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2006 1.pdfDAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 1 There will be a meeting of the Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society on Thursday, February 23, 2006, at the Davie County Public Library. All members are urged to attend. HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS A big change in our mailing address. Frances “Pan” Beck has been appointed as the new Secretary-Treasurer for the Society and all correspondence should be sent to her at the following address: Frances A. Beck, 1131 Wagner Road, Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 A new year has started. Check the address label on the front of the Dossier to find the expiration date of your membership in the Society (the year is noted after your name). On the last page of the Dossier is an application blank for your use. Now that so many of our members are computer literate, we are requesting that you consider submitting your email addresses to our office. There are times when we might want to contact you by email to notify you of upcoming meetings or to ask for your opinions. You can submit your address by contacting Aubrey Wensil, awensil@yadtel.net + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + MEETING OF THE SOCIETY The Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society held a meeting January 24, 2006 in the History Room of the Library with 11 members present.It was announced that Doris Frye had resigned her position as Secretary-Treasurer of the Society and Frances Beck was selected to fill her position. A new board member, Dale McCulloh, was elected to fill the vacancy left by Frances’s move. The Board of Directors and those present agreed to scheduling a new format for future meetings of the Society. The meetings will be held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the History Room of the Davie County Library. Mark your calendars. On February 4 at 9:00 a.m., a trip is planned to trace the Daniel Boone Trail/Old Wagon Road –2nd Creek in Rowan Co. to Cornwallis’s Gorge, through Davie Co. Frontier Family Festival, sponsored by the Davie County Chamber of Commerce. This very active committee will have their festival on August 19, 2006. The Davie Arts Council is working closely with us on this event. They are writing a musical that will have its opening night on August 18. This event will be family oriented and highlight a wedding re-enactment of Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryant commemorating their 250th Wedding Anniversary. There will also be heritage food vendors, handmade crafts, re-enactments and commercial vendors. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 2 A SAD GOODBYE After working for thirty-nine years in the Davie County Public Library, Doris Frye is retiring. Although Doris had reached retirement age many years ago, she stayed on in the job she loved on a part-time basis; however, recent health problems changed her mind and she has decided to slow down and turn in a different direction. Doris came to Davie County from Greensboro when she married a local lad, Avalon Frye, and raised her family –a son, Keith, and a daughter, Karen. She now has three wonderful grandchildren –all girls –that she can watch grow and mature. Although Doris was working at the reference desk, Miss Flossie Martin soon spotted her and cajoled her into helping her in the History Room.At the age of 97, Miss Flossie retired from the Library and Doris stepped in to fill the vacancy. Doris was “in charge” when the new History Room was completed and was instrumental in much of the planning. The wonderful comments and tributes that have come from people who have visited the History Room, and conducted genealogical and historical researches, are all a testament to the work and dedication that Doris has made. We will all miss her presence but we will benefit from her endeavors for years to come. Thank you, Doris. We wish you a long and pleasant retirement. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A HAPPY “HELLO” How fortunate we are to have Jane McAllister as the new History Room Librarian. Born and raised in Maryland, Jane graduated from Wake Forest University with degrees in History and Business Administration. She worked for the US Treasury in Washington, DC, before earning an MBA from the University of Virginia –where she met her husband Charles McAllister. He had just received his PhD and to be closer to both of their employees (Wachovia Bank for Jane and Catawba College for Charlie) they moved to Mocksville –half-way between work for both of them. To pursue her love of history, Jane gravitated to the Davie County Public Library and her appetite