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Josephus Daniels, Jr. Josephus Daniels, Jr., business manager of the News and Observer, will be onejof the most prom jnent participants in the State Legion convention at Fayetteville next week. Though comparatively little has been done before the eyes of the general public to forward his candidacy for the position of State Commander, one can readily believe that the campaign has made most satisfactory prog ress among the veterans. His) Military Career Mr. Daniels left the army with the rank of captain, which rank it is evident he had well won. He enlisted as a private. He served a year over seas with the 13th Marines and was aide to Gen eral Smedley Butler. Long Active in the Legion Active in the American Legion from its for mation period, Mr. Daniels is' a past commander of Raleigh Post No. 1 and for several years was chairman of the Legion’s luncheon club in the State Capital. He is past Grande Chef de, Gare of the Grand Voiture of North Carolina of the 40 and 8, and also is past Chef de Gare of the Raleigh Voiture of 40 and 8. He has attended several national conventions as a delegate from this State. Mr. Daniels has also been a delegate from the Raleigh Post to several State conven tions. Forty-one years of age, Mr. Daniels is business manager of the News and Observer. Mrs. Daniels was Miss Evelina Foster Mc Cauley of Nashville, Tenn. She is a member of the Raleigh Unit of the American Legion Aux iliary. They have one son, Edgar Foster, a char ter member of the Raleigh Chapter of Sons of the' Legion. „ Governor Ehringhaus Firm It is evident that no bunch of people is going to persuade Governor Ehringhaus to call a special session of the legislature. The-liquor business should wait till the supreme court has determined the legal status of the mess we now have. The old-age pension matter can wait longer; though the million dollars that has! heen^going to Con federate veterans could well go to all citizens bom before or during'the war Of the sixties. They suffered more^than any ofl the surviving Confederate veterans. Those who did suffer-are dead long ago. The news from Georgiaward as to tobacco prices is very encouraging. Still the wonder is how the U. S. factories, with no rise in cigarette prices, can pay present and last-year prices un less they were deliberately starving tobacco grow ers for several years. A lot of poor folk ought to be able to get a chance at the seabreezes if all those hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in tying down the sea shore sands.—rWonder if that is the way to spell tying, or is it tieing? By the time of our next issue, several things ought to have taken form. Two weeks hence, the world should know whether Italy will - persist , in her war course. And somewhere some fellow should have begun one of those $19-a-month jobs. NECROLOGICAL (Continued from Page Four) ffletal and mettle tod. The list of notable dead includes, besides Messrs. Pagd and Pou, Representative Dean farmer and teacher of Watauga county, Jdm D. Perry, fraternal and church worker of "aT'srh, C. M. Vanstory, prominent as merchant and real estate man in Greensboro for a half cen t!,rT. Sheriff Spivey of Franklin county, a vic of an automobile accident, and Romulus R 7s. Patriarch of Randolph county and father several stalwart sons who are prominent m Pate affairs. ' hi one of the February or March issues of this pat)er was an appreciation of Dean Swift, then Len'n? hi the legislature at Raleigh. John rr- -- - D. „‘erry was a man who probably did more as a yunday school and church worker without pecu reward than in any private task of his own. Ross had also been' a great church worker. ?ewas the father "of our/ countyman, Charles 1\QQo _ji _ _ _■¥■ -r • 1 _ P/vnimK H attorney for the N. C. Highway Commis sion others of more or less prominence have s° been called away, but ’Otrr personal mteres as chiefly in the six mentioned. t‘ -fifth t ( fir'w>4 i have recently been in correspondence-.with, rs. Julian C. ^Lane of Statesboro, Ga., whoris. gathering material for a history, of Bullock cotm y, of which Statesboro is the county-seat. Now, just ponder these words of Mrs. Lane’s: "Jtfear, j seventy-five percent of our county’s first settlers' came here from your section of North