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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThomas Eaton Swann Papers, Garner-Gibson9° whe S ™ ————" eons 2g, 20g aeenkes poapeeds Aus ecm Stagg a ~ ~~ ~~ _ -- ~ ‘ aed z + * » ~~ ~ “ PPR ce aerent: any V td HOPS M YNOA GNIS O1 BUNS 329 INOg, POOYseWUJO’G UPTIS}AYD ey 205 JZ>s2A0s edepeaus syy, UC dumys jg sno, = i x a toe Rint Boe aS AA ag) PRN RTE NEY a Pay Pela a pea. tad F en ver nl / * * a cs 3 Bik i ; ps Su, Ware ys ee i we ri # /3- lapel Me 42. Oe: 3 __ tft cetitcimcancaneipenginatie aati 4 “7. tie age lA. Is Selected Chairman Y Raleigh, as @ reporter and later with Pat of the Statesville Broadcasting Co. e Kers (WSIC radio station) as news oey was director. er the At Tuesday's meeting the Hi State board heard reports by Dr. H. lives and G. Jones, state historian and a. administrator of the Office of feMorne of Archives and History, and his Mlgned the five division heads, te & — Dr. Jones stated that drafting the was in progress on proposed brit legislation to assure the reten- Pointed to tion of the board’s professional Rative of authority in the Department of wermerly Art, Oulture and History. Sam fant to Ragan, secretary of the new yur., and department, pledged his con- mBattle tinued cooperation with the by board, mT. Boge $800,000 was being requested for the gold mine project in the 1973-75 biennium. Archives and History’s total change budget and capital improvements request for the biennium Grace Chapel Sdis Saturday Service Bishop Luther Gamble of Syracuse, N. Y., will be the guest speaker at Grace Chapel for a Saturday service at 7:30 p.tn. Special music will be provided by the Heavenly Voices choir and other groups. Mrs. M. E. Davis, pastor, in- vites the public. 1/70 | | eh deem” oe ‘ ® Fi J / ud / CININISTING — ig iness here in 1901. It was organ Thé | low Pinarriages were ized to do a general hardware bus-| recorded: in Miidmark . for iness, the parties interested being { the first four® of 1901: Messrs,’ A. J; Evans and J. Hd Mr: Le a lane and Miss White, of Statesville, and T. P. and : camber 80. John Summers, of Sharpesourg Proutman and'township. ‘ December 29, While-the company had not been ; formally organized it was under .2 Miss Mar- stood that Mr. Evans would be ber 27, 1900. president ‘and treasurer and active eore, of Jack- manager of the business. The com- Saud Miss Janie pany rented the vacant store room aadt Mooresville, in the Miller block next to Sher- rill-White’s Shoe Company. and Miss Es- i : iary 9. Mr. de P. and Mrs. Mar- Th L Gatt garet Coley, j y 23. omas L. On Mr. Clare Miss Sallie Mr, Willia ea Helland § and a smery 2 Taken By Death } and Miss ._ — /0§2- tu Setzer and Mr. Thomas L. Gatton, of Hous- ‘February g, tonville, died this morning at 6 U5 tle, of Cat- o'clock in 1, F. Long hospital He had been in failing health tor iss Annie Lou a year and wag critically ill for February 7 McNeely, 8 ® vi : ies. of Marion aid Mie AMMEEEMeElwee, Feb- A native of this, county, one week prior to his death : Mr. +Gatton was 76 years old, He was! i ; . ro Inte Yo ++ Mann and Mis the son of the late J, A. Gatton} aheuary 15 and Mrs. Nancy Jolinson Gatton F ; the Howstonville {community d Miss Dora of : ; ere Th, and he had spent his entire life in his home community, He ‘vas a successful farmer and owned and operated a grocery sand ‘merchan- dising store. ruary 4 fr, | A 7 Jennie | jemi: 0 a sir Troutman, F Mr, A Wa Bessie Deaton Mr, 0, 8. § lie B ‘ Ma . Mr, tommmmrker and Ma McLa i it 10. a ‘Lester My of Taylors- mY ia Bell York, | ‘and Miss oh. phd Miss Cal- wl Miss | He is survived by h wife, | former: Miss Freddie Moor | four sons and one daughter: James Gatton of Houstonvile, Harry Jatton of Washington, 1). ©. Clarence Gatton of the U. 5S ; .. | Coast Guard, Frank Gatton of the | mn ending in oT home and Mrs. Lee Myers: of* ile dealers had i wt ; ; route 2, Harmony. There is one} @ machines, 14} - 4... a ‘1 ce Bite threshin foster son, Clyde Gilmore, ot] vA a oa 7 Statesville, and one sister, Miss } , i 0 ure be Alice Gatton, of route vz, Hus ” ere oug y mony, and two grandchildren, [i tapmers. ; a Funeral services for Mr. Gat-| ial Train and | ton will be held from Holly! 4 ~prings Baptist church at 3 o'clock ville, And or. ‘Machinery a tk of July 12-| Tuesday. afternoon and interment | : will be _jn‘the church cemetery. b . mre 7 s ce tf, Board of Dipectors North la dag CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND, 1 Joun J NK, Jr Vice Pra Marvin bo «Pass Treasut Versox BS ‘hea Secretary Dr.) |. CaRVPrel Chak kt Fhur nla E fpr Daj Fr "ART i JJBSE oe STR e. De. Waukee © Merw Dra, Dante aAy Por Foro STEWART Rev. \ RM: Ov a Die: 1s SND SPONS0 COM IF TE! Dear Mr. Swann: If you were blind and knew you wou Phat all your life there would on Overy night and thank God as little | Bhe knows that the only way she can Borea is by knitting tediously long @ay, through the years. Bome of hor own, or even f @ver be sure of is the disma ~ But Ahu thanks God that the streets where she was piticc @uite starved to death. Others j Believed that God eWas always hungry, Gould do n thing to epuld only wish she mrt of it ks God. Not only in Korea but aroun jen in 257 orphanages where PPFotestant Orphanage Organizat ya@ed a half millions in cash end for hungry and homeless children, Beived. Its small reserve is exha ‘nek to be born. They don't know much fee) about hunger, pain and suffering knows what one of them, rescued fmm bless this dangerous armed camp i rescued from the bullrush m Programé Bran la CGF 1s ¢ me 79 MEMBER AGENCIES CONS! ; f a. cae oe 4 Dt a J iia ice: wank © a a BBS Lo ee p a “LOW ee = an —- he Mies \ Ny ete a Naek. Area Ananciies A. 7 | Masi Wy) qe tude Ce reve Lune Mia 6 Mee Kg Te a, wa ee are : ee ae Eee awe Ww! a : Pte Tne anfe Vegany + ame Jarek De al fe anne 20 hw IN x te Me nt: Wanvey Chand, Wim qc Ly? Vath crn Op AR proud, 19 Jeb i.UE ‘ a / | 9a A 7M dislting: Ww i fe yous Atti. 7 | ee ee ae Me, 4ecalionn - trebecding wee Bo re dharga. ard Antl Sewbens Aas posuslted in 0 olan eT aa! at dle anak Ate: noth or sl? AD , ke, hatrrs 4 third Liyates ¢ se ee da 26, anf Y Key w otto. 0. Ane AF, dan albus PO Bo Mole Jott. prank ? af = Ketone f Grunt “4 \ ; ; ae a : ht AX Cc» ¢? , {* f or i V—VLT f oe Umoy J f 4/f i eas We ce oe = hin vn ¢ Paw fa he) th a Od Gad pA a Gayl, fos Lied. . Nhl Prt lt h Os iy qual Thi ; Jaa0e , Ugnrcd A Cin Banged ob Le... ened eve i STON. WM cclerr 4 fl yj Rien fort & fe fpr: DS) dan — ene aft Wacl hianrcet rp co Nak A Hay. fer , & Wied, bot 2 Ravi? Artin fon 12 ( in tind : Pa ‘ eT UMQGOR |. ie 7 e" pei 4 Leg} oe piss itis WA a“ LALe ie ys i Nf bad Loin tf WL t lime 2 An 4 if 7 ae AAR My Likes oe bitin AS. 4 Chings we Aav aH ye Mrs. Te Se Swann Route 1 Statesville, N. Care Dear Mrs. Swann! RQ MI 132 : o Recently, my mother, Mrs. :reaaie atton, of your interest in the Harmony, Ne cey told me of you of same of the Gatton family, particularly Just as soon as we get this Session adjourned I will check through ny note family and will forward this | f I have dor quite a bit of checking family and its move to Ne. Ue Fon from Maryland. Asaria! fought in the Revol ution from Maryland, then cor ing to shortly thereafter and settling on Hunting Creek fons Northeast of Harmony. He had a large farm and if 4 correctly his son, Joseph, was the usband of Zlizabe I will let you know more definitely Sincerely yours, SO Aatte. ; 4. + wer - tn nary 1UUO § “Ae a * (i) Arlington 45, Virginia November ])/ » 1955 mT. FE. Swann mabe 1 Btesville, y, C, ees v4 me? Mr. Swann: bi Last summer in response to your letter to my mother, Mrs Route a, Harmony, in which Jou requested information about rery, I advised you that would give y he time to prepare this, 4U the Gatton family Jou what information | have when ] ~ As I am Secretary to Senator Sam J, Ervin, Jr, and t mesion, I have been able, “NG Congress 1S not during recent days, to correlate non of my mmation which is authentic and documented from the U, §, Bureau of Censys ort Library of Congress, Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, County of Prince Georges and Charles County, Maryland, State of Mz yland rds, Annapolis, Iredel] County records and other sources, A Brittany (near Normandy , € armoria) general de France. The the Conqueror jn 1066 and are listed in of South Britain by the Commissioners of » the location being Reigate, in the Domesday Book... This j ton in Surrey. The name Gatton gate nearby where poats are kept, 1 there igs complete information tiles northeast from Guildford and INA France) an he year 1086 its ; , ; 48 in a the Parish registerg of Surrey from 1583 to 1720 y Veuse married July 18, 1666, They had a woo As a young man Thomas left Ep per Maryland (the exact informat Show John Gattc S0n Thomas Gatton, born May gland among the first settlers to come lon is yet to be secured as } nN and late iat Mie Land Office records ¢ Bk. 37, show Gattonts Certificate for & grant of 300 acres of land, a Plantation Hiccory Plains, Charles County, M » November 6, 1695, now a part Be Ceorges County, Maryland, located across the Potomac River from Mt Virginia near Piscattaway Bay, ve 4 of the Province of Maryland, Pat me will of Thomas Gatton is recorded in Prince Georges Co m3, 1772, His wife was Eliza) and her wil) is Their wills Atariah, James, and a daughter Ma uhty, dated also recorded show they were Slave Notley, Her jamin, Ty who married a Bean, No. Westmoreland Bt. sk “P aglin 2715 No. Westmoreland §t, Arlington 13, Virginia OR laa j c novemoer lh, 1955 i) Last summer in response to your letter to my mother, Mrs. Te Le Gatton Rou e 2, Harmony, in which you requested information about the Gatton family ry, I advised you that I would give you what information I have when I Whe time to prepare this. Lb! As I am Secretary to Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. and the Congress is not sion, I have been able, during recent days, to correlate some of my Bation which is authentic and documented from the U. S. Bureau of Census s, the Library of Congress, Peabcdy Institute Library, Baltimore, County s of Prince Georges. and Charles County, Maryland, State of Maryland irds, Annapolis, Iredell County records and other sources. > The Gatton family name goes back to Brittany (near Normandy, France) ts armorial bearirigs are listed in the armorial general de France. The ns came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and are listed in pmesday Book, an actual survey of South Britain by the Commissioners of m the Conqueror completed in the year 1086, ‘the location being Reigate, ch 4s listed in the Cherchefelle Hundred in the Domesday Book. This is in nty Surrey and there is a Parish named Gatton in Surrey. The name Gatton ie from the word "Gatatun" which means a gate nearby where goats are kept. lewis’ topographical dictionary of England there is complete information m Gatton Parish which is described as 22 miles northeast fron Guildford and Mies southwest from London. ") The Parish registers of Surrey from 1583 to 1720 show John Gatton and thy Vause married July 18, 1666. They had a son Thomas Gatton, born May 2676. As a young man Thomas left England among the first settlers to come Bouthern Maryland (the exact information is yet to be secured as to date Prival, etc.). The Land Office records of the Province of Maryland, Pat. Bk. 37, show he Gatton's certificate for a grant of 300 acres of land, a plantation fea Hiccory Plains, Charles County, Maryland, November 6, 1695, now a part Prince Georges County, Maryland, located across the Potomac River from Mb. in, Virginia near Piscattaway Bay. ® The will of Thomas Gatton is recorded in\ Prince Georges Couhty, dated Manber 23, 1772. His wife was Elisabeth and her will is also recorded ember 7, 1774 in Prince Georges County. Their wills show they were slave ders and had the following children: Azariah, James, Notley, Benjamin, Maghter Lurania who married a Howard and a daughter Mary who.married a Beans a fe an 1781, Sueh I do know the exact ‘ Car ] ina wi t h h 0 wi A known that family name. and Leven:Howard. Bah Gatton, was t! d 1 Ming mentioned in | 4 orth ded in maren: Patsy, Ma muy made February <u, Writing Creek adjacen mertioned in this d 4 Frank l in grandson « wy of Engl Men: Milus Washinegtc Matilda born James Azariah mar Se KR. and Thomas Lee hk a shall apprecia ich might show Pamt iw name lamity name C47) tn a } ww @ As a sidelight Metralia by the Wihe MADONNA AND C1! Giovaiini Battis (calle@ Cima) Italiam (4459-151: The North Carol: 18 Hi Pago Drive Houna, La, 70360 AUZ » 6, 1972 Dear Mr. Swann, Thanks so. muck. for, the deed with Gems Rutherford's signatuit or itg we're thrilled to have it, | Under separate cover, I'm mailing some Cathey data to.you, There are 2 Cathey reunion paperg (1970, 1971) which you may. keep. .I kad 2 of them, so L though t you migat. eo y then I tried to make notes on then to;help you keep them straight There are so many with the same mame, that I endege up in the middle of the kitchen floor -with:' @ huge sheet oi frown pape After*many errors, I believe I might have them im order; Dg” ‘wot positive, tho. I don't guarantee tae data is eke error... I'll also enclose a family group sheet and some copie from a book which migh* help. If you Rave any specific questions, let me know, and I'll try to amswer them. I Just wish I had our other lines as complete ag the Cathey Iinel If I*m not mistaken, I believe the Cathey reunion will be this Sunday (the 1st Sum, in Augi). I imagine it 4s somex wrere in Rowan Co. If you are imterested, contact Mr, Fila. Cathey, Jr., 915 W. Mauney AVGs j Gastonia, N.C. 26052; He - could tell y you where it is to bes We hope to be abie to att one of these Gays. Li di I . ee the maiden name of Azariah Gatton's wife, becknad a 1955'letter from Harry Gattom to you aad your reply (the pa you sent. me. just recently) to him, tis was discussedy He seened: to think her name might heave been Dysonsazarigh*@ ist wife (from Md. records) was Blizabeth, yet he names wite Cassandra in Ris will. Elizabeth was the "nother of his oebidie ~~ I believes I'd very muck*like to haye the list of mam a the settlement of Azariah's estate. I need all the data. : cam get on the Gattons. The same applies to the Tonia seaae: Back to the Catheyds I understand the library ia galt sburg: have quite. se collection of gemealogical material. In addit there ig Mrs,. Mame McCubbin's pergomal collection which was. denated to the library. . I've been told she really mad lots of iaformation. Yes, the Brandoms aad Dockes intermarried with the Catheys like crazy. Taay were ag Dad-as the Loves laces, Tomlinsons, Galthers, etes *Z Rave some date om thems but not too much as they aren't direct ancestors, It's inet wnat I*ve gathered thru the Cathey line or im welping —_ Do you Mave a list of Barton Dyson's children? Do you neve anythiteg on his parents, etc., his wife, her family, ete? It's time to bathe the children and get them to bed. soci*@ better close. Thanks ; for gil of yourxelp. ince rely, a OA a ¢ el Ee Ke Regen Wnited tates Senate WASHINGTON, D. C. 2715 North Westmoreland St, Arlington 13, Va, Rugust 29, 1956 Dear