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2009 4.pdfDavie Dossier Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina October 2009, Issue 4 Pedigree Chart for Members to fill in and return To be used at November 24 meeting. Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society MEETINGS ARE HELD THE FOURTH TUESDAY (January through November) President Linda Leonard Vice-President Secretary/Treasurer Frances Beck Board of Directors Dale McCullough, Diane Webb, Bill Urdanick Dossier Editors Marie Roth, Doris Frye Our Web site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs All the churches in Davie County (If some are omitted, please tell us.) Cemeteries in Davie County with directions for finding them Name, location, photo of 16 Davie Co. sites on National Register of Historic Places All the names on the War Memorial in Mocksville A list of all the populated places. Townships as listed on US Census, 1790 - 1930. NEW:Guardian Accounts, Davie County, 1846 through 1854 MEETINGS OF OUR SOCIETY: October 27, 7 pm meeting – Mark Hager will describe the second summer of research of Joppa Cemetery by his Lenoir-Rhyne students. November 24, 7 pm meeting – emphasis on genealogy and family surnames – fill in form on page 2 and bring to meeting. If you’d like to take part and are not close enough to attend, fill it in and mail it to Marie Roth, 276 Park Avenue, Mocksville NC 27028. – ARE YOU MY COUSIN? December – no meeting. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DAVIE AUTHORS !! Mary Alice Miller Hasty and Hazel Miller Winfree received a special award for their book The Civil War Roster of Davie County at the annual awards luncheon of the North Carolina Society of Historians in Morehead City. See page 7 for information for ordering this book. NEW CIVIL WAR BOOK FOR NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina Troops Volume XVII Junior Reserves is now published, and on the shelves in the Martin-Wall History Room of Davie County Public Library. The Junior Reserves were seventeen year-old boys who were drafted in the last year of the war and were originally intended to guard bridges and depots in NC but drawn into battle as the South faced disastrous shortfalls of soldiers. The volume was compiled by Matthew M. Brown and Michael W. Coffey and published by NC Office of Archives and History, 2009. Lots of Conferences and Learning Opportunities: RALEIGH CONFERENCE on Saturday, 7 November 2009; the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) and the Olivia Raney Local & Family History Library will cosponsor a workshop of ten talks on subjects ranging from deeds, wills, and census research to children and orphan records, DNA, and immigration. The topics range from beginner to advanced levels. The NCGS Annual Meeting will also occur midday with awards for publications significant to NC genealogy research. More information on the workshop topics and speakers can be found online at http://www.ncgenealogy.org . FAMILY HISTORY WORKSHOP AND DISPLAYS on Saturday, 14 November 2009 from 9:00 - 1:00 at the Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4780 Westchester Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; admission free. Featured workshops: Writing and publishing personal histories , Internet research, Local Family History, Photography in Genealogy, FamilySearch.org and related products . Displays from county organizations and libraries. FIFTH YADKIN VALLEY HISTORY FAIR & CONFERENCE will be Saturday, August 14, 2010, at the First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, Mocksville. The theme will be "Daniel & Rebecca Bryan Boone, Their Lives & Times". Since Davie County will be the host, let us know if you’d like to help. Stay tuned for more information. CAN YOU HELP OUR MEMBERS WITH RESEARCH? We have a new member who wrote a letter to us with these comments and questions. If you have information to help him, please respond to 3 Greenbriar Road, Keene, NH 03431 or to Mannlls@ne.rr.com My name is David A. Mann. I was researching Christopher Gist and most Internet sites state that Daniel Boone was Christopher's neighbor while he was living in Rowan County, North Carolina, also that the Boone family arrived in Rowan County about 1751. I am a Land Surveyor and it is reported that Christopher Gist came from a family of Land Surveyors. At the time the Gist & Boone families were in Rowan County the younger Gist children would have been the same age as Daniel Boone. As you are probably aware Daniel Boone became a Land Surveyor in Kentucky and maybe elsewhere. I am trying to find out where the Gist family and Boone family lived in Rowan County, near the Yadkin River. Were their homesteads near each other? Again, another web site stated that the Gist and Boone families lived in the Old Rowan County in the part that is now Davie County. I am hoping that someone might know where these two important