Will do. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: <JHemp41535@aol.com> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch,obit > Jerry, I do have more information. E-mail me off the list. > LouGene > > > In a message dated 1/28/2008 6:17:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > jvcv@sbcglobal.net writes: > > Lou Gene, > Thanks. > > Do you have more on that Grady line? I know Ann Elizabeth died within > about > a year after her marriage but don't know if she and B. G. Grady b. 1813 > had > a child? Then, if so, Ann Elizabeth McIntire was my g grandfather James > McIntire's dtr from his first marriage. James McIntire b. 1801 was my g > gfr. > He m. 3 times we know of. Ann's mother was probalby Julia Ann WILLIAMS b. > 1810. I have nothing on her WILLIAMS line. #2 Mary Emma Ellis, (I have > nothing on that line either) and #3, I decend from, the 3rd wife Margaret > Alice Heath, father John Henry HEATH. Also wonder who the Rev. Peter > McIntire was and if he was related to James McIntire? > > Jerry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JHemp41535@aol.com> > To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical > sketch,obit > > >> Yes,from the old Grady Book. The B.F. Grady that married Ann Elizabeth >> Mclntire was the uncle of this B.F. Grady b. Oct 10, 1831, in "The >> Souths >> Burden". >> LouGene >> >> >> In a message dated 1/28/2008 4:37:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> jvcv@sbcglobal.net writes: >> >> Anyone know if this B. F. G. was related to Benjamin Franklin Grady b. >> 1813 >> Duplin Co., NC who m. Ann Elizabeth McIntire? >> Jerry >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ann Hamby" <ahamby@nc.rr.com> >> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:49 PM >> Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, >> obit >> >> >>> Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism >>> in >>> the >>> United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, >>> Goldsboro, >>> N. >>> C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." >>> p. vii >>> "Biographical Sketch of the Author. >>> I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, >>> 1831, >>> my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By >>> intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the >>> Whitfields, >>> the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the >>> battle >>> of >>> Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. >>> My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five >>> or >>> thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my >>> play >>> mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and >>> worked >>> with them in the fields and woods except during about three months >>> each >>> winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached >>> manhood >>> my >>> father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their >>> children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. >>> James >>> M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at >>> Kenansville. >>> In >>> September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I >>> received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to >>> Kenansville >>> and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I >>> was >>> chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin >>> College, >>> then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer >>> of >>> 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend >>> operations. >>> Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for >>> military >>> service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which >>> became >>> K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted >>> us, >>> and >>> we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we >>> were >>> captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the >>> enemy, >>> with >>> 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. >>> Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to >>> Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we >>> served >>> until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I >>> went >>> to >>> Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till >>> May >>> 2, >>> 1865. >>> After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the >>> Peace, >>> and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin >>> Counties >>> till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in >>> Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last >>> four >>> years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. >>> F. >>> Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" >>> >>> THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, >>> Compiled >>> by >>> Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina >>> University >>> Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. >>> The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home >>> of >>> his >>> son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of >>> Clinton. >>> Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed >>> to >>> be >>> in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of >>> some >>> trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and >>> continued >>> to >>> grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was >>> a >>> Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be >>> truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag >>> he >>> followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and >>> was, >>> perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. >>> School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the >>> chair >>> of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he >>> resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to >>> North >>> Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public >>> Instruction >>> of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to >>> Congress >>> and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and >>> fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member >>> of >>> the >>> Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday >>> at >>> 11 >>> o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter >>> McIntire, >>> of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by >>> the >>> side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. >>> The >>> grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by >>> tender and loving hands. >>> >>> Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, >>> Durham, >>> NC, p. 226 >>> GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. >>> Mar. >>> 6, >>> 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte >>> Bizzell, >>> Nov. >>> 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., >>> Huntersville, >>> Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. >>> of >>> pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. >>> >>> NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill >>> (1958) >>> Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 >>> OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore >>> The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence >>> Herring >>> Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the >>> principal >>> of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he >>> graduated >>> from the University of N. C. in 1857. >>> On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am >>> engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in >>> preparing >>> a >>> historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of >>> North >>> Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me >>> one >>> of >>> Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. >>> I >>> can >>> trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed >>> Col. >>> Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along >>> Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or >>> Wm >>> Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented >>> his >>> crossing; then I can >>> follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he >>> routed >>> an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, >>> and >>> two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot >>> follow him. >>> Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other >>> interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before >>> coming >>> to >>> Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in >>> that >>> neighborhood. >>> All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching >>> Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief >>> among >>> the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and >>> Kinston....At >>> our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. >>> Thomas >>> I. >>> Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. >>> Stevenson. >>> Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of >>> preserving >>> the Unon. He is only 19 years old." >>> In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, >>> "Breckenridge >>> is >>> all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's >>> friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . >>> . >>> . >>> Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the >>> Constitution >>> or >>> the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a >>> patriot. >>> "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's >>> election. >>> New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have >>> held >>> to >>> Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." >>> On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today >>> on >>> secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall >>> vote >>> for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the >>> benighted >>> Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." >>> B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin >>> College, >>> Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, >>> he >>> enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his >>> whole >>> command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, >>> Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our >>> loss >>> was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was >>> 60,000 >>> and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and >>> some >>> men >>> froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a >>> dirty, >>> rascally set of low Irish and Germans." >>> In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of >>> the >>> South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the >>> years >>> following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent >>> to >>> General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the >>> close >>> of >>> the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, >>> participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville >>> and >>> at >>> Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - >>> in >>> my >>> face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main >>> line >>> of >>> breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards >>> from >>> where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be >>> more >>> dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at >>> Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's >>> flanking >>> colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, >>> 1863; >>> at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults >>> of >>> the >>> troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the >>> evening, >>> thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of >>> the >>> reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where >>> Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas >>> regiments, >>> defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was >>> attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at >>> Atlanta, >>> where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., >>> etc. >>> But >>> I had never received a scratch before. >>> After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern >>> part >>> of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water >>> and >>> railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on >>> the >>> few >>> pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came >>> to >>> North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. >>> On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at >>> Bentonville, >>> and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of >>> action, >>> I >>> was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, >>> where >>> typhoid fever kept me till May 2. >>> Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects >>> of >>> the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the >>> neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last >>> sickness >>> and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in >>> the >>> year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow >>> of >>> "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his >>> beloved >>> Southland. >>> I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in >>> Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of >>> sufficient >>> exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my >>> life >>> was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a >>> a >>> farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I >>> ws >>> elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, >>> and >>> held that position for eight years. >>> In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North >>> Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. >>> I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification >>> or >>> of >>> accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the >>> Union >>> had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and >>> measure >>> of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in >>> jeopardy >>> by >>> the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the >>> nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation >>> imposed >>> by >>> the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; >>> and >>> I >>> held that South Carolina should have set a better example than >>> Masschusetts >>> had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests >>> were >>> identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to >>> the >>> people of the offending States. >>> As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States >>> to >>> remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the >>> intelligent >>> people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their >>> children. >>> This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of >>> the >>> expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was >>> not >>> far >>> distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for >>> riddance >>> from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and >>> manufacturing States of the East. >>> This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to >>> choose >>> whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush >>> South >>> Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the >>> Constitution >>> and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with >>> South >>> Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal >>> Sovereign" threatened to crush her". >>> >>> Clinton Newspaper >>> >>> Documenting the American South: >>> >>> Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles >>> | >>> Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions >>> Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> >>> Benjamin >>> Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 >>> Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William >>> S. >>> Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina >>> Press. >>> Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu >>> >>> Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 >>> >>> Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, >>> congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin >>> County, >>> the >>> oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady >>> forebears >>> were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William >>> Grady >>> (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from >>> James >>> Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin >>> County, >>> to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of >>> Burncoat >>> Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William >>> Whitfield. >>> Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's >>> Creek >>> Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his >>> memory. >>> After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady >>> farm. >>> Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on >>> 6 >>> Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin >>> Grady. >>> His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through >>> his >>> Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan >>> of >>> Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was >>> Colonel >>> Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial >>> congresses >>> of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord >>> Needham >>> (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a >>> Bryan >>> and immigrated to America. >>> >>> Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college >>> by >>> the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one >>> of >>> the student orators at his graduation from The University of North >>> Carolina >>> on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he >>> returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of >>> mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at >>> Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended >>> operations >>> at >>> the outbreak of the Civil War. >>> >>> Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring >>> of >>> 1862, >>> when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the >>> Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he >>> served >>> with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The >>> entire >>> command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at >>> Camp >>> Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being >>> exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., >>> to >>> join >>> General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in >>> Granbury's >>> Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and >>> Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which >>> his >>> brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became >>> ill >>> with >>> typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace >>> Institute, >>> Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. >>> >>> After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, >>> in >>> Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He >>> organized >>> a >>> school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. >>> In >>> 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy >>> in >>> Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing >>> health >>> forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, >>> however, >>> he >>> returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years >>> conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable >>> to >>> go >>> to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch >>> School >>> House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the >>> sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. >>> >>> Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during >>> 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction >>> for >>> Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on >>> the >>> Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the >>> Third >>> District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in >>> Sampson >>> County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey >>> Academy. >>> Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years >>> studying >>> and >>> writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with >>> the >>> South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) >>> and >>> The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural >>> Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. >>> >>> Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he >>> was >>> a >>> prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, >>> Mary >>> Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of >>> Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court >>> judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; >>> Mary >>> Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton >>> Cemetery. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> >>> To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM >>> Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids >>> >>> >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to >>>> add >>>> to >>>> the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! >>>> >>>> I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about >>>> 5000 >>>> pages >>>> of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me >>>> double >>>> that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or >>>> marriage >>>> records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. >>>> >>>> Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to >>>> the >>>> site. >>>> >>>> >>>> I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did >>>> more >>>> research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the >>>> site. >>>> >>>> These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the >>>> seasoned >>>> "pros >>>> . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in >>>> your >>>> research. 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Dee, If you wouldn't mind sending copies to me that would be great! You can just email scanned copies to me and I will get them transcribed for the site. Thanks for the additional info on them! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html -------Original Message------- From: Dee Thompson Date: 1/28/2008 8:18:04 PM To: ncduplin@rootsweb.com; NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Leslie H Brown Jr index cards Diane, I have the 3 page list of the surnames with card(s) in this file plus the 4 Page list of ALLIED FAMILIES with card(s). The charge at the time was 25 Cents for each card copied. "36,000 genealogical abstracts about Middle Cape Fear families are now Available in affordable quantities for individual surnames and allied family Groups." "The late Leslie H. Brown, Jr., a native of Warsaw, Duplin County, NC., Devoted his whole adult life to researching these families. He spent a Number of years in the Delaware River Valley, Tidewater Virginia and the Albemarle region of North Carolina, in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Savannah, Georgia. His research thus covered the eastern seaboard from Philadelphia to Savannah. His work was thorough, meticulous and Conscientious. The collection contains the antecedents of a great many Cape Fear families, as well as clues to the whereabouts of many of their Descendents." Dee All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb Site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups Refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm -----Original Message----- From: ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike & Diane Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:56 PM To: Duplin County Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Leslie H Brown Jr index cards Hi list, I see that the Leslie H Brown Jr index cards have stirred up a lot of Interest. I have also had someone step forward that has some copies of the Cards and they are going to be transcribed for the site. So, I am asking, if anyone has any copies or portions of any of these cards To please consider sending in copies so that we can add the information to The site. These are very valuable resources and will help researchers for Years to come. So, if you don't want to transcribe them but have copies Please consider sending them to me and I have some people that are very Anxious to help transcribe them to get them on the site. As many of you know, Dr Herring's library is closed more than it is open due To a lack of volunteers to open it for fellow researchers. So, if we can get Some volunteers to offer themselves a couple hours a week or a month to work In the library that would be a huge help to researchers, and I am sure Dr Herring would be very grateful to you as well. Also, if you live in Duplin and find Dr Herring's library open if you would Consider stopping by and copying a few pages of the index cards to be placed On the site I am sure many researchers would be grateful. There will be a Disclaimer put on the pages that these are transcribed from photocopies of Leslie H Brown, Jr.'s index cards. So, come on Duplin, search through your papers and see if you might have Some of the info from these cards and please consider sending it in to share With others. Thanks! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes In the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.13/1246 - Release Date: 1/27/2008 6:39 PM .

Diane, I have the 3 page list of the surnames with card(s) in this file plus the 4 page list of ALLIED FAMILIES with card(s). The charge at the time was 25 cents for each card copied. "36,000 genealogical abstracts about Middle Cape Fear families are now available in affordable quantities for individual surnames and allied family groups." "The late Leslie H. Brown, Jr., a native of Warsaw, Duplin County, NC., devoted his whole adult life to researching these families. He spent a number of years in the Delaware River Valley, Tidewater Virginia and the Albemarle region of North Carolina, in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Savannah, Georgia. His research thus covered the eastern seaboard from Philadelphia to Savannah. His work was thorough, meticulous and conscientious. The collection contains the antecedents of a great many Cape Fear families, as well as clues to the whereabouts of many of their descendents." Dee All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm -----Original Message----- From: ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike & Diane Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:56 PM To: Duplin County Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Leslie H Brown Jr index cards Hi list, I see that the Leslie H Brown Jr index cards have stirred up a lot of interest. I have also had someone step forward that has some copies of the cards and they are going to be transcribed for the site. So, I am asking, if anyone has any copies or portions of any of these cards to please consider sending in copies so that we can add the information to the site. These are very valuable resources and will help researchers for years to come. So, if you don't want to transcribe them but have copies please consider sending them to me and I have some people that are very anxious to help transcribe them to get them on the site. As many of you know, Dr Herring's library is closed more than it is open due to a lack of volunteers to open it for fellow researchers. So, if we can get some volunteers to offer themselves a couple hours a week or a month to work in the library that would be a huge help to researchers, and I am sure Dr Herring would be very grateful to you as well. Also, if you live in Duplin and find Dr Herring's library open if you would consider stopping by and copying a few pages of the index cards to be placed on the site I am sure many researchers would be grateful. There will be a disclaimer put on the pages that these are transcribed from photocopies of Leslie H Brown, Jr.'s index cards. So, come on Duplin, search through your papers and see if you might have some of the info from these cards and please consider sending it in to share with others. Thanks! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi list, I see that the Leslie H Brown Jr index cards have stirred up a lot of interest. I have also had someone step forward that has some copies of a few of the cards and they are going to be transcribed for the site. So, I am asking, if anyone has any copies or portions of any of these cards to please consider sending in copies so that we can add the information to the site. These are very valuable resources and will help researchers for years to come. So, if you don't want to transcribe them but have copies please consider sending them to me and I have some people that are very anxious to help transcribe them to get them on the site. As many of you know, Dr Herring's library is closed more than it is open due to a lack of volunteers to open it for fellow researchers. So, if we can get some volunteers to offer themselves a couple hours a week or a month to work in the library that would be a huge help to researchers, and I am sure Dr Herring would be very grateful to you as well. Also, if you live in Duplin and find Dr Herring's library open if you would consider stopping by and copying a few pages of the index cards to be placed on the site I am sure many researchers would be grateful. There will be a disclaimer put on the pages that these are transcribed from photocopies of Leslie H Brown, Jr.'s index cards. So, come on Duplin, search through your papers and see if you might have some of the info from these cards and please consider sending it in to share with others. Thanks! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html

Yes,from the old Grady Book. The B.F. Grady that married Ann Elizabeth Mclntire was the uncle of this B.F. Grady b. Oct 10, 1831, in "The Souths Burden". LouGene In a message dated 1/28/2008 4:37:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jvcv@sbcglobal.net writes: Anyone know if this B. F. G. was related to Benjamin Franklin Grady b. 1813 Duplin Co., NC who m. Ann Elizabeth McIntire? Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Hamby" <ahamby@nc.rr.com> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:49 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, obit > Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in > the > United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, > N. > C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." > p. vii > "Biographical Sketch of the Author. > I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, 1831, > my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By > intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the > Whitfields, > the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle of > Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. > My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or > thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play > mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked > with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each > winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood > my > father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their > children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. > James > M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. > In > September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I > received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to > Kenansville > and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I was > chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin > College, > then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of > 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend > operations. > Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for military > service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which > became > K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, > and > we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were > captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, > with > 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. > Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to > Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we > served > until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went > to > Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May > 2, > 1865. > After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, > and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties > till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in > Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last four > years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. > Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" > > THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, Compiled > by > Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina > University > Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. > The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of > his > son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of > Clinton. > Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to > be > in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some > trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and continued > to > grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a > Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be > truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag he > followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, > perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. > School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the chair > of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he > resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to > North > Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public Instruction > of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to