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Some Revolutionary Heroes of Rutherford Incidents of The Revolutionary Period in Ruth erford County and Sketches of Some of the Participants. By CLARENCE GRIFFIN. Courier News Editor and County Historian. PART TWELVE. Major John Lewis. Major John Lewis, the third son of John Lewis and his wife, Sarah Taliaferro, was born in 1757 in Al bemarle county, Virginia. He vol unteered under Captain Marks, of Charlottesville, Va., soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary v rr . and continued in service until peace was made. At one time during the war it was three years that he never slept on a bed nor was or: horseback. Part of the time he be longed to the regiment that was de tailed as a body guard to General I.afayette. He was in the principal battles fought in New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Virginia, and was at the battles of Monmouth , Brandy vine, Stoney Point, Germantown iiid lastly was present at the ever memorable surrender of Lord Corn v;allis at Yorktown, Va-., He was a blacksmith by trade, and after the close of the Revolution he emigrated and settled on Moun tain Cjreek, in Rutherford county, N. C., adjoining the farm owned by lis brother Charles. At one time there were three offices in the coun-, ty held by the Lewis brothers: John Lewis was sheriff, Charles Lewis was a member of the Legislature and Richard Lewis was clerk of the county court. Some years afterwards Fed Alley was elected sheriff of Rutherford ccunty. Major John Lewis and oth ers went on his bond as securities for the faithful performance of his duties as sheriff. Fed Alley failed and his securities had the bond to pay. This broke up Major John Lewis He then sold his farm to Ben Hyder, Jr., and settled on Green River in Rutherford county. About the year 1786 he married Anne Berry Earle, sister of Gen. Baylis Earle and a daughter of John Earle and his wife Thomasin Earle. Anne Earle was born in 1763. Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis had some eight or ten children but only reared seven. In 1836 Major John Lewis and his wife moved and settled near Adairs ville, in Cass County, Georgia, where he and his wife sank in peace to their final resting place, he on No vember 4, 1840, and she on October 19, 1845, and were buried at the Baptist church near Adairsville, Ga. (Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America, pp 216-18, by Lewis). George Lewis. At the January, 1782, term of the court of pleas and quarter ses sions it was ordered that "'George Lewis be recommended to the Gen eral Assembly by this court as an object of charity, who has been a friend to his country and through the distress and calamity of warr, together with the smallpox, has lost his sight," Isaac and George Suttle. Isaac Suttle was born in Virginia, } rob ably about 1740. He served in L --e \ irginia state militia and in the Continental line, according to fam ily i coords, but the branch of ser- XICe ' c °mpany and regiment is un known. He came to Rutherford county, with his son, shortly after the Revolution. H e died sometime af- J * ei *Bl2, as he served as a juror at the A P ril term, 1812 superior court, j ] George Suttle, a son of Isaac Sut- e > was also born in Virginia and folding to family records served - n the \ irginia State militia. He with his father, after the Solution to Rutherford county ° n d settled near the present "Car penter Brick House" in Sulphur Township. He purchased and in Sulphur Springs and High Shoals Townships in 1787. He later Purchased two other tracts of land a djoining the first, which lay on both sides of Floyd's Creek. About 1808 e built what is now known as the Carpenter Brick House, where he 1 elided until his death, which oc curfd about March, 1816. Both were farmers. They are bur 'u 1 on a wooded hill, about one half nv 'le north of the Carpenter Brick louse, but no stones mark their graves. j Allen Hinson. The minutes of the Rutherford County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of October, 1781, show the following entry: "Ordered, that Al len Hinson be recommended to the General Assembly as an object of charity, who was wounded in the service of his country, and it a**£he opinion of the court that he be £l - by the Assembly the sum of thirty pounds specie." R. W. EAVES PROMOTED. Spindale, July 28., —Mr. R. Wen dell Eaves, former principal of the Spindale Elementary school will go ( to Charlottesville, Va., this week to j enter the summer school at the Uni jversity of Virginia. | Mr. Eaves will be assistant prin cipal of a high school in the suburbs of Baltimore, Md., next year. He will also study some at John Hop kins University. Mr. Eaves is an ambitious and most reliable young man. You can see more for five cents on a street car today than you could in the nineties for fifty cents at a Variety Show. ~| tmnfra ciametk that i) milder and ol better tade.. Chesterfield MILDER, YES-BUT SOMETHING MORE. i Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying |* BETTER TASTE —that's the answer; and mmm,J that's what smokers get in Chesterfield in full- | Ij£jf j V wT/AjAg est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow | ' Eft g|s| |/ tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. | ■ |||ll li Better taste, and milder too! wJI. : fjj © 1930, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. j \ 1 " " i CIG6ETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. lt§ THE FOREST CITY COURIER. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930. Ellenboro School Opens August 4th Ellenboro, July 28.—The fall term of the Ellenboro High school will be gin August 4th, with bright prospects [and with an efficient corps of teach ers. The school is headed by Prof. Curtis Price as principal, a graduate of Duke University; Prof. A. B. Bushong, graduate of Virginia Poly technic Institute; Louis W. Nanney, coach and high school teacher, Wake Forest College; Miss Mary C. Thompson, high school teacher, Queens college, Charlotte; Miss Velma Mayse, Asheville Normal col lege; Mrs. Curtis Price, from East iCarolina College; Miss , Lillian Street, Asheville Normal College; Mrs. Alice Edwards Smart, Moores boro, Carolina College, Cullowhee; Miss Ruth Anderson, Rutherf ordton; Miss Lucinda Chandler, Candler, both educated at Asheville Normal College; Mrs. Eula Miller, Waco, Baylor College; Miss Nancy Snyder, Greenwood, S. C., Lander College. The Home Economics teacher, Miss Dailey Baker, from Melton, finished at N. C. College for Women, at | Greensboro. J. W. BEASUN GOES HOME. Rutherf ordton, July 28. —Ex- Sheriff J. W. Beason, who has been 'ill at the hospital for some time was 'able to go to his home here Wednes day of last week. His many friends i will be glad to know of his continued : improvement. l Ice cream freezers, oil stoves, camp equipment and other hot weath er necessities at Farmers Hardware Co. 0. M. MULL HEADS N. C. DEMOCRATS Enthusiastic Meeting Held in Raleigh—Speakers Call For Aggressive Fight in State. Raleigh, July 28.—The state dem ocratic executive committee in a spirited meeting here Wednesday night re-elected Odus M. Mull chairman, chose Mrs., Thomas O'Berry of Goldsboro, vice chairman and prepared for an "aggressive and mili tant" campaign to "the uttermost parts of the state." Enthusiastic in spite of the swelt ering heat, the committee elected its officers by acclamation and then listened to brief speeches by party chieftains—Governor O. Max Gard ner, J. W. Bailey and others. Governor Gardner praised the party's principles and urged its lead ers this fall to wage a militant of fensive, commencing, "at Jerusalem —at home—thence to Samaria and the uttermost part of the state." Predicts Bailey Victory. He spoke briefly, lauding Mr. Bailey, the party's nominee for the United States senate, and predicted for him a "great democratic victory" Mr. Bailey declared the demo cratic party in the state was "never more united and never more confi dent of justice of its cause." He called upon it to regain "every county and every congressional dis trict that was lost in 1928.- "We must redeem the tenth dis trict and we must redeem the ninth I district," he asserted, urging the vot- I ers to pile up an overwhelming democratic majority in endorsement' of the "able and successful adminis- j tration of Governor Gardner and his party." I Mrs. Jerman In Chair. Chairman Mull called the commit-' tee to order in the hall of the house! of representatives promptly at 8:30' p m. He appointed W. C. Coughen cur of Salisbury and R. 0. Self of Raleigh secretaries and called upon Mrs. T., Palmer Jerman of Raleigh,' national democratic committeewom an, to preside as temporary chair-' man. j I Dr. E. Delia Dixon-Carroll of Ral-1 eigh placed Mr. Mull's name in nom ination for re-election, and the nom ination was quickly seconded by R. 1 A. Patton of Franklin, in behalf of! Macon county's complete vote. A motion then was made and en thusiastically carried that Mr. Mull be elected by acclamation. A rising vote followed K i Mull Predicts Victory. Mr. Mull again took the gavel and pledged himself to the party and FRANK P. STRATFORD Certified Public Accountant (Member American Institute of Accountants) General Practice in Public Accounting, Federal and State Tax Matters Rutherfordton, N. C. j predicted a big victory this fall by j"hard work and just deserts." ) "We are going to win," he declar ed "by work and because we deserve /to win." He called upon members of | his. committee to go to work in their •own home counties and prepare for 'a sweeping state wide victorv. i . : i ! COUNTY WARDEN RESIGNS. Rutherfordton, July 28.—Mr. W. ,J. Hardin, County Game, Fish and Forest Fire Warden has ('resigned, j effective September 1, 1930. Those who are interested in these things should urge Mr. Hardin to keep the work, as he has made a faithful j Warden and has done much for the , fish and game life of this county and has been an important factor in checking forest fires. , The decrees from Paris do not ?end the skirts down as fast as they went up. i ___ Stag paint. The paint of quality. One gallon make two. Farmers Hard ware Co.
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