Carolina.” ' n another letter Mrs. Lane mentions as among the early settlers, Blands, Aldermans’ Brinsons, l^ees, McGees, Powells, Petersons, McNatts, and McRaes. Mrs. Lanes immediate quest is to discover-the lineage of Malcolm Peterson and his wifer Flora McNeill. But she is concerned with the lineage of all the families named above as well as with McAllisters, McQueens and McLeods, who went ; to Georgia directly from upper South Carolina hut seem to have been of North Carolina des cent. it seems evident that Malcolm Peterson moved, to Georgia from Sampson county, but that he was of the Cape Fear Scotch stock, originally McPeters, as the late Hamilton McMillan, whose grandmothes^was one of them, stated. Data fur nished by Mrs. Lane from the census of 1920 shows, Malcolm, Archibald, and Duncan -LPeter son living in Sampson, and the names ii< the census grouped together, indicating, ^probably, that they lived in the same neighborhood. And_ if those three names do not bean, the Scotch, stamp it is hard to find three that do. The Mal colm Peterson who married Flora McNeill was the son off the Malcolm mentioned above, and his wife was a McPhail. Now I am 'interested" to know if any remnant of this family was left in Sampson or Cumberland. ' *' \ '• This correspondence with Mrs', Lane is about * to give me the needed hunch as to' thej, coming ;bf~' the writer’s ancestor. Mrs. Lane quotes a’num- - her of applications for Revolutionary^ War Pern sions. Among them is that of John Peterson in 1833. John Peterson was then 83 years, old and , states that he was bom in 1750 and thiftks he was bom at Goshen in Duplin county, then.and now. He was living in Sampson when the peif sion application was made, and David Under wood, aged 83. also, attests that he'wap with John PeterSon on a six-weeks expedition to WHming^ ton in 1775 in the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Rutledge and in Capt. John TreadJ well’s company. As the first settlers came into tipper Duplin only 15 years before the birth of John Peterson, it is evident that the Petersons probably came among McCulloch’s! early settlers, who were Scotch or Scotch Irish, and thus it seems possible - that my old friend Hamilton McMillan was right when he used to insist -that I was' Scotch. Yetf it is hard to believe that any Scotch'folk lost that tradition. ’ ^ It is interesting to note that David Underwood, probably the son of the patriarch of 1833, was an old man in our community when I Was grow ing up and that a son, David Underwood, born when his father was probably sixty-five-or'sev enty, is living in Clinton today. If that is the genealogy, David Underwood is one of few men living today in his prime-whose grandfather was one of the earliest soldiers" ill the Revolutioaaiy War. Uncle Sam is, after all, ft quite a? youth. For instance, my ■ father and T, t have lived under all the presidents except Wash-’- •' ington, John Adams, Jefferson and Madison. : 1' But this is not writing about North Carolina as a national seed bed. Those'first quoted words of Mrs. Lane’s are suggestive. North Carolina received many immigrants from Pennsylvania,,, A and other states, the former particularly. The; Pennsylvania Dutch settled irvthe foothills where the soil is deeper than in the east, and there- they. • seemed to stay. But settlers on the sandy .soils y . « very Soon discovered how easily they wore, out and moved on, out into other states. The area. from Dunn to Southport, at the mouth of the Cape Fear was one of the latest areas in-the ; state east of the Blue Ridge to he settled; yet it ^ soon began to send forth streams' pf .settlers,to the south and west. Old Rowan church, the old est Baptist church in the area mentioned, lost. ;^ most of its members in the 8th decaide of the 18th century by removals. That Cape Fear bunch V" of Scotch Petersons over near the Cumberland . T; line seems to have gone almost to a man.to L Georgia; while the Petersons who settled first ... over) on the North East in Duplin county moved fi only over to Goharie in central SampsOn and . there have abode, yet spending outscores of- sonsi to the south particularly. - 1 ; 1 s „ ..1 , *2 - When I was living in Louisiana it was easy to ^. spot the Carolina family names.1'Irecall; stopping at a central Louisiana town. The first manPraet.