Mr. Swann: I appreciate your letter of August 27, with further reference to the land of Azariah Gatton. I think that I have a fairly good idea where this tract was located on Hunting Creek, but I would like to know the exact location and will take time to trace it, In your previous letter you spoke of the Airline Railway and the Gatton land, That was land in the Tabor section owned by a cousin, The place where the proposed railway crossed Hunting Creek is near the community of Houstonville, but the Gatton land was down the creek a few miles, and my home was West of that location, Mps. Gatton and I went to Baltimore last Saturday and I was able to purchase at a much too high price two volumes of Brumbangh's Maryland Records from an old book Store there, I will bring them with me one day and let you research them, but I do not want to put them in the mails for fear they would be lost, As you know, they are virtually unobtainable on the market, there having been only 500 copies published, Senator Ervin's History of Rowan County was published in the Historical Reviews, never in book form. I asked him if he could tell me where a copy was available, Of course, the UNC and Duke libraries have copies, etc., but he has only one copy which he does not wish to let out as he cannot replace it, I will go over a copy here in the Library of Congress carefully to see if there are any names or information which might be of interest to you. For a long time I have been collecting notes on Iredell County history. I am anxious to carefully locate all of the older private and public burying grounds, If you have-ever done any work on this sort of thing or any notes on Iredell's History, I will appreciate having them, I am thinking of doing a history sometime which would be of use in helping people find records, etc, about our county, rather than dong a Stuple recitation of dates, places, events, etc, | Thank you for your courtesy in writing to me, Sinceyely yours, AUMnited Htates Genate WASHINGTON, D.C Mr, T, -E. Swann Route 1, Box 17 Statesville, N. Car, Dear Mr. Swann: I went down to La Plata, Charles County, Md. past Monday night to check on some records but found nothing that would get the answer to our problem Elizabeth (Dyson?) Gatton. I will go back at the Chance to #mnapolis where all of Charles County's prior to 1835 (the wills) are on file. I will ch if there is a will recorded for James or Abigai] and also see if I can identify Anna Dyson, I checking some old church records and also have been goin through Brumbaugh's books to see his records. He of the folks--Gattons, Dysons, Swanns, Dents, etc, I find time to compile all of this I will send you and will also try to stop by to visit with you the time I am in Iredell for any time, We are now preparing to go to Chi¢ago for the Demo- cratic convention, I am an Alternate Delegate from the 9th N. ©, District and am looking forward to the experience, Senetor Ervin is also there, having gone early to ser on the platform committee, Incidentally, he local historian, His history of Rowan County, 1917, is still one of the very best sources of history, 2 Will you please let me know where Azariah land was located? Who owns it now? I know in way the Gattons were located on Hunting Creek but I have never had time to trace down the deeds to see exactly where it is located, I do not know where he was bur ted The first Gatton buried in Holly Springs Cemetery wast my great grandfather, Franklin Gatton, son of. Jose was Azariah's son. aia ; eneral I hope you have had a good summer well, r lp BC ek iti f 1 ~ $C. Pa t. pa fi <4 srt Arn Lz oe al if 1, te, (1959 ~ / S70) ev rd pe We abiiiiici inal Zz bee EL« <2 Bo Kop A GF Oi y te eee! - a ee fe Ete SR abel ill —" he Cnn, o< F Lh t--« i . ‘ wae, Ca een 6 SL S-1 B42 Sa. VEU a) enn 4) Picci ccue ees | a fb er ae m2 ahi lE SE G20-~ a & ttle aid) _Y « ? 4 1 / — = At < oe Cortana t “TF / ~mt_<«.< oy! i. I berenebe Ly TL, lL PAC. ad x A o_int <2n @ >» “Be eats at a pte aoe ; i - Gn ieee, / / : ra, ry Sg. ee G I-A Bt fe é 7 Pg / Cr 4 taA_Asas44 Ata ‘ os LQ) —_fy-4_« eo L 4 o—4_¢ I~ fr < may Ca oe “-< — ot o-~ 2t_¢@}+ —. pom f ® e & ® e e es . . © cd = & = ca } and getting alone jars ago: Land- vier 15, 1887. eacatton of Eagle Mills feea two pigs the other aonths old, that tipped | pa) pounds.” rpe Bros of Concord | Bare among the fore pst progressive farm- pty, this year m ade mounds of seed cottén, 600 Ibs. each. Their | 6.000, twelve bales in| Abernethy, Dp. D of | pollege delivered a free eourt house Tuesday man S¢ ul and Mind a for Rutherford Col- | is society has been for- bt at the court house | | | | | w night and the follow Behave been elected—H i" esident; R. F. Arm- Robbins,. vice presid- | ‘owles, secretary. The Bemposed mostly of the | law students of the | t is by no means confin- | Salass. The first discus p place tomorrow night | aption, ‘Should Capital | vent i be Abolished?’ | Rent from the M, E. | pth in Statesville _ pre: | fe annual conference of | Merolina Conference me stteville the first of | pwed that: $1,464 had | dec! _ Among other things | : ne ie d "$900 paid to the pas-| _ §. Rone, $90 paid to| din Elder, Rev. R. A. | Mo foreign missions and | Mctic missions. Both Wil- 7 _were returned to | i Swhile Rev. G. W. Ivey | te Statesville Circuit and ait to Iredell Circuit } | od ar. TT. Swann + Route 1 Statesville, N Dear Swann: We are en} long and happy ‘Senator Sam Ervin came along I 3} directcr of the work verv much, The more I s the Elizabeth D wife was named Joseph was: the had a son named and James Azartiah I have traced the with the help of 41 Longon and to I have been out * touch w: this brings us up‘to,date and ZS 7 Rotut a as {7 Me ee ret i> i Cok: | {=o dt =O or &¢ F Peco, a Lh Te} d, € f ocky of | Ga ie Chure Com Bice tion ne be Uniog Bes BBRATION PLANNE antiques and old ch d by dinner on the grounds. The chu ents To Be ~— hapel Baptist ithe Oak Forest will celebrate. Wal Sunday with a Eager on the church pilowing the 11 ip, and a display hip hall of an church docu pel was orga 5. Its congrega- part of that of gregation, orga- Presbyterians. 4 Methodists in a descendant of wv donated five . ganized a acres of land for use of a church, school house and cemetery In 1849, the Methodists ithdrew and formed New Salem urch. The same year, tha Presbyterians relocated at the present site of Fifth Creek Church On Feb 1885. a Presby tery consist ng of Elders J W. Perry, E° W. Thomasson and E. E. Gower met t and or regular Mis sionary Baptist church and called it Gay’s Chape! Charter members of the new church were A Parker, J. W. Steen, Reuben Davi D— Members of Gay's Chapel Baptis urch documents this Sunday a rect dates bat k t the \A Hs S N EF Davi Mi FE. Montgom Parker, Mr Mrs. Mar\ A Wilke! and Miss M E. Davis ser pastor The pi constru 1944 Thompsol Re\ sumed January of tt vites the pul ents § Sunda ery M vi 1 steen C, Gay Mrs. | | yavis M rs Mrs Bite r 1 { yivert Cloer, Mrs. N Mr D. Cloer Rev the first g was upied in torate in ir, and i ‘to attend the Py 3 ING SET—The congregation of Gay’s Chapel Baptist Church will hold homecoming ser eh at the church, shown above, on Mocksville Road, All-day singing is planned for the ob me which includes picnic dinner on the grounds. All singing groups and friends of the church {Kincaid Photo), ye Baptists and Methodists. The ty Jacob) Hart MER KEEVER ri ttees named were Ch pel Baptist Church is tanner the old community of | john Bro just off the presenti iicg were a . some 10 miles north: goscon: Enos “8 tesville. During the | Methodist mf the 1%h century from Rie ia. @ until the establishment; ¥, 4, ai memoutes soon after 190,, ; was the leading post lahat section. of Iredell eable village grew up @ village still in evi- hose who will take the B follow the old road a = a mile east of the pres- a. } prominent = Cam bell, fron 2 8 28 ase Tradition | EAE congregation was than that deed who = ne knew the well,-tells that the race I jrowdyism that it was kno scuffletown, “Rowdytown"’ or ways. plays strong in of that Rockwell's story of the orga zation of a preaching place there p Gonsisting of Elders a igs ae was aid . E. W. Thomasson | +, beginning .of the century to im Gower met at Gay’s| pdell County, N.C. Feb # organize a regular Baptist Church.” Char- = were four men and| Parkers, Steens, Dav-| Colverts and a few iding Mrs. C. C. Gay, anklin Gay ¢ pastorate of-Rev. J. W.| i" *" to that of Rev. Turn-|'* Was. ‘os! , present pastor, there | DY John Gay ® steady continuous con- preachers of different a there, with a present tions held services here i Of 169 reported at the Another tradition says of the Rocky Face a @BRee PP Be SBee * &£ BES? & & S ees a. mail ie q = S - 2 sot site ol track eee nt congregation of was organized early a “the old organization Phapel having been dis @Manimous consent, a TS ; Scuffletown 11 ine Q fp nistory secliol = sar anout a3 8 a. prove the morals of the neighbors by making it a preaching point. A piece: of land was deeded by James Gay for a ch graveyard for the use of three. de- nominations, Baptists and Presbyterians. The deed not recorded he ho eo — irch and ¥ SS EEE REM ERED SPSS ST? Mathodicte <2ru who f i purneq an but in 1802. renewed Sf ‘xj A denomina 258 SS the Gay location was not t but that s 3 a > there’ nad been al > But Def that organization pout Bquarters of a century ; ago, Was an even longer his- better site which included * tory meamebulous and fluctuating—| That tradition indicates that * but @ min. Only one Baptist| Presbyterian element was predom- county, Grassy Knob; ant and that the site was deter me northern portion,|™minded by picking a point equ a longer certain his-| distant from three older Pri lterian churches Fourth Creek site of | Third Creek: and Bet The John Gay of a mile away, deserted for a et & SSS 4. 48 HRD SEES springs the ] = s= pel is at the and a later churel of New Union. The fon Church, made by| ceased to be u deed if the sed as a a Fr Ong 2. reversion Ciause = < LPM he DBM iat the congregation; disuse. and the building ady in existence as|teriorated to: wher d of Presbyterians, | keep out the rain.’ When there ®a alae spinaeentubamiinn : a PRR ee oe 4 ‘ years age: Land a EEprvary %6, 1883. | Raymond wee to play ani an engine and a‘ chectered and ‘| Sraterville was plan- to hear him, leaving | and returning the | after the preform; 4 epidemic of emalipox the county the Land- wentured, ‘‘vaccination, he resorted bo and | ghould carefully nves- guspicious o2s¢ of siek- Ro o, convicted a few! ore for a burglary com- an the house of Nicholas ie and serving a life at the State Peniten- | aped by climbing onto | Molding and getting ~ a8 Yadder. | 5 Gay, who “almost en | | Pr own expense erected | Ble and neat house of wor-! ae Gay's Chapel and ‘the subtlety of hie foes Pea srom enjoying many sea- i % a ' as “a meaceful service | VA: ed within the walls, al ame. and the tradition of a i the | meeting place about three quarters in mid-February, 1902,, worship. By 1830 it had fallen into had de- | ie y's Chapel Has Proud History n ew me 3 have little Baptist When Frank! Baptist ¢ Chure} men Der when he \ sumably had deeded jon In 1858 A great variety of | churct there is there an and that 1 h has down until today i i ME ee ET Eh Nl My eA he eee a Ga sit pe Oak F hi east | two abou of st Oak F officet@e Mat section of and | ee se) “ans Pan? = = * Se *he ® we 2. < ih gS55 Y., aa tory but er C. has gree eee 5 ey x Church in t ean tory. = Ga Union a t 1 ba Wi sol aa og ba s . Pi ING SET—The congregation of Gay’s Chapel Baptist Church will hold homecoming se at the church, shown above, on Mocksville Road, All-day singing is plan: > Which includes picnic dinner on the grounds. All singing groups and friends of the ch £ y a. % ee oH : By ae i tees named we re i (Kincaid Photo), im KEEVER ,Baptists and Methodists re Jacot 1s Bape! Baptist Churct hace m the old community of pees ‘just off the Preece aan were -% @me 10 miles north-'g..c0n Enos esville. During the | Methodist f the 19th century from! \yocting fintil the establishment) v4.3. son s soon. after 1900 Was the leading post eee Iredell congregation was definitely than that deed. E. F who knew the olde: well, -tells that it was organ Jan Jing bap Campbell, an on neal House above TY 1CILIO ley del Ro KW | ble village grew up village still in evi- ose who will take the follow the old road a the of a race : I track mile east of the pres-| ’ jrowdyism that it 'scuffletown, and the congregation of “Rowdytown’ “Sout was organized early | ways playa strong in. the the old organization 4¢ ‘01 papel having been dis-; pookwell’s M@animous consent, 8 pation of a preachitig @onsisting of Elders ce she aiiset wan made shout E. W. i ger the beginning of the century to im Lew § je Me ot os Tob, | Prove the morals of the neighbors i aanios . sandat| by making it a preaching peint. A ; pb | piece of was -deeded stist Chureh.” Char-| P'SS®. © James. Gay a ch were four men and| srkers. Steens Dav-| Stavevyard for the use of three de Bolverts andl i. ton nominations, Baptists’ Methodists is Mire, CC. Gay,|9% Presbyterians. The deed 4 . . . 7 lablin (: “"| not mrenklin Gay Mpastorate of Rev. J. W . te rv 1 u to that of Rev. Turn- oe present pastor, there by John Gay. A great variety of ¥ ; | 2 liffe t ne Meady continuous con-| Preachers of different denomina with a present (ons held services here of 169 reported at the Another tradition say ' m e (jay ation of the Rocky Face the Gay loc but that there had meeting place about three quarters deserted for a alions zed at gene! general mustel SO oted to Was KNOW! ¢ or section of piace there land by for and was rec orded no ‘ oOo} thn 6 } | ried In LOU was losl tid . pneen A olde that organization | rters of a century|f @ mile away, an even longer his-| Detter site which included springs. | | That tradition indicates that , the ] predon mous and fluctuating— 4 Only one -Baptist}Presbyterian element was @ county, Grassy Knob, ant and that the site was deter northern portion, | minded by picking a point equi @ longer certain his-| distant from three older Presby- 'terian churches — Fourth Creek, site of Third Creek and Bethany church; The The| reversion Clat Apel is at the ch and a late deed te of New Union | if h Church, made by! ceased to be used as a place of mid-February, 1902,, worship. By 1830 it had fallen into the congregation, disuse and the building Mready in existence as/teriorated to where it Meh of Presbyterians,|keep out the rain. Wher John Gay e the building { were Wa | years ago: Land. prwery 26, 1883, ! Raymond wae to play and an engine and ‘ chartered and a/ Mtatesvilie was plan. | t hear him, heaving! kK and returning the! after the preform. § f epidemic of smaiipox| o m the county the Land-| wred, “vaccination Be resorted ‘to and| fuld caretully inves-| ious case of sick- | D, convicted a few for a burglary com. Me house of Nicholas md serving a lite| the State Peniten-| by climbing onto | and getting i ay, who “almost en-| mn expense erected| heat house of wr, Gay's Chapel and gubtiety of his foes Pam @njoving many sea- reful service to the # within the wails,” tradition of a ‘ Baptist renewed had de i than two years | down until ed fo little Baptist Franklin G he joins nave the When Church when he was gra sumably to ad deeded ; e fo an el Baptist church had beg the name of Gay's’*Chane Franklin. Gay died. ir Ina l to t aller and that church has ci today. the ob cn ’s Chapel Has Proud Ilistory his deat 2333 NEBRASKA AVENUE WASHINGTON 16,D.c mt wes nice to hear from wou again e. I hope you are not frozen or 6 been bad weather. Dittr here, wit ‘Don't you think vo might rent thr fs proces@ien to town? It seems to be goine ’ now that all your children are away Mad it more convenient in torn somew’ Samat I have, especially now that Bings outdoors. ly record" has d and Ellen Graham Knox Gat. She gavs Hair) and gives two dauchters, Gracé@ an Children of Portland and Fllen rraham Knoy Oodman are Bettie Gav, who married déd Jemes dan Dotson, a Hiel Post and Miss Amanda, whom Chambers Knox, sist and they were the 1+ can't make out for sure whether they were Hiel Poston's children are given as Elména Mills; Bettie married » Drv of Concord; most of whom I think we knew, en Graham Knox who married Portlend Gav WAS A Me iKnox,* son of William who was son of ® His first wife was Ellen m0 was the father of John L. Knory of Cool Spring mane Forstthe,. lauchter John the immipr-nt Graham end they had a son King a bus ride down this afternoon to gee the Cearry # but will not do much walking around for it ; : it 18 ton #o] jmest wishes, Sincerely, PATurnebsburts j ; f Ki Hope p Cpl. Céidwell! ge y Oak Foreat New Sales ‘ ‘é Gay's Chadei Sywtreaville Pe ‘ - > eed) 4 Dred yi WAH , hi anod® ¥S IREDELL—This map of central Iredell without roads shows the location of some of the places of James Gay's ard. Other points have been added for present-day orientation. Gay's Chapel Baptist Church near Oak Forest still Was instrumental in the early religious development of the community. 