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2011 2.pdfDavie Dossier Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina April 2011, Issue 2 Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society MEETINGS ARE HELD THE FOURTH TUESDAY (January through November) President Linda Leonard Vice President Secretary Pat Reilly, interim Treasurer Marie Roth Board of Directors Pat Reilly, Claude Horn Dossier Editors Marie Roth, Doris Frye Webmaster Marie Roth Our Website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs has these features: All the churches in Davie County Cemeteries in Davie County with locations National Register of Historic Places sites Names on the War Memorial in Mocksville Index to Bible Records at DCPL Order blanks so you don’t tear up Dossier Townships as listed on US Census, 1790 - 1930 Meeting Dates and Programs Guardian Accounts, Davie Co. 1846- 1859 Apprentice Bonds, Davie Co. 1829 -1859 1974 booklet about old schools in Davie Additional info: Davie County School History New: Branson’s NC Business Directories for Davie on our Web site Another Website about Davie County genealogy and history: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Davie_County%2C_North_Carolina DAVIE CO. HISTORICAL and GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PROGRAMS, 7 pm at the library: January 25, A tribute to Mr. James Wall and Frances “Pan” Beck. Description of the process of writing a book and self-publishing on the Internet. Marie Roth described the steps she took to write History of Davie County Schools. The book will be available for purchase. See page 7 for information for ordering. February 22, Betty West, her scrapbooks and describe the trips she took to see all the museums of US Presidents. These holidays were a great time for you to collect photos and personal histories from your families so that you can compile a scrapbook about your people. March 22 Debi Dotson and Jane McAllister, presentation of a program about their most recent book Images of America, Mocksville. The book will be available for purchase. Order blank on page 7. April 26 Heather Fearnbach description of the process of attaining National Historic Registry status for an area. Farmington has recently achieved this. May 7, Daniel Boone Festival on Mocksville Square. Come help us with our booth and tours. This festival will take the place of our May meeting. June 28, Marriage Month – we’ll discuss our society’s marriage books, other sources of marriage information, preservation of wedding photos, dresses, and newspaper articles. Bring items to show that relate to wedding information. Humor is welcome also. Marriage Bonds of 1741-1868 will also be discussed. July 26, August 13, Yadkin Valley Historical Association conference at Surry County Community College. Theme is “Saving the Cemeteries of the Yadkin Valley”. This workshop will take the place of our regular meeting. Car pooling will be available. September 27 October 25 November 22 Davie Dossier 2011 2, April, page 2 OTHER GENEALOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU Thursday, April 14, 6-8 pm at Davie County Public Library is a book signing by all Davie authors or authors who have written or compiled books about Davie. You are cordially invited. Saturday, April 30, noon to 5 pm is a Genealogical/Historical Book Sale at High Point Public Library, 211 South Hamilton Street in High Point. The title is “GenFest 2011" and there will be book sellers and vendors for the entire Piedmont area. May 11-14, National Genealogical Society Annual Meeting at North Charleston SC Convention Center. Theme is “Where the Past is Present”. www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/conference_info September 7-10, Federation of Genealogical Societies at Springfield, IL. Theme is “Pathways to the Heartland”. www.fgs.org /2011conference/index.php NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES AND STATE LIBRARY 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh NC Your editor spent two days at these wonderful libraries in March. There are three libraries in the building. When you first arrive, you check in at the security desk. You must have picture ID with you. On the first floor (Government and Heritage Library) there is a search library of books and microfilm of various subjects. Some of the books can be browsed and some are in closed stacks. Hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30-5:00. On the mezzanine, there is the Genealogy Library. You cannot take in briefcases, big purses, or computer cases. There are a few lockers for these items. Books are arranged by states and counties. These are open stacks. There are a few computers with some resources which are paid subscriptions on your own computer at home. One of these is footnote.com . Description of this library is at this site: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/genealogy/index.html . Hours for this library are Monday - Friday, 8:30-5:00; Saturday 9-5. Online catalog for these two libraries is at http://go.dcr.state.nc.us/. It is called Government and Heritage Library Catalog. Up on the second floor is the Archives library. Restrictions are even tighter about what can be taken into this library. Take pencils instead of pens. You will need lots of pockets for camera and quarters for paper copies of microfilm. Old original documents are in this library, such as the school records and minutes which I researched for my recent book History of Davie County Schools. On this recent trip, I was studying the books and microfilm relating to Davie County servicemen in World War I, my next book. I used a camera to photograph the screen of the