In 1920, Shellie Parker wrote a letter to the editor of The Stanly News-Herald (Stanly, NC). While interesting, his claims have not been substantiated.
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While working around Hillsboro, I was several times on the old Cornwallis road, which is a road that old Cornwallis had cut out through the forest during the Revolutionary War so that he could move his troops from Leasburg to Hillsboro. There is still standing an old house that was used for a commissary or supply station for Lord Cornwallis' army near Leasburg.
And there is a house in the yard of a gentleman that was built long before the Revolutionary War in which Lord Cornwallis stayed while having the road cut. The logs are sound as a dollar, and some of them are eighteen inches on the face. The logs were hauled there from the Haw River bottoms 30 miles away, and men cane 30 miles to help "raise" the house. The chimney was built of stone and was ten feet wide.
I was told a great deal of the history of the county and the people by a lady who lived on the old Cornwallis road, and it has been handed down from generation to generation and from father to son by these people who take great pride in their ancestry.
The grandfather of this lady was Scotch Irish and when he came from Ireland he brought his furnishings with him. His name was Andrew McBroon, and he was one of the leading men of his day. Mrs. McDade still has some of the furniture that her great grand-father brought from Ireland. The table is round and the top is mounted on one post so that it folds over flat and the top is made of one solid piece that is of walnut lumber and is 41 1-4 inches in diameter. The short legs or feet at the bottom of the post are carved from the roots of the tree and has a natural crook.
The Stanly News-Herald (Stanly, NC), 11 May 1920.
Image of Lord Cornwallis is not associated with the newspaper item.
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