14 Lb“ a i} i > 7 Lic ch Mrs. T. A. Bra we and children cy went eg. the christening Joe. in the First | Sylva and the from Tar Heel Boo S ribed By Walser. memends of the Library Pa rs taken on 7 tour of i * § in North ing re he ere last nigl ] i annual banquet ioe Hotel. re Walser, : nglish Department al le, Raleigh, de ighted with accounts of Ta! dating back instructor as lal sersons also heard & ng that the organiza ® an enrolment of over d is working | 1e of programs to Dol ibrary service here % Austin, chairman of P project committee surs and music and jon cou! visioned for this. sum ses for young gre on the board, she apthly discussion group fording citizens an op talk about urrent B bear non-professiona meurrent literature ik Crews of the mem- mittee who reported Bent enrolment and said Bs some $600 in is trea an address on * irsts’ in Books,” wks wilh an first book written 0) sh ASP aking person. al 12; the né@ iid was by a man ¥ on Roanoke Island spent The br was a scholar named ng | Thomas ipt, who accompanied the eRpeGinon of Sir Walter Ra — y th book op an Em who Patate’ s Outer Banks published in 1588 Bane real gems 0! early an terature,”’ Walser said, called “A New, Voy- h Carolina’ by John ®* frishman who came Meston to Gastonia and d eastward across th was published in 1709 Ms North Carolina. It 1174 when James Dav- produced the first @ in the state. Char edly mingt T Walser has found a _ “ Ln 1eston iZett { i {Ht collected form Collection of van nit Dus tnem tion that on the politics Walser’s address w: colored with uiteresting anec f gates 7 which he leading au The spe Douglas Toastmasters Troy Sherrill Returns Home Oak Harbor Ohio Ss and days. He of Ohio, and a gi! Anne Sherrill ; Sherrill said toda) ‘that he is 1 happy to return to his home town LIVE f] er and is surprised and pleased at the eye ss Ba aad bod... £T% oe 9! , ~ 7) 7 + | Selma thaptist Church Cor. Pollock and Waddell Streets yn wa, orth Caralnia FRANK ZEDICK, Pastor P.O. BOX 446 » “Aum Betsey wo the late Col, ma to smile again ( distance full of! wons, all loaded euckens, and other) Mahe occasion being may.” | ille: ‘The publie | med last week. Prof. | Bilimme his high school Swill be made to get School ox graded | ville.” years ago: Ex- Sersonal journalism Worst): “The Wins- ‘Jast week contains mang article from the | Pthe paltroon editor Seeeeover the column of | ‘eae, aimed against us, | ee Meptill further the de- me Gusillanimity of a Seroveling mind, and Mraven-hearted whelp | mummible than the debas- | fies usually become. ' and did expdse = and corrupting ten- Mvertising the mail| the manner in| » by. the govern-| the editor of the d of defending his | [ee nestion and proper | a@atd an opponent made | mameaiied for and offen- maueh as stupid ie not the first time we had squirted at us ervauperation of man 6 @dito s, who failing in| mort to the billings- | meh market to sub- | See-Dorn purposes, nor me 10 ' manet it will prove the | me of dirty water from | ” } a eae haway from the sub-| Brantley, a bound | warn all persons | Gr harboring said | law will be en-| all persons so of- | give Five Cents | nv thanks to anyone | mm said C. F. Brant- Brantley.” | i } anied as teacher. | meting to procure the & Common School diately, can do} mis by calling at the She Subscriber, one | of New ior addressing him a. O° Opel Spring P. O., Ire-| mee BR. G.” Poston, nee NORTH CAROLINA: SIBLIOGRAPHY stitution. Raleigh, State Department 6f Archi 256, PATRIGK, REMBERT WALLACE. Aristocrat in unif Cligeh, Gainesville; University of Florida Press PoE, QUARENCE HAMILTON. My first 80 year North Carolina Press, 1963. 267p. $4.75. WEST, ROBERT FREDERICK. God’s gambler. Hall, 1964. 235p. $3.95. New Editions and R CAMPBELL, CARLOS CLINTON. Great Smoky Mountan vill@ University of Tennessee: Press, 1964. &&p, $3 CRAVBN, AVERY ODELLE. Edmund Ruffin, Southerner, : Hataden, Conn., Archon Books, 1964. :283p. $8.00. DEMOND, RoBERT ORLEY. The loyalist s in North Carolina di Rev@lution. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1964: 286p. $7.50. GAY, JAMES. A collection of v: uous pieces of poetry, ch etl) patriot an Oduction by Richard Walser. charlotte “McNally & Lofti: 42n, $8.00. : cout HARRY Lewis. Mr. Kenr 1edy and the Negroes. Gre Faweett Publitations, 1964. 240p. 60¢. GUNN, ROBERT LOUIS. Driver’s license law. Chapel Hill; Instit ernment, 1963. 118p. $2.00. Hue HINTON ROWAN. The impending crisis of the South: how t ee ew York Collier ‘Books, 1963. 8346p .-O1,00, LEwi8, HENRY W ILKINS. Primary and ge neral election law and procedure, a gtidebook for county and precinct election officials in North Carolina Chapel Hill, Institute of Government, 1964. 1146p. $2.00 McKSNNA, RICHARD MILTON. The Sand Pebbles, ; Comfi,. Fawcett Publications, 1964. 528p. 95¢ MORGAN, ERNEST, editor. A manual of simple burial. Bi Art§ur Morgan School, 1964. 64p. $1.00. OATES, WAYNE EDWARD. The Christian pastor. Philadelphia, Westmi: Pree, 1964. 258p. $5.00. RAYNOR, GEORGE. Sketches of old Rowan, Salisb paged, $2.50. SLAUGHTER, FRANK GILL. David, oe king, New York, Pocket Boo i 1963. 8389p. 50¢. . Devil’s harvest, a novel. New York, Pocket 504, aes . Sangaree. New York, Popular L SMITH, BETTY. Joy in the morning. New York, 754, Southern Savory. By Bernice Kelly of North Carolina Press. 1964. Pp. 2/ The countless readers who have enjoved Purslane, Portulaca, Janey Jeems, Wild Cherry Tre writings of Bernice Kelly Harris will find especi ern Savory, a series of impre ssions and re mill thick on the heels of the writer whose fame ‘i spt bounds of the state and nation as it was when slie in Wake County in the early years of. the cc ntury, The little country girl whose experiences and, emotior in Part One of the book was destined to be a writer Branch tumbling over rocks became: Niagara Falls in the hog lot was transformed into the river to cross over into the New Je rusalem; and a sapling-served a which she rode to Astolat. Even without a steed that shinin: romance could be eae a! for she writes: “I rode to Ast when I churned and sloshed buttermilk and dreamed.” She ‘part of ‘all that she read or dreamed. Though she Lily Maid, others took thei tufn. amone them Scott Biblical Ruth, and Queen Victoria. The enchantment of Astolat did not blind absorbing interests to be found in Poole’s Siding re Kelly, whose Re ‘pub lican bias was a source of embarra kin; G randpa Poole, who “talked to the Lord as though He \ the bench by him’; Aunt Martha, who “moved -in cool sweet din and who “praised everything, including the Psalms and corn! and Cousin Will, who “made a career of visiting.” One of the bors was a figure of comedy and pathy s—Mr. Clanide, a schola ister who did not abandon his necktie his Sti tanduy his derby hat even whe n he was forced into farming | run out of churches.” The Latin with which he ad is sed his livest did not keep them out at Sie people's fields nor dis grass from growing in his own These and many more observations the child eyes and the mature woman remembered and re-created with | pathetic candor in Southern Savory. y white c 16 WASHINGTON os 2 - ae > < < x < x a wW z ” a WN é ‘ ee oS RIES vere ARE lt Sa RE eee ok Cie tA p- nt ttt the f ER—This photegraph reprod ler of James Gay's collectio he the first Poetry published j uced from microfilm n, Pieces of Poetry.’ n the state. STATE ay’s volume of him and a Scotch John asking the questions and ® life. The following excerpts tell Poetry consists of » neighbor by the name of John, James Gay telling the Story of Part of the story.) | ‘ Dialogue With Scotch John aa de By JAMES GAY Then know ye, friend, t 7 Was in the eastern quarter el gre hat my first place of birth of the earth, ° Hibernia my first breath drawn, fine country witnessed my first dawn Childhood, and to sixteen years of age, er’s practice I did soon engage, itt father—ploughing. sowing, reaping— ae Many dangers in that time escaping: i thy desire was for a Seafaring life. at sometimes caused discontent and strife. (father said to sea | must not go, it would give his héart great woe. t on the land take any trade I pleas’d le would find his mind completely eased; "@ Carpenter I soon was bound, Adair that liv’d in Bangore Town, aeereen years of age I went me Wrought with plains and saws as | Was sent. My Master loved th $00n brought him € tavern that is true, to want and poverty; wse got empty and his throat got dry. aren and 'prentices Sot scarce of bread, he to save from jail away soon fled me Of Man, where refuge could be had ar any that were bad. r to say, in our day, old Adair. BBkTupt man and m [* self have little fo I was like many Gille 'prentice was with meer who for me would had great care ~ bd from Ireland to th ae e land of Scots, Mn reading history I took great delight, f Allen Ramsey’s poems, both day and night Boing so I did help my thoughts some faster, of my trade I was not yet a master; ‘had I means to buy tools for my trade, id for to run in debt was much afraid— srefore to Scotland I resolv’d to go~ § see my father and of him to know/ bat I had best to do to make a living Mo Scotland 1 did pass in weather fait ok living in a town call’d Strantown, father there I found, but he did sa) @emwust not seafaring go awas it to my trade must keep with diligence d it would give me still a conipetence. In Scotland’ near two years I earn’d my bread, Men back to Ireland went, my luck to try, @eaving improved my trade considerab!\ Mnetime I there did work, but time had gon mal I was now the age of twenty-one; iatree man found myself, so then thought I > time to go a sailor’s life to try mt first I’ll take my passage across the waves, @aned then I'll see how the sailors behave; maed if I like it I can have my will, t yet some tools I.will take with me still; ind if a sailor’s life do not quite please me Sahave my trade tu fly to to ease me. In May seventeen hundred and sixty five, fom Belfast lough we sail’d, bound to arrive # Philadelphia, near Delaware River th good captain and shipmates that were clever mt so it was though I was scarce of grace My fathers words still star’d me in the face, erefore with sailors I could not live freely F pfear my heart would grow hardn’d and steely: pues landed at New Castle, poor indeed, d travell’d back through Lancaster with speed, back woods as it was call’d that time, Paxton lands where waters spring from lime. sre good people found sober and clever perefore could have wished to live there ever nd for to crown the blessing of my life, ere got married to a loving wife. we lived in sweet content, } must pay dear rent: @s0n.to me was born. sise me Wheat or corn, gre land where on one might grow; apolina lands my course I bent, mace I've got here f-am now content ad my days in Iredell County here, ie in peace without much dread or fear. Carolina I did make my stand mds that's now call'd Iredell County here, i that to my feelings now are dear. fatter, war with England did break out, for my country's help I soon turn’d out; 2) in my ja ‘fel ‘the frost by dent and heat by day; feral battles 1 haye stood my fate, -hever flinched my post, early or late. wn old war-worn veterai I appear, ie is now become sixty-five year. hi much I've done for our good nation’s glory, @ upstarts here to call me Tory muse I do espouse the Federal cause, ‘true to Constitution and all laws mt good country, wherein I now live. Now, neighbor John, this is the reason why aw my pen, some: scribbling for to try pee if I can shew these men some reason it my ideas are quite free from treason. gther I write in prose or rhyme; if talk in public or private, jonest peace, to those that will receive it, sa desire is, while I have my senses, poor old constable has no pretenses honor, high life, or exalted station, tr ant to his land and nation. Hoor old Yames will not a quarrel pick-up have got spleen or hickup or Syntax and Grammar. try such forgings out to hammer, n truths to help honest thinking are met in, social talk or drinking. Cy . % ¥ S 1, " . Statesville Basis KEEVER pok of poetry pub- prth Carolina came out of Hammell County At } at is the opinion of Richart welser of State Col- lege, uathority on North Caro- lina Weeee who plans to issue a facile edition in the near future. And @@iegeck Walser has not found af @erlier one, it would be like \@mmme for a needle in a state | hee i of the small volume meet poems written by primarily for reci tation @eemegurth of July celebra- tions Mam@esvilie between 1805 and if 16. 1 fuded. with those are other Hamme of the same nature called gam by Gay’s reaction to sormmmehe aspects of the po- litical 8 lions of the day, and a large y Hp the book is a dia- logue | ia mbic pentameter be tween’ @ pay and a neighbor in which tells the story of ‘his life. Sa The ispiece to the volume readsigmmacoliection of various pieced gemoetry, chiefly patrio- tic, pumimmed at the earnest re- quest ot Mmumber of good citi- zens f#eame improvement of pat- riotic mas. By James Gay of Iredelammenty, N. C. Raleigh. Prin Wm. Boyles. 