQrRq5IjSwM4TCXZzfhocFtzSHKurxAuH_zkrZplw3-d8FGgBUEepv7fJhtFjCKge_lGm-rxEFSng_WZG12g6RFdCUxkrcVFzsxAmWK6i5h6TniZ/s320/womacksmill2.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br>"Womack's Mill was a treasure--a memory for many people of the past. It was where we took our grains to be ground. The millpond was where we waded in the cooling waters and it was there I had my first real date with my future husband--we spread a checked tablecloth on the sandy edge picnicking on cheese sandwiches and cold Pepsi Colas in glass bottles. For our 25th wedding anniversary present, my brother Bill, a photographer, enlarged and framed a beautiful photo of the old mill that was in his archives. I remember well the miller's house across the road--mama would visit the lady of the house, passing the time of day, while the corn was being processed. I am told that Papa (Will Farthing) took bags of grain to Womack's Mill on the family wagon, and the trusty family mule was smart enough to take Papa there with nary a "giddap" ! The trip was so familiar to the four-legged critter that he knew exactly where to turn from the highway, proceeding on his own, the reins in Papa's lap. Such a loss for the community, and would have been a wonderful historical edifice if it could have been preserved...."<br>
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Source: Helen Jean Farthing Ledford 26 February 2014 Post to the Caswell County Historical Association Facebook Page.<br>
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Probably due to the famous 1959 escape by Charles Willis (Yank) Stewart and many of his fellow inmates, Caswell County's Ivy Bluff Prison is well-known. Less well-known is Caswell County's other prison, which is much older than Ivy Bluff (now decommissioned and in private hands). This prison is the Caswell Correctional Center on the County Home Road just outside Yanceyville, North Carolina.<sup>1</sup><br />
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The following is from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety:<br />
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Caswell was one of 51 county prisons for which the state assumed responsibility with the passage of the Conner Bill in 1931. It was one of 61 field unit prisons renovated or built during the late 1930s to house inmates who worked on building roads. Like many of the era's prisons, Caswell also had a farm worked by the inmates to supply the prison kitchen. The prison farm operated into the 1960s.<br />
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Caswell initially housed misdemeanants until 1968, when medium and minimum custody inmates were housed together. In 1974, Caswell was converted into a medium security prison housing 118 inmates. With the addition of triple-bunking (three beds stacked on top of each other), the population rose to 168.<br />
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A new dining hall was built at the prison in the 1950s. In the 1970s, inmates supervised by correction engineers built a recreation building and a segregation unit with 24 single cells.<br />
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In January 1989, a 104-bed inmate dormitory and support buildings that included a programs building with classroom space and a recreation building, opened. This addition was funded by the legislature as part of a $28.5 million Emergency Prison Facilities Development program in 1987.<br />
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Lawmakers provided two 104-inmate dormitories, an administration building, operations center and dining hall as part of a $75 million prison construction program approved in July 1990. After a gatehouse and motion detection system was installed, security towers at the prison were removed. With the completion of these additions in January 1993, staff increased to 154 and the inmate population increased to maximum of 484.<br />
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County: Caswell<br />
Mailing and Street Address: 444 County Home Road, Blanch, NC 27212<br />
Phone: (336) 694-4531<br />
Fax: (336) 694-5098<br />
Facility #: 4415<br />
Courier #: 02-53-23<br />
Inmate capacity: 460<br />
Inmate gender: Male<br />
Custody level: Medium<br />
Staff Size: 188<br />
Occupancy: 1930s<br />
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Caswell Correctional Center, near Yanceyville, is a medium security prison for adult males. Inmates may be assigned to work on one of seven Department of Transportation road squads clearing right-of-way under the supervision of armed correction officers. They may also work in the prison, typically as kitchen help or keeping the prison clean and in repair. For two years in the late 1990s, as many as 88 prisoners worked on inmate construction crews to build the 600-man housing unit at the nearby Dan River Prison Work Farm.<br />
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Piedmont Community College works with the prison to provide vocational courses including welding, HVAC technology, horticulture and industrial maintenance technology. Inmates with less than a high school education may participate in GED preparatory classes or remedial education. Inmates are also given an opportunity to participate in Bible study and worship services.<br />
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In 1997, Piedmont CC began to provide instruction in electrical and pneumatic tool repair. Inmates who complete this program are put to work in a small tool repair program, repairing tools for the Department of Transportation and other public agencies.<br />
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The foregoing article referenced the 1931 Conner Bill. Here is more on that law from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety:<br />
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In 1931, the General Assembly enacted the Conner bill which enabled the state to take over control of all prisons and inmates. The condition of prison facilities and the need for inmate labor led the General Assembly to consolidate the State Highway Commission and the State Prison Department. This provided new construction money from the Highway Fund for prison renovation.<br />
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In the two years before consolidation, the State Highway Commission spent $850,000 for permanent improvements in the road camps that had been operated by the counties. With the help of WPA labor, the renovation and construction program continued after consolidation of the two agencies. In 1933, a $400,000 bond issue provided for establishing and equipping additional prison camps, farms and industries. Lawmakers authorized the State Highway and Public Works Commission to purchase, lease and erect buildings at new road camp sites. These permanent road camps were of a standard design and small capacity. The basic design was for 100 inmates. Camps were located throughout the state, primarily for the convenience of road building and repair.<br />
