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INTERESTING AND OTHERWISE (CLARENCE GRirFIN) nS on County, Col. Wade and Their Relations to Rutherford Tvtlve miles northeast of Wades boro and seven miles in the same di rectior? from the village of Liles ville. verlooking the Pee Dee River, js the grave of Colonel Thomas Wade Revolutionary patriot, and the r:.an ~or whom Wadesboro^ —present capita: of Anson, is named. The gjav. is located on a bluff overlook ing the impounded waters of Ble witt's Falls dam, on the Pee Dee, and is just fifty yards from the site of Anson County's first courthouse. Turning northeast in the village of Lilesville from State Highway No. 20. North Carolina's Main Street, is a turnpike that leads to the grave of Wade. The road may be traversed easily enough in a car for five miles, The two miles is over a wretch ed trail cut through wooded bluffs along the Pee Dee, and through a sec tion of the county that is sparsely populated —a veritable hunter's par adi?e. The last stretch of the road, if it may be called that, leads over a uater worn gulley, cut into holes and trenches by the weather. The trail i :naily wends itself through a field of cotton or "the flats", along the river bottom and ends abruptly within a hundred yards of the grave. The grave is located in a clump of tree- and underbrush, matted togeth er Avixh crawling ground ivy. In the center of the thick hedge is several small headstones, denoting the graves of several people whose names have I doubtless been forgotten. However, one grave has at its head a' large rock, on which is surmounted a bronze tablet bearing the following inscription: Burial Place of Colonel Thomas Wade Born and Reared Near This Site, 1720-1768 Fifty Yards East Was Located Anson County's First Court House $ This Stone is Traditionally Known as "The Indian Execution Rock." Placed by the Craighead-Dunlap and Thomas Wade Chapters Daughters American Revolution April 28, 1928 Since the marker and boulder is in such inaccessible location, a gran ite boulder is located on the out skirts of the village of Lilesville, be \ side Highway No. 20, which carries a bronze tablet giving the location and distance of the grave of Wade, also the location of the county's [first court house. This marker also bears the information that at one time Anson county covered practical ly one-third of the present state of Xoith Carolina. Anson county was formed in Sep tember, 1748, from Bladen and was named for Lord George Anson. When Ae county was formed it embraced all the territory in the present stat£ »f North Carolina from a line at the present town of Lumberton north to toe Virginia line and west to the j Cherokee Indian nation, whose unde- j feed boundary ran approximately tang the crest of the Blue Ridge fountains. A strip of territory paral *l with the Indian nation and includ -3? some of the present state of tamessee was also included in this ! rge county. TVi* large county was not long to j main undivided. The inhabitants j In the far-flung outposts of this j e territory became dissatisfied j i the tremendous distances that j it be traversed to the capital of | county. This resulted in the for ion of Mecklenburg in 1762, and 6 n years later the formation of on from Mecklenburg. At a later J e Tryon county was abolished and j therford and Lincoln formed from | In this manner Rutherford coun- • ' s a direct 'descendant' of Anson. | fact, practically the whole tier of j :s tern counties of today trace their | l °ry back to the time when they j re a part of Anson county. Anson "ity's fii-st court house was built "75 at Mt. Pleasant, where the of Col. Thomas Wade now re !es - During the time that elapsed ; Wefe n the formation of the coun- j an d the building of the first . lr t house the courts of the county j re held in the various homes of the ] Urates in this far-flung county, ; * as a result many of the records j lo *t. In 1785 this first court j mr moved to the present town 1 J of Wadesboro and was rebuilt into a ! | residence. I The first name of the town wasl I New Town, or Newton, which was j | later changed to Wadesboro, in hon-! !er of Col. Wade. The first court! ; house built there was of /logs at the! | intersection of two streets and was; ,so large that a driveway was con-! i structed through it. This building re mained in use a number of years, and ) in it Bishop Asbury held a revival j ! meeting. It was replaced in 1830' with a brick structure which was! i burned in 1868. In 1914 the present! j court house was built and is among' j the most beautiful structures of its ] : kind in the state. t Colonel Wade was one of the! 1 state's outstanding citizens and it j I is fitting that his memory should be , preserved to posterity by the naming ] i ' for Economical Transportation I.- -mmi M ''t\ Fh e " standing Chevrolet 0 of Chevrolet History J ih -with Marvelous New Bodies bu Fisher f • mf • On! v a short time has elapsed hood that isfcoth distinctive and Mpji» Pnm W u , since The Outstanding Chev- pleasing. Concave front pillars J}™*°2? aUC * " r showroom and secure com rolet was introduced—but lengthen and smarteh the pro- tlandLing tase pleteand detailed information already it has swept on to one file. And distinctive new But sensation al as this perform- regarding this great new car — of the greatest triumphs in Ternstedt hardware lends a ance is — is matche d in im- which will be ready for deliv- * automotive history. 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We cordially invite you to vi.it '* **' | • I -f " " I - a fix in the price fts |\ Model Chevrolet Company i Lj j FOREST CITY, N. C. \ QUALITY AT LOW COST THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928 jof the beautiful little city of Wades j boro for this gallant patriot. ! Rutherford county has an interest lin Colonel Thomas Wade as well as jin Anson county. When the third | Provincial Congress met in Hillsbo -1 ro, in August, 1775, among other iwork done was the devising of a military system. The state was di vided into six military districts, and ten companies, of fifty men each, to jbe known as the "Minute-Men", were |to be raised in each district. Colonel j Wade was at once placed in command •of the Salisbury district, which in cluded, besides Try on county ( later ILincoln and Rutherford) the follow ing counties: Anson, Rowan, Meck ! lenburg, Surry, Guilford, Burke, [Wilkes, Montgomery, Richmond, Sul livan and Washington, the latter two ] now are a part of Tennessee. Adlai 4 * j Osborne, one of Rutherford county's 1 foremost citizen, was elected lieu- Itenant-Colonel, and Joseph Harbin,] Major. I.i \ ! This detachment of "Minute-men"! saw much service in the state during | the Revolutionary period, perhaps the j most notable being the engagement jat McFalls Mills, on Drowning Creek, ! near Fayetteville, August 4, 1781. iWade and Osborne both rendered | distinguished service to their state' iin its hour of need. Following the! j war Wade was several times elected j ,to the state legislature, and was a i | member of that body when his death j J occurred in 1791. ! i ™ ' [ We can make you loans on improv-; I ed property or farms. Chas. Z. Flack, j i Phone 40, Forest City. 1-tf j 1 I ■ FINE SUGGESTION I The Travelers' Protective Associa i tion, at Greensboro, has formulated a | sensible suggestion for Chairman I Page to consider before he gets out of office. It is to carry the white and black lines that mark the middle of the highway on curves the full length of the road on every mile of I the hard-surfaced stretches. Automo j bilists who have observed the opei a 'tion of traffic under guidance of (these lines have been struck with the • useful purpose they serve, and time land again have remarked on what a i good thing it would be if these lines jwere made universal.* For one thing, ithe line keeps automobiles to their iside of the road, and the line is cus -4 jtomarily followed because the driver I who gets over it and becomes involved in collesion with another machine, knows the owner of the other car would "have the law" on him. The highway department is provided with machines to mark the lines and the cost of full extension would not be heavy. Then benefits derived would at least be much greater than the mere matter of cost. The line would serve an ex cellent safeguard against loss of life and property, and for Q.ne, The Ob server is hoping to see the sugges tion by the Greensboro post adopt ed.—Charlotte Observer. If you want to sell your house and lot or farm, or if you want to buy property of any kind write or see me. |Chas. Z. Flack, Forest City, N.C. 1-tf
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