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Mag; - ,Mued "Twice a Month VOLUME 2 / PUNN, N. C., OCTOBER 15, Clayton C&jiit of Wilmington is a native of Onslow County. BBjjf(traces his descent hack to <&ta.way Burns and even to George Durant, the first man in North Carolina to recojve a deed for land, and the man who gave , name to 'Duran^ Neck. He premise* to write an article for the State’s Voice upon Otta way Burns. The one soil of the doughty sea captain was a visitor in the Grant-home when Clayton- was a lad. . - ' ■ Murray James, member of the Wilmington legal firm of Carr, Poisson, and James, is another who knows his genealogy. His James ancestor of 200 years ago was chairman of the original county court of Onslow County, while his older Murray ancestor (for he has two strains Of Murray blood in his veins) was one of the other two members. The James home stead, near Maple Hill, Pender County, is one of the most isolated in the . state. Angora bay lies imme diately back' of the old home -and the nearest neigh bor to the east was "some twenty miles away. Yet every member of the large family of children was well educated. Till the high school at Maple Hill ’ was estaWished governesses were employed to teach, the James children* Josh, the youngest and at 27 years of age a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for congress in the Third district, lives at the old place. The father^was a good friend of the writer’s and we have been to that old homestead/Hin Jen James, first student enrolled at the State Univer sity, is also a descendant of Samuel James, chairman of Oqglow’s first county court, or his genealogy is otherwise untraceable/ If there is a friendlier or more hospitable man in North Carolina than Ik*. D. T. Smith wick of Louis burg he is hard to'flnd/ I had to decline his insistent" Writation fa> spend thp nlght^^^^i^^j^^tjmr ^da^ | IVifehtn a few inihutes he was instrumental in secur ing ns three new subscribers. He.told Jlarry Stevens | (for Harry now live?'in LouWburg) Vote©:'', is worth $10.00 a £ear. What do you- think of | for a commendation, Carl Goerch? . . - We vote Mr. J. H. Boone, Franklin County tax col lector, the cleverest man in the Franklin court house,'* Like Mr. J. E. L. Wade, of Wilmington' Mr. Boone is! a man whose personality attracts one in a minute* That is about how long I talked with him; yet I Shaft ; not forget him. Tt is surprising how generally ^^4 valent are Boones in the Stater- This was my first knowledge that Franklin Ms - its 'Boone family. '* Wades are so scarce in the Stttfe that I conld easily 'r guess that Mr. J. E. L. Is a desC^dant of 'the Alisdn ‘ County Revolutionary hero. Just watch aind see"if Mr. Wade is not heard from in: a larger job IhSfi fits present one, thotigh that one is ncr sinecure; for his is • the job of supervising WUmington’s utilities—d fob ' like that of Mr; J; Hr Brovins in Raleigk : \ 1, Did you ever hear of R, Mu Kermfl^of Wilmington? r Perhaps not, but. I# take hiar’id iSelmt of the most ’ ’ useful citizens of^tfeat'city* As a he stndfed • electricity and^on fthe day he'-'was iS jfearS of age * opened an electrfc^ ghop-Otte night and one summer;ternrat Wake rorest. receivmg.nis license in 1927: jFor years* he; was CO«n|y. meter ad juster. As an Expert electrician, hacked by ^is knowledge of law, lj».-became insfcrnmeritai in seci|if ing two reductions:, in the Tidewater Power Cein-^. pany's rates, presenting forcible pleps before the State Utility Commission 'without reward .or i»oph'of re ward. Mr. Kerman’s father, a ^native of BeanftUt County, after * Fisher, tarried in Wilmington^ . I'd* many "years he was captain of the U. ^. engineering survey Mercnr." jfyerybody in. Wilmington/ unless it poww Company foil, sfibuKt appreciate the seryioegpf^ young R. M. Kerman.'y<- - * ' P.,H. WJilson.pt Wr^eJor^t j&wn^Uniqne^mM^; nation of prefessionf. :®(g lege and, actively p^ctip^ law^Ml^.^}sep an illustration of how hanpt. |s from home folk, was St»i>ti^l by Bev.- P.. jfc thews. Sir. Matthews lived in the upper part df fhe county and I didn’t Itnbw - his family. •'Mr. Wilsbfi ' is one of his grandsons. <He has IJve thousfchd fflofe^ or less remote kinfolk in Shnftfeon, Duplin,; Pender, and New Hanover'. Just across the street from Mr.. Wilson’s office I ftnnd-the new wife .'of Dr. John Powers—no iespthan'a -ntecr" ctf ?our*. and sbe ae companied toe oat to the farm where John was hav« ing a stone tenant house built. As the lad of eleven -.of my senior year at college has become my nephew I thought I should go a mile or two to see him. Back, I drop in at Mr. J. H. Hardwicke’s drug store, and get it more definitely fixed in mind that only six years , ago ha was located right over there at Buie’s Creek asj&fuggist. - Mr.-Hgydwicke is a native of- Horry County, S. C., got his education at Charleston Medical College, served an apprenticeship in a Charleston drug store, moved to Charlotte, thence to Buie’s Creek’s, and six years ago to Wake Forest, where I Imagine he is a fixture. Those were the three people whom I sought to see in a few minutes’ stop, and they all turned out to toe hofiie^folk. in a way. John’s wife said she never knew John’s father. I told her that if I hadn’t known him she jvould never have known me either, as Dr, B^ F. Powers pulled me through a seventy-day siege of blood poison when I was a student up there. Ur. B. F. Powers was a real physician. In a lecture before the students about 45 years ago be, discoursed on the functions of the white Corpuscles of the blood—their gobbling up of hostile germs. Later he kept mine busy for two and a1: half months fighting, and what a fight they did put up! I have said that my blood developed enough resistance' to almost, asgure me that I shall never din of g germ disease and last year when our daughter was fatally ill with septicemia how I did wish that she had those veteran white cospuscles of mine to help fight that losing battle. Verydtefip physicians knew much about the function of White corpuscles 45 years ago. Mrs. John Powers was a nurse at Bex Hospital for years, latterly supervisor of nurses, I believe.—1 re call; Ivdid see Br. Solomon Holding, but he was a school-mate down In Sampson In 1§87 and at the old; ftt •v ^pi&iitiofied hi the last issflfe of the Voice spending ;;d night with Mf. Metcher Herring of Burgaw, father . o£ Dean Herring of Duke tliiipersity*-«Bd bf ttoe recent *4nride of Attorney Paul Stnehlattd of Within a few days of that visit I1 was at Paul’s heme, chatting fine mother. The bride wad at Attburn teaehihg. as shtr. had Contracted to teacii be fore her marriage.- The mothfei was a Watkind. ' She* •*. •: 1 i*' •' . ■’•r ■■L„ r‘ came from aHine of teachers, and it Was he? grand father taught Dr. Matthew T. Yates his';abc,s/' ' ....... .... if you don't know who Dr. Yates was you have ‘failed tO- fehrn Of one of ftorth Carolina's most, fa'md'ns'jnelr.**-Aa«J”I doubt if half my subscribers dp ’ ine% who tfg&ufliiit he ,ifva». * ' 4 :K . ,k Hew Hanover's sheriff^ C. David Jonas, is serving ' his first ifernS, ljut thatr he has met the approval the people Is- eyidfhc&d by the fact that he was.nomi nate&‘o ver to opponent 6y 'a #pt& of two to dne; 7 " 1 feel almost as much at home in the custgjpk htyise ■ in- Wilmington as 'in the health department at Ra-: vjB%h. * In' the latter at the head.Is a class-mate, Dr. Opper-is a neighborhood boy. Dr. Branch is an'isld' gjffifi'pi mine. 'Tn the customs" housej 'Collector' John Bright Hill is a Warsaw boy and a not very s rajnbte cottsii^ <5T a son-m-iaw; <»tewurt Tiigiismiio, wie_ xei* low who has taught all the collectors -for* a . score of years their jobs, Is a - relative and an oldt pupii.^ On the first floor, is the office of/. vP. Herring, coanty f^rm agent, -a first-cousin of mine. And thus it goes: largely through the city. I called on Wii^eld Smith, sojrthfeastenr part'ot the state are of the old Sampson stock. ' HeTlntroduced me to his stenographer, a Miss Herring—my mother was a Herring and she jwra ot the Slime Strain, the young T^dy being some kindioi ccusin ; I walked acros^he street to ICSayton Oraht’s ■ ...wT^j^tallhiirkiMof the experience of meefc: lag two relatives in: one office: ThOjfiafa other" inan tn -the. room spoke up and, said ;h^s wife was a Her* icj ,v.f* nAiidn Ifln. flvoT of /h* iing^' apd fih^ proved to he. a cousin too- • flver at lae. Joirrt^oi^ Is JJ4e ^ county emnmisfeiouerfiferhe married a flrst^usin c£ ^w.ra MBter if Herrfcgv>. .Their son, Addison : Hewlett/ Jr., * has; just opei^ed^ Ms iawj^| ih^t^ room under Clayton Grant. Bren one of the twd prominent dead of tfcg :$«# ph**h^Manife nmih ^hetarwi Wi^et itor 53 years.