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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThomas Eaton Swann Papers, Johnson Congress of the Binited States House of Representatives manner cmt OFFICIAL BUSINESS = ee S a ag ae @ 7 a” a es ee oo , rei Melt) NDF oy JOHNSON HOUSE — This restored house that once bel ito seal probably could spin some exciting tales about the 1th ry president's life of intrigue, love, war and duels. ( AP Wirephoto). ed leigh tailor. few (Ae j I : “RAN mountable handicaps. He was AWAY from the Subscriber, on ‘‘a Democrat among Republi- the night of the 1th instant, two cans, a Southerner among apprentice boys, legally bound, Northerners, aprovinelalamong named WILLIAMand ANDREW sophisticates, and a spokesman | JOHNSON... .. They are much for the common man at a time of a height, about 5 feet 4 or 5 when business interests were in inches. The latter is very fleshy, the ascendency .” freckled face, light hair, and All these elements of incom- fair complexion.” The adver- patibility surfaced in @ funds- tisement, signed by James J, mental disagreement between Selby, tailor, described their Johnson and the Congress on the dress (“‘biue cloth coats, light question of how reconstruction colored homespun ¢oats, and should be carried out. He fa- new hats”) and offered a re- vored a speedy return to home ward of $10 “to aay person who rule for the South, while Con- will deliver said apprentices to gress was inclined toward puni- me in Raleigh, or I will give the tive and prolonged federal con- above Reward for Andrew John- tro), ; Th 1826, at the age of 18, John- si jook Wie talloe's skill to oe elected alderman in 1829, thus tinued, threats of impeachment launching a political career as were heard.as early as 1866-and “spokesman of the people.” He became 4 reality in 1868, went on to serve as mayor, state Though sustained in office by a represehtative and senator, single vote, Johnson remained @ United States congressman, president without power and a governor, and United States politician without s party. He ~ tain ia¢ not yet fallen. The city _ was &/@ blaze of excitement and rage. Then at senator. During the secession crisis he made ringing speeches ‘in behalf of the Union, ‘‘the last s hope of human freedom,’’ that in Raleigh to the both Andrew and ¢ trother William to a Ra- "astounded ‘his Southern com- patriots with whom, up to that time, he had stood cor.sistently on sectional issues, even to the ‘supporting Brecken- the crisis, and with of Tennessee under fed- eral control, Lincoln asked him to serve as the state’s military departed Washington March 4, 1869, to spend the next six years in search of political vindica. public office came with election - , to the United States Senate in January of 1875. However, he a had only six months to live at this point and died on July $1, 5 is buried in Greenville, — ges she ype oe veit recogn e fies Union toes and named William C. Bullitt as o first ambassador to that betl <a d KATE F. MAVER ae 4617 RENO ROAD, N. w. WASHINGTON 6, D. Cc. January 50, 1961 Mrs. T. E. Swann, ae Route 1, Box 147, Statesville, Nofth Carolina. Dear Mr. Swann: Your letter of January 27, 1961 relative to the genealogy of Baggerly, Summers, and Gaither families has been received and I am glad to hear from you. I have not done any more research on the Baggerly, and Summers families since that time. There were Gaither families living in Montgomery County, Maryland, just north of Washington,D.C., in the early days and I believe there ere still families of that name there. Gaithersburg is a lovely little town in that county at the present time. : , I made a hurried check in one of the books in my own library and found the following; - Montgomery County Marriages; Greenbury Gaither and Ann-Andison, Ap. 15,1779 Nicholas.Gaither and Eleanor Greenfield, Oct. 26, 1779. (From, Maryland Records ,Vol. 1,by G. M. Brumbaugh ) I have not heard from the client for whom I was doing this research for sometime, and do not know if she wants any more searching done, Will try to find out. The 1790 census of Montgomery County,Md., lists the following named "Gaither;"- Beale, Benjamin, Daniel, Gerrard, Greenbury, Henry, Johns, Martha, and Samuel. All heads of families. If I come across any more information re- garding the Gaither family of Montgomery County, I will be glad to send it to you. There seems to have been quite a migration from this county to your part of North Carolina, after the American Revolution. Some went up to western ‘New York State. . Thanking you for sending me the information regarding the Baggerly and Summers family, I am, Yours. truly, (eos Miele Rlicere FY 7 T As "hee 2 XL? Y 1 FAPR~ ~~ &. © - f © as re {J- (29.5~ Bin Cb. : Mee & Leaf J. Paige 4 } Ptlan Pox 2 ae t< yond Sat He: ad Dear Mr. Swann, eral of your letters ‘wnanswered some new diate a t She lives in ful children. pend to you when my step-mother be y about 46 miles from here, and she } gon and daughter, both married, live in } but the son aid treatments for malignancy at Andersons and he and his 7 husband, where ¢ - -check-up. | when she had a @ Pur ed us to meet ¢ since then and w about noon, just the report his br to find et ae yerson, and 60 f in the hospital, and for the first time in her See, the trouble. 4thout the ‘er the circumstances, I can hardly concentrate ‘on. these i fe were carried back to Houston by hi they met another sister, and he was to ge Btep-mother, Ella, lives alone and tha rere gall-bladder attack. nets ambulance in Merlin, so that is aan ne hil last night. Her three children arri ‘@s another son in Kansas called his mott oO” rm other had in Houston. It was quite 4 pri to hin, “ae a ay » 75, but she is very slender and active and looks 65. goda and kind to us and to Daddy | eka told us last night that she had lar ioe : Think ghe will try to live. out They family lines : om write anything intelligent. “It seems I } _the letter, wy MIN JOHNSON SON (1743-1811). e t told you that we made another flying trip te he mt you a note or two, but must not hay Mi is completely blank, One note I ‘ried RACHEL SUMMERS; they had a ¢ }m. 1770 to ARTHUR THOS. TAUL. | “patriot, and member of the Committee of Observat : re where he was born; he died in spans nie a was nar -yisitors yesterday afternoon, and could noni this, so perha for you. One cd . but do not t @utline the H Seems the Bethel Homecor Jas. M. 20 LO€ (1805-T849) § buried at Ht identify San were par pryener my head is clearer now, and I can copy the o tried to sort the Howards according aye the breather ers and sisters stra igt ge was @ Ja Ss aa Sarah Prather who m. ) n Howard. Then Wm. Howard ‘as ides “dm. ond James..Johnson.(1770-1644).-an m. E © and it was hey ope (Presheny so Tabitha 0, wab From here on, I | ne the picture? Sh that “Mrs. Godbel Sarah or. merece . Pisa poe 3 was b. 1817 after William's eath + was a half-sister to Alvin oy : . and end husband , Jas, J OF ies really believed in staying 1 married, = 4 ss thaialinidais ft ti tee) . 4 Today, I think I remember/*where I connected SWANN with John- son. That statement of §. Reaton/and Johnson - 1853, had quite a nun- ber of names including Iza na also SWANN. I am guessing that they were accounts of people who had credit with the firm, and that this could have beén a yearly statement. The Census record 1850 on Gaithers, seems rather useless to you and not of much value to me, but I thought eventually, some of the names might give us a clue. On the R,M. Johnson Census, I omitted - "Amelia 26, b. N.C. " as the wife of Richard M. The next name was -_, " A.B.F. Gaither, wife Tabitha 0° Do you suppose this Tabitha Cc, is AGua the-TabitheA,, sister-of-Rtehard M. ané-that-ehe-m. A.B.F. Gaither, t maybe a bro. of Amelia Gaither? They also had SARAH JOHNSON age 75 in their home, and this Sarah could be Asa Johnson's wife - he died 1845 and this was 1850 Census. They also had two Godley children, probably orphans ages 7 and 3. Druscilla Gaither is listed with a Godley child — age 10. The Lebetious Gaither Census puzzles me also. All these were listed together, and all of them must have lived under one roof or on the same farm or business. Lebetious seems to be the father with daus. Cornelia, Uphremia, and Sarah M. Rebecca d. could be his eldest dau,, who m, N.D, Tomlin(son) with their 6 children - Perry Tomlin(son) being the eldest - and Lazenby and Gibson, laborers. Lebetious could be the father-of—my-Amelia.gGettner. I wonder! Asa Johnson had two daus., Eliz. and Lydia to m. Tomlinsons. All of them must have been related. However, in the Mo. Census for my James Patton, Jas. had a saddle and leather business, and all the people working for him were listed. Johnson was probably the correct spelling, without the T - I believe you accept John D. Johnson as correct, and Richard M. wrote his signature * Johnson “- so fom the present, I will use JOHNSON. We know by this time that all scribes spelled the names on. legal docu- ca suit themselves, and this has caused a lot of trouble in re- search. . I happen to be Presbyterian, and the old Church Session Books are often sent to Montreat, N.C. Archives. Where do the Baptists keep their records? It is possible that we could have John and Anna traced since you know they left the New Hope Baptist Church in 1826. Will ask our Baptist friends if this is possible. A few years ago I had access to the book " Tenn. Cousins " and I tried to copy all of the Johnson data I could find. I checked this data and found John F. and John B. Johnson. There are so many Johnsons, and I was not at that time looking for Swanns, so I did not record names except the ones who could be connected. Will check this book agein for John Dent,’when I can get & copy. Hardly know what to do next. Probably should write for some of the pension records for Benjamin Johnson. They often give the full family history. If you have any ideas, let me lmow. | Thank you ever so much for the data from the wills of both Benjamins and Asa. Will let you know what develops. Sincerely yours, >) a DT, J PM f é in’ if fom Ks 7 eee #e cd LOM DOPE A YF to ee ees probably sensseaniiidanaaaamai the. same — F vow: was erandnother of Ann Lavelsne. Who was on of siiostone and their related lines has grown to £ ‘that I am getting lost. I have saved every bit of in- er sent to me. I try to fit it in, but often there is annot make the connection. The duplication of names t is, there are so many ‘of the same name that I me ; one is which. " am etill 2 vee to get all @lated lines and all. Most peop on their erd ell the rest. To me, it is too valuable to dis- Keep 18 connection. . In most cases, I know more y than I about my own direct line. e Oallaways ex te + taelene just as I have ahs Gaithers. Usually, rn eternal lines. are so difficult to trace. go 7967 I an ou : — about.t mmsons,/ You may remember that I told you long ago that. wana neY, MEYgeret (Johnson) Patrick was a very re- ligious om and . oft ot wre her Sunday dinner on Saturday, etc. 1 do not know wher up these ideals. For some reason, I have always believed )were not the sober type, and I never saw any one of th Se seee. They were all dead before I was born. Then I _ found that ny gr.grandfather Richard M. Johnson had @ distillers 11- _ gense with Lo B. His niece admitted that she always heard that the Johnsons kept @ decanter on the mantel. This Amel la Johnson was a de- yout member of the Christian church, and she wer a. believe that her grandfather distillers’ license to make and sell Liquor. There -is } doubt in my mind that the tollabens gould not drink and live at @ with the rest of the world. I know of certain incidences. I was to “@ classmate at Baylor, that her great-uncles (Pattons, not related ° e) and my Johnson great-uncles had a terrible fight at one “time, and> ‘they all had been drinking. Mother's own brother would get on a dri “spree for weeks and lock himself in a room, Then he,did not ind . for a year or so, My own brother cannot drink -*he cad ad. I saw him in that condition once, This must have : situation that confronted the James Johneon who married Sarah Howard,” It ie odd how certain undesirable traits descend from one generation to another, What is it - that the sins of our fathers descend even gnto the seventh generation? ting late and I cannot think any longer. If time permits I will t ; @ll the later data you sent into place. If I could only ya copy of everything as I have connected it, and send it to you for comment and correction, It ie quite a book and a prized one at that. Waee is building @ new half-million dollar library, and I hope I live Teng” to get all thie compiled into one volume, for the Geneslogigal section, that is, one copy. } to both of you. Sincerely, MEP ore L 5 : eh, ale taal r ry : co 4 ee Be ped i ese ac ll: Re , ais lta ae ; . r pho. a: ; PPh . Cee wants hy. ttf "a ol J, Ey Pte f aecped dian Mh bs eh ros of he p tuple, foamed, lathacrnegs PYG AI >> Eo bo es es SOF By et pane La. hale i wy A. ak og eed ID) Aa telihes . y tnd! Made ert —_ = NO a Led, Hig baa as rw OL ae pie matte dedege Foe tpnmnttheng | re $F = ee rete Seats se, tomes Bataan? ES — ni acere 10797 Reb. 15, 1815 ae a . a aap atone = ht a, oe Mad my mae 7 Ae os a Code whe Ae. ; “7 teclleds Sheath eo: ae Sead a yen le y vied Sc cae Se Beyer Z. 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Watts, better known as | ‘Billy Watts,’ died at his home | two miles south of town Tues- | } day morning, aged about 65 | years. He was for many years a | deputy under ex-Sheriff Wasson | | and managed his office. The job j | Of whipping convicted felons at | | the whipping post in old times | | Was générally assigned to him | | and he set much store by it.” | | “Mr. John | F. Harbin, the | leader of the Statesville Cornet and cornetist of the Me- | thodist choir, is a very. accom- plished musician. He is very} of the science of musie | } and certainly has a rare under. | i Standing of it.”’ | @ LEGAL NoTICE e cae ce ents weg tn ~&@ e evetes ; Lbll o> ~The Fie Dre erny | enn ¢ } Viethen T ecb, 5 o 7 seks ef vee ii. jx ret An, Aas ¢ 6 SOE. Jot... q. Tek. D as Gey fink ry Sencha 2 se pil! Mm me i C e ; ’ _ a Atel caitlin sitet get. ee tare Qa Giniekus Brn yRe Lathe. Wer dew. an fw ye. Ley Sal tenil “ A AB tees Wt / Jeter a . gots a c ee 4 £ e. ch m4 Mes Ctem wa : mil pee ‘ “Binet . bee sakes Pee ahe+ £. of ze a? etl be Pil nd: h. dente, ae, 4 & nesta he of 32 de eee PAA HA fa fe : Mr. J. E, Broyhill, IndustriaHst and Nation- al Republitan Com#iiitteeman: “I am confident that Walter Johnson will represént the Ninth District, of North Carolina in Washington with honor and dis- tinction. The Congress of the United States needs men of his character and integrity.” Sheriff P. E. Brown, Wilkesboro, member of the State Board of Elections: “Since Walter Johnson grew up in Wilkes County, | have known him, man and boy, all of his life. I am proud to recommend him to the people as the type of man, I believe, we most need in Federal Government.” PF BPE PB BBP PPP PPL PIPPI IDI PII IEE CBB LLLP LLL LOL LLP LL LLLP A “South: Yadkin WMUTo. Meet South Yadkin Baptist sin © bagi ot 5:4 pie “se R. C, Johnson will be the missionary speaker for the afternoon session. Johnson is a retired parole officer working | under the Home Mission Board in ‘the area of juvenile” rehabilitation. He is currently. working with the local atsocia- tion in youth and. family counseling services. — A covered dish supper will be held at 6:30 p.m. followed by a 7:30 p.m. session with WMU & <4 bn SU ; Dé cups e.7 f-- Job Per ae Joa a ¥ Q $2 ws 2. fre (a Tv ~~ . e) = eek jf 5 f “~~. Ja { i -- > “rer Pa. wf ¢ Mh. “ re... Sy 4, Oat fF me aR. . 4 3 : ee Winans 2 ot ha IR TS ‘. ae Kay if Si foam . : Dram DW . | Qunaen C piece piethiw mse eben: Rowan, “ry aw Dawe We aftey 1 fale fen i ; WB on Gu NH Si. 4 Ye Aen NN os Qqe~ee fr, a8 Ge oe {ath YB see — Ra as NGL hth }} F WIV). ape pice Jou, ee. Wt JUG le BU $ Qe te +e a Deh . ort Vaure wed Monday Dear Mr, Swann, You certainly must have found the fountain of youth! I am go happy that you are feeling so much bétter, I copied the papers for you, and I, also, found a Paper that I had typed for you almost a year ago. For some reason I never got it mailed, I know that I had typed it for you. for ] have you name On it, , s 5 Can you tell me where the Church mention in the following deed waby “A located? . "This indenture Witnesseth that we Thomas W, ) Johnson and Mary Johnen, his wife of the County of Iredell) and Sts N. C. for the Sum of Hight dollars and the 800d will and res the Methodist Episcopa] Church do bargain sell Give etc unt 1G Holcomb, John N. Nealcomb, Se F. Johnson and A. 2 Camobell Trustees of a certain piece of land upon which to erect a house of divine worship for the Meth. E. Church in seid c, of fPOGG1)......4 . on the waters of dunting (?) cree% -++-+-Bounded by Josiah Cowles and B. Mullis. Containing 2 acres. A. B. 1870 (no day or mo, Thomas W. Johnson and Mary V. Johnson me in probate court June 8, 1&1 5 July 1871 Mary V Johnson appeared before Probate court to tell that above actionWwas without coercion. Reg. Sept. 25; 4871. \ 4 > i It is about time for the mail, so ['q@ better get this to the box. held Mrs. Swann hello’for me. ames ofertas, Zorg? emusteh« , Par A pos tT a frhrseries mabe ps” Fd ahet-7 eG LA Laas Sepp tri : , ae a One F. ae A : ee Y 2 CA oe TPH, ia Week (Dana} | TA ihe 1h ae de Filer. 