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2008 3.pdfDAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 1 Davie Dossier Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina April 2008 Issue SOCIETY NEWS On April 24TH, the Historical Society joined with the Friends of the Library to hear the speaker, Robert Morgan, the author of the book, “Boone”. It is an excellent record of Daniel Boone’s life and he had copies of the book for sale at the meeting. Friends of the Library is in charge of the sale of the books after the meeting if anyone is interested in purchasing a copy. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + At the meeting of the Society on May 27th,Charles Crenshaw of Mocksville presented a very interesting program using pictures he has collected of Davie County and its citizens and other outstanding events in Davie. There was a large attendance at this meeting and interesting reflections and rememberances were enjoyed by all. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + On June 24th, Jane McAllister , our Heritage Librarian, presented a wonderful introduction into the information to be had in our History Room -shelf by shelf and in between. Family histories, Military histories, State histories and other information is available for research by the general public. The collection of old books and Bibles from different families is also housed here. This was an introductory walk-through and the next meeting, on August 26th , will be about additonal information available in our History Room. Marie Roth shared her collection of note books. Her picture and story notebook of Historical markers honoring people and events in Davie County covered events in Davie County, mostly along our highways. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + As this issue of the Dossier is late, we are able to report on the July 22nd meeting of the Society. Sheek Bowden Jr., presented the story and film of “Enola Gay”. As most of us are aware, Davie County native Col. Joe Ferebee was the bombadier who dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. Sheek served in this squadron although he was not a member of the “Enola Gay”crew. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Please mark your calendar for the next meeting of the Society on Tuesday, August 26th, at 7:00 p.m. in the History Room of the Davie County Public Library. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 2 Joppa Journal Material contributed by Linda H. Barnette Joppa Cemetery has been getting a lot of attention lately, particularly from a professor at Lenoir-Rhyne College and a group of his students.Mark Hager and several students have spent the summer learning about Joppa.They researched the people buried there and cleaned the stones to make the carvings on them easier to read.According to Hager, the main purpose of the work is to identify the people who are buried in the cemetery and to find possible connections to their descendants who may still be in this vicinity today.Additionally, the Lenoir-Rhyne work may facilitate Joppa's being entered to the National Register of Historical Places. The Joppa Directors are planning a fund drive this October, the first since 2003.The Directors do this periodically in order to continue to care for their cemetery.Paying for mowing and general yard maintenance, replacing trees that have been damaged by ice, recementing markers that have fallen, and, this year, paving the circular driveway are projects covered by these funds.If you would like to contribute to this fund drive, please make your check payable to First Presbyterian Church, put Joppa Cemetery on the line at the bottom, and mail to Cyrette Sanford, 360 N. Main Street, Mocksville, NC 27028.All donations would be appreciated. * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * History Room Update The June 24 meeting of the DC Historical Association featured an update from Jane McAllister, Librarian of the Martin-Wall Local History Room of Davie County Public Library, on the resources available to researchers in the History Room. McAllister highlighted the organization of the physical collection first, explaining the arrangement of books on the shelves and files in the file cabinet. An ongoing project is to have notebooks of family files bound in order to better preserve them for future use. McAllister informed the group that Volume XVI of North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 had just been added to the collection. The volume focuses on William Holland Thomas’s Legion, and is edited by Matthew Brown and Michael Coffey. The group learned about the vault