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Southern Pines. N. C.
‘‘Aunt Harriet” Tyson, Loved By All,
Dies Ill Carthage Aged Nearly 100
Mrs. Mary A. Buie
Is Buried Saturday
Member Florist Telegraph Delivery Ass'n
Phone 7634 Southern Pines
Her Passing Recalls
Favorite Stories
of Slavery Days
By Ruth H. Tyson
Funeral services were held
Monday at 3 o’clock fromi the St.
Augustine AME Zion church for
Mrs. Harriet Tyson, venerable
matriarch of the colored race of
Carthage, and an ’ ex-slave who
was 100, or nearly 100, years of
age.
She was well known and loved
by both colored and white of
Moore county and many of her
white friends attended the last
rites. The services were conducted
by the Rev. Mr. Bell assisted by
the Rev. Mr. Tyson, a former pas
tor, and others, who gave tributes
to her as the mother of their
community. There were many
flcral tributes also and good
music, and the church was filled
0 overflowing.
Surviving are a son, Tommie
Tyson, of the home, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Bessie Hayes, who lives
next door; also a foster daughter,
Mrs. Hessie Banner, two grand
sons, Jimmie and Banner Hayes;
a granddaughter, Hattie Hayes,
and a foster grandson, Jesse Ban
ner. She is also survived by two
sisters and two brothers.
She held a unique place in the
esteem and affection of the towns
people, and although she could
not read nor write, she used good
English and had the manners of
a gentlewoman and a mind of
keen intelligence.
She always said she was 10 or
15 years old at the time of the
Surrender at the close of the Civil
War, and that she remembered it
very well. Her master was John
Tyson of near Gulf, Aunt Harriet
said, and as a baby she was just
about raised in his house. “Old
Marster,” she told the writer,
“was crippled with rheumatism
and would sit by the dining room
fire and watch me. My mother
would lay me on a pallet in the
dining room while she workgd in
the fields nearby, so that he could
call her when I needed her.”
After the Surrender her mother,
who married Ephraim Worthy,
moved to Carthage, and she re
calls how her tw^ young mistress
es begged to be allowed to keep
her with them.
She worked as a nurse in the
home of the late Howard MH^e
for many years and helped raise
nearly all 'of his children, Mrs.
R. L. Burns, Mrs. Oscar Dupree,
Mrs. J. V. Williamson and Ed
Muse. She was also the first nurse
of the late Lucien Tyson, having
In fact, put the first diapers on
about half the older Carthage
■•esidents.
She ‘married James Tyson, or
Jimmie, as he was called, who
had belonged to Thomas B. Ty
son, Sr. Her husband, she said,
could real well and wrote a beau
tiful hand. And this is how he got
his schooling:
When Mr. Tyson’s grandson,
Thomas B. Tyson, Jr., started to
school the older boy, Jimmie, was
sent along with him to look after
him. The grandmother, old “Miss
Poly” Tyson, would have a big
enough lunch packed for the two
of them. They stayed all day, and
did not come home until 4 o’clock
in the afternoon. Jimmie sat all
day in school with the little
grandson and learned right along
with him.
After the war, when ruinous
times fell upon the South and
there was no money, Harriet said
that she worked for 25 cents a
week. Besides nursing, she did
fine hand laundry, which she con
tinued to do for many years until
she became too feeble.
Mrs. Mary Arnette Buie, 70,
once a resident of Southern Pines,
died Friday at Florence, S. C.
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Saturday at the Gospel
church in Carthage, conducted by
the Rev. William Hancock. Burial
was in the family plot in Bethle
hem cemetery.
Mrs. Buie made her home here
with her son-in-law and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Smith,
who lived in Southern Pines from
1929 to 1939. Mr. Smith, who is
with the • Carolina Power and
Light company, was transferred
from Southern Pines to Florence
and Mrs. Buie had been with them
there. She was a native of Jack-
son Springs.
Surviving besides her daughter
is a son, Capt. John Duncan Buie,
USA, stationed in Greece, also
two grandchildren.
BLOODSHED
BOX SCORE
KILLED Mar. 24-27 ... ... 9
INJURED Mar. 24-27 114
KILLED lo date 1950 209
KILLED to date 1949 175
INJURED to date 1950 2.443
INJURED to date 1949 1.800
She ^aved until she had $100
and then she bought a few acres
of land just across from the pres
ent John Hall Presbyterian
church. Two comfortable homes,
her own and her daughter’s, now
stand on this land. Later they
bought adjoining land, on part of
which her son operates a store
and filling station. On the remain
der they built a nice dwelling
which was used for a whUe as a
teacherage for the Pinckney
school.
Harriet educated her children,
and soon all her grandchildren
will be college graduates.
Her grandson, James, is a grad
uate of North Caroina college,
Durham and is now engaged in
welfare work in New York City.
He plans to- enter summer school
this June to begin work on his
master’s degree.
Banner is a graduate of A and T
college, and is now a tailor in
New York.
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Hattie is a junior in business
administration at North Carolina
college, Durham.
Always a good housekeeper,
Harriet’s home was as clean and
neat as any house in town. Her
son and daughter gave her devo
ted care in her last years, even
securing a hospital bed in order
to make her more comfortable.
Harriet was good and kind, and
she loved conversation. She loved
her white friends and they loved
her. Perhaps in Heaven she and
her old friends of the era in which,
she grew up are even now having |
a good time talking together.
Hospital Fund
Rain which continued all dur
ing Tuesday morning let up just
about an hour before the 2 p. m.
scheduled exhibition match of
professional golfdom’s “Big Four”
and a gallery of some 700 to 800
enthusiastic fans turned out for
the benefit event.
They saw a newsworthy spec
tacle of well-night perfect golf,
and the Moore County Hospital
building fund will benefit by an
amount as yet undetermined. E.
J. Austin, resp:|:esentative of the
Sandhill "Veterans association,
sponsor of the event with Pine-
hurst, Inc., said a number of re
ports on ticket sales are not yet in.
In addition, the veterans had
thoughtfully taken out rain insur
ance and expect to realize an
amount from this to make up for
reduction in out-of-town attend
ance caused by the weather con
ditions.
For their contribution to the
building fund, the spectators saw
Johnny Palmer and Clayton Heaf-
ner, runners-up to Sam Snead and
Cary Middlecoff in both the PGA
and National Open champion
ships, defeat the champs 4 and 3
Palmer, the boy from Badin,
starred with a smashing seven-
under-par 65. Snead, 1949’s top
money winner, came in with 69,
Heafner with 70 and Middlecoff,
who had trap trouble, with 71
Best ball for the winners was 61,
and for the losers 65.
Rites Held Sunday
For Malcolm McLean
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Come in and let us show you why Silentite is Amer
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long years of satisfaction. We have furnished Silentite
windows and other Curtis Woodwork for many <rf
the finest homes in this vicinity. And every owner is
a satisfied owner.
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Builders Supply
Phone 1144 Lumberton, N. C.
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■ Funeral services for Malcolm D.
McLean, prominent resident of the
Cameron community, were held
Sunday at 2:30 p. m., at Union
Presbyterian church, conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. C. K. Ttif-
fe. Burial was in the church cem
etery.
Mr. McLean died Saturday
morning in Watts hospital, Dur
ham, following a long illness. He
was 79 years old.
He was born in Moore county,
I son of John and Flora Kelly Mc
Lean, and lived all his life in the
Cameron section. He was a mem
ber of Union Presbyterian church.
Surviving are two nephews and’
three nieces.
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