was whetted. The Library had no openings for employment so she enrolled at UNC-G to study for a Masters degree in Library Science. However, before the semester started, she was offered a part-time job at the Library –an opportunity she could not turn down.When Doris Frye decided to retire, Jane had just received her degree and was the perfect person to fill the position. Although only on the job for a short time, Jane has acclimated herself to the History Room and is quite knowledgeable about the location of materials and other procedures. A delightful lady, Jane will be happy to answer and assist any who have questions or comments. She can be reached most days at 336-751-2023 or email: jane.mcallister@co.davie.nc.us * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 3 NEW BOOKS IN HISTORY ROOM GROWING UP IN DAVIE COUNTY, Reflections from One Hundred Years Ago; Dr. Jamie W. Moore, Editor. William Jamie Moore, 1902-2000 (grandfather of the editor) grew up in Davie County in a time that he has lovingly preserved through his stories. He mentions names, places, businesses –all the while giving descriptions of the rich rural and small-town culture of the day. Many Davie County residents will find out what life is like in a small town and county. They will find their relatives mentioned and experience the activities of the days before paved roads, electricity, and modern telephone service. This nostalgic and heart-warming book should find its place in the annals of social history of a day when life moved at a slower pace and people had time for each other.The Introduction from this book follows: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + My mother had dressed me in my warmest suit and rolled me in a blanket from head to toe against the December wind to make the trip from Liberty Hill to Mocksville in the back seat of the two horse buggy. For local travel in 1902 you elected to go on horseback or hooked the horse to some vehicle. There was not one automobile in the county and few if any in the whole state of North Carolina. The first airplane, such as it was, had not as yet left the ground. In those days you were not going anywhere very fast. With the early morning start we had plenty of time to travel the seven miles to Mocksville and move into our new home. I took no part in the activities that day other than mostly eating and sleeping to add to my one month age. At 85 I don’t really work in the same manner I did for so many years or maintain a schedule in which I go to work certain hours. Generally I use my time as I see fit. I must confess that I had in some recent months thought about getting a dog, only a small one of course, but he would be a pleasure to have around, but then I know I can’t walk a dog, or run with him as I once did. Instead, last week I bought a computer and printer. For my birthday about two months ago I with my wife went to have dinner with our son and daughter-in-law. While waiting for the cake to finish I asked where my grandson was since he had not come through the kitchen. I climbed the stairs to his room and there before an array of equipment he was completing a complicated something on the screen of his computer. Jamie Lee explained what it was and a tiny bit about how the object came into existence. When he finished he let me sit down at the keyboard to see if I could type “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” When I did it, he told me I could hit the wrong key and correct without erasing. I could also rearrange words, paragraphs and a dozen more things after which I could punch some more keys and this marvel would print what I had written, even give me more than one copy if I wished. I asked some more questions which he answered plus many words of information that I had not known enough to ask. Jamie Lee is barely seventeen and I think he knows a hundred, two hundred or maybe three hundred things about computers. Three summers at Duke University Computer Camp offered knowledge by the ton and he soaked it up like a sponge. I must be honest, my son got the computer for me while I sat by and listened to shop people talk. Over the next several days he brought it over, set up the desk, hooked up everything DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 4 and told me how to get started. Then he went home and I began. The first afternoon I called my son or his wife or my grandson four or five times because I could not make it do the next step. Now I have typed about three thousand words, some of them spelled correctly, and I must tell you it is a great joy, even though there have been a few setbacks,such as punching the wrong key and wiping out about 800 words which I had carefully t yped. There was a