inventory project, whereby the contents of the history room vault are being organized and cataloged in order to improve access to those resources. In the near future, some of those holdings will be digitized for sharing online. Of particular note is the organization of various photograph collections into notebooks, and the inventory of papers from the James McGuire Collection. Many photographs in the notebooks remain unidentified, so local residents will be encouraged to visit the history room and try to identify any people or buildings in the photos. Other new resources noted include DVDs on Cooleemee and on Peter Stuart Ney put out by the Rowan Public Library. In addition, the history room has CD-ROMs on Pennsylvania vital records 1700s-1800s, Virginia vital records 1600s-1800s, Virginia genealogies and biographies 1500s-1900s, and NC wills 1665-1900. DAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 3 McAllister assured the association that the Lagle land grant and Hughes historical maps, along with the Davie County record books continue to generate a lot of interest and sales. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SOCIETY ROSTER Following is a list of all the current members of the Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society. If your name does not appear in this list, but you received a copy of the Davie Dossier this month,it indicates that your membership dues are probably in arrears. If you have any questions, please direct them to Nancy K. Murphy (address below). Hal & Kathryn Abbott 08 7134 Harmon Drive Ventura, California 93003 Allen Co. Public Library 08 Acquisitions-Periodicals Box 2270 Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801-2270 Grady R. Anderson 09 6 South Payne Street Lexington, North Carolina 27292 Linda Barnette 06 170 West Church Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Hayden Beck 08 P O Box 688 Cooleemee, North Carolina 27014 Frances Atkinson Beck (life) 1131 Wagner Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Melvyn & Anna Bowman 07 95 West Pine Street Palmyra, Pennsylvania 17078 Addie T.Bradsher 07 5793 Hurdle Mills Road Roxboro, North Carolina 27573-9548 Alice Brown 08 532 East Lake Drive Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Wanda H. Bryant 08 576 Joel Road Carthage, North Carolina 28327 Shilda B. Burns 07 3980 Temple Hill Church Road Granite Falls, North Carolina 28630 Larry Campbell 12 125 Doby Road Harmony, North Carolina 28634 Lonnie Campbell 05 P O Box 201 Cooleemee, N. C. 27014 Dr. Morrison G. Carter, Jr. 10 2120 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Mike & Margaret Cevasco 07 290 East Maple Avenue Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Glenn P. Clement, Jr 08 174 Sunny Dell Lane Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Jeffrey Coltrane, Jr. 08 2240 Meadow Hill Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106-4278 Cooleemee Hist. Assoc. 08 P. O. Box 667 Cooleemee, North Carolina 27014 Ruby B. Cox 08 5525 NW 29th Terrace Gainesville, Florida 32653 Helen P. Crenshaw Life 591 Salisbury Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 M/ M Frank H. Daniel 08 522 North Stratford Road Winston-Salem, NC 27104 Linda S. Davis 08 1200 Meadow-Moss Court Raleigh, North Carolina 27613 Melinda Evans 08 2898 Holly Lane Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Mike Farrell 08 641 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Marjorie Daniel Foster 08 500 Daniel Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Thomas L. Foster 07 18938 NW 252 Street Okeechobee, Florida 34972 Doris B. Frye 08 284 Wilkesboro Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 DAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 4 Wayne Frye 08 4110 Highway # 158 Advance, North Carolina 27006 Sharyn Fuller 09 54 Landgrove Lane Sequim, Washington 98382-8482 Terry Gandy 08 2985 Rankin Road Concord, North Carolina 28027 Gen. Society of Utah 08 50 E. North Temple Street Salt Lake Citly, Utah 84150-3400 Karen Gideon 08 P O Box 295 Kentfield, California 94914-0295 Mary Nell Eaton Hanes 08 3361 Pollard Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27103-1517 Elizabeth Harris 07 3413 Rolling Hill Road Durham, North Carolina 27705 Kenneth Hartman 08 809 NE Mulberry Street Lee’s Summit, Missouri 64086-5434 Rolland K. Hauser 08 1075 Tracy Lane Chico, California 95926-1446 Pamela A. Hazen (Life) 565 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Sandra Heifetz 07 30553 Adams Drive Gibralter, MI 48173-9531 Charles W. Hendricks 08 424 Park Avenue Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 High Point Public Library 08 General Research/Mike