^Grist Tells Of
Hambright’s Grave
lU'.il.NLElj FROM "V t- OM
nul white la a reco n./ed histor.
* «*l authortiy dealing with King
Mountain and its heroes 1 uppo.1 ■’
that I ought to have been satisfied
a1 that authority; bo- somehow i
a. n’t.
NTxt day I picked up a copy ot
the Biographical Directors, or th
American Congrcs.- .1774-1927.'
vhich was published by order A
the Sixty-eighth congre.and i
»•> official directory of (.| tlm mem*
b’rs ol the congrjvie * from t he
r ivi. Colonial down through 19:’f.
The fnv L Colonial eongre - was e;
vened Sepi 3. 1774 and continued in
, ' 'on m Philadelphia until Oct. 2'.
.1*74. with Peyton Randolph of Vir
Eima «s it.s president up until four
,1ar* beiore it adjourned, when he
ie ignert. anti \va -succeeded by
1 ’ury Middleton of South Caro
ls \. Oct. 22. 1774.
The second session of the Colon
la! congress was convened May 10
1773 and continued to Dee 12. 1776
hooking over the names of the per*
niiel composing the congresses ot
1774 and 1775. and e uecially tiro ■
r presenting North. and South
/ noiina. 1 failed to find ihe nani:
'<: Colonel Frederick Hambright. Tc
h- sure I do not dispute that he was
", member of the Colonial congress:
' tit If he wa- Ins n un? ouylit to be
x-luded in the list of members of
that distinguished body and step:.
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But l am interested in otherj
i tiling . than the members of eon-'
g:e- , 130 years ago. That afternooni
jwith Mr. H F. Mullinax, on th" tipi
j of Emmett Pursier. I was looking j
i for bur*hl ground and pretty si;:>i
! after the marker war unveiled l
i was on the way. I have mentioned
.the Reck Hour:." before It U ore:
'in Cheroke corny; but it war trie,
in York count'.. You remembt r it
vv.1 built by one I’cnrv Howcr. and
liis Wife 111 180U. No. I have never
I been in the house. bu . I was told the
I other afternoon that its floors, ceil
ing. stairway ind window trameij
'h'C all of cedar wood. Then I heard j
"The locks used in building the!
i this tradition about ihat old nouce
house were picked up on the battle
ground and hauled down to the site,
by an o'd negro state woman,
used a sled and one horse or a
I mule." You can take that or lea ' it
; *s you please. I frankly tell you
that I wasn't there at the time.
•» * * »
Some ,’Ot) yards betore reaching
the Rock House we stopped the car
1 tinri walked acios a cotton fi“ld to
a knoil covered with trees and un
derbrush and found ourselves in
what is known as the "Howser bur
ial ground." I have passed that way
■cveral timer, but never knew there
was a burial ground there before,
itie lirst of the fnark'ns ai.rac irtv'
my attention bore this iiricrip'-^n. j
"To the rneiury of Henry Row
ser, Sen., who departed this life j
: March 4, eged 66 years.” Ij
uspect tliat he was the builder o:j
the Rock House.
Next, we found this inscription or
a marker: "To the. memory of
Herr. IIow ter. who departed fills
I life Rug't. 13, 18*2, iged 43 veara.”j
! followed by ihc.e lines:
My day was cone; my time aa.,j
1-run, my body now lies here. Howj
caution take, before too late. for!
! ccath is always near.” There were!
two stones here, one a duplicate of
the other.-The first was on old tea.. ■
stone marker with the lettering very
difficult to decipher, and a few feet
I away was a more modern 3tone or
| marble and bearing the exact oup
! licate of tlie original lettering. Evi
I dently some of .the descendants of
■ the younger Howser had the old
marker duplicated when they saw
. the older one becoming too faint to
: read easily.
‘In memory of Cyrus J. Howser,
; who died Sept. 3, 1857 aged 33 years,
9 months, 23 days,’’ was on another.
; with these lines following: “Stop,
my friend an you pass by; A; you
are now so once v I. As 1 am now
"so you must be. Prepare for death
and follow me," Close by was the
grave of 'Tufam. eon of James SMd
Cynthia Nobles. Died Jan. 8. 1839.
"Happy infant early Mess'd; Rest
in peaceful slumbers rest, Early
rescu’d from the cars, Which in
crease with the growing years." The
marker at the grave of Christenea
Howser shows that she departed
this life Oct. 30th, 1856. aged 98
years. John Howser died Jan. 24.
1832. aged 45 years. Mary Howser
died July 14, lbio. aged 49 years
Her epitaph reads as follows:
"Farewell my children scattered
wide.