major reason for buying the computer. Over the past several years I have been writing events beginning mostly with 1902 and coming forward. These accounts have now climbed to about ninety thousand words and are still growing. The computer would be a great aid in arranging rewrites and printing the manuscript. ....Growing up, my roof was the sky, no building in town was mo re than two stories, the streets were dirt and lined with trees, yards were full of shade trees and grass. We seemed to have plenty of time and with some exceptions did not travel great distances. I was probably eighteen before I traveled more than 60 miles from home. Years later someone would write a song titled “Don’t Fence Me In.” In our small town we were not fenced in. I have no thought that we should go back to the old world, which we of course cannot, but I think perhaps our fellow travelers of today may miss something if they do not review and become familiar with the history of those customs and times. There were no Twinkies but we had Persimmon Puddings and plums were ten cents a gallon. These are of course personal experiences and interpretations of events which I thought might be of interest to my family, friends and perhaps some others since we have at one time been from zero to young to older and grown. Someone asked me when I was talking about things if I lived in the past. I think not. Wr iting stories on a modern computer, correcting the spelling with the aid of this same computer and then allowing it to print the entire collection of words I hardly view as the past. However, I suspect that because I know so much more about the past than I do of the future the events of yesterdays are likely to continue to show up in what I write. In many things I think I have been extremely fortunate. My grandson is so great that if you will come over some afternoon I will tell you about him. I truly hope when you reach my age your family has brought you equal happiness. Thank you for listening. January, 1988 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MICROFILM IN THE MARTIN-WALL HISTORY ROOM Arranged by Drawers 1 –9 Contributed by Marie Roth NC Davie Co.Dutchman’s Creek Church Record 3A The Buckner Family Genealogy 3A Genealogy of the Griffen Family 3A NC Iredell Co.Land Valuations for Direct Tax 1800 3A NC Mecklenburg Minutes County Court of Pleas, 1792-1808 3A NC Stokes Co.List of Taxables, 1790-1815 3A Civil War Newspapers, 1861-1881 3A NC Iredell Co.Taxables, 1837-1840 3A empty 3B NC Davie Co.Record of Estates, 1809-1936, A-H, 14 rolls 3C NC Davie Co.Record of Estates, 1809-1936, H-W, 13 rolls 3D DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 5 NC Davie Co.Marriage Bonds, 1836-1868, 3 rolls 4C yes empty 4D NC Davie Co.Minute Docket, 1837-1848, 1850-1879 4A NC Davie Co.Land Entries, 1837-1916 4A NC Davie Co.Index to Wills, Reverse Legatee, 1837-1970 4A NC Davie Co.Index to Wills, Direct Testator, 1837-1970 4A NC Davie Co.Records of Wills, 1837-1934 4A NC Davie Co.Index to Real Estate, Grantees, 1837-1934 4A NC Davie Co.Index to Real Estate, Grantors, 1837-1970 4A NC Davie Co.General Index to Administrators, Trustees, Estates, Agents 4A NC Davie Co.General Index to Administrators, Trustees, Estates, Trustees 4A NC Davie Co.County Court Minutes, 1837-1862 4A NC Davie Co.Record of Deeds, 3 rolls, 1837-1848 4A NC Davie Co.Index to Guardians and Wards, 1868-1935 4A NC Davie Co.Minutes of Board of County Commissioners, 1868-1923 4A NC Davie Co.Court Minutes, 1862, 1868 4B NC Davie Co.Minutes, Superintendent of Common Schools, 1841-1864 4B NC Davie Co.Tax Scrolls, 1843-1860 4B NC Davie Co.Tax Scrolls, 1869 4B NC Davie Co.Record of Estates, 1846-1854 4B NC Davie Co.Record of Resales, 1920-1970 4B NC Davie Co.Index to Special Proceedings, 1883-1970 4B NC Davie Co.Guardians Settlements, 1846-1868 4B NC Davie Co.Equity Minute Docket, 1837-1868 4B NC Davie Co.Record of Accounts, 1948-1963 4B NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1922-1968 5A NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1968-1979 5B NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1979-1987 5C NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1988-1991 5D NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1991-1997 6A NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 1997-2003 6B NC Davie Co.Davie County Enterprise Record, 2003-6C NC Davie Co.Cooleemee Journal, 5 rolls 6D NC Davie Co.Davie Record, 1899-1927 7A NC Davie Co.Davie Record, 1928-1943 7B NC Davie Co.Davie Record, 1944-1956 7C NC Davie Co.Mocksville Davie Times, 1881-1886 7D NC Davie Co.Mocksville Davie Times, 1887-1903 7D NC Davie Co.Mocksville Davie Times, 1912-1912 7D NC Rowan Co.Historical Record 8A NC Rowan Co.Index