Posting #3 A little something different...since this is Memorial Day Weekend, I wish to post the men of Alamance County, NC who gave their lifes that we may live in a free America. World War 11 1...Frank B. ISLEY 2...Jimmie C. JEFFRIES 3...Robert L. JOHNSON 4...Samuel H. JOHNSON 5...John A, JOHNSON 6...James J. JORDAN 7...James R. KENION 8...Henry E. KERNODLE 9...Russell H. KETNER 10..Albert R. LAMBERT 11..Floyd E. LASTER 12..Carl P. LEE 13..Hinton C. LEWIS 14..Lee J. LOVETT 15..Jennings T. MANESS 16..Robert B. MASSEY 17..Carl C. McCAULEY 18..Charles B. McDADE 19..James W. McINTYRE 20..Raymond V. McPHERSON 21..Harold D. McPHERSON 22..George W. MINNICK 23..Vance E. MORTON 24..Alson D. MOSER 25..James W. NEAL 26..Paul ORTEGA Jr 27..Willis C. PEELE 28..Francis N. PERKINS 29..Early V. PERRY 30..Lawson E. PERRY Jr To be continued...

Posting #2 A little something different...since this is Memorial Day Weekend, I wish to post the men of Alamance County, NC who gave their lifes that we may live in a free America. #1 Posting had 55 War Dead #2 Posting has 37 War Dead A total of 92 men from Alamance County World War 1 1...Richard Edward WINNINGHAM 2...Ernest KING 3...Ben CLARK 4...Langston L. WILSON 5...June LASSITER 6...Chris FOGLEMAN 7...Isham WATSON 8...Joseph H. HURDLE 9...Thomas M. BURCH 10..Henry WERTZ TICKLE 11..Edwin A. SCOTT 12..Worth HATCH 13..Eulis T. JONES 14..Marvin E. WILKINS 15..Henry R. STOREY 16..Charles A. PATTON 17..Roy BLALOCK 18..Marvin J. BENNER 19..W. Stroud HOGAN Jr 20..DeWitt LOY 21..George Edward COOK 22..Harvey MAY 23..W.O. ROBERTSON 24..James Edward WILLIAMSON 25..Jerome Gilmer MAY 26..Jim WELLS 27..James Willard McPHERSON 28..Clayton Page McPHERSON 29..Cicero VINCENT 30..George GERRINGER 31..Charles E. JOHNSON 32..E.B. HUFFINES 33..Robert M. LASHLEY 34..Will L. GARRISON 35..Henry LOWE 36..Jule H. GLENN 37..Frederick L. MORGAN

A little something different...since this is Memorial Day Weekend, I wish to post the men of Alamance County, NC who gave their lives that we may live in a free America. World War 1 1...Orville C. HUNTLEY 2...Charles L. MEACHAM 3...L. Polk WEBSTER 4...J.E. SYKES 5...Ernest P. BROOKS 6...William Eugene AYDT 7...Clarence H. McADAMS 8...Malcolm M.S. MURRAY 9...Perry C. MURRAY 10..Dorall T. PETTY 11..Lt. Rufus D. WILSON 12..Ernest M. OWENS 13..Theo T. GORDON 14..Thomas REDFERN 15..Joshua B. TERRELL 16..Lt. D.G. SULLIVAN 17..George T. WARREN 18..Albert COMPTON 19..Lawrence P. ALLEN 20..Henry CHANDLER 21..John W. SELF 22..George HASLE 23..Lyman M. FAUCETT 24..Mitchell AYCOCK 25..E. Caleb DIXON 26..Lacy W. SIMPSON 27..Thomas G. PYTHRES 28..J. Floyd CRANE 29..Walter E. STORY 30..O. Graham FAUCETT 31..John Gerry DORSETT 32..James Edward ASKEW 33..John H. MYERS 34..Jessie J. MURRAY 35..Samuel L. STORY 36..James Currie ISLEY 37..E. Chloe FOWLER 38..Oscar A. BASS 39..Arnold D. DAVIS 40..Jessie L. MANN 41..Edward T. MURRAY 42..Capt. Frank REMAM 43...James A. DOBSON 44..J. Floyd BLALOCK 45..William B. COE 46..Robert SUTTON 47..Robert ANDREWS 48..David LEE 49..Clark BRANSON 50..Ike MUELER 51..Roy S. McINTYRE 52..Walter FOSTER 53..Herbert BARBER 54..Henry W. JOHNSTON 55..Elis HALL To be continued...