Whilst by your father’s side I lie. j
When Christ appears I Lhen shchj
rise
And see you with immortal eye.v'j
There are quite a number of other
'graves to be four a in the Howser
burial ground, but I had to hurry
on. The Green Chevrolet was soon
over in Cleveland county, N. C., and
presently passing into a cross road
we drew up at Shiloh A. M. E. Zior.
church. We locked all around at the
ides of the churc hand back of it.
but we could find no evidence of
any graves of white folks there
bouts and after a hunt of ten or
fifteen minute,, gate it up and
te.rted back towards the battlc
round, four miles away. Presently
v* found a colored woman who was
a drawer of water at a well by the
roadside and we stopped to ask her!
if she could tell us where the old;
Shiloh graveyard was. 3he could j
and told us that it was down acros: I
i field just in front of the negro
church. I> was late: but not ex- I
reeling to get back that way again*
^oon 1 determined to gj back and I
back we went. Oh. yes, it was east ;
io see them from roadside at the'
church. Just anybody could see •
It is different from many old bur
ial grounds. It wasn't grown up in
high weeds and underbrush and
scrub trees. It was in a fairly clean
condition. It evidently receives at
tention from folks who have rela
tives buried there.
We easliy found the marker at the
grave of Colonel Frederick Ham
briglU, for which purpose we had
made the trip. The stone bears this
nscription: "In memory of Col.
Frederick Hambright, who departed
this life Mar. the 9th. 1817, in the
90th year of his age. "Adieu to all
both far and near. My loving wife
and children dear; For my immor
tal soul is fled, I must be number
ed with the dead.'*
Close by is another marker beat
ing this inscription; “In memory of
Major Frederick Hambright. Died
Aug. 1st, 1844. Look here you see my
sufferings have been great; But now
they're through. I bid idieu &
change my mournful state.”
That old Shiloh burial ground i
certainly a most interestine nlarr
muss wj » arOiV'd liO t?
2CO graves iheso. I dew's kr.ry Uv.-l
I found the oldest biurtsci? in i.u
place, but I did fin* cititig i*ck
to 1810. Ti:b wat-ov r grave o.
Abner tUrV.j.r> u'.ea >VTi>rch
20 of that year. i.:re a*, o sUn
.'.ian TTetnbrigk " .tied . bu
a hurried suit. . >* it oo»r .'
most dark, told r.t liv-v > h.i,',;
majority of th- tnai. ■; o
toe graves of > vto> ; N'riir,; the
i’jme of Hambrti I' dor jp.
pot* that it is mush o ed nr- i r
buna! ground, but 1 bid rn< u>
a number of hcaasur.. a : a.:?
era that indicated that v a
bocn interred there in com:. . •; . , -
!y recent years and then „cj •. -
condition of the grounds ;nrl <
that, there arc folks who i
enough interest in the pit. e
their folks buried there to ke p ,i.
ple.it in preserve !>’.e shape
l was about to forget to mention
the fa: tU it CHotwi HambrigM is
grave ’s mu ted with an insignia of
the U. A. a., and as i noticed’ tin.:
I wondered if lie va *>■>* only Re
volutionary soldier whose remain
lie buried their.
Mrs. Carroll ,n her audios, men
tioned the fact that Colonea Hem
blight was t'*.ce married, fir t to u
Miss Hardin and :he second time to
a Miss Dover, and '.hat he was the
father of 22 children, 19 of whom
reached maturity. Hi.-: descendants
arc scattered all over that section
and doubtless into the far placet
of the earth.
On our first visit to Sluioh chuicn
and a search there for the oic!
cemetery, I noticed a typewritten
sh'et posted' on a tree in front of
U.e building. Curiosity led me te
reed it and here is what I fauna."
S FT TO it CHURCH
1. Absolute quietness during
chat oh services. —
2. No walking in and out during
services.
3. Do not stand around windows,
during services,
4. Do not stand in church door
5. No smoking and talking on
church grounds during services.
6. Make no unnecessary noise with
automobiles, but if you are attend
ing chttrch, come in the church.
7. Absolutely no drinking on
church grounds.'’
Then followed tne name of the
church, “A M. K. Zion church,’’ and
it; officers, then this warning:
•'Those failing to observe the above
rules will be subject to the lam of
the county and state.-'
It was almost dark and it wa
eight or nine miles to the home of
Mr. Mullinax and I had to take him
home. We got there after dark anti
I stopped for a ahort chat'with Mia
W. J. Mullinax. She said she wa,
reading and enjoying the. e sketches
and told me a number of interest
ing things that have happened lr
the past in that section and one oT
these days I am going back there
to get more information, see cer
tain old burial grounds, etc., and
t*)l about them Good night, or
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Report of the Condition of The
BANK OF GROVER
At Grorer, North Carotin*, to the
Commissioner of Banks.