microfilm reader. My iPhone 4 also took excellent images of the screen. The online catalog for this third library is named MARS, (Manuscript and Archives Reference System), http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/BasicSearch.aspx. This library is closed on Mondays. Hours are Tuesday-Friday 8:00-5:30 and Saturday 9:00-5:00. If you arrive early, you can find a parking place in the big lot in front of the building. It is approximately a dollar an hour. Lots of one-way streets are in this area, so be aware ! Online Map: http://www.visitraleigh.com/pdf/dtmap.pdf. If you plan a trip, double-check the hours the libraries are open. Perhaps hours will be cut in this bad economy. Within one block is the NC Museum of History and the NC Museum of Natural History. The two buildings occupy an entire block. Admission to the museums is free. The NC Legislative Building is also very near. You would enjoy a trip to Raleigh to enjoy all these special features. Davie Dossier 2011 2, April, page 3 WORLD WAR I AND DAVIE COUNTY The previous article mentioned the editor’s book-in-progress about men serving in World War I. If you have information to share that can be included in this book, please E-mail with suggestions or photos (MarieBCR@gmail.com or 336.745.5537). According to the World War I Draft Registrations on Ancestry.com, 2,315 men from Davie County had to sign up for the draft. There is no one list that includes all the men who actually served. The sources used so far are: ■ Honorable Discharges in the Register of Deeds office ■ Davie County 1930 US census which asked if the man had served in the military and had been in a war. “WW” was listed for this war because there had only been one world war at that time. There were 184 men listed as being in WWI. Here is a breakdown of the twelve areas in Davie County and the number who went to war: Calahaln 17, Clarkesville 17, Farmington east 24, Farmington west 8, Fulton 9, Jerusalem east 14, Jerusalem northwest 6, Jerusalem southwest 27, Mocksville in town 25, Mocksville outside town 21, Advance 1, Shady Grove 15. ■ our society’s cemetery books ■ online death records on Ancestry.com. ■ Draft registration of men identified (Ancestry.com) The World War I draft consisted of three separate registrations. •First Registration. The registration on 5 June 1917, was for men aged twenty-one to thirty- one—men born between 6 June 1886 and 5 June 1896. •Second Registration. The registration on 5 June 1918, was for men who had turned twenty- one years of age since the previous registration—men born between 6 June 1896 and 5 June 1897. Men who had not previously registered and were not already in the military also registered. In addition, a supplemental registration on 24 August 1918, was for men who turned twenty-one years of age since 5 June 1918. •Third Registration. The registration on 12 Sept 1918, was for men aged eighteen to twenty- one and thirty-one to forty-five—men born between 11 Sept 1872 and 12 Sept 1900. ■ Service cards (86,000+) that were typed for the NC servicemen. They have been microfilmed (fifty 16 mm rolls) and can be searched in the NC Archives. They can be bought for $10 per roll. Names of men are alphabetized. The county name is on each card. This is the biggest set of information and will mean several more trips for me to go to Raleigh. ■ Davie County newspapers on microfilm in the History Room of Davie County Public Library Interviews with descendants and copying photographs to include in the book will also occur. There are names of 18 men on the monument downtown in Mocksville denoting death from war- related injuries or illnesses. The compiled list of those who served is about 334 at this point, but there will probably be others discovered. Thirty-six of these 334 were African American men. Davie Dossier 2011 2, April, page 4 ROSENWALD SCHOOLS IN DAVIE COUNTY Many of the African American schools constructed in North Carolina in the1920s were built using the Rosenwald Fund. Established by Sears and Roebuck president, Julius Rosenwald, the fund provided plans for school buildings of various sizes to meet the community’s specific needs, and required the local school district to pay for part of the construction. North Carolina’s first Rosenwald School was built in Chowan County. The state eventually became home to 813 Rosenwald Schools, of which twenty-six were located in Mecklenburg County. Davie County had two Rosenwald Schools built in 1925 – brick school on Campbell Road and North Cooleemee (wooden building). Rosenwald Schools in NC: http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/civilrights1/rosenwald.htm Preservation of Rosenwald Schools: http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/southern-region/rosenwaldschools/ Searchable database of Southern Rosenwald Schools: http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/?module=search Books about Rosenwald Schools: Dear Mr. Rosenwald by Carole Boston Weatherford. Juvenile literature describing the building of a Rosenwald school. North Cooleemee Elementary, a Rosenwald School Location: Neely Road, close to and on northwest side of Friendship Baptist Church (photo: Cooleemee Historical Association) “A Rosenwald school was built. There were two classrooms and two teachers. It was a wood school built on the north edge of Cooleemee near Friendship Baptist Church. (Cooleemee, The Life and Times of a Mill Town by Jim Rumley, page 228) The Latitude and Longitude of the location is 35.9064, -80.5529 Historic name: Cooleemee School Building Plan: Two-teacher type Building Type: School Budget year: 1924-25 Land (acreage): 2.00 Application #: 18-D Total Cost: $4,397 Funding