This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lto1972 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12325.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!! That was the info I was looking for. Terri Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JosephEvans413 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12326/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In my House research, this lady is always there. Martha Huntley was born in Gold Hill or Rockwell in 1870 and died in 1963. Her first marriage was to Giles Miller in which she had three daughters: Fannie (1888-1932), Ann (1892-1932), and Alice (1895-1915). When Giles died in 1898, Martha married William Barrier in 1901, and they had a son Willis born in 1902-died in 1982. After William Barrier died in or about 1903, Martha married William Reid. They had no children. Martha died in Rockwell on November 23, 1962. How the House part fits in is the fact that Fannie married Fred House, and they had a son in 1909. Then Willis Barrier met up with Fred's sister Theola House, and they had a child. So if you are related to this lady, please notify me, I am working on the family trees of RowanCounty. Joseph Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mechelledion Surnames: Cunningham Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/6714.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am hoping to make contact with anyone with information on Joseph Jr. I believe he might be the one I have been searching for all this time. My Joseph was born in 1786 in PA., married Elizabeth from NC., and died in Greene/Taney County Missouri, abt. 1860. He had one son, William Lewis, b.1817 in KY., Wm. was married to Mary Cook. Please email if you can help [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LuAnneFespermanMullis Surnames: Isherwood Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12325.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Charlotte Observer January 3 1995 GOLD HILL- Mr. James William Isherwood 92, retired electrical supervisor, died Jan. 1, 1995 at Mount Pleasant (NC) Village. Memorial Service is 11 a.m. Wednesday at Rockwell United Methodist Church, Rockwell. Visitation is in the church fellowship hall following the service. Survivors are his daughter, Mrs. Juanita Ruskus of Hueytown, Ala., Mrs. Barbara Dryfoose of Sperryville, Va., Mrs Betty Spainhour; brother, Thomas Isherwood of Amsterdan, Ohio, Raymond Isherwood of Inwood, W. Va.; sisters, Mrs. Elise Lee of Massilion, Ohio, Mrs. Connie Anderson of Amsterdam. Gordon of Mount Pleasant is in charge. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rockwell United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 357, Rockwell, NC 28138 Copyright (c0 1995 The Charlotte Observer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lto1972 Surnames: Isherwood Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12325/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for the obit of James William Isherwood. He was born 17 April 1902 in England and died 1 Jan 1995 in Cabarras County, NC, but he lived in Rowan County. Terri Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PBbeck34 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12318.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Rowan County was formed from Anson county in 1753. Pat Beck Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: malgray1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Earnest, I have a Daniel Leatherman Dec.15 1772 - Dec. 21 1852. Daniel ran for US Senate. He was a member of the General Assembly NC 1803-1811. He owned land in Rutherford County, in 1795, owned land in Bedford and Lincoln Counties. He is a witness at 2nd marriage of his brother Jonas in 1816. Besides John, Christian,and Jonas other children in the family included Susanna, Rachael, Leah and Anna Martha. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I remember my grandmother mentioning this lynching in 1906 but I was too stupid to get details. Someone else has done it for me. My own Julian family played some role in this tragedy--an unjust lynching. Asheville Citizen review by Rob Neufeld The truth of horror: Salisbury author does dogged detective work about a family murder One of the most chilling recent books about local history comes to our eyes via self-publication. In “A Game Called Salisbury” (Infinity Publishing), Susan Barringer Wells presents the story of a series of murders and retributive lynchings that had taken place within her family a century ago. The book is exhaustively researched and compellingly related. To be passionate about a subject is one thing; to tell the story in a fresh and focused way, as Wells does, is a rarer achievement. On July 13, 1906, three sisters, ages ten to 17, came