2 ane % | , t Lieve og ae neta: a hee teg , iv eo “wey ade pkertecn vk v aerclad at May. . v at , Cote ratar! | : : hid a Fog. 4 Senet Mie Lilet ee! | Ag WH phay % ana / x aes ftir os A Vine | Pieri! aclged. 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BIBLICAL RECORDER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, THE AMERICAN POETS By MARY LYNCH JOHNSON, Associate Professor of English, Meredith Colle Vv. is so much that is of passing interest, but that The | old chaise OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES there is so much that-is of permanent Valu (1800-1804) - edge.the transient nature of ym indeed- he has done so in the tle he : portion of it, Rhymes of an Hour. Apollo was god medicine and poetry, for sev- ov : : é : : wrote with his eye less fixed on poste! eral well K n ; ser known persons trond , 1 : i Oliver Wendell. Holmes His last s¢ have achieved si , medicine and in, litera account ol It is perhaps 5 Scant that in Greek mythology ture Each is ea n ess; hene@ one or . : .' : : ee Days in Europe, |} ie gestive ites sir William the other usu ‘ minate Sit : 2 g : ee toward his verse, also seTy | Osler was primarily a docto though medical men o our summer -experiences is a souret and laymen can testify to the excels nee of his » fri ; : a to many friends, and of pail writing. John Keats compiet d his training in ih ; will prove to be the fact, I hope I ne surgery before he gave Iteup for poetry, and on : d j 4 gret giving to the pubiie pa whicl the publication of Endymion, ar viewer in Black- ; ao , : : : s more especially tor read yho hay wood's Magazine eat d-a contemptuous Preview of : , : : : : interest in the writer So h VOTSE Keat’'s poetry thus: So back to Ute shop, Mr: . i : - largely for ! friends We today fe John. back to plasters, pills, a id ointment boxes. : ; : ee too. are his friends as we read his verse Sir Thomas Browne combined m dicine and jlitera- : oe : ing it we come to know and love tne ture more evenly than ¢ her of the aforemen- ee oe . sonality, the whimsical charm, ana tioned men. Such is tt with Oliver Wendell : S - \ : keen humor of Holmes a ae a i Holmes, who is so Well } wn to us as @& man ol : : a inimitable breakfast tal tall letters that we are inclined to forget his illustri T) iat it most casual readel I ous medical career. His atta ment as.a physician : cy Set : " pny : humor:of his verse, a ; : I humor that i is attested to by his Medical essays, and by the - s ; * clever . characterizations, whimsical fact that he was for thirty-tve years the Park : : j , : : : : phrases, and unexpected association man Professor of Anatom) and Physiology Im tne thay a well. known. poem, The Last Leaf, + In e 1 University nedical scho of Har 1 i ; medical school ; H equalled by lis description As a man of letter ; ist known for the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and its su¢ 1 i. snatch of whi cessors, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, and + aunt! way 4 shad . " : : iy aunt. \ wor deiuded au The Poet at the Breakfast Table, — each of which Fitor | ie : ‘ lair 18 aim t gray abounds in sount wii oph sparkling wit, aud ¢ oe I : . ; Aes) Why will she train. that nite! human interest, all permeal by the genial pel f oe In such a spring {olme ho is in turn sonality of Oliv Wendell H¢ : ; How can she lay, her glas 3 d je of Holmes W i And autocrat, professor, and pi Thus it is only a small si ic » ore neerned wl nH Wwe : ley ima re : which we are con rned when we eonsid r hin Gfnnn. thigue’ 6 double con a poet; the titles indicates his least cra say she read AS We She just makes out 1 nell? The reader must Wot ju i Holme genit i} gether by is vers to do so would Be uniair ‘ . ees toge ther bi his V : Evening, a dest ription of sun to his literary tame. = © of h® poemy .™ see it reminds the reader somewnat «| casional verse He wroti Dp a? ae eee” i Caliban Upon Setebos, for the tail of various societies—the Hlarvard # imni ASSO the universe iti terms of his trade a ciation, Phi Beta Kapt the Boston Mercantile Library Association the New York Mercantile Library Association, the Berkshil grt Hay hath put on Hila savket, and around Society, the American Medical Association, the His burtitng hosom buttoned it with Massachusetts Medical Society, the New York tere will 1 lay me on the velvet grass, rprets his deity in terms 061 ‘ Agricultural Holmes himself would be the first to acknowl \ a trip with his daughter, Our Hum »dical Society, the National Sanitary ssociation, cat ; : Medical Society. the - - | A “ A = . . That is like the padd.ng to ea h meag » Bos ric-a-Brié ‘lub, the rns © , the the Boston Bric-a-Brat lu h u ub And hold cor..™nigaies i the thin ad \? New England Society, the Philological Cirnpte Florence, the Great Assen yi the Con rea That binds -the ene tional Church, and the Roston Young Men’s Chri The tl lina 4 : fe : re thin leave quivering ¢ t} tiax Union. The number of occasion on which, he Do mal y lien . O MaKe a tli Cc J1K€ ri } wrote poems for the different organizations varies ce the HEht breezes smooth their from one to five. He wrote poems ane toasts to be given at numero linners, one given f ’ . rhe very title of Rip Van Winkle M.D. by: the. y« men of Boston, one 4) ‘ \ Charles Dickens to a French ambassado and to a German, . idinner of th dinners given at the Russian & he Japan he delicious bit tj ese Embass: id the Chit Em bass is verses e Embassy, and th h Embassy. His verst ed. coming from so eminent a d were in demand at birthed dinners given for line. description = ' i i pt ‘ i ) Ot Spe ' ave -agnt Thitt ) } ' a 7 ; Grant, Farragut, Whittier, bryant, Lowell, Long name is more unforgettable 4 fellow,, and many other: Hie wrote poems {ot worked out facts of scientist the openings of churches yols, theatres, and fairs He wrote prologues and epllogues, album Ten million cubi verses, funeral hymns, al ngs for golden wed- Ten billion leagu dings, with poems Tor other ocea ions too numet ous to mention. He was th perpetual poet of the Few. of us there ¢ at ljarvar class sf 2829 j his olleeted erse ‘ : Harvard cli Or Fee In | coll x Deacon's. Masterpicce, there are forty-three poems <\ ritten for the an nual class reunions So constant was his reap i wennd pearance .as reunion poet that in 1860, at the That i : built in sueh a thirty-first class reunt began his poem It ran hundred years I’m ashamed,—-that’s the tact, it a pititful So marvelously was it built that Case, wear out before al otl . Won't any kind classmate get up In M) place? Just remem De how often I've ris before, Colts grew horses, beards turned I blush as I stra: 1 my legs on the floor Deacon and d ontress dropped ( ] n | ; ly A poet wl eave of himself so unstintedly at But there st ; the constant demand ol a sl dily increasing circle As fresh as on Lis) eart of friends and admirers V onid of necessity pro- duce a great deal that is not ol the highest rank \t the exact e to a day. ¢ of poetry A muse so accommodatin must per the parson ¥ T force 1% 1tS pa t t yaa rait o© mel fifth wh it cannot often soar amo! the immortais Or casional verse the most transitory of all kind First a shiver, and then a th of verse: in a few years or a [eV months it is The omethit decidedly ke ni as flat, stale, and unprcoftabie last year’s new And the .parso as sitting upo paper. When the event which gave it birth ceases At half past nine by the mes ca kk to be a matter of commen the poem ‘usually Just the how the. Harthquaki ceases to be of value Hi we the wonder is not & What do you t nk tl pal j that in the large vol ind of Holmes’ poetry there When he Yt up and stared at a WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY invite friends who may be visiting in Washington to worship with us and participate in our fellowship and rejoicing.” A program of large in- formation and far-reaching import- anee has been prepared by the ehurch, and those who are able to attend these services will be greatly benefited. .... Pastor S. L. Morgan reports an auspicious beginning of his work at Lillington, Caraleigh and Samaria. He serves these churches still resid- ing in Raleigh. 2c. Professor... i. - &. Southwestern Seminary, Hill, Texas, writes that the music in the B. Y/ P. U. Convention At- lanta, January\12-14, was of the high- est order. E. Powell Lee, well known in North Carolina, had charge of the mesic at this convention. .... The work at Marshalliburg and at Atlantic is‘making good prog- ress. Last May a young man, Ralph Nelson, was baptized into the Mar shaliburg Church. He is now super- intendent of the Sunday-school and the work is prospcring in his hands, Congratulations to Pastor-Lineberger “and his good people. Reynolds, Seminary ....d. W. Morgan, formerly pastor of Weldon and Henderson First Chirch, has accepted a call to the Maysville-Trenton field and began his work February ist. He will live at Maysville. He returns to us- from Orange, Virginia. We are glad to have Brother Morgan back in North Carolina. -....Dr. Joseph L. Peacock a few months ago tendered his resignation ay president of Shaw University, Ral- eigh, North Carolina, after eleven and a half years of unusually faithful and successful service. apie and the late Mrs. Peacock had made a warm place for themselves in the hearts of the people of Raleigh and generally throughout the State. Dr. Peacock has just accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the First Church, Tarboro, North Carolina. Dr. Pea- eock’s wide experience in pastoral work in the North and his fine train- ing at Brown University, from which he was graduated, Harvard, from which he received his master of arts, and Newton Theological Institution from which he received his. degree in theology, make him one of the outstanding ministers of North Caro lina. Aside from the usual degrees received on graduation, he has the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from both Brown and Colby, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa from Brown.— Watchman-Examiner. .... Brother W. C. Meadows, of Pores Knob, was provoked to write a note to the Recorder on seeing the article by Editor J. J. James written in 1856. Brother Meadows says he was reading the Recorder at that time. ‘“‘My father was a subscriber and I was eleven years old. I have been reading the Recorder for seventy-six years. I was in the army and missed several copies during the Civil War. - Tf reached home in June, 1865, and found a ‘depression’ which makes the present depression look like a ripple. Everything-was gone in the South except thé manhood and womanhood of the people who had lived through the struggle. I began to till the soil. A little later I mar- ried and after a small family was gathered about me I felt as Paul said *Woe is me if I preach not the”Gos- pel.” We took the public school teacher to board and I got her to teach me. In my weakness I have been preaching for fifty-eight years. Through these years-I have greatly enjoyed the Recorder. I am in my eighty-seventh year. All praise to the gracious, Heavenly Father.”’ God hath anointed us with holy oil To wrestle, not to reign. —Mrs. Browning. Page 3 JUDGE THOMAS M. PITTMAN Who died February 8 at his home in i enderson. See editorial tribute on page seven, SEND THE EMERGENCY ING AT ONCE! We would remind all those who wish to share with us in caring for the Convention bonds due in New Orleans March 1, that all funds must be in hand not later than February 24. This gives us Sunday the 2ist to present the matter to the churches and finish the offering. We trust that everyone who loves the Lord Jesus and the work of the Baptist State Conventiea-. will make some offering, large or small, to help discharge this bend payment now due, and thus aid, to this extent, in freeing the Convention from this bur- den of debt that now crushes it, Send all funds to Miss Margie Murchison, Recorder Building, Ral- eigh, N.C. CHARLES F. MADDRY, MISS CONSTANCE MIDKIFF, PRESIDENT CAMPBELL COL- LEGE ALUMNI ASSOCTA- CIATION WRITES ‘‘T have reeently learned that there is some criticism of Dr. J. A. Camp- bell for allowing a campaign for funds for Campbell. College to be launched in the face of the Baptist Campaign now in progress.: ‘In re- gard to this I wish to state very specifically that Dr. Campbell is not the originator_of the plan. He knew nothing about it until it was on; and if there is any just criticism to offer, it should be directed to the alumni not toward Dr. Campbell. We feel very strongly that instead of criticism there should be a chorus of our campaign slogan ‘Seventy Thousand Dollars for Seventy Years of Service” sung by every North Caro- lina Baptist; for his service to his denomination as a Baptist has been equally as telling as his struggle to help the boys and girls of our State. The alumni of Campbell College believe in its president and their school so earnestly that we have gone out in this year of depression to raise an endowment fund of $70,000.00, and we believe we'll get it without depriving the Baptist Campaign of one penny.”’ OFFER- Aut MODERN LIFE AND RELIGION Men complex lites teday com pared with our forefathers their is constant reversion to type live Our neces sities there wert luxuries And vet Men enjoy now as pleasures what has been discarded by other generations. .My children would rather ride on a colored servant's wagon than in their father’s automobile. Fishing is one of my {Hts times from Bk, We hold and Jesus this called his disciples pleasure to do his great revival meetings but. the crowds do net come as they. user eome Hlave the prenchers lost the old ime thre has the church lost his and ferver at average rember thusiasm ? religious en Hardened sinners are hard under the influence of meeting to get any re vival Business men many of play golf on them bisiness degls on Sunday their Some ania tritnsact big Sunday. still ge to church hetore they do these things feel it have right been to is fall to do them afte: church, TL wonder if they will not gradually become more and more they business and Tess aud interested in church religion until religion will finally out in the struggle? Two rivers run together one is muddy and the other clear Which winS out in less and louse the race down the blended stream ? We say we have why? If business depression and business is poor surely we can do it in the six days given for work and rest and worship the seventh Men say they play golf on for They v out have rest quiet, when Sunday their tired nerves, where int to be they well just can and watch they plas a poor game or make a poor drive. and listen to the steam pop off them The nerves get rattled and the temper and tongue sound like a mountain Wild) engine railroad loose on a Truth is just what they want to, and what they men do prefer to do regardless of what it and of the consequences is If our genera tion wanted to be Christians they east be the history But if they heathen they cain likewise be the worst heathen in all history. best Christinns in all want to be Bridge has taken the place of mother attached to Sunday volf and : ing among many en many men of ». ied , cour here und field near by you might such criticism but now man stand by Without your A prophet is not hone. save in his own country Philosophers have great reputations and a great following amongst they talk walk in rings and place the sons of men yet Circles and wind up at the same while religion, « the The the mes out at God. JT like read it all the way But I know as where Il came from and when I started as I finished reading it- Fact is if I had a litle religion and Jesu Tr would vet in dark, te statement from Jesu ry; I might bave life and that they might have it abundantly,” 2 specially Christian religion, is like a funnel mourner and sinner little end and he the big end in the starts in at finally city of philosophy and 1 Plato to about from Dewey much Where I am going when had hot had the have come that they more has given me more life and light and bope than all the aplile Ss philos and the philosophers in the world I want LIFE. And-] is able to give it wat to me and give it to me some one who some And VW ho doe = JESUS DOES one CANIPE A GOOD YEAR Southern Orleans The Baptist New during the paid all operating expenses ly $30,000 in free work turing 1,000 Hospital ih year 1931 did near paid all ma- bonds About and interest sick folk were giver About 0 of service days of*service these wert iests of free Southern Baptists The Hospital is becoming substantially fixed as a suceces nominational the pass. It is recognized by all national standardizing agencies Mort a Christian a part of Biven more sful de enterprise as years and over, it is fully ap proved, operated as The Bible is ricuiumM. BRISTOW, institution regular cur LOUIS J New Orleans Magistrate: ‘‘Now, tell ms: started the trouble.” Witness litely what “IT asked him quite was going to be and he answered, dunno; I s’pose it’s the the hearse.’ ''-—Ex. per buried, ike: gentleman in who sarcastic WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1932 “And is there nothing Before the change appears? Remember. all their gifts have fled With thos. yet unsaid. dissolving years,’ “Why, yes.”’ for memory would My fond paternal “I could not bear t I'll take my recall joys O leave them all girl—anq-—_} DOVES The Smiling ange] dropped his “Why this will The man would be .And be a father pen, never do: a boy again. 106." And so | laughed,-— my, laughter woke The household With its noise. And wrote my dream, whe; 1 morning broke. To please the Sray-haired hoys i All the poems of Holmes eX] belief in the beauty and joy @s unshaken when when he was twenty, perhaps lying this conviction Lord of all bx ing, Hymn. ress his abiding 8, a belief ighty-five More = g¢ Of livin the poet was , as Under- implicit {rust in the Whom he exalts j) \ Sun-Day was his Lord of all by ing! thr Thy glory flames fr sun and Centre and Soul of every } Yet to each lovipg heart h Such a belief we ted find in nnexpe, ad places, sueh as the wWhimsica] poem, What We All Think. That age was older once than now In spite of locks untims ly shed Or silvered on the youthful] That babes make |] Ove and children That but for this our souls were fre And but for that our lives Were blest That in some Season yet to he Our cares Will leave ys time ti ltherty and unshac [ mind Whene’er we groan with ache or pain Ehe & , Bape ther: ete Some Common ailment of the race. ni ad a : - ’ a Though doctors think the Matter plain. Life oe ne u ne on ane Sey That ours is a “Peculiar cage’ efably precious, holds bitt Fe. — fer:how well y may plan, this w Mevitah That when we sob o'er fancied wo, rom mi ous Hs atte) ed The angels, hovering overhead no Ahunderbolts; the green pay tree that sh Count every pitying drop that flows, the wicked never scems to uEnt; a life of : And tnvns us for the tears we shed ficial « ndeavou; Passes unrewarded d hiss, f the blossom in preference to m ce 2rhat when we stand With tearh : ase and loneliness and disittusionms ? n ¢ (And turn th beggar from our door ee ? ; . neh : They stil] approve us ‘when vw, igh eertal ri oe as eee “Ah, had I but one thousand more!” be ane versity and suffer In d os by day Chronicle of every mat lif vere writt Though temples crowd the . rumbled brink ie And every man a jo} ut Det O’erhanging truth's «+, rnal flow faith and tet tn can turn bane -into Their tablets bold with what we think. mg. § There is ho ‘suc MN thing as despaij if we bit Their echoes dumb to what we know; ee er Our heritag Mud it inv cess baggage. no cumbersoms army ho i That one unquestioned text y, read: weapons. In classrooms o1 Pulpit or hospita All doubt be yond, all fear above, clamorous err OF Ti th roe oan An Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Veldt-— anywhere on G d arth. our Can burn or blot jy GOD IS Isyyye: able to convince. us tht a Hob Our Baptist fathers left t © prineip ( The Chambered Nautilus. HP eanted in the Home| dom to us as ind viduals but they did not | Circle this week js Benerally recognized. as th the family asa y hole They cherished ‘ noblest utterance of Holmes, Written In 1851, lightened democracy ‘Or, just an u ht in the strength of his maturity. it hnds a worthy liberty becomes license, so unen ght d der echo in these lines, written in th. beduty of age. racy deteriorates into mobo, racy. The New 7 just one year before the poet’s death at eighty ment, which was thei Suide book, their tex five. taught not only thy Sacredness , t pe na I personal rights, byt universal broths rhood as If 'mid the gathering storms of doubt Civil -libe ry is implied, for ey, ry New Testa; Our hearts £row faint and cold. church is a little demo, raey Qe] Oa tikes The strength w: Cannot live without mandatory becau + hor Baptist ere Thy love will not Withheld creeds——there is an on, Bibl 1e1 Ina Bapti chure] r all are prie Our prayers accept: our « Ds for words of « Own late Dr. Mullins: Bay Our youthful zeal reney lieve in “the mpetency of the indi; Shape for us holie; ves to live and that is s t. het of d@moer t] | *% > And nobler Work to do other is-higher, 1 re Spee : NO political or religioy rmediars ! OUR BAPTIST HERITAGE 4 Baptist bows only before God.” TI we completely fre By Dr. Thurman D. _kitenj, I wish next t mind, you thit our Bay heritage is permeated with faith in the Diyi (Founders’ Da, add) Meredith Colle, Keb Our fathers heli. ved in the a ; ruary 5, 1932.) keystone oT ti or 3 nality } I ! In the kingdom of learning ou, Baptist fore- karded man first and foremost in immort fathers were prophets They ‘had ima INatiare Soul, They recognized the: progre Of the spirit Kenius: to their ke Hm eyes it wh Eranted ty seg from its. first Inchoate longings to its las riuy far down the years and visualize needs and pos- phant hymn o thist.-tol he hut 4 sibilities and meth ds. If they had used this God the go) { believed in Chy given bower for selfish en ls, living and dvit for finest ty] mMannood, as a mpi _the good of their own Clan, building their Wi teachey Ine & PNYSiclan, and jde { ! glorious air-castles and Durnishing thei, wh fam- but, More than that 48° God and Sayio : fly hame, where would Wwe be today? might truly ¢ BIBLICAL RECORDER be existing —w, could not be really theirs was a world it is because they Sacrificed and toiled Clearly, 4t is hea, OCAUSE We fand on th it we hay (raveled far, it j becau pioneers and as such blazed trai] i and thus Opened to. posterity Wimitab Ours are try asures which 7 ther mot hor thief nor Panic can endanger, Ye; a g00dly heritage! It is of this heritage that. I wish Is it not fitting that w. review ciples on Founders Day These prophet thre Intrepid pic idealists. Their jd Verities, and so it ‘ Was sane and serene men of vision but they were. not y is their chy rished idéals and principles dergird our Whole structure and not that the materia] workmen It ideals Was honest and they hot Urprising -t} and pring iples Baptists What ren are our greatest ¢ are some of them? MmVe LiVel Oi church and tate This is a try m In the Stati hd so they rende; unto t} things whic] belong to jt d render 1 Of the Sta Baptists: hay | that hd wa Will me n Butoun refat] kne Was no | 1 ) {V une} tes into wen 4 day ron IS not a -matter o islation tKOES ] ] | ld ft ith | Is al i that tea) iV the wrar hess and sho the p Vhither j h I Viewpoint If we kKalism was founded they j : i ; rieé } rory fh ] 4 hay pe ik i t} I} ) It wl } , nraste ] } re a q) id) Page 5 IT. I ON page 10) renee BLICAL RECORDER FOUNDED 1823, Ry THOMAS MEREDITH PUBLISHED EVEV.Y WEDNESDAY AT 121-128 -wEesr HARGETT STREBT. RALEIGH, N. C,, BY BIBLICAL RECORDER PUBLISHING Co. “(Organized 1901) i “Our Advertising Department is in charge of JACOBS & COMPANY, Clinton, 8. c.” J. &. FARMER... : Entered as second-class matter at the post. office at Raleigh, N. C, &., Texas. 2 North Bivd., RichMond, Va. 421 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, N. ¢ 729 Park Drive, N. E., Atlanta, Ga. - Samuelson 300 Coca C dg,, Kansas €ity, Mo. Franklin E. Wales 140 S. Dearborn St., Chieago, In. — SS PRINTED BY BYNUM PRINTING COMPANY SS —— ee , —_-- —= — ————S— Soe ALLIED FORCES IN NORTH CAROLINA A group of men and one woman, known as ‘The Flying Squadron” held four meetings last Thurs- day and Friday in the Hugh Morson High School Auditorium, Raleigh. These people are making & tour of the entire nation reviewing the steps leading up to and including the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. They begap their. work last September and will close the campaign early in June. The Speakers are Mi Norma C., Brown, Colonel Raymond Robbins, Dr, Ira Landreth, Hon, Oliver’ W. Stewart, and Dr. Daniel A. Polimg. A thousand or more people heard them in Raleigh. They are touching somie ten or twelve important centers in North Carolina. In their defense of the Eighteenth Amendment they are doing nothing short of defending the right of the people of America to live under an orderly government. If these people are correctly informed, and al! thoughtful people, wet and dry, Must believe that they are, the wets havé an utterly hopeless task in their effort to, re : ~ Bighteentn? Amefflment. The 4 mendm Fatified by torty-six of the fort y-@ighg «: the American Union. ’ If the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League, the ~~. 7. o. other temperance organizations, law enforcement officers of the State, and Christian men and women will take up the work where “The Flying Squadron” have left off and presg the mint- ter in all legitimate ways from now Until next June the wets in North Carolina wil] see that they are hoplessly i the minority. Law abiding peo- Ple have founded our government. Pepple who love their homes and their country have written the several amendments to the Constitution and they will demand the right to protect their homes and constituted government, that. the future of America may be secure. A plain word should be spoken and will be spoken to the’ different groups of people who put forth candidates for the suffrages of the Ameri- can people. The Overwhelming vote of the dry People in politica] parties, and the ever increasing independent vote of America will see to it that the Eighteenth Amendment and the Constitution of the American republic stand. Every reader of the Biblical Recorder and every man who laves hig home and country will do well to ponder the efforts that_are being made now by the German beer barons, the rum-runners, and allied liquor interests of the country and lend their influence to the support of the cause of sobriety in thig land. We serve notice that we wil] not knowingly Support any individual, or group who put selfish interests above the common weal of the people of America. As a rule green apples are not good for babies, -——J. B. Gambrell. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.— Psalm 37 :5, 7. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1982 THE CITADEL ASSAILED From severa] sources we learn that the condi- tion of many Baptist churches in the Northern States ig Perilous. The very citadel of their dis- tinctive Baptist tenets is being assailed: under sm. Years ago they began to depart from their former practice of “close” com- Munion in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, thus showing that they deemed even the unbap- tized worthy of their communion. Having thus surrendered the first line of the fortress of their faith the full Surrender of the citadel was natural if not inevitable. It is only logical that those who consider unbaptized Persons worthy of their com- munion in the Lord's Supper should also admit them to full membership Without baptism. Now this has happened and the eyi] ig 8rowing year by year. Many Northern Baptist churches are now Baptist ‘churches only in hame; they have com- glomerate memberships of every shade of ‘religt- ous belief, <A Baptist pastor of Vermont, writ- ing in the Baptist, boasts of his union church in which al] denominational lines are obliterated, Again, take the case of the Riverside Baptist Church, New York, of which Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick is paster During ‘the past two years it iS reported to have received by letter 693 mem bers, of whom 171 were Presbyterians, 116 Bap- tists, 116 Congregationalists, 110 Methodists, 35 Episeopalians, with smaller numbers of other faiths. Tt would he a matter of leas concern if the cases mentioned were exceptional, but are far from being so. they So serious is the situa- tion that the Watchman-Examiner of February 4 devotes its principal editorial The editor first mentions the argument made in favor of the “open church,” as follows: “If ® man does not recognize the Obligation to be baptized in order to become & member of a Baptist church, the church ought to respect his Personal liberty. He should be received and Siven all the privilege o tion of baptism shoud congtionce,”’ aev x several peragraphs to Rennes abitealin thie’ view, the edi- tor closes with these words: to its diseussion. Our great world’s task . as Baptists has hever been so challenging as itis now. We need freedom from internal strife. We have numbers, wealth, scholarship and prestige, And yet controversy on the subject: of bap- tism has been projected into our denomina- tional life by the yory people who have de- .clared controversy to be in every way hurtful. Weakness, wavering, compromise and sur- render are not Successful of Christian effort. Self-respect, loyalty to the New Testament, Steadfastness of purpose, and a great vision will lead us to victory, The advocacy of open church membership ig divisive and hurt- ful. It ig contrary to the very Christian unity that it seeks to bring to pass. Even among Baptists the rights of the majority are to be considered, THE LESSON oF HISTORY The sad condition of Baptist churches spoken of in the article above is not unprecedented. Our Baptist annals record just another such falling away from Baptist principles due to exactly the same and the disastrous results. The Baptists, first appearing in England in 1611 as a distinct religious &roup, by 1650 were the most numerous body of Dissenters jn the Kingdom. yY continued to grow for a quarter of a cen- tury, in spite of persecutions. But before 1690 one 8roup of them, known as Particular Baptists, had adopted & Presbyterian Confession of Faith and turned to a hyper-Calvinism that paralyzed their activities. The other sroup, the Genera] Baptists, had become liberal with about the same causes, kind of liberalism that is now troubling the Bap- tists of the North ;they were practising “open’’ communion in the celebration of the Lord's Sup- per, and had no distinctive Principles. The result was that they turned largely to religious vagaries like Unitarianism and almost al! their churches in a half century: had become extinct. They had come to believe almost everything or anything; they were indeed liberal, No wonder the Lord Spewed them out of His mouth. When He needed men to start the great Evangelical Revolution of the eighteenth century he did not find them among the Baptists with whom He had once intrusted His evangelical message to the English people, but He called John Wesley and George Whit- field; it was such converts of the Wesleyan re- Vival as Dan Taylor and Andrew Fuller that re- Vived the Baptist cause in Great Britain. Thig view of the cause of the disastrous decadence of the early English Baptists is Supported by per- haps the ablest writer of Baptist history, Dr. Henry C, Vedder, who in discussing the matter says: : “Baptist. growth has always been in proportion to the stanchness with which Baptist principles have been upheld and practised. So {¢ has ever been with all religious bodies. Nothing ig gained by smoothing off the edges of truth and toning down its colors, so that its contrast with error may be as slight as possible. On the contrary, let the edges remain a bit rough, let the colors be heightened, so that the world cannot DOpsibly mig- take the one for the other, and the prospect of the truth gaining acceptance ig sreatly increased, The history of every denomination teaches the same lesson: progress depends on loyalty to truth. Com- promise always means decay.’’ Br. Vedder continues the discussion by refer- ring to the resuit of the practice of “open” com- munion in England. His words are so true that what is just now & place in the Baptist churches of the North. He says “This change has been followed by its logical resulta result in. evitable wherever ‘open’ communion is adopted and given full Opportunity to work itself out iia p» rehes of mixed mem bership. In many of the 80-called Baptist churches of Eng- bership on equal terms with the baptized: they are chosen to Office, and even to the pastorate.” THE LESSON FOR SOUTHERN BAPTISTS Do Southern Baptists want to keep their churches true to the ideals of their Baptist fa- thers and the teachings of the New Testament? If they do they should wake up to the fact that the evils which, as we have Seen in the articles above, are assailing the churches of the North have already begun their insidious mining of the Baptist churches of the South. When our neighbor’s house is on fire it is well for us to look to our own. If the practice of “open” com munion was the first Step that led to mixed churches and decay of Baptist principles jn the North and in England we may be sure that its acceptance in the South wil] lead to the same things. itation to “all of like to remain for the Lord's Sup- if not faith and order,” per, but show by ing to the Supper only baptized believers. Say to any such that they are taking the surest Way to tear down the Baptist faith and check the srowth of our cause. History proves it. We ap. peal to every preacher to be true. And we ap- peal to our churches and every individual Bap- tist not to tolerate for a minute any departure from the historic Baptist usage. To do so is to /Mecbre xg Witsec és, “A. bee L liek, baak gape don ancsitt by a . Purl cairo << q ) GO red Cece [ov a gale a4 , Sy fle. pa 19 97 7) ( vcd ite > Cr+ ac 4H Ai / : _ at Zirir- & Z y ¥ ye / / tf ian Ed “‘ 3 x HISTORY HAS. NO surer his than GREENvVitLe WEN Hasas! hig z : : 3 :: 5 Hay ae ie ae anner. Liberty peril. or.im any m comes mere license, sp a grave nd _on it. A than that, no man has the ri ght being willl billty ‘which free » He often. 