At the close of business on the 29th
Day of September, 1931.
Resource*.
Loans and Discounts _$69,746.81
Overdrafts_. .. ...... 111.35
United States bonds ...... 100.00
Banking house . 964.55
Furniture and fixtures.. 1 843.13
Cash in vault and amts,
due from approved de
pository banks .10,551.10
Cash items (items- heid
over 24 hours' ... __ 10.00
Other real estate. ......... 1.800.00
Outside collection _ ° 147.00
Total ,$83,373.94
Liabilities.
Capita'. Stock paid in. ... $10,000.00
U:idi v idcd prof its (net
amount) ......_,.... 200.18
Rsscired for interest ... i.241.33
Reserved lor taxes ... 40.97
Reserved for depreciation 697.35
Unearned interest .. 455.41
Other deposits subject to
check ... 26,143.45
Cashier’s checks out
standing _ 161.37
Certified checks out
standing .. . 22.10
Time certificates of de
posit (due on or after 30
days) .. 34,311.58
Bills payable . 12,000.00
Total $85,273.94
State of North Carolina
County of Cleveland, ss.
J. B. Ellis Cashier, of the Bank
of Grover, each personally appear
ed before me this day, and, being
duly sscorn, each for himself says
that the foregoing report is true to
the best of his knowledge and be
lief.
J, B. ELLIS. President-Cashier
H. S. FLEETER, Director
CARLEY MARTIN, Director.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 14th tiaj of October,
1931
R C TATE Notary Public.
Low Prices Hard
| On Pickers And
Owners Of Land
... !
>*.i >V1; it»ost Ka‘ "should Work.
•>t P»jr Is l.ow. Meal'
A'.jfht If." Brat
■ 6u Ci.’il'e llmilj
Cyp.,v.alnu> r.uve .'Duie from so*ne;
j. . .U.s, notably Charlotte and
coming to >
town in care a • f cotton pickers
weie un«i.;Ie to niecest lac unem-,
piojtfi Sn* 9h«i--.- Slav oi ccent:
icate state.'. • na, firmer* were beg-1
|gin? for hdp m gathering cotton :
and peas. 'Hie price offered cotton ,
pickers ranged ; 4oni 20 to fio cents i
i pe • hundred pounce and for pack- 1
ing p^as some farmers ottered half
the peas one could gather. They,
1 could get r.o . espor.se for these of
fers and the natter wa* taken up
with the county welfare officer, j
with the idea of keeping check on
people who refused work and then ]
aplied for help. In a later issue
j The Star so id that a number of un
, employed who were wot aw are of
; the otfe.j called at the newspaper!
office .o say they would accept!
J them.
! It is a well known lact that there
'ate some unemployed who. have no
! purpose to work If they can avoid
it. There are others who are par
j ticular about the kind of work they
i do and the price. Some of them are
j still demanding pay for labor on the
| wage scale that prevailed when
j work was plentiful. There is some
1 thing to be said about the price of
fered for picking cotton and there
I is also something to be said about
what the farmers can afford to pay
considering the abnormally low
price of the staple But the general
feeling is lack Of sympathy with
one who does not take work when
It Is a matter of getting bread with
ou' too much haggling about the
price, although u must be admitted
that the worker may leel at times,
and has a right to feel, probably,
tha' employers arc taking advan
tage of his need to compel him to
work, lor less than a living wage.
Incidentally the pea pickers who
reiu.sed to work for half thr peas
packed were without excuse One
can eat pear
But in the matter ol the workers
and a living wage, here Is a concrete
case, and It comes from the gover
nor of North Carolina, a citizen of
Cleveland cototy, where the unem
ployed a ere condemned for not ac
cepting the cotton picking Job at
20 to 2d cents the 100 pounds. Inci
dentally in this piedmont section
the average picker, especially the in
experienced, would not everage
much over 100 pounds a day. He
would do well to gather 150 pounds.
The people who pick 200 and 300
pounds a day in this section are ex
ports who do that on a spurt. They
don't average that amount
But to the Gardner testimony.
Governor Gardner was speaking at
Chapel Hill and he was talking
about taking punishment Hear
him:
“Let me give you a concrete il
lustration of what I mean by tak
ing punishment. The governor of
North Carolina cannot fail to learn
about the conditions ot the people
of this state. The unhappiness, the
financial and personal distress from
every section of North Carolina In
a continuing stream passes in re
view before the governor's desk.