to Real Estate, Grantees, 1753-1921 8A NC Rowan Co.Index to Real Estate,Grantees, 1753-1921 8A NC Rowan Co.Index to Real Estate, Grantors, 1753-1921 8A NC Rowan Co.Index to Real Estate, Grantors, 1753-1921 8A NC Rowan co.Minutes, Court of Pleas, 1753-1795 8A NC Rowan Co.Minutes, Court of Pleas, 1753-1795 8A NC Rowan Co.Minutes, Court of Pleas, 1753-1772 8A NC Rowan Co.Minutes, Court of Pleas, 1773-1800 8A NC Rowan Co.Cross Index to Wills, 1761-1959 8A NC Rowan Co.Record of Wills, 1762-1805 8A NC Rowan Co.Record of Wills, 1799-1845 8A NC Rowan Co.Land Entries, 1778-1925 8A NC Rowan Co.Equity Court Minutes, 1815-1820 8A DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 6 NC Rowan Co.Superior Court Minutes, 1807-1809 8B NC Rowan Co.Superior Court Minutes, 1811-1819 8B NC Rowan Co.Superior Court Minutes, 1820-1849 8B NC Rowan Co.Tax Lists, 1802-1849 (some years missing)8B NC Rowan Co.Wardens of the Poor, 1818-1865 8B NC Rowan Co.Index to Map Books, 1800-1950 8B NC Rowan Co.Map Book, not recorded 1800-1950 8B NC Rowan Co.Processioner’s Return, 1803-1868 8B NC Rowan Co.Index NC Soldiers in War of 1812 8B NC Rowan Co.Road overseers Order, 1824-1831 8B NC Rowan Co.Probate Minutes, 1819-1822 8B NC Rowan Co.Receipt Book, 1823-1861 8B NC Rowan Co.Record of Deeds, 14 rolls, 1753-1818 8C NC Rowan Co.Record of Deeds, 7 rolls, 1819-1838 8D NC Rowan Co.Salisbury Carolina Watchman, 1838-1937, 2 rolls 9A NC Rowan Co.Salisbury Western Carolinian, 1820-1842, 8 rolls 9A NC Rowan Co.Marriage Bonds, 1753-1868, 7 rolls 9B yes NC Person Co.Roxboro Courier, 1901-1903, 3 rolls 9C empty 9D * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AENEAS CAMPBELL CELEBRATION Resting unrecognized for decades, and in some cases centuries, are the patriots and veterans of the wars that established and maintained our country. Later this year there will be a ceremony to honor one of these patriots. Lieutenant Aeneas Campbell, Jr. was in the American Revolution serving in the Maryland Flying Camp Militia. After the Revolution, he came to Iredell County where he raised a large family of ten sons and four daughters. He now rests in the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery near Statesville in a humbly marked grave. Later this year, this will change ever so slightly. Members of the Sons of the American Revolution, who happen to be descendents of Captain Campbell, and Clan Campbell Society of North America will place a marker on his grave signifying his service to our country. There will be a service with a period honor guard, a bagpiper, and other honors rendered. We ask that interested parties, especially descendents, contact Larry Campbell, soupcan5@yadtel.net or 336-492-5356 to participate. We would really like to assemble any family lineages and family lore to share with the cousins immediately after this event. Old photos, family Bibles, and objects related to this large family are encouraged. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thanks to: James Cobb In an 1870 U.S. census, I found this notation for an adult daughter living at home with her parents. Her occupation was listed as "no gumption." – * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DAVIE DOSSIER July 2005 7 D C H G S 2006 OFFICERS President:Aubrey Wensil Vice-President:Linda Leonard Secretary-Treasurer:Frances Beck Board of Directors:Dale McCullough Diane Webb Bill Urdanick Dossier Editor:Nancy Murphy ITEMS FOR SALE Postage and handling included in price Davie County...A Brief History (Wall) Paperback 7.50 The Daniel, Squire, and John Boone Families in Davie County (Wall, Boone, & Martin)5.00 Davie County Marriages 1836-1900, by Nancy K. Murphy 25.00 Davie County Marriages 1901-1959, by Nancy K. Murphy 25.00 Davie County Cemeteries, a two-volume set 55.00 by D.C. Historical & Genealogical Society 1860 Federal Census-Davie County, by Murphy & Sain 17.00 1870 Federal Census-Davie County, by Murphy & Sain 17.00 1880 Federal Census-Davie County, by Murphy & Sain 22.50 Maps -Lagle Land Grant 6.50 -Hughes Historical 6.50 -1887 Alderman 2.50 Postcards (set of 8 )2.50 These items can be ordered from the Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Office. North Carolina residents need to add 7% sales tax to the total. Membership for Calendar year 2006 remain the same as in previous years -$5.00/year. The number following your name on the address label indicates the year through which your dues are paid. Below is a registration form for your use; checks are to be made payable to the Society. DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Frances A. Beck, 1131 Wagner Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 NAME _____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________