downstairs from their bedroom in their Salisbury home to discover the bludgeoned and burned bodies of two younger siblings and their parents, Isaac and Augusta Barringer Lyerly. Within a few hours, a throng of people arrived in the Lyerly yard, contaminating the crime scene and spreading rumors. A few weeks later, three African-American sharecroppers, who’d worked for the Lyerlys, were dragged from a prison and brutalized in an unspeakable manner. The reporters who arrived shortly after the Lyerly murders were, for the most part, related to the sheriff or connected to white supremacist newspaper editors, such as Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh “News & Observer.” H.E.C. Bryant, a reporter for the Charlotte “Observer,” confected an emotional brew of fiction and fact. Mary, Addie, and Janie were “brave girls” who fought a raging fire to rescue their expiring six-year-old sister Alice and carry her to a friend’s house a mile away. No mention was made of the half-brother who lived close by, and with whom the girls did not seek refuge; nor of other possible suspects. Instead, Bryant fingered one of the sharecroppers, Jack Dillingham, for the deed—before any law officer or lawyer had made a judgment. An Asheville connection The myths we make of history, even when they’re false, usually have a more significant effect on subsequent history than does truth. Therefore, myths are a legitimate part of history. This should not cloud our need for accuracy and honesty, which arises from a reconciliation of multiple points of view. Wells appreciates the mythical complexity of history, and thus starts her book with an Asheville anecdote. “On a warm summer day in western North Carolina,” she writes, “Embler Kibler came running home from play with an ugly red mark around his neck and his face discolored. Embler’s older friend Jack McClay had brought a rope with him that day and suggested they play a new game. Jack had appointed himself executioner.” Embler was six. After Jack and his friend Porter Claxton had strung Embler up by a noose to a nail in a porch beam, they ran off, leaving Embler with his toes barely touching the ground. He managed to struggle free after a few minutes. McClay went before a judge and explained himself with the comment that he was “just playing a game called ‘Salisbury.’” It was not the only mock hanging based on the sensationalized Lyerly story that took place in North Carolina in 1906, Wells documents. Wells also documents another spooky piece of Asheville lore. Earl Lyerly, son of the Lyerly girls’ older half-brother Joseph, had told Wells that Della Dillingham, wife of Jack, one of the lynching victims, had fled to Asheville. She “had been pregnant,” Earl had heard, “when she was pushed off a train into the French Broad River.” Getting at truth What are the repercussions of history? When something grisly or damnable happens, is there a price to pay or a correction to make in compensation, no matter how much the truth is muddied? Wells exhumes every tag end of information and examines them in the light of related larger stories. Her Edgar Allen Poe-like account features the dual attributes of Poe’s writing: doggedly rational detective work; and an appreciation of the larger-than-life—often macabre—nature of people’s take on things. Perceptions of the Lyerly murders were colored by the mentality of the racist cartoons of the 1890s, which depicted African-Americans as demons asserting “Negro Rule.” The Lyerlys’ funeral became a mass spectacle. The prosecutor’s number one witness, grandson of one of the accused, had been fathered by a “well-known white man.” That last piece of information was the product of several years’ research by Wells. Her search had begun with her observation that a microfilm copy of a Salisbury “Post” transcript included some blank spots. “Just when I was about to give up,” Wells writes, “I found what I thought no longer existed…I ran across it by mistake, while looking for something else, in a little library on the Old 64 route I often took to Salisbury.” It was a detailed report of a key hearing published in the Pittsboro “Chatham Record.” Wells then traced it to the full version in the Charlotte “Observer,” which she had missed because it had been microfilmed out of sequence. She includes eighteen pages of the testimony in her book. In the fashion of a horror story, Wells does not blink. “A Game Called Salisbury” includes a photo of the lynched men. And she does not end with a climax, but with an ebbing of shock waves: a survey of propaganda in American history; and an epilogue that tells us about the fates of the principal players. Rob Neufeld writes about books for the Citizen-Times. His column runs in the Sunday Arts & Living section. Contact him at 768-BOOK or [email protected] Visit his blog, “The World and Books,” at www.citizen-times.com/booksblog. BOOKS REVIEWED A Game Called Salisbury: The Spinning of a Southern Tragedy and the Myths of race” by Susan Barringer Wells (Infinity Publishing trade paperback, 2007, 467 pages, $23.95; toll free call, 877-BUY BOOK) It can also be ordered thru www.amazon.com. I think there are some used paperbacks there. I hope it is all right to post this on the mailing list. I thought some other researchers might be interested in the 1906 milieu in Salisbury, where our real people are figured. I am getting the book. Betty Pace ____________________________________________________________ Click here to shop from a huge selection of personalized gifts for any occasion! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mM4ThbTjLs3AghXh9SjBM7fwS44NrS3LN10o3BsYTCk2eOU/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: koverby2 Surnames: Burkhart Burkheart Burkheard Berkhert Burkert Buckhart Burkhard Burkhardt Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12324/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for any information regarding Frederick Burkhart who was born about 1812. I believe he was born in either North Carolina or Virginia. His children were Ephraim Burkhart, Frances, Henry, Mary Ann, Cemeline (Emeline), and Sarah. Any information regarding this family would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VLKeefer Surnames: Leatherman Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would be happy to share the certificate indicated with you. You must send to my own E Mail address. ONe may not forward documents to this site. I added my E Mail adddress to the message to previously [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

> Margaret, contact me directly so I can share with you. Attachments are not > allowed on these sites. > [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Margaret, contact me directly so I can share with you. Attachments are not allowed on these sites. [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: malgray1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ginny, I am interested in your post about Leathermans. Junius and Margaret Correll Leatherman were my grandparents. Jonas was a brother to my Christian. I do not have a copy of Jonas's will and wonder if you are willing to share that information? My line is from Nicholas, Christian, Issac, Rudolph, Lawson, and Junius. Also researching Correll, Berrier, Lohr, Koonce, Shoup, Spake and Craft. Regards, Margaret Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: VLKeefer Surnames: Leatherman Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Certificate of Death for William Ray Leatherman who was born 3-25-1900, died Dec 18- 1946. [Married to Jessie Mae Hedrick] Son of B. L.Leatherman and wife Lota Tussey both of Lexington Twp. Davidson Co NC. Wm. Ray died of sarcoma of shoulder. Cemetery, Shiloh Church Cem in Lexington Twp, Davidson Co NC. He was a hosiery employee. ** Certificate of Death, Concord, Cabarrus, NC, Lexington Twp. Lola Tussey Leatherman, born July 18, 1877 Davidson Co NC, died at Timrick Rest Home of Mycardial infarction Dec 15, 1962. She was daughter of Henry G. Tussey and Sara Sowers. She was wife of B. L. Leatherman. [Believe this was Britain?] ** 1900 Lexington Twp. Davidson Co NC census, Dist, 33 HH 83-86 Henry G. Tussey b Apr, 1856, age 44 married at age 23, NC wife Sarah A. [ Sowers ]Leatherman, born Nov 1853, age 46, age 23 at marriage, NC They had 3 children, 1 of whom still alive in 1900. HH 84-87 William B. Leatherman, born Dec 1868, age 31, NC Lola V, wife, born June 1876, NC Henry F., son, age 3, NC infant, 2 months old, male, NC, not named yet. * Several neighbors surnamed Everhart, Koonce/Koontz, Leonard. ** HH 60-62 William L. Leatherman, born June 1830, age 69, NC, Had 9 children, 6 alive in 1900. Wife, Mary, born Sept 1832, age 67 Fred Headrick, grandson, born Oct 1890, age 8, b NC Baxter J. Headrick, grandson, born July, 1892, age 7, NC ** HH 49-50 David L. Tussey, b Feb 1863, age 37, had 4 ch, all alive in 1900 census, wife, Amanda, born June 1861, age 38, married age 16, NC Harvey L. son, b Aug 1854, age 15 NC E. Lafayette, son, born aug 1887, age 12, NC Arthur, son, b June 1890, age 9, NC John, son, b Sept 1894, age 5, NC ** HH 97-100 Dock L. Leatherman, born Dec 1832, age 47, married age 23, NC. Had 5 ch. 4 alive in 1900 wife, Sarah J. b May 1852, age 48, married age 23, NC Curtis, son, b Aug 1884, age 15, NC W. Cletus, son, b Feb 1889, age 11, NC Artes R. , son, b June 1891, age 8, NC ** 1910 Lexington Twp. Davidson Co NC census HH 395-396 William L. Leatherman, widowed, age 77, NC. Louise, daughter, age 51, NC Baxter Hetrick, grandson, age 16, b NC ** 1930 Lexington, Davidson Co NC census, Dist. 18 HH 203-218 B. L. Leatherman, age 62, b