-, -was the chief of police. When1 hie foldfne his name ;' was Pittman I asked him' whether he or his fa ther or grandfather had cdtritT fijorn Robeson • -county. He bit at once. Itdfevelbped ‘thathis fa-‘. •ther was the Robeson emigrant, but~hfehiliiself. ' knew the Robeson traditions. 4le asked ffle if '! ’,'" -knew “Uncle Evander,” and it is a fact that 1^4 -could inform him trnthfufly that I not only knew ^ 4 “Uncle Evander^ but had been a &uest In his > r > home. . .’-i .->■ A glance oyer shows that many names in jjtiy Jbpup£y yrhosje, j .present day names one knows has^ .disappeared altogether. Of course, some of them .simpdjr dwindled out, but many families of that ^date --n laterr left the state as a' whole. and lefti-nobody^r,.^. to carry on their names. If qqe icould gather- : all! the people in the United Stated, beyond the; \ ■ borders of North Carolina whose family had its - . i early setting in this state we should see such a:-* crowd of folk as would convince every one that. Norths Carolina has been a National seed bed.,. But the latter years are seeing a' much greater, percentagle of its people remaining at' home^, ... at least till the new deal began to collect them in Washington City—and the consequence is the population of the state is rapidly climbing. At this late date, - North Carolinians have found, that. . they have at home as fair. opportunities as the whole country can afford, ' . . .' 1 Gabriel Holmes Gabriel Holmes was. born near Clinton, Samp son county, North .Carolina, in 1769, and was the son of Gabriel and Mary Carson Holmes. He re ceived his preparatory education ' at Parnassus Academy in Rowan county and later attended Harvard College at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later returned to Raleigh and studied law under John L. Taylor, latef Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and was admit ted to the bar in 1790. Gabriel Holmes represented Sampson county in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1794 and 1795 and served in the State Senate from 1797 to 1802. After his term had expired, he Returned to Clinton and continued to practice law. He was elected in 1812 and 1813 to repre sent Sampson county in the State Senate. Gabriel Holmes was elected governor of North Carolina on December 6, 1821, as a I®**®”?1?? Democrat and served in that capacity until his tom expired on December 7, 1824. Governor Holmes had planned to entertam LaFayefte at the executive mansion, but h.s term exptrrf to fore the great Frenchman reached North Caro v Cover nor Holmes was a, member of the Boanfof Trustees of the University of North Carolina from 1801 to 1804 and again frqm 1817 or Holmes was elected teemtor 3_ 1M^ Tary HuJU, H dau^of Lieutenant Colonel Theophilus Hun ter of Wake county. They had several children, the most distinguished of .\yhom¥ was General Theophilus Holmes of the Confederate army. Governor" Holmes died on September 26> 1829, and was buried in the family cemetery on his ,v plantation near Clinton. . / “In public life Governor, Holmes was jdistin- ..., guished for pure, disinterested love of country;_ in private life, for sincere friendship and the strictest integrity; as a neighbor he was kind-- ~ and benevolent; as«a husband and father, affec-> , tionate and indulgent. He! lived esteemed by his , . friends for his many virtues, and died regretted by all who knew him.” General Theophilus Holmes was bom in Samp- - son county in 1804. He married Laura Wetmore ■ and had four children. General Holmes gradu ated from .West Point in the same, class with Jefferson Davis. He served with distinction in , the Seminole War in Florida and in the Mexican War. In 1861, he followed the example! of Lee;, by resigning his position in "the United State® - army and tendering his services to. his native State. “ " . • . Theophilus Holmes was appointed. Brigadier- ■ General by President Davis and later rose to the . 7 rank of Major-General and Lieutenant-General. He served in the Trans-Mississippi Department in 1864 and 1865, where he commanded 40,000 sol-, ^ diers. After the war, General JJolmes returned ^ to his home in Cumberland county and remained ^ . there until his death in June, 1880. CLAUDE H. MOORE, r '
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