1810.” Thee pst request for pub- licatidiy backed up by more than duals who. subscrib- ed fommmemly 250 copies. The list of sullmmmers includes men from Stateamammend Iredell and near- ‘by SMEEEy and a few from other mammens—including two who ‘ater ‘heea ne governor of North eee Butchins G. Burton Stokes. a he introduction to each of the poems gives some little light or the lred« Century, The author of the following miscellan eous work was never known or at. least noticed in- public, until the Fourth of July in 1805, when barbecue Of public nature in Stat the publi Gay, Me was requested by some of the leading characters then present to give a volunteer toasts rhe: toast that he gave led the barbecue committee to plan for him. to prepare a piece of poetry for 1806. In 1807 ‘‘there happened a difference of opinion in Statesville about conducting the business e day among some of the lez men, which the publie barbe- ’ wrote a poem anyway. One of t the verses read: “Oh poor Iredell, where art thou sunk { my esteem ran .so simple, mad or Or some desolation's nigh.” The next year, in 1808, Gay showed “his Federalist. sympa thies twice in poems aimed at the Embargo Act, by which Jef ferson sought to protect Amer Can shipping by not allowing Ships to leave port. The Fourth i celebrated be an Rev, James McRae, wrote a poem which he } ; ide 1S TT nas then in 1909 most of the Fourth of July celebration was’ given over to his poetry. -Capt. James Hart read one of the poems to ie 1 tur re al j i fed poem to trede! § Lignt Horsemen to be sung te Capt. | | | | i TTT eyiae Feit 52 be “What would Hdo with an old produced a poem oe, When f list was made 's name led all am order for 10 feet introduction to fe James Gay had me, or at least no- mm he was no new- Mounty. He moved Mithe Pennsylvania mis wife and one bttled on the wa- Creek, some 10 Creek Meet pen the creek New Salem Me- hd Gay’s Chapel nts the story ® his birth in Ire- , 1744, through ys and coming to his setlement ante ee Participation in ave been known im 1805, but at ied another son, os To Speak is compiling ection of Var- y”’ will ap- Monday night. Hwalser, head of ment at State memeeress the annual ae Iredell Friends Be the ballroom of Mel at 6:30 p.m Wee inaugurate Na- in Iredell mphrey, States. An, said Wal- here marks the invitation which ihege instructor has 7c He had ble to work hedule. a ance here is Pmignificant be- of the Gay 1600, possibly as early as 1788 There is some uncertainty as to just when, because the original deed was not registered and was burned before 1800. John Gay, to whom the land around the church had been given, made a deed early in 1802, It 1s tered £000 regi The movement for a church in the community came from the William, and a son-in-law, John B. Mays, ‘a daughter and had amassed. quite a bit of wealth, He 1800 a total of 1 a store—one.of five or six in Ire dell—and a stillhouse, one of 4 so listed. John acres of land, much of from his father James Gay-shas descendant Iredell, all with other surnam than Gay; but his name has Ja ed on in Gay’s Chapet Baptist Church near Oak Forest. That church is built. on Union and New Union churct The land for Union Church Said to have been given by James Gay some time {achel, listed for taxes ii ‘3 acres of land Ga\ the site before 4 » t works is imminent and his. visit coincides with -National - Book Week He is an author and compiler of many volumes, pamphlets and articles about North ( lina..He has long been interested in publicizing the literature of his native state A native of Lexington, he grew up in a home where state history was a’ specialty for his father. who was a collector of North Carolina’ books At the University of Nort Carolina, Walser availed hin of the collection of the works ‘on the state there. Following his graduation from the universits he began teaching English in high schools After serving during World War II he taught at UNC for one year then transferred to. State College in 1946. He has been there ever since. aTO- re Presbyterians, and the spot ‘pick- ed was about equidistant hetween Bethany and Third Creek church- es and about the same distance away from Fourth Creek Church. But at least by 1802 it was a | ion { and f and | maki! cede! preached 1800 hop, horse flew the rr) 7 "9 ider’s he iad aga Fran madé a Same ind tO estabilsh a Union Church—he spelled it Younion Bapt Methodists Presbyter In 1849 Ne \ New -for the use of and the Pres had organized 1 [e€W Vears fo two mile MI VietT K1ISts branch and orga Salem. The Baptists lod of inactivity present Gay's Chape Site in 1900 100. bam James Gay died Febr 1819. In his will he distrit SO. too poem of hj bac K I accident that th the land for was Brown's schooll © of his verses did repent eet iain ahd words compirte ¢ 1g “~ — id Hew Feces ck, on Tete tee mee, 8 WOW Whee pruies they relate r Wit they du mean, Gay Bil please tt ' € Hieee Meh tee Sty MUsiect he oi! touch, “o05 tee yren Wen uP to the nuich 1! learning wes, Guhl denice ba Kuch, To hee their cows, 7 a a es Aree Mitt Kilye eveniote HOH te Invite eat Gar they petitions ibey Od pny, it facetious pleeennt ig ploabute ¢ Estecai' bis caiiene, HY the tenth the a vf fen with thet ety g sig Bs 9 wil yea OR Go hhar my jokes tty fined he hatae Gthde Hull, ” ik i hae we thy ht he yy if; PPA Bway BORE Mew wilt Ku % $f heer is seed, } dhe th Ga fetes aialt > t ; 1 ast dik Wiad 66, Pag aye heck ward ta fet cut, } Poe et Hae 4 Fe hee Ht hatte it ie that eur lant Oho As ¥ ihe sefewe | tiwk hati! bo Heine, Hay ary bigvita, Hay Hie think phan, wale ayuad aud bear the blame + With pact auld Gey, 1 OF POETRY—The two microfil mes Gay's poetry University of North Carolina, which pro- m_ reproductions above pages from Ja collections. An original book is at the a a microfilm for these prints. Ay ay o ion Pidfiniec d For Walser . Week will be | farmer and merchant and then, | ly the most Susileatites coe i Gunday with aj at the age of 61, turned’ poet. | in his book. Though a few verse- ile Public| Besides a number of Fourth | writers preceded him in North Walser,| of July pieces, he wrote aj Carolina, Gay's Collection in glish at State “poetic sketch of his life,’’ sure- 1816 was the first substantial aor ton | book of poetry to be published ected and wrote : ee in the state for the first . Walser, a native of Lexington, | Carolina poetry, 7 is a member of many profes- | Of Various Piec- > sional organizations. He is past Chiefly Patriotic | | president of the North Carolina ames Gay of Ire- Bs &, English ‘Teachers Association, ae ee * \North Carolina Literary and at which Walser - ' | Historical Association, North aphs, is being a | Oarolina Folklore Society and “the Statesville we | the North Carolina Writers Con- in cooperation " , | ference staff. Walser , | In addition, he is a member ie of the Society of Mayflower De- scendants, Watauga Club of Ra- leigh, and Historical Society of North Carolina. He held a G igs 0 re genheim Fellowship in 1957-58 sal being planned. | | ; Among Gay's relatives are Gay is being pub- ? MysFied Swann and Miss Nora ation of National Yates, both of route 1, States- ville: James E. Gay, Jr., fe of Ireland, im- Winston-Salem; G. D, Gay, Mi forth Carolina in | Frank ‘Elmore im the Revoliition- | mame a prosperous; § \RICHARD WALSER & Mong tie Bt + _-——___,.. - ’ f IBS GAY’S POETRY, with er eduction by Richard Wal- me aMeNally and Loftin, 44 hy $3.00) a writings are mentioned meories of literature, which i standards of today are of | pives not literature: but of literature are also and histories are made many items, some. obscure mae Worth only a footnote Mapesimile edition of James fm A Collection of Various fer Poetry Chiefly Patrio- lished in celebration of al Library Week 1964, is aple of these distinctions, ® Walser in his lucid and ive introduction says, fmook of poetry was the app: eciable publication ' of y a North Caroli Seok is of particular fhe readers of this pap- James Gay, who h in Ulster, lived for we yeers in Scotland, mi- eo Lancaster, Pa., later ms Jand and residence in mwaunty in 1771, where and delivered his first & Fourth of July cele- Statesville in 1805. At . he was 61 years of a apenas Anne Dillan His “! s of Poetry blished in basis. Of @s who proi eopies at one forians identify 1 a connected with tne tory of Iredell County the subscribers. W re Gouth Carolina. James Gay can definitely ” claimed as an Iredell County author In his ewn words “In Carolina I did n “ ptand On lands Iredell Co ! A land that to pow are dear When he was not asked to ike my call’d that's now my. feelings th of Julv cele gpeak at the Four bration itn Stal 4 } as he had previous he said, “Ac manner of cond iness of the da men of Ire stop to the publ wrote & {| za of whic! ‘Oh, poo thou sunk That high We're € drunk Or sure mgh.”’ The idea to arrive a This will have appeal to those who are interested in the curiosa of literature or delight in the min utiae of colonial times ff. §, Gregg Mr. Gregg is a member of the Statesville Poetry Society which is sponsoring an autographing reception party for Richard Wal- ser at the Statesville Public Li brary. Mr. Walser and relatives of James Gay will be guests of this reception: to be April 12, 4 to 6 ie is cordial i> small la volume honor at held Sunday P.M. pge—DU oo page High | cidents — Two auto- ighaps here over the fesulted in approxi- in damages and being charged with | Wiblations edward Wike, 23, route | ville, was charged ho ing traffic violation ma two-car collision at SSaturday at the inter- @ Main Avenue Drive b and Second Street | Investigating officer Brown of the Taylors- se Department said driving his 1959 feth on Second Street Lee Sharpe, 17, | awidenite, was operat- § Oldsmobile west on. mae Drive when the ed. : | gid Wike told ‘him he | AT AUTOGRAPHING PARTY—Richard Walser, professor of English at State College, Ral the Sharpe vehicle | sigh autographs. the recently re-published book, “A Collection of Various Pieces of Poetry Bis car into the right | yehicle, Damage to ’ wi t at $300 | ? to wy Poa | at the event yesterday at Statesville Public Library are, from ed i : La Chiefly Patriotic,” by James Gay of Iredell County for descendants of the poet. Walser collected the poetry and wrote an Introduction for the new book, which was first p our Sean : Edward Earp, 17 | Frank H. Elmore of Jacksonville, Fla., Walser, Mrs. Eleanor Mcl Roomer, was ed | etry Society which ‘sponsored the reception; and Miss Nora. Yates too closely after | observance of National Library Week here. ee J TF tie aa ie Peo TOTAL (to pp. 30-31) Fe I gl ah Hp lea C } ¢ i, c . LAs [cA Col naar eA # : * THE MINISTERS LIFE AND CASUALTY UNION Ps. MINNEAPOL DECEMBER - JANUARY 1950 << cmt ee a RR NR a me NEW YEAR'S EVE UNIVERSAL WEEK OF PRAYER NEW YEAR'S DAY cant ne i “ ae RE RRS Ps FEBRUARY Yesterday is gone—forget it. To- Sarr morrow may never come—don't ~ worry. Today is here—what are you going to do about it? FIRST WEEK 26 27 28 / - ~~ , AA } Races 2333 NEBRASKA AVENUE WASHINGTON 16 ae David: Caldwell was # Member of the N. establishment of the University of North NQ\ the 1 {a4 ‘ In his wiii at Statesville (1 Zoned: Join, Hiram, David, Pats) ‘owan Bether Anérew's will (1822) also mentions wt Zz - “VIRGINIA | , | : i} ‘ Dnewese oS : 1 Nem CMAP a MT VERNDA 525 SHER CTY 7 - PITTS BORD mma) Gl SUN FOUNTAIN _ " + 4INGS CROSS MBAL Draaview i CENTER Mose) or i (OMT Peasant a GREENVALE prea Fecmees TEER, 2 : > chi THFIELD Wy: 5 en eee a o 7 noe Tt Dhour oaxs Donnan {facasna eens ‘e9@ CARTHAGE 7_ conceal O7O R LAUNON 7 WAS S, ‘ s % / ~ tt i . < a eo : ‘jue ( 5 : . 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A petition is now in m asking for a freg ue- it “route from Statesville one the sr Grin road fills’ Fesidence in Har. | Waship. then via J. C face, old Stophei post. 1M, Howard’s and along Hie and Charlotte road eBville. is about 26 miles Jony | es a territory in which at present no postoffices i net adequate mati chute GR 189 the J... C.@ ‘Statesville.# route, Bs ‘y r es . bie inspected Statesville (aay the Wilkesift Bradle along Chig miles >to west @long to Martine alongs Hunt miles.to Hil alongs ow. ‘0 Gi ch along’ Gove” to the Da me. E four “miles : route comp ed 120 fam Baek in who lived « " 7 . town one @ a we trapa, Mr. y le midile ag@ bovhdod ft minks, mq possums am ms Chird and i Fo sport: that § pursded the iam that ecelved 0 nals he t# ‘8 new t ap +7 we : Be was i Me ver place, oard road, i Mis§. Ma Ae Hant ma of Mail Was here in Dec- | mepect two possi- ; 8 run from States-.' Chapel. Hill reia Road, to , vand then uMill, aC A, L carrier of the north along fan ead two miles t thence northeast four es pp ace; thence by road | 1/4 miles ice; ence north Meek Road, 2 3/4 Fiace; then west bid road, mence southeast VOad, 5 Va face; thence Statesville This 220 % miles, serv d the carrier was i¢holson. one mies soutn - Trapping Charies a eth Creek Yo Sain, had not from eG and nis trapped ime on ree Rural Mail ! . bY and 69] Barring r| mile | was my 4 bought 18 steel | reached ! early | coons, | Broj Bl me Dy é ‘ He: i li : » ie lett | J si D Gi fo ou hed bu Pog | the the | of later | coy money | wDuring 1900 meee for furs n it yess for the of an! . He then aking a t ro} be ed added E, ital of | of > reap a bountifel m and expendi-| to ao SGASOT!. yt) cae ees Ste L Se C e CO A gy ) 5 - oe “i / a a Li. L t{rrelet 2a ie i y ia Ya iG i Beet? “Incr i . — ok Natl) ter A. a apn. i. os Word, ifort, wa kf HAWK 2 : ) a Xie. eke tot FLL ze ee . : ° Shere ad. 6. ap? Sf eet ras ¥ CP tet, Adee: f { k Mee Pe oo: Tipe gn ; 4, Healer eit & Ger. That f as <4 C4 as é ye [?':. , et i Ca ~~. he: é _ ee Pe _ y : —+?7 2-1 fp i... Ck a Apt C46 Fon: - CR oy LL Si ‘ oe “ sa es, 77 ; a ae . La a l bis oe ig am €t 4 ue ed, 4 stp eet, 7 iS i t he tab, Bg Cece, 2 ns 6 : fea th.- bel of Hen EaLy Cree E ie OOO Lh a ee fee ak. , "Ot le ’ 4 ‘Wa Bie. 03. - fi fot SSO S oa: Af or ce ¢ CA tcp © fice \ a Le ee Pe i“ 25 z ea f A 4. L0 ee _g f> {! a : XA jo 7 7 a Qa; se € bo eat ee er ae JE AS- (Qh. Ti on Aen id a ( a Pla ii . i ‘ bt ek. 7 CAtak ef. AAA € ere x oe ; a ae 4 O. | night | Bethesd | Aniast | Rev; Mr. | Chuveh if Reh is having Bib) y Re V, J : W. Mann Church is: ha #ation Bible Classeg d preaching Bl start a meeting aching done pb» McK in I he old Georgia | church. We £00d road | —f . Me, acletes ren Kk ek che ends: aes Aine @ wager Car ek J oon 4 Lake cae irr Sg Chritirr in Tate He = enol pow tA ae WEST a ( LOmsSyi lle) Danville. 