yRIDAY, MAY 27, 195?
| Unique Life of King Paul, Deceased
Civil War Veteran, Told in Obituary
« Captain Paul Was Well-Known 30 Years Ago Around Belhaven,
According to Old Issue of "The Belhaven Times"
■
H (Editor’s note: The article re-
here was carried in the
■February 9, 1928, issue of “The
■Belhaven Times,” a copy of which
us recently by George
■rML of Scranton. Capt. Paul will
■be remembered by many of our
■readers.
Louis King Paul is dead. He suc
■cumbed to a heart attack at 1:00
■o’clock Monday morning. The pass
ling of Capt. Paul wrote “finis” to
■the eventful career of Belhaven’s
■oldest and most unique citizen. He
■was a familiar figure about town;
■his old cap pulled down over
■raven locks that refused to yield
■to the ravages of time, his baggy
■suit, and worn overcoat pulled
■tightly about a withered frame to
■ ward off the told, his shuffling
■ gait and the rat-tat-tat of his
■ sturdy cane, as he wended his way
■ about the streets of the city, will
■ not be forgotten soon. There is
■no figure in Belhaven any better
■known than was Capt. Paul. To the
I time of his death he enjoyed the
■ lone distinction of being the city’s
■ oldest citizen. He possessed many
■ characteristics that made him uni-
■ que and placed him in a class all
■to himself. He Enjoyed good health
■to the time of his death, and on
■ Sunday idled about the down town
■ section as was his daily custom.
Death came to him all unaware,
■ like a hunter who stumbles upon
I a lost trail, and hied him away in-
Ito the mysteries of an unknown
■ and unexplored realm while most
■ of the city slept. He spent his lat-
■ ter years near the blue waters of
I the Pungo he loved so well. Dur-
■ ing his youth and younger days
I he manned many fine craft and
I captained them with a skill such
I as would create the envy of the
I old masters who sailed the
I Spanish Main. He died as he had
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lived in his latter years, quietly,
peacefully. In the distance the
wrinkled Pungo hurled restless
waves upon the sandy beach, re
minders of a by-gone day; not far
distant trim sloops rode at anchor,
vagrant waves lapping at their
prows. The breezes, salt laden,
bore the moist breath of the dis
consolate and misty Atlantic to
waft him into the beyond. Sur
rounded by gentle reminders of
years spent in toiling on the sea,
ships hidden by the chaotic
shadows of night, ships that he
loved to watch loom over the hori
zon and later cast anchor, when
the voyage was done, in the peace
ful harbor at home, the restless
Pungo, he loved, wrapped in
shadows, mummured little songs
sweeter than the lullabies of
angels, he quietly, peacefully fell
into a dreamless sleep. His pass
ing brings to a close a life that
reads much like fiction, there is
pathos, tragedy, some humor, and
the usual cloud with the silver
lining in its warp and roof.
Mr. Paul was bom March 26,
1840, at Bath, North Carolina.
Here he spent the earlier days of
his life, dreamed his youthful
dreams, and shaped the career des
tined to place his name on count
less tongues ere his race was run
and he laid down to sleep. As he
played along the shore of historic
Bath Creek, exploring the haunts
of the pirate Black Beard, grace
ful ships passed, urged on by
peaceful winds, and called him to
the service of the sea. When quite
young he left his native haunt and
sailed away on a sturdy three
master to South America, braving
the gales and inclement weather
that prevail around the Horn, he
made the volage safely and when
the Southern Cross had vanished
in the heavens, when the rugged
coast line of South America faded
from eight he determined to for
sake the sea for the more peaceful
sounds and rivers of Eastern
North Carolina.
He lived through many stirring
times in history. He was just »
lad when that vast horde of pio
neers set out for the west, some
leaving their bodies to bleach in
a scorching sun, others fording the
rushing Platte to reap fortune and
renown in the golden 'west. He was
a very young man when the war
between the States occurred; he
cast his lot with his native South
land, enlisting in Company B of
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! Pantego under the command of
Col. Wm. Rodman. He was cap-
5 tured at Fortress Monroe, taken to
i New Bern and later to Wilmington
( where he remained until the close
■ of the war. When he obtained his
I release he returned to Bath and
. began life all over again, pursuing
the occupation of a farmer.
