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HISTORICAL By REV. E. H. DAVIS On the Halifax road two mlies N. E. of Louisburg there stands an old bouse one of the best pre served specimens of tibe architec ture much in vogue in this section a hundred years ago. It Is the Massenburg place now the resi dence of Mr. Nick Perry, grand son of Nicholas Bryor Massenburg and bis wife Lucy Davis Massen burg. The Massenburgs acquired the property by purchase prior to 1840 and added to the house at first a single story structure as their growing family required. Through the years with its 14x12 sills and 12x4 sleepers it has re sisted decay and standing on a rocky knoll well above the hard surface highway with its Ceaseless tide or travel at its oaae n m ? building to attract the attention if not the admiration of even a care less passerby. A porch jstretches across the enMre front from which two doors side by side open, one into the living-room 18 by 20, the other into the dining-room of same size- Inside may be found furniture and pictures in keeping with the building and like it in fine condition. This old hoqse teems as sound today as it' was 100 years ago and stands as a re buke to other sites in this and ad joining counties worthy as it of longer life but which through carelessness and indifference have crumbled into forgetfulness and decay. Visiting there t-his week there was placed in my hands by the present owners, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Mafsenburg Perry ? Mr. t Perry is a grandson of the couple ? already mentioned ? a diary kept by his grandfather running from 1840 to 1846. To me it has been a volume of deepest interest and I am privileged to quot<e from it for the TIMES. Mr. Massenburg. whose funeral I attended in 1872, was an extensive farmer owning and operating not only this home place of several hundred acres on Fox Swamp but another equally as large on Sandy Creek nad called by him in this diary, Egypt. On the first pages of the diary are re corded the names of his slaves or many of them, with the names of their parents, date of birth and deatb. Consumption is recorded as taking off many of them. The names of many of th#m arp inter esting, viz: Menerva, Venus. Hor tense. Savanna, Claressy, Violet, as well as more familiar, Oscur, Jacob, Moses, Emel.nei Sucky, Dicey and Lucinda. At the be ginning of each, year he names the overseer for each place ? with the wages ? usually $100 in money and 400 lbs. of pork and 4 barrels of corn, and also allots the slaves for each farm specifying hoe hands and ploughers ? the latter usually women. I record in full an entry Jan. 2, 1840 on 1st page. Thurs day, Jan. 2. Kill bogs at Planta [tion, 40 which average 121 28-40 lbs. and make 4868 lbs. which ad ded to the 40 killed here on the 20th Dec. (see Farm Book A) made 9028 lbs. Sold 746 lbs. over seers have 1000 lbs. which leaves for famly supply 7282 lbs. (or 39 negroes and whites in family. Snow 8 inches deep. Thermometer 2 deg. at 10 o'clock tonight. And then at' close of the year ? 184 0 ? he summarizes the year's work in detail for each place but briefly here as follows: At home 24 bal es of cotton, 133 barrels of corn, 19 stacks oats, 2 stacks hay, 13 stacks fodder, 600 bushels pota toes. At Egypt the crop for same year showed 345 barrels of corn, 36 stacks fodder, 11 stacks hay. 6 stacks oats, 6 bogheads tobacco weighing 6570 lbs. which netted | $308.62 ? less than 5 cents a , pound. At' both places 95 hogs were killed weighing 11,767 pounds of which 4062 pounds were sold. Net proceeds of both places for the year totaled $1,250.18. That is to say this much was sold. No corn was sold or forage and just bow much of tobacco and cotton were kept at home for home consumption is not' stated, though it is frequently I stated just how many hands were 1 kept at home spinning. . Those 50 or more slaves had to be clothed as well as fed and neither they nor their owners had any store clothes. Just here I will give as recorded here on opening page 1 Mrs. Shines (Grandma Shines. 1 wrote about her before) recipe for a family medicine good it would seem for all ills our flesh is heir to and would commend the same to the scrutiny of our doctors and druggists. Take 1 lb. of nails. 1 small handfull of Virginia Snake root, 1 pint good vinegar, 1 lb. brown sugar, 1 pint of rum or brandy. Put the Snakeroot in an iron vessel, then place the nails on it, pour over it the pint of vine gar andjet it steep 24 hours. Then take out the Snakeroot and nails and to the vinegar remaining add the sugar and brandy, boil it slow ly to nearly a pint aad pour it off into a large muoMi bottle, tie a rag over it. Dose ? a teaspoonful twice a day for an adult and 1-4 of teaspoc nful for a child of 5 yer.:-s. V.'e mny smile ? at this strange bi'ov. but is it not possible that mixtu.'e* jjMt as strange have gone dnv.-jythe throat of many of us? We can only say where ig norance is bliss it is tolly to be wise. I was especially interested in the entries (or the Sabbath day not one of which seems to have been forgotten through the whole diary. Evidently thig"wafi a church going couple. They went some where for service every Sunday or gave the reason for non-attend ance. This entry in particular was of interest to me. Sunday. Sept. 10, 1843. A most powerful revival of religion in this county. We go to Prospect, 3 miles South of Louisburg, where more than 100 have\been converted and be tween 60 and TO have Joined the M. E. Church and the meeting at-ill continues. Again, Sunday, Sept. 17 Great Revival of Religion. Pro tracted meeting at Trinity. I go. Three converts today. And so the record continues. These church going people do not restrict their attendance to Methodist Churches or even to Franklin County. San dy Creek and Red Bud Baptist Churches, the Episcopal and Pres byterian Churches in Louisburg, Marshall^ and Pitrces in Halifax, Shady Grove and Shocco in War ren are mentioned each many times in this diary of six years. In one place we read. Today we heard Dr. Wait', President of Wake Forest College. Then this very interesting entry, "Sunday, June 16, 1845. Dr. Johnson and two daughters with Mrs. Shaw and daughters, Miss Kate were tonflrmed by Bishop Ives," ttoe last mentioned being the mother of our esteemed townsman, Mr. R. H. Davis. This interests in more ways than one. Bishop Ives full name, Levi Silliman Ives ? while Bishop of this docese went over to the Roman Catholic Church and died in its communion. He was a strong man, vigorous and popular, whsoe advanced view on the sub ject of prelatical succession and Mie authority of the church led Styled to suit your _ TASTE Cut to fit your BODY (ioijlor (Clothes By O. J. HALE *'ext to Wheeler's Barber Shop LOUISBURG, N. C. Qjj) fay to GIVE JEWELRY THAT BRING LASTIWG happiness: WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A COM PLETE STOCK OF WATCHES, DIA MONDS AND JEWELRY. COME IN AND LOOK OUR STOCK OVER. DIAMONDS: In the r (harm and color of natural (sold $1.Y00 up PEN AXD PENCIL NET : In fine gift box. Matched Set* . . $3.00 LADIES' BIRTH STONE RINGS: Solid gold $3.00 up POCKET WATCHES: Elgin, Waltham, Ham ilton $12.50 up GOLD CROSS AND CHAIN: A treasured gift $8.SQ WATCHES MAN'S WRIST WATCH 7 -jewel; modern dnlgn . . . leather strap 9 12. AO NEW LADYS WATCH 'Acrurate movement . . . gold case, cord band $17.50 Terms as low as $1.00 per week ! ? REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES r Buy and Sell in Louisburg ? Your Friendly Market. RAYNOR'S RADIO & JEWELRY SHOP "We Sell the Best and Service the Best" PHONE 454-6 Louisburg, N. C. 1 1 ?io9t AgM to ? imft.'q i n i . b u : flsi , > ir ?? ? >? ? - < ^ ? v ... him inevitably to Rome, (where being a married man he was nec essarily cut off from officiating a* a clergyman or priest but as a pro fessor, lecturer and author he came to eminance and was popu lar as such until his death in 1867. His wife was the daughter of Bishop Hobart of the diocese of New York ? also a distinguished preacher and author.) At some time during bis incumbency here the late Mrs. Mary Penn told me that she bad stood on the bridge over the river and had seen Bishop Ives baptize therein candidates for membership Into t-be Episcopal Church. With the permission of the Editor and the owner* of this diary I hope to make some furth er quotations therefrom of inter est to TIMES readers. | Cabarrus County farmers are showing interest in seeding rye i grass and crimson clover over the |top of temporary lespedeza pas tures, reports R. D. Goodman, farm agent of the State College 'Extension Service. RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ! INSION $1.33 POCKET and WRIST WATCHES ?l.OO to *3.95 ALARM CLOCKS *1.00 to *2.95 LOOK FOR OatH* ON THE DIAI FARMERS! We Are Now Buying Clean, Bright SCRAP TOBACCO At Our Plant in Wendell, N. C. MONK - HENDERSON TOBACCO CO., INC. Wendell, N. C. JOIN THE LONG LINE OF F CX SATISFIED CUSTOMERS ! WITH THE PREVAUJNG LOW PRICES OF TOBACCO IT WILL #AY YOU MORE THAN EVER TO TURN TO FCX PRODUCTS. What Does FCX Mean : It "is the Farmers Cooperative Exchange. It means that cooperative purchasing in large quantities direct from fhe Mills or Manufac ttirers can save you money. All our products are first line. Therefore, -if we price you an article at a saving, don't get the idea that it is second line merchandise. All our feeds are open formula. You know exactj^' what you are buying and feeding your livestock and poultry. , FCX IS THE SIGN WHERE QUALITY COUNTS AND CASH DISCOUNTS ! Come to see us for your next seeds, feeds and groceries. The more we sell the cheaper we can sell. FRANKLIN FARMERS EXCHANGE (Just across the Street from the Jail) LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA THTNKI ? THINK! "Home of The Thrifty" HAVE MONBYI HAVE MONEY I Make a Living TRUST OUR Trust Department can act as your administrator, executor, guardian, or trustee, be assignee or re ceiver, take care of all your finances, under a Living Trust, or afterwards ... for your family. We are com petent . . . responsible . . . permanent. Come in and let us explain our Trust Service. * START SAVING REGULARLY NOW We Welcome Your Banking Business . 1 ' . ' ? ? FIRST-CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY CORNER MAIN AND NASH EfERJBBBTB LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA RANKING HOURS: liH A. M. T* SlM P. ML THINK! THINK! "Home of The Thrifty" HAVE money: 1 HAVE MONEY! HOES, SWEEPS FORKS, RAKES Tn make h crop without Hoes, Plows and Castings, Forks, Hake* and the many other farm tools is practi cally Impossible tln these times of fast work. Come In and see our line. They are the best for the money to be had. We have that, wonderful tobacco sweep that makes better tobacco and makes it easier. SPORTS Come in and select your FISHING TACKLE and be ready to enjoy FISHING, tlie, greatest of all sports. We have most anything you wish. BASE BALL Gets your Balls, Bats, Mits, Gloves and other nec essary fixtures from us. FREEMAN & HARRIS Noma F. Freeman H. Brady Harris LOUISBUHQ, N. 0. '
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