Congress > and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and > fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of > the > Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at > 11 > o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter McIntire, > of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the > side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. > The > grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by > tender and loving hands. > > Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, Durham, > NC, p. 226 > GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. Mar. > 6, > 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, > Nov. > 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., > Huntersville, > Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of > pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. > > NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill (1958) > Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 > OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore > The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring > Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the principal > of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he > graduated > from the University of N. C. in 1857. > On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am > engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in preparing > a > historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of > North > Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one > of > Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I > can > trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. > Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along > Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm > Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his > crossing; then I can > follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he > routed > an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, and > two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot > follow him. > Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other > interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming > to > Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that > neighborhood. > All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching > Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief among > the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and > Kinston....At > our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. Thomas > I. > Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. > Stevenson. > Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving > the Unon. He is only 19 years old." > In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge > is > all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's > friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . . > Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution > or > the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a > patriot. > "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's election. > New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have held > to > Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." > On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on > secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall > vote > for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the benighted > Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." > B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, > Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he > enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole > command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, > Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our loss > was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was 60,000 > and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some > men > froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a > dirty, > rascally set of low Irish and Germans." > In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of the > South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the > years > following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to > General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the close > of > the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, > participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and > at > Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in my > face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line of > breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards > from > where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be more > dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at > Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking > colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, > 1863; > at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of > the > troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, > thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the > reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where > Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas regiments, > defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was > attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, > where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. > But > I had never received a scratch before. > After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern part > of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and > railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the > few > pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to > North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. > On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at Bentonville, > and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, I > was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, > where > typhoid fever kept me till May 2. > Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects of > the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the > neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last > sickness > and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in the > year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of > "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his beloved > Southland. > I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in > Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient > exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my life > was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a > farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws > elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and > held that position for eight years. > In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North > Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. > I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or of > accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the Union > had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and > measure > of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy by > the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the > nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation imposed > by > the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and I > held that South Carolina should have set a better example than > Masschusetts > had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests were > identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to the > people of the offending States. > As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to > remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the > intelligent > people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their > children. > This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the > expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not > far > distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for > riddance > from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and > manufacturing States of the East. > This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to > choose > whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South > Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the Constitution > and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South > Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal > Sovereign" threatened to crush her". > > Clinton Newspaper > > Documenting the American South: > > Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | > Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions > Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> Benjamin > Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 > Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. > Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. > Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu > > Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 > > Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, > congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, > the > oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady forebears > were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William Grady > (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from James > Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin County, > to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of Burncoat > Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William Whitfield. > Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's > Creek > Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his memory. > After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady > farm. > Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 > Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin Grady. > His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through his > Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of > Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was > Colonel > Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial congresses > of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord Needham > (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a Bryan > and immigrated to America. > > Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college by > the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one of > the student orators at his graduation from The University of North > Carolina > on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he > returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of > mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at > Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations > at > the outbreak of the Civil War. > > Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of > 1862, > when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the > Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he > served > with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The entire > command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at Camp > Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being > exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to > join > General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's > Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and > Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his > brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill > with > typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, > Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. > > After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, in > Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He organized > a > school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In > 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy in > Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health > forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, he > returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years > conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable to > go > to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch School > House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the > sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. > > Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during > 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for > Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the > Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the Third > District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in > Sampson > County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey > Academy. > Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying > and > writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the > South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) and > The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural > Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. > > Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he was > a > prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, > Mary > Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of > Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court > judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; Mary > Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton > Cemetery. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> > To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM > Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids > > >> Hi list, >> >> Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add >> to >> the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! >> >> I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 >> pages >> of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double >> that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or >> marriage >> records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. >> >> Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to the >> site. >> >> >> I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did >> more >> research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the >> site. >> >> These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the seasoned >> "pros >> . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in your >> research. 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Was this Benjamin Franklin Grady article copyed for each word? The statement that "That the John Grady killed at Moors Creek Bridge" was the first John Grady's Grandson. I am descended from the John Grady the son of the first John Grady. LouGene In a message dated 1/28/2008 5:55:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lvsadler@alltel.net writes: Wouldn't you like to turn this into an article for Footnotes? Submissions to Footnotes Please send articles, with full contact information and a bio, in hard copy and by e-mail (Microsoft Word) to the address below. (Dr.) Lynn Veach Sadler, Editor, Footnotes 163 Wood Wedge Way Sanford, NC 27332 Phone: 919-499-9216 FAX: 919-498-1416 lvsadler@alltel.net Thank you, Lynn -----Original Message----- From: ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Hamby Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:49 PM To: ncduplin@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, obit Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in the United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, N. C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." p. vii "Biographical Sketch of the Author. I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, 1831, my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the Whitfields, the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood my father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. James M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. In September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to Kenansville and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I was chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend operations. Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for military service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which became K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, and we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, with 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we served until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2, 1865. After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last four years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, Compiled by Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of his son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of Clinton. Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to be in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and continued to grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag he followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the chair of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to North Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public Instruction of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to Congress and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of the Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at 11 o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter McIntire, of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. The grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by tender and loving hands. Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, Durham, NC, p. 226 GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. Mar. 6, 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, Nov. 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., Huntersville, Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill (1958) Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the principal of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he graduated from the University of N. C. in 1857. On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in preparing a historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of North Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one of Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I can trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his crossing; then I can follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he routed an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, and two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot follow him. Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming to Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that neighborhood. All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief among the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and Kinston....At our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. Thomas I. Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. Stevenson. Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving the Unon. He is only 19 years old." In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge is all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . . Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution or the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a patriot. "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's election. New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have held to Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall vote for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the benighted Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our loss was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was 60,000 and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some men froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a dirty, rascally set of low Irish and Germans." In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of the South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the years following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and at Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in my face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line of breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards from where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be more dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, 1863; at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of the troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas regiments, defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. But I had never received a scratch before. After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern part of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the few pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at Bentonville, and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, I was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2. Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects of the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last sickness and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in the year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his beloved Southland. I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my life was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and held that position for eight years. In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or of accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the Union had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and measure of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy by the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation imposed by the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and I held that South Carolina should have set a better example than Masschusetts had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests were identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to the people of the offending States. As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the intelligent people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their children. This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not far distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for riddance from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and manufacturing States of the East. This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to choose whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the Constitution and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal Sovereign" threatened to crush her". Clinton Newspaper Documenting the American South: Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, the oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady forebears were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William Grady (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from James Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin County, to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of Burncoat Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William Whitfield. Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his memory. After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady farm. Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin Grady. His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through his Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was Colonel Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial congresses of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord Needham (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a Bryan and immigrated to America. Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college by the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one of the student orators at his graduation from The University of North Carolina on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations at the outbreak of the Civil War. Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of 1862, when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he served with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The entire command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to join General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill with typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, in Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He organized a school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy in Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, he returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable to go to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch School House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the Third District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in Sampson County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey Academy. Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying and writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) and The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he was a prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, Mary Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; Mary Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton Cemetery. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids > Hi list, > > Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add to > the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! > > I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 > pages > of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double > that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or > marriage > records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. > > Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to the > site. > > > I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did more > research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the > site. > > These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the seasoned > "pros > . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in your > research. Please take a few minutes to scan through the various articles > and > I hope that they will give you some pointers or new directions to take in > your research. > > I will be posting more articles to this page so keep checking back. > > Also, if you haven't been to the North Carolina in WOrld War I site > lately, > it might be worth your while to go and check it out...lots of new info has > been added to it! > Happy Hunting! > Diane > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Start the year off right. 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Lou Gene, Thanks. Do you have more on that Grady line? I know Ann Elizabeth died within about a year after her marriage but don't know if she and B. G. Grady b. 1813 had a child? Then, if so, Ann Elizabeth McIntire was my g grandfather James McIntire's dtr from his first marriage. James McIntire b. 1801 was my g gfr. He m. 3 times we know of. Ann's mother was probalby Julia Ann WILLIAMS b. 1810. I have nothing on her WILLIAMS line. #2 Mary Emma Ellis, (I have nothing on that line either) and #3, I decend from, the 3rd wife Margaret Alice Heath, father John Henry HEATH. Also wonder who the Rev. Peter McIntire was and if he was related to James McIntire? Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: <JHemp41535@aol.com> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch,obit > Yes,from the old Grady Book. The B.F. Grady that married Ann Elizabeth > Mclntire was the uncle of this B.F. Grady b. Oct 10, 1831, in "The Souths > Burden". > LouGene > > > In a message dated 1/28/2008 4:37:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > jvcv@sbcglobal.net writes: > > Anyone know if this B. F. G. was related to Benjamin Franklin Grady b. > 1813 > Duplin Co., NC who m. Ann Elizabeth McIntire? > Jerry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ann Hamby" <ahamby@nc.rr.com> > To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:49 PM > Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, > obit > > >> Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in >> the >> United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, >> N. >> C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." >> p. vii >> "Biographical Sketch of the Author. >> I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, >> 1831, >> my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By >> intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the >> Whitfields, >> the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle >> of >> Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. >> My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or >> thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play >> mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked >> with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each >> winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood >> my >> father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their >> children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. >> James >> M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. >> In >> September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I >> received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to >> Kenansville >> and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I >> was >> chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin >> College, >> then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of >> 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend >> operations. >> Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for >> military >> service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which >> became >> K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, >> and >> we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were >> captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, >> with >> 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. >> Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to >> Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we >> served >> until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went >> to >> Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till >> May >> 2, >> 1865. >> After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, >> and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties >> till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in >> Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last >> four >> years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. >> Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" >> >> THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, >> Compiled >> by >> Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina >> University >> Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. >> The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of >> his >> son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of >> Clinton. >> Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to >> be >> in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some >> trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and >> continued >> to >> grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a >> Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be >> truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag >> he >> followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, >> perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. >> School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the >> chair >> of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he >> resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to >> North >> Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public >> Instruction >> of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to >> Congress >> and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and >> fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of >> the >> Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at >> 11 >> o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter >> McIntire, >> of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the >> side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. >> The >> grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by >> tender and loving hands. >> >> Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, >> Durham, >> NC, p. 226 >> GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. >> Mar. >> 6, >> 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, >> Nov. >> 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., >> Huntersville, >> Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of >> pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. >> >> NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill >> (1958) >> Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 >> OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore >> The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring >> Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the >> principal >> of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he >> graduated >> from the University of N. C. in 1857. >> On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am >> engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in >> preparing >> a >> historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of >> North >> Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one >> of >> Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I >> can >> trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. >> Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along >> Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm >> Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his >> crossing; then I can >> follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he >> routed >> an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, >> and >> two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot >> follow him. >> Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other >> interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming >> to >> Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that >> neighborhood. >> All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching >> Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief >> among >> the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and >> Kinston....At >> our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. >> Thomas >> I. >> Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. >> Stevenson. >> Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving >> the Unon. He is only 19 years old." >> In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge >> is >> all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's >> friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . >> . >> Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution >> or >> the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a >> patriot. >> "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's >> election. >> New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have >> held >> to >> Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." >> On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on >> secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall >> vote >> for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the >> benighted >> Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." >> B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, >> Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he >> enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole >> command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, >> Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our >> loss >> was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was >> 60,000 >> and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some >> men >> froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a >> dirty, >> rascally set of low Irish and Germans." >> In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of >> the >> South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the >> years >> following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to >> General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the >> close >> of >> the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, >> participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and >> at >> Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in >> my >> face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line >> of >> breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards >> from >> where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be >> more >> dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at >> Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking >> colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, >> 1863; >> at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of >> the >> troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, >> thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the >> reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where >> Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas >> regiments, >> defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was >> attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, >> where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. >> But >> I had never received a scratch before. >> After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern >> part >> of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and >> railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the >> few >> pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to >> North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. >> On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at >> Bentonville, >> and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, >> I >> was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, >> where >> typhoid fever kept me till May 2. >> Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects >> of >> the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the >> neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last >> sickness >> and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in >> the >> year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of >> "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his >> beloved >> Southland. >> I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in >> Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient >> exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my >> life >> was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a >> farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws >> elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and >> held that position for eight years. >> In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North >> Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. >> I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or >> of >> accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the >> Union >> had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and >> measure >> of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy >> by >> the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the >> nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation >> imposed >> by >> the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and >> I >> held that South Carolina should have set a better example than >> Masschusetts >> had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests >> were >> identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to >> the >> people of the offending States. >> As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to >> remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the >> intelligent >> people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their >> children. >> This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the >> expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not >> far >> distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for >> riddance >> from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and >> manufacturing States of the East. >> This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to >> choose >> whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South >> Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the >> Constitution >> and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South >> Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal >> Sovereign" threatened to crush her". >> >> Clinton Newspaper >> >> Documenting the American South: >> >> Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | >> Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions >> Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> >> Benjamin >> Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 >> Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. >> Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina >> Press. >> Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu >> >> Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 >> >> Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, >> congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, >> the >> oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady >> forebears >> were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William >> Grady >> (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from >> James >> Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin >> County, >> to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of >> Burncoat >> Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William >> Whitfield. >> Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's >> Creek >> Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his >> memory. >> After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady >> farm. >> Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 >> Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin >> Grady. >> His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through >> his >> Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of >> Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was >> Colonel >> Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial >> congresses >> of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord >> Needham >> (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a >> Bryan >> and immigrated to America. >> >> Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college >> by >> the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one >> of >> the student orators at his graduation from The University of North >> Carolina >> on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he >> returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of >> mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at >> Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations >> at >> the outbreak of the Civil War. >> >> Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of >> 1862, >> when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the >> Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he >> served >> with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The >> entire >> command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at >> Camp >> Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being >> exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to >> join >> General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's >> Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and >> Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his >> brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill >> with >> typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, >> Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. >> >> After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, >> in >> Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He >> organized >> a >> school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In >> 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy >> in >> Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health >> forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, >> he >> returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years >> conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable >> to >> go >> to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch >> School >> House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the >> sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. >> >> Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during >> 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for >> Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the >> Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the >> Third >> District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in >> Sampson >> County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey >> Academy. >> Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying >> and >> writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the >> South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) >> and >> The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural >> Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. >> >> Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he >> was >> a >> prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, >> Mary >> Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of >> Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court >> judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; >> Mary >> Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton >> Cemetery. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> >> To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM >> Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids >> >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add >>> to >>> the site. 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Anyone know if this B. F. G. was related to Benjamin Franklin Grady b. 1813 Duplin Co., NC who m. Ann Elizabeth McIntire? Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Hamby" <ahamby@nc.rr.com> To: <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:49 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, obit > Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in > the > United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, > N. > C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." > p. vii > "Biographical Sketch of the Author. > I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, 1831, > my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By > intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the > Whitfields, > the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle of > Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. > My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or > thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play > mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked > with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each > winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood > my > father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their > children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. > James > M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. > In > September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I > received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to > Kenansville > and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I was > chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin > College, > then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of > 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend > operations. > Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for military > service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which > became > K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, > and > we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were > captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, > with > 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. > Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to > Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we > served > until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went > to > Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May > 2, > 1865. > After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, > and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties > till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in > Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last four > years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. > Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" > > THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, Compiled > by > Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina > University > Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. > The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of > his > son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of > Clinton. > Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to > be > in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some > trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and continued > to > grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a > Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be > truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag he > followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, > perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. > School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the chair > of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he > resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to > North > Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public Instruction > of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to Congress > and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and > fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of > the > Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at > 11 > o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter McIntire, > of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the > side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. > The > grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by > tender and loving hands. > > Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, Durham, > NC, p. 226 > GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. Mar. > 6, > 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, > Nov. > 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., > Huntersville, > Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of > pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. > > NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill (1958) > Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 > OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore > The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring > Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the principal > of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he > graduated > from the University of N. C. in 1857. > On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am > engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in preparing > a > historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of > North > Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one > of > Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I > can > trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. > Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along > Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm > Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his > crossing; then I can > follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he > routed > an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, and > two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot > follow him. > Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other > interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming > to > Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that > neighborhood. > All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching > Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief among > the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and > Kinston....At > our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. Thomas > I. > Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. > Stevenson. > Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving > the Unon. He is only 19 years old." > In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge > is > all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's > friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . . > Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution > or > the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a > patriot. > "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's election. > New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have held > to > Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." > On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on > secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall > vote > for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the benighted > Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." > B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, > Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he > enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole > command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, > Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our loss > was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was 60,000 > and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some > men > froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a > dirty, > rascally set of low Irish and Germans." > In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of the > South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the > years > following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to > General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the close > of > the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, > participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and > at > Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in my > face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line of > breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards > from > where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be more > dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at > Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking > colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, > 1863; > at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of > the > troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, > thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the > reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where > Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas regiments, > defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was > attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, > where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. > But > I had never received a scratch before. > After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern part > of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and > railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the > few > pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to > North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. > On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at Bentonville, > and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, I > was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, > where > typhoid fever kept me till May 2. > Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects of > the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the > neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last > sickness > and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in the > year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of > "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his beloved > Southland. > I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in > Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient > exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my life > was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a > farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws > elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and > held that position for eight years. > In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North > Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. > I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or of > accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the Union > had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and > measure > of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy by > the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the > nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation imposed > by > the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and I > held that South Carolina should have set a better example than > Masschusetts > had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests were > identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to the > people of the offending States. > As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to > remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the > intelligent > people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their > children. > This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the > expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not > far > distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for > riddance > from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and > manufacturing States of the East. > This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to > choose > whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South > Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the Constitution > and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South > Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal > Sovereign" threatened to crush her". > > Clinton Newspaper > > Documenting the American South: > > Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | > Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions > Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> Benjamin > Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 > Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. > Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. > Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu > > Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 > > Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, > congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, > the > oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady forebears > were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William Grady > (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from James > Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin County, > to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of Burncoat > Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William Whitfield. > Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's > Creek > Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his memory. > After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady > farm. > Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 > Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin Grady. > His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through his > Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of > Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was > Colonel > Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial congresses > of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord Needham > (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a Bryan > and immigrated to America. > > Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college by > the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one of > the student orators at his graduation from The University of North > Carolina > on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he > returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of > mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at > Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations > at > the outbreak of the Civil War. > > Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of > 1862, > when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the > Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he > served > with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The entire > command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at Camp > Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being > exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to > join > General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's > Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and > Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his > brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill > with > typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, > Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. > > After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, in > Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He organized > a > school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In > 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy in > Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health > forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, he > returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years > conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable to > go > to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch School > House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the > sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. > > Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during > 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for > Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the > Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the Third > District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in > Sampson > County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey > Academy. > Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying > and > writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the > South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) and > The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural > Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. > > Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he was > a > prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, > Mary > Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of > Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court > judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; Mary > Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton > Cemetery. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> > To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM > Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids > > >> Hi list, >> >> Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add >> to >> the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! >> >> I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 >> pages >> of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double >> that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or >> marriage >> records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. >> >> Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to the >> site. >> >> >> I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did >> more >> research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the >> site. >> >> These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the seasoned >> "pros >> . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in your >> research. Please take a few minutes to scan through the various articles >> and >> I hope that they will give you some pointers or new directions to take in >> your research. >> >> I will be posting more articles to this page so keep checking back. >> >> Also, if you haven't been to the North Carolina in WOrld War I site >> lately, >> it might be worth your while to go and check it out...lots of new info >> has >> been added to it! >> Happy Hunting! >> Diane >> >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I had sent Dee the email address of the Historical Society so she could contact them about the index cards. There is a link on the Duplin page for the Historical Society. I have just learned that there are not enough volunteers to keep Dr Herring s library open. So, please, anyone that lives in or near Duplin County please consider volunteering a few hours a month to work in the library so that his valuable resources will not be lost or closed up to all researchers Thanks! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html -------Original Message------- From: HUNTR404@cs.com Date: 1/28/2008 7:29:56 AM To: garebel@embarqmail.com; ncduplin@rootsweb.com Subject: Brown Index Card Collection and how to order copies of these index cards. I would like that info on the Brown Index Card Collection as I Was told they had HUNTER family information. Roy Hunter

Index was at the late Dr. Dallas Herrings Library in Rose Hill. Duplin County Historical Society had it. I don't know if somebody is running his library or not. Mike Cooper -----Original Message----- From: ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Fran Sent: January 28, 2008 8:30 AM To: ncduplin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Brown Index Card Collection and how to order copiesof these index cards. On Jan 28, 2008 7:29 AM, <HUNTR404@cs.com> wrote: > I would like that info on the Brown Index Card Collection as I > was told they had HUNTER family information. > > Roy Hunter I, too, think the info would be beneficial to many on the list. Fran > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Jan 28, 2008 7:29 AM, <HUNTR404@cs.com> wrote: > I would like that info on the Brown Index Card Collection as I > was told they had HUNTER family information. > > Roy Hunter I, too, think the info would be beneficial to many on the list. Fran > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I would like that info on the Brown Index Card Collection as I was told they had HUNTER family information. Roy Hunter