0 with at without take bat for. easy to see this in the often. r with bei Bu When that happens there ct ‘s thet freedom is otily obe | rights. ity Whoever the coin of 6. side is Hl : fe = eau The fa | side of creer pt - your nderful class- We broth- This vening. > event on Au- on Sep August . 2 oe ard Grant Thompson, on July 27. Angela Knight Johnson, '62, to Gary ' Winstttm Peterson, on September 4. Shirley Anne Koontz, '63, to Buxton Saunders Midyette, on August. 11. Edward Rudolph Lewis, Jr.. 58, to Hilda Graye Sutton, 62, om August 11.” Thomas Theron Long, III, 62, to San i David James Snider. “61. to Judith Ann Whitacre, on September 7. John Perry Teague, °58, to Rebecca Boling Chambers, on August 17 Dwight Davis Thompson, Jr., Sheran Ann Fulk, on August 10 Betty Marie West. ’52. to Joe Wesley Hatley, on July 13. Dr. Wingate Memory Johnson, 05, a physician who left a signi- ficant trail of acéomplishments and friends,- died Sept. 11 of a heart attack at North Carolina. Baptist Hospital. Member of one of North Caro lina’s most outstanding families, Dr. Johnson was one of the na- tion’s leading authorities on dis- eases of the aging and at 78 was one of the oldest practicing phy sicians in the state Many tributes to Dr. Johnson have appeared but perhaps the fol- lowing from the editorial page of the Winston-Salem Journal is most appropriate: “It may not be that Dr. Win gate Johnson's smile was any more kindly than many other men’s, his manner any more comforting, his optimism any less flagging. “Nor, possibly, was his practice of medicine any more skillful, his simple philosophy any Sounder, his wit any keener, his interests any more varied, his’ convictions. any stronger, his unselfishness any more genuine, or his pen any mightier. “But in the. more than 50 years during which Dr. Johnson lived and worked in this community, his special blend of all these qualities set him apart in a niche all his own—not only in the realms of He Left a Significant Trail medicine and medical writing but in the. larger sphere of human re lations “It was often said of Dr. John son that his patients began to feel better the minute he walked into the sickroom. And. it is humanity's gain if only a few of the many medical students who came under his guidance have learned from him this curative secret “But this is a gift that comes more from living than from learn ing. Dr. Johnson lived his 78 years believing that life has more sun shine than clouds, that it moves forward rather than backward, that its interests are limitless and that it behooves us all not only to make the most of the experience but to do so in sympathy, empathy and warmhearted friendship with others. “It was thts characteristic of Dr. Johnson that he went back to his office within months after his first heart attack, was planning to write a book, attended a medical meeting—and within hours of his death -Wednesday afternoon, was calling for his secretary to dictate some. letters. And it is equally characteristic of the special mark he made on this community that the loss of this gentle man is being felt. by so many so deeply and so personally.” nearer Cw IE eee» M7 2 pe £ Tce Ce E PIX: 5 Bel et ae eg, ‘£ Se rae ‘geal ind, [Soa Tian . cea ths cinoma 4 146 (52g dep-d dad 2, ae... iM [C.. Weg ale ad Pe ge 88 o~ | Rite. / Wilmington Zion Assn. 6 . yrs., and © / . Presently for rious churches ig and Wy oe Praric serves as chaplain for ihe Glyde. Kelly "Funeral Home, Dr. Wingate M. Johnson ’06 Ale — TERRY A. SAMUEL B. WILSON, Rt. 5, Winston- Salem. Minister 45 , yrs teacher 15 yrs. Served as pastor in eck C. 8S. C., and Ga Married to Fannie ley Children: E. E. Wilson, Mrs. W. 8, Fryar, Horace R. Wilson, Mrs. A. W. Gragg, Mrs. S. A. Winslow, Mrs. G. J. Miller, Mrs. A. S. Matthews, Mrs. R. E. Rettew. 1902 WILLIAM E. MIDDLETON, Farmer, Bapt.; Bachelor 1903 Averitt, Fayetteville. Recorder’s Court 1918-20. fland Co. Bd. of Education chairman 10 yrs. Member N. C. Educational Commission. Has taught school, Hone a good deal of surveying, and has been practicing law since 1903. Married to ornelia A. Culbreth, deceased 1935, now arried to Mrs, Maude Hicks Ferrell. One on, Franklin Murphy, A. B. WFC 1932 1904 OHN HOWARD CAMPEN, Whiteville. hitect. Spent 17 yrs. in public school work Erwin, Apex, Clinton, Raeford, and oll, S. C., ending up with high school Warsaw. HERSCHELL 8. Judge 1940. 1905 RUSH HAMRICK, Shelby dealer. Member of Bd. a WFC and of N, C. Bapt. Hos Wholesale of Trustees of . Has helped in ’ Gy raising of around two million dollars for Gardner-Webb College, and has also helped in the WFC building campaign. Married to Gordia Mae Grice. Children: C. Rush, Jr., and Cordon Grice. Bapt., Kiwanian, member Chamber of Commerce CLAUDIUS COOPER HOWARD, ville. Atty. Taught in Salemburg, and Fayetteville schools. Auditor Cumberland Co. Lawyer and land surveyor. Now Atty. for Cumberland Co. Married to Ruby Cullom Children: Ruth Howard Allred; Berta Howard Smith, Mary Howard Croom, Agnes Howard Dudley, C. C., Jr., Ruby Howard Eury, and Dora. Bapt Fayette- Bladenboro, 1906 HERBERT JENKINS, Has either been Supt. of Sunday teacher of Men's Bible Class for 38 yrs. Member of School Bd and .chairman for 25. Chairman Bertie Co Agricultural Conservation Assn. Married to Minnie Elizabeth Cox. Children: Herbert, Jr., and Elizabeth Jenkins Steimle. Member Ruritan Club, Bapt., Deacon. “I am quite happy in my farming activities and should you:come this way, whistle for me. WINGATE MEMORY JOHNSON, Bowman Gray Medical School, Winston-Salem. Physi- cian. Graduated Jefferson Medical School 1908. Private practice in Winston-Salem since 1910.. Editor N. C. Medical Journal since Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chief of Private Diagnostic Clinic, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, since 1941. Mar- ried to Undine frutrell. Children: Catherine and Livingston. Author of The True Physi- cian. The Modern Doctor of the Old School (Macmillan), and The Years After Fifty (Whittlesey House). Bapt., Civitan, American College of Physicians Aulander. Farmer school or continuously for 36 yrs 1907 “LYON, Fayetteville. Lawyer Has served as chairman Cumberland Co. Dem. Executive Com., Co. Atty., City Atty Delegate to Dem. Nat'l Convention 1916 and 1932; Elector at. large 1928. Division Counsel for Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co Served as Lt. Col. overseas in World War I, and as Col. in World War II as Ass't. JAG. Member of Bd. of Directors Carolina Tel and Tel. Co., and member of Bd. of Trustees N. C. State Teachers Coilege. Also Chairman of Bd. .of Trustees Highsmith Hosp., Inc Married to Pauline Horton. Children: Han- nah Richardson, Mrs. William G. Thomas Methodist. Member Highland Country Club, Bar Assns. OSCAR R. MANGUM, Th.D. Sou. Bapt. Seminary. Formerly pastor in Paris and Henderson, Ky., Liberty and Kansas City, Mo., Oxford and Lenoir, N. C. Author of The Lights and Shadows of Life, He Spoke to the Ages, and Paul’s Swan Song. Married to Lila Lee Griffeth. Retired June 30, 1948. Bapt. Rotarian J. L. WHITE, Oxford. Wholesale Drug Sundries and Notions. Past State Councilor, past Nat'l Representative ef Junior Order United American Merchanics. Married to Lanie Nutt. Children: Mrs. Elizabeth Bartha, J. L., Jr., Mitchell, William E., and Lt. Henry Lenoir. Minister GUEST EDITORIAL WHO HINDERS BAPTIST PROGRESS? & * KATE MATTHEWS RIVERTON R. T. BRYAN POST-WAR : ENCOURAGEMENT * W. R. CULLOM MY FIRST SERMON * R. PAUL CAUDILL neon OF A CHRISTIAN HOME * Se an act ture for improvement in this The vote was the senti- in favor of good the people vot- largest crowd ever the commencement exer- the Harmony high school this week and Perfect order was _ | Maintained throughout. The liter- _| aty address Tuesday wag Johnson aa 0 i . The } ess Was preceeded by orations | three of the graduates, namely » Harvey Renegar and Herman Baity. The last Named o- ation received the medal for the best’ oration. Statesville G turned gas into road in ee i | "a | + ittimeaiakiiv_.s.-._ =. s Charity and Meta He Meh born j in what now Seot-. August 29,1859. He:is a bon} penneo, He was. born ; g charch, a‘ that ‘sparkling, intelligent, intellectant equip WHEE the most widely quoted of any editor of a. weekly. jorth Carolina for many years. . Bias: 1882 he entered the mercantile business in Laurinburg, When he had been there about two years and a half he married Miss Flora ei | McNeill January 28, 1885. He remained in business in Lauritthurg about seven years, then returned to the old home and operated the farm. Yor about three years. Neither Business life nor farm life attracted the best in the young mati whose mind was rinning in other chann sy The -eall of the quill was sovhding’in his mind. He returned to Laurinburg ‘gad became editor of the Laurinburg Exchange. Here he remained from 18982 to 1894, Early in. 1895 he founded the Red Springs Citizen, From there he came in September, 1895, to Thomasville to become editor of Charity and Children, When he came to Thomasville the print shop was loeated in a little wooden building near the Dockery Spring. The engine which furnished the power for the press wasa (dilapidated old piece of juhk ta which the loving nickname of Old Betsy had been given some time before. Old. “Betsy did its best and the press groaned and labored to bring forth the” paper. The paper always managed to appear; sometimes a day or’ two _ late and sometimes with the appearance of having come up out of great tribulation—but it always came forth. Old Betsy was & wood burher } and. the press was one of the ancient of days which explains the remark made by Mr. Joseph Chaldwell of Charlotte that often Charity and Chik. dren looked like it had been printed on a cider press, But what appeared in the paper when it did come out made the folk ‘sit up and take notice, The cireulation was 2,200. It begah to climb steadily and as the neighbors who took it told the folk about it the cir- -eulation widened, Soon it found its way into many other states and » even into several foreign lands. There were several things which engaged the immediate attention of Oditervbeewaatebe field tepresentative for the orphanage as, well as editor, This he did with marvelous effectiveness. He could speak r as he could write, so as to make people hear and take notice, There was never a pessimistic note in anything he said or wrote, He was~a born optimist. If @ ripping storm blew out all of the windows in, the central ~ building and destroyed all the crops he saw in All its glory the golden glow of the sunset which followed and pictured the people of God com- ing to the rescue, He had an abiding trust in God his Father and in. “God’s Royalty” as he always called the Baptist people of North Carolina, Because he could preach as well as the best of the preachers the secu« lar press insisted on. calling him “Reverend”, This grated on his nerves 88 Much as anything could grate on the nerves of a born optimist: He Was preaching without a license. Since in certain other lines of business, men who operated that way, were known as blockaders, ‘the Charlotte * Observer announced to the world that henceforth Mr. Archibald Johnson ‘Should be kitown as a Blockade Preacher. It stuck and the editor became ~ known as the Blockade Preacher, But he had gotten rid of the “Rev- erend”, Another thing which he let the reading world know was that he was not looking for any “Dear Grandpa” contributions from the six year old darlings of the state. No man loved children better than he and when he and his good wife moved to Thomasville they brought along four as bright as were to be found on the earth: Mary, Gerald White, Kate and Lois, the eldest hot yet ten years oF age; and then Ella «ame to Bless the home Some time aften they moved to Thomasville. So the effort to keep out | the “Dear Grandpa” was not the result of any dislike for ebildren, He | loved every child who walked the earth. - (From the Histéry of Mills Home, by B, W. Spilman) 01 on im his Songs Merry and Sad and Lyrics From Cotton Land. Gerald W. Johnson, son of Archibald J. Ma and was formerly on the editorial staff of The Baltimore Sun. Devoting his full time to independent writing now, he has won national fame as 2 man of letters. His forte is biography, and among his subjects have been such historical figures as-Andrew Jack son, John Randolph, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He has written books on these men and others, and articles by him appear often in many of our leading magazines. : Riverton. has been exceedingly loyal to the — colleges of our State. Sixty or sev- enty persons among those who have lived regularly in the neighborhood, or summered there, claim cither Wake Forést or Meredith as alma mater. A number of other institu tions have been patronized, but to a lesser extent. A host of publie school teachers have gone out from the neighborhood during the years. One representative at present is Dan- fel W. Smith, principal of the high school at Wake Forest. Donald Whyte and Catharine Campbell que STORY of how this Scotch Baptist community came into being in the midst of the Presbyterian stronghold of the Cape Fear has its romantic beginnings in Scot- land, where young Donald Whyte, who was born in the Highlands in 1776, was con- verted while listening to the sermon of a gifted Baptist preacher, Daniel McArthur, and later became a preacher himself. Cath- arine Campbell, born at Rosneth, Scotland, on December 25, 1786, was also converted at this same meeting, it is said, and she fell in love with Donald Whyte. She was a relative of the Duke of Argyll, and leg- end has it that her family objected to her marriage to the young Highland preacher. But marry him she did, in 1806. From generation to generation the story has been handed down that Donald Whyte wanted to come as:a missionary to Amer- ica, but that Catharine. Although she de- fied her family to marry him, felt that to leave her beloved Scotland was more than she could bear. But Donald became ter- ribly ill, and hope for his life was almost lost. In his delirium he dreamed he was in America, and he described to Catharine “@ congregation to whom he was preaching. The young wife prayed earnestly for his recovery and vowed that if his life were spared, she would raise no further objection to going to America. Donald recovered, and he and Catharine sailed from Scotland in August, 1807, -and landed in Charleston, S. C., October 7, 1807. They went to Wilmington and later visited Seottish communities in Robeson and Rich- mond e¢ounties before Donald Whyte (or Daniel White, as he was more often called in this country) was called as pastor of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church, at Society Hill, S.C. It was there that he recognized the very congregation he hdd seen in his dream or vision during his illness in Scotland. He said he knew the faces of the people and even - recognized the clothes they wore. Later he came back to Richmond (now Seotland) in North Carolina, in 1813, he organized Spring Hill Church, with seven members. Much could be written about this church and about a later pastor, County and here, October 24, 1945 Johnson, lives in Waltimore . “Uncle” John Monroe, who served for sixty- five years! But they are not quite within the bounds of Riverton ° HEN THE. WHYTES moved from So ciety Hill to North Carolina, they built their four miles from Spring Hill Church, near the Lumbee River, and there they reared their four daughters, The community Riverton srew up around them, and most of the original inhabitants home some three or later known as were direct descendants of this pioneer eouple. Donald continued as pastor at Spring Hill and also traveled over a wide territory doing missionary. preaching, until his death in 1824. He died in Pender County at the comparatively early age of forty-eight. having been taken il} Chile on A tou Catharine dived on preaching until she was eighty-one, and the stories of her good: deeds are a part of the folklore of that part of the country, She is the heroine, of Gerald John son’s By Reason of Styre noth, which has been published in “Seotland title, The Strength of CatkKarine under the Campbell Riverton Calls Her Children Home HE PHYSICAL tainly would not seem extraordinary to a@ casual passer-by. A dozen or fortable frame dwellings nent and the pines and dogwoods are perhaps as many back Riverton of today eer more < om house the perma residents, scattered about among gottages occupied by those who come in’the summer. But there’s a magic about that draws the wanderers back. Perhaps it is in the stories about Grandpa-a and -Grandma-a: Whyte and other earlier in- habitants that the older people tell the chil- dren who cluster around to listen. Perhaps it is in the cool, dark waters of the Lumbee— a great attraction for the young folks, where at all hours .of the day the happy voices of the swimmers can be heard echoing among the cypresses and pines along the banks. The tennis court in the “Old Fiel@” draws its quota. Young and old alike gather together for “Riverton Nights,” when singing and in- formal stunts are the order of the day. They meet, too, on