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2016 4.pdf Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 1 DAVIE DOSSIER Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina October 2016, Issue 4 Vintage Photographs Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 2 DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY President, Linda Leonard Vice President, Margaret Cevasco Secretary, Pat Reilly Treasurer, Marie Roth Board of Directors, Claude Horn Dossier Editor, Marie Roth Webmaster, Marie Roth Our Website, www.rootsweb.ancestry.com.com/~ncdavhgs has these features: All the churches in Davie County Cemeteries in Davie County with locations Names on the War Memorial in Mocksville Index to Bible Family Records at DCPL Order blanks so you don’t tear up Dossier History of nine newspapers in Davie County Meeting Dates and Programs Guardian Accounts, Davie Co., 1846-1859 Apprentice Bonds, Davie Co., 1829-1959 1974 booklet about old schools in Davie Branson’s NC Business Directories for Davie Co. Sources for black family history Another Website about Davie County genealogy and history: http://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Davie_County%2C_North_Carolina Meetings are on the fourth Thursdays at 7 pm at Davie County Library History Room. DCHGS PROGRAMS IN 2016: January 28: Program chair, Margaret Cevasco will lead a discussion about historical myths. A true/false set of questions will be featured. February 25: Honoring Doris Frye; Mark Hager talk about Back Country Culture March 17: Bill Jamerson talk and entertainment about the Civilian Conservation Corps April 28: video presentation by historical interrupter, Frank McMahon from Ft. Dobbs, foods/cooking in the old days May 7: assist with Daniel Boone Festival June 30: Judge Jimmy Myers presents cemetery laws August: meet with Yadkin Valley Historical Association -- canceled September 22: How to Research Your Family Tree, Cindy Green from the LDS Family History Center October 22, Saturday: 10:00 am, Saturday tour of Cooleemee Plantation November 17: Brent Shoaf, Registrar of Deeds for Davie County at library New Life Member: Charles Crenshaw See back page for details. Tax deductible FUTURE CONFERENCES National Genealogical Society -- May 4-7, 2016 in Fort Lauderdale FL; see www.ngsgenealogy.org YOU MISSED IT, BUT YOU CAN GO NEXT YEAR: In May of 2017, NGS will meet in Raleigh !! RootsTech – February 8 – 11, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah http://www.rootstech.org/ Federation of Genealogical Societies – August 30–Sep. 2, 2017 in Pittsburg PA; http://www.fgs.org/cpage.php?pt=43 Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 3 VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS In a shoebox, or a closet, or a drawer, you’ve got an old picture of an ancestor that is unique. Quick ! Where is it? This edition will highlight old photos and give some guidelines for good care and for sharing them with your kin folks who would love to have a copy. I recently received 15 old photos from a newly- found cousin living in Indiana. None was labeled, and the cousin wasn’t interested in them since he didn’t know who they are. I have been successful in identifying a few of the old pictures, and I’ll describe my method in this edition. Another cousin sent me almost 100 pictures of various time periods, some of which were labeled. I am currently writing books about my four great grandparents and there were some that were very helpful in both batches. The surnames are Benge and Rash (Alleghany and Wilkes counties) and Richardson and Beck (Davie County). Organizing: I finally realized I had to get organized. I had one tintype (3 by 5 inches) of my great great grand-parents, Addison M. and Sarah Jane Blaylock Richardson. He died in 1907, so that’s an old picture taken here in Davie. I pulled out the really old, valuable pictures after I scanned all of them, and then I put them into separate envelopes. I wrote on the envelopes the names of the people, the location, and approximate dates. I numbered each envelope, and I made a spreadsheet that contained these numbers and a brief description. Sharing online: I’ve shared some of them on FindAGrave. For an example, open the search page of http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi and type 152111944 into the Memorial # blank. Another way to digitize old photos is to take a picture with your smart phone. My current iPhone takes better pictures than my expensive camera, and it’s always with me. My scanner and my camera don’t get used very much. If your photograph is framed, that’s much harder to get a good copy. Old photos in elaborate frames would probably get damaged if you took them apart. By being careful about reflections, you can use your camera or phone to copy a framed photo. However, if the glass is convex, you will get reflections from every direction. That is really hard to do. A professional photographer in Asheboro told me that he has equipment just for this purpose. It’s a black box with a hole in the top for the camera or phone to “see” into the box. There are slits in the side of the box that let light in so that it doesn’t make a glare. Who is this? This is one of the photos that was in the Richardson set of unidentified pictures. She seems to be about 50, wearing what might be a widow’s dress, and very serious. The print on the mat says “Fink Bros., Montezuma, Ia”. Ding !! My great grandfather, Thomas Jasper Richardson shows up on the 1870 census, instead Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 4 of in Davie, in Montezuma, Iowa. He is with his married brother, George