Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, Inc.

P.O. BOX 817, Sparta, N.C. 28675

President: Mildred Torney			
Vice President: Pauline Jolly
Secretary-Treasurer:  Elvira Crouse

Vol. 13, No.1	 	           		 March 1991			BULLETIN NO. 45

From the President:

	HAPPY SPRING! Spring is here, Mother Earth is beginning a fresh new season and so are we.  We have hopes that many new things will be happening and that some surprises are in store.

	The Genealogy Department in the Library has been moved and now we have more room and better lighting. W e hope that a lot of you will be able to visit us this summer and see all the changes.  If you have any information you would like to add to the genealogical and historical files, it would be most welcome.

	One of my fondest dreams is to be able to have our folk-lore and traditions published.  It is a shame that an area so rich in this type of information is in real danger of losing it forever.  Please any of you who are willing to work with me on this, please let me know.  It CAN be done!

									Mildred Torney

OBITUARY

	Mr. Walter Presley Johnson, the Society's first President, died March 10, 1991.  He served as president from 1978 to 1980.  He was responsible for the county-wide survey of all cemeteries and helped initiate work on the Alleghany Historical Museum.  He was born April 13, 1915 in Wilkesboro, NC to William Jasper Johnson and Eulala Blevins Johnson. In 1952 he was the Republican candidate for congress in the Ninth Congressional District of North Carolina. He served as NC State Director of the U.S. Savings Bond Program from 1954 to 1971.  In 1971 he was promoted to the national director of sales of the U.S. Savings Bond program in Washington, DC.  Upon retirement in 1974 he was presented the Gallatin Award by Secretary of the Treasury, George Schultz.  Our love and sympathy are extended to his wife, Carolyn Maxwell Johnson; his daughter, Linda Hall; his son, Dr. Terry Johnson; his four grandchildren and three sisters.  

1870 Mortality Census
Alleghany County, North Carolina

Name of Deceased	Household Number	Age	Sex	Race	Birthplace	Date of Death	Occupation	Cause of   Death	
CRANBERRY
TOWNSHIP									
Viers, Elizabeth	None	19	F	W	NC	May	Dom. Servant	Typhoid	
PRATHERS CREEK									
Mabe, Ephraim	5	4	M	W	NC	Aug	 ----	Cholera Infan	
Erwin, Elizabeth	63	74	F	W	NC	Aug	Keeping House	Cancer on Brest	
Edwards, Mary	65	55	F	W	NC	Apr	Keeping House	Consumption	
Erwin, Elizabeth	67	2	F	W	NC	May	 ---	Acute Diarrhea	
Caudill, Tobias	85	2	M	W	NC	Feb	 ---  	Cholera Infan	
Caudill, Berry	85	?12	M	W	NC	July	 ---	Cholera Infan	
Jennings, Fanny	92	17	F	W	VA	Apr	Dom. Servant	Consumption	
Reeves, Milton	91	55	M	W	NC	May	Farmer	Heart Disease	
Ross, Thursey	104	70	F	W	NC	Apr	Keeping House	Fell Dead-unknown	
Thompson, Leona	106	49	F	W	NC	Apr	Dom. Servant	Apoplexy	
Glade Creek Township									
Poole?, Martha	3	22	