Check out: <A http://members.aol.com/ceharger/raggedflag.htm Ragged Old Flag and a great Poem by Johhny Cash, just in time for Memorial day. I have posted this to several list. I am sorry for any dublicates you may recieve. Kathy

I am looking for any information on Jacob Bowden's spouse, Jane White Bowden. She was born ab. 1844 to Alfred and Ruth White. At some point she and her husband moved to Lancaster, SC (1870 Census) and then moved to Mecklenburg, NC (1880 Census). === Cynthia A. Wilson Seattle, WA _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

James CHEEK born Brunswick Co. VA, migrated to Orange Co. NC about 1775 had son: Robert "Robin" CHEEK married Martha/Patsy ANDREWS in Orange Co. NC, marriage bond dated 27 November 1798. They lived in the New Hope area of Orange Co. NC. had son: William CHEEK, born 22 September 1803 . Married Mary/Polly CRAIG on 4 Nov 1824 in Orange Co. NC. Their home was between Cane Creek Baptist Church and Chapel Hill, NC Elwood Paisley CHEEK, married 23 July 1871 to Sarah Catherine MOORE, daughter of David MOORE. They lived in Bingham Township, until 1889 when they moved to the mill village of Saxapahaw. had son: Claudius Marvin CHEEK, son of Elwood Paisley CHEEK and Sarah Catherine MOORE was born 26 April 1884, died 31 Dec 1967 in Burlington, NC. Married Martha Virginia "Jenny" MADDEN. "Jenny MADDEN" was born 10 Feb 1884 in Saxapahaw, died 28 May 1968 Burlington, NC Because some of these children are still living, I will not give the years of their birth to protect their privacy. Their children: Wade Hampton CHEEK Sarah Kathleen CHEEK Margaret Flora CHEEK Claudia Virginia CHEEK Frances Willard CHEEK Elwood Paisley (twin) CHEEK Albert Preston (twin) CHEEK Sources: Orange Co. NC Census Alamance Co. Census Orange Co. Marriage License Orange Co Marriage Bonds "Footprints of a Human Life" by James CHEEK 1824 Orange County will of William ANDREWS/ANDRUS

My Maternal Ancestors: Nathaniel David SMALL..born 3 June 1827 Rockingham Co. NC..son of James David SMALL Jr. and Rachel MILLER. married 9 April 1851 Rockingham Co. to Martha Jane BRINCEFIELD born 1 May 1827 Caswell Co. NC...daughter of Thomas BRINCEFIELD/BRINSFIELD and Nancy McINTYRE...died 18 June 1892. Both Nathaniel and Martha Brincefield SMALL are buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, NC. They sold their family farm in Rockingham Co. in October 1880 and settled in Haw River, Alamance Co. NC Their Children: James Alvis SMALL... born 15 March 1852 Rockingham Co....died (killed by train) 3 July 1927 in Alamance Co.... buried Haw River, NC (New) Cemetery...married Mrs Martha/Mattie ANDREWS CATES 15 Dec 1903 Alamance Co. N.C. (2)..Virginia SMALL...born 1854 Rockingham Co.... died 31 Jan 1928 Randolph Co. NC...buried Liberty, NC...married 22 Feb 1885 Malon BALIFF Alamance Co. (3)...Rachel Eldora SMALL....born 1856 Rockingham Co....died 1927..buried Cane Creek Cem. Alamance Co. N.C......married 13 April 1886 David H. TEAGUE (4)...Hugh LINDSEY/Lindsay SMALL... born 1858 Rockingham Co.... married 10 Feb 1884 Ida BROWN Alamance Co. Both buried Long's Chapel Cemetery, Alamance Co. N.C. (5)...Joseph SMALL... born 1859 Rockingham Co. died an infant 1861...buried on family farm, Rockingham Co. Proved by a 1861 letter that his grandfather, James David SMALL Jr. wrote to his brother , Nic SMALL in Indiana. (6)...Sarah SMALL... born 1861 Rockingham Co...died 12 April 1920...buried Cane Creek, Snow Camp, NC...married 13 Jan 1889 William H. BROWN Alamance Co. (7)...Nathaniel Thompson SMALL... born 1863 Rockingham Co..died 8 May 1940 buried Providence Cem. Graham, NC ..married 21 Feb 1892 Flora CURTIS Alamance Co. NC. Married (2) Emma WELLS. (8) John William SMALL... born 23 June 1865 Rockingham Co.... died 11 Nov 1950....buried Pine Hill Cem.... Burlington, NC...married 14 Dec 1899 Emma COLLINS Alamance Co. N.C. Sources: Rockingham Co. NC Census...1850-1860-1870-1880 Rockingham Co. Marriage Records Alamance Co. NC Census....1900-1910-1920 Alamance Co. NC Marriage Records Alamance County NC Death Records Tombstones at Pine Hill Cem. Burlington NC Tombstones at Haw River Cem. Haw River, NC Tombstones at Long's Chapel Alamance Co. NC Tombstones at Providence Cem. Graham, NC 1861 letter written by James David SMALL

For North Carolina Birth and Death records since October 1913, contact: Public Health Statistics Section State Board of Health P.O. Box 2091 Raleigh, NC 27602 - ------------------------------------------------------------------ For Marriage Records since 1 January 1962, Contact: Public Health Statistics State Board of Health P.O.Box 2091 Raleigh, NC 27602 For records before 1962, contact Register of Deeds in county where marriage was performed. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- For general information on genealogical archives and records, Contact: State Department of Archives and History 109 E. Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

I have placed on my website all of the events (baptisms, marriages, burials etc.) in my database that I am aware of that took place at Brick Church. The website is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ . The link to the Church info is "Some Churches (& cemeteries) of my ancestors". If anyone is interested that does not have web access, I can attach a text file to an email message. Larry Noah - larmil-1@worldnet.att.net My family is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ Links can be found there to websites for mailing lists NCOrange-L, BrickChurchNC-L and BEARSE-L.

I am looking for any information on my grandfather Thomas Newton White b. 1865 and d. about 1933. He was married twice: Annie Weaver in 1898 and Camilie Brown Jones 1926. Information on Thomas' parents are scarce. I know his mother's name was Jane White. I think Jane's father is Alfred White, but I cannot confirm that. Can anyone help? === Cynthia A. Wilson Seattle, WA _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

In a message dated 5/2/99 9:48:33 AM, NCALAMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: <<X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 08:23:04 -0500 From: "Larry Noah" <larmil-1@worldnet.att.net> To: NCALAMAN-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <010601be93d5$c2657a20$a4934b0c@larmil> Subject: [NCALAMAN-L] RIVES, MCMATH, LUTTERLOH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit According to recent information James MCMATH married Martha RIVES. The lived in the area of Orange County that became Chatham County. They had a daughter named Julianna who married Louis LUTTERLOH. Julianna and Louis had a son named Thomas. What I am trying to find out is if this Thomas above is the same as Dr. Thomas Clay LUTTERLOH of Alamance and Chatham Co, NC. He was born 9 Aug 1838 and married Rachel Rebecca SHARP 9 Mar 1872 in Alamance Co. According to the marriage bond, his parents were Lewis and Julia Ann LUTTERLOH. Thomas and Rachel were in Chatham Co by 1886. Any information would be appreciated. Larry Noah - larmil-1@worldnet.att.net My family is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ Links can be found there to websites for mailing lists NCOrange-L, BrickChurchNC-L and BEARSE-L. >> Hello Larry and all, There is a family history which I believe is titled, Reliques of the Rives, which is pretty much a definitive "bible" for that family. There were many Rives who settled in Chatham County. Since this is one of my wife's(Bebe) families, I cannot give you much more than this as information. If you would direct your questions to her at the same email address, I think that she may be able to give you some help. The only connection she has to Alamance County is me, so I doubt that she saw your query. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC

According to recent information James MCMATH married Martha RIVES. The lived in the area of Orange County that became Chatham County. They had a daughter named Julianna who married Louis LUTTERLOH. Julianna and Louis had a son named Thomas. What I am trying to find out is if this Thomas above is the same as Dr. Thomas Clay LUTTERLOH of Alamance and Chatham Co, NC. He was born 9 Aug 1838 and married Rachel Rebecca SHARP 9 Mar 1872 in Alamance Co. According to the marriage bond, his parents were Lewis and Julia Ann LUTTERLOH. Thomas and Rachel were in Chatham Co by 1886. Any information would be appreciated. Larry Noah - larmil-1@worldnet.att.net My family is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ Links can be found there to websites for mailing lists NCOrange-L, BrickChurchNC-L and BEARSE-L.

The following surnames occur the most often in the Brick Church Records (note - only one spelling is given for each surname). If you have these surnames in you line, you may want to check of the BrickChurchNC mailing list. The list website is http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/BrickCH/. ALBRIGHT, AMICK, BARNHART, BOON, CARTNER, CLAPP, COBLE, DE VAULT, FAUST, FOGLEMAN, FRIDDLE, GRAVES, GREESON, HOFFMAN, INGOLD, INGLE, LINEBERRY, LOW, MAY, NEESE, PHEIFER, PHILLIPI, SHEPHERD, SHOE, SHOFFNER, SMITH, STARR, SUTZ, SWING, WATSON, WEITZEL and WELKER. Thanks to the work of Mara Harris, the complete index can be seen at the Guilford Co, NCGenWeb Archives site. The URL for the index is ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/guilford/church/brick.txt . Larry Noah - larmil-1@worldnet.att.net My family is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ Links can be found there to websites for mailing lists NCOrange-L, BrickChurchNC-L and BEARSE-L.

The SIPE family reunion will be held on May 2, 1999 at the home of Jack and Linda Sipe in Bear Creek, Chatham County. Please email me if you need directions. Bring your family Bibles as I will be there collecting any information I can. Lets make this one the best ever. Cathy Sipe Coffer

The Haw River Cemetery (old) is now called the TROLLINGER Cemetery, located next to the Methodist Church. Granite Mills offered land for a second cemetery on Lang Road, which until this day is referred to as Haw River, New Cemetery. The cemetery had been established during Michael HOLT's time in 1871 and only had a few dozen graves in 1900, the earliest marked grave being dated in 1887. On April 1, 1955, Cone Mills Corporation conveyed a deed for the Haw River Cemetery to the board of the Haw River Methodist Church. In 1987 the Methodist Church deeded the Cemetery over to the Haw River Cemetery Association. My grandparents lived near the cemetery, in fact there was only one other house between their house and the cemetery. In this old cemetery is a grave of an eighteen month old girl. All that I remember is that she was related to the KIZER family, and that there is a doll house built over her grave. Every Sunday the parents of the girl would place a new toy in the doll house. We always wanted to go see what new play thing there was this time. Not too many years ago a new roof was built for the little house. No one ever places flowers inside anymore, so all of her relatives must be gone now. Community life revolved largely around school and church. In the summers baseball games were played after the mills let out at noon on Saturdays. The community building was the town's gathering spot. Suppers were held by different organizations there. When the Christian Church caught on fire in 1939, the members held their services in the community building until the fire damage was repaired. Once a month all the churches in Haw River met for a song service. Each church had a special anthem, the Haw River band practiced at "Old Hill" but the singers gathered at the train depot and sang late into the night. After my RAY cousins moved to "Pine Knot", another mill village, I didn't see them as often as before. We always visited on Sunday afternoon and my uncle Ruffin would say....."well I see Doad got hungry again!", a nickname he had for my mother. The cousins and I would walk to the train depot with fruit jars to get drinking water. That Haw River water tasted terrible, but at the depot the water came from a spring. After World War 11 began, my Dad joined the Navy, since he was no longer working in the mill, we had to move from that house. A very sad day for us to leave Red Slide where the rest of my family all lived. Those were the good old days, and I do go back often to see the old houses. In the 1950's the mill houses were sold to private owners, but the little town has not changed much, and although I now live in Raleigh, NC....I will always think of myself as another Haw River Rat! <BG>

The Mill Houses..... Boarding houses offered many workers a first or temporary home. There were quite a few in the early days in Haw River. Among them Mrs PORTERFIELD'S, Mrs McCLURE's, and the BLACKMON household. With very little means of transportation in the early days of the mill, the owners built "row houses" as near to the mills as possible so that the workers could walk to work. As the village grew, the row houses were replaced with more standard housing. Most of Thomas HOLT's houses were built in villages that encompassed both sides of the river east and west of the mill itself. Built on the contours of the hills overlooking the river, the individual houses sat on lots usually 50 feet wide with depths of 75 to 100 feet. The typical mill house was built of frame construction on joists resting on brick pillars. They resembled small farmhouses and were probably built by local carpenters. The smaller houses cost between $250 and $450 to build. Toward the end of the 19th century, the design of mill houses was pretty well standardized. Air was free to circulate under the houses. Flooring was of four inch pine boards, windows usually had six panes with the upper sash fixed in place and the lower one free to move, but needing to be held up with a stick. Roofs were either shingled or of tin. Most of the houses had few rooms, ours only had three, but some houses had up to eight rooms. The one story houses had two rooms in the front and one in the back. Because practically all the property in the Village of Haw River belonged to Governor HOLT, he could pick his residents, all of whom were connected with the mill operation. He tolerated no lawless elements, so Haw River was a peaceful village during HOLTs lifetime. On Red Slide most everyone attended the Haw River Methodist Protestant Church, my ANDREWS great-grandfather had lived next door to the church, but had died before I was born. TROLLINGER Cemetery was on the other side of the Church. This area of Haw River was called "Walnut Grove". I remember well the church socials, dinner on the grounds, Christmas plays and special music, plus the yearly Easter egg hunt, and May Pole Dance. We children looked forward to May Day more so than Christmas, that was the day that our parents let us go barefoot and shed that dreadful winter underwear! Dr Java Cleveland WILKINS was the doctor in Haw River, his office was located behind JONES Drug Store. He first made house calls by horse and buggy, later he owned a "Flanders" which was one of the first auto's in Alamance County. It has been said that he wore out five buggies and ten auto's during his medical career. His nurse, Miss Flora PATTON worked beside him and often rode with him to make his house calls. The mill operated the company store and the workers could be paid partially in credits to be used at the store. This store was located across the road from Granite Mill. It is no longer standing.

For the past week or so there has been a thread on the Mill Village Life, what it was like to live there, the church's, schools, social life, houses, cemeteries, and why the mills were so important to the life-style and support of all that lived in this area of NC. In the early 1880's my great grandfather Nathaniel SMALL with his family, sold their farm in Rockingham County, NC and moved to Haw River to work in the Granite Cotton Mill. This was a time of severe drought in the piedmont section of North Carolina, and farm owners were finding it hard to feed their families. Also in these same years of early 1880's another great-grandfather of mine, Alvis Lindsey ANDREWS with his wife and four daughters left Orange County to work in the mills at Haw River. Years later, Mattie ANDREWS married James A. SMALL and were my grandparents. What I Remember About the Life Style growing up on "Red Slide"....Haw River, NC. The old mill house that I was born in before World War 11, is still standing, having been restored by the present owners, and now has aged much better than I have! In our row of houses, six families got their water from the same well. Also there was a spring between us and the river. We had no indoor plumbing, heat was from fireplaces, and my mother cooked on a kerosene stove. We had a small garden space, big front porch, and a Johnny house with a Lilac Bush planted next to it. For you young folks, a Johnny house was a outside toilet, which often smelled to high heaven unless the ground was frozen! Hence the Lilac Bush, it had a wonderful aroma that helped cover the awful odor! Our toilet was a one seater, but my mother's brother had a three seater. As a child this amazed me that uncle Bud was so "Rich" <BG> Back then the houses were not underpinned. One section under the house was reserved for storing coal, this had a door to keep locked, but I wonder now why we locked the door, if anyone wanted to steal the coal all they had to do was crawl under the house and get it! Our house had three rooms, my Dad worked for Granite Mills which owned this house. Rent was charged by the amount of rooms that you had at 15 cents per week, per room. My Dad paid $.45 per week out of his $7.25 weekly salary to live here. Six houses down from us, in a four room house lived my mother's sister, Gena RAY, her husband Ruffin Ray and their five children, plus my grandmother, a widow, Mattie ANDREWS SMALL. Grandmother died in that house and her body was laid out in the front room. Her funeral was held at HOLTS Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. I can remember when the Haw River flooded, the water would come up on our front porch which was eight steps high from the ground. We had to stay with relatives when the water came so high. That was fun to me because we would go out to "Pleasant Grove", eight miles away, and stay with my TILLMAN Grandparents on their farm! To be continued...

Low's Lutheran Church is located in Liberty, NC. I have a copy of the cemetery listing compiled for their 225th Anniversary publication in 1996. If you think your ancestor may have been buried there, I will look them up. Send as much info as possible on dates and spouses. Blanket requests (such as lookup all the BROWNs) will be ignored and no reply will be sent. Larry Noah - larmil-1@worldnet.att.net My family is at - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/ Links can be found there to websites for mailing lists NCOrangeNC-L, BrickChurchNC-L and BEARSE-L.

Hi Everybody: I just found this announcement in the Chatham Record (4/8/1999): "The Friends of Wren Library in sponsorship with the Chatham County Historical Association and the Chatham County Black Historical Society will present "Family Name", a film by Macky Alston. The film won a 1997 Sundance Film Festival Award and portrays how Alston traced the descendants of slaves and slave owners from Chatham County plantations owned by his family. Scheduled for April 15 at 7pm at the Wrenn Memorial Library (Siler City), the 60-minute condensed version will be followed by a discussion and refreshments." Linda

Hi Everybody: Be sure to watch the TV show "60 Minutes II" Wednesday night (tomorrow). There will be a segment on the Hairston family of Virginia and North Carolina. I just finished reading the book ("The Hairstons") written about this family and it was very interesting. The author (Henry Wiencek) spent many years researching the family tree of this family - both black and white - and the book tells of his research and findings. This book will be great reading for anyone interested in tracing any family who may have both white slave owner and black slave descendants. It gives a great deal of perspective and insight into how the different family members view the period of time when their ancestors were either owners or slaves - perspectives that I hadn't considered but now realize that I need to know as I begin contacting and researching the black descendants in my Allred family. The white author's "trial and error" method of contacting the black descendants of this family is very detailed and honest - very educational. Anyone wanting more info on this book, please let me know. Linda Allred Cooper