Wouldn't you like to turn this into an article for Footnotes? Submissions to Footnotes Please send articles, with full contact information and a bio, in hard copy and by e-mail (Microsoft Word) to the address below. (Dr.) Lynn Veach Sadler, Editor, Footnotes 163 Wood Wedge Way Sanford, NC 27332 Phone: 919-499-9216 FAX: 919-498-1416 lvsadler@alltel.net Thank you, Lynn -----Original Message----- From: ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ncduplin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Hamby Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:49 PM To: ncduplin@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Benjanmin Franklin Grady - autobiographical sketch, obit Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in the United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, N. C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." p. vii "Biographical Sketch of the Author. I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, 1831, my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the Whitfields, the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood my father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. James M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. In September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to Kenansville and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I was chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend operations. Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for military service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which became K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, and we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, with 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we served until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2, 1865. After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last four years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, Compiled by Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of his son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of Clinton. Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to be in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and continued to grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag he followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the chair of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to North Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public Instruction of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to Congress and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of the Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at 11 o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter McIntire, of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. The grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by tender and loving hands. Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, Durham, NC, p. 226 GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. Mar. 6, 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, Nov. 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., Huntersville, Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill (1958) Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the principal of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he graduated from the University of N. C. in 1857. On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in preparing a historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of North Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one of Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I can trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his crossing; then I can follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he routed an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, and two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot follow him. Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming to Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that neighborhood. All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief among the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and Kinston....At our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. Thomas I. Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. Stevenson. Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving the Unon. He is only 19 years old." In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge is all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . . Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution or the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a patriot. "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's election. New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have held to Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall vote for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the benighted Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our loss was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was 60,000 and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some men froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a dirty, rascally set of low Irish and Germans." In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of the South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the years following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and at Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in my face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line of breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards from where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be more dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, 1863; at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of the troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas regiments, defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. But I had never received a scratch before. After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern part of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the few pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at Bentonville, and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, I was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2. Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects of the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last sickness and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in the year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his beloved Southland. I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my life was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and held that position for eight years. In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or of accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the Union had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and measure of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy by the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation imposed by the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and I held that South Carolina should have set a better example than Masschusetts had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests were identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to the people of the offending States. As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the intelligent people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their children. This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not far distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for riddance from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and manufacturing States of the East. This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to choose whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the Constitution and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal Sovereign" threatened to crush her". Clinton Newspaper Documenting the American South: Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, the oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady forebears were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William Grady (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from James Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin County, to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of Burncoat Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William Whitfield. Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his memory. After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady farm. Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin Grady. His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through his Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was Colonel Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial congresses of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord Needham (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a Bryan and immigrated to America. Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college by the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one of the student orators at his graduation from The University of North Carolina on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations at the outbreak of the Civil War. Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of 1862, when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he served with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The entire command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to join General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill with typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, in Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He organized a school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy in Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, he returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable to go to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch School House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the Third District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in Sampson County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey Academy. Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying and writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) and The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he was a prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, Mary Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; Mary Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton Cemetery. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids > Hi list, > > Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add to > the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! > > I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 > pages > of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double > that number. 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Dee, I will contact you off-list with info. Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html -------Original Message------- From: Dee Thompson Date: 1/27/2008 4:11:49 PM To: NCDUPLIN-L@rootsweb.com; NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Leslie H. Brown, Jr. I just found a copy of an old Duplin County Historical Society Bulletin/newsletter. I can't find a date but the subject is the Brown Index Card Collection and how to order copies of these index cards. Does anyone know if this is still possible? Thank you for any help, Dee All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb Site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups Refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.12/1245 - Release Date: 1/26/2008 3:45 PM .

I just found a copy of an old Duplin County Historical Society bulletin/newsletter. I can't find a date but the subject is the Brown Index Card Collection and how to order copies of these index cards. Does anyone know if this is still possible? Thank you for any help, Dee All lookup requests will be permanently archived on the Bladen County Genweb site. For a detailed bibliography on the reference sources used for lookups refer to this Link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm

Book by B. F. Grady: THE SOUTH'S BURDEN; or The Curse of Sectionalism in the United States, published by Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, Goldsboro, N. C. 1906 (Author of "The Case of the South Against the North." p. vii "Biographical Sketch of the Author. I was born in Duplin County, North Carolina, on the 10th of October, 1831, my great-great grandfather having come over from Ireland in 1739. By intermarriages his blood in my veins is mingled with that of the Whitfields, the Bryans and the Sloans. The John Grady who was killed at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was his son. My father, Alexander Outlaw Grady, owned, first and last, twenty five or thirty slaves; and, during my childhood the little negroes were my play mates. As I grew up I hunted and fished with the negro boys, and worked with them in the fields and woods except during about three months each winter when I attended the "old field schools". As I approached manhood my father and his neighbors employed a classical scholar to teach their children ten months in each year; and in 1851 I became a pupil of Rev. James M. Sprunt, a Scotchman, who taught in the Grove Academy at Kenansville. In September, 1853, I entered the University of North Carolina, where I received the degree of A. B. in June, 1857. Then I returned to Kenansville and taught two years with my old Master, at the end of which period I was chosen Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Texas. There I began work in the summer of 1859, and taught till the war caused the Institution to suspend operations. Soon afterwards typhoid fever prostrated me, and unfitted me for military service till May, 1862. Then I enlisted in a Cavalry Company, which became K of the 25th Regiment; but in a few months Gen. Hindman dismounted us, and we served on foot till the close of the war. On Jan. 11, 1863, we were captured at Arkansas Post - about 3,000 of us and 45,000 of the enemy, with 13 gun-boats - and carried to Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. Having been exchanged about the middle of April, 1863, we were sent to Bragg's army, which was then at Tullahoma, Tenn., and in this army we served until the war ended. On the morning of the battle of Bentonville I went to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2, 1865. After the war I taught school, farmed, served as a Justice of the Peace, and was County Superintendent of Schools, in Sampson and Duplin Counties till 1891. From that year till 1895 I served as a Representative in Congress; and after that I returned to farming. But during the last four years I have been in Clinton teaching and pursuing literary work. B. F. Grady. Clinton, N. C., May, 1906" THE NEWS DISPATCH, Clinton, NC, Obituaries, Vol. 2, 1912 & 1914, Compiled by Barry Munson, North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University Thursday, March 12, 1914 - Hon. B. F. Grady Passes. The death of Hon. B. F. Grady, last Friday afternoon at the home of his son, Mr. J. B. Grady on DeVane street was a shock to the people of Clinton. Mr. Grady was downtown Friday morning talking with friends and seemed to be in good health, but after he returned to his home, he complained of some trouble of his heart and went upstairs to his room to rest, and continued to grow worse till the end came 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Deceased was a Confederate soldier, serving through the entire Civil War. It can be truthfully said that he never lost any of the love he had for the flag he followed those four long years. Mr. Grady was highly educated and was, perhaps, one of the best historians in Eastern North Carolina. School teaching was principally his life's work. He filled the chair of mathematics in Sam Houston College, Texas, from which position he resigned to enter the Confederate army. After the war he came back to North Carolina and resumed teaching. He served as Supt. , of Public Instruction of Duplin county for about twn years. In 1890, he was elected to Congress and represented this, the third district, in the fifty-second and fifty-third Congress. Deceased was 82 years of age and was a member of the Presbyterian Church, from which the funeral was conducted last Sunday at 11 o'clock by his paster, Rev. James Thomas, assisted by Rev. Peter McIntire, of Faison. The remains were laid to rest in the Clinton cemetery by the side of his wife, who proceded him to the grave about eight years ago. The grave was covered in a profusion of beautiful flowers, placed there by tender and loving hands. Alumni History of the University of NC, 1795-1924, published 1924, Durham, NC, p. 226 GRADY, Benjamin Franklin Planter, Duplin Co.; b. Oct. 10, 1831; d. Mar. 6, 1914; m. Olivia P. Hamilton, June 29, 1861; m. Mary Charlotte Bizzell, Nov. 3, 1870; A.B. 1857; prof. math. and nat. science, Austin col., Huntersville, Tex., 1859-61; mem. congr. 