2 he ENTUCKY ** Salen i NORTH ' TENNESSEE CAROLINA Rock H SOUTH CAROLINA Augusta The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia through Virginia and The Carolinas to Augusta, Georgia, was Americas most heavily traveled pre-Revolutionary road An offshoot was the Wilderness Road through Cumberiand Gap into the Indian Country which became Ki ntucky southward moved Che tide of proneers on horseback. wagons and ; atoot * . The Great Wagon Road By PARKE ROUSE, JR. es it was the beginning of the Amcriggi Mesi—Indians and all “In the Mast sixteen years of the co lonial gi Carl Bridenbd@i P, “southbound traffic along the G rea Philadelphia Wagon Road WaS Dumbered In tens of thou- sands. [Was the most heavily traveled road in @@) America, and mist have had We vehicles jolting along its ime fOrtuous way than all other put together.” With th@ 200th anniversary of the Revolution approaching im 1976, the Appalachia states arc taKing new in- | terest in #R€ Wagon Road andthetm- wrote — historian portant €y@a@ts which clusterd around it J in the wag Years. cael Coane Followed Indian Paths Cutti @iagonall; through piedmont North Cgitoli a, the Wagon Road m colonial @ii@s ran from the Nirginia line near Leaksville thAedgh the Mora- vian scttlaient of and thence to Salisbury jing Charlotte. Crossing into South Cate Rock Hill, it plunged gf Catawba Indian coun- try to/ thie fortitied Georgia trading Outpost of Aigusta. Thk nageow dirt road followed In- dian pathgs mowed by the redmen for centurics Perore the first Europeans came to N@rth Carolina. In the 17th century, Eiugish traders from eastern Carolina af Virginia followed the same route West to trade beads, cloth ing, and brand y for the Indians’ furs [wo othe® Indian trading paths merged wil te Wagon Road route in piedmont ina. One was the route which led Bermuda Hundred on the James WRiver in Virginia through settlements Which became Henderson, Oxford, Hillsborough, Greensboro, Thomasvillé, and Salisbury. The other. designated “he Green Road” on early maps, followed North Carolina’s fall line throu “Weldon, Rocky Mount, Wilson, Dui, Fayetieville. and Lau- rinburg. It joime@ the Wagon Road near the present G@ltimbia. S. C Tide Turned Southward Poverty anid Feligious Wars in Europe gave rise to @i@iexodus of farmers and artisans whO! @Rossed the Atlantic and travelled the Great Philadelphia Wagon - Road to set et uplands of Pennsyl- vania, Maryland Virginia, the Caro- linas, and Georgia. Attracted first to William Perg’g tolerant colony of Pennsylvania, Seotsmen from the Ul. ster section @f Freland and Germanic Protestants feqm the Rhineland. Al- ae, THE STATE, MUNE 1, 1972 near bob Sace, and Switzerland Ke, by the shipload at Phila 170) \s Penn up, the emigrants hit 4] waned to Lancaster. Yor} barge Noes LOHOWErS Cre logderalor y pel Potom) | ! \ lA tranny hean ' fir \ t t INU 1 i() | \\ MICH) Westward Oy ot} { ec lands of ing \ farmlands enti southward and By the 175 h Was MOVIN south { Roanoke) in Vire Gap and southward © Xe W's a re oa Se ‘ Bia th * ie 7 ¥ : | : uf i * ry ~ Tae ae a ie ad ge Te oi An old drawing depicts travelers en imped overnight, g Road in the Cay The back country settlers ir & We i Rice ak at a 2 their n Mp Davidson College The «erally begin. with Mac) are our emigrant @peorge Davidson, a Scots- and Rulers man, cage: from Northern Ireland to With the appro Pennsylv@iiia before 1746 and settled in the 176 briefly i Mancaster County, Pennsyl- ments alo vania. Abgut 1750 the Davidson family decided #@ move and made the uring trip dows the Wagon Road to North Carolina, g@ttling in outhern Rowan County + now Iredell. George's son William fe Davidson, grew up to be a leader of partisan forces in the Revolu tion. A reemege and two counties i North @arolina and Lennesses named for him 30) Miles a Day The PBR century tray ing’ in §B@ earliest years on Tool horscbagieand later by wagot tri eled fraggunup to sundown. Taverns and “pall houses” grew up along the way. i time, these rusth overnight stops ew into county seal Sin most traw@fers covered about 30 mi a day, f@¥@rns and towns were Usu illy so spa@@de Thus grew Lancaster and York ie Pennsylvania, Hagerstown 1m Marylaiigy, Winchester and Lexington in \ ingenia, and Salisbury and. hut lotte ing@rth Carolina The f§@@tch-Lrish vied with’ the En- glish fe teadership on the frontict North @@folina today owes much. of its erowth, its economy, and tts educa tional Simphasis to the zeal and indus try of Me Scots. One upland. English man ogmplained that “a Banditti ot Scotchsigigh Servants or their immedi ate degpgindants (whose: names gen Still Visible The Revolutionary battle of King’s Mountain was fought not far from i horse-drawn vehicle was typical of the times Lords Stated : ner, com € popular fast food TTT YS be ( be a tly fn , “A recuygr AC - Me y / Gy ry a TRAVEL AGE eal J dead As a travel I nen good use Of youp travel imformation An look ; Vit rrrit tCers * bd by David E.. SONS interested Major Giza n You Answer? 8, Considereéh a right classy waist Measurement. 9, This number, many used to mea@a “Scram!” Some are s@ufand some are sweet. The Last Supper. Ali Baba. lhe SpanisheAmerican War. Down by the Old Mill Stream. You know what a dozen is: many items §f @ gross? Phe Musketeers. A perfect game in bowling. , A span of miles. 19, It beats an eagie. 20, A brand of gasoline. (Answem§ 09 page 30) Years ago, how = ieee —— roe STATE. Cost BINDERS for your of THE State. C delivered $4.12, ing sales tax. Order from Binders, The State, j 2169, Raleigh, N. C. 27602 i THE STATE—Back when available. Less di- ~ Lae © A COPS Ol yout . ) is the record that Philj than | year old $.42,% S to 10 years old $1; Send your order te 27602 KLUTTZ PIANO CO. Pianos in Grands, P' son & Hamlin, Wi Write Box 30S, Gr WW Gearry, N.C. ar to 5 years old $.62. years and older $2.55. 2169, Raleigh, N. C «400 New and Rebuilt Spinets, Consoles. Ma- Brakauer, Fischer, etc. 28072. WAGON ROAD recently sent to me. ally interested in. Road story. My within one mile of this road In the courthouse Dobsor ucl Mosby and M. Kit pointed commissior nbrough w Dan Rives OnNeel on road betweer Surry County Ford on Yadk through Rowan County Ford on Catawba R About the samy tition recorded Capt. David Caldwe neighbors td impr low Ford by Celdw with the Great RO Beatty § .Ford on Catuwb home of widow. Torrence: had been used by troops in-t war but could not b That petition says way from Virginia to and other parts of Ge mn t7e4, Zeple Swa tract of 600 acres on this Swann Is listed as over: lor the section betw nd South Yadkin River lf. LORS Rowan Iredell Was cul County placing most south of Hunting C; road New Mill his. road. County, including Statesville. at that time sdme Course til near Fourth Creek ‘ , (¢ ONUINMeEd ON Page Dp Howard “ner, comptihi GRBEthe popular fast food restaurant chag@y eecognized quality at economical p ($14 double, $9 single). We'r¢4@@Bfident this thinking will carry us n@@Opwide in five years:” Plans call for 22 additional units to open by the gd of 1973, primarily along North-South interstate routes on the East Coast, [he UPI arfigle, which appeared in over 8O newspaiigrs in 24 states, at tributed the low BRdget motel! rates to the planned aligence of luxury swim- ming pools; tel@vistons, restaurants and bars. This analysis brought a quick riposte from Gaiidiner. “The only 1@i@fy we've climinated has been the @@®” he said from the company’s Roeky Mount offices. “Our prices are low B@cause we've found other ways to cultexpenses.”” EDITORIAL (Contingéd from page 4) of awarding th€ plum to “the gover- nors ‘ad agen@y? has now become pretty well estaliiigMed. But if it is a tra- dition it is a V@f¥sorry one, and just as sorry undef @ Republican admin- istration as it wa$ under the Democrats. No division @f @br state government is more vulnerable to the depredations of political med@limg. If the new admin- istration really Wants to break some new ground, it Gam make a good start by’ putting Tra¥él and: Promotion ap- pointments purély.@n the basis of pro- fessional compesétiée. North Carolina’s invaluable traveli@mdustry deserves no less. erie LETTERS (Continu@@ from page 10) to the west towaiid the Statesville area. The Georgia R@a@@d bore more to the South, passing §@Me four miles from the Statesville area, The ¢rossings@@, Hunting Creck at If you have ever wondered why Leaf Pine flourishes in the milder Eastern North Carolina, rather than in the moun tains, this photo offers: an explanat Taken by Hugh Morton in the Coastal area occasion when the J mild J Long climate of ur tam weather w ly. a AR Lp 5 Rutledge Ford was possil above the present No, 64 bridg south Yadkin the. crossing w exactly NOW Crosses, a where the new Int A map dated 1825 show gia Road as from Shallow Fi Clarksville to Colohaln then well Mill Since the building of the Coo Dam, the creased and power at this mill the mill the site is easily SWANN, Statesvillc ONE LAST WORD (( ‘ONTING d fron) pave 44 ) / 1k closely followed by. tho Che younger adults and thi people exhibited no special ala about homes © at outside — their night. A Ch family. which -fecls uns conditions “Kids on narcotics ,and roaming black groups contribute to our fear.” A Mount Olive man said, “We r) Hoh. feel safe only in our # the tani j ‘sa for he acros th . and gaffes were, Doth | was taken tles /— ha After t e waters of Jameg the settled in tween Bash lady named yet, go f settlement and in, di iy Br iM youngset of marriag Eugh, Yeorgte ial \stinet, \ oldesth vee Se As Joseph ie my Grandfather, and the branch of m now looking after, we will follow him, as from hin earned all I know of their history, as I have sat ;@ boy, listening to him tell of their stormy passage ta and of various campaigns and battles and skirmishes é ing the Revolutionary war. William and Joseph me battle of Sanders Creel: near Camden, S.C. where Wm. @ner and died in Charleston,S.C. Two other noted bat- ard Grandfather speak of as being at, were the battle arthouse, now Greensboro, Guilford, N. C. and the seige i fginia, where Lord Cornwallis was compelled to gur~ army to Washington. As a reminder of hie army ser- wr had a stiff knee and leg from the rheumatiem con- dn the army. I cannot remember of ever seeing him jcane, his knee being entirely rigid. 4 I should have noted it at the proper time. Howe fe it here, that the family though born and raised in “the Clase calleé "Scotch-Irish" or sometimes "Pro- 4 they being the descendants of Scotch ancestors who j horthern part of Ireland and all Presbyterian in Pbelief. A good portion of Iredell County, N.C. was oh Irish and wherever these are found, the Presby- in the ascendency. f Now resuming the narrative where I left off: we over the three remaining sons settled along the Rh Buffalo Creek in the sane neighborhood, though Gldest one living soon immigrated to Tennessee and “Pack River country, which would bé somewhere be- le and the Tennessee River. George married a young | ee and his descendants are mostly in North Carolina - WRnown, but none of the name live in the old first Buffalo Creek. All are scattered to various points ime counties, We will not take up Grandfather JOseph, the @ femily: Joseph married Hannah McRea. By this mad four sons and two daughters, namely, William, Ann and Mary. William with quite a family moved to arly thirties and my recollection of him ig not very @ while I lived in N.C. I frequently corresponded with £3 ca ' As Joseph is my Grandfather, and th the family 4 p now looking after, we will follow him, as - it wa@ thal learned all I know of their history, as I have sat for hours whe: a@ boy, listening to him tell of their stormy passage across the i@@ean and of various campaigns and battles and skirmishes and eaffer@mm during the Revolutionary war. William and Joseph were both @f the battle of Sandere’Creek near Camden, 5.C. where Wm. was taken Mmmponer and died in Charleston,5.C. Two other noted | tles I hav@mmpard Grandfather speak of as being at, were the dat of Guilfommmmparthouse, now Greensboro, Guilford, 1.C of YorktowMeewirginia, where Lord Cornwallis was compelled render hig@imple army to Washington. As a reminder of “is am a ‘ . “ . vice, @randmwmmmer had a stiff knee and leg from the rheumatism and the . Ai tracted wigme in the army. I cannot remember of ever seeing hi walk withaMmem cane, his knee being entirely rigid. I should have noted it at the prover time. How- ever, I wimemote it here, that the family though born and raised in Ireland wage the clase called "Scotch-Irish" or sometimes "Pro- testamt Iggmm, they being the descendants of Scotch ancestors who settled i ‘hie northern part. of Ireland and all Presbyterian in their Peligmmme belief. A good portion of Iredell County, N.C. was settled bygmmetch Irish and wherever these are found, the Presby- terieg Chufgm is in the ascendency. a4 Now. resuming the narrative where After the ver w’ . over the three remaining sons sett! sJon waters of fiie Buffalo Creek in the same neighborhood, though Janeg the § S oldest one living soon immigrated to Tennessee and settled int Duck River country, which would be somewhere be- tween Nast le and the Tennessee River. George married a young lady nan edi fige e and his descendants are mostly in Nor yet, #0 fae known, but none of the name live in the settlemen§imm Buffalo Creek. All are scattered to vari and im diffmment counties. fae We will not take up Grandfather Josevh youngest @immme family: Joseph married Hannah McRea, a marriage Samm had four sons and two daughters, name]; Hugh, Jam @, dohr and Mary. William with quite «s Far} Georgia in ihe early thirties and ty recollection lim 4 dietiget, fmmagh while I lixed in N.C. I frequently corresr his oldes#umen. -d- Ann married Jacob Overcast(or as they tly called, Overcash) and raised a large family of S.-W. Woods is a grand daughter. Hugh married Lucinda Edmiston. James, my father, would come next, at the present will take note of John and Mary. @nd raised considérable family--four sons and which is now living J.W.Gibson, a bugey blacksmi MN.C. Joseph F. a carventer of Statesville, N.C. do not know. Mary married D. M. Duke. Of them living. Loretta, the youngest of their fam A a named Stakelether and moved to Indiana. — pas living son, ie living two and one-half mi Statesville, N.C. We will now come back to James, which is we will more closely follow: James married Martha Her mother's maiden name was Keelouch(Keelow). The ; and Keeloughse, or their families at sone time came Minsy lvania. James lived in the Gibson settlement on mertalo Creek, and here was born the writer, John Alex- Ann, and Joseph Marrion, and an infant which died fter birth. And here it was along the ¢reen banks of o that I spent many of my childhood and efrly boy- ms, fishing, frolicking and zgambols of all kinds, of ten my My sister for a companion, and often with other boys, we easily found, being but half a mile below a mill =. These sports were all week days, but on Sunday g had to be as mute as mice when Tat vy was on the Te preachers taught that we would not only be mm mer what we done wrong, tut for every thought of the m Would have to give an account. No fishing, shooting, mr sporte of any kind was allowed on Sunday, but,.all D to church(Bethpage) and listen to the oreacher tell housht about predestination, foreordination, justi- adoption and sanctification, faith, the thouchts of , etc, on Aid In 1840 father moved to Iredell Co. twe and hiles West of Statesville, N.C. Marrion havin lied AY two years old, there were no children but myself P ~ We grew to manhood and woman) hood, when Mary Ann Weil Stewart Brawley and went to live in the Brawl ey ny some 18 or 20 miles’S, of Statesville, where Moores- is. Several years later, I married Pith Elmira jt Sraw- ant Hill,@ Tenng sieg undoubted in Yorktog Espy Bra truth in § had only of the thi whom he cil And what mistons next genet of their am tions was! ny grandng hint . 2 of Neil S. Brawley. ‘Hhe family. mters married one. er's sister. adi They were children of ey who raised a family of seven sons and e now dead of the sons except Joel V. Two or three of the daughters may Mother Brawley's maiden name was Flemming Methepes two sisters married to Freelands which Mand Freelands in connection. In October 1857 I left t 117th to Illinois. In 1863 enlisted in etare 1 July 1865 was transferred to Co.H. 11) @charged at Camp Butler near Sporingfie! Was at the taking of Fort DeRusy, La; Bnd storming of Fort Blakely, Alabama, and irmishes of lesser note, RRR RK EA HE My grandfather, John Alexander wrote MBCOLLECTIONS OF J. A. Gibson. He is Wae at the surrender of Cornwallis, Bid be clear over there in Virginia. don statement, that he was stationed British crossed the Catawba at Mibe with the British right then. So, since he 1 lis at Yorktown than anything else regarding hi Mpelieved Joseph had actually said h 1e was at Our Brawley sketch—or the one in the Bible akes the same claim for our Revolutionary Another thing. He\ mentions tha g's sisters married Freelands. Hyw Meer that after he became an old man. Be@tatement it would be a half-sister. full sister who married Daniel Brawley mA William, Both sons of our Révolutionar; he DIDN'T tell, say a tiny bit about Hannah McRea when her marriage bond reads Mary h 4 rrandamnth 18 2Yan Lor mpi ty he couldn't have told where she is died bef oma | hey moved to Iredell or not. And if dlloughs were ours. He probably knew meor rather--there isn't a soul now livine you dig up some Gibsons who would. even as mich as we did and though we Mg right and left to beavteve we don't Bdescendants of Joseph's daight er Ann and Brawley's daughters married Overcashes @n—-Neil Stewart and Mary Ann Brawle: And the W.S.Woods etch men gon of Elinor Brawley and Sidney Wood Elinor being I've never written an ot +) ls me down to Loray and do some more Ape | Mary(Hannah) is buried beside Joseph. 200 Rhode Teland Avenue | Washington <, January 16, 1952 Dear Milee Lazenby: | present at the last metting of the National renealoaical *Lety i Tread as an applicant for membership. I, too, am a new member, tut ! ? person whom I called once last summer and while sitting at the | F relatives from Ohio and I excused myself and hung up. e nT I Wed called you because Mrs. J. 5. Houston of Mooresville, that you hed mentioned Joseph Gibson in your book, Catawba Yrontier pressi@n you were closely acquainted with the noresent-day Gibsons, might §@ histaken. et so terribly that we know nothing of. where Joseph and his wite P we know nothing at all about his wife except her name which is Mstory as Hannah.McRae wt which appears on her marriage certificate wi fet in Rowan Co. N.C. found for me, as Mary McCree. Of course they tance of spelling in those days, and probably she told the clerk he and though she was called Hanneh at home he ocrobab¥y wrote only “he . And though we find a few McCrees, McReas and other spellings in in W.C., we find nothing to let us know about her people. found gimething which caused her to wonder/{f he married a widow. bel! 7. nr was Hagman Alexander who married James McRea in Pennsylvania. And love t@ mnow if there are any dresent day Gibsons who descend ‘ror tion ig@ four book. Higi@on James is my line, but he had only two children and ried, Hes son Hugh married an Edmiston(ae did James), but Hugh 1 moved $@ Georgia in the 1830s, but might have left children in No : stayed in Iredell County, .C. and tae two children Mtten long age)are, J.W.Gibdson uf Newton, maybe that ien's in Iredell, wa carpenter of Statesville. Then Joseph's(The Revolutionary /0se h's) two is; Ann married Jacod Overcast and remained in North Carolina and our history & the wife of W. S. Woods is a grand daughter--juct ne if anybody wou iis. Anyway, the North Carolina records are stil) full of Overcasts, hard to tell which might descend from Jacob and his wife Ann Sibson. Than The Reva@autionary Joseph Gibson had a demghter Mary W. who married Daniel uke. Their denght@r Loretta married a man named Stakelether and moved to Indiana. The other child “— of thi Marriage mentioned in our history is John M. Duke of Iredel] Co. ! household copied off in some oi the census records. YA know anes ae I"ve made this longer than I intended, but as there ‘s no mush you might remember having known somebody there who descended from Joseph whom T gould learn a bit as to where he is buried and a little about hi: \ home of his son Hugh who had no children. Hy wife had preceded Mat you didn't have room in your book to mention all the soldiers feel very proud that Joseph was so honored. And it might be that bout him or his descendants, other than hie military record, mimben to. At the time I traced his record for: the*DAR about gereon had done so, but might have by now. but - er fi I wold love to hear from you sometime. af Sincerely, it eA ty Tangy H No.k200 ¥ i Jo 4 M 1870 Ire Fangy Hi 20 Field Bie Sarah | Vm. Cresa Frede 1870 Ire Cool Spr 130 Went Margare@ Miriam lgied 2 5 mo GIBSONS ‘ ~ a COROT EE ee cR asia 1860 Cabarrus Concordtown 502 E.R.Physician | Elis. ours Jas. Geo, Robt. 1860 Cabarrus Mt.Pleasant 206 Burton 52 lydia 45 Wm . 10 Hyram C. 9 I don't find the older Dorothy and Gideon tut those names appear in the household of Wesley The "P.W." in Fancy Level aged 50 in “\1870 would have been born 1820. Could ‘this be the Peter A.? Maybe I copied the wrong middle initial and sometimes years of birth are wrong. Our Martha Edmiston would be five years older than James and again she would be 8 yeass older me 1469 /t¢+ 8870 21 RRR EK RR ee About the year 1775 or 1775, or near the con- mencement of the Revolutionary war, Wm. Gibson immigrated from Armaugh, a town in the county of Armaugh, Ireland. His family consisted go far AS now known of himself, wife and four sons. They settled in N.C, along the Irish Buffalo Creek in what is now Rowan County of which Selisbury is the county seat. The sone were named Wm. James, George and Joseph. Joseph, the youngest wag: about 18 years of age when they landed in America, As all their family records and papers were lost on their long and stormy voyage acrose the Atlan=- tic, nothing is known with accuracy as to dates, The sone all served in the American army during the struggle for independence, . AMP BA! YO a wih | ie | A. ~, = Q i Sa Ae Bas a~ ¢ ya nes « a ‘ , A i y : _ ; De. cate Caw G UlLrienh ~~ 200 Rhode Ieland:Aveme NE Washington 2, D. C. August 5, 1953 li I have taken my own sweet time answering your let! Wm couple of errors in what I had previously sent you. have be B Mary". When I scrtbble at libraries I always abbreviate = and Ma a or Margaret. In thie instance when copying it off for you because Mmhought my abbreviation was Marg without a period, whereas plainly #@ iB second examination, And the Anson article on Gideon Gibe had in thm house as you had those Loray aces 1es. And when I wa discove oa had no notation stating where I h ound it, and I ie her to the DAR Library to see if Tos was anything in the van Grants in Volume I by McBee and didn't find it but on @ Joe Gibson, She and I ran around to Raleigh and to Columbia didn't et to Rowan, Iredell, Mecklenburg or Cabarrus. I had hor looking you up, or calling you, at least. Now I have teken time GAbedn MMBtion and though I don't think it's the same | the mangug@bhers on my first list didn't show up, | did find what sent you and gure enough, it is dated 1752 instead of 17 our Jos@™™, I don't know any. If you ever have time tc T sent ma, f you will see that he —— t know too much a Joseph ( ome WRevolutionary ancestor) had three brothers all They we Bie apposed to be the sons of a William who ca pefore MieiRevolution. I have an idea they stopped off they cammmigo N.C. when Rowan was still Anson end thes in direg 4 gcent. My only wish in tracing »resent day nore ebm Joseph's wife Mary McCree(Hannah McRae in the of Hugh’ Meeree in your county and his youngest child is who warfi@® our Revolutionary Joseph, He men and laté en that land is sold it is a pee it was place on which Thos, McCree lived and whi Thos. rot And we Mew that Ann Gibson(child of our Joseph and Mary\Hanrah And on We deed from Hugh McCree to the trustees of Bethpage one CAbson, piel ably Joseph's brother. So, I think mightily thet this ours 2 of St was for them I was searching in Anson. Thought maybe aatried Sere. No luck, But in the Iredell will of Huch he says Anne, On Ih death son Wm. to have. it and we think that is the Wm. wh daagh t € i Rowan 1776 and that line is traced and I have some letter anybody Mews where that Bible finally landed, I have the marriages of thie " and Mery White McCree and Wm's headstone in Sugar Creek. a chart Wat @ grandchild of this couple end she wrote up the material in have alj Mi ng like as many of the marriages as I have, but she was never ie puzzle fas to where they got the folder. As it is gunnectes wit Shannon @ igvee \they fear the DAR member sending it in went in on t! were y temo ous, though not any more famous than those Whites(Moses I ¢ connect . th the famous Lawsons, +00, though they don't trace y on theny 2 erything except what I need, I have, So, unless a Pemtén't records (Wm gs McRee dine might be best. Maybe I mentioned that | got the: abd he sold to Bethpage, as he appears in Rowan as Or elee 2 dn't copy off everything two years ago. Now at pefore MMe Revolution as did a Wm and Dinah in Rowan whon | of this But though they seem to have lived in Mecklenburg, parents | ® Rev. Janes McCree who: clained he had five brothers, two all bu tase in Stele Creek and hoped to be buried there himself, wiee, > - Wm and Dinah--are the oldest McCrees there tut I can bat I ¢ [ nd about three. Of course the sisters would likely be isd? ial think I'll come to Iredell. sometime in an antorobile and oie + . hat fami m T'i) pave ome of those relatives or tre sexton at, Loray orot of gist Ma. (ieanek Remember fugh { ig next to his fat} er JOser ae . a blank sp ace between Hu zh and his wife lucinda. I ' oh belor ngs in the blank, space next to his wife. Probably a ss sic ted ap ak 6 bec hele ak a) GH O npnenec Ww a en AeA ek ok falta “ru ft haw a rT CFE oe on oe f: i; It wag for Sean When I called Miss Lazenby and ¢ er. Now at 5:30 p.u? there is sti leewer. 1 will call again very goon afd ag ne price of her book, or where it can be MaMMpased, I feel I owe it to her to buy @ came since - Kounuek Joseph, And also I was M@eephankful ehe pointed to you, I would like lg 7m have found those graves. ‘I should t Ge you that it was ages later when | ran eR the back of one of the sheets iggeeted we take Miss Lazenby with us to the came ery in Maryland to look over gravestones) m you. I was telling my sister about it aM@™@mhe said she saw the notation when I sent#Mm to her. She had sent it back to me long Meepre I finally saw it. I wae sorry, thowmmeed don't believe she would have been withiaim f our house or of the route mt maybe aime i. I aw entirely turned around in (3m town. Maryland is on three sides of u@gemut we struck out very much i. the opposi (a She lives in a very 1 bos from the name Me and probably qhite a distance out. Gebof town, tut Nebraska is out in the Americal @ y section, hink. I took some @gmmece out there soon after moving here about @ewen years ago and it took foreve Mere. But we live to drive and eee her sometime. But I went 7 bernie was $00 Rhode Island Avene Nu Washington 2, D. C. September }&, 1952 seeing your lett r hmong many on my or fing through North and death Carolina, I fel ornlia findil where most wills nore! onl corre game Stheal ad eit, I did a bit of inquiring at a newestand Biring for you on Sunday morning, September ership service. I looked for your nane in went to buy a roll of Kodak film. The proprietor a1 helpful. The proprietor called another Swann wh- jan unlisted telephone--and I don't blame you, we used ha : gin people, but which kept certain others tree bothering us- er got around to calling you, due to my finding so ira and as surprised as we were. 8 But from the sound of your letter you know ei d to send me thie material. My sister was with me--per! she 7 Sies Pearl Hall of Chicago--and for some reason we didn't a mention. We have knowledge of our entire Pleming line fi er the relatives who won't answer letters--so the fact that lucin fat ion {s dated 1873, we thought it was no use to us, and fron the ya it ien't. But, gee, those Edmistons she men P Martha, but since she says they are heirs of Sw. me son of the man who was our Marthe "> £ father. ‘es brother. Or was there anything to sugzest he 1008, course Be, why wasn't our Martha listed? Or was it. abr will Kill6me Gibs Penni nistonm they | that 4 T had oe been | who Patt Om And Mary) to le Rev. am "Cate this) aim @ee tad my letter forwarded to wherever she was las‘ and | this aim to ti no iim to wi at and Ca t rn mike to your locating her grave. There is a samuel a John in the other county, each of wie lisis moce to include our Martha, then disappear froa the 1 Mies and since 1850 is the first yeer ee censuses showed Beni the householder, why Martha had lonz been married and we deeds to clear her up at all. All know is that er mot and the Killoughs disappear eet: leaving Us Wits wa tus story says they—both families, Ednistons and Killoughs --at nia, without naming a county. I feel certain that 7 t+ om around there are our people, but they don't know . interested in having the alee de if we ever find the; might help things along if they did a bit of inquir sony to help me seen how. I just star Ss in a year RE, OFS. 1 { » Or ie 3 _— Bite that our Fleming was Samuel whose second had five children, James, David, Moses, Nancy,and Lliza lliam Brawley and we have that Brawley line established ow it seems that Elizabeth married Daniel rawley, brother ing very hard to learn if Mary Wilson, their mother 4iwo little girls (Mary and Elizabeth) in the care Whese two little girle had been children of his fi ” maater married a McKemie and had.some small children ping aged 83 is living in the household of Daniel 4f we mizht have clain to the established line of Whose pension record or military record, at least, 7 Trontier." But I get such poor answers wren | get @rial at the DAR Library is a descendant of James wi] mer she sent: my letter to somebody in Charlotte I was more interested in the Patton Sins than in B those little Wileon girls ever lived™ir N.C. Wh! her again to ask where it was that they had R said they hadn't lived in N.C. I called he ed that it was Oumberland Co. Pa. ‘The only Sante? mv. from N.C. sat before the pension board in Rutherford Co wrif Mm ages ago to the deecendant of Daniel Brawley who lives in Atla if @ieias begun a search on hin, and if for any reason she believes not mmpour Samuel. No answer. There is no need of both ot her £ ae willing to do it and she would be welcor bel eve she feels the same way, It was she w lati So, I doubt if thie locinda Flemin wiguuemeamistonwise, And the earlier wil! Anngee ut no Martha or lucinda, and we know Rem@M@mer Iucinda married Hugh Gibson, and in #8892850 and 1860 census in the household shea @and in the householc of Marthe.™ are Mumdubtedly our people, there te not evefimin across. We searched Rowan again as G@pesville and to three counties in S.Carolin a suai : a fo en the Revolution, I lately discovered. Eight 1 : of the crowd applied for a pension, ar y Killoughs from Alabana and the y seem t i know the early marriages, those who have co Then I went to Chapel Ui back to Chicago where she ia a court r ® paid, as she freelances. 