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Her Kings Mountain friends
know Elizabeth Clark Mayes,
88, as a gracious lady who radi-
ates warmth when she enters a
room.
Her eyes twinkle as she re-
members, relaxing with her
daughter and friends, of many
happy memories.
Although she doesn’t golf in
retirement, she still loves to
play bridge, getting together
with friends during the holi-
days because she says Kings
Mountain is where her heart is.
Mayes calls The Pines retire-
ment home in Davidson her
home away from home but ev-
ery chance she gets she heads
her car toward Kings Mountain.
“I remember some of our first
Christmases in Kings Mountain
over a half century ago,” said
Mayes, who said one of her first
presents was a tree that was a
present from banker Frank R.
Summers.
“Mother has always been big
on decorating for Christmas
and our home was always fes-
tive during the holidays and the
table was always full of good
things to eat,” said daughter
Anne Mayes Ware of Concord.
One unusual tree was made of
oil cloth. Another children’s
tree was a plastic design topped
with tiny cars.
Decorating was just one of
many talents of Mrs. Mayes.
She and her sister, Mary
Wagner, learned to cook when
they were 11 and 12 years old.
After their mother died they
were “Moms” to five brothers
and ran the household for their
father, doing all the baking and
housekeeping.
At age 12 Lib was baptized
along with her siblings in the
Catawba River in Iredell
County. She remembers that
day very well. The children of
Lesie and Charlie Clark wore
white . The seven children also
helped raise cotton and corn on
the Eufola Farm near Statesville
ESSIE STEWART
Stewart
notes 100th
birthday
By Alan Hodge
Not many people can claim
to have been around when the
first airplane flew or when the
Titanic went down, but Essie
Stewart can.
Born November 29, 1898 in
York County, S.C., Stewart just
celebrated her 100th birthday.
The oldest of ten children,
Stewart grew up on the farm of
her parents John C. and Lela
Wells in the Bethany area.
"It was a big farm, but I'm not
sure exactly how many acres we
had," Stewart recalled. "We
raised cotton, corn, and cows
mostly."
Sisters still living from those
farm days are Cora Long of
Saluda, S.C., Vida Stewart who
lives in York, and Edna Barry of
Kings Mountain.
After her agricultural up-
bringing, Stewart made her way
to Kings Mountain with hus-
band David Lester Stewart.
"I came to Kings Mountain
when I got married around
1918," Stewart said."We lived
there until 1938 when we
moved to Gastonia. My hus-
band was in the construction
business and I always stayed at
home."
Along the way, Stewart had
five children. Two sons,
Campbell and Lloyd are de-
ceased. Still living are daughter
See Stewart, 6B
PEOPLE
Thursday, December 17, 1998
Room lights up when Lib M
After her marriage to H. Carl
Mayes, Lib “lived in a lot of
places” but it wasn’t until they
moved to Kings Mountain and
later bought their summer
home at Blowing Rock that she
learned to play golf.
“Daddy bought Mother golf
clubs and a golf cart, he kissed
her goodbye every time she
headed out the door even if she
was only going to the garbage
can and never played golf with
her,” said Anne, who recalled
that Lib beat her sister Mary
once on the golf course and
scored three holes in one. Lib
said she was just lucky because
Mary was the real athlete in the
family.
Carl Mayes worked in high-
way construction and quarry-
ing in several Southern states
and was one of the first people
employed when Superior Stone,
now Martin Marietta in Kings
Mountain, was founded in
1939. He was associated with
the old Superior Stone
Company operation for 42
years, retiring at Kings
Mountain in 1964. Praised as
one of the most experienced,
widely respected production
men in that organization, he
died in 1988.
During the war years the
Mayes family lived in
Mayesville between New Bern
and Camp Lejeune and Carl
Mayes worked around the
clock.
“We lived in a doll house al-
most but I remember the
Christmases when Carl closed
the plant for two hours for the
Christmas dinner and we fed
everyone from that small
kitchen,” said Mrs. Mayes. Mrs.
Mayes said her husband
helped build several military
bases in eastern North Carolina.
Mayes also helped build
Superior Stone's first quarry at
Rock Hill and then moved to
Kings Mountain in the spring
of 1940 to build the Kings
Dukes-graduates Coast Guard training i
Coast Guard Seaman
Christopher M. Dukes, son of
Roger E. Dukes of 108 Jason
Drive, Kings Mountain, recently
graduated from the U.S. Coast
Guard Recruit Training-Center
Matthews
DIXIE VILLAGE
Herald/Times
ELIZABETH MAYES
Mountain plant. The Mayes
family friendships included
many people associated with
those plants In Kings
Mountain the late J. H. Arthur
was associated with the plant
here and Arthur’s wife, Lib
Arthur and Lib Mayes became
fast friends.
In the early days Mrs. Mayes
said her husband used dyna-
mite crates for office furniture
because there was no money for
real furniture and they used the
crates in their apartment. She
served many meals to quarry
workers from dynamite crate
tables covered with pretty
cloths. “Even if
money was scarce, we had a
wonderful time,” she said
A charter member of the Kings
Mountain Garden Club, Lib’s
talents include floral arranging
and her flowers were usually
the talk of the town at floral
shows at the Woman's Club of
which she was a member.
Natural arrangements are her
specialty. For Thanksgiving,
she likes to arrange a cornu-
copia for, the dining table which
features vegetables listed in the
Bible.
Long active in Central
United Methodist Church, she
was president of the women of
the church. One of her special
in Cape May, N.J., and was pro-
moted to his present rank.
He is a 1993 graduate of
Lakeshore Central High School
of Angola, N.Y.
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memories was an experience on
an airplane. She recalled that
she promised God she'd serve
another term as Women’s
Society president if He spared
| her life during a bad experience
on a flight. Enroute to her
daughter’s in Georgia, the land-
ing gear jammed and the plane
made an emergency landing.
“Just get me home I told God
and I'll take that church job an-
other two years,” she said. She
was enroute to Valdosta, Ga. to
drive back to Kings Mountain
with her daughter and three
children. “It took us five hours
and we had to belly land,” she
said. Friends told her later that
they saw the report on televi-
sion and witnessed Lib sliding
down’the chute with only the
hat on her hair a little askew.
“T really didn’t want to get
back on a plane but I did,”
said Lib, who has flown numer-
ous times to such faraway
places such as Australia since
that experience in the 1960's.
Family is priority for Lib
Mayes who has two children;
Anne, who is married to
Moffatt Ware Jr. of Concord;
ayes enters
and Bud who is married to
Becky Mayes ofiWilkesboro.
The grandchildren are Trip.
Ware of Charlotte, Carl Scott
Ware of Wrightsville Beach;
Sabrina Ware :Herndon of
Pineville and daughter,
Christina; Clark and Gina Ware
of Concord and children, Haley
and Carly; Todd and Pam Ware
of Lancaster, SC and children,
Ashley. Elizabeth and Luke; and
Sean Mayes of Bradenton, Fla.
Lib’s brother, Alex and his
wife, Mary Evelyn, come from
Louisville, Ky and sister-in-law,
Allison Clark, comes from
Statesville for holiday gather-
ings.
A big family Christmas cele-
bration is on Lib’s agenda and
another big event is her grand-
son, Sean’s wedding in April in
Bradenton, Florida.
Although Lib is planning no
special event for her birthday
January 17th, her friends and
family are and who knows they
may even decide to take Lib to
the Kings Mountain Country
Club golf course to try for a re-
peat performance of a hole in
one.
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