Nettie Blackwell Marriage (1922)

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Nettie Roach Blackwell (1897-1958) was the daughter of John Bracken Blackwell (1864-1957) and Lelia Eliza Blackwell Blackwell [yes her maiden name was Blackwell].

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Caswell County Schools Program (1921)

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1. Mrs. Alice Flintoff Sledge: Mrs. Joe Sledge and the daughter of Charley Brown Flintoff and Emma Malone.

2. Miss Marnie Hatchett: Martha Elizabeth Hatchett, who would become Mrs. Samuel Murphy Bason.

3. Rev. J. A. Hackney (no information)

4. Catherine Malloy: The only child of Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy, M.D., and Nannie Emma Kerr. Catherine Yancey Malloy would have been not quite six years old when she presented this "Recitation."

5. Prof. J. Henry Highsmith: John Henry Highsmith (1877-1953) was in 1921 State Inspector of High Schools in the State Department of Public Instruction. He later served as Director of the Division of Instructional Service in DPI, was a strong supporter of the consolidation of high schools, and served as President of the North Carolina Education Association and the National Association of State High School Supervisors. He is in the North Carolina Education Hall of Fame.

6. Miss Nannie Newman: First thought to be Annie Warner Newman, who would become Mrs. Johnnie Oliver Gunn. She was the daughter of Samuel Pinkney Newman and Margaret Elizabeth Chandler. However, this may be incorrect as it is not thought that Annie Warner Newman was teaching at Bartlett Yancey as early as 1921.

7. Miss Nettie Blackwell: Possibly Nettie Roach Blackwell, daughter of John Bracken Blackwell and Lelia Eliza (Blackwell) Blackwell.

8. Miss Mabel Stephens: Probably Mabel Frances Stephens, daughter of Paul Taylor Stephens and Harriett Walker Moore; she would become Mrs. William Taylor Long and the mother of, among others the Honorable Jim Long and Mary Elizabeth (Lib) Long (who married Jerry Cole).

9. Miss Minnie Miles: Probably Minnie Ethel Miles, daughter of Robert Stanford Miles and Ida Bett Saunders; she would become Mrs. William Roach Simmons and the grandmother of (a) Bonnie Gayle Simmons who married Bobby Brewer and (b) Kathy Sue Simmons who married Tom McPherson, Jr. (Lib and Tom McPherson's son).

10. Miss Frances Walker (no information)

11. Mrs. E. G. Click: Lillian Gwynn Click probably the wife of Dr. Eugene Graham Click, D.D.S, and the daughter of Joseph Pinkney Gwynn and Sarah Eliza Hatchett. The sister of Lillian Gwynn, Annie Yancey Gwynn was a founding member and, I believe, the first President of the Caswell County Historical Association.

12. James Weldon Pinchback: May have been a son of Thomas Arch Pinchback and Mary Jane Chandler.

13. John H. Kerr: Probably Civil War Veteran John Hosea McNeill Kerr (1844-1924). In 1870 he married Eliza Catherine Yancey, who descends from both Bartlett Yancey and Lancelot Johnston. He was the first Kerr to occupy what now is known as the Kerr Hotel in Yanceyville. Many with the name John Hosea Kerr have served in the North Carolina Legislature (including one currently in the NC Senate). John Hosea Kerr and Eliza Catherine Yancey Kerr were the grandparents of Eliza Katharine Kerr Kendall, Mary Frances Kerr Donaldson, and George Yancey Kerr. And it goes on. They also were the grandparents of Mary Kerr Motz. Moreover, their daughter was Nannie Emma Kerr who married Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy, M.D.!

14. Melvin C. Vernon (no information)

15. Rev. George W. Oldham (no information)

16. Supt. Anderson: This was George Andrew Anderson (1869-1945), Superintendent of Caswell County Schools. He went on to be Clerk of the Court. For years his family lived in the Paul A. Haralson House beside the Caswell County Courthouse, where Sallie Gibbs Pridgen Anderson lives today. George Andrew Anderson was Sallie Anderson's father-in-law, being the father of James Ezekiel (Zeke) Anderson. George Andrew Anderson married Mary Elizabeth Slade in 1897. Another child, Mary Slade Anderson, would become the wife of local lawyer William Banks Horton.

17. Mrs. Geo. W. Oldham (no information)

18. Mr. J. G. Eanes (no information)

19. Mr. J. P. Gwynn: Probably Joseph Pinkney Gwynn (Sr. or Jr.), and I lean toward Sr. because his daughter, Lillian Gwynn Click, also was on the program (see #11 above).

20. Rev. S. F. Nicks: The Reverend Samuel Freeman Nicks (1874-1946), a native of Orange County, was Methodist minister at Pelham from 1907 to 1921, when he moved to the Hillsboro Charge. He served 46 years as a Methodist minister in the Durham District and is credited with building seven churches--three of stone, two of brick, and two of wood. Note that he performed the wedding ceremony for Annie Warner Newman and Johnnie Oliver Gunn at the Leasburg Methodist Church.

