The Foothills View
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1984
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.
Remembering The Ties
Of Land, Family
About 60 Hughes, Blantons
and assorted other kinfolks
gathered Sunday afternoon at
Boiling Springs Baptist Church
for their annual reunion, held
each June.
The sumtuous Sunday din
ner and the sharing of new in
sights and old tales followed
several days of work around
the countryside by a cemtery
clean-up crew, who used a bush
hog, mattocks, hoes and
scythes to reclaim the scattered
family burial grounds from
brush and scrub.
Several new graves were
found at the old Hughes-
Blanton cemetery behind
Cleveland Memorial Park -new
of course only to the finders,
for the sleepers under the
blackberry thickets have been
there since the early 19th cen
tury. More were cleaned off in
an overgrown field behind the
Carl Weaver home on Skinner
Road. Also resting on that tract
was a king-sized blacksnake,
which died after it was acciden
tally run over by Jeff Hughes,
on the tractor.
The crew also worked at the
Durham-Jolley cemetery, on
Riverside Road. All these sites
are now cleaned up for descen
dants to visit. And many did,
on Sunday afternoon.
jack Blanton, a well-known
local historian from Gaffney,
told the assembly that a survey
of Cleveland County
cemeteries can now be obtained
from Dr. Bobby Moss at
Limestone College, Gaffney,
S.C. 29340, for $20 postpaid.
Also, Bea Blanton Ramey
put out the word that the se
cond volume of the Cleveland
County Heritage Book is now
in the works. Many local
families were not represented in
the first book, and their
histories are being solicited.
“If you never did a family
history, start running right
now,” said Jack Hughes of
Kings Mountain, who presided
over the reunion. “You get
. i
■
wtlia*
D.C. Hughes and Ann Lancaster read a newly-cleared tomb
stone at one of the family cemeteries, this one off Skinner
Road.
■ ■ » '*»» *4 "
At
m
m 4
NEW PLANT REPLACES SPRING PLANTING
Bulldozers are clearing the site of the Chase Brass and Copper Plant, which will be built on
this site on Old Boiling Springs Road. Contracts for the factory, which will make narrow
metal stripping for electrical components, are now in the bidding stage, and construction on
the building will begin in September. The plant will cover 142.000 square feet on its grourid
floor and occupy a 30 acre tract near the U.S. 74 intersection. It is scheduled to begin
operating in late 1985.
Retired
Personnel
Hold Meeting
The Cleveland County
Chapter North Carolina Retired
School Personnel had a lun
cheon meeting on Tuesday, June
5, at the Elks Club. Myers Ham-
bright, president, presided. The
invocation was given by Rev.
Dwight Costner who also gave
the devotional thoughts on
Philippians 4:6-8 which he read
and asked the members to think
on these thoughts.
It was reported J.W. Pharr, a
member, was in the hospital and
also that Miss Ezra Bridges had
surgery on Monday. C.C.
Padgett was welcomed back
after his recent illness.
The following who are retiring
this ycEtf from schools in the
Shelby. Kings Mountain, and
('-'i y-i r d n e? r ■“ U) b b 1 j o 11 s d e L i b t' a t' y
S p e c :i. a 1 o 11. e c t i o n s
p«0« Box 836
B o i 1 ;i. ri s S r-- r i n d s ? N C 28017
G-W
’ Professor
I Moves To
Principalship
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education Monday named Dr. J.
Allen Queen as principal of
North Elementary School to suc
ceed C.A. Allison, who is retiring
at the end of September.
Dr. Queen is presently Chair
man of the Department o*'
Education and Director of •
Teacher Education at Gardner-
Webb College where he served
as Assistant Professor 1978-79
and then Associate Professor
1979 to the present.
He received his Doctorate
from the University of Virginia
with a major in Curriculum and
Minor in Elementary Education.
He received his Masters Degree
in Education with a major in
Elementary Education and a
minor in Science from Western
Carolina University. He also
received his B.S. from Western
Carolina.
Dr. Queen was graduate assis
tant and assistant instructor at
the University of Virginia from
1975-1978.
Earlier he served as elemen
tary teacher in the Haywood,
North Carolina, School System
and as teacher in the Western
Carolina University Summer
Program for Gifted Children.
In the summer of 1983 Dr.
Queen served in Saudi Arabia as
Curriculum Consultant with the
Arabian American Oil Company
for the “Saudi Technical
Development Program.”
Dr. Queen is a native of Lin
coln County. His wife Patsy
Short Queen is a Nurse
Educator, on the staff of
Gardner-Webb College.
The Queens will be making
their home in the Kings Moun
tain area as soon as suitable
housing can be located.
/