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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
pINIONS...
Yours,
Ours,
Others
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.”
graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
Orin Hateh
Lib Stewart
Managing Editor
Payseur suggests that people who
attend the performances of “Liberty Mountain,” which
opens June 26, will see characters portraying their
ancestors,
Holland said that one example would be Tim Moore,
the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Represen-
tatives. Some research by Payseur and Holland reveals
that Tim, son of Jean and city commissioner Rick Moore,
is the 5th Great Grandson of Preston Goforth who was
killed by his own brother at the Revolutionary War
_ Battle of Kings Mountain. The War split many families.
* Some were fighting for King George and others were
Patriots fighting for independence.
A hospital was set up in my family’s home, once the
two-room Wells cabin in 1780 in the Dixon community
where the wounded were brought from the Battle of
Kings Mountain. As | typed the name of John Wells | re-
alize he might have owned the two-room log cabin and
by taking shortcuts could have reached the battle scene
quickly from the house.
Have you ever wondered if you have a 5th
great-grandparent who fought at Kings Mountain?
Payseur, retired Kings Mountain teacher, taught his
Kings Mountain students a lot about history and en-
couraged checking up on their ancestry.
One way to find out about your ancestors is to visit
the Broad River Genealogical Society at 1145 County
Home Road in Shelby or email brgs1145@gmail.com
every Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. and also the second and
third Saturday f rom 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and the second and
third Monday from noon to 4 p.m. Last Saturday this
group held open house and served hot dogs with all the
trimmings.
The soldiers and supporters listed by Payseur and
Holland are listed below and there are many more
names that we will run in the Herald in editions prior to
the opening of the drama.
Preston Goforth was in the Militia as a supporter,
Moses Ratchford, Jeremiah Blalock, Williams Earls was a
Captain, Arthur Armstrong, William Barnwell, Nicholas
Friday, James McKee, John Cox, James Hope, Thomas
Carroll, William Boyd, Spencer Shelton, George Wil-
id your ancestor fight in battle?
Did you know that many of the Pa-
triots who died at the Battle of Kings
Mountain Oct. 7. 1780 lived within
75 miles of that historical battle?
Two local historians — Greg Pay-
seur and Clyde Holland - have put
together a list of soldiers/militia/ sup-
porters and most have descendants in
Cleveland County and many lived in
our area of Kings Mountain.
fong, John Wilfong, Lt. John Hoyle, James Meek, Peter
Houser, William Gettys, William Armon Sample, Samuel
Bingham, James Able Beattie, Alexander Porter, Jacob
Brank Plonk, Peter Brank Plonk, Conrad Crump, Edward
Smith, Adolphus Reep, all in the Militia.
Supporters were John Wells, Christian Zimmer-
man Carpenter, John Whisnant, Morris Roberts, John
Froneberger, Peter Zimmerman Carpenter, Jacob
Stroupe, Lawrence Kiser, Johann Michael Huffstetler,
Andrew Falls, James William Robinson, Hans Michael
Cline,Charles Hames, William James Adams, John
Godfrey Arndt, Lewis Lineberger, James Smith, Hans
Zimmerman Carpenter, John Spurling, Jacob Bolch
Bolick, Peter Harmon, Robert Blackburn, Adam Eckard,
John Robinison, Perry Green Magness, Henry Dellinger,
Christian Mauney, JohAnn Valentine Mauney, Jacob
Mauney, Lt. Johyn Hoyle, Michael Hoyle, Johannes
Nicholas Neisler, Arthur Bynum, Thomas Prather,
Christian Reinhardt, William Morris, Edward Upton Sr.,
William Smart, John Carroll, Jacob Zimmerman Carpen-
ter, George Blanton, William Edward Patterson, Moses
Winslow. Samuel Tate, Robert Blackburn, and Jacob
(Bolch) Bolick were listed as soldiers.
Many of these names are familiar to our area. Con-
tact Payseur and Holland for more details and watch the
Herald for more names in later editions.