Wednesday evenings the place at some home for the cottage prayer meeting which has been held. more or less regularly since it was started by Donald and Catharine Whyte in the early nineteenth century. It Was in 1822 that Luther Rice: happened to come on a regular prayer meeting night when he stopped overnight to visit -the Whytes. On that memorable occasion the prayer meeting lasted for many hours, and it was then that John Monroe, a sixteen year-old boy ‘at the time. was converted For the older people the pleasant- summer days among the woods of pine, dogwood and oak, bordered by fields éf cotton and corn, bring back memories of a happy childhood, thoughts of unselfish, sweet faced, gentle women and upright, cheerful men. No one ever accumu'ated any great amount of world ly wealth in Riverton. but there is a heritage of happiness that makes each wanderer wish fo say to the home folks, with John Charles MeNeill : “You will not—wifl you? soon forget When I was one of you, Nor love me that time has My craft to currents new; Nor shall I ever cease to share Your hardships and your joys | : i@SS borne - VOLUME 46 Famed a Editor and Religious Leader | Archibald Johnson ; is Dead ; | | | } | (Winston-Salem Journal) | y R. Dwight Ware (Charlotte Observer) Archibald Johnson, 75, for’ 40} years the distinguishhed editor of | : Charity and Children and for a long-| mourn, the Sassinw ok nha ot ke time a courageously ViG0TOUS | preatest diasaii ons in the death of champion of progressive righteous- | Anolis i earn cred early this morning at his) years the editor of . Charity. ‘and A press that has striven to be I fres h and articulate, bows sorrowful- lly to pay heartfelt tribute, and the |chiidhood of a State is moved to ald Johnson, for nearly forty | : home in Thomasville. iChildre: Fureral services will be conducted | It is hard to appraise in proper de-| : at the First Baptist church of Thom- | ree the life and work of this great asville Friday morning at 11 o’clock| jeditor and leader, whose virtues were : ; Ws , - e with Rev. M. O. Alexander, the pas inherited from the sturdy Scotch| “for, in charge. The interment Will | pioneer familes of Johnees end Bia. take place Friday afternoon a 3:30 | Neill and transmitted to his children, | at Riverton, Scotland county, in the of whom the noted liberal writer, old Spring Hill churchyard, close bY | Gerald W. Johnson, of the Baltimore | ‘ the grave of his cousin, John Charles | pyening Sun, is probably the most MeNeill, celebrated poet. | pttatandins Although his health. had been ser- | fously impaired for several years, | Mr. Johnson’s strong constitution} _ and‘ alert mentality had permitted | the discharge of most of his duties, | and his passing, which quickly fol- Although editor of only.a four- page weekly newspaper, Archibald | Johnson did more, perhaps, than any : jman of his day to inspire courage | | among editors who knew him and| i : : . | ito maintain a wholesome respect nor ® , lowed a pulmonary hemorrhage suf- | freedom of the press in North Caro-| fered Wednesday afternoon, came 45 lyina. | : a a shock to his family and friends. He | oo ee 4 MRbived by Wis widow, Mrs. Floral orn o what was then Richmond, | McNeill Johnson, to whom he was | new Scotland county, North Caro-| ; : . lina, in 1859, Mr. Johnson spent his | married in January, 1885, and the : following ch iildren, Mrs. Charles F. youth on the farm. After eompleting | . ih é ) S Ps > “Lambeth of Thomasville, Gerald W. is education at Spring Hill Acade gt i Seccctat. . edited’ al the | Ms he taught school briefly and en- ‘ ’ “Baltimore Evening Sun, Mrs. B. W.|2%8*¢ for @ while in the mercantile | chan of Oxford, Mrs.‘ William D business. Later he found his real vo- i ae : : + 4,:..|cation in newspaper work, becoming | Webb of Greenville, N. C., and Miss sditor of The Laurinburg Exchange is n + f th h : : : abo te eee, principal Raege en and afterwards founding The ‘Red Springs Citizen. -In 1895 he was aoe. vingston aad Hed te the. editorship of CWiivitigl : and Children, organ of the Thomas- o t t to Hon. J. W. Bailey as ville’ Baptist Orphanage. ; itor of the Biblical Recorder, was . brother of Archibald Johnson. It was there that he found his true <i> Johindh:aee bors Aeeost 20 place in a world of service. For there ie. ugu : ie : "1950 et Bivatiné, tka ak et han. he become more than an editor. He ‘ , ro ee ; : Gen and Katherine (Livingston) became the voice of the Baptist . 4 ‘ children of the state > representa- . ‘dghnson. He was educated at the|“ °'S" °F o™ = p sae Tapronee Spring Hill academy.- After a brief |“'¥e °% the fatherless and motherless ~Mercantile career, he entered the newspaper field and foutided the Red | é Berings citizen, both of which in-|°%¢% Were brought face to face with & sep : llife’s realities alone ’ ‘fluentia] papers are still published. — : tag. prone By 1895, the foreefulness of Mr} In editing the orphanage paper, hnson’s keen mind and the -wit of |Mr. Johnson breathed the love of pen won for hide oninee ailiouned childhood through its pages. He made g intigines oxen shasta. Bis Charity and Children-a warm, almost Be thing. Butt We “at ot Year's ligiously devout with an especial pas-| iva : : - . ‘ ” ™ own the boid idez le thing ‘Bion for the interest. of the orphaned |“ ss oo. a i a , : bs a child, he accepted the call of his| Me" 1o!Ks believe hgh tlk orteg Meutch ard moved to Thomasville. jafrai d to say. And while he was thus } ning ‘ axtea ine 3 Bere he entered upon his xessark-| Sasa 1e ee and Le the é able service as editor of Charity aind| eo ee bending Children jhis energies toward placing Charity and Children and its living message his publication which has inal : T vie into Baptist homes in North Caro- largest circulation of any religious| | lina. paper published in the south, and} ’ MY ; | which under his management has not}. N°! did his task end here. Rather | had a deficit in 25 years, became one | . rT : of the chief agencies for making the|*”’ Archiba d Johnson followed his state of North Carolina “orphanage pees 50. ore Panto om minded,” so. much sé that today this" ito plead the cause of the’ little ones state stands foremost in its care fér|“" - ue honeleas child. jsuch as to make a state orphan con- | |boys and girls, who, while. the light of youth’s wonder still shone in their it was there the beginning was made, t Thomasville. And his pleading was But th bli : ,|Sscious. He performed miracles at the u @€ supe’"d literary taient ol; : : ; i . ia ‘linstitution which is now known as'| Mr. Johnson was not confined to the | ,,.., . f tl) With iMills Home, and it grew in size, in-| auses 0 he orphan. ith com- . } ; fluence and usefulness as the years| manding influence on the platform : : : : went on, } and with his expressive writing he| uel 4 1 : ; euch a man was a worthy fathet i early became a leader in the fight! = |W. Jo} coats oe ‘ of Geral onnson, a worthy Kins- “4 for education and temperance. Charl- estes — ines ae . C iman of John Charles McNei —a es B. Aycock, Josephus Daniels, Hinges: ‘Whe ‘reflactad” hance pee : ; : ata aa > r who eirected hnonor u : cy 4 heieune = me 7 igs . Dr. Livingston Johnson, for many | ' + Caldwell, all close personal friends =: igs 6 of Mr. Johnson, with him pioneered years editor of the Biblical Recorder, | in establishing for North Carolina and whose son, Dr, W naa M. John-| . ® system of public education unsur-|8°™ ¢a'ries on the family tradition | passed in the south. : Mr. Johnson is spoken of by those who know him best and who revere | in Winston-Salem. It is impossible! rc ito give a full evaluation to the ae and work of this great servant of the his memory as a man of tremendous | ~* a : courage who possessed so keen a of agg has laid aside the burden of | sense of right and wrong that’ sub-|'!°§ aftlictions to enter into the rest} Sequent events validated his judg- reserved for him. ment. But with all the force and dir- | oe ee ar ectness of his convictions he retained | Distinguished Moral Leadership his friends and enriched the nobility | Seen of his manhood. anrneneeee Exchange) Illustrative of his patriotic devo-| The passing of Archibald Johnson, tion to the people of his state, it itlable editor of C harity and Children, gaid that. the New York Sun once | brings to mind a distinguished -moral @ditorialized. its pity for North Caro-|leadership that served North Caro- lina’s lack of cities to which Mr./lina well in its day. In church and Johnson replied that North Caro- | state there were men who dared to lina’s good fortune was its lack of|stand for what they believed was cities, for with one, he said, it might /right and to condemn what was also have a Sun. | wrong with an utter disregard for Throughout a noble life, a brilliant !consequences. There was never any editoral career, and three genera- | doubt about where they stood or oe tions of magnificent public service|what they believed. In church and Archibald Johnson spent himself for| state they represented a moral lead- the people of the state, Close to the ership that was respected, looked up| people, he spoke to them in their as-/to and trusted. semblies and won their approval and} -In such company Archibald John-| esteem. In his going, Thomasville|son was a distinguished figure. He| loses its “grand old man,’ th: orphan {was a crusader for righteousness. He| loses his valiant and _persuasive|had ideals and he lived up to them friend, and the people of his state | Boldly and with an aggressive gal lose: one of their first citizens—first lantry he wrote and. spoke-and there in Christ-like character and first in |'was never a word that was vague or| splendid achievement. obscure in meaning. In this day .of | b ;Christ and humanity, who now, a questioning, of doubt and vascilla His clarity and vigor of expression|tion and fear of what so nebody will] made his paper much respected ° ii 1jthink,. his career of militant forth-| North Carolina journalism despite | right championing of the right! } the fact it was primarily a church | stands out like a beacon light in the publication.—N. C. Press. | darkness, this siliien: the state oe most powerful, vig- 4 Thomasvite, and ie write Lod Vigorous and bril- jnathing to what has already, 2, j Said. <e oe Arch By Maiy. Viesiibien . (Phe Peoplels Advocate) — So much has been published in the | papers over fhe state about the grent- mess of Archibald Johnson, «whose death oceurred December 27, that I feel. that “1 can add little, haps , been a. oe T think, however, thet those ‘of us who loved: him best, knew him best. He married my-mother’s sister, Flora MeNeil- and for nearly fifty years jwas a member of the family! We the | knew his mueatness, which shone lilke ‘south |® be nm im all his walk and con- stion, In all those years I hever him say an unkind thing about . _ unkind thought, which was one haginked Wee. John ae ul, A brother, Dr} fohnson, was editor oft Baptist publication, the rder, for many years up wf his death years ago, | tives on-in a@ sou, Gete| how associate editor of’ m Sun, and in. four who maintain the family o ae an 9, Joved him, He was happy atone “Cheerful. His company i¢, pleasant, stimulating. He yeth the best was in us, for ¢-saw. His was a life of sable > value, eounted not’ so mach . 5 his. prominénce in: chureh, society and literature, but more hy merely being what he was. Ond wn- consciously wanted to be like the man, and therein lies greatness. ' Archibald Johnson came of a long line of staunch, indomitable, Ged. Highland aneestry, ted strain that dus ) it Binek to cancel half » Tears wash outa Word | A Fulfilled Life ite Maraids }Obareh, an of Toniies “pint in Richmond county, singe changed to Scotland. The setting was idea! for the development of those siuriy - traits transmitted by the Scots of old. The neighborhood was-one. hig community of friends and. kinsmen with similar-interests, where har- mony prevailed. Within a mile of 0 was old Spring Mill - Baptist where he learned of the goodness of God—~also His wrath. He . aides early his path, the straight and ] : dimarrow.one, and never deviated one lieta. because n of the state had a cali: es that was answered: @ state, the school, ali t personality. ‘His fine fiike a strong, clean wind i clear the mental atmos- ve the peaks of right. nding in sharp outline. of things. that go man is character, ab-| omising integrity and|™ oo man reais hi real cena le Hines, Years aro when Mr 7 }dohnson was @ young man he came Bn |limter he indeed Rields, 2 ne Takes the busi- ae, and debts 0 taille a settle m on a basis of so many ‘titer, a thing that is to ieies v, ia. Tt takes a : he was an raphe eoqualts te Lavrinbrg and opened a store.| the late James tT mn, For he was Qld SpringHill Academy, the best in. this section of the state, stood on the church grevnds, and it was there that he wrestled with the great fund- ameéntals of the English language, Which made him the strong. writer that he was. Near the school was, a little ved brick Temperance Lodge, where-the youth of the community, @n masse, signed the pledge-«and Kept it. After that was settled they Meee the lodge as a debating hall. Thay gathered there one night a eek, and in impassioned speech be fe an enthusiastic gathering, they the issues of the day into shreds ee there that Archibald Johnson jlearned to think on his feet, which . : him the best impromptu speak- the state. From this settlement ire prominent men have gone forth any other in the coustry They 4 with them, into an untried deep. oe eduort ion and that Diceabicined nis et life, Mies Johnson went to face his The offering to his Master was wiy the little ¢hildren of ‘the Thomasville ‘Baptist Orphanage, }whom for a long he loved, taking the message of the work to every coutity in the fi ,and fhirough the columns ‘paper, Charity and Children. ‘So we buried him in Old Spring Hit! churchyard, among seenes ha ne. (AIWaYs knew and loved, while gen: finely serpowing friends listened: ta the last simple rites. ‘ (Sampson Independent) The death of Mr. Archibald John- gon at his home in Thomasville fas: hareday morning was mourned gen- Dy throughout North Carolina, known and loved by thousands who knew him personally or through his editorials in Chari ity 4} jand Children, which he edited for Telose to a half-century. Mr tohknson was one of the few men wh! was not changed by the new and d:ffer- ent age, He had his ideals and held jan to them tothe end. As editor 6f the orphanage paper, }Mr. Johnson felt free to express his opinions in no uncertain terms, While jhis opinions, as he expressed them, jWere not always: pleasing to all his’ readers, he wis non- ~retreating, nphatic, frank and ~ efforts | in. she- ,|Presemted were” and chimed > layed no small part, in beent high stand which he earted aauraee tie pears, be sweet. up to ifs pred ee ig cal. —— oe ane eran ee -NUMBER 45 ' ald Johnson . Archibald Johnson , mS and Observab) ’’ vory tower in’ the town (The Landmark) wv A publication representing an or- » Archibald Johnson Phanage is supposed to exist to keep A the affairs of the| the institution before the public, es- mtedly commented on pecally before the denomination | merited ‘an obscrva-| whose charge the orphanage is if it of quantity pro-lis % church institution. Content in feadfastly refused to} the ‘main supposed to be an appeal t entity for quality. Other | for children—and it takes a lot of editors wrot@ more voluminously, appealing to get support for orphan- but none wrote more closely to the ages, generally speaking. Above all point, Nor were any freer than he|thé paper is not supposed to have to express their honest opinion about Opinions on controversial questions. affairs, ‘- i =|Nobody’s feelings must be hurt. A man of less intellectual size Archibad Johnson, who has fallen would have made of Charity and uid on sleep after months and years of Children, which he edited for many physical affliction, set a new style in years, an organi for the Mills Home. | the conduct of orphanage papers Arehtbald J made much more} when he took charge of Charity tas than @ mere Organ. He made it a for- Children, the Baptist Qrphanage pa- um from waten to express his views| per, near 40 years ago. He dis- about things h Seneral, And he had} cussed inatters. and things with a much that was worth saying, even|candor and decision that left no if ie did nog hurry himself or be- doubt about his opinion. Mr, John- cloud his aewents with words. He| son was nobody’s yes man. Neither adhered to the standard that lang- was he a diplomat, nor did he strive to ¢ should vbe used to express please if he felt that there was”¢all ‘thought, not to conceal it. for comment on passing events. # Man of large intellectual stat- Sometimes he was impulsive and tur » Archbiald Johnson was none overspoke himself, as any of us may {Me less loyal to the Baptist faith for| do was a little too “brash,” as he ~ having been & first-class editor. He would have expressed it. If he de- recognized that loyalty is the basic cided he was wrong he would admit principle of character, and he Wwaslit, But he apologized to nobody for loyal. home, church and county. what he meant to say, although he {Above | ll, he owas loyal to God. His did injustice to nobody purposely. {Was @ faith Meat stood every test.