1 was out of Meers from the Carolina datchman collection was closed on Sunday, at Chapel Hill and bGibson whose grave you located at Loray. —at Duke Mave stayed last night and checked today and the: Me Commission, s.ice my husband is away and Mel spend money another fime going. Since é years ago and didn't find a stone nlfkely she 1s d*ried there, though : have been tumbled down and covered at Hugh's stone is not where it should be. The Melier church stood on the other side of that wall he that all those were knocked over or even list Then they might have set them up incorrectly and wer e not very securely anchored. You know Joseph @ topsoil between Hugh and lucinda, for there ie r ‘ peeph. But we inquired as to the records. ven went eT ey start in 1850 and Hannah met have died in 1540 pmmow is that the 1840 census shows Joseph tn the househ Se Iredell from Rowan in 1640—-and Joseph's name feldier and in that year they paid ther tha Ewes listed. But there is no female member maved to Iredell and died Lefore the census Wa be there. If she died in Rowan, I was warting petuary. Because Bethpage church moved to Cabarrus at to the Presbytery at Philadelphia and to the Pas‘tor papolie have come up with ucthing. And Bethpage isn a cemeteries are. So, Bethpage headstones were cestro; B@ congregation moved to Cabarrus. It ig to learn sowethi: Fanxious. The McReas(McCrees) sold land for the first Bethpage Rowan McCree and wife Dinah, got land from the Earl of Wi yeene our darling Hannah. Somebody in liecklenburg leaves. notiimmg at all. Isn't this a rambling ness? The doctor in 3S! but iPough the unexpected relatives I learn he descends froz crowauried at Loray which you sent me. Ours caie from arm mp790 Iredel] isn't ours. Ours appears in the Rowan ] 1] and s wasn't, : e I hate to write s6 mich that @ared you might not remember facts relating whom I met Sunday Sept 7, at the beeutifu hip after taking picturee of the Gibson gravest: end wife who was Mary Ann Gibson, only sist He married Ruth Elmira Brawley and moved One of the daushters of the Revi Josep! mand tells people here to tease re about rminnine Be filthy-rich tobacco lukes. After persptring m the cemetery, a Mr. Stevenson said he woul ement entrance where there was a washroom. to reach it. And wouldn't you know it? P. on gAs we walked around she was saying she had a Gids BE just ae always "Yes, you s know veyond your unt{ we were about through washing np, that she said her thatig got interested. Then I grabbed her and hugged her mm my cousin and I could prove it hy the little black itut died of surprise. We had half nded up a car and took us around to if they really knew those Gibsons in the ce: If you uncovered Joseph's stone only aroun « T pad it. It was there leaning against Hugh's anc m so I could photogrash it. And though they were m than you can imagine, nobody offered to dig ar lieve they should, don't vout. Why, should I ne ed 3 | done when quite a few mcxbers of that very hech aré mm going to write and suggest it. Shen, at least, we ivi @ out tracing old newsyavers to learn where she died. mm of the grave of a Revolutionary soldier and i* of a stone after probing as you did, and if it surely nobody would object to _ being raised necessary. As you said, Joseph's was so very deca ipapved only the week before. Why, oh why didn! > sorry. A Mrs. Whiteside, a-Mre. Swfort ard a i: Aa didn't meet Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Shufort is the one wave a brother or two, but I don't know whether he {. pmerouch feminine members. The others we m@et who are tly the same relationship--creat zrand-dauchters-~s m the licht and water division at the Ci‘: Mand fancy pickle firm where they make and myeres. These girls are unmarried and look as weve two more sisters, married, and a brother @ and a grandson--eisters and brother--of ! @ been a double cousin to my mother. The B between Statesville and Loray.. They attend Ennai evis and though we met the other gir)--they recalmmer name. Dut they have a beatiful buffet wh Gibetiie They took us out to Mack's house wher we went they @aid had some Gibson and Edmiston material. 1! to e@™mt, I thought if they had any sumption or they iaald read it over the phone. But it seeme they the le ; Stewart Brawley births and deaths, plus James birt and marriage dates, which we had learned, thank Bible f Martha which might give the early Gibcon 80 mE desire. But of course they can't untangle firsfieel culled-Mary Lazenby a mimte ago. kk és Concord P The You h Fe ip liad their te reat het fed by the Rev. E. . v . Miss Marie Stevenson is the} me presi ident. ; «Prayer meeti mere held on } Wecnesday nig th Mr.. and i Mrs. Jno. Mort and Mr. and Mrs. Kex Camps * - Mrs, Harry Bitepter, EF wood, will speak #as next day night at Comoe Chor the Hebrew rclig hurch. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs, ©. Ay’ Me Candor for the Rev. and Mrs. im Misses rjorm ‘ PNancy Stike|- at E homo from rl. rs Mi "tb sna { lege for the sp am SP attien). «© Mrs. L. N. Suni ‘ pas wih to f Washington, D. ik a visi| Mr. ard ‘irs. GORRRn Summer and other gelativeEm eH Miss Helen C2 @ tras bee: time for Faratiol fr § Medoria! ‘Hospital i Cham Mr. at@ Mrs: gimme Lentz and dohn, Ill, of Roe ; Lim. C., have beer here ‘to Sand Mr J..M: Lerit#, Sr. i Mrs. Ri W. Capmell and Mrs Lee Richardson, Gfaermony hav: been spending 4 | me days? with Mr. and Mrs. Ree sbelff Mrs Richardson is lea Bein Aprit fo ‘Alaska, to join Bae musbeifd who is in service. The sudden dé ee | «Wedtatsday morning of Mr.)mgmmpce Hedrick was quite @ shock feebe commun Bs ch ta * ld ere he Dear Mr. | es -a Harriet the name@ but says I remen bé : dollar of havea't sold encyt away all wu the traing had marr iy in the coun’ too, but vhere Unde meena beard and though he was very erect, he walked with a cane. white ha N Pe) McRea, re mt m had a sneaking idea Hugh Gibson married again. In the 1870 censue there was eupation housekeeper, but there were ditto marks under the Gibson. I wrote off @ur history and grandfather says he wrote to the folks in Georgia and in Tenn, + Little more than that. When I say "grandfather," I mean John Alexander whom migntly. My dad taught school and had to hustle out in the summer to earn a py, and I know he worked for a publishing house. But where it was located, I aintest idea. In other words, I think he was probably a book agent, Maybe fias from door to doo?. He died when I was ten, But anyway, he would be er-and Mamma used to take us—four of us of whom I was the baby—ard board Christian County where she had grown up. is is in Illinois, Yer father n and she spent part of the time at their house, and moet of the time out at Uncle Bob's. The older children went to Uncle Ab's, end I mess I did m?t remember then except when they visited us just before leaving for Texas about ten ie for spel lf tn, have said she proba to spell & have spel had been Mm found a ni pwhen Mrs. Quincy J. Scott of Clevelend looked up the documentary proof pigude already lived. That's mamma's family. And Grandfather Gibson had ve. feel sure there was only one wife for Joseph, as the history calls her Hanneh for me ago, 1 was surprised at the name. She seid they cared nothing in those days The clerk wrote déwn just what he pleased, She suggested that the girl might mame ie Mary Hannah McRea"and the clerk put down the first name, only,that is mwanted him to write down Mary Hannah. Then probably instead of atking her how m last name he wrote it as it sounded to him, And maybe the poor dear couldn't B4%. No, we were inclined a time or two--my sister and I—to think maybe she ed before she wed Joseph, but I'm certain Be didn't marry again. My sister age in Pennsylvania records at her Chicago library, between a Hannah Alexander pRea or McCree, and in a Will made by some Alexander he leaves something to a “4 mepen McRea. But I don't suppose it was that way. I could look sometime again something i if she is and has eer will be 14 and Bémi sf have and | the 1860 or 1870 records of census, both of them lived with Hugh that time + | was given except the householder. But if a Rev.Soldier was a member of any already cop have is off listed at? she might Ba th ceneffver ofl live in 1§ whos@ mo 1 early tim Tenn in 16 for Ruthe® and if sof somebody § Gibson gré for Moore of Gibsons Pemoved. Then if the records of the commnicants says she wae buried there | fied. was given to honor him by name, not just by pitting his age in the proper XK don't examine any wills or deeds of Gibsons. I merely would like to know P2474 at Hannah and maybe sometime those church records will show up and we'll learn ed there beside Joseph, but without a marker. Maybe her marker was crumbled T ve at last found the Fleming ancestors through a letter. And I guess the Killoughs We will take a bit more time. And though I know the Fleming names, that's al) I Btime I might need to look for a will in Iredell for Samuel] Fleming. 1t I had &@ pension paper for a Samuel and several other Flemings and if a one I © » he moved to Tennessee before the pension law was passed. But his wife ie Me@ieehold in the 1850 census. So, I don't know, yet.. If he died before she did, come back to N.C., but it's hardly likely. think the John A. was John Alexander in Hugh's will. I'd love to think he ndpa but that about selling land to him is puzzling. He went to Illinois to But don't check it. I want only a bit of information on Hannah and Martha was a Killough. There is an Isaac Killough buying land in Mecklenturg Co. in Then I found one in as named Samuel], son of an Isaac born in Rutherford Co. etc. And there is a dames a John and a Sammel in the. 1810 and the 1520 census prc Co.Tenn. And probably the Edmiston-Killough marriage took place in Pennsylvania 11 be tough. I have written mimerous letters to presentday families and maybe know, as this Georgia woman did about the Flemings, and as you did about thoge I asked once here at the Bell Telephone Library why there was no director rt fe, N.C. and they said it had an Independent Co. If there are ri Overcabhes around who are know a Gibson story, that's all I really we > n't. Think I'l) write for a Statesville and Mooresville directéty, tee p may de the @ e « a the Qapare cod of (Le piace: fe Lo Le, ot 4, Le ey 4g: AA yW-€. oe eo. Co ths, hiner Q - nH AA ay ef . . : ‘7 Vatiet Mae Uk Os QA rtm Go /o Lee e ia we 3 PO Ben tes SD Awe LX a i AA, G ook a ; ks ks ree Q Ya AAAS in TV AA aA a aa ft f , oe ee oe 1 ‘ ¢ Woky Ap Ag OW rt AASain avn E y ee Linn 44 A eke 50 ee 1 yb 0. Lar pie sts ie! cae cor. a Kin, DAML AAD ~ t <y Sawa aay a‘. o ON\A ae IK ARLE e : a a ng ae porer_ \ ri Q es 2) Ww a aA fruAie a Sug T\A~u AnD a er rattn O_) - a". eae) to bya sa, try aw (hi. xQruthh- ow OD Aa a : 1.044 femceus: bere Uh Rend : ¢ 4 had ae ths: fAsy An J+ ae Ty tawny Arn a % i ; ‘ 7 {} b NSernrvo ‘gat axes" AR ay ase cece thd Cenene Cake Che x. tt $e + ) . 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Wiley, Bee The Call”, a most| @ prism, at Concord | sy iy morning. y Might the Rev. | @ installed as pastor. 5 a commission from bs mbyiery. Dr. C, M. oh / Davidson presided, MeLean of Lenoir | | sermon; Dr. Rich- | 595 pt Davidson charged < tion. ee choir sang “Break Forth} & ht circle No. 3 met x hn Price; Tuesday | y/ , 1 met with Mrs. prs and Thursday 4 mét with Mrs. M and Mrs. Francis § cc -hostess, n i ¢ Wiley came home} b am, Va, last week. > Wiley is at home “where she had mst week, PWoodside, who sui- Bently, is able to be J eM ‘ord of Savannah, old Carter and f Charlotte, visited Wiford last week, * mmers, Jr., was at a ison for the week- ad y night prayer}, e held with Mr. and Vic my and Mr. and ure ¥ nlght the Men Tint ited tié Women } to a chicken supper delicious and much Odining room was y with red table Agcovations and BAF Dogs Zhe oY ata pe as s ~. the Gibateepeadstones, at all. You had sent so many of the names that we knew that at last ) our partii@aper Gibsons were located. Joseph and James are the two through whom my line ex S r 200 Rhode Island Avenue NE Washington 2, D. C. February 16, 1952 feeee very much for your kindness. I wan't in any hurry to have a check made on , one. Mee Baugh we know is out Hugh(son of Joseph) because you had sent the name Imcinda )\as being pwife, And the wives of these two sons were named Edmiston, but we have no way of knowilimiphey were sisters, but for some reason | hope they were. Joseph had four sons_ and two mters. Our history says that his son William moved to Georgia in the early 1830s, 80 ef cc there headstones wouldn't be in N.C. But the history says his son John remained in B.C. ® said to have had 4 sons and one daughter, but when the history was written in he late Os, it was supposed that two children, only, were living: J.W. a buggy blackemith at Newton m™.C. and Joseph F., a carpenter of Statesville. i 4« . , f ; @ only one reason for caring about any of these othere--say for instance, that Dr. and Mp you mentioned in Statesville--and that is that I would be very glad to know if amy ofmmee who descended from Joseph were living and had a little knowledge of Joscph and in tiieeway I might learn a little about his wife. So, I immediately wrote that Dr. and wife Mme Statesville, mentioning that a doctor has a full life wut that if his wife had the time) @mould love to know if they ened to be from that particular branch, And probably Saas Jon ante 1 3/°aged 66 would be Joseph's son. The two daughters of Joseph wammian Ann'vho married Jacod Overcash and a Mary who married Daniel Duke. I don't know whi@ief the mumerous Overcashs might descend from Ann and Jacob, but probably if I ever wiski@e trace them down to the present time, I can do so from the census records, many of Which/ Mme copied. I have all of our names in the 1850,1860 and at least Iredell for 1870, Until 18G%Me names appeared in a census except the name of the householder, as you of course know, S@j Many wives had passed on before 1850. EE N@jem@eseph moved to Iredell County apparently when his sone did, Maybe Hugh and John and Jame@i@el moved around the same time, But I have no way of knowing John ever did. Maybe thig ie @Mm@vJohn in Loray cemetery byt John being such a common hame, maybe not. But Joseph was mak ie @ home with Hugh and lwcinda, who had no children. His pension file tel’s that as well . et 1840 census record, which left a place of honor on the sheet for any Revolutions soldier. / ® the pension record says James was the Executor. I have several—or maybe a coup. feaad be truer, of transfers of property in Rowan Co. for Joseph. But it could well be that Mimmrife passed on before they left Iredell Co. I hope this isn't the case, though. I hope ti@mmboth were making their home with Hugh and that the Loray church records might jast happen * make some mention of her. Then as you hinted, there might be some space there where che i At be resting and due to the passing of time her marker might be destroyed. But vhether @ig@jhad a marker or not, I would love to know where she was buried and any little bit of other @mmprmation on her would