NC, parents b NC, farmer, wife, L.V. age 52, b NC, both parents b NC. Olen, son, age 24, NC, knitter of hosiery [he gave info for his mother's death certificate] Norfleet, son, age 22, NC, furniture belt polisher Galtman [?], son, age 18, NC, farmer { also listed as Janius, Junius?] Hollis M., son, age 15, NC no employment Katie, daughter, age 13, NC ** HH 186-200 D. L. Leatherman, age 76, widower, b NC, both parents NC Artes, son, age 32, b NC, finisher of furniture *** HH 199-214 Ray Leatherman, age 30, b NC, farmer, married age 30. wife Flossie, age 27, NC married age 23. Billie, son, age 2 7/12, NC [almost 3 years old] ** HH 198-219 H.F. Leatherman. age 31, married age 29, b NC wife, Essie, age 29, NC, married at age 27. ** Social Security Death Index Olen L. Leatherman, SS no 242-03-4528 Last residence, 28025, Concord, Cabarrus, NC. Born 12 April, 1905, died 14 Mar, 1988. SS issued bef 1951 NC. ************* Certificate of Death, Lexington, Davidson Co NC Artis Bee Leatherman, wood worker in cabinet shop. born June 7, 1891 Davidson Co NC, died Lobar Pneumonia, Aug 15, 1957. Info supplied by Cletus Leatherman, of Lexington, NC Son of D. [Dock] L. Leatherman and Sary Jane Everhard. Buried Buelah Reformed Church, Rural Lexington, NC. ** Certificate of Death Margaret Correll Leatherman, born Jan 9, 1886 in Newton, NC, died age 76, Catawba General Hospital, Vale, NC. Wife of Junius B. Leatherman. Daughter of David Correll and Susan Spake. Margaret died of Bronchial pnuemonia and heart trouble. Buried Macadonia P. H. Cemetery, Catawba Co NC. Funeral director, Drum's Funeral Home in Lincolnton, NC. ** This family is not related to me but were neighbors and friends at Reedy/Muddy Creek in Rowan Co NC. My ancestor, William White, sold land to them before he moved his family to Lincoln Co TN in time to appear o 1820 Census there. Zimmerman's and Phelps/Felps were close neighbors too. All three families moved to Lincoln Co TN bet 1818-1820. ** I have copies of some Leatherman and related families wills of Lincoln Co TN. Hope above info with help separate these families. Jonas Leatherman and his wife's pictures were left to family in Lincoln Co TN. ** Ginny K. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I have been repeated getting the following warning when receiving mail for my Rootsweb mailing lists.: "McAfee SiteAdvisor Warning This e-mail message contains potentially unsafe links to these sites: rootsweb.com " I am a bit intimidated by the warnings and uncomfortable with the idea of clicking into an unsafe site. Please advise. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RLMLFM Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: According to census records, this William L. Leatherman and his wife Mary L. were the grandparents, not the parents of these five males. William L. and Mary Leatherman's son Britton/Brit/Brittington Leatherman and his wife Lola V. Tussey were their parents. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ernest_Leatherman Surnames: Leatherman Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12323/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for the parents/grandparents of William L Leatherman 1830 - 1910. He was married to Mary L and they had at least 5 sons named Henry Floyd 1897 - 1970, Ray 1900 - 1946, Norfleet 1908 - 1986, Gathna 1911 - 1987, and Hollis Mildren 1914 - 1999. All the above are buried in Shiloh UMC cemetary. The reason for my request is to see if there is a relationship between William and Christian Leatherman born about 1772. He is brother to Daniel Leatherman 1774 - 1852. There were two other brothers John and Jonas. Daniel was my gggg Grandfather. Daniel and his brothers were in Rowan County, the Reedy Creek area, in the late 1700's and some of the brothers moved on to KY and TN with Christian staying in NC. Any help would be appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: coleria Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/2720.2749.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: [email protected] ALSO JOHN SALISBURY AND FAMILY IS AMONG THE PICTURES, ALSO A FAMILY NAMED PEROT OF NEW ORLEANS. ALEX SALISBURY IS EITHER JULIAN MARYLAND SALISBURYS BROTHER OR DAD...........THANKS SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME.......GOD BLESS Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bapace2 Surnames: Pace, Pool, Julian, Hall, Delk, Watson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/2720.2749.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The original Alexander Fraley was too early to have had a photo because the camera was not invented yet. Your photo must have been of a later generation. What is your e-mail address? I can't get it from this web site. Betty Pace -- [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.