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2007 2.pdfDavie Dossier Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina April 2007 Issue SOCIETY NEWS The Historical Society met February 27, in the History Room of the Davie County Public Library. The group was invited to the Clement plantation house by Mike and Margaret Cervous who recently bought the home. Current plans are to operate a Bed and Breakfast in this beautiful and well-appointed home. President Aubrey Wensil made notice of the Fort Dobbs events to be held in April and Pat Reilly made a presentation about the Fort. Alice Brown and Pat Reilly also reported about a recent trip to Jamestown with the local Senior Citizens group where they toured the Mendenhall Plantation. There they were told about these Quaker people who helped slaves using the Underground Railroad and viewed the false-bottomed wagon they traveled in. Other articles were displayed from that same period. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Diane Webb presented the Society meeting on March 27, about the life of George Washington. Several wonderful points were made about his determination to create a free country and the formation of the United States. Everyone was reminded to watch for the movie, “National Treasures”, coming soon on TV. Linda Leonard is working with the Daniel Boone committee where plans are formulated for the August event. Diane Webb and Ina Beaver’s committee will be making lists of items people will be willing to share for the “Daniel Boone” Museum show at the festival. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The April meeting of the Society was held in the History Room of the Library where Fred Roth presented the program about the early history of our nation. An invitation was made to the Society by Russ and Betty Morton to visit their home, The White House, in Huntsville on June 23. All interested in attending should be at the Library parking lot at 1:30 p.m. on that day so we may travel together. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thanks to: C. Fields. who writes: While searching for our great-great-grandfather we found a family whose 11th and final child was named Enough FIELDS. Looks like they meant it. DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 2 MARTIN-WALL HISTORY ROOM Gleanings from The Davie Record, published 1899-1957; editors: E. H. Morris and Frank Stroud, Sr. These items are from June-July 1907: Arrival of Trains Mail Train Ar. at Mocksville 9:48 a.m. `Ar. at “ 6:04 p.m. Local Freight Ar at Mocksville 9:28 a.m. Through Train (Daily and Sunday) Ar at Mocksville 1:13 p.m. Ar at “ 3:38 p.m. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Dr. W. H. Wakefield, of Charlotte, will be at the hotel in Cooleemee on Thursday, July 4th, for the purpose of treating diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat, and fitting glasses. On this visit the doctor’s fees for testing eyes for glasses will be reduced one-half. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mocksville and Clarksville townships show a gain of $150,000 in the value of real and personal property. If the remaining townships show a like gain, Davie’s taxable property will reach over three million dollars. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Question: “I thought the Democratic party of North Carolina favored helping the old soldier and stood for temperance.” Answer: Well, they do claim to be, but there are exceptions, for instance the mayor and town commissioners of Mocksville. The above was handed us by a Democrat with request to publish. What Democracy stands for is an unanswerable problem. They are lightning artists. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + BANK OF COOLEEMEE Cooleemee, N.C. J. B. Mason, President, J. N. Ledford, V. President J.H.L. Rice, Cashier DIRECTORS: J. B. Mason –Cashier National Bank, Durham, N.C. J. F. Wily –Cashier the Fidelity Bank, Durham, N.C. B. N. Duke –Director American Tobacco Co. and Capitalist F. L. Fuller –Attorney at Law W. R. Hartness –Agent Southern Railway Company H. J. Forsyth –Supt. Cooleemee Cotton Mills T. V. Terrell –Treas. Cooleemee Cotton Mills J. W. Zachary –Bookkeeper Cooleemee Cotton Mills J. H. L. Rice –with Cooleemee Cotton Mills W. A. Erwin –President Cooleemee Cotton Mills and Capitalist J. N. Ledford –Treas. And Mgr.,the J. N. Ledford Co. With the strongest financial backing of any Bank in this section of the State, we invite Merchants, Farmers, Individuals, Firms and Corporations that have not already done so, to open an account with us. We extend to our patrons every accommodation consistent with good banking.Interest paid on all money left in our Savings Department for four months or longer. Give us your banking business. J.H.L. Rice, Cashier DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 3 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Miss Eliza Douthit, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. E. H. Morris, for several weeks, returned home Tuesday morning, accompanied by master Cecil Morris. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Miss Grace Coley and Mr. Edwin H. Bost will be united in marriage June 19th , at 5 o’clock, in the Methodist church at Cooleemee. Miss Coley is a daughter of Jas. H. Coley, Esq., and was for a number of years a resident of Mocksville. Mr. Bost holds a position in a cotton mill at Mooresville. We extend in advance our congratulations and best wishes. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mr. W. L. Crews and Miss Mattie Lippard were united in marriage the past week, at the home of Mr. A. C. Cornatzer, F.M. Williams, Esq., officiating. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Mr. W. C. P. Etchison, who has for 20 years or more looked after Mocksville’s streets, and for most of the time was its policeman, was rudely awakened by a notice Monday evening that his services were no longer needed. We are not on the inside of the deals going on, but hope that town improvements will not suffer by the change. We regret to see Mr. Etchison lose his position, without notice, for he has been at this kind of work so long that he may find it hard to get a position at which he can make a living. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX TIPS (from the NGS NewsMagazine) Tips to get better results with the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) if initial search fails. Search by last name only, use the Soundex feature, and add one or more field, such as SSN issue state or year of birth. Search by first name only and add one or two more fields. If you do not know the name of the spouse of an individual, search for anyone with the same last name and Zip code for the death of the other spouse. This trick often works! Social Security numbers are sometimes reversed for husband and wife. Both persons may be in the index under each other’s number or with the same number. Search with first or last name only, plus state and county of last known residence. If the surname is more than twelve characters or the given name is more than ten characters, and the index reports there are no entries with that name, reduce the name to twelve or ten characters. Do not assume that someone is deceased if he or she is more than one hundred years old. There are presently about seventy thousand centenarians in the United States. Sometimes the reason you are not finding someone in the SSDI is because he or she is in the index with only an initial instead of complete first name, or the first or last name was entered incorrectly by the clerk, i.e., a typo was made. Remember, too, that the SSDI does not include all persons who died or received benefits, but rather only deaths that were reported to the Social Security Administration. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE ROWAN REGISTER The Rowan Register was published by Mrs. Linn from February 1986 through November 2001. Part of the material included information from what is now Davie County. Some excerpts from Vol. # 1, Feb. 1986 follow: Rowan County Wills: G:11. SAMUEL (X) MERRELL, n.d., prb. Feb. 1803. Wife, Susannah, Son Azariah to have the 300 A home plantation. Son Smith Merrell to have the 170 A plantation on which he now lives and the land adjoining it. Daus: Jemimah Yarbrough and Sarah. Exrs: sons Benjamin S. and Azariah. Wit: William Strange, Silas Baggett. DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 4 (Ed note: Rowan County Deed Book 23:295 shows that on 25 Jan 1814 Thomas Yarbrough, Sr. and wife Jemima sold Peter Owens, Jr., 10A on the east side of the Yadkin River on both sides of the Muddy Run near it s head adj. John Claver, Henry Kepley, John Berkhart, and Azariah Merrell, the deed being proved by John Goss. This land was willed Thomas Yarbrough by the decd Samuel Merrell. Samuel Merell was the son of Benjamin Merrill and his wife Jemima Smith who migrated to Rowan County from Hopewell, NJ, in the 1760’s) G:16. JACOB WISEMAN. 