Last week a man about my age was
ushered into my office. He had
| waited an hour to get to sw nir Hr
i w as stooped in body and spirit Hr
: banded me a cotton ticket which j
i showed his pay for picking 752
I pounds of cotton 'Governor,’ he said
i'day before yesterday my three chit-1
j dren and t picked tills cotton One
| of my children is 15 years old, an-i
| other is 17, and the other is 22 Thi-s
its what we got for a days work ail
i five of us.’ I looked at his ticket is
|read 752 pounds. SI.88. They were
paid 05 cent* a hundred for picking j
I cotton-the most back-breaking'
;job that has yet been m'-ented 1
jTlilnk of tt. five people earning!
$1.88 for one. day's work. Out or.
■that they provided 15 meals for
| grow n people. Do you think that
■ those folks are not taking punish
I ment? This is not a story that i
j heard about from somewhere This
• occurred in Wake county. North,
Carolina, last week.
"What is that to me. I wonder if
1 you are not asking yourselves Well.
I If it does not disturb you today you i
j may be assured tt will disturb you j
. tomorrow.”
The average for these pickers
'was 150 pounds and their average
pay for a day’s work was a fraction j
over 37 cents--for picking 150
pounds of cotton—which was at the
rate of 26 cent' per hundred. Count
i ing food only, each of them had to
iget three meals out of the 37 cents
an average of a little more than
; '2 cents per meai. They would be
, better off if they could get thr
three meals furnished for ihc day's!
1 work
That is the other side, and it is,
worth considering as we consider
cotton picking and unemployment
A Soft Job.
’ So your husband tried to gel a
government post ? What is he do-1
ing now?’*
j "Nothing—he got the post
Tar Heel Students
Numerous At Duke
Forty States And Foreign t uiinlrif*
Give t'nlversity t osinnpoltliin
Group
Durham,/ Del 1ft When ;.it un
dergraduate mej of Duke univer
sity write Item*' then letters go to
40 states and foreign countries, ac
cording io a tabulation just made
in the office of Dean W H wanna -
maker. These same students show
their cosmopolitan makeup in \
count of the religious denomina
tions they represent, giving *the
names of an even score ot churches
to which they air* affiiiateu
Enrollment figures from which
the tabulation was made show a new
record enrollment of 2,658 student
for an increase in all schools and
departments, of these 1.436 being
undergraduate men. Women under
graduate students number 583 m,
graduate school of arts and science',
has 325 students students, the
school of religion 115. the school cl
law 75. the school of medicine 147
and the nurses school 60 students
North Carolina heads.
North Carolina has an easy lend
over other states in number of un
dergraduate men enrolled showing
513 natives of this state Pennsyl
vania has 161 men, New York 123,
New Jersey 100, and Virginia 82
There are 25 from the District of
Columbia, 49 from South Carolina
50 from Maryland, and 55 from
Massachusetts; while Georgia it.
represented by 30 men. Tonne -so*
by 26. Ohio 23. Flouiria 20. Ken
tucky 17. Alabama 20. and We
Virginia 26
Mexico, Brasil Japan, Canada,
and the Canal Zope have their rep
resentatives Every Southern state
Is well represented. and western
states in the list Include Minnesota
Wisconsin. Texas. California I cm
Colored'i, and Nebraska.
Many l>e nominations
Methodists, like North Caroliv
tans In regard to states, h.iVc an
ample margin over othar denomina
tions? with 577 undergraduate mm
of that church registered. Prt.sb;
termns are second with 193 stud
cuts. Baptists ‘.him with 183. an
Episcopalians a close fourth with
151. Sixty-one students report, no
| church affiliations. Catholics num
her 57. Lutherans 44. Congregation
allsts 41. Reformed 34. Hebrew 34
Christian 19 and Christian Scien
tists 13.
The list also shows 18 Protestan'
who do not state their denomina
tlou. Eleven Unitarians are regis
tered. six are Quakers, three Uni
versa lists, three Moravian, three
United Brethren, three Evangelical,
one Independent and one Salva
tion
One observation anew present
economic crisis. A lot of boys arc
going to visit the old home tov n
tor the winter
I XRCITOR S NOTH I
lUvtivg this iJ»-- qualified. , cxteufc)
of the m#tr of 8 Patience Hamrick
late of Cleveland count,'. N c this' t* u>
notify ail persons owning the said estate
to prevent thorn to me properly woven
on or before the iUth da,' o* Sept., !?»..•
or this notice till be pleaded in Wat .
any recovery thereof All persons Indebted
to the sftht estate will make iromedia'f
settlement to the undesigned Thin 8m
tern be r tath 193!
T p HAvmicK Ewuto? oi fc
tate of 8 p4thHX.ee c
ceased (j? 11«
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