( My Johnson had convictions and || His life was Ariumphant because it courage and he spoke his mind with {Was planted @pon the eternal veri-| tho Breatest freedom, sometimés tes: His death removes one of the| with » candor that startled. He had 5 ‘8 landmarks, Many have risen no thought of inflicting hurt to gee od. None knew somebody writhe, But he was so honest and sincere that he never did See good reason why he should’ sup: ~ serenely 0 world and such things % tion. In an te are constantly recognized that a ent | mY anything was an Amal paper to honest cpinion dnd it was respected each. But assuch, - | passed, a State] « ,.- po Far i eebes:-at And 80 Mr. Johnson made Charity bit: . ,,|@nd Children, an orphanage papér, a -. Pr pad publication that cannes in the fo OUR pu work whereunto it was sent not only "J but was of recogn influence in _ public affairs, Persons not of Bap- oe me SS it is today. Thelgnd chil ren ay © meagre cireulation| it, gdmired the ith interest ‘and prof- only an occasional whee eae ; ¥ 4") entertained and-instructed.Mr. John- copy reaching’ the farming element,| son's intense loyalty to the <L then @ comparatively more important | which he was engaged and his ac- group than to-day when industry has complishment in that work was never developed to’ s@ vast an extent, The open to question. But his influence most of the Gounty' weeklies were| didn’t ‘end there. His able, whole- mere by-produgts of job print shops, some, observations on public affairs Charity and Children, the Orphanage had a wide influence for good. pabety Went include to thousends, of), at6 nes finished his work, This Baptist Sunday schools and were dis- able and outspoken editor who tributed among the country homes, eringed before nobody, has gone to » well aS amang those of the-dwar, give an account for all he has writ- fish eities, The paper was read as : . .. | sen and did not write. Those of us few are now read. Every line in it, privileged to know the man, who ad- including terials, contributions, : , mired and loved him, have no doubt jand sele¢tions, 1 s wholesome, as to the reception of the account. But it was the Johnson editorials God rest him. that gave snap and vigor to the little : publication. Archibald Johnson made no pretension to, scholarghip, His Archibald Johnson j education, as far as schools was con- cerned, was limited to what he had (Charlotte Q@bserver) - } attained in theeountry schools of his| ‘The Observer this morning carries } native cominuaity, But he had in-|information, that will cause deep re- j ‘elect; he had @haracter; he had good|gret all over the state, for it relates | horse-sense; he had the courage to|to the passing of a man known and |say the thing tliat should be said, He|beloved from the mountains to the was no copy-cat; his ideas were otig-| seashore. Archibald Johnson is dead. inal; they were pointed, wholesome|Mr. Johnson was best known through and gracefully @xpressed. They exert|hié devotion to the cause of the or- a powerful inflgence in North Caro-|phans, the major part of his life hav- lina. EF ing been given to the institution at He is dead at the ripe age of sev-| Thomasville and his editorship of the enty-five, I saw his body = away|orphan’s own paper, Charity -and in the sand of Wis beloved Spring Hill|Children.. He had lorg been a suf- churchyard, though the church is no|ferer, but never relaxed his interest ilonger there, but is superseded by|jin the welfare of the orphans in | handsome briék edifice in the thriv-|general and of Thomasville in par- ing town of Wagram-a mile distant. |tieular, But Mr. Johnson was more ‘But Archibal@Johnson had -become|than the friends of orphans. He-was }Even inthe sta@te as a whole a new/distinetly a servant of the state, and Ipeople were present at his interment,| through his paper. he contributed /@ mere tradition on his native heath. mightily to the advancement of peo- jseneration has sprung up who know/ple and state. In his more active jnot the Joseph of » quarter of a cen-|days, he had gained reputation as jtury ago. Those in their prime when| “Reverend” Archibald Johnson,” and Mr. Johnson began to wield his pen|it devolved upon The Observer, at his in a state-wide way have largely | request, to set the people straight. passed beyond this vale of tears. On|In explanation, The Observer advised his side of the river last Friday were|that while Mr. Johnsoh was good more of his old-time friends and ad-|enough to {ill any pulpit, he could mirers than on this side. Scarcely 150} be classed not above the rank of people were present at his interment,|“the blockade preacher,” a title that and™%be grater part of those were of| stuck to him the balance of his life. the family confection. He is dead; his important ‘work is largely un-| distinguished in the history of mid- known to the bulk of North Caro- dle Carolina and his devotion to the lina’s present p@pulation; but his in-| section of the Scotch-Irish was a fluence, ‘Bet im motion during the] dominant characteristic of his life. thirty years of his prime; will not|/4 useful career in many ways is fail. Eternity alone will register its closed in the death of Archibald totality, Johnson and particularly have the There is no need of expression of Baptists of the state lost a brilliant sympathy to the devoted wife and|leader in his passing. We may well children, The rage was run, the crown |know the reward that was in store won. Why weep because the victor-|for such a_life as Archibald Johnson jious race is over? : gave to his state and people, Mr. Johnson came from a family Botered at the. Thomaneilie Postaffice as Second Clase Mail Matter Aceeptance for m: / at apecial rite Postage provi for in sestion 1108, A of Oct. 6, 1977, “authorized Aug. 17, 1919, \ OUR TERMS Sin Subscription ‘one year ...__ Sing ke Subscription six months Single Clubs of et «> 8100 50 Subscription ‘three months of 10 oF more to one address «60 oe satel oe «26 | laid the body ta nebt,:The™ bu service was ovet aln& before began. dust\a bit of a prayer ani the few words 6 commital, and th service Was over—-but the mesetin was not. While kinsmen fixed th grave and covered it with flowe others visited. among themselves, was no woesbegene mesting; b such 2 gathering as had been held 4 Onur Advertising Department ia in charge of JACOBS & COMPANY, CLINTON: §. ©. Soliciting Offices : E. L.. Gould, 11% East 28th St., New York. Franklin &, Wales, 6th Floor Marquette Pidg., Chicago. H. Ligon, 424 Biltmore Ave. Asheville, - x 500 Nat'l North Carolina, 720. Park + Kanwas City, Me. G. Drive, Geo. F. Dille Fidelit i . / Ligon, Atlanta, Ga. hand Julieh A. Kirk, y Life Bide ARCHIBALD JOHNSON, (1805-1934) J. A, McMILLAN, Assoctate i: —_— vente Sannin EDITOR litor THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1935 attain meat aapetepaapeteaes nas BON VOYAGE \ i before daylight morning ‘after Christmas Johnson quietly slipped away from us. He was in his home surrounded by all of the members of his family except Gerald who was drawing near, on the first train that left Baltimore Thursday after he had received the message to | In addition to the immediate | come. family there were two or three ne kinsmen present. Between the hours his death and the fuheral services, wh veld in the First Baptist church Friday morning, there was a constant stream of friends who came ‘he messages ef love and creations flowers, ar of of The. telegraph messengers made trip after-trip to the house with | bundles of telegrams, Old Orphanage boys. who - had Worked in the print shop came back. They tenderly bore the body of their friend from the howse and followed it to the church, They loved and re- spected him in life and no other group could have &o fittingly acted as pall bearers, Within the church . his ‘fellow deacons acted as ushers tnd Stood sentinel by the casket. The 2 quartet of the church choir isang and the pastor eonduc ted the service, un- That also was according to, the ehoirswas the most beautiful in the world.” Higipastor was alwdys competent to attend to the spiritual nééds without any outside help. He » exhausted the store of adjectives in _ praise of his pastor and his sermons, but he never uttered one word of Criticism: of a. sitigie pastor he ever | had. To him the pastor was a fin, ‘man and his sermon: was good. The service wag Coniplete: old Or- ‘> phanage poys actedyas. yell -beprers, ~ the deacons-acteth ak weters, the reg- ular quartet did. the singing, the trustees 6f the Orphanage and the members @f the Thomasville Rotary “Ctabeacted ae honorary pall bearers. After the service and a quick lunch, the family and near friends Went to Riverton The road was well known. summer the Johnspns © have gone down to their summer cottage, “The House That Jack Built”, of Riverton, Having traveled the one hundred and twenty miles they arrived at. the old Spring Hill ceme- tery—waiting to. weleome her own, The words of Jéhn Charles McNeil! were almost audible in the quiet. of the place, and they were speaking not of Oetober but of the friendly sand: “And if mayhap, a wandering child ‘of thee, # Should turn him homeward from his! dreamer’s quest, Thine arm would fold him tenderly, to prove . How: thine -eyes brimmed with love, And thy dear hand, with all a moth- er’s care, Would rest upon his hair,” And the.open grave was there: “Under thé wide and starry sky; Dig the grave and let me lie, Glad did T live, and gladly. die, And I lay me down with a will.” ¢ Johnsen live wad ike Miron: ship of his wife, Riad in the leve and, ‘Fespect of his children, gisd in the ‘comradeship of his frienfs, glad in the editorship af: Charity and Chil. “dren, and glad in the fellowship of his God. The second stanza of Ste- vengon’s Requiem is also beautiful and but for ond Word would. be ap- propriate: . ens be the verse you grave for me; _. Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, Archibald | ich were} aring | and Spring BRU. | Every | in the pines | -jasked if he was a a hundred summer evenings on thi |porch of the house among the pine [There was no singing; but if ther ‘had been, the song they all knew |‘‘Well It Looks Like to Me It’s a Rivs erton Night” would have been far more appropriate than “This World) Is But a Desert Drear.” But as tn the case of. all the other friendly |fatherings this one had to disperse, jfor looking over the mound of flow. ;ers and beyond the tall slender shaft that stood sentinel over the resting |place of John Charles McNeill we saw that it was ) SUNDOWN Hills, wrapped in gray, along the west: Clouds, dimly lighted, slowly; | The star of peace at watch above the ) crest—- Oh, holy, holy, holy? standing gathering The second ‘stanza is appropriate for most of us but there is one word in it thet keeps ux from using it in connection with Archibald Johnson, |We know, O Lord, so little what is dest; | Wingless we move so lowly, | But in thy. calm all-knowledge let ug ; reste. Oh, holy, holy, holy! He was not “wingless.” He soated above the things’that harass the rest of us, He lived above littleness and ‘Meanness and bitterness and selfish-, iness, He lived above fear. He was /not afraid of man or devil Some: }times he drew his teen edged rapier, and bleod flowed, but the: wound healed without festering for the blade was always ¢elean. He soared. above us in courtesy. He used- very last audible breath ie J lite. The. nurse. asked fi wanted water. Hé re telfetied "with |his undying loyalty to them) nor to his from hig #tlerids nar in i¢hurch, hig denomimation nor to the jcause of right, They did not ditt h above the sorrow ar the joy of his friends. But it was time for us to go. Sloy ly we turned away, loathe to pa jfrom each other and as we entered ithe highway at thy foot of the ] jand ware about tobe swallowed. thy th swamp that: guards thd, Ai} \race, We waved a parting salute ni isaid in our hearts, “Goodby, Archi | bald, Tell John Charles and Way j.and Livingston and the others tha | We will see you all in the summer a ithe River.” * Aaa vitelliciieiliee dD Editer, Churchman and Citizen i Pry | (North Carolina Christian Advocate | At the age of seventy-five and fo forty years editor of Charity ang |Children, Axehibald Johngon, one o ithe best editorial writers in the jtory of North Carolina, died at hi thome in Thomasville, December 2 | 1934, For several years his h jhad heen failing, but as much as Strength would permit, he contin this work until the end. He was a loy churchman, being a prominent er in the Baptist chwpth) andi inlotic citizen who served well hi State and sation. | As & terse editorial writer wh |with. clearness and force. discuss ithe questions of the day and offere jtimely observations upon all matte ithat concerned the people for whe he wrote, Archibald Johnson had x iequal singe the death of Joseph, ] |Caldwell, editor of the Charlot |Observer. For years Charity | Children was more frequently quot than ~ other paper in-the state. Dr. Johnsen was not an. ordain minister, but he was regarded one. the most effective preachers of t} great Baptist church. He once w Preacher, faces blockade ‘preaeher,” ie Sourse that he handled the ‘pe 4 without license, Gol. Wade Harr and some other of his edito friends could neyer forget this i mark and he came to he known -j North Carolina’ as the “Blocked Preacher” and he enjoyed it-as mue as anybody. He was a great Bapti Jaymag who served wel} his chy and the orphan childrép who beeen the wards of his church, He was | feariess advocate of ‘Political an social righteousness, Justice 40 Tf OE 5 And the hunter home from the hill.’ The inappropriate ond is} “longed”, . Archibald Johnson never _~ longed for \anything= in bis life. @ was no longing, pining nor re- pining in his whole makeup. He Mever spent one rintie of his: seventy:five years in longing for _.. death or anything cise, He lived in ie oe ee busy present. _ @ame to Spring Hill, stepped . and the pastor of old ‘Spring Hill judgment were the habitation of hi editorial desk, nee There ave none to. take his plac a6 @ writer Who in a unique. a could adorn the honorable and” in fluential “fourth estate.” Yet th are others who will “successfy i “carry on’? and make the paper tha he established a contributing fore in its ministry in behalf of orphan children. ‘ We shall miss our good friend wh through the years has been a per petual of inspiration and inst © with the aid of the “Sunburnt Boys’ ion, ‘ hee ie *. ‘ WAKE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, May 1948 WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT LIVING ENDOWMENT Dr. C. N. Peeler, 01; was among the first to propose some years ago the beginning of a Living Endow- ment Fund for the college. Old minutes of the Alumni Associa- tion’s Executive Committee state that a decision was made to start such a program. Dr. Peeler wrote his check for $100. Now that the fund has been started again on a grand scale, Dr. Peeler, who has contributed many thousands of dollars to the Enlargement Pro- gram, sends another check for $100 and writes that it is ‘a great pro- gram. I am 100 per cent for it.” And it looks as if he is $100 a year for it, too, in spite of the fact that he is a generous contributor to the college already. : W. Reid Martin, Raleigh, a trus- ee Soe honorary alumnus of the college, has been a generous con- tributor to the Enlargement Pro- gram and will continue to be. Upon receiving his letter about the Liv- ing Endowment, he wrote: “Dear 'Gene: ‘“T received your letter announc- ing the FIFTY DOLLAR CLUB. As you know, I am not an alumnus, but I am glad to join the Club if I am eligible, and I enclose my check for $50 for the first year. I knowsthis donation by itself is insignificant but if you succeed in ‘getting 5,000 members it will be a tremendous boost to the financial program of the college, and it would be worthy of any alumnus even if it involved some sacrifice. As for me, I hope aside from this to make additional contributions to the campaign fund from time to time if I am prospered to do so.” Gerald W. Johnson, ‘11, Balti- more, Md., eminent author and ed- itorial writer, comments in this fashion: “Dear Gene: “Tam interested in your Living Endowment scheme, but rather theoretically, since I am turning ovér all I can lay hands on to the building fund. (He’s in! Nothing theoretical* about that.