24 Dec 1807. prb. 2 Aug 1808. Planter, sick and weak. Wife Elizabeth to have home planta. with reversion to son Josiah. Sons Isaac, Jacob, and John Wiseman to have lands now in their possession. Son Jonathan to have $150 extra and $100 for a piece of land and my cooper tools. Daus: Mary Green, Martha Willis, Elender Line, and Jane Line. Exrs: wf Elizabeth and son Josiah Wiseman. Wit: Robert Wilson, John Wilson, Andrew Wilson. (Ed Note: Rowan County Marriage Bonds show Eleanor Wiseman to William Line 13 Dec 1787 with Isaac Wiseman as bondsman and Jean Wiseman to Joab Line 31 Oct 1791 with Isaac Wiseman as bondsman, also Jeremiah Green to Mary Wiseman 21 Oct 1775 with John Ford bondsman. Family tradition has it that Jacob Wiseman, the testator, married Elizabeth Henderson who was born in Currituck Co., NC. Jacob Wiseman appears on the 1768 tax list in Rowan County and had a McCulloh grant in 1772 for 200 A on Swearing Creek, as recorded in Rowan County Deed Book 8:262. DAR has accepted the lineage of Jacob Wiseman, a private from NC, and wife Elizabeth Henderson although no North Carolina marriage bond is extant.) G:55, BENJAMIN GAITHER, 21 May 1808, prb. 1803. Weak.Wife, Elizabeth. Son Brice to have 103 A bought from John Little and Willm Patrick and 100A bought from Willm Parker. Son Thomas to have 100 A on S side of homeplace. Son Johnsey to have 100 A of homeplace. Son Beal to have the house and remainder of homeplace except 10 A which is to go to my son Basil with 108 adj A. 3 oldest daus: Margaret Howard, Eleoner Parker, Aria Parker. 2 youngest daus: Harriet Howard and Sally Gaither. Exrs: son Thomas Gaither and brother Burgess Gaither. Wit: John Little, Gassaw(ay) Gaither, James Reed. G:61. BASIL GAITHER. 8 Nov. 1802, prb. 1803. Wife Margaret to have “uninterrupted use of my dwelling plantation and mill and negro man Barker and mullatter women Judey, Jacob, Salomon and Minty,” and personalty. Son Walter to have 220 A from Austons line to C. Hunters. Son Gassaway to have 200 A adj Walter’s. Son Nathan to have 220 A willed to his mother and the turner’s shops now standing in my yard. Son Basil to have my 180 A state grant and 70 A more. Dau. Betsey Gaither to have negroes Solomon and Minty when she marries. Dau. Neley Jones to have $100.00 and all the property put with her since the death of her husband. Grandsons: Thomas C. Jones, Basil G. Jones, Abraham R. Jones, Isaac D. Jones, and Walter G. Jones. Grandaus: Margaret W. Jones and Mary C. Jones. Grandchildren to have jointly the negro man Sam and negro woman Sall and “a tract conveyed by deed to Isaac Jones from Ralph Van Cleave and from sd Jones to me, quantity not ascertained but supposed to be 200 acres reserving specially the use & benefit of the above land to Neley Jones during her natural life.” My executors are to sell the tract where Neley Jones lives adj the county line at the head of Dutchman’s Crk. “If my son Gassaway will give $200.00 for my half the Stud horse, he may have him & in case he will not give it, either of my other sons may take him at that price.” Exrs: sons Walter and Basil Gaither. Wit: Wm. Moore, Joseph Dial, Vachell Ijams. (Ed. Note: The Rowan County marriage bond of Isaac Jones to Nelley Gaither is date 2 Apr. 1787 with Basil Gaither bondsman.) DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 5 Rowan County Deeds 11:8. 14 Aug 1786. Isaac Eaton, farmer to William Clark, farmer, for L20, 162 A on Great Dutchmans Crk in the forks of the Yadkin, being part of a tract where Eaton now lives, adj Michael Clifford near Charles Westerman’s planta. Isaac Jones, James (X) Simpson, Joseph Eaton. Prvd May Court 1787 by Jones. 11:14. 6 Sept 1786. Morgan Bryan to George Bryan for L100, 212 A on Dutchmans Crk adj John Bryan and Hunt. Lazarus Whitehead, Joseph Bryan, Prvd by Whitehead at May Court 1787 11:16. 18 Sept 1786. Morgan Bryan to Joseph Bryan for L40, 101 A. Lazarus Whitehead, George Bryan, Prvd by Whitehead at May Court 1787 11:18. 