Beck P. O. Box 2530 High Point, NC 27261-2530 John W. Hill 08 1585 Peeler Road Salisbury, North Carolina 28146-1138 Ruby H. Jewell 08 8 Ridge Trail Ormond Beach, Florida 32174 Dianna Beck King 12 1779 Old Mocksville Road Statesville, NC 28625-1413 Glenna Lagle 09 135 East Maple Avenue Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Mrs. Wade Leonard 08 126 West Church Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Chuck Martin 08 692 Suden Drive Beaver Creek, Ohio 45430 M/M Lester P. Martin (life) 717 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Mr. James McBride 07 442 South Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Scott McGurn 163 Scottsdale Drive Advance, North Carolina 27006 Angela L. McLaughlin 07 2053 Helmuth Court Evansville, Indiana 47714 Thurman F.Miller (Life) 1420 Hurley School Road Salisbury, North Carolina 28147 Nancy K. Murphy 08 157 Greenwood Avenue Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 NC Genealogical Society 08 c/o Victor T. Jones, Jr. 2905 Aurora Road Ernul, North Carolina 28527 Jack Owens 08 11717 Edgewater Road Albany, Indiana 47320-9201 Gene Plott 08 6167 Haywood Street Clemmons, North Carolina 27012 Hayes Ratledge 11 P O Box 18201 Greensboro, NC 27419 Mrs. Luther B. Ray III 07 672 Glen Abbey Drive Martinez, Georgia 30907-9034 Pat Reilly 07 687 Calahaln Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Jean E. Rieper 08 3604 Woodview Lane Kilgore, Texas 75662-5748 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roth 09 276 Park Avenue Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Cyrette H. Sanford 11 360 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Jennie Slye Saunders 10 116 Grouse Run Oakland, Maryland 21550 Richard and Ann Sheek 08 9005 Center Grove Church Rd Clemmons, North Carolina 27012 Mary Jo Shoaf 08 5140 Hackney Lane, SW Roanoke, Virginia 24018-2240 Taylor Slye 08 740 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Wayne & Gladys Small 08 618 E. Lake Street Summitville, Indiana 46070 DAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 5 Bettye Collier Smith 08 1046 Edgewood Drive Jacksonville, Texas 75766-2708 Carl Lee Smith, Jr 08 P. O. Box 489 Cooleemee, North Carolina 27014 Estelle Allen Smith 08 119 Jolly Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Karen Smith 12 209 Country Lane, Apt # 4 Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Sylvia Stroud Smith 08 3363 Chelsea Village Court Winston-Salem, NC 27103-1544 Bill Urdanick 08 186 Shady Brook Drive Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 M/M James W. Wall 06 181 West Church Street Mocksville,North Carolina 27028 Bob and Peggy Wallace 07 125 Fairfax Lane Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 M/M Ray H. Weiss 08 P. O. Box 129 Forbestown, California 95941 Aubrey Wensil 08 Post Office Box 662 Cooleemee, North Carolina 27014 Missy Wheaton 08 641 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 Mel White 08 P. O. Box 1391 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 Wayne Whitlow 08 Post Office Box 201 Davidson, NC 28036-0201 Issac E. Winfrey, Jr. 09 103 Kendal Drive Granville, Ohio 43023 Grace H. Wight 08 1006 Askham Drive Cary, North Carolina 27511-4737 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * HUMOR In the Alabama census for Lowndes County, page 132, household 950, I found children in the Walker household named as follows: Bud (age 14), Little Bud (age 11), Buddy (age 8), Babe (age 6), Little Buddy (age 3), and Least Buddy (5/12 months). Thanks to Ginger Jones, Prattville, Alabama + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Found the quote below from the "Windsor and Eton Express," a local English newspaper, in the 11 December 1830 issue. "An ornithological match recently in a parish near Edinburgh, has set the whole neighbourhood in a flutter. Miss Henrietta Peacock espoused Mr. Robin Sparrow, the bridesman being Mr. Phillip Hawk, and bridesmaid Miss Larkins; the marriage line were extracted by J. Crow, the Session-clerk." --Thanks to Richard Heaton * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * REMINDER Please remember to mark your calendar for the Tuesday,August 26th meeting of the Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society –7:00 p.m.at the Davie County Public Library. We look forward to seeing you there. DAVIE DOSSIER July 2008 Issue 6 D C H G S 2008 OFFICERS President -Linda Leonard Vice-President - 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 45.00 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 2008 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 _______________________________________________________