—Ed. ) “But you have the right idea, if” Wake Forest is ever to be made a really great college. If you want GERALD W. JOHNSON, ‘Il a man’s friefidly interest, don’t do him a favor—induce him to do you a favor. Alumni say they love the college for what it has done for them, but they. don’t; they love it for what they have done for it. “Tf for the next four years, 5,000 alumni each gave Wake Forest $50 annually, or if at the end of that time some rich man gave it a million dollars outright, the col- lege would appear to have exactly the same’ endowment, but it wouldn’t. In the former case it would have a million dollars plus 5,000 friends; in the latter case a million plus one_friend. In the long run the plus factor would prove the more important, for in the long run 5,000 active friends are likely to be more valuable than a million dollars. “Sometimes I think the best thing the Reynolds gift did for Wake Forest was to give it a rea- sonable excuse to demand some- thing from its alumni; for if the old boys have to sweat a bit in order to make good they will think more about the college and think better of the college than they have thought since graduation day. “So go to it. Turn on the heat in every posible way. If there is some squawking that -will prove no more than the héat is actually on. I hope you will get a lot of money, but even more ardently | hope you will get a lot of apathtic « a. ‘agg hb Ge Ten characters stirred up. Better make ‘em hopping mad than leave them } coldly indifferent.” Upon receipt of the foregoing missive from Gerald, a letter was written asking permission to quota him. Straight back came this’ re ply: “Dear Gene: Certainly, you can quote me, if you wish; I am perfectly willing to stand back of everything I said ‘In fact, I am willing to say more—I would add that $93,000 is a lot of money, and-a contributior of that size by the alumni is-good But it isn’t good enough. The most optimistic figuring, counting sale of the old property, the gift of the State Convention and everything leaves the building fund about a million shy. If the alumni are go- ing to clean up the job in the four years remaining, they have got to do better than they did last year, in fact, nearly three times as well “Discouraging? Well, why? Everybody has known from the beginning that this is the biggest - job by far that we ever undertook, so what? Let courage rise with danger, And strength to strength oppose. Yours, G. W. J.” In the first mail received bring- ing replies to letters about the Living Endowment was a card, from Wake Forest’s pastor, J. Glenn Blackburn, °35, saying he would pay his fifty. Glenn is one of the members of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Associ- ation, as is also Dr. Graham B. Barefoot, ‘21, Wilmington, who is so enthusiastic about the plan that he not only sent in his card stating his purpose to continue paying his $500 a year but wanted to enlist other alumni in his area to parti- cipate in it. . A check that would make you weep came from a recent student who had to leave school and has spent about two years in a sana- torium. He hopes to return to Wake Forest as soon as his physical condition will allow Another came from a recent coed as a first pay- ment on a $100 subscription to the Living Endowment. As greatly ap- preciated in the alumni office as any card was bearing this inform- ation: “Incapacitated for work for GRANDFATHER JOHNSON’S HISTORY BOOK In Winston-Salem Journal of November 2, 1959. (Used Gerald W. Johnson — author, newspaper- man, Wake Forest and native Tar Heel — has written more distinguished alumnus than 20 books, all of which in one way or another have contributed to our understand- ing of America. But it wasn't until recent- ly that he aimed any of this writing at the small fry of our nation. It was the shock of becoming a grand father, he said, which made him decide to write a history of America for young peo- ple. A grandfather, as he explained it, has no status. So unless he can earn some. sort of-ecognition by his own efforts, he’s apt to find himself on the shelf with other relics But Mr. Johnson’s daughter “Dorrie” (Mrs. Leonard van den Honert) chooses to GERALD W. JOHNSON, ‘11, with his sis ter, Miss Lois Johnson, WFC Dean of Women. v By Frances Griffin go a bit deeper into the hearts of both the matter and her father. It was she, after all, made Mr. Johnson a grandfather in the first place. She points out that her father was one of five children, the other whose achievement four.-being girls. Furthermore, when he married: and had children of his own, both of them were girls Giving Vent “I claim,” she wrote recently in the Pitts field, Mass the shock of becoming a grandfather, but newspaper, “that it was not of acquiring’ a grandson that put him in a state of mind that the only wav he could give proper vent to his feelings was to start right in to write him a book!” Whatever the truth behind the impulse the birth of Hert nine vears ago did start his grandfather to think ing. For many years, Mr. Johnson had been SUE h Peter van’ den a discerning student of his cGountry’s his tory, both as it has been made and is being made. As an authot and historian, he has analyzed America’s past, and: as a ne wspa perman, he has interpreted her present So It was that when this first of his yrand (now there are five arrived, hie felt keenly that he Peter that “i it is in some ways better and in som children wanted to know ways worse to be an American en Englishman, or a Frenchman, or of any other nationality; and IT want him to for, according to Mr “by understanding his own coun- of the rest of the world. To understand other na- know exactly why.” John sé try, he will gain s6me understanding tions is, I believe, the heaviest responsibili- ty weighing upon the rising generation of Americans.” Starting a Series To that end, Mr. Johnson has now coms out with the first * of volume in a_ series three books which are purported to trace the growth of the American spirit in a way and in such words that a boy or a girl can understand, Called America Is Born this first book carries the expected grand fatherly subtitle, “A History for Peter.” The trilogy is being published by William Morrow and Company of New York; the ~ price of this first volume, $3.95. As it usually is with new books of history the professional historians already have be by permission.) leged omis John- gun to pounce on certain sions and oversimplifications in Mr But few deny. th razzle-dazzle br son's work up with a which should catch the | tion brought up on a diet and TV Westerns In the face of that mendation, any such helming recom OmiIngs i the detected hardly worth ndfather Peter ind his contempora scholars have seem mentioning. For as_ his knows rent old of the wl into the well enough vet. te ind whe maki Suffice it at this age only tl shadings have Lone interested in what happen begin to undefstand why it will he time enous has been Let it that what Mr young As he wrote to» of the story re¢ ade rs Linn indl other Il belor bad parts you Nor is. it clorific d con ind men ints Mr Johns 1 dramatic, hé why men thought as the third dimension sion, Fare In realtiy the he into his exciting story America Is Born takes this the time when only. savag ] panses until the Articles came into being. In languag ple and humorous but never Mr. Johnson tells about the § New World anc . of Columbus’ long and ; of Francis Drake and of the backed their ventures But in the telling, he als the Europeans wert route to Asia, And, m ot the break down of tl anal | D i | came to. the four shrewd Queer eare bing IHE WAKI England—ot: how the Black Death and the Wars of the Roses riddled the nobility and brought the serf his freedom, of how a new kind of ‘nobility was born” of .commoners and consequently of how the English com- moners considered themselves just about as good as anybody. : “This is important in the history of the United States,” Mr. Johnson writes, “be- cause it explains why the Englishmen who came to America were so independent in spirit even before they became independent in politics.” Then he tells of how the English, under Queen Elizabeth, made themselves into good sailors, of how they were able to defeat the mighty Spanish Armada, and of how, having done so, they thought well of them- selves. This, too, he important to the history of this country, because in it the says is English learned that a man must be valued for what he can do, not for what lis father did. “The _ first this idea that every man must stand: on his settlers brought to America own two feet and not depend on his father, and it is the idea on which our whole sys- tem of government is. based to this. day. Incidentally,. they also brought the idea that an Englishman stands more firmly on his own feet other man, which was not true at all; but it helped in those than any early days when the going was terribly hard, and péople who did not think them- selves the finest ‘men. on earth might have given up and gone home.” Three American Ideas Sa: the English established settlements ‘in the New World—a few at ‘first- and then when tobacco turned into such a_ profitable crop, more and more until all of the settle- ments could neither be governed from Eng- land nor by one man in this country. Thus, Mr. Johnson, three American ideas: were. born, and have been writes basic as good ideas ever One is. that “the man on the job knows. best to. do it.- that “if you fail at one job, try another” (men came from all walks of life to try raising tobacco). And the third is that laws a representative «assembly regarded by Americans since how The second 1S can he made by (the House of Finally, he tells of how the Colonies came Burgesses } together and eventually won their independ- ence. But here, too, he is not content with a mere recital of action ind battles, nor of waving flags and beating drums. As tht more and Colonists . turned more against England, he sets out to show. how they were in reality no longer: Englishmen. ‘ “Simply living in a a different climate and different soil and different plants and animals, makes a man think and_ act differently from the way -he thought and new country, with acted in the old country America was ‘not England and many laws that worked well enough in England wouldn't work at all in this the -colonies make their own laws was rea- looke d like country o the demand sonable, although it rebellion against the king.” To Be Continued With George nental Congress, Mr Washington and the Conti Johnson ends this first volume, “At last,” he concludes, “the United States. of Reports are that he has finished Volume and is hard at work on Volume America was beginning to live.’ i—trying Mussolini and the invasion of Ethiopia in terms that to explain the rise of Hitler and a small. boy can understand It’s a formidable task he’s set before him self. But if- his telling of the rest of Ameri ca’s story is as exciting:and makes as much part, Mr. Johnson- need not think His readers will by, any means bi Peters aye. level. Var vhil sense as the first confined to there were history books and history teach ers around when we were growing up, either they were awfully -stupid. At any rate, Mr. Johnson werent very interesting or we ; has set down tor Peter a good many things that | imayvine Tm alon that score But. they re things I’m glad to learn. And like a great many other Americans, young and old, 1 about American history before, and I my ‘generation on neve! kne W don’t grateful to Peter for having been born, Ot} grandfather might never been shocked into either for erwise, his etting down thi him or for us VETERAN TEACHER IS HELPING TO KEEP LATIN ALIVE Skaggs Having Trouble Retiring By Ed Campbell in The Thomasville Times, October 16, 1959. (Used by permission.) “I would be lost trying to do anything else.” This is from a man who, before he fin- ished jugh school in the Virginia Hills, sat in the headmaster’s chair in a one-room schoolhouse at the turn of the 20th Cen- tury. He said it while his fingers kneaded the corners of the Latin textbook on his desk in a Fair Grove High School classroom. The classroom’s walls are much farther apart than the wooden walls of the rural school- house that’ was \his castle of education scores of years ago. Romulus Skaggs Sr. is his name schoolteacher for 51 years, What living educator in Davidson Coun- ty is close to contending for this title? Someone might come close to contention had Skaggs retired nine years ago. He was 65 then, the age at which the public schools retirement system compulsorily sounds the bell to send teachers honie from their dedi- cated work to a well-earned rest. 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BLA ryots Mon Sie é Ve BBA syndy Ot ee oe 5 é jf 4 — +4T CR 482 > f SBE Py Be ss : jar aa ae od trig. y J 10D 39°8 syed 4 7 7 sanyo #19919 ie ry fe, han p.20: may} “ON | SMcA piod wy — “ ; - eT he | =| ah pe - pres 480] 20 . Buysnp juuj6eq pewnsuc) pesoyaing 40 puoy uO “on | OMA | “ON > $i =i 3 é a YOOLSBAI 4O ABOLNZANI *y LBBHSNYOM tae saga”? 2 a PRK d— aA q. ae J] 54 LA hana WL Fit Oo}... oO “ee i at Ba ee Aha Cet f?] ft tkee 5 ‘ wv ms at Tx a pF a ) | _. hi ore oN i t l CS ae 2 te I / Rebar. UR Moraes OT [Sefer - L Be ed Pe fon, Bx — red R wetr i tnd Yost ; teh / 2K : Sunday August I5, 1971 Dear, Mr. Swann, T am mailing a copy of this letter to Mrs.McXechnie s5 some of the items will be of more interest to her than to you. I spvent all day Fri- day in the library at Murray and wi 11 give you the results.I am enclos- the three censuses I found of Zephania. I am puzzled over finding him on the census of two difBerent states for the same year,but we have had this information for some time. I was not satisfied with my findings for 1800. I don't think the one I found was our Zeph because of age differences and he was shown with a large family of young children-four males under 10 for example. I will try again to come up with something for 1800. The 1810 census shows him and his wife alone and over 45 which sounds about right as he died in 1816. I couldn't find Silas Johnson in Jefferson Co. but it was divided into so many communities I could have over looked it. I will try again on that. , If it is true that Zeph had two younger daughters,do you think their mother was his first or second wife? IT have read somewhere-in your notes I believe-that the daughters didn't like their step-mother and moved away from home. I would like very much to have the proof Mrs. McKechnie has given you about the younger daughters. T had always sunposed that Orpha and Anna were the two daughters who didn't like their step-mother. : I was real disappointed to learn that the Indiana census are no- where in Ky. They can be found in New Albany, Ind so I was hoping that was not too far from Crestwood and the Mc%echnies could g> over to check them. It just might give us the key to this tangle. Reading again the . piece of paper signed by Albea and found in the Baker Johnson Bible,it seems Mary Swann,the widow,must have come to live with her daughter Martha after Zeph's death. For what they are worth,I found these two listings on Baker Johnson, which was spelled Johnston: 1810-Iredell Co. _ Males l-under 10 1026 to 45 1-45 and up Females l-under 10 1-10 to 16 1-16 to 26 1-26 to 45 1-45 and up 1820-Rutherford Co.,Tenn* On John Johnson / Hr nnn Males 2-under 10 ergs 2-10-%0-15 1-26 to 45 Females 1-10 to 16 1-16 to 26 1-26 to 45 So many people stopped in Tenn. on their way Vest from N.C. , ae oa ae AMA OLA frac Crrent, Aes h Le Lf Site Ace aks au phyertcar — O72 , bt Maeda) ehcrcels, Abe =~ HERS OEE Rovere wa Ay, Wit. Wrderict CaiAF uy Benz Ae yt aay A 4 eh fre - Atel f iy Onr2£ "2 a. th94 tt hits he AY Pore Ais onc —_ ee \ do hack 2 ae } ‘ t ; t ae if J es YY Aduck Pw— Lethe dev A ttitds 9 2?) j é ; ¥ é : ail , - } e ee = / f ; omninel, O4tuUltta 4 tMmuduey 4 py Ytelieees / fo Hulls whey 7 os > 0 ji GO chié SS y Veks rat 4, / lta ~ aeggeaee wy. 7GI- [32% re — -“ : a Rake, ae nl Saat As ® HS> ps: (ae ett eA Ab KeR Fe fo Prot th Ar. tol /. priate _ LO~7]. Br. j 1 bale “Mute. So ot ga 2k pees “A [Fee of 422 0 ~ Benne tesco RO ( I. _ fla (F/O ai wT, Beef Gin - Nnaol, DAY /I7G po dnr-eew preety 4—ef” (Ze — 250 Ce po Sd Jt Plu — . ee aes Cabal sep 2 : a oe 198% Bevh 24 f- S27 /C- >. ee Px kur Selina Ke zZ pth Sabra Suse - a Ges. aa pris 2 w ? b lo AB yndha uy "he eee Form Ahn . Bock. o-efy bp to op = Bek. mee 4% CL. W + PSEA. porea ban Ze et le h ae 100 Acros Bevk . 