W., George’s wife, and their two year old son, Jasper who was born in NC. They hadn’t been there long, and they didn’t stay; they all came back to Davie in a year or so. The cousin who sent me this picture is a great grandchild of Thomas, also. This is not a picture of George’s wife – she was in her twenties. So I went to Ancestry.com and in the search blanks, I asked for all the women in Montezuma, Iowa in 1870, who were born in North Carolina. Up pops Grace M. Cheshire, 39, with her husband, John W. Cheshire, and their six children. I found her there in 1880, widowed; and, I found her there in 1860. But, I found John W. Cheshire in 1850 in Davie County !! More research showed that he lived in Sheffield and that Cheshire School was named for him. Other research showed that she was from Yadkin County (called Southern Division of Surry back then) and her maiden name was Vestal. The most incredible thing I learned was that John W.’s mother was Sarah M. Richardson (John’s info on FindAGravecom). I’m not sure how they’re related – more research needed. So my great grandfather had a reason to go there. It is about 972 miles from Sheffield to Montezuma, and I could not figure out why they had gone so far. But consider life in 1870. The South was in shambles from the Civil War, so perhaps it was an attempt to better their lives. There was a railroad through Iowa and the company was establishing towns to benefit their business. Sometimes, if the person who created or added to a page on FindAGrave is a relative, you can share info. I’ve had success with this by clicking on the submitter’s name and sending a message. In 1900, Grace was living with her daughter’s family at 916 Grand Avenue, Lee, Iowa. Typing this into Google Maps and then using Street View shows many five-story city businesses. Sometimes, you can find the actual homes, but not in this case. Book about NC photographers: If you want to learn more about photographers in North Carolina from 1842-1941, you would enjoy this book, Photographers in North Carolina. Davie County had 2 listed: Samuel Warren and Robert E. Fraley. Purchase info: https://www.amazon.com/PHOTOGRAPHERS- NORTH-CAROLINA-Century-1842- 1941/dp/0865263116 264 pages. I used this book to help identify the photographer of one of the fifteen old photos I was given. There was a portrait of a woman 18- 22 years old that was either Cora (born in 1883) or Laura Richardson (born in 1877). Cora’s grandson was the original owner of the picture. Stamped on the mat was “W.J. Stimpson, Statesville, N.C.” With this book, I found William Jasper Stimpson’s bio and he was in Statesville from 1889-1920s. There were three photos of obviously the same woman, so I figured it was Cora because she’d probably have more pictures of herself than her sister. Saving images: on your hard drive, on an external hard drive, on a CD, at a neighbor’s house, in a printed book you write. A recent method is to save to the Cloud. There are many different programs for this: Google Photos, DropBox, Pinterest, Flickr, OneDrive, iCloud, Box. Beginning space is free. Labeling: Besides writing on the envelope, there are other ways you can label photos. We get very upset with relatives who don’t write names on the backs of photos, but with all our current constant snapping of images, we’re not doing any better than they did. One way is to save photos to our computer and name the file with information. Example: image file name: 2006 10 09 Ray Craig in Iraq gives us the exact date, who is in the picture and where. Sometimes, even this file name gets lost if it’s transferred to a smart phone or tablet. Captions: I searched a long time for a way to write the description under the photo. There are lots of apps that put big tacky words all over the picture, but that’s not what I wanted. Finally, I discovered that if I open a photo in Paint, the old program you’ve had on PCs for a long time, that there’s a way to do this. Once your photo is open in Paint, you will notice a small square at the center bottom of the picture. I had assumed the function was to stretch the picture, but instead it adds blank space. Pull it down just enough to insert some words. Then click A at the top which opens the text function. Start typing in that blank space. You can resize and relocate words when you have your description finished. When through adding words, click Save As and rename so you don’t change your original picture. If my original file name is 1995 Bill.jpg and I edit it, I change the name to 1995 BillE.jpg with the E designating that I edited it. Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 5 Which picture would you rather receive? The image on the right includes the caption which was added using Paint program. See page 4, right column for directions. Types of old photographs: Tintype, 1856 – 1942 Carte de Viste, 1859 – 1870 Cabinet Card 1866 – 1906 Post cards 1910 – 1925 To learn more, see http://www.collectorsweekly.com/photographs/overview The unidentified image at the right is a tintype with sections peeled off. We need somebody to volunteer to start a Web site for people to submit photographs of Davie County people who are unidentified. Then others could look through them and possibly ID them. Quote about photos: Time marches on until the magic of the camera commands HALT. (on an old paper bag from a photo company) While I was making my spreadsheet, using my iPad Pro, the small tintype of my great grandparents vanished. I looked everywhere to find it. Later, when I picked up my iPad, I discovered that the magnet on the bottom had stuck the tintype onto it. I marveled at the vast differences in time and technology. Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 6 DAVIE COUNTY SPECIAL TOPICS OF RECENT DOSSIERS Year Quarter Topic 2012 4 Newspapers 2013 1 1924 newspaper article, electricity in Mocksville 2013 2 US Census 2013 3 Trains 2013 4 First Court House 2014 1 100 years ago; Marchmont; Clement Plantation 2014 2 Louise Stroud articles 2014 3 Davie midget in circus 2014 4 Stephen Morgan Smith 2015 1 1915 articles 2015 2 Origin of place names 2015 4 Serendipity; tatting; Binkley family 2016 1 Lee family 2016 2 Civilian Conservation Corps 2016 3 Books about Davie County 2016 4 Vintage photographs INTERESTING WEB SITES http://www.digitalnc.org/exhibits/digital-davie/ Vintage photographs of Davie County http://www.deadfred.com/ Look for photos of your ancestor, or submit unidentified picture for others to identify http://ncpedia.org/category/entry-source/dictionary-no Dictionary of North Carolina Biographies https://archive.org/index.php free books, audio, and video https://www.hathitrust.org/ free books online https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/ list and map of archive buildings http://extremegenes.com/ weekly program about genealogy and research. You can download as a podcast with their app. HOLIDAY GIFTS FROM THE GENEALOGIST Family history bound book, self-published on Lulu.com or Flickr or other self-publishing sites. Framed vintage photographs Your own bibliography An audio CD of you describing your parents and grandparents A family trip back to the original homeplace, or where the grandparents lived. A book of maps marked with locations of homes, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 7 ORDERING BOOKS AND MAPS Title Author Cost No. Cost Davie County. A Brief History, paperback James W. Wall, 128 pages $ 6.50 The Boone Families in Davie County Wall, Howell Boone, Flossie Martin $ 8.00 Davie County Marriages 1836-1900 Nancy K. Murphy $25.00 Davie County Marriages 1901-1959 Nancy K. Murphy $25.00 Davie County Cemeteries, a 2-volume set D.C. Historical/Gen. Soc. $55.00 1850 Federal Census-Davie County Forsyth Genealogical Society $15.00 1860 Federal Census-Davie County Nancy K. Murphy and Everette Sain $20.00 1870 Federal Census-Davie County Nancy K. Murphy and Everette Sain $20.00 Lagle Land Grant $ 7.00 Hughes Historical, 1700's, drawn in 1977 $ 6.00 J.T. Alderman, 1887 $ 6.00 Wilson F. Merrell, 1928 $ 6.00 POSTCARDS OF DAVIE CO. SCENES, (set of 8) $ 2.50 CD of all issues Davie Dossier since 1987 $ 7.00 Davie County Heritage Book, cost is $45; Make check to Davie County Heritage Book. Use DCHGS address below. The Historic Architecture of Davie Co., cost is $30; History of Davie County, hardback, by James W. Wall, 449 pages; cost is $30; 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. History of Davie County Schools, 318 pages, by Marie Benge Craig Roth has photos, locations, longitude/latitude, names of students, and teachers. There is an 18 page index of 3,222 names. A chronology describes the evolution of the school system in Davie. Make check to Marie Roth for $40.26 for non-residents and $43 for NC resident. Order: 276 Park Ave., Mocksville NC Davie County in World War One by Marie Benge Craig Roth has 670 biographies of Davie men and women who served, photographs, old letters, description of military bases, and extensive index. 400 pages. Make check to Marie Roth for $42.47 for non-residents and $45 for NC resident. Order: 276 Park Ave., Mocksville NC 27028. Davie County Veterans’ Memorial, by Marie Benge Craig Roth has lists of all war deaths and biographies and photos of WW2, Korean, Vietnam, and Beirut Bombing deaths. Tom Ferebee’s 32 minute talk at the dedication in 1987 is included. $31.23 for non-resident and $33 for NC resident. Order: 276 Park Ave., Mocksville NC 27028. Remembering Davie County Protection and Service Personnel by Marie Benge Craig Roth contains biographies of the five law enforcement personnel who died on duty and also photos and descriptions of the monument erected in their memory. The monument also honors all first responders in Davie County. Order: 276 Park Ave.; total cost $17. Davie County in the Spanish-American War by Marie Benge Craig Roth contains biographies of the 15 men who served in this war and the resulting war in the Philippines. Order: 276 Park Ave.; total cost $20 Cana Connections, 201 pages, by Betty Etchison West; Life in Cana in the Thirties and Forties and Special People with Cana Connections. There are many biographies and photos of people and buildings. Order from Betty West, 3532 NC Hwy. 801 North, Mocksville NC 27028. Make check to Betty West for $35, which includes tax and shipping. Looking Back at Davie County II by Charles Crenshaw and Ron Smith. $45. Mail orders to Charles Crenshaw, 421 Park Avenue, Mocksville NC 27028 DCHGS, 371 North Main Street, Mocksville NC 27028 You are encouraged to send articles and queries to be published in the next issue. Send to DCHGSList@gmail.com Davie Dossier, October 2016 page 8 Davie county historical/genealogical society 371 North Main Street Mocksville NC 27028 If you would like to receive your Dossier as a PDF attachment in an E-mail instead of a paper copy, please send an E-mail message to the editor at dchgslist@gmail.com. Please state “E-mail my Dossier instead of mailing a paper copy” and include your E-mail address. This saves money, time, postage, effort, and paper. The graphics are clearer, and you can just click on links. The number beside your name, above, shows the year for which you last paid $5 dues. 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