It is a rare occasion when members of five generations get together for a picture
on the 100th birthday of the great-great-grandfather. In this picture, left to right,
are: Mrs. Ida Luther Welch, age 73, daughter of J. E. Luther at her side and who
reached 100 years of age Friday; next is Mrs. Nettie Triplett, 48, daughter of Mrs.
Welch; and the others are Mrs. Mabel We’lbom, 26, daughter of Mrs. Welch, and
her son. Jack age eight.
Hackett Address
Of Luther’s lOOth
Birthday Is Given
Following is re prod need the
brilliant speech delivered l.y .1. J
Hackett. of this city, Friday at the
home of J. K. Luther at Peep
Gap on the occi'sion ot .Mr.
Luther’s 100th birthday anniver
sary;
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By J. B. WILLIAMS
We meet today to celebrate the
one hundredth birthday of one of
North Carolina’s famous sons. One
hundred years ago todoy, on Sep
tember 10, 1843, Jesse Elihu Luth
er was born in Randolph county,
N. C. He is Hie son of Wllliani
Luther and Mary Loflin Luther.
Mr. Luther, with his parents,
moved to Wilkesboro in Wilke'
county when he was 12 years old.
Mr. Luther is a veteran of the
Civil War, having served in the
Confederate Army. He volun-
' leered for enlistment and was in
ducted at Wilkesboro, 'N. C.. on
May 10, 1862. and was assigned to
Colonel Barber’s regiment, and
was later in A. P. Hi'H’s division.
Lane’s brigade, with General
Stonewall Jackson commanding.
He was in several engagements—
the Batt'e of the Wilderness,
Sno’ttsylvania Court House, Chan-
cellorsville, and in the Second
Battle of Manassas. He was
wounded three times, twice in
skirmishes and once at Snottsyl-
(Continued on page sir)
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J. E. Luther, center, is shown here with the two fea
ture speakers at his 100th birthday celebration at his
home at Deep Gap Friday. At left is J. B, AVilliams,
prominent North Wilkesboro Insurance and Building
and Loan executive; ind on the right is J. G. Hackett,
widely known North Wilkesboro citizen and former
member of the State Highway commission.
who.sR honor this meeting is call
ed today is so unusuul that I
deem it not out of place to reflect
for a few moments on the creation
of man.
"In the beginning was God. No
other brightness filled the bound
less realms ot space, the crash of
vorlds. as they went whirling
xroiind each dazzling scene, hod
not begun. The music ot the
spheres was not yet being played.
The thro, e of God stood alone in
11 this wide-spread universe, but
in ti'.e mind of the Creator there
•as originated a change—with
oiit-spreadin.g wings He sat brood
ing-like.* on the vast abyss and
made it pregnant. He cast the
Iright-orbed worlds out into
space, and they moved on by the
laws which none but a perfect
bend could frame. He besprinkl
ed the firmament with stars, and
in their midst placed the sun—
the blazing ruler of the day.
Eternity for the moment ceased
ind IKme began. Out of the dust
ot the earth He formed man in
His own image, and Into him
■ reathed the breath of eternal
t'tfe. The evolutionists have tried
n vi in to prove that man’s origin
was different from this. There is
an evolution, however, which has
been gping on since man’s forma-
ition. ai.d is going on today. It is
the evolution of civilization, when
man was formed, there was form
ed with him the germ of civiliza
tion. Of Its first developments
we know but little. They were all
swept away by the deluge, and
civilization become blotted out of
: existence. Not so. this was only
!the first seed time, after which'a
.i^rander harvest woiHd b^reaped.
Only the first chrysoHs ^pEge of
civilization of the EgyptbMs and
Chaldeans. The colossal ruins of
these ages will ever stand as re
ininder of their grandeur, 'i'lies
passed away, and again was civili
zation seemingly destroyed, hut it
■>s ,i' st another metamorphosis.
This period ot darkness lollowed
the brighter light thi:.t gave
promise of refulgent day.
"The Grecian and Roman civili
zation ro.se on the shores of the
Mediterranean and bid fair to
reach such a high state of perfec
tion that could not be surpassed.
Their sculptors touched the cold,
unhewn stone and it stood forth
in like-life reality, 'fhelr on tors
poured forth a stream of unsur
passed eloquence, whose resist
less tide swept everything l-.efore
it like a torrent fed by a cloud
burst. Their pictures appreovle''
all the beauties of nature and left
upon the canvas, ample evidence
that they hi:d but one rival, that
one, the creator of the world, and
all therein. Their poets sang .a
lullaty which has charmed all
succeeding generations, with it'
rhythmic purity and sweetness.
Their philosophers have harvested
their fields of thought and scat
tered the she ves to the utmost
parts*of the earth, and the daunt
less spirit of their heroism In the
burning sands of Cartij^ge, have
defile ot Therraopalye and on the
furnished examples to succeeding
generations. But there was much
perfect clviUziitlon. The Greek
lacking in the make-up of that
was full of contempt for all man
kind except himself. In the
Roman was seen a Igck of rever
ence and a lack of peVsonal inde-
pend.ence,-“both lacked the spl^t
of Christian d^ractei*, and: ^e
inventive genius which hu* .-iddn
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