families may have lived. Were there public schools at that early date and if so are there lists of the students? It is also stated that this portion of Old Rowan County was evacuated during the early 1750's due to Indian raids. Where did the town's people find refuge? It would be nice if this was all laid down in one concise history; however, I have a feeling that will not be the case. I am hoping for guidance and for references to source material and individuals that may be able to assist me in my pursuit. Andrea Engelhardt, 1301 Castlegate Street, Gastonia, NC 28054, 704-868-9782 aengelhardt@carolina.rr.com is collecting information about any Elmores, but in particular the parents of David Nathan Elmore who are John & Mary Elmore. She is also collecting Elmore photographs. At our September meeting discussing old photographs, one person brought a studio photo that had this inscription: Home View Co., Peeler NC. The NC Gazetteer does not list this town. Anybody know anything about it? DAVIE COUNTY GUARDIAN ACCOUNTS, 1844 - 1868 From the North Carolina State Archives (CR 033.510.10) Transcribed by Grace Wight and Marcia Masser gdn is the abbreviation of “guardian for” Guardians were appointed to be responsible for orphans, children of living parents when the children were receiving money from estates – or other sources – such as grandparents. The guardian was in most cases a relative or neighbor. A parent could be appointed as guardian of their own children if they were inheriting from the mother’s estate or from another relative. Orphans were mostly fatherless; sometimes both parents were deceased. A child fourteen years and older could select their own guardian. This still holds true today. Anyone under twenty-one years of age was called “infants”. Guardians were required to submit a yearly report to show expenditures for the child’s schooling, medical, clothing, room and board, etc. If the guardian was not doing his job, he could be replaced. In most cases the guardian either moved, died, or was not capable of doing his job. More can be found on guardian affairs in the N.C. State Archives. There are guardian records with much more detail than presented here. These records are Guardian Records 1838-1918. These are arranged by family surname. Any interest by anyone who might have a record prior to the formation of Davie County in 1836 should consult the Rowan County records. FEBRUARY TERM 1847 - FEBRUARY TERM 1849 summary is in Dossier, 2005, edition 1. The following is an abbreviated version. For full version of Mrs. Wight’s notes, from November 1846 - May 1854, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs/ Under “Other Links”, click on Davie County Guardian Accounts.This is in .pdf format and can be searched. FEBRUARY TERM 1850 Levin Ward gdn Wiley J Ward heirs Elijah Martin gdn Laura and Hetty Richardson John Chesher gdn D.J. Cain Richard H. Lowry gdn Elizabeth Owen, Sarah Owen, Mass __ Owen and Robert Owen Jacob Sheek gdn Philip N. Doolin Chevans Spry gdn John F., Sarah E., Mary J., and William H. Graves William Hawkins gdn Franklin Chaplin and Jesse Chaplin Milton Gaither gdn Wilie Gaither and Alexander G. Gaither Benjamin H. Eaton gdn Elizabeth Eaton Nelson Travillion gdn Henry M. Austin John Hatterman gdn Alfred J. Daywalt Nelson Travillion gdn Susan A. and Emily F. Travillion Martin Booe gdn James Booe Thomas A. Smith gdn Jane Smith Tennison Chesher gdn Catharine C., Lydia L., Francis M., and Henry H. Hendricks Hiram Phelps gdn Enoch Faw Braston Baily gdn Mary J. Haden Wilfred Turner gdn John G. Griffin MAY TERM 1850 Lucinda Wood gdn Mary Wood and Henry J. Wood Thomas Furches gdn Frances A. Baity, Elizabeth C. Baity, Amanda A. Baity Samuel Taylor gdn Maria L. Call A.M. Hanes gdn Letitia Caton Joseph Shives gdn William M. Daywalt Richard Lowery gdn Elizabeth, Sarah, Missouri and Robert Owens Denton Ijames gdn Pinkney Lumer Basiel Gaither gdn Nicholas Gaither A.M. Hanes gdn William Potts FEBRUARY TERM 1851 William Hawkins gdn Jesse Chapline Joseph A. Hawkins gdn John A. Smoot Basill Gaither gdn Mary M. Sain George W. Johnson gdn Mary E. Rich Jacob Sheek gdn Phillip N. Doolin J.B. Ellis gdn for John A. Oaks Chivans Spry gdn John F., Sarah E., Mary J., and William Graves Tenison Cheshire gdn Lydia S., Francis M., and Henry H. Hendricks John Cheshire gdn D.I. Cain Joseph A. Hawkins gdn James F., Ann E., Nathan, Rebecca P., and Mary Smoot Milton Gaither gdn Alexander G. Gaither Elijah Martin gdn Laura and Hetty Richardson Samuel Taylor gdn Mariah L. Call Benjamin Eaton gdn Elizabeth Eaton D.S. Sheek gdn Charles Sparks Nelson Travillian gdn Henry H. Austin Lipscomb R. Tuck gdn heirs of William Holman deceased Levi Fulford gdn William H., James, and John Nash Daniel S. Sheek gdn J.H. Sparks J.B. Ellis gdn John A. Oaks and James P. Oaks B. Baily gdn Martha Doolin and William Doolin FEBRUARY TERM 1852 Joseph M. Hauser gdn Simmon Jarvis Chevons Spry