1891-95; sergt. C. S. A.; duplin co. supt. of pub. instr., teacher Turkey and Clinton; trustee, U. N. C. 1874-91. NC Collection Clipping File through 1975, UNC Library, Chapel Hill (1958) Grady, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1914 OLD LETTERS, From the Collection of Claude Moore The following letters were loaned to the writer by Mrs. Florence Herring Grady. they were written by the late B. F. Grady, for years the principal of the Clinton Male Academy. Mr. Grady migrated to Texas after he graduated from the University of N. C. in 1857. On June 11, 1856, Mr. Grady wrote his father from Chapel Hill, " I am engaged, being one of the editors of the university Magazine, in preparing a historical sketch of Revolutionary occurrences in the eastern part of North Carolina, particularly of Craig's march and Gov. Swain has loaned me one of Gov. Burke's Letter Books, in which I find many interesting reports. I can trace Craig from Wilmington to Rockfish Creek, where he surpirsed Col. Kenan, who commanded a considerable force; then I can follow him along Burncoat road to Webber's Bridge on Trent River, where Lillington or Wm Caswell - I forget which; but I think it was Lillington - prevented his crossing; then I can follow him to Newbern; then up Neuse River to Bryan's Mills where he routed an opposing body of troops, and burned the houses of Bryan, Heritage, and two Coxes, then to Kingston, or its neighborhood; after which I cannot follow him. Gordon, the tory, was killed at Webber's Bridge; and among other interesting reports, it is frequently mentioned that Craig before coming to Rockfish, was going towards the rich lands of New River, or was in that neighborhood. All this time, Gen. Richard Caswell was on the Roanoke, watching Cornwallis, while his son, Col. Richard Caswell, was doing mischief among the tories on the south side of Neuse, Between Smithfield and Kinston....At our Commencement I had the pleasure of being introduced to Messrs. Thomas I. Faison and Almand McKoy of Sampson, and to your friend George S. Stevenson. Matt W. Ranson delivered a splendid spech on the necessity of preserving the Unon. He is only 19 years old." In writing to his father on Aug. 29, 1860, Mr. Grady says, "Breckenridge is all the go here. I feel some anxiety in regard to N. C. if Douglas's friends poll a respectable vote. Bell will, of course, get the state . . . Any man who says a citizen of the U. S. is not bound by the Constitution or the laws of Congress is very very much mistaken if he thinks he is a patriot. "On Nov. 3, 1960, he writes, "we are in great dread of Lincoln's election. New York has cheered us a little, but the Union is a humbug. I have held to Unionism as long as I could, and even now, I am opposed to secession." On Feb. 23, 1861, Mr. Grady was writing to his sister, "We vote today on secession - Texas will vote 4 to 1, I expect, in favor of it. I shall vote for the measure because I think the sooner we cut loose from the benighted Yankees, the better; but it is a sad thing to dissolve the Union." B. F. Grady was a Professor of the Natural Sciences, in Austin College, Huntsville, Texas. When the college was suspended on account of war, he enlisted Co. K. of the 28th Texas Regiment. On Jan. 11, 1863, his whole command of 5,000 was captured and sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, for three months. In writing of this battle, he says "Our loss was 63 killed. The enemys loss was 2000 or 3,000. Their force was 60,000 and 13 gun boats . . . we were 20 days of the Mississippi River and some men froze to death on the boat . . .the 58th Illnois guarded us . . . . a dirty, rascally set of low Irish and Germans." In 1898, Mr. Grady wrote a very scholarly book entitled, "The Case of the South Against the North", in which he summarized his war years and the years following the war. "Exchanged about the middle of April, I was sent to General Bragg's army at Tullahome, Tenn. in which I served till the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps, participating in all the skirmishes and battles (except at Nashville and at Bentonville) in which my Brigade was engaged. I was twice wounded - in my face and through my right hand - in the charge on the enemy's main line of breastworks, November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn., and not many yards from where Cleburne and Granbury fell. I had been in what appeared to be more dangerous places, as at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; at Missionary Ridge, where Cleburne's Division defeated Sherman's flanking colun while Bragg's main army was being routed by Grant, Noverber 25, 1863; at Ringgold, where Cleburne's division repelled the repeated assaults of the troops of Sherman and Hooker from daylight til 2 o'clock in the evening, thus enabling the wagons, artillery, etc., of our army to get out of the reach of these invaders, November 27, 1863; at New Hope church, where Granbury's Brigade, assisted by one of General Govan's Arkansas regiments, defeated and drove off the ground Howar's fourth Army Corps, which was attempting to flank Joe Johnson on his right, May 27, 1864; at Atlanta, where a prolonged seige exposed us to danger day and night, etc., etc. But I had never received a scratch before. After Hood's disastrous campaign in Tennessee we went to the northern part of Mississippi, from there by railway to Mobile, from there by water and railroad to Montgomery, and from there, partly on foot and partly on the few pieces of railroad which Sherman's vandals had not destroyed, we came to North Carolina to assist in repelling Sherman. On the 19th of March, 1865, while the cannon were booming at Bentonville, and my command preparing to leave the railroad for the scene of action, I was sent by our surgeons back to Peace Institute Hospital in Raleigh, where typhoid fever kept me till May 2. Without money, without decent clothing, and suffering from the effects of the fever, I went to my father's, and obtaining employment in the neighborhood at my chosen profession. I waited on him in his last sickness and saw him 1867, having survived the war and die of a broken heart in the year 1867, having survived the war and lived to se the black shadow of "reconstruction" and government by the ex-slaves hovering over his beloved Southland. I remained in North Carolina, teaching until 1875, most of the time in Clinton, Sampson County. Then my health failing, for lack of sufficient exercise, I abandoned teaching, and went to farming. On the farm my life was not eventful, indeed I had no opportunity to distinguish myself a a farmer. I was appointed a Justice of the Pece in 1879, and in 1881 I ws elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for my (Duplin) County, and held that position for eight years. In 1890 and again in 1892 I was elected to represent the Third North Carolina District in the Congress of the United States. I did not agree with my father regarding the policy of nullification or of accession. While I subscribed to the doctrine that no state in the Union had ever relinquished the right to be its own Judge of the mode and measure of redress whenever its welfare and its peace should be put in jeopardy by the other States, acting separately or jointly, I doubted whether the nullification of a Federal act was consistent with the obligation imposed by the "firm league of friendship" with the unoffending States, if any; and I held that South Carolina should have set a better example than Masschusetts had, and submitted to the tariff as other States did whose interests were identical with her own, and united with them in appeals for justice to the people of the offending States. As to secession, I believed it to be the best for the Southern States to remain in the Union and trust to time and the good sense of the intelligent people of the Northern States for justice to themselves and their children. This hope was strengthened by the circumstance that the interests of the expanding West being identical with those of the South, the time was not far distant when that section would join the South in the struggle for riddance from the burdens imposed by the shipping, fishing, commercial and manufacturing States of the East. This was the stand I took and held until Mr. Linclon compelled me to choose whether I would help him to trample on the constitution and crush South Carolina or help South Carolina defend the principles of the Constitution and her own "sovereignty, freedom and independence". I went with South Carolina as my forefathers went with Massachusetts when "Our Royal Sovereign" threatened to crush her". Clinton Newspaper Documenting the American South: Highlights | About | Collections | Authors | Titles | Subjects | Geographic | Classroom | New Additions Collections >> Titles by Benjamin F. Grady (Benjamin Franklin) >> Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu Benjamin Franklin Grady, 10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914 Benjamin Franklin Grady (10 Oct. 1831-6 Mar. 1914), educator, soldier, congressman, and farmer, was born in Albertson Township, Duplin County, the oldest son of Alexander Outlaw and Anne Sloan Grady. His Grady forebears were in North Carolina by 30 June 1718, when his progenitor William Grady (or Graddy) received fifty acres on Deep Creek in Bertie County from James Rutland. The name is said to have been pronounced Graddy in Duplin County, to which William's son John moved in 1739 to land on the fork of Burncoat Creek and Northeast River. He married Mary, daughter of William Whitfield. Two of their sons, John and Alexander, fought in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776; John was killed and a monument placed there to his memory. After the war, Alexander and his wife Nancy Thomas lived on the Grady farm. Their son Henry married Elizabeth Outlaw, daughter of James Outlaw, on 6 Jan. 1799. They were the paternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin Grady. His mother was the daughter of Gibson and Rachel Bryan Sloan. Through his Bryan grandmother, Benjamin was connected with William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska as well as with the North Carolina Bryans, one of whom was Colonel Needham Bryan who represented Johnston County in the provincial congresses of 1774 and 1775. The family is descended from a daughter of Lord Needham (the family name of the Earls of Kilmorey) of Ireland who married a Bryan and immigrated to America. Grady attended public and private schools and was prepared for college by the Reverend James M. Sprunt at Grove Academy, Kenansville. He was one of the student orators at his graduation from The University of North Carolina on 4 June 1857. After earning the A.B. degree with highest honors, he returned to Grove Academy to teach. In 1859, he became professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Austin College, then located at Huntsville, Tex., where he taught until the college suspended operations at the outbreak of the Civil War. Illness from typhoid fever prevented his enlisting until the spring of 1862, when he joined a Texas cavalry unit that became Company K in the Twenty-fifth Regiment and was soon dismounted. Throughout the war he served with the rank of orderly sergeant, twice refusing a captaincy. The entire command was captured at Arkansas Post on 11 Jan. 1863 and confined at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., for about three months before being exchanged in April. Afterwards, Grady was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., to join General Bragg's army; he served until the close of the war in Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hardee's Corps. Except at Nashville and Bentonville, he participated in all battles and skirmishes in which his brigade was engaged. Toward the end of the war, he once more became ill with typhoid fever and, from 19 March to 2 May 1865, was in Peace Institute, Raleigh, then being used as a hospital. After the war, Grady returned to his home community, called Chocolate, in Duplin County, and soon resumed his life's work of teaching. He organized a school at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange) where he taught for two years. In 1868, he and Professor Murdock McLeod founded the Clinton Male Academy in Clinton, Sampson County, where he taught until 1875 when failing health forced him to abandon teaching for farming. A few years later, however, he returned to his old residence in Duplin County and for several years conducted, in his home, a private school for young men who were unable to go to college. He also founded a Sunday school at old Sutton's Branch School House where he taught music, the Bible, classical literature, and the sciences. During this period he was appointed a justice of the peace. Grady served as a trustee of The University of North Carolina during 1874-91. In 1881 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Duplin County, a position he held for eight years. Twice elected on the Democratic ticket to the United States Congress, he represented the Third District from 4 Mar. 1891 to 3 Mar. 1895. He then moved to Turkey in Sampson County where he and his son Henry established a school, the Turkey Academy. Around 1900, he moved to Clinton where he spent his last years studying and writing. He published pamphlets, letters, and two books dealing with the South and its struggle: The Case of the South Against the North (1899) and The South's Burden (1906). Earlier he had published An Agricultural Catechism (1867) as a textbook for the common schools. Grady's first wife, Olivia Hamilton of Huntsville, Tex., died while he was a prisoner at Camp Butler, leaving one child, Franklin. His second wife, Mary Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Celestial Robinson Bizzell of Clinton, bore him nine children: Henry A., who became a superior court judge; Cleburne; James B.; Stephen S.; Benjamin; Louis D.; Lessie R.; Mary Eva; and Anna B. He died in Clinton and was buried in the Clinton Cemetery. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Diane" <garebel@embarqmail.com> To: "Duplin County" <ncduplin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:25 PM Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Research Aids > Hi list, > > Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add to > the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! > > I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 > pages > of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double > that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or > marriage > records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. > > Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to the > site. > > > I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did more > research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the > site. > > These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the seasoned > "pros > . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in your > research. Please take a few minutes to scan through the various articles > and > I hope that they will give you some pointers or new directions to take in > your research. > > I will be posting more articles to this page so keep checking back. > > Also, if you haven't been to the North Carolina in WOrld War I site > lately, > it might be worth your while to go and check it out...lots of new info has > been added to it! > Happy Hunting! > Diane > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi list, Just want to check in and remind you to please send in your info to add to the site. Researcher contributions have dropped off dramatically!!! I need your help to continue to make the site grow. We have about 5000 pages of info on the site right now and I would love for you to help me double that number. So, please send in wills, obituaries, deeds, birth or marriage records, family info, Veterans of the various wars, etc. To add. Anything you would like to share would be an excellent addition to the site. I was sent an article by Fran that I found very interesting and I did more research on it and got permission to post it as well as others to the site. These articles are for the "newby" researchers as well as the seasoned "pros . They are on various topics that will assist, aid and direct you in your research. Please take a few minutes to scan through the various articles and I hope that they will give you some pointers or new directions to take in your research. I will be posting more articles to this page so keep checking back. Also, if you haven't been to the North Carolina in WOrld War I site lately, it might be worth your while to go and check it out...lots of new info has been added to it! Happy Hunting! Diane http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/duplin.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/mocwindex.html

DIED At his residence near Charlotte, on the 4th Nov. Maj. Moulton Dickson, aged 51 years, formerly a Member of the Legislature from Dickson County. Source: National Banner and Nashville Whig, Nashville, TN, Monday, 9 Nov 1835 (p3, c5) Note: Moulton Dickson was born in Duplin County and was the son of Joseph Dickson and Jane Molten (Moulton). Joseph and Jane died in Dickson County, TN. Moulton Dickson's sister, Anna Dickson (1775-1837) married James Pearsall (1750-1812).

Donna, thanks for the "test" check. Fran > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCDUPLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It is still working fine here, in fact I want to see if anyone has info on William Strickland and Elizabeth Evans Strickland. They mainly lived on the Duplin and Sampson Co line area. William was born 1808 and Elizabeth was born Dec. 1818 and died sometime after 1900. Here father was David or Daniel Evans from Duplin Co. Donna </HTML>