21. Rev. J. T. Stanford (no information)

22. Captain Hackney for Yanceyville (no information)

23. Captain Goodson for Providence (no information)

24. Chief Marshall L. J. Whitlock: This could be Lyndon J. Whitlock or his son, depending on the function of the Chief Marshall. The elder Lyndon J. Whitlock ( 1868-1925) married Sally Dyer. They had, among other children, a son named Lyndon J. Whitlock, Jr. Another child, Louise Dyer Whitlock, married Edmund Dixon Thomas who owned a store in Milton, North Carolina.
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Note that the Program was printed by J. T. Townes Prt. Co., Danville, Virginia. They were for many years a printing and office supply in Danville (and sold typewriters). The company was well-regarded and handled printing chores for businesses in Caswell County (including Johnny Gunn's Ford dealership). J. T. Townes had a store/shop behind what was then the Woolworth Store, and facing the (then) Danville Register and Danville Bee newspapers' office building at the intersection of Union and Patton streets, where the Court House/Municiple Building is.
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Semora, Caswell County (1932)

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From The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 19 December 1932 (Page 5).

Note that the Semora News was written by Mrs. S. O. Garnett (Nell Oliver). She also reported the local bridge parties and ended her report with: "A good time was had by all!"

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Tobacco Growers' Meeting Notice (1925)

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James J. (Jim) Foster (c.1887 - 1933)
Thomas M. Walker (born c.1882)
Samuel Bracken Gatewood (1873-1958)
Alvis Stokes Gatewood (c.1868 - 1964)
Sherwood Lee Crumpton (1864-1949)
Eli L. Pettigrew (1858-1931)
William B. Harrelson (1877-1956)
Peter Harrelson (born c. 1894)
Charles H. Loftis (born 1874)
John Blackwell Worsham (1852-1941)
Hiram Weatherford Harrelson (1846-1929)*
James Spencer Shelton (1895-1983)
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*May have been his son, Hiram Weatherford Harrelson, Jr. And, there was a Henry Weatherford Harrelson living at the time (married Cora Mills Allison).
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Most of these tobacco farmers were from the Locust Hill part of Caswell County, North Carolina.

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Fuqua Home Burns (1933)

The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 25 April 1933 (Page 1)

S. B. Fuqua's Home Burns In Caswell
Special To The Bee

YANCEYVILLE, N. C. April 25 (1933) - The attractive home of S. B. Fuqua, known to some as the old Dillard home, built half a century ago, was destroyed by fire at one o'clock yesterday afternoon. The home is in the Anderson township. The fire started in the roof and burned downward slowly. Sufficient assistance was on hand to permit the removal of virtually all of the furnishings and objects within the house. The house was covered by insurance. Sparks from the chimney are believed to have set fire to the roof.

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Bartlett Yancey School Faculty (1929)

The Bee (Danville, Virginia) 14 August 1929 (Page 3)

Faculty of High School Is Named

With S. H. Abell, as principal, the local committee of the Yanceyville high school, has announced the following faculty for the coming term - N. S. Upchurch, Yanceyville, assistant principal; Mrs. Giles Mebane, Caswell county, mathematics; Ralph Vance, High Point, science; Miss Laura Oliver, Caswell county, English; Miss Annie Newman, Caswell county, seventh grade; Mrs. Madeline Copeland, Durham, sixth grade; Miss Fannie Lea, Ringgold, Virginia, fifth grade; Mrs. Mabel Alcorn, Rockingham county, fourth grade; Mrs. Ermine Poteat, Yanceyville, third grade; Miss Myrtle Lea, Caswell county, second grade; Miss Bettie Swindell, Lake Landing, N.C., high first grade, and Miss Annie Carter, Caswell county, first grade.

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Mexican War (Caswell County Soldiers)

Mexican War

The Mexican-American War was an armed military conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico did not recognize the secession and subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836; it considered Texas a rebel province. In the United States, the war was a partisan issue with most Whigs opposing it and most southern Democrats, animated by a popular belief in the Manifest Destiny, supporting it. In Mexico, the war was considered a matter of national pride. The most important consequence of the war for the United States was the Mexican Cession, in which the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México were ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In Mexico, the enormous loss of territory following the war encouraged its government to enact policies to colonize its northern territories as a hedge against further losses. Source: Wikipedia.

Most of the soldiers listed below were from Caswell County, North Carolina:

NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT COMPANY G GEORGE WILLIAMSON JR. CAPTAIN

DAVID S. JOHNSON, 1ST LIEUTENANT
ROBERT M. WILEY, 2ND LIEUTENANT
JAMES T. MITCHELL, 2ND LIEUTENANT
WILLIAM P. GRAVES, 1ST SERGEANT
CALVIN B. GRAVES, 2ND SERGEANT
JAMES M. BURTON, 3RD SERGEANT
W. P. WALINGTON, 4TH SERGEANT
YANCY CARVER, 1ST CORPORAL
FRANCIS M. BURNS, 2ND CORPORAL
IVERSON M. GLASS, 3RD CORPORAL
JOHN A. DAVIS, 4TH CORPORAL
N. L. WILLIAMSON, MUSICIAN
ALEX. ROYSTER, MUSICIAN
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