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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, November 20, 1964
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THE NEW BERN MIRROR
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
Future historians, evaluating JFK and his Admin
istration in an unemotional light, aren’t apt to rank him
with our greatest Presidents. Even at this early date,
however, he seems destined to remain one of our most
beloved Americans.
A year, come Sunday, has passed since his assassi
nation on a Dallas street. Time does heal all things, but
the deep grief occasioned by this man’s tragic death is
a lingering cloud that still casts its shadow on our nation
and the world.
Those of us who lived in his lifetime are hardly
capable of applying an objective yardstick to his ac
complishments. Any analysis we might make would be
heavily weighted by the impact of his personality.
Far be it from us to suggest, out of respect for the
dead, that Kennedy was free of haters. Milhons, includ
ing many New Bernians, were embittered by his civil
rights program, and even more so by his brother Rob
ert’s attitude while serving as Attorney-General.
However, The Mirror is convinced that thinking
citizens, whether they agreed with the slain President
or not, believe he was sincere. As we see it, no ulterior
motives could be leveled against his proposed legisla
tion. His wisdom might be questioned, but not his in
tegrity.
It is ironic that much of Kennedy’s program prob
ably never would have been passed by Congress if he
had lived. As a matter of fact, he might never have been
elected for a second term, with sentiment against him
mounting during his last days on earth.
There’s an old saying that a statesman is a dead
politician. As is often the case, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
looms larger in death than he ever did in life, and this
increased magnitude, firmly fixed in the public’s mind
and heart has hardly been of fleeting duration.
This past year, eight million fellow humans have
visited his last resting place on an Arlington hillside,
many more than the number attracted to the Lincoln
Memorial and the Washington Monument for this same
period of time. Some were morbidly curious, but some
thing much deeper drew most of these citizens.
JFK was a man of courage. He demonstrated this
quality in war and peace, and it inspired admiration and
respect everywhere. In keeping with his Irish ancestry,
he was blessed with a keen sense of humor, and this too
is a characteristic that holds universal appeal.
No one, we daresay, would contend that he was a
man of limited intellect. His brilliant performances in
the Kennedy-Nixon debates revealed the lightning-quick
alertness of his mental faculties, as did his later re
sponses to the questions of prodding reporters at count
less Presidential press conferences.
He was a man still young enough to be called youth
ful, and still young enough to share the hopes and dreams
of a new generation of Americans. In a world cursed
by hate and fear and oppression, he seemed to offer
another, perhaps final chance to achieve the good will
that angels sang of over a Bethlehem stable, twenty
centuries ago.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a man who had re
ligious faith. Millions of Protestants and Jews refused
to condemn him for a creed that differed from their
own, and they proved it by electing the first Catholic
President in history.
Mankind will never really know what he ultimately
might have accomplished, but for a pair of rifle bullets
that plunged him into eternity. Even as Lincoln, he left
the ranks of the living with much more to be done.
And on an Arlington hillside, in sunshine and rain,
the old and the young come to pause a few feet from
an ever burning flame. They weep softly, and turn away.
And they will never forget.
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Historical
Gleanings
—By—
ELIZABETH MOORE
DIVISION OF THE LAND OF
EDWARD CHAPMAN, DE
CEASED, 1829
The heirs at law of Edward
Chapman, deceased, are: John
Church Chapman, Alfred
Chapman, Sarah Gaskins, and
the heirs of Selah Boyd.
The Plat shows: The Grate
Branch, Creeping Swamp,
Clayroot Swamp Run, Clark’s
Swamp, Poenea Pocosin. Men
tions the Old Ford, Hardy’s
corner, William Hardy’s lands.
Dated 10 February 1829.
Commissioners: John Fornes,
Charles Butler, Farnifold
Chapman, Joseph Pollard,
David Clark.
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Division of the lands of John
Dawson, deceased, amongst his
heirs, towit; Christopher Daw
son, Richard Dawson, John B.
Dawson, Lewis Dawson.
Land on Dawson Creek, and
the Tar Kiln Creek. Plot shows
the Hill tract, the land at the
mouth of Dawson Creek, Smith
Delamar land. Mentions: the
Richneck Plantation, the Vaugh
an Tract, George’s Neck, Lot
No, 274 in New Bern. Dated 4
September, 1816. Commis
sioners: William S. Sparrow,
Roger Jones, Robert Reel,
Smith Delamar.
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Division of the lands ofDavld
D. Dunn, deceased, among the
heirs, towit: William M, Her-
rltage. Grade Fonvielle and
wife, Elizabeth, Brice Fon
vielle, and Richard Fonvielle.
Plot shows land on Little Swift
Creek, James Swamp, Dennis
Purdue’s Patent, Edward Gat
lin’s Patent, George Fisher’s
patent, part of Rice Price’s pat
ent, Randolph Fisher’s Patent,
part of William Gatlin’s pat
ent, Deaver Dam and Fisher’s
Swamp.
Dated May, 1826. Commis
sioners: John Street, Surveyor,
Jesse Pearce, Norman Willis,
Major Willis.
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Partition of land between Ab
ner Pearce and wife, Phoebe
and Eliza Fonvielle, heirs of
William Brice Fonvielle:
Plot shows land on Bachelor
Creek, Richardson’s Mill Pond,
Jumping Run, Bee Tree Branch,
Mill Pond, Herring Hedge Gut,
Alegator Gut, Spring Gut,
Graves’ line, W. C. Stanly corn
er. Mentions: Neuse River,
North side of Bachelor Creek,
Street’s Bridge, Richard and
William B. Fonvlelle’s corners,
Richard Fonvlelle’s Cowpens,
Mill Dam.
Plot No. 2 shows: land on
Deep Branch, Yates & Fon
vlelle’s corner, Johnson’s cor
ner, Pond and Smith line.
Plot shows division of part
of the Lot No. 5 in Town of
New Bern, East Front Street.
Dated 12 Nov. 1822. Claiborne
Ivey, Surveyor. Commission
ers, John S. Smith, Richard
Richardson, Charles Carter,
Test. T. H. Daves, Sheriff.
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At September Term, 1799
William Hampton in right of his
wife Sarah, prays for division
of the estate of John Gauslin,
deceased. Commissioners ap
pointed: Spyers Singleton, John
Knox, Nathan Smith, Jeremiah
It's What's
Inside the
Bun that
Counts at
The Chorburger
Village Verses
YOU CAN'T WIN
Folks with hopes of getting thinner
Shouldn’t eat Thanksgiving dinner;
There’s so much good of this and that.
And all of it will make you fat.
Turkey with dressing, and gravy too,
Creamed potatoes, what can you do?
Cakes and puddings, and pumpkin pies.
Attractively placed before your eyes;
With all that wonderful food to spare.
You’ll junk your diet and cram your share.
—JGMcD.
Parsons, Ivey Hatch. Signed by
Samuel Chapman, by George
Vultleus.
The Petition of Abel and Anna
Fulsher, Peter Harper and wife
Mary, Sally and Rounfull Ful
sher, and John Beggs, their
Guardian, heirs of Jesse Fulsh
er, for division of land on Bay
River, August, 1803, Commis
sioners: T. Tillman, John
Biggs, Jos. Nelson, James Nel
son.
A plot by William Johnston,
Surveyor, July 1803 shows:
Sheffield House, a grant toJohn
Bedscott, upper Broad Creek,
Thomas Whltford’s corner,
William Speight’s line. The
Glade. (Plots and Divisions,
Craven County Pages 105-121,
Office Clerk of Court, Craven
County, N. C.)
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