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Thus, it appears that, at a minimum, a "road camp" was operating in Caswell County at the time the Conner Bill was enacted in 1931. Whether this facility was located on the site of the current Caswell Correctional Center on the County Home Road. What buildings occupied the site is not known.<br />
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Yanceyville, North Carolina<br />
Mar 10, 2016<br />
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The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Mark Carver as the new superintendent at Caswell Correctional Center in Yanceyville, replacing Judy Brandon, who retired.<br />
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Mark Carver most recently served as assistant superintendent for custody and operations at Caswell CC and is a 27-year veteran of the state prison system. He began his career in 1989 as a correctional officer and sergeant in Orange County. He later served at state prisons in Craven and Pamlico counties before returning to Orange Correctional Center as an assistant superintendent.<br />
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He is a Caswell County native and graduate of East Carolina University and Bartlett Yancey High School.<br />
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Caswell Correctional Center is a medium-security prison housing approximately 480 male inmates in dormitory-style housing. It employs a staff of about 170 people.<br />
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<sup>1</sup>Actually, there is another prison in Caswell County, but one with much less history: Dan River Prison Work Farm.<br />
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County: Caswell<br />
Mailing and Street Address: 981 Murray Road, Blanch, NC 27212<br />
Phone: (336) 694-1583<br />
Fax: (336) 694-4084<br />
Facility #: 3080<br />
Courier #: 02-53-24<br />
Inmate capacity: 640<br />
Inmate gender: Male<br />
Custody level: Minimum<br />
Staff size: 166<br />
Occupancy: March 1996<br />
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Dan River Prison Work Farm is located on a 187.5-acre site in the west-central area of Caswell County, near Yanceyville. The prison was officially dedicated on March 25, 1996. On July 1, 1998, the prison was named part of the Piedmont Region.<br />
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The prison operates with a staff of 166 employees in the custody, food service, medical, programs, fiscal and administrative units, and has an annual operating budget of approximately $11.4 million.<br />
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The modern architecture of this facility differs markedly from traditional prisons and was designed to be built and maintained at less cost. The facility has an administration building, central complex building comprised of food service, staff offices, visiting area, clothes house and central control office, and segregation building. The dormitory building is 60,000 square feet that contains 10 inmate housing areas, 10 day rooms, two canteens, 10 shower and lavatory areas, medical and program departments, barber shop, library, classroom, chaplain's office and two control rooms.<br />
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Dan River houses felon and misdemeanant minimum custody adult male offenders. Inmate work assignments include food service, maintenance, janitorial and other institutional jobs. Dan River also has three litter crews that work in Alamance, Guilford and Randolph counties.<br />
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Other assignments include working at Correction Enterprises Laundry, maintenance work at Caswell Correctional Center and the inmate construction program.<br />
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A joint venture with the N.C. Wildlife Commission and Dan River has offenders working restoring forest land, parks and lakes all across North Carolina.<br />
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In cooperation with Piedmont Community College, the facility operates the Roxboro Satellite Training Center, which uses the building that once housed Person Correctional Center. The Training Center's programs include carpentry, masonry, information systems technology, horticulture, basic electricity, and human resource development for 130 inmates.<br />
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Visitation<br />
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Visitation takes place in alphabetical order three times a day on Saturdays and Sundays. Inmates in segregation are allowed visitors on an appointment basis Monday through Friday.<br />
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The visitation policy requires all visitors to complete an application prior to visitation.<br />
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Directions<br />
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From East/Raleigh, take I-40 west. Take the Hillsborough exit. Proceed through Hillsborough onto NC 86 N. Take NC 86 N to Yanceyville. In Yanceyville, turn right onto NC 86 N toward Danville, Va. At the second stoplight (intersection of NC 86 and 158), turn right onto County Home Road. Go approximately a quarter-mile and turn left onto Murray Road. Follow Murray Road for approximately 1 mile. Dan River Prison is at the end of Murray Road.<br />
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From West/Greensboro, take I-40/85 east, then get on NC 29 N toward Danville, Va. In Reidsville, take the NC 158 exit to Yanceyville. Proceed through the stoplight (intersection of NC 86 and 158), onto County Home Road. Go approximately a quarter-mile, turn left onto Murray Road. Follow Murray Road for 1 mile. Dan River Prison is at the end of Murray Road.<br />
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Source: North Carolina Department of Public SafetyCCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-37524061398615683412023-07-26T10:47:00.067-04:002023-07-26T11:29:30.933-04:00Josiah Baker BiblePerfect Information, Imperfectly Sourced
Judy G. Russell, 11 Aug 08:15 AM<div><br /></div><div>There is nothing The Legal Genealogist loves more than a good source of family information.
