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This Is Women’s History Week
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD
BY GRACE HAMRICK
It’s Women’s History Week
(March 2-8) and an opportune
time to give credit to many
women in Cleveland County
who have distinguished
themselves or added flavor to
local history.
“Women: Builders of Com-
munities and Dreams’ is the
1986 theme. Four members of
the Cleveland County Com-
mission for Women have
organized the local obser-
vance: Shirley Lail, G-W Ad-
missions Office; Kay Kiser of
the Department of Social Ser-
vices; Teresa Melton, direc-
tor, Center of the Aging at the
mall; and Betsy Wells, Kings
Mountain teacher.
Legend has it the historical
marker on Highway 226 near
Grover is the birth side of
Susan B. Twitty who saved
her brother from John Burke
and Tory raiders at
Graham’s Fort in 1780, a
month before the Battle of
Kings Mountain. In a safe
moment she cried ‘Brother
William, now’s your chance-
shoot the rascal.” He did,
right through the head, and
Susan darted out among a
shower of bullets, brought in
Burke's gun and ammunition
as trophies of victory.
Among early business
women, dating from the early
1880s, were millinary shop
operaters Miss Maggie Blac,
Patty Ramsey and Sue
Palmer. Patty married
banker Burwell Blanton and
Sue, Dr. Augustus Beam.
Mrs. Lula Connelly and Miss
Belle Fromm trimmed and
sold hats; needle experts
were Miss Laura Button,
Miss Verona Durham and
Miss Mattie Adams. Mrs.
M.E. Rudasill operated a
sash, blind and door factory.
Mrs. Ben Briggs dipped a
bucket of water from a spring
near her Kings Mountain
home and discovered tiny
gold nuggets that triggered a
gold rush in 1834 through
1890. The original Briggs
mine yielded $1 million. Mrs.
Tracey Wright, in 1872, gave
Kings Mountain its name,
originally known as White
Plains.
On April 22, 1861, Zulia
Durham presented a silk
flag, 3x5, made by Shelby
women, to Cleveland
County’s first Civil War unit,
Co.E, 12th regiment, the
Cleveland Guards. After be-
ing lost and found several
times through the years, Mrs.
Pansy B. Fetzer found it, cod-
ed it and stored it in the N.C.
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room.
Misses Hattie Durham and
Luna Young were the first
switchboard operators on the
completion of the first
telephone exchange around
1895. Among the first in
publications were Miss S.J.J.
.Dickson and Mary Davis who
edited and published ‘‘The
Literary World” around the
1870s. Posey Downs of Casar
wrote genealogies of several
upper Cleveland families;
Mayme Jones was an early
historian; Mrs. B.A. Harry of
Grover is recognized as an
historian.
~ Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll, if
not the first female physician
in N.C. was one of the
earliest. She was physician at
Meredith College for 35 years
prior to her death in 1934 in an
auto accident. Her sister, Ad-
die Dixon Thacker, was an
orator and novelist, having
authored ‘‘Strength of the
Weak’’ in 1910; ‘‘The
Outcast” in 1927; ‘Young
Sinners’’, 1928; ‘‘Cell No. 33”,
1919; and co-authored in 1930
“The Strange Death of Presi-
dent Harding.’’ Delia and Ad-
die were members of the
famous Dixon family, sister
of noted Tom Dixon, Jr.
author, actor and lecturer
who first found fame with his
novel, ‘‘The Leopard’s
Spots.”
Ida E. Roberts, wife of
Rev. John Wesley Roberts,
first black man in the county
to graduate from college, was
also an ordained minister,
taught school and music, was
a poet and public speaker.
They were parents of excep-
tional children, including
Dilutha Cabiness who taught
music and was church
organist; Dr. J. Ida Jiggetts, 2
a psychiatric therapist and
author, founded Westchester
Drug Abuse Clinic in Mt. Ver- 2%
non, N.Y., earned her doc-
torate at New York Universi-
ty; and Daeira Roberts,
operator of Roberts Rest
Home in Shelby and an
organist.
| Attie Texas Bostic, 15th of
“16 children of Samuel Evans
Bostic and Jane Price Suttle
Bostic, was the county’s first
- woman foreign missionary.
She went to China in 1900 til
1941 when she was held in a
Japanese internment camp
in occupied China. She came
home on the Gripsholm which
took 77 days, covering 21,880
miles and crossed the
equator four times.
Miss Emma Frick worked
tirelessly for 35 to 40 years
with the Episcopal Church of
the Redeemer, organizing its
Stay School in 1906 and
served as superintendent or
teacher till her death in the
Charles Hotel fire in 1928.
Mrs. Susan Elliott Weathers
in 1915 was named the first
county Home Demonstration
agent. When the Shelby
Hospital was opened in 1923,
Miss Ella MacNichols was
superintendent and Miss Etta
Beverly was superintendent
of nurses for 17 years.
This nation’s only known
female Third Degree Mason
lies buried in Sunset
Cemetery. Catherine Sweet
Babington, known as Kate,
hid for over a year during
lodge meetings in her
girlhood home in Kentucky.
She heard secrets of the First
Degree, the Second Degree of
Masonry and finally the
Third Degree. She was the
great-grandmother of Carrie
Babington.
Before the days of embalm-
ing, Mrs. David Webb was
one of many who were well
known for helping with
burials and “laying out’ of
women and who also served
as midwives.
Other early educational
figures included Mrs. J.A.
McDonald, principal of
Shelby Female Academy in
1889, with Miss Addie Gard-
ner heading the high school
department. Miss Lucy
Baber was assistant prin-
cipal of Lattimore Academy
1900-1906; Miss Etta Curtis,
for whom the old Curtis-
Huggins building was named
at Gardner-Webb; Miss
Bryte Baker and Mrs. Bonnie
Mauney Summers headed
Kings Mountain school
systems, Mrs. Summers also
known for her genealogical
studies and wrote a history of
the first 50 years of that city.
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Mrs. Johnsie (Moffatt) Ware
was also an historian,
genealogist and an ac-
credited flower show judge.
Dr. Laura Plonk and Miss
Lillian Plonk, sisters of Kings
Mountain, founded the Plonk
School of the Arts in
Asheville; Mrs. Joe (Irma)
Thompson started what is
now East Elementary School
in Kings Mountain; Mrs.
W.T. Weir, English teacher
and librarian, has dedicated
a lifetime to that city and was
co-chairman of its Centennial
Celebration in 1974.
In 1890, Mrs. Frances Lou
Smith Cornwell, Mrs. J.T.
Kendrick and Mrs. A.P.
Carpenter were instrumental
in ginning First Baptist
Church of Kings Mountain,
collecting lumber on the cor-
ner lot and turning it after
every rain.
Mrs. C.E. Neisler, during
the depression prevailed
upon the Mauney and Neisler
families to keep mills going
at a loss rather than allow
widespread unemployment;
Mrs. E.W. Griffin was in-
strumental in beginning
Driver Education in the state
schools.
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