^ Sbewasade sccndant ofW rtT agp>arte»m AMerman broth-; *5';* my Ikahdmother Hearing, wared ■ v^’:; C1.?J /v ,j£: % •vPr' / twenty miles north, on- Moore’s Creek. Apart from - > tte host of my own kin in. the eity is a raft of Mrs. r Peterson’s. For instance, there 14 that youthful at- ^ torney of 80. years, Mr. W. L. Smith^a kinsman of ■ the better half* both tracing back to a sister of V. S*. $ Senator Timothy Bloodwortb. Dr. David Sloan of Wilmington is a first cousin af/ •> President Prank Graham, and just as genial a fellow.. It was his father that Dr. John. Wright1 of Raleigh^ paid such glowing tribute as a physician and a . scholar. Dr. David confirmed the matter, of his; father’s scholarship. He recalls how he and his mates might be reading their Latin and the father ly« ing resting when he would rouse up and say “Boys,. you haven’t read that right.”, If you read Dr. Wright’s tribute td Dr. <Sloan the elder, you should'; ' recall his ability as a diagnostician. Verily, Frank Graham didn’t get all his sense' from’ the Graham * -vr Blue oi me uouae. I hadn’t seen Robert Grady in several years till a ' few days ago in Wilmington. Bob came to Burgaw * .,08 a fledgling lawyer daring' my last year in that ‘ at that time young county-seat. It Is from him that ■ his nephew, Robert Grady Johnson, candidate for the * { speakership' of the house, got his first two names. ^ Bob Grady had “been thinking of sending a subscrip- * - - tiou,” but, dog ’em, thinking doesn’t help the matter. ’ -3f ; got that dollar then and there and along with it. ! one from bis client ip the office, Mr. Riley Jones of Maple Hill. It is fun to go and see the fellows and'4 then make them pay for the visit, hut it would be . fiber for them? to actually send the Subscriptions in and estop the levy on the visit. But subscriptions' have to come if I have to go and get them. ■ ' For one* I am glad Dr.. L. R. Meadows has been - .-'elected px^Sid'ent Of Haynesvilie; sionary work in China, you can judge of what type1 - .of family he" came. Dr. Meadows, I’d, bet fny bottom a Meadows^ That is' not saying that he might’ not ! accept a position whe#e he deemed he'could be^nor^, ? > ; useful, but it will be the latter fact and not that Of t 4 increased salary that win TJuiL hihi in;Su^iAcase., Ry; t the way, Hayhesville is in Iluey Long’s native parish . (county). The worst horseback ride I believe I ever had was from HaypekviUe out to a country home’ The' stirrups WOre too short andvconldny; be lengthened? IVs $Ueh' # - (haO-of; the” most pleasant hewcbmcta. to the istate 1';^ \ hfive mlbis MWfc/o. MePliail of Senderspn. He i&r* 3 been In the State as superintendent drmanager or a * Henderson fertilizer business only'a few weeks, bat - • S-V.. pfts-i: '-f>-.j®jfcjcfr "*■ igZ'’*; ' *4*'rS *•* he Ik,a man who make'frieffds rapidly and hold :\ WEep f wrote for the last .issqe^of the firifc of Half . and Pearsall ^^ilraingtott'^pl^ ho id&a’that tire® ' original Hall of - at the age ofh2 during my Vfcdt.W Wilmington ten , days go. yoa may reeali ihai ^gjwas jnention^J^us - ^ a descendant of the Original HiiiF^iho gave its namef* to Hallsvfile, In PupHE (County, an tmcle of hls going ^ ' to Cplumtms and giving the-jiaine »to ^lallsboro, from ®*i£. iw£ieh~ j^riJ^Hallof‘ * Tlfe flrmr of Hall and Pearsall had so long prmnineA that ■ ; - ft.-- "'■?.• -•'. x -*■•& • i - -L ws-; * y1- '-IlL I had assumed that the fomrfer was gone. : He* wag niiost highly? esteemed in the (City by the Sea; And w ' rrnoyy I peg jthaV my frtend W.' T. Covington yiP ' ford vHioSe work as" a sculptor wii jnentibned in v : last issne^of this paper was found dead in*hls’’c5irf^I * ?.3tud the feel a personal-loss in; his g lost a nnut .of uniqpe tafeht. If he could have stn tudVefl ^ in his * yonth he Undoubtedly would- hare risen to f rsi, i&MM- 5TSjf.--.vj. fj: it: -r.--* .»*'■? t*V .’iv- 113$; ■& Aarit*iflfc;ljis works are r wOhd^fbHy iifrf&e. If yoo go taBaeford, be sore to 1 prominence^-as ageplpfor. see the bust of ^nire McLgo^hiin hi the Oburt house -»* «ft>, and W if ifa fereator dfdn’t Jiftye q real talent. - I yisited "FrahklinWs Aplen^id^l^oof the ^ other * | ' the bnBd day and wad all the more ——-r * --... « “ late Hr. Tas^ and with the -M, A' ■ssJM&dKv 0C6P tinned on Page Pfve) ~.~ warnm:. i>. • >■ ■' -■ ■' - • ‘ s ^ . ■■e‘...'l-.:
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