"Summer Hill" (Caswell County, North Carolina)

"Summer Hill" is located at 1243 Rascoe-Dameron Road, Anderson Township, Caswell County, North Carolina. The owner is Tim Ross. Clockwise beginning top left: (1) George Connally House (c.1780); (2) A. N. Brannock House (c.1835) (older structure attached to the "Main House"); (3) Abner Walker Granary (c.1850); and (4) George Connally House (chimney view) (c.1780).

Five Generations

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Left-to-right:

Seated: Shirley Williams Corbett (holding baby Aaima Dubois); Mattie Tate Williams (mother of Shirley Williams Corbett).

Standing: LaKura Coppin (baby's mother); and Kim Corbett Perry.
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Possible ancestral outline:

1. Mattie Tate married Unknown (possibly Ray) Williams
2. Shirley Williams married Unknown Corbett
3. Kim Corbett married Unknown Perry
4. LaKura Perry married Unknown Coppin
5. Aaima Dubois

John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958)

John Hosea Kerr (1873 - 1958) (grandnephew of John Kerr), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., December 31, 1873; attended the local school and Bingham’s Military School of North Carolina; graduated from Wake Forest (N.C.) College in 1895; studied law; was admittd to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Warrenton, N.C.; mayor of Warrenton, N.C., in 1897 and 1898; solicitor for the third district of North Carolina 1906-1916; judge of the superior court 1916-1923; trustee of the University of North Carolina.

Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932 and 1940; chairman, United States delegation to the Inter-American Travel Congress in Mexico City in 1941; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Claude Kitchin; re-elected to the Sixty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1923, to January 3, 1953; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Seventy-second through Seventy-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952; died in Warrenton, N.C., June 21, 1958; interment in Fairview Cemetery.

Allen's Jewelry Killing 1982 (Danville, VA)

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Deer Hunting with Dogs (Caswell County, NC)

The following is excerpted from Phillip Wade's "Frogsboro News" column in the 5 January 2011 edition of The Caswell Messenger:

About a month ago, I wrote about bear hunting in Pender County. After reading an article in a Virginia newspaper I realized I hadn't written anything about deer hunting this season. The deer that are killed are registered online or by cell phone. There are not many stores that register deer that have been killed anymore. Plus, due to hunting with no dogs, truck traffic is not what it was years ago. This is according to Jason Maness, the Caswell County officer. There is still a hunt club in this area, but due to hunting without dogs, membership has fallen way off. Deer season ended this past Saturday, which was Jan. 1.

Mary Kathleen Hicks Webster (1916-2011)

Yanceyville, North Carolina: Kathleen Hicks Webster, 94, of 6845 N.C. 86 South, Yanceyville, N.C., died on January 5, 2011 in Alamance Regional Medical Center after being in declining health for the past two years and hospitalized for the last five days. Mrs. Webster was born in Caswell County, N.C. on October 11, 1916, a daughter of the late David Thomas Hicks and Onedia Bowes Hicks. She lived all her life in Caswell County where she was a homemaker and caregiver to her family.

Mrs. Webster and her late husband, LeGrand Webster, who died on June 6, 1978, operated the former Webster's Service Station and later, store for a number of years. She was a member of Union United Methodist Church in Leasburg.

Bringing in the Dead: North Carolina Civil War Deaths

Bringing in the Dead: The North Carolina Civil War Death Study: Free Public Lecture 25 January 2011 (Noon - 1 p.m. 1st floor of the Government and Heritage Library, 109 E. Jones Street, Raleigh). Josh Howard of the Research Branch of the N.C. Office of Archives and History will discuss his research on the N.C. Civil War Death Study.

Telephone: (919) 807-7450
Email: rebecca.hyman@ncdcr.gov
Website: www.ghlblog.org
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