gdn John, Sarah E., Mary J., and William H. Graves Joseph A. Hawkins gdn John A Smoots, Alex Smoots, Ann E. Smoots, Nathan Smoots, Rebecca Smoots and Mary Smoots John Chesher gdn Daniel J. Cain Elijah Martin gnd Laura and Hetty Richardson Tenison Chesher guardian for Francis M. Hendricks, and Henry H. Hendricks John Halderman gdn Alfred I. Daywalt Levi Fulford gdn James Nash and John Nash William Hawkins gdn Jesse Chaplin Milton Gaither gdn Alexander G. Gaither Nelson Travillion gdn Henry M. Austin Jacob Sheek gdn Philip N. Doolin D.S. Sheek gdn Charles Sparks Levi Fulford gdn Josephine Mesley and Dianah Mesley Benhamin H. Eaton gdn Elizabeth Eaton H.R. Austin gdn Samantha A., Martha M.J., and Mary J.D. Ratledge Basil Gaither gdn Mary M. Sain Hiram Phelps gdn Enoch Faw Milton Hobbs gdn heirs of Thomas Ratledge MAY TERM 1852 Lucinda Wood gdn Henry I Wood Thomas Chesher gdn minor heirs of Thomas Ratledge John Plowman gdn David W. and Isaac H. Baity Thomas Furches gdn Elizabeth Baity and Amanda Baity AUGUST TERM 1852 D.S. Sheek gdn Sarah Linn Beal Ijames Jr. gdn Jacob A., Mary J., William (L.?), Elizabeth and Thomas Owings Beal Ijames gdn William Hunter FEBRUARY TERM 1853 Levi Fulford gdn James Nash and John Nash Levi Fulford gdn Dianah F. Mesley, Josephine Mesley, Albert Mesley and Joseph Mesley Joseph A. Hawkins gdn John A. Smoots, Ann E. Smoots, Nathan Smoots, Rebecca Smoots, and Mary Smoots L. Bingham gdn James A. Kelly, Bettie F. Kelly, William F. Kelly, and Sarah E. Kelly B. Baily gdn Maria Kelly, N.Y. Kelly, Albert Kelly, Thomas Kelly, and Abner Kelly Braston Baily gdn Thomas Kelly and Abner Kelly Matthew Fulford gdn Martha E. Baxter Milton Gaither gdn Alexander G. Gaither George Cornatzer gdn Jacob Cornatzer and Mary Ann Cornatzer Joseph M. Hauser gdn Simon Jarvis Tenison Chesher gdn Francis M. and Henry H. Hendricks Jacob Sheek gdn Philip N. Doolin Bazil Gaither gdn Mary M. Sain Elijah Martin gdn Laura Richardson and Hetty Richardson Nelson Travillion gdn Henry M. Austin FEBRUARY TERM 1854 J.D. Click gdn Daniel W. Click, Sarah E. Click, William H. Click, and Mary J. Click J.D. Click gdn Jacob Graves J.M. Hauser gdn Simeon Jarvis Braxton Baily gdn Thomas L. Kelly, Abner Kelly, and Albert Kelly. L. Bingham gdn Sarah Kelly, William F. Kelly, Bettie F. Kelly Levi Fulford gdn Joseph Mesley, Albert Mesley, Diana F. Mesley, Josephine Mesley Levi Fulford gdn James Nash and John Nash Matthew Fulford gdn Martha C. Baxter Calton W. Bessont gdn Jesse F., Martha A., Francis Click Elijah Martin gdn Laura Richardson and Hetty Richardson Tenison Chesher gdn Francis M. Hendricks and Henry H. Hendricks Nelson Travillion gdn Henry M. Austin MAY TERM 1854 Elijah Gaither gdn John H. Comer Joseph A. Hawkins gdn for Ann E. Nathan, Rebecca and Mary Smoot J.M. Clement gdn M.A. Clement, William B. Clement, Catharine Clement, and W.B. Clement FEBRUARY TERM 1855 Levi Fulford gdn Josephine N. Mesley and Joseph O. Mesley USE THIS UPDATED PAGE FOR ORDERING ITEMS AND/OR PAYING DUES. 2009 4, October (Postage has increased and state taxes increased 1%.) (Out of state residents do not pay state tax when ordering.) BOOKS:Author non- NC NC res.No.Price Davie County...A Brief History, paperback James W. Wall $9.00 $9.39 The Daniel, Squire, and John Boone Families in Davie County James W. 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 Boone, a Biography Robert Morgan $35.00 $35.00 MAPS OF DAVIE COUNTY: Lagle Land Grant $8.00 $8.31 Hughes Historical $8.00 $8.31 1887 Alderman $6.00 $6.16 POSTCARDS OF DAVIE CO. SCENES (set of 8)$2.50 $2.50 CD of 72 issues Davie Dossier, 1987-2008 $7.00 $7.39 TOTAL COST, send to DCHGS below includes tax, postage & handling Davie County Heritage Book, $45.00 non-NC resident; $48.10 NC resident. 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. 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 can be ordered. This book, published by McFarland, incorporates biographical and military service sketches of 1,147 Davie County Civil War veterans, with accompanying photographs where possible. 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 was released on July 27. This 128 page book of old photos and descriptions can be ordered 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. 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 Frances Atkinson Beck 1131 Wagner Road Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 NAME _____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society 371 North Main Street Mocksville, North Carolina 27028 October 27, 7 pm meeting – Mark Hager describes the second summer of research of Joppa Cemetery by his Lenoir-Rhyne students. November 24, 7 pm meeting – emphasis on genealogy and family surnames – fill in form inside – ARE YOU MY COUSIN? December – no meeting. January 2010 – new year of opportunities and goals in history and genealogy Web site of Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs/