KISER FAMILY - Pictured above is the Larkin
Kiser family. Front row. left to right, Jesse
Kiser, George W. Mauney. Arnold Kiser and
Gene Kiser. Sitting in chair, Jacob Kiser and
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his wife, Mary. Back row, Floyd Kiser and his
wife, Laura; Larkin and his daughter Dorothy,
Lorena Kiser, Larkin Kiser's sister Lucy. and:
Mattie Adams, a friend of the family.
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Celebrations on October 7:
Many citizens or families in
the third generations will recall
the October. 7 celebrations in,
Kings Mountain. Some of the
ceremonies were at the Bat-
tleground, where the American
militia engaged in battle with the
British force under the command
of Major Patrick Ferguson of
the British Army.
Ferguson made his stand on a
mountain, part of the Kings
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and the other part of the harness
was red, white and blue. So were
the wagon wheels, wagon bed-
with a seat for the driver—a black
man dressed in new overalls, hat
and shoes.
My brothers Gene, Arnold,
and I were dressed in overalls
and straw hats. We stood in the
three corners of the wagon bed,
with a large banner on supports
mounted to the wagon bed and
reading: “America First, Kiser-
Mauney Next” painted on white
cloth and letters in red, white
and blue.
Mountain range, but not the pin-
nacle named Kings Mountain.
The British were defeated by the
American Militia, and sur-
rendered. In fact, Ferguson was
killed.
This battle marked the turning
point of the American in-
dependence from the British.
I would like to recall the
celebration held on October 7,
1916, when the - Honorable
William J. Bryan, Secretary of
the State under President
Woodrow Wilson, gave the.
speech.
On this occasion, I recall a
black and white movie was
made. The parade consisted of
many floats, organizations and
_ bands. As I recall, Walter S. Dill-
ing, general chairman, made this
movie. I can see him directing
the traffic at “Midway”, where
the Southern Railway Company
Depot is, across the railroad
track, continuing on North Pied-
mont Avenue to the park on the
left side of this avenue and in the
front of the Kings Mountain
Manufacturing Company. °
After the festivities of
speeches, bands, etc., a horse
tournament was held in the
street. Poles were erected with
an arm which held a ring. Riders
rode their horse with a pole and
the one who had rung the most
rings was the winner of this
event. Some of the men who
entered the contest were Gene
Neisler, Harvey Williams and
Grady Watterson, and others
that I do not recall. It began near
C.E. Neisler’s home and ended
at Dr. L.P. Baker’s home.
At this time, the streets were
not paved, but were good, hard
sand-clay, and very smooth. One
of the floats—-Kiser-Mauney
store—consisted of a pair of
mules which our dad had pur-
chased from Mike Plonk and
Forest Floyd, who operated the
Plonk and Floyd establishment.
This pair of mules were real
Missouri mules. The new
harness decorated their bridles
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Another celebration was held
on October 7, 1930, when Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover made the
principal address. He was accom-
panied by his wife. It was said
that 75,000 people were here
that day. :
In: fact, as’ I recall; the
Southern Railway ran several
special trains to bring the people
for the celebration. I had invited
two gentlemen from Standard
Oil Company, named J.A. Kruse
from the New York Office
Advertising Department, and
Philip F. Grasset, from Paris,
France, who was on a training
assignment in the manner the oil
business operated. I met them at
the station and had to drive on
U.S. 29 toward Bessemer City
before I could bring them to my
dad’s home on East King Street,
where we left the car and walked
to the Central High School loca-
tion on Ridge Street. There a
pageant was presented by 200
local citizens and directed by
Miss Laura Plonk, depicting the
history of Kings Mountain. The
men had to board the train in the
afternoon to return to Charlotte.
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Marine Lance Cpl. Dwayne P.
Waters, son of James P. and
Helen Waters of 203 Morris St.,
Kings Mountain, recently
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overseas as part of the Marjne
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A 1979 graduate of Kings
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Lt. McDaniel In Exercise
Second Lt. Jerry C. McDaniel,
son of Edward and Margie L.
Lear of 358 Walnut St., Rock
Hill, S.C., has participated in the
U.S. Readiness Command exer-
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the desert environment of
California and Nevada.
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Yeoman Third Class John S.
Hardin, son of John and Jackie
Hardin of Rt. 5 Kings Moun-
tain, has deployed to The US
Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba with his ship, USS
MULLINNIX (DD 944).
The Charleston, SC-based
destroyer left its homeport May
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Guantanamo area until early Ju-
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and emergency drills.
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November 1979 and has been
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July 1980.
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McDaniel is with the 1608th
Security Police Squadron at
Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
His wife, Vone, is the
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Mountain.
He is a 1980 graduate of the
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