Board Secretary
Is Alvah Taylor
Alvah B. Taylor, Sea Level mer
chant, has been appointed secretary
of the Sea Level Community Hos
pital's board of trustees. A na
tive of Sea Level, he attended
school there and at Atlantic. He
spent one year at Gilliam's Acad
emy, now extinct, near Burling
ton, N. C., along with his first
cousin, Dan Taylor.
Following this he spent three
weeks at the old Tyndall's College
at Dawson, between Snow Hill and
Kinston. Later he spent one year
Alvah B. Taylor
. . . board's secretary
at the Free Will Baptist Seminary
at Ayden. The son of Valentine
Taylor, Alvah helped his father
in the latter's store at Sea Level.
They operated an oyster packing
business, and Alvah spent much of
his time engaged in this business.
He was also postmaster at Sea
Level for a brief period and was
serving in this capacity in 1918
when he was called into the Army.
Alvah spent six months in France
with the famous 81st Division.
Following his release from the
Army Mr. Taylor returned to Sea
Level and again went into business
with his father and a brother, Har
rell, as V. Taylor and Sons Since
his father's death in 1942, the two
brothers have continued to oper
ate the store, also handling fish
and oysters.
Mr. Taylor married the former
Angeline Salter, of Sea Level, in
January, 1918, just a short time
before going into the Armed Serv
ices. The couple have five chil
dren. three boys: Eldred Gordon,
of Washington, D. C.; Braxton and
Rodney Blake, of Sea Level, and
two girls, Mrs. Harry Simpson, of
How Did Sea Level
Get Its Name?
How did Sea Level get its name?
Although Sea I.evel U a commun
ity that ? had settlers before this
country treed itself from England,
the name "Sea Level" dates only
from the time of the first World
War.
After the post office opened to
the east of the present community
of Sea Level and was called At
lantic, the Sea Level folks got a
post office, but they didn't know
what to call it.
The tale goes that someone asked
"Old Man" Frisby of Davis's Shore
what he thought the community
should be called.
He scratched his head and said,
"Don't I have wit enough to name
a post office?" That was that. The
Raleigh, and Mrs. Clyde McGirk, of
Alexandria, Va.
The jSea Level businessman is a
member of the Sea Level Methodist
Church, as well as the American
Legion and the "Forty and Eight."
17 Doctors Will Serve
On Staff of Hospital
Seventeen doctors have been
named as the medical staff of the
Sea Level Community Hospital.
The staff is comprise^ of doctors
from Beaufort, Morehead City, New
Bern, as well as Dr. Herbert F.
Webb, resident physician at the
hospital.
They are Dr. Joseph F. Patter
post office and community became
known as WU.
Thus it stayed until 1915 when
the residents of Wit decided they
didn't like their name. So a meet
ing was called at the school house
and different names submitted
One of them was "Sea Level"
and that is the name that was
chosen.
It remains Sea Level today. And
it's two words. Sea Level. Build
ers of the motel and new hospital
admit that their sign makers slip
ped up when they made the word
as one.
son. Dr. F. M. Simmons Patterson,
Dr. William H. Bell, all of New
Bern.
Dr. K. P. B Bonner, Dr. S. W.
Hatcher, Dr. O. H. Johnson. Dr.
Milton B. Morey, Dr. John W. Mor
ris/ Dr. B F. Royal, Dr. S. W.
Thompson, all of Morehead City.
Dr. Luther Fulcher, Dr. Frank
E, Hyde, Dr. C. S. Maxwell, Dr. L.
W. Moore, Dr. Theodore Salter and
Dr. John E. Way, all of Beaufort.
Foundation Officials
Attorney for the Taylor Founda
tion is C. R. Wheatly Jr., Beau
fort. Assistants to the Taylor
Foundation are A. H. Grigsby Jr.,
West Palm Beach, Fla., and J.
Lewis Rawls, Norfolk. Architect
for the Sea Level projects was
Howard Chilton, Palm Beach, Fla.
Construction superintendent in ad
dition to Frank Noyes, Sea Level,
was William A. Holley, West Palm
Beach.
Congratulations to
The Taylor Brothers
For Their Magnanimous Gift t
of the
Sea Level Community Hospital
to the People of Carteret County
Sanitary Fish Market
and Restaurant
The Home of Good Sea Food
ON THE WATERFRONT AT MOREHEAD CITY
Congratulations to
? .
Sea Level Community Hospital
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and
Sea Level Inn
We are proud to have furnished the
Kitchen Equipment and Supplies
to these important additions to
Your Community
May you continue to growl
REGENT CHINA & SUPPLY CO.
FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
for
RESTAURANTS, HOSPITALS, HOTELS & SCHOOLS
1807 English Street
High Point, North Carolina
Phone 8901, Collect
We Wish To Congratulate
THE TAYLOR BROTHERS FOUNDATION
For Their Magnificent Gift of
SEA LEVEL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
To the People of Sea Level and Carteret County
We Are Proud to Have Taken Part in the Building of This Project as Contractors for the
Plumbing, Heating and Other Mechanical Work.
W. M. WIGGINS &C0.
Plumbing and Heating Contractors
606 PENDER ST. WILSON, N. C