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2016 3.pdf Davie Dossier, July 2016 page 1 DAVIE DOSSIER Issued by Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society Mocksville, North Carolina July 2016, Issue 3 BOOKS ABOUT DAVIE COUNTY Davie Dossier, July 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 Fort Dobbs, foods and 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 September 22: How to Research Your Family Tree, Cindy Green from the LDS Family History Center October 27: November: 17: 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 !! Federation of Genealogical Societies – August 31-September 3, 2016 in Springfield IL; see www.fgs.org Davie Dossier, July 2016 page 3 BOOKS ABOUT DAVIE COUNTY IN THE HISTORY ROOM OF DAVIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Author Title Davie County Heritage The 1850 Federal Census and Supplemental Schedules of Davie County, NC Fork Baptist Church Bicentennial Celebration Dutchman’s Creek Church and Eaton’s Baptist Church Davie County Enterprise-Record Bicentennial Issue Excerpts 100 years of History at Ijames Baptist Church Pioneer Times in the Jerusalem Township area of North Carolina Cooleemee History Loom Davie Dossier High School Yearbooks Almasy, Sandra Lee North Carolina Mortality Census, 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 Bailey, Brack III Growing Up in Advance Blackman, A.M., compiler Cohabitation Records of Davie County, North Carolina, 1866 Cooleemee Historical Association A Salute to Our Veterans Crenshaw, Charles & Ronnie Smith Looking Back, I and II Davie Methodist Bicentennial Comm The History of United Methodism in Davie County DCHGS Davie County Cemeteries 1 DCHGS Davie County Cemeteries 2 Dotson, Debra and Jane McAllister Images of America, Mocksville Frick, Ann Rambling and Reminiscing in Davie County Grissom, Rev. W.L. History of Methodism in Davie County Hairston, Peter W. The Cooleemee Plantation and its People Hasty, Mary Alice & Hazel Winfree Civil War Roster of Davie County, North Carolina Historical Records Survey Survey of North Carolina Cemeteries, Davie County, 1941 Ingmire, Frances T. Marriage Records, 1837-1868 Joyner, David A History of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Fork, NC Linn, Jo White Davie County North Carolina Tax Lists of 1843 and 1847 Linn, Jo White Davie County North Carolina Will and Deed Abstracts Martin, Thomas L. Churches of Davie County McAllister, Jane and Debra Dotson Images of America, Davie County Merrell, Wilson F. A Concise History of Fork Baptist Church Mohney, Kirk Franklin Historic Architecture of Davie County, North Carolina Moore, Jamie W. Growing Up in Davie County Murphy, Nancy and Everette Sain 1860 Federal Census, Davie County, North Carolina Murphy, Nancy and Everette Sain 1870 Federal Census, Davie County, North Carolina Murphy, Nancy K and Everette Sain 1880 Federal Census, Davie County, North Carolina Murphy, Nancy K. Davie County Marriages, 1836-1900 Murphy, Nancy K. Davie County Marriages, 1901-1959 Roth, Marie Benge Craig History of Davie County Schools Roth, Marie Benge Craig Davie County in World War One Roth, Marie Benge Craig Davie County Veterans’ Memorial Roth, Marie Benge Craig Remembering Davie Co. Protection and Service Personnel Roth, Marie Benge Craig Davie County in the Spanish-American War Rumley, Jim Cooleemee Stroud, Louise Memories Wall, James W. History of Davie County Wall, James W. A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Mocksville, North Carolina Watson, June Clodfelter Davie County, North Carolina, Index of Loose Estate Papers, 1809-1936 West, Betty Frances Etchison Cana: People, Places and Professions Wight, Mrs. James; Mrs. Chas. Masser Guardian Accounts, 1846-1860 Zimmerman, Edith Professional ledgers of John Edward Bell Shutt, woodcraftsman and undertaker, Shady Grove township, Advance, North Carolina Davie Dossier, July 2016 page 4 REDUCTION IN PRICES ! On page 7, you will see that we reduced some of the prices of the books you can order. We are trying to simplify our bookkeeping and possibly sell some of the items that are overstocked. Take a look and come by the library to buy some books and/or maps that have a reduced cost to you. Or you can order books and/or maps and we’ll mail them. The 1850 census book is especially interesting, because it contains 6 types of census: population, slave, mortality, agriculture, industry, and summary. The first three are online at Ancestry and FamilySearch, but the next three are not. Prices on page 7 include postage and tax (approx. $5). If you buy at the library, each item is $5 less. NEW YORK RESEARCH This is an interesting talk about records that are available for New York State. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0-54zGi_NQ GOOGLE BOOKS Google has digitized thousands of books. The Web site is https://books.google.com/ . If you search for “Davie County”, using quotation marks, you will have 27,900 results. Some of these are free, and some are for purchase. USING WORLDCAT TO FIND RESEARCH BOOKS https://blog.eogn.com/2014/11/29/using-worldcat-to-find-genealogy-books/ is a description of how to use this. https://www.worldcat.org/ is the URL for the site. HOW TO EASILY WRITE YOUR OWN FAMILY HISTORY BOOK If you have your data on a software program like RootsMagic or similar program, you can create a book. On RootsMagic, for example, there is an icon of several books. Click on it, and it will guide you through the process of compiling chapters, graphics, and data. YOUR OWN GENEALOGY LIBRARY Do you have your books and maps all together where you can find them quickly? Have you made a list of them so you can remember not to buy another one just like the one you have? You can buy software for cataloging your books, or you can use Google Sheets to list them. The advantage of Google Sheets is that it’s free and you can access this file from your smart phone or tablet. Have you made plans for your book collection at your demise? EBAY Some researchers have success searching their surnames or localities on Ebay. You can sign up for their computer to do future searches on your topics. If you search for “Davie County”, you’ll get about 42 results. INDEX Of course, the most useful ones are those with index and table of contents, but that doesn’t always happen. Davie Dossier, July 2016 page 5 Sometimes, people have difficulty understanding how the books are arranged in the History Room at Davie County Public Library. This is an attempt to simplify the contents of the shelves. Books about Davie County are located on the desk and duplicates are at 3A5. Biographies of Davie County people are with the family biographies, alphabetized by surname. BOOKS IN DAVIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY HISTORY ROOM Section/Column/Shelf Description 1A1 - 1A5 How to books 1B1 Passengers, Immigration 1B2 Foreign countries 1B3 - 1B5 How to books 1C1 Native Americans 1C2 Family Lists 1C3 - 1C4 Civil War 1C5 Daniel Boone 1D1 - 1D2 Misc. History 1D4 - 1D5 Alabama - Missouri 2A1 - 2D5 North Carolina in general 3A1 - 3D6 NC counties, Alamance – Surry (3A5 is Davie Co. duplicate books) 4A1 - 4A4 NC counties, Tryon - Yadkin 4A5 - 4B3 NC in general 4B4 - 4D5 New Jersey - West Virginia 5A1 - 5C4 Family biographies 5C5 - 5C6 Unbound misc. families 5D1 - 5D5 Woman’s Club/Garden Club scrapbooks 6A1 - 6A5 NC Historical Review journals 6B1 - 6B4 Bound Our State magazines 6C1 - 6C5 Misc. journals 6D1 - 6D5 Biographies Davie Dossier, July 2016 page 6 For example, on the chart on page 5, if you want to see what books the History Room has for Daniel Boone, use the number 1C5. This means go to face 1, column C, and shelf 5. (See big circle.) INDEX TO IMAGES OF AMERICA, DAVIE COUNTY AND IMAGES OF AMERICA, MOCKSVILLE: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdavhgs/ioaindex.pdf GAZETTEER One of the most useful books for researching North Carolina is The North Carolina Gazetteer. It is a useful book to own for learning locations or derivations of names of towns and rivers. You can order one online at Barnes and Nobles for $18.46. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ Or, better still, you can use the free online version: http://ncpedia.org/gazetteer Example, Farmington: A community in N Davie County. As early as 1805, former residents of Currituck County began to move into the area. Two hurricanes in 1830 and another one in 1839 caused extensive crop damage in the Currituck County area; the population of the county dropped from 7,655 in 1830 to 6,703 in 1840. The community was known as Little Currituck until 1837, when a post office was est. and named Farmington for the fertile farming land there. Alt. 758. Davie Dossier, July 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, July 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 number beside your name, above, shows the year for which you last paid $5 dues. Example: if you have a 15 by your name, you have paid dues through 2015. 2016 Dues are due now! 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. 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