Even when it’s not perfect.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to a family Bible, kept by my third great grand uncle Josiah Baker and passed down through his family, I can peg when Josiah and his full siblings were born — including my third great grandfather Martin Baker.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the Bible, there were seven children born to my fourth great grandparents, David Baker and his second wife Dorothy Wiseman:</div><div><br /></div><div>Susanah Baker was born Sept 6th 1795</div><div>Martin Baker was born Dec. 9th 1797</div><div>Dorothy Baker was born Aug. 11th 1799</div><div>David D. Baker was born Jan. 9th 1801</div><div>Josiah Baker was born, Oct. 20th 1802</div><div>Sophia Baker was born, July 6th 1804</div><div>Charles Baker was born Dec 2nd 1806.1</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s not a perfect source, of course: the Bible was published years after any of these folks were born and the entries — likely made by Josiah, since they list his parents and siblings and not anything about his wife Julia’s family — made close to the end of his life.
But as far as sources go, in my family, that’s a good source, and I’m grateful for it. Especially when I can take note of that family birthday — Dorothy Baker, my third great grand aunt, was born 219 years ago today.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the Bible only gives birth dates for Josiah’s siblings. It doesn’t say who and when they married, or when and where they died.
And there’s no surviving marriage record for Dorothy in North Carolina where she lived.
Oh, there are unsourced published family histories that say she married their cousin David Davenport.2
Now if that’s right, then Martin and his family and Dorothy and her family picked up stakes and moved around the same time, to what was then Macon County (and later became Cherokee County), North Carolina — appearing one after the other on the same page in the 1840 census of the newly formed Cherokee County.3</div><div><br /></div><div>Martin continued to be on the move, ending up in Texas,4 while Dorothy and her growing family stayed in North Carolina and set down roots, deep into the soil of the westernmost part of that state. They were there in 18505 and 18606 and 1870,7 after their area of Cherokee County became Clay County.8 </div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy was still there as a widow in 18809 and that’s where she died in 1885.10
From these we know David Davenport’s wife was named Dorothy. But how can we know whether the Dorothy who married David Davenport was Dorothy Baker — and not someone else?
I’ll put my money on it, because, after all, there’s the letter.
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1818 Baker Letter</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s not the original letter, of course. It’s a transcription by a man who was a professional geologist — and an amateur genealogist. He was also the second president of Stanford University in California and — not for nothing — a cousin of mine (a third cousin three times removed or a fourth cousin four times removed, depending on which line you’re counting in). His name: John Casper Branner.11
Branner was born in Tennessee in 1850. His mother was a Baker cousin, and late in his life, after writing a history of his father’s family,12 he decided he wanted to know more about his Baker kin.
His methods would curl the hair of any modern genealogist, but he used the tools he knew at the time: he wrote to everyone he thought he even might possibly be related to and gathered up whatever bits and pieces of information and documentation they had.
The results, today, are in what is called the Baker genealogy, part of the John Casper Branner papers, 1882-1921, in the Stanford University Libraries. When I first arranged to acquire a copy, it cost me a fortune in copying costs. Today — sigh — they’re online, free.
And one of those bits and pieces that Branner collected was a copy of a letter, from my fourth great grandfather David Baker — father of Martin and Dorothy and Josiah — to his brother Charles in Georgia. It’s dated the 27th of January 1818, and Branner carefully copied David’s signature.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now… he may have made mistakes in his transcription. He may have missed something I wish he hadn’t missed. But, overall, the contents ring true to what I know of the family (old Martin Davenport was dead by 1818, for example), and his rendering of the signature matches examples we have of David’s handwriting.
And as to the question of who Dorothy married, it says: “all my Children that is mared is living just by me my Second Daughter by Second wife is mared to David Davenport”.13
No, it’s not a perfect source. But as far as sources go, in my family, it’s a really good source, and yeah, personally, I’m going with it:</div><div><br /></div><div>Dorothy — David Baker’s second daughter by his second wife — really did marry her cousin David Davenport.</div><div><br /></div><div>SOURCES</div><div><br /></div><div>Josiah and Julia (McGimsey) Baker Family Bible Records 1749-1912, The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (New York : American Bible Society, 1867), “Births”; privately held by Louise (Baker) Ferguson, Bakersville, NC; photographed for JG Russell, Feb 2003. Mrs. Ferguson, a great granddaughter of Josiah and Julia, inherited the Bible; the earliest entries are believed to be in the handwriting of Josiah or Julia Baker.</div><div><br /></div><div>See e.g. John Scott Davenport, “Five Generations Identified from the Pamunkey Family Patriarch, Namely Davis Davenport of King William County,” in The Pamunkey Davenport Papers, CD-ROM (Charles Town, W.Va. : Pamunkey Davenport Family Association, 2009), 19.</div><div><br /></div><div>See also Maribeth Lang Vineyard and Eugene M. Wiseman, William Wiseman and the Davenports (Franklin, NC: Genealogy Publishing Service, 1997), 42.</div><div><br /></div><div>1840 U.S. census, Cherokee County, North Carolina, population schedule, p. 239 (stamped), line 7, David Davenport household, and line 8, Martin Baker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 December 2002); citing National Archive microfilm publication M704, roll 357.
Martin died in Parker County, Texas, in 1868.</div><div><br /></div><div>Baker Cemetery (Baker Community, Parker County, Texas; on Baker Road approximately four miles south of the intersection with Doyle Road, Latitude 323503N, Longitude 0974338W), Martin Baker marker; photograph by J.G. Russell, 3 May 2003. </div><div><br /></div><div>1850 U.S. census, Cherokee County, North Carolina, population schedule, p. 25 (back) (stamped), dwelling/family 324, David Davenport household; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Mar 2007); citing National Archive microfilm publication M432, roll 625.</div><div><br /></div><div>1860 U.S. census, Cherokee County, North Carolina, Shooting Creek, population schedule, p. 168 (penned), dwelling/family 1098, David “Debenport” household; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Apr 2007); citing National Archive microfilm publication M653, roll 892.
1870 U.S. census, Clay County, North Carolina, population schedule, Hayesville Post Office, p. 469(B)-470(A) (stamped), dwelling 40, family 40, David Devenport household; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 Oct 2011); citing National Archive microfilm publication M593, roll 1130.</div><div><br /></div><div>David Leroy Corbitt, The Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663-1943 (Raleigh : Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1987), 67.</div><div><br /></div><div>1880 U.S. census, Clay County, North Carolina, population schedule, Shooting Creek Twp., enumeration district (ED) 64, p. 457(D) (stamped), dwelling 29, family 29, Dorothy Davenport household; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 Oct 2011); citing National Archive microfilm publication T9, roll 958.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bethabara, Clay County, North Carolina, “Dorothay” Davenport marker; digital image, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 27 Sep 2013).
Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.com), “John Casper Branner,” rev. 23 Apr 2018.</div><div><br /></div><div>John Casper Branner, Casper Branner of Virginia and his Descendants (Stanford, Cal. : p.p., 1913). </div><div><br /></div><div>David Baker to Charles Baker, 27 January 1818, transcription by John Casper Branner 1910 of original held by Mrs. Carrie Baker of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; Baker genealogy; John Casper Branner papers, 1882-1921, Stanford University Libraries; PDF of digital images, Stanford Digital Repository (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ : accessed 10 Aug 2018). (Emphasis added)</div>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-57347483779280524282023-07-26T10:41:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:41:28.599-04:00Milton Buildings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Milton Buildings<br>
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This 1940 photograph shows two substantial buildings in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina, at the east end of what is known as Milton's "Commercial Row."<br>
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The two-story building to the right (beside the large tree), which no longer stands, was the home of Albert G. Ferguson (1832-1905).<br>
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The 1893 Sanborn-Perris insurance map of Milton dated 1893 shows what appears to be a one-story brick building just down the street from the frame Albert Ferguson house in this photo (to the right, but not the building the roof of which can be partially seen). In Charles B. Motley’s book, <i>Milton, North Carolina: Sidelights of History</i> (1976) he provides the following:<br>
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"There are two schools of thought as to the location of the Milton Branch of the North Carolina State Bank. Some are of the firm opinion that it was in the Walker home, that the State of North Carolina erected this home as a State Bank with living quarters for the banker.<br>
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"Others are just as firmly of the opinion that the State Bank was never located in the Walker home but rather on the lot of the home which was later purchased by Albert G. Ferguson, on the corner of Broad Street and Warehouse Street (Sycamore St.). It is said that Ferguson dismantled the portion that was the Milton Branch of the State of North Carolina Bank when he renovated the home.<br>
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"The writer is simply passing along opinions and shall leave it to others to determine the location of the Milton Branch of the North Carolina State Bank."<br>
<a href="https://ncccha.blogspot.com/2018/02/milton-buildings.html#more">Read more »</a>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-64436252037716594242023-07-26T10:37:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:37:29.803-04:00Caswell County Court System"This year in 2016 we are celebrating the beginning of the unified court system," Judge Osmond Smith told the crowd that gathered in the courtroom to celebrate the anniversary. "In 2016 we also celebrate 50 years since the creation of the district court."<br />
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"The court system of North Carolina has been in existence since it became a state in 1777. Caswell County is the first county of the state," explained Smith. "It was established when we became a state in 1777. We have had a variety of courts over those years."<br />
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Smith said that there were superior courts, municipal courts, court of supports, justice of the peace courts, and others before a constitutional amendment in 1966 unified all of the courts in North Carolina. "We should be celebrated around the country because our unified court system has been adopted as a model."<br />
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"I have been a lawyer 40 of those 240 years- so has George Daniels and Mike Gentry. Lee Farmer is the senior active lawyer with about 43 years," said Smith. "We also have a lawyer that has more than 50 years- Retired District Judge, Robert R. Blackwell."<br />
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John Satterfield, the Clerk of Superior Court, then spoke on Marlene Watlington who has been with the Unified Court System for all but 10 of its 50 years. "2016 brings many things. It brings the milestone of the unified court system," said Satterfield. "Of course it brings another milestone in that Marlene Watlington, who is the Assistant Clerk of Superior Court in Caswell County, is celebrating her 40 years of service with the North Carolina Judicial System. Marlene began her career in the court system in 1976 as a judicial assistant working for Judge James Long and then in 1981 she came over to the clerk's office."<br />
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Satterfield presented Watlington with a framed letter from Chief Justice Mark Martin and the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts Marion Warren who extended their congratulations. Satterfield then gave Watlington a clock that she had chosen as her service award.<br />
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"We look forward to your continued service and all of your efforts you have made for the state of North Carolina and the citizens of Caswell County," said Satterfield.<br />
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"This isn't a retirement ceremony," laughed Smith.<br />
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"Someone told me a long time ago that if I have a job that I enjoy, I will never work a day," said Watlington. "And I have enjoyed it."<br />
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"Marlene has been here as long as the courthouse has been here," added Smith. "And while she has seniority over all of us, she also has seniority over Mr. Lee Farmer in that she started in the law office of Judge Blackwell in his practice in 1972."<br />
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"I learned as a lawyer early on, the best friend you can have in the courthouse is the clerk," continued Smith. "They are the one that can save you from falling face first into something. She and her colleagues in the clerk's office have been great friends to the court system to the lawyers the judges as they mentor us and help us through. We thank you for your service. I appreciate your service and the citizens of Caswell County and North Carolina have benefited from it."CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-67679006423877949102023-07-26T10:34:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:34:30.835-04:00Caswell County Extension Service Reports<u>1946</u><br />
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The Extension personnel working in the county the entire year consisted of: Miss Louise Homewood, Home Agent; J. E. Zimmerman, Farm Agent, and Miss Helen Williamson, Secretary. Helen Payne was Negro Home Agent and Dewey Williamson, Negro Farm Agent.<br />
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M. Q. Plumblee, Principal of Anderson High School, worked as Assistant agent from June 3 until August 17. Mr. Plumblee worked with the 4-H club boys.<br />
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Ralph Aldridge, former Assistant Agent, returned as Assistant Agent October 1 following his honorable discharge from the Army.<br />
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The County Agricultural Council, while not an Extension organization, was effective in coordinating the activities of different agricultural agencies workin in the county. This council met on the third Monday of each month.<br />
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Source: Narrative Report (Caswell County) - 1946. J. E. Zimmerman, County AgentCCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-47595636882529976682023-07-26T10:28:00.001-04:002023-07-26T10:28:58.919-04:00Maud Florance Gatewood Works: Catalogue Raisonné<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maud Florance Gatewood</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The purpose of this article is to list all the known works of Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004): a Catalogue Raisonné. This initial list is in no particular order. Later we may reorganize by date, medium, etc. Click image to see a larger version. Work in progress.</span></p>
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"Idyll" (1989), acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40"<div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMaCoIZplhogSRBacCGGRepEs1w3ddggl7isLzT8AIjcjfxtl67WXo8ltpJJQ7xU33t8A_18oML_KOJzK6sN4cyy4eiFj3MOfkSW4LSq1N_MXxpVIDDFkCIjJSkEaNjZF8CRyswD1-5MllzvfDrYmp1VUPrIt0kZ_E1VXu-crxreGpQif1A/s2176/_Idyll__by_Maud_Gatewood__1989___The_Charlotte_Observer__Charlotte__NC___7_March_1990.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2176" data-original-width="1588" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMaCoIZplhogSRBacCGGRepEs1w3ddggl7isLzT8AIjcjfxtl67WXo8ltpJJQ7xU33t8A_18oML_KOJzK6sN4cyy4eiFj3MOfkSW4LSq1N_MXxpVIDDFkCIjJSkEaNjZF8CRyswD1-5MllzvfDrYmp1VUPrIt0kZ_E1VXu-crxreGpQif1A/w146-h200/_Idyll__by_Maud_Gatewood__1989___The_Charlotte_Observer__Charlotte__NC___7_March_1990.jpg" width="146"></a></div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. "Figure in a Train Car" ( ), oil on paper, 19.5" x 20.75</div><div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3yXwFrF-1CkBNikeV_MR49kAgrP3FudCpoyg1YMcSUjhmXlG-EZGdrzTdN4gqvjk-3EBBgMJ7SYncxf2NANoL52rbjCn3JxhNxDX5j0iardS6mgEYD2al0ZFESskfPAW-T7YJbpJsNkP1vYlqracuvs0jyGEwWp1EKF0U3kS9vJyCEKGZQ/s620/Figure%20in%20a%20Train%20Car%20by%20Maud%20Gatewood%20No%20Date%20Known%20Oil%20on%20Paper%2019.5%20by%2020.75%20inches%20Lee%20Hansley%20Exhibition.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="620" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC3yXwFrF-1CkBNikeV_MR49kAgrP3FudCpoyg1YMcSUjhmXlG-EZGdrzTdN4gqvjk-3EBBgMJ7SYncxf2NANoL52rbjCn3JxhNxDX5j0iardS6mgEYD2al0ZFESskfPAW-T7YJbpJsNkP1vYlqracuvs0jyGEwWp1EKF0U3kS9vJyCEKGZQ/w200-h187/Figure%20in%20a%20Train%20Car%20by%20Maud%20Gatewood%20No%20Date%20Known%20Oil%20on%20Paper%2019.5%20by%2020.75%20inches%20Lee%20Hansley%20Exhibition.jpg" width="200"></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>3. "Abstraction No. 1" ( ), gouache on paper, 15" x 22.5"<div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvNE7_WauEHpXO8zVdDoX1zWOolAFiIhMq7BssxyhY2XwcD7iSs8KqNAleHZz4ZncB2vvf8YMGX-u_TucZHAWVZp3VVkVJ57L5hcseTZm_90vgmxVhGv7yUW8MVDxhHJWECgrHV53PV77Ny9z9Eg64dosdLdZ7-noY3julf74B3cKlKLKlw/s620/gatewood-abstraction-no-1%20gouache%20on%20paper%2015%20by%2022.25%20inches.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="620" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJvNE7_WauEHpXO8zVdDoX1zWOolAFiIhMq7BssxyhY2XwcD7iSs8KqNAleHZz4ZncB2vvf8YMGX-u_TucZHAWVZp3VVkVJ57L5hcseTZm_90vgmxVhGv7yUW8MVDxhHJWECgrHV53PV77Ny9z9Eg64dosdLdZ7-noY3julf74B3cKlKLKlw/w200-h137/gatewood-abstraction-no-1%20gouache%20on%20paper%2015%20by%2022.25%20inches.jpg" width="200"></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>4. "Abstraction No. 2" ( ), gouache on paper, 15" x 22.5"<div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cNPMg4-GCjm43Rx6_Pc2sWSOmK2-fgk36ufRYM9Q18S5YgwGS_cx5cGnGl2RyfCh86LGOdzG32oz-Xtn84vRi-3xqyvH_plOVc6Wbrynp3PC1qN33JEoFTLncL0hND9YXSGKLEfMtOC5IBp1At2zyvZliD2hz1hQj9iZJvbZO4zmq_GJ1A/s620/gatewood-abstraction-no-2%20gouache%20on%20paper%2015%20by%2022.25%20inches.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="620" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cNPMg4-GCjm43Rx6_Pc2sWSOmK2-fgk36ufRYM9Q18S5YgwGS_cx5cGnGl2RyfCh86LGOdzG32oz-Xtn84vRi-3xqyvH_plOVc6Wbrynp3PC1qN33JEoFTLncL0hND9YXSGKLEfMtOC5IBp1At2zyvZliD2hz1hQj9iZJvbZO4zmq_GJ1A/w200-h129/gatewood-abstraction-no-2%20gouache%20on%20paper%2015%20by%2022.25%20inches.jpg" width="200"></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>5. "Beach Umbrella Day" ( ), watercolor on paper, 28.5" x 22.5"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8SGb5V7xga8m64ZoP-ksTsUMiRNwCnEtr7eMYOaO1b2mOMv3hOjr1uEOK1rOFHKlHPRwG0vQhlPLBqQ1EOldukGATXcadIhxqfJ0YD4OO8DzyHQ8imCfsVkbfj8nvwrRlK30H5XsNRWdupCLkNMC1cfyDKXYTeIv9qxLF8b_2az4C4PWfw/s607/gatewood-beach-umbrella-day%20watercolor%20on%20paper%2028.5%20by%2022.5%20inches.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="482" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8SGb5V7xga8m64ZoP-ksTsUMiRNwCnEtr7eMYOaO1b2mOMv3hOjr1uEOK1rOFHKlHPRwG0vQhlPLBqQ1EOldukGATXcadIhxqfJ0YD4OO8DzyHQ8imCfsVkbfj8nvwrRlK30H5XsNRWdupCLkNMC1cfyDKXYTeIv9qxLF8b_2az4C4PWfw/w159-h200/gatewood-beach-umbrella-day%20watercolor%20on%20paper%2028.5%20by%2022.5%20inches.jpg" width="159"></a></div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span></span><a href="https://ncccha.blogspot.com/2023/07/maud-florance-gatewood-works-catalogue.html#more">Read more »</a>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-83703058181927008962023-07-26T10:27:00.000-04:002023-07-26T10:27:55.429-04:00North Carolina Clerks of Court ConfusionCaswell County History<div><br /></div><div>For much of its judicial history, North Carolina counties had two "Clerks" -- a Clerk of the Superior Court and a Clerk of the County Courts. Over the years this has caused confusion. Even local historian M. Q. Plumblee conflated these positions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Example: In 1841, Major John K. Graves was elected Clerk of the Superior Court, and Abisha Slade was elected Clerk of the County Courts. Slade, a Democrat, defeated long-serving Paul Anderson, a Whig. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today, there are no county courts.</div>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-3688107031483610332023-07-26T10:25:00.001-04:002023-07-26T10:25:20.133-04:00Jeems GoslinJeems Goslin is the pseudonym used by Thomas Satterwhite Harrison (1842-1927).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEQeXQwRTYY9JsJCK7rkfOjJ9CtFIaT_LwDbUHIg2-w5BspC9D2BjgwBsBZT9J-jXcgKvRLFC0a1E7_HBOyX8TUdGkVJlKQlWy2r8_IBLofvx1XqmzqcLfoYs_Xeg5yqxDvYAAMs-fTCEYr-_paUXejST5Cfe47i9OLvOK3y_zvtSajmHPnLO/s343/Thomas%20Satterwhite%20Harrison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="233" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEQeXQwRTYY9JsJCK7rkfOjJ9CtFIaT_LwDbUHIg2-w5BspC9D2BjgwBsBZT9J-jXcgKvRLFC0a1E7_HBOyX8TUdGkVJlKQlWy2r8_IBLofvx1XqmzqcLfoYs_Xeg5yqxDvYAAMs-fTCEYr-_paUXejST5Cfe47i9OLvOK3y_zvtSajmHPnLO/s320/Thomas%20Satterwhite%20Harrison.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br />Thomas Satterwhite Harrison (see photograph), buried in family cemetery on Ralph Harrison property, Old Blanch Road. Father Samuel Satterwhite Harrison, mother Louisa M. McDaniel. Source - family bible in possession of EDD, Jr. Obituary states that TSH was a veteran of Confederacy. "Possessing a most wonderful memory and writing with a facile pen, Mr. Harrison has contributed richly to the historic life of Caswell. Under the pen name of Jeems Goslin, J.P., Mr. Harrison's writings were widely read with the keenest pleasure."<br />
