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Jasper Brown (1918-1997)
See:
Dead-End Road, Deborah F. Brown (2004).
Three children of Jasper Brown, Nathan, Lunsford and Sheliah, sought transfers from the Caswell County Training School to Bartlett Yancey. Buses going to the Training School picked up the Brown children four-tenths of a mile from their home. The nearest route of a bus going to Bartlett Yancey was two and a half miles from the Brown home, and it was thought unsafe to operate two buses over the narrow road near the end of which the Browns lived. These are appropriate considerations, but the two schools were within two blocks of each other. It was admitted that there was no reason the Brown children could not ride the Training School bus and walk from that school to Bartlett Yancey.
Source:
Jeffers v. Whitley, 309 F.2d 621 (1962).
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Jasper Brown and His Children: The Supreme Court Said He Could
Jasper Brown took his four children to school in Yanceyville on January 22, 1963. He is black, but he took Nathan, Jocylin, Sheila and Lunsford to the white elementary and secondary school. The Supreme Court had said he could, and the U.S. Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, had said he should. It was 8:30 a.m. A crowd had gathered. An out-of-town newspaper photographer snapped the picture: Mr. Brown, wearing a topcoat and broad-brimmed hat, hurrying his children into the school.
At 9:30 a.m., a flustered Mr. Brown found the town sheriff and asked for protection from a group of white youths he said was trailing him. The sheriff refused -- said he could not act until something happened. Mr. Brown burst into Thomas Little's dry-cleaning store. "He said, 'Thomas, I'm not going to let them kill me,'" Mr. Little recalls. The businessman called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for advice and finally sent Mr. Brown home with an escort. It did not help.
At 1:30 p.m. two white youths in a 1956 Mercury forced the car carrying Mr. Brown and his escorts to a halt on a dirt road near his home. According to the accounts at the time, Mr. Brown "came out shooting." A bullet grazed the skull of young N. L. Oliver, Jr. His companion, James Nixon, was shot in the shoulder. Jasper Brown was charged, tried and found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. He served 90 days in jail, then returned to his farm. But according to Mr. Little, "they froze him out. Whites wouldn't sell him anything -- fuel oil, supplies for his farm, anything." Mr. Brown finally gave up and moved out of town.
Source: Struck, Doug. "Southern Change: It Sometimes Gallops, Often Crawls: Racial Views Have Evolved in N.C. Town,"
The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 22 November 1984.
Mary Anne Eiler, 56, of 1802 Hatchett Road died Wednesday January 20, 2010 at her residence following a period of declining health. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany September 16, 1953 to James A. and Elisabeth Kuhn Davis, both deceased. She worked as an instructor in parenting and with the Teen Court for the county. She was a shop-a-holic and collected all types of baskets. She was of the Baptist faith. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Harrelson Funeral Service Chapel, conducted by Chaplain Susan R. Kane. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the funeral home and at other times at the residence. Survivors are husband Walter Roland Eiler of the home, one daughter Bobby Jo Sandlin Rizzuti of Zebulon, N.C.; one son James Angris Sandlin II of Burlington; sisters Brigette Vann of Burlington, Christine Christenson of Conquille, Ore. and Cornelia Ward of Cofield, N.C.; brothers James A. Davis of Washington State, Thomas Davis of Gibsonville, Roy Michael Davis of Emporia Va.; two grandchildren; stepdaughters Wendy McClane of York, Pa., Kristy Decourley, Misty Warwick and Kacey Eiler all of Dothan, Ala. and Brandy Eiler of Longmont, Colo.; 26 step grandchildren and two great-step grandchildren. In addition to her parents she was predeceased by a brother Philip Freddie Davis and sister June Griffith. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Animal Protection Society, P.O. Box 193, Yanceyville, N.C. 27379.
There are countless springs around Caswell County and many of them are well known locally for their association with certain families or events. Two, however, were of enough significance that their waters were analyzed early in the twentieth century and described in a publication of the Geological and Economic Survey of the state. Strader's Spring, located about two and a half miles northwest of Pelham was one. The second spring described in the report was Park's Spring, six miles east of Pelham where the water comes up beside a small creek into a section of terra-cotta pipe. In this case the spring was clean and well maintained, the water being so popular among those in the surrounding country and as far away as Danville, Virginia. The analysis of Park's Spring water was similar to that of Strader's Spring; in this case there were 33.7 parts lime per million and 14.1 of soda.