. Finding farming, at this particu-
I lar time, a very poor means of ob
taining a livelihood, Captain Paul
heard the call of the sea again
and sailed on the Mary Louisa a
trim two master commanded by
; Captain Bob Gaskill.
In 1886 he married Melissa
Eborn of Bath, who died in 1898.
Four years later he married Alice
Eborn the younger sister of his
first wife.
Tiring of being away from his
family during long periods at sea,
Captain Paul returned to Bath and
moved his family to Washington,
N. C., where he resided a number
of years. His restless nature again
asserted itself and he moved his
family to Swan Quarter. While at
Swan Quarter he was engaged in
fishing. ’Tis said he always knew
just where to drop his nets and
could ever be depended upon to
bring the choicest denizens of the
deep into Swan Quarter.
The years tip-toed by ere he
knew it and Captain Paul sudden
ly realized he was growing old.
So he moved to Belhaven, choosing
a home overlooking the blue water
he loved so well, residing with his
two sons until his death.
Much of his life is enshrouded
in mystery, and many of the sec
rets he guarded well in life died
with him in death. His younger
days were filled with thrill
ing escapades from -which he al
ways emerged victorious, but his
latter years were spent in peace
and serenity. He will ever be re
member as one who “lived in his
house by the side of the road and
was a friend to man.” In so far
as worldly goods is concerned he
possessed very little. He never ex
pressed a desire to possess much
gold, and he left very little of the
yellow metal, if any, as a legacy
to others. His was the will to serve
whenever he could. And when he
could be of service to any one, des
pite his advanced age, he readily
lent what aid he could. No night
was too dark or any destination
too far for him to trudge his way
if he was rendering one a service.
He’d walk miles to procure aid for
any unfortunate irrespective of
race or color.
With the passing of Captain
Paul, the thin gray line grows
thinner, widening the ever increas
ing gap in the ranks of the rebels
who once wore the immortal grey.
He has, answered the last roll call,
another of Lee’s renowned rebels
has entered the last bivouac and
gone to meet “Marse” Robert. He
was a good soldier and fought in
life, as he did with the bedraggled
boys in grey, for the principles he
believed right.
Captain Paul lived well past the
Biblical allotment of three score
years and ten, dying in his 87th
year. Surviving him are two sons,
Jake and Will Paul, with whom
Captain Paul lived until his death.
Hale and hearty until the time
he died, Mr. Paul was a familiar
figure about town. His daily ap
pearance on the streets of the city
will be greatly missed. Saturday
he was a familiar figure as he
drifted with the tide of people in
the city, stopping frequently to
greet this and that one as he idled
along. Everybody knew him, people
respected him, and local people
aided him when ever he sought aid.
For well nigh a century he accept
ed what life offered him, met its
issues fairly, squarely, plodding
along through sunshine and
shadow mindless of the years slip
ping noiselessly by.
Tuesday morning at 10:00
o’clock funeral services for Cap
tain Paul were conducted by Rev.
E. D. Weathers, Pastor of the
First Methodist Church of this
city and Rev. J. N. Bynum, of the
Episcopal Church. Interment was
in the Odd Fellows cemetery. A
goodly number of local people
were in attendance, paying a last
tribute to the city’s oldest citizen.
Days may pass into months and
months into years but they shall
not dim the memory of Captain
Paul, who sleeps a dreamless
sleep not far from the blue water
he loved so well, whose restless
waves croon him an eternal bene
diction. So Belhaven’s* most aged
and unique citizen, when he came
down to the end of life’s long trail,
and could no longer bear its bur
’dens, fell asleep. “Home is the
sailor, home from the sea, and the
hunter home from the hill.” a
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