Sources: Whites: $850 Public: $2,847 Rosenwald: $700 (15.9%) data from:http://rosenwald.fisk.edu “A contract for erecting a building for colored children was awarded to the Boyles Building Company, consideration $3,000. The building to be built according to the Rosenwald Plan.” (Board of Education minutes, page 379, August 18, 1924) Davie Dossier 2011 2, April, page 5 Rosenwald, Davie Training Center, Central Davie, Colored Graded, Mocksville Graded Location: 220 Campbell Road, Booetown, Mocksville This school location for African American students had many names through the years. The following information describes the brick Rosenwald school. Rosenwald School Historic Name: Mocksville Schoolhouse Building Plan: Six-Teacher type Building Type: School Budget Year: 1924-25 Land (Acreage): 2.25 Application #: 42-D Total Cost: $20,000.00 Ins. $10,000 Funding Sources: Negroes: $2,500 Whites: $500 Public: $15,500 Rosenwald: $1,500 (7.5%) Data and first photo to left from John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Fisk University, online: http://rosenwald.fisk.edu Rosenwald School built in 1925 on Campbell Road Rosenwald School and Students on Campbell Road Page 5 and 6 are excerpted from History of Davie County Schools. Davie Dossier 2011 2, April, page 6 USE THIS PAGE FOR ORDERING ITEMS AND/OR PAYING DUES. 2011 2 April (Out of state residents don’t pay state tax when ordering.) Title Author non- NC NC res.No.Cost BOOKS: Davie County...A Brief History, paperback James W. Wall, 128 pages $9.00 $9.39 The Boone Families in Davie County Wall, Howell Boone, and Flossie Martin $8.00 $8.31 Davie County Marriages 1836-1900 Nancy K. Murphy $25.00 $26.55 Davie County Marriages 1901-1959 Nancy K. Murphy $25.00 $26.55 Davie County Cemeteries, a 2-volume set D.C. Historical/Gen. Soc. $55.00 $58.88 1860 Federal Census-Davie County Nancy K. Murphy and Everette Sain $20.00 $21.16 1870 Federal Census-Davie County Nancy K. Murphy and Everette Sain $20.00 $21.16 1880 Federal Census-Davie County Nancy K. Murphy and Everette Sain $20.00 $21.16 MAPS OF DAVIE COUNTY: Lagle Land Grant $8.00 $8.31 Hughes Historical, 1700's, drawn in 1977 $8.00 $8.31 J.T. Alderman, 1887 $6.00 $6.47 Wilson F. Merrell, 1928 NEW ! $6.00 $6.47 POSTCARDS OF DAVIE CO. SCENES (set of 8) $2.50 $2.50 CD of all issues Davie Dossier since 1987 $7.00 $7.39 TOTAL NUMBER AND COST Make check to DCHGS and send to address at bottom of page. Prices include tax, postage, and handling. Davie County Heritage Book, non-NC resident cost is $45; NC resident cost is $48.10. Make check to Davie County Heritage Book. Use DCHGS address below. The Historic Architecture of Davie Co., non-NC resident cost is $30; NC resident cost is $31.94. History of Davie County, hardback, by James W. Wall, 449 pages; non-NC resident cost is $30; NC resident cost is $31.94. Make check to Davie County Public Library. Use DCHGS address below. The Civil War Roster of Davie County by Mary Alice Miller Hasty and Hazel Miller Winfree incorporates biographical and military service sketches of 1,147 Davie County Civil War veterans. Non-NC resident cost is $60. NC resident cost is $64.26. Checks should be made out to M & M Books and sent to Mary Alice Hasty, 105 East Brick Walk Court, Mocksville NC 27028. Images of America, Davie County by Debra Dotson and Jane McAllister. 128 page book of old photos and descriptions. Order from Jane McAllister, DCPL, 371 N. Main St., Mocksville NC 27028. Make check to Jane McAllister. Non-NC resident cost is $26.99. NC resident cost is $28.69. Images of America, Mocksville by Debra Dotson and Jane McAllister. Book 2 by these authors features photographs with details in Mocksville and a few other Davie communities. The same ordering information applies as listed for book one. Looking Back at Davie County in the1950s and 1960s by Charles Crenshaw and Ron Smith. This 304 page book of 700 photographs taken by Ron’s father, Gray Smith, will bring back memories of people and places in Davie County. The book is $38 (tax included) and postage is $4 more. Mail orders to Charles Crenshaw, 421 Park Avenue, Mocksville NC 27028. NEW ! History of Davie County Schools, 318 pages, by Marie Benge Craig Roth has photos, locations, and names of students and teachers of schools. Most of the 149 schools are listed with latitude and longitude. There is an 18 page index of 3,222 names. A chronology describes the evolution of the school system in Davie. Genealogists and historians will want to check the index. Make check to Marie Roth for $40.26 for non-residents and $43 for NC resident. Mail to 276 Park Avenue, Mocksville NC 27028. MEMBERSHIP for a calendar year is still just $5.00/year. Life Membership is $100 per person. We are 501(c)(3) and dues are tax deductible. Below is a registration form for your use; checks, payable to the Society. DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (DCHGS) Davie County Public Library 371 Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 NAME _____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society 371 Main Street Mocksville NC 27028 April 26 Heather Fearnbach description of the process of attaining National Historic Registry status for an area. Farmington has recently achieved this. May 7, Daniel Boone Festival on Mocksville Square. Come help us with our booth and tours. This festival will take the place of our May meeting. June 28, Marriage Month – we’ll discuss our society’s marriage books, other sources of marriage information, preservation of wedding photos, dresses, and newspaper articles. Bring items to show that relate to wedding information. Humor is welcome also. Marriage Bonds of 1741-1868 will also be discussed.