be more than I have. The three early marriages in the Gibson line wer@fmml issued in Rowan County, which means John Alexander and Ruth Elmira Brawley must have run @ve into Rowan to be married, or maybe the Gibsons didn't move to Bewam Iredell as early as one history says. Maybe, well, it doesn't matter. And I was so very glad you sent in that I Stewart Brawley and his wife Mary Ann as resting at Loray. Because hie wife ' was Mary & | Gideon only daughter of James and Martha Edmiston Gibson. Their two children married nto the family of Wm. and Nancy Brawley. So, I was very glad to have that news, Mag abeon Duke and her husband both died rather young and a relative has written me just ee Week, that James and Martha raised the son John Duke and Hugh and Iucinda raised the girl Memetta. James is supposed to have measured off some 20 acres for this lad and sure enough, OM MBé census records I'd copied, the farms were numbered as being next to each other and that g Duke apparently lived there, always and that might be a source of information on our dalimmg Hannah(Joseph's fife). Some day I'11 take a look at a present-day Statesville telephone @mpectory and see if there are any Dukes, tut that can wait. ae Sik eds al be completely dizzy reading all this, but I'm going to say somethinz about Y this 4 mm nee, Stewart, Patton, Espy lines, That was only a surmise. In the Brawley families, © ally, they make use of whens, names, And there is a Pinkney and a McCissick, too, And ase we fun across families of importance whose surnames are these, we cowddn't help wond@ But my husband cam up with al probable solution, My sister ak lacked fete ‘a volume @ r md copies of a magazine called "Stewart Clan in America, "end one of the famous lines in § md were from Torrence. So, my husband said at one time there was as famous a Stewart © over here as is or was the Clan MacKenzie, And it might be that these Brawleys had known | r back to when the first ones came over, about The Stewarts of Torrence and they and the Nagimerrences and Stewarts might have kept the thing going for generations, ‘There appeats tiiemame Charlotte Isabella, too, among them as does Chalmers. And it is in the 1870 census reg of this J.W.Dake(Grandfather Joseph's grandson) that one of these children is named Chall that in addition to a child of John Alexander and Ruth Elmira. One of theirs was named "@mimers Brawley Gibson. In Pennsylvania and Kent Co.Delaware Flemings there are marriages and wills showiig iste riage between Flemings, Pattons and Espys. Some of seone. bs cht show up in Iredel}igmanty, but I have an idea these marriages all took place before they came to N.o. and F Y on sometimes they used these for middle names. Buti@eet idea about the STEWART CLAN hadn't occurred to me. So. 1 don’? D0 8e there is : Tiage between a Brawley and these Stewarts, tt the Brawley push eke ast summet pr@wmm that Daniel's wife was Elizabeth Patton Fleming, and since Wm's wife was Nancy Fleg they are our line—but Daniel and Wm. are brothers, and this makes us be- lieve @or@mmmmn ever that our Nancy might be connected with the Delaware and Pa. Pleminzs, So, maybe Gamwould be best to forget the Stewart and Torrence names. But I certainly want to clear @ mmething on the Flemings, but whether I can best run it down in N.C. or not, I do fot Mime I presume you know that Pa. had no marriage licenses until about the time of the Waty en the States. -Isn't that terrible? So, unless there was a Bible record or the 2 kept fuller records than the DAR Library would indicate, it is hard to find a marr cee Pa. I have probably said all this to ym before. sent me abont ten_yeare ago, by a Mr. Sharpe of Irede)})? Co, when rn the early Gibson marriages, which later showed up in Rowan Co. ) f John and Ruth Gibson aold land to ----Swann, on the Yadkin River adjoining dwell; At mouth of Rocky Creek. We hav a John and wife Ruth, tut they weren't born in 1802. I feel I've sent you this beformgitoo. / Som@: at the DAR I'l] Yook again at the Wm.Turner death date once again. Some- times I sai ble se that I can hardly read it, especially the shorthand. But I should cet figures rif but maybe I didn't. tall kgain, very mach, Sincerely, © rn) € HH RNa ie < | Pee ae Las TO fp Oi ee . 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C. february 3, 1952 pre several kinds of a swell fellow for finding those headetore locations. 1 Y believe it. and to think you hed then right there im the house. How glad that I wrote Mise Lazenby and that she forwarded my letter to you. a Wturally, I ‘wanted terr!>}y to go looking for Trinity Church last Sunday(e Btodey) tut 1t rained all day. i don't have access to the car through the week and loves to go out on Sundays and take jaunts into strange territory. 3o, @ to wait and go today. Again it is rainy, but nothing like as unpleasant as Memeay. So, equipped with the kodak and a pair of galoshea(for me to wade weeds) rth. istead of Trinity being an abandoned church it 4s anything but. I have never Mrch and churchyard which go belies its age. out I would rather for your sake ac as you hoped it would be, Maybe an abandoned meetinghouse, but auctert head= ‘Woandance. There'are no ancient headstones, at all, and oaly one Dent in the ace. But mary, cany Swaans, al! too late to interest you, I fear, unless you ting “Swanniana". Bae | Mereeretaker apperently saw us drive up and stop and he hastened out of his hone nextdiime and care ix through a 3!Ce gate. Tow had said he would search oe side of the yerd as Bi the other, ‘le wus on the side zcur the caretaxer and as they began talking t ranjer there to get all that might de said. I had seex a mammoth family etone ine serib@mrewann", on my side end had veen headed that way. But there were some of that Mame @mmeir half, too. I copied then all off, es u =2€ th @ ami lding and grounde-=they showed it—but knows nothing whatsoever cf the history th@tmmece. I told him I had teen gathering raterial on it and I knew there were some eight (Mvten forucr memvers named Hatch Dent, not 4c mention the other Leute who attend ed theRMiicr several generations. i asked where he supposed they trancferred t) and he retaker I imagine 1s the sort who works tirelessly seeping up the appearance & hadn' @imme@ Pcuotest idea, He knew there wos only that one Dent and he das turted on the "Sard ame", his wile veing a Ward, Bis Owams ie the fact that I needed to wait until today to make tke trip, I decided to look GM what Dent material I had in the house. I had written off considerable data on th eause of their intermarriage Ato another family, the Hille family. So, though T had } thie, I couldn't find anything connecting up with Swanne, but knew where I eould) plenty if such people ever existed. Nw, you didn't tell me to-hunt up th‘s sort ¢ erial. frobably you have all I copied for you. but I feel certain if the vari or these same people had been handled in Trinity, they wétla have appeared in the rq@@imms I searched. The births and marriages are there. So, my guess ie they trane- ferre St.Mary's County. That is the county where I found the Dents. Again, maybe yu h 1 that, too, tut merely wonder if any headstones are stil] standing. Still, that Rave mean’ they continued on at Trinity, and it corld be, that the cset ar client Me Aatones havc crumbled away and teen removed. int there should be some records te th rect. I Mm copied off all the Swaxns but I saw a stone over by a side fence like it might be de ba to be carted away and determined to copy off what it said if it happened to bea § ‘The carctaker called to me saying "That stone was taken away from right here! He meammemmother had replaced it, tut didn't say that. I said "Well, it's a Swat and yo wae Bave let me leave without pointing it cut." Then he finally conveyed to me that Thad may copied it off from the newer stone. Mow that might have happened to some af the mers. iI mean they mizht have fallen-into decay and been done away with. But it rath Se eeews to methat with all those preseut-day Swanns buried there no such coul ¥ (over) Mis lines | +1208 A fe PP ett RMP PTE oda HIER Le” HAP take Betas tn BAH WAtnsL) ana GoRtE™ Petill, any from before the Revolution. I will complete the letter and then arce where I can call tomorrow and get for you, the name of the Rector which Aker said would have records. He lives at Hewesville(maybe I misspelled it) weervices at Trinity at 9 o'clock A.M. on every other Sunday and at 11 A.M. on Mundeys, We happened along on # Sunday when the service had deen held at 9. = ae inly would have snapped a picture of the place if the sun had been willing to only 8 few minutes. It is a very dark red brick with sall<stained glass windows, of tvy.around the bottom, tut the trim around the windows is in excellent re- iat elwaye beer painted. Oh, maybe I am wrong about those windows. ! think now jon, dark green shutters. And the front fence is a whiteghoards like eo many id Virginia estates have. Like this. (a $ Ps al little gate, each gatepost having a graceful ‘anal WT atop: _ $e it, : ‘ - het I fering if you might know whether that church at Loray and Center and Prospect Qitrchilegen Iredell County have kept records from away back. Who would have them and would any bel nd at Montreat? Ye det from Loray doesn't show the wife of Joweph Gibson. But his birth and death erect and that is our James and Martha and certainly our Hugh and Imcinda. |! : an pre proud to have discovered that Joseph had a marker, gsince he is a Revolutionary eoldi & you don't know how glad i am to have found Martha's resting place. I am glad ; Sbeon history told as much as ‘t did--I'll always be grateful--tut at times I Te i Grandpa if the poor dear were still alive, for telling wo little about the women MaEwBe family. “Ze said not « word about when or where Hannah and Martha were born And it seens strange, when that part of the history wae copied from a Bible, I rough a genealogist in Rowan County proof of legitimate marriage of these girls boon family and since I had a double check on everything else, it passed, But ® proving other lines, I still keep hoping I'l] find a little about those ear fe ut} seertain that you wouldn't. have missed Joseph's wife, since you came up with § she been there. ‘They had lived earlier in Rowan in a part of the county : d in Rowan after Iredell was cut off. And out history says they moved to b mround 1840. So, Joseph's wife might have been buried in Rowan, But if she pe. de that she had no stone, because the Rowan Co. DAR girls have done suck a gb of taking off tombstone records. Indeed, it was in « list of Rowan Co, come» MI located my Revolutionary Brawley and wife--Neil and Mary, in Center and Wm in line-~in Prospect, Many Iredell cemeteries, I fear, aren't copied off, : ge ‘ a 4 + we peference made to records of Corcord Presbytery and in a little mamscript history i Church which must once have been on Buffalo Creek in Rowan but is now in Cabar~ ation of Gallett's history of (I suppose Presbyterian Churches), I think he iy "Gillett's History, VYol.2." Anyhow, I could find no such at the Library of Maie wife of Joseph Gibson's was Hannah McRea in our history, but shown on the ond as Mary MeCree. And James Gibson's wife was Martha Edmiston, whose nother gugh. Xilloughs and McCreaé are mentioned in this story of Bethpage Church. But ss in Rowan Co last summer copying off like mad, ! can't fine anything to help @ girls. I'm certain the Killough girl who married an Edmiston fellow and who ‘parents of our Martha, mst have married either in Lancaster or Cunberland Co. oth have early families of those names, but try and find marriages in Pa, unless wr ¢uan Iutheran. So, if any of those churches have early records it might say these folk worshipped prior to their, coming to them. I want an Edmiston tery soldier and.certainly a Fleming, ‘The second Brawley bride was Nancy Fleming S two of her sisters married Freelands. But somehow I think maybe Iredell Co. was end Iredell hada fire in 1854 or thereabouts. So, church records would help. & a million. Youra, | a and was given this address: Rev. Joseph 0. Roberts Hughesville, Maryland. a It would seem that if your very early mente transferred to other parishes he might have euch records. And tee sbow they were buried from Trinity he can give you the items, but simply aren't in the churchyard, ‘ . me ve the address of the minister of another Trinity Church: Rev. Frank L. Moon St, Mary's City, Maryland. meen do farther trading. 1 have done very little research other than for Sitg moet of last sumer in that way. But as you can see, I an anxious#to wutionary Fleming-father of Nancy who married Neil Brawley in 1812; an ii- fer of Martha Who married James Gibeon--1 don't have the date handy; and ev @ would be the grandfather of Martha Bdmiston, This last mizht not be poe- S Marthe was some eight years older than her husband James Gibson. Also sould. earn were a Stewart, a Torrence an Bepy a Patton cone into the line. P because those nanes are used as middle names in the Braw! ey line. And we pnsylvenia notes showing those fauilies intermarried and sowe of then even inty Delaware. But there just. might be wills and transfers of property there iO. to prove some of them. Maybe sow of them didn't remain in Pennsyl- mong, i have been intending to continue here, thinking maybe through search- we T would one day discover somefody who mentions a wife or maybe sone cid te Seas payment would be made. but a great number of people of rom North Oerolina didn’t apply for pensions, and ir sone Lustances for v.s. a show nothing, Of course in the N.C.Roater, these are men- @ptrolléer’s office. But it was only the other day that I learned that im are here in the U.S.War records, afyway. 1 hadu'* *houzht so nerely parewley's record wasn't here. But a girl at the Pension Berem the other Me mo indication that many of the others who didn’t apply for a peueselion round. So, T have a list of Plemings and Bamistons to hunt up. Put the only the S.C. .toster was Semel, from Cabarrus Co(Mecktenicrz when. he fought) but mie will and he ien't 014 enough to ve the grandfather of our Martha. So, mayde wenie Eiliough belongs to her. Or maybe some such of that nahe mcved to sone and § OG around 1830. Still, hie service should be included in the roster ® from which: he fought, shouldn't it? The work is sc fascinating I want to pint and read for hours and hours, even though I realize I'm not furthering iene i have to constantly remind myself that I have a husband and an apartment B. Sow wish I could take the booke home! 1 think I'd read the colonial ore Warolina word for word, if I could. And the Pennsylvania end Mary land # are siaply. spellbinding, Gare ese eee eB : ar * thrilled to hear from.you and it won't take mch straighiening to oe Gibson cemetery dates, some of which are wrong. But I noticed when I day those names and dates I'd scripbled for you at Trinity, that one can Se because I wrote standing up and with no flat sur- ve even a tablet or notebook. Merely sheets of as still living in the 1870 census of Iredell, r 4 \ dat f. But I know it's our crowd and one day I'11 pre and take the pictures. Anyway, of Joseph's marker, Sincerely,