11 Apr 1783. Michael Clifford, Sr., to Richard Hains for 25 shillings, 50 A in the forks of the Yadkin on Dutchmans Crk adj Charles Westmor. Basil Gaither, Jacob Clifford. Elizabeth (+) Clifford makes her mark. Prvd by Gaither at May Court 1787. 11:24. 10 Oct 1783. State Grant #631 to William Butler @ 50 shillings the 100 A, 200 A on the long branch of Hunting Crk adj his other survey, Isaac Holman, and John Maidens. 11:25, 10 Oct 1783. State Grant #349 to William Butler @ 50 shillings the 100 A, 200 A on the branches of Hunting Crk adj Archibald McConnel. Divisions of Estates pp. 49-50. EBENEZER EATON –16 Feb 1810. Samuel Smith, Joseph Deal, James Smith, John Cheshier, and R. Powell divide a grant from Michael Clifford. Eight lots of 17A and 30 rods are allotted to Catharine Eaton, Peter Eaton, Benjamin Garner, Lydia Eaton, John Eaton, Elizabeth Eaton, James Eaton, and Cynthia Eaton. Salisbury District Superior Court Minutes William McMahan, William Sheppard & Andrew Bailey under bond to King, McMahan for L100 and others for L50 to appear at Nov. Court. Jeremiah Bailey & Mary his wife came into Court and acknowledged themselves indebted to the King in the sum of L20 & to appear next Court & give evidence against Elias Brock. John Clayton to do same. Elias Brock, Peter Arrand & Richard Crunk under L100 and L50 bonds to appear at next Court. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE APPERSON FAMILY Notes from the History Room Family Files The will of William Apperson, Surry County, NC, Book 3, page 172. October 8, 1825: To son William, part of plantation adjoining Valentine Martin’s, etc. valued at $250.00 To son Thomas, balance of Plantation at price $400.00 To wife Elizabeth, all negroes, half of all stock, etc. To daughter, Elizabeth Sprinkle To son George Apperson, to live with his mother and be raised as the others had been. Son Thomas Apperson, executor. DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 6 The following records are taken from records of Mrs. J. Emory Cox of Winston-Salem: William Apperson, born March 22, 1757, married Elizabeth Carr, born Dec. 23, 1763. They both came from Virginia. Children: John March 8, 1783 Peter March 23, 1784 Frances May 9, 1785 Richard Sept. 6, 1786 William Aug. 25, 17888 Thomas May 25, 1790 Doctor Alexander March 28, 1792 Bennet Feb. 5, 1798 Elizabeth George June 16, 1801 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The following are copied from Mrs. Lucy Poindexter Cundiff’s mother’s Family Bible: Births:Thomas Apperson May 25, 1790 Luvitha Apperson, his wife May 14, 1808 Children: Elizabeth J.July 8, 1825 William H.October 13, 1826 Richard Isham May 4, 1828 Nancy R.February 10, 1830 Mary P.November 8, 1831 Frances M.September 19, 1833 Sarah Ann Feb. 25, 1835 Luvitha July 3, 1837 Thomas V.April 16, 1830 Peter A.Feb 15, 1842 John A.July 27, 1844 Julina P.July 26, 1847 Deaths: Sarah Ann June 24, 1836 Richard Isham September 1, 1849 Julina P.December 23, 1847 Thomas Senior March 14, 1854 Marriages: Thomas & Luvitha Apperson October 22, 1824 Elizabeth J. Apperson to John Randleman Jan 29, 1846 Nancy R. Apperson to John Norman Jan. 29, 1850 Mary P. Apperson to Anderson Poindexter Nov. 29, William H. Apperson to Julina Randleman Feb 10, 1853 Frances M. Apperson to Aaron Martin August 30, 1855 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * Thanks to: Juli Risener Morgan While researching Lunenburg County, Virginia records, I came across a death register: There I found a Joe PHILLIPS, who died 30 January 1867 at age 65. Cause of death is listed as "worn out." DAVIE DOSSIER April 2007 7 D C H G S 2007 OFFICERS President:Aubrey Wensil Vice-President:Linda Leonard Secretary-Treasurer:Frances Beck Board of Directors:Dale McCullough Diane Webb Bill Urdanick Dossier Editors:Nancy Murphy Doris Frye 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 Davie County Heritage Book 24.00 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 2007 is still just $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 Atkinson Beck 1131 Wagner Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 NAME _____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ EMAIL ADDRESS _______________________________________________________