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<em>Ann of the Ku Klux Klan</em>, Tom Henderson (1942) at 9-10:<br />
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[Henderson attributed the following to George A. Anderson]<br />
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It was then that Governor Holden sent for Squire Thomas Satterwhite Harrison, a white Republican of high honor, who then represented Caswell in the legislature and said to him: "Mister Harrison, you enjoy the respect of all the Negros of Caswell and of the best of her white citizenship. Property is in jeopardy there and human life is unsafe. I need a personal representative on the grounds. Will you accept this responsible position?"<br />
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"Governor," replied Tom Harrison, "I thank you for your complimentary remarks, but I'm not hankering for the job and cannot accept."<br />
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"Can you not, then," continued the Governor, "recommend to me some man of our party in Caswell who is worth of my trust?"<br />
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"Governor," answered Tom Harrison, "there happens to be in Raleigh at this moment one John Marshal Wooding, from Milton. He is a courageous gentleman, a daring horseman and an unbeatable poker player. He might consent to serve you."<br />
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Governor Holden requested Tom Harrison to get in touch with Wooding, and have him come to the executive's office. This was quickly accomplished.<br />
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"Mister Wooding," opened up Governor Holden, after introductions, "you have been highly recommended to me by the Honorable Mister Harrison. Will you accept the responsible appointment of my personal representative in Caswell? You will have the backing of your Governor, the State Militia and President Ulysses S. Grant."<br />
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"I thank you, Governor," said the Milton man, "but I can't accept the appointment."<br />
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Then, showing considerable perturbment, Governor Holden gruffly demanded: "Why not?"<br />
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"Well, Governor," replied John Marshal Wooding, "you see, it's this way. You and the State Militia will be in Raleigh, President Grant will be in Washington, and I'll be in hell with my throat cut."<br />
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CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375619.post-33019035750248207132023-04-24T16:18:00.008-04:002023-04-24T16:23:47.042-04:00Milton Whiskey Manufacture: 1905<span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Milton Affected by 1905 NC Law</u></span><div><br /></div><div>In 1903, at the urging of a newly organized Anti-Saloon League, the Democratic-controlled legislature passed the Watts Act, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors except in incorporated towns. According to historians Hugh T. Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome, the law was designed "to get rid of the county distilleries," which Democratic Party leader Furnifold M. Simmons called "Republican recruiting stations."</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1905 the Ward Law extended Prohibition to incorporated towns of fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, meaning that 68 of the 98 counties in the state had Prohibition.</div><div><br /></div><div>Source: <i>Encyclopedia of North Carolina</i>, University of North Carolina Press.</div><div>__________</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Milton Whiskey Manufacture: 1905</u></div><div><br /></div><div>When the Ward bill was being considered by the North Carolina legislature, one newspaper printed the following:
"The Ward bill will affect a large majority of the little so-called 'towns,' incorporated by the last General Assembly after the enactment of the Watts law. Milton, in Caswell County, and Shore and Williams, in Yadkin County, are notorious examples of small towns manufacturing whiskey which will be affected by the bill."</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Statesville Record And Landmark</i> (Statesville, North Carolina), Friday, February 03, 1905.</div><div>__________</div><div><br /></div><div>Query whether the above newspaper item is correct with respect to the incorporation of Milton.</div>CCHAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15012337526625093745noreply@blogger.com0