RARER
Going the
extra mile
To the Editor:
Recently here at
Bethany Baptist Church in
Grover we had Pastor and
Wife Appreciation Day for
Scott and Jada Hardin,
But | would like to take
Pastor Appreciation Day to
a whole new level, Pastor
Scott is a remarkable man
of God, not only behind
the pulpit but in everyday
life he has such a love and
compassion for his congre-
and David Dixon, another
member of our church, cut
my grass, tilled my garden,
raked, spread mulch, weed
eat, fixed my wheelbarrow,
fixed a broken panel in
my fence and still took the
time to sit, talk and pray
with me just as if | was the
only person on their minds
for that moment.
From generation to gen-
eration, men have encour-
aged one another in their
faith and have passed this
along to their families and
friends. These men are not
famous and not household
names but their love for
Jesus in undeniable. These
are the everyday heroes
of faith, men of whom the
gation and fellow human
beings. He visits the sick,
homeless, those in prison,
and the needy and he will
lend you a hand in the Lord will say, “well done,
ditches of life to help you thou good and faithful
climb out. servants.”
Recently | had an acci-
dent and was unable todo ~~ KATHY LOVELACE
my yard work. Pastor Scott ~~ Grover, NC
Pigeon Forge in Tennes-
see. In fact, I'm going up
there this month.
—Greg Olmstead
Key West.
| don't really have one. |
just get in the car and go.
It's kind of random.
Deep-sea sportfishing in
—Mike Clack
I'm a beach bum. So I've
got to say the beach —
Newport Beach, California.
—Alfred Ash ~Rowdy Lind
Bad decisions,
age only a number
Two police f
officers - one
from South
Carolina and
one from §
Oklahoma
should never
have pulled
in such actions. While I
§ believe that most of our
police officers are good,
§ hard working and ethical
i people there is the oc-
i casional lone idiot who
has a badge and a gun
and that combination
their hand- Glenn Mollette ©f lunacy, authority and
guns. Their
decisions took
lives and forever destroyed
families and their own per-
sonal lives. One cop was
just 33 and the other 72.
A lot has been said
Guest Editorial weaponry is very dan-
gerous. They will surely
hurt somebody, destroy a
family and make the news.
They also make it really
difficult for the good police
about Michael T. Slager,
a young man with a new
baby due any day. His life
is forever ruined by the
decision to pull his gun
and shoot Walter Scott in
the back as he ran away.
Much is also now being
said about Bob Bates, a 72
year- old reserve cop from
Tulsa, Oklahoma. He too
made a very bad judgment
that took the life of Eric
Courtney and also forever
changed lives.
Police officers have
gotten more than their share
of bad publicity in recent
months. They’ve earned it.
No one feels happy about
cops if they’ve ever been
harassed or talked down to
by a police officer. What
person has not felt some-
what threatened when
pulled over by a police of-
ficer? The police have the
authority and guns.
I am a supporter of the
police. What kind of soci-
ety would we have without
them? If I need them I want
them to show up.
People should not resist
arrest or run from police
officers. There is no future
officers.
Putting a North Charles-
ton, South Carolina officer
Michael T. Slager, age 33,
in jail recently for shooting
a man eight times in the
back was the right thing to
do. He has zero business
being a policeman. Bob
Bates a 73 year-old reserve
officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
said he was reaching for his
stun gun but instead pulled
his real gun and killed a
man already on the ground.
He has been charged with
second-degree manslaugh-
ter.
Two men are dead.
Their families are in pain.
Two police officers are
going to jail. Multiple fam-
ilies are ruined forever.
Bad decisions were made
by people young and old
and on both sides of the
law.
(This column is the
opinion’of Glenn Mollette
and does not necessarily re-
flect the view of any orga-
nization, institution or this
paper or media source. )
Like his facebook page
at https://www.facebook.
com/GlennMollette
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