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. 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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. 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