2 i: pees = pr plea” peices a 177 — LAN es ee Oe oe & jo oe . t J ee e]~ a PR tot: )le@ éx y) /y < a oN ES Te = A He ¢ @€c 4 W- (7764S a c we e c 1) CG — Cen Seo ee tok 4 79 “A f J. 3 CaN OS. ft: Wr 38 el. Da fay £5 [OO Qeut wash «. Cer batho Reet 24 -p pay tes © W220 = fo hones GX ig pee toate : 7. z oe fe FL se L- 7) 27a M- h CLE R/p4.5- HZ A. 7 ig to ao 0 Peart, OY plel.. ane yo FH mae Si a a is [Seok 31. “Pp 2 : ee — Cafe 7 e a fe gi Yawk ~ oak eo Pages bn. w+ ae : usd if. Ch 204 A | % 272 Ch Zee Ww - HJ / ips 2 feel @ J 3afef. is LE, Te ait Eke ee ae x. vo Lert a 1 Sf =O Zz E te. “2 vom pee | peat — e cae fC: () Po td he 2-6 val of Lo~firr Pile “sf c. nollie. fig eet Cae < ~ / ? Ea a a te b - 7 . SL te) es {- t Ak 7 6 eS me £1 tee ioe apes aa ar birvre / eo < 7o tw so . ]3%- . Cortef pat Calf L717 Ch¥ YY AK —— L Z A fe a — 4 : E. a 7 i So é "oe | - Fy 5 Yt la ke It “y (LB phi ck i. ae Aes ee )70. J35- fF aro ee © Lh Yon tus Wen ae Lt + c~-e/ ¢ Cc; oT Malta 71 21 A. He MC KECHNIE BOX 496 ahi CRESTWOOD, Ky. 40014 3 Dean Ilr. and Aizs. Swann, (L wag such a pleasure being wiih you last weeks and | wish we could have dtayed Lonyer. But this 4tinding fon Long hours in 7 ‘eas a : ‘ the courthouse ane! Lifting Lhose eavy Looks was jusd wearing me oud } . , ‘ of } ‘ ‘ (Wonder 4h iteould he mu age? } We .ot hone Sunday evening in Lime for church, and we've heen busy singe than - Reds Ling.s Of counse | haven’ t had Line yet to go fack to Chark Co., (nd Lo sec if Johm D. is hunied Lhene, but ( wilt waite vou aften { do. ('ve pinisred thunsenibing those notes ( if uou find (? ve mde.a midlake, please tel mesj Do notice the conplaini of Hezehiah johnson al lie hotiom of Lhe page. (ido Rol know whethen uou noticed where | ly ned lredelk deed hook P, fg 427, where Jesse Swann come bach from Clark Co, Right aften Baken died , and among the people of Clank Co he represented was a John S(LA$i Wande, if that accounted fon the name of Pahen’4 oldest on? Two things { forgot lo cet fron you; vou said that you might eH td L Vertinda Nonth-Sou t} L : : have the maiden name of Vertinda North-Sou craft, lhe offhen was; how do we know that jesse Swann’ sister, Martha was 7 on 8 yearns olden than jesse; she wasn't Left with Lephaniah in (776, at Least not in Saumbaugh, Vow that (?’m getting tis al Logethen, (’LL write to iMars. Stony and to Mas. Walien; just Lo see if they nave any dala Lo disprove my Baken being Bon of james and Cassandra onnson; 0% Mantha leing daughter of Lehaniah and lany . . ( called Mrs, Thoankennry today’ { she sand hen love and ane glad you ane wekl)» she has an 18(5 lax-Liat o} (redett Co, and (’m fo go over and gee it aflen she recovers fron ten trip to Florida. She said they “just got in today. Thanks again fon all the information and the piclunes of the lhuaches and piloting us anound. - We do ho pe lhe poison-oak has 4 . i 4uhsided, juty (4, 1971 [REDEL L Col it] ; Deed Bk (an = (aecdell Cos R - /owan Co. B84 Folk 2f,179 Rs Zephaniah Many X) Swan to Asa Swann, ‘adh s p for #100, Pond necorded in R deed kh (0, pjl4, Apa €5,1785 Gel(5; Dec 14, (808, ga_nled do Asa Johnson, fon Sritkingdsa per iundred, on Walens of vee ihe Rocky fa. Ente. roc! Vov ; - 209; (lay 6, 1808, Benj. jo inston to “zaa Swann, fo 2 Dutcraan’ 2 from Lraacit originally deeded. hu Wm Rosiaou AZ coh Ninh | is 72! Ansion senion avd *% jsaid enj 1 Lo Ais 7, lenia iin lohnson £ of gi.b ty on 40u side i Littles Dake has sd vy acohk \icho Ellis) fand eondta ining’ (04 acres. biitness: lonn “inca ce277 Man 20,1809 Sarnah({X) aera Swann io jos Alkea fe eral dollans 150 acres rani heaniny dale in bh D, nm “607? ‘willer (land nexi to ee Cavin, Dea id Cakdwelk, Wiinesses Lachanialh Reas Lt, Walkien( ) judy {7 (309; fhomas Joh nsion, heing a ovins anc! Abbthed au ti ond. zes Anciré badd any and Ae inheniis” H-(06, Dec 20, (SC; Z 'ephancal Sosa ann and flaau o/ ) — and sawen flan <4, (80¢ (2 é, - (44) WRAL Ws | dec to Joshua Nicholl 1 a2 J 3} in Zeshaniah Swann ( Arid au thas tract (E-(67) of 864 ac. with house wad y walerds, anc waler-counse sy Land in fee sé dower akc Ald. Widls | oAn Caldwell & David Cad lwoll, 7 f Dif 62 fAay : . - . / f grant onivainulin In. Czaa J ra e WEA? Auy 21,(806% jJosrua Nichols, wv. “la guret io Ze; for cis Lhe. on waiers of 4M Yadchrin, land fron of (5 aenes (near Sar. Redd | lo n tichols, Wa. Ba lan 15,1810 Mary Swann Lo Yakllen Healt, batik si -{ of South Yadkin & hoth sides of Litile Duichnan’s alou & de Alkea) ' acres machi of tract wiieh Thomas fi Ja conp. és Rok’ Beokl Feh 7,1792 (A- 377) and ier cu Ros he ent. death lo lary Swann(who al thal ies was his wi fe.) bn bieiue ne will & Lestarent. Wit: Zaehardah Real, John Nichols. Faoven ‘lay R, (S06. - ‘ , , / R } i On ) ‘4LAGL AR (> ‘a y vw a y, 7 rm ’ f L- os Ae AA DOMAA Or july (3, 1819 Vent. inda(X} Nonthenuft to Wm H Tomlinson, 0th of (2, for $300" On 40u side of Nain Rocky Ca. fu Donaldson’s Mith { nexi- iv Dixon, Benjamin Joh ‘nsdn, Shan pies hae) Lo fork of YonrtAenafll and loon Sprini baanches OLA oe Rocky | Cr. (58 acnes conveyed fy JoAn o ipnleton Lo kes Land Pites Io jJeneniah ] Pi fes (Be2c 2) t6 Verbinda Northe pi (790. (B-467 7, Bud hea name iol in thal deed }. Wits Wm Sunnez Ca akdwell, Faoved Feh, t&20 jesse Swann of Claxk Co. (nd a py oinl & fLawiutl attoaney for (i Creen 2, J0s& eg TBLad phen, john Silas, flitus « (saiah lewnan o Co. Ind. Aug 18,1830, Signed Hugh Likeon, Justice of Jeace, Cla Nay (5, 182% Benjamin johnson, @ waad of the” Ba plist Church of Jesus / f : fp} . i : hnist” paid Lo Ho: men Honan $6 Or 2 aenes fon d4ne Papa Ci O estes Lharst j tis g tak fad lin Duson on sou site of South ladhin. Wit: lsatian Cote i) Di Son oe Ye4o fiat 21,1841 Hezekiah johnson of Fayetie Co, Tenn. appt join i. lunchison 2) Fi Abner Feins ter Lo ask , for and demanc! lo see ine neconds of Live executors of the estate of james jJoinson, dec'’d. "Count of pkeas & quarter 42454104 oo ae ee Aug tenn, (841, the execution of the within power of aiionney wed Gut pone on in open court hy the oath of RWW Feinsten, one of the sulsenibing ' fo ; _ ja ~~ Ae Ll wiinesses Hesdio id Ad recorded & oadened Lo he rnegstlerec sts ARAL XARELA nny (838-18 54 C MwWann, £, <, 1764 life, Rath ay Mee? Swann, wile Vaney MZ. Bothos Nethodis2 Church lonce Paathen?s Chapel } ies Abe/ 1/7 19/ rea. Lenjami ae & s Jat Te A 9, 1846 Meet a ae 4 » w Ep idss ¢. Apa 7 (779, d, “Nay £5, (853 geargn, 4 at4 ‘ flay (4, 1856 E l call of Mel. 7a2etaey 4on of Samuel Beall, Sn (706= “1780, bon. of anes Beall 22 (674- “(71D, son - Ninio R Reottl S2 of Snow pice Mhdrecs Church founded 1302 Qin 3 Asa jel som sf ie aut nie 2 d. Dow: 8,18 58 1, 4778. do: Fel (8, 1840 a2 4 24, (852,00 75 , years 4 mo, ted thi, 7 Life yet (0, js ged 69 tn “er panes” JOuNSON f. te oH t/6, (770, amo, ( dao. “184, Baptist CA neon Nan tf 9 We f2séiec! a ¥ the C2034” New Ho 0 pe ; wrillen Ang 27, (794 Rohenrt Beaks a y Elednon, Chas, Hedted A jacok Nichols ‘-udydné rah? ? » Reason, loA fObe ph. ‘Sad tee Lo _ 43 +373 A Ann A Ceo SL = £025 Fred 3D 2/2 ye Bate fet: A+ A s+~ Ce ae - ape ote Ad. <_< Wren | or i ee Tr wo L Qi AZ~ td a Cr at yp / aod ee hes pk ae 4 mee q teens fowe = en ot ask & wend jnee, Pe en if Rare Fell PT ce eed. PCD bane oes 2 a JEM — pone Mee te Lock at. $A : hed jorwk barrA Coat “Te? ) es Pare es oe potiacwrrebei 72 BS O pe aud Darl Prati. A. H. MC KECHNIE BOX 496 R#¥; CRESTWOOD, KY. 40014 Dean llr. Swann, ( spent anothen whole day in the Clark County, (nd. courthouse; and am satisfied in my mind thal either Baker Johnson oa (larkka Swann ane the ones you have given me 40 much dala on. ( went through the Oader Books which ane hgndwaitlenand not very well alphahetized. There | found, under dafe, Aug 31, (830, the adninistratonrs'-hond of Baker Johnson’s estate was signed hy JOHN Dd. JOUNSOW and Samuel Prather. .This also stated that the letter of adninis- Lration was in Wilk Bh B( They have Losi will Looks B and C ) ( Looked alk through Clark County deeds and Jef erson Couniy, Ky deeds, hut could find none Joa John D. Johnson. { hooked ai akk for , é — F a John johnson and found several; one had wife, Sinah, and the other, Mike ie 4 There was one deed of a Hannah, widow of John johnson and tieia only son, Hlonatio, in (849. * Of course, John D.. coukd have heen visiting them wien Bakea died. : The onden book had anothen item of inicnest; May 26, (829, Sargan and Solomon Prathea, heins of Aaron faathenr, deceased, chose Samu Paathen as yuandian; hond of $3000 was secured hy Lloyd Prather, S.S. Prathe and BAKER JOHNSON. | Thene was no Jesse nor Asa Swann in the deed or will Looks in Clank County, Ind. noasrin, Jefferson County, Ky. ( did find, in jelt Co-, Basil Pratien died hefohd 1810, teaving widow, Frances, dau of Leorge Meriwether. Basil had executed a deed in Charkh Co., (nd. in 1789 and Aanon Prather in (810. Henry Prather, private, had received some Land ; in the (Llinois ynant in Clank counly, accoadiny Lo the oniginal survey bh ( also found, in the deed “onka; that Paken’s estate was didided among the foun sons aften Martha died; and Silas wes in Jefjerson Co., k u“ with wife, Enily. So, that Rachel, mentioned in the Rille as boan in WC, must have died as a baky. ( do not know if you want all this “stuff” on the Prathens, ful ( couldn’i find any Swann dain Lo send you. . ( hope your garden is growing nicely; ours Looks fine. 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Coho. te / IL ja bof a Nt2 -Lleg” Taree See ihe a: PS oe Cad fhiegG ( a Dear Mr, Swann, Thank you s0 mich for the Letters to Andrew Johnson, T Copied them Carefully and can not S€@ why they couldn't tell me anything in Raleich about Jacob, if ine hag a statue there, YO you know from which issue of the No. Car, Historica) teview this came? 5 wwe 2 Little checking, In the 1880 census, Thl chman Said he was born in } s and his moth or in North Carolina, ( Ky censu Also, in the 1830 census thePe was listed Behe eae 300K. 80, she dia have Silas with } Rachel being Silas: wife (| forgot to look for + As to the deeds; there loesn't seem to be any toretherness about the time nor ke the place of Settlement, but here the early ones are 3 pg 1 21 "eb, 1801; surveyed for Prather 100 acres if kand allowed him by the board issioner n the Dlinois crant and vart of erant J 7 - 1 99. I Shreader of Jeff Co Ky to Isaac Holman (for $600 ) S being a part of a 500 acre Survey #15; 4+ being part of Claim of 150,000 acres Sranted to officers and Soldiers of Dlinois Reet ment May 10,1813; Soo acres in grant 4:6 to Robert Holman Mar 9, 1826; M 221 Prather, merchant ffersonvil le, Ws ' Clark and at corner of Front and Ash Sts in town of Utica, 25) 2 Lentz and wife, Catherine, sold to Baker Johnson anq wife, : Martha, 50 acres in erant*16 for 3700, 286 October 9,183; Baker Johnson Paid $140 for 1+ acres ( 14 acres ana 53 perches) in grant 16 from John Miller and wife, Hannah, 7 146 Aucust }:,1896; Baker Johnson and wife, Marth- )to Hannah’ Ashton lot #1 in the town of Utien ( witness- John Prather) 25) Aur 14,1827 Baker Johnson and wi fe, Martha, sold the 50 acres for 3700 to Abraham Ashton There were three Swan that receiged grants for se John Swan in 17993 William in 1797, and Richard in 179) Le A Jacob Swan of Scott Co, Ky ( wife Sally) bourht land in Clark oO%Sept 25,1805 lth George Rogers Clark: f : ; «x / j ia. f Giddy “fp 4 eS @ : ) mx Wy Ue. Z Mera yAughw ‘ A i Bo. 7 fa Lk k é Ld t ’ = é ? ) j ‘Oye Went & Anette, WJ “ cad a é ~ ped Gomme. A aleg aehJ f Bu, | did cal itis pet Wrouvcg ROM bw dads Tas - | (‘zt / } herhetounr, Acker | ee shen Oe a a. Sct. rant tiv acd Me rr ohen, f hey 2. v f j Wejime dt “Fs age 0 son nahn efewie Te Leet LWA. C AM Blok f - ; ak + j ‘i OL fe vd ; uty < abet 2 ‘ahah pied Wa ned a Athos f ¥ Vethin yeru OER ay. AM dg Prd ted Vd) 2 a yy iy * JOuNsIN oe ene a oa Thilman Johngen " I A Aree et sley Yohnsen ewis Johnson + Cipied fron NOUS. sent by 7 Baker Johngan to Ji ce ae eremiah Gailbro thes Lovelace < 19 27 Baker Johnsan witness to deed 1799, K 49 21 12h 3aker y Wht ‘ this Ben janz. Se ean ead wife Aum to in Cale 6 Gh § ie ks oe 3 “Ell Book 1 page 35), will witnessed by4Zeph Seams Vi/th Vicks Banne tt James Johnson Mie > “Asa Johngon ni 5 Benjauin % Raghel Alben Wyson, lz } oh & 90 1 > yy on ? Br WW | i Dyson son of ton Dyson, hal Other to a. WOUIN » Box 1:7-Rt 1 st: te. u 2sVill By, “nt ” -79 acres little reek join ied ~ oe SOaning Barton pybiyy 3 Book C p 63 _— Andrew Torort ¢ | ac ‘e! ‘a 1§ about 70 acres Zeph Swann : +, el a +o 1812 — 74 rill. dated Apr g 1312 Iredell Go x i Joseph Alb {3 332 tae pot \O) lydia rasgmis : r OVvela 7) Jeromiah ~ lied ~ before] $12 Lleren 3 ‘ ‘7 = Swen j descendent Of 4 : Wel ae - wks re ; oe 4 : ; Canna linna nid : t rie + ‘ L vai! Wk. 4 A | Sram, ctme t/ 265 a“ « ayy lends appre he Ok: Oklahoma C ey ; vine , Dear Mr. Swann, Last-week I received a letter from a “Ming Fay Love- lace, Box 514, Bonham, Texas. Sne had heard of me through a Texas Lovelace cousin I had sent a reat deal of information you supplied to me, She is s retired. worver with the Texas State Department of Public Welfare, She is a descendant of John Baptist Lovelace through Charles, Thomas, and two sons of Thomas: Charles and William, wno came to Bonham, Texas in the middle 1200's. Don't know just how she is a creat randdaugnter of the two brothers, but she stated that she was.’ She said she had been collecting for several years history for the Lovelace and Holman lineg, I remember you had me to read scove census ricrofilms: of this Lovelace family in North Texss two or three years ago. I told her of you, and h much nelp tha’ you had been to me, but that you had written to me recently that you were having to curtail a lot of your cenealorical correspondence. Since she is working on both the Lovelace “and Holman lines, you may find she has information you wou like to add to your recoris, In case ou don't want to go to the trouble of repeating a lot of the infor ation you sent me, I told her all my records were avails le a time she wanted then. I also heard from Mrs. Richard Fercugon of 1astonia, North Carolina yesterday. She said so many nice thi nes of you that I knew to be. I know nothine of your material worth--I have always guessed that you were neither rich nor poor, but I know you save untold treasures in friends who always speak so hignly of you. As I have told u in previous letters, you are the one person do so mucn want to meet, but I do not know when that will be possible, I searched the 1420 census of Rowan Co nty, and I trust i that I have the inform tion you desired, In the first part “ of the census--it doesn't show the geovraphicel location-- I found a John D. Jonnson. -Here are the members of that household: 1 male between 16 and 18 a. t . 26 and 4s 2 females under 10 2 between 16 and 26 2 . 45 and upwards, rneqe be/Y re J the 1820 ceneus of Rowan County has families in the 6 localities ligated alphabetically, and some of it doesn't, but in a group of _ fifty or more fanilies under ° "'Rattallion on Fork of the Yadkin", I found these Johnson families? — e. "John Johnson 1 male of 45 and upwards 1 female of 45 and upwards Baker Johnson 1 male between 10 and 16 1 . ° 26 and 45 1 female " 26 and 45 " Baker Johnson, Jr. 1 male under 10 - 1 © between 26 and 45 _ 1 female * 26 and 45 We have had too much rain in Oklahoma thie spring, and a@ go@@ many minor hail storms and tornadoes. Our crops looked unusually good until the heavy rains began. I hope you have other work that I can do for you, I hate ace to be apologetic abouting asking my help, as I feel that I will never be able to repay you for the many 4 7 things you have done for me, hope you are well and Ghat you have a very pleasant summer, Sincerely, on pest 4 UL. OAR hmeose % Ber Tohweon Lu uch vofe es. Ye a Mab haar of nese than ‘oan thet oA. cltdn A Rat Role $ Qwdeis me toatl a nc? Stasi che Co) ALL. "ta the WAR Palrrel Didar wb mt fn ch DAR Peper 2 Ye Catherine Wrovehunlen Rows Reba (7, Pasadlng.. na.) Aud fromedk Co Ri | Ce. Seb 30, 47 A, use 1, 1¢i } june Ci rniine tf feck vrerchinf (b. Get 27,196) ~ un 18 CO Rou hm ham d) Thomas Sohwisen (Far 19,1202 - -Opud 4 197) Cornell Deveas Se dice wiek Ci fry irog - thee if ,!170 ) Thomas 3. wa'so 5 Thomas Tehnson C1696 -1719) Gud Mary Cweldcy Seanad 4[reficss Tews lh. Sow } Tormes ‘de AUS enn Om, Der Thy See thew. (ue pa es The mas 3 ae fut “ew: Peg) A we tithes Sass “Addr Macktour J he 79. Prad | G md, J Coke fachaw, tern Ade Onhe Johar, ju Re Ming. f loom He vend. ph Suman eras Atom on Yhanlied tr L240. @rudh.keo Ba. Thien, Wright He, ot Rees sc | [pom herbed Seyazhin? 4 Aratlin 4 Uf Bebiu deface (rehebly wibfet chacbing omy part | Qipao whe Cres m Dts on nh b, Brews come Wh ot thc: thant nt wily 5 ft Y Oat) Thee Repth omy Lelong ov Bcbbes aude, af Lonrac, b Balin % thy man Ne, guy ‘ i elaioa' ove MathedaL jooitlit a tharat. 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A f, U . / es f eee G. 9% fe nt Lew af C Cc 7 rv ain Vad: hore oe mr so f ay i oe — met ee So « feel ’ : iP a “ f-4 ete Rooks gn 4s (1 = 3-24, Kye a 1 es demo f( 4 Ss a J ehrii. fell OF [iaiA tee J aie bapa Li12725 eeecee 7 bee a re es But, through corres and is a Scott connection corresponding with f< to have this hobby yhen a I am still pu locate mv Baker. Af census of North | ‘arolina, who are avic lan tie u artha Swann was a Methodist, * ee Duke who referred me ake Junaluska referred me to a xe iomer * itten D Vi) ho 43 < . + . : aa ann GWO DOYS » WLW £ith Rh man, i never been the deed of ayen thouch SVE ALOULT thoueht tha t. Dera = received some infornati about Ty | “i t »? 4 wr anth- Zevhaniah - to see ii mm irtha oe Out anything am tempted [.C.with me xt summer. I baled would be the best pace copy of the wil ; her ~~ aker J > been a urpuss" Tawi - uw anuary /) waa FP /F6 F ¥ 4 a aon F bates Dain. Ba 9 tn eras hha gat KP SD ott x Leth Mefoen] Selirdog aS nde. UHhen Vu hu. a bidet Aeassmber ibat ie Ka sete ‘- 179 4 eo he om IZPIRD's } Nes. i HElkaen G, Sod. (Pubbihd hy BF Reem Co, Irdiansieles 1907 ) T hand Yuutl fh Sac Saring im Aeduseleey BT FinLe wth hang Reyne hark’ | Lit bivet a, Sika CErss ) ret William Swan eee Neng Pretiun Is ” :, tt ts John Tohnson Te as Page, we Aika aes Nudie Scirmasad Fath: Wharbcandiccad &. Yai Nelo Sots co Sis whe Weewriad A Cathrine her 2. , Aaah tin ADAVICD LuT2 wks Came pom No . I$d0 8 si Nii, Ces ¢C eben oy ft p ic Es EY able ee vist alabile at (Publi by BEB eu. Co, ddranatelis 1909 ) i hand Yul Thene Sarrting on Acdicab-oy, dp Orhek ) Fab wath hang Ropero Clark’ | Fe, John Sua. COST aeres ) lhe m IBPIR D's Nislory BE bagk G, wy iver . We tlarn Swan Catron. town auc lo ears al ’ Pret fe Ff cf Johw Zahrson : TE Rea Pebthu,, ‘6 Rew Urss Jude aesed leart. hth ha Wes Nibman kad a Sen Siov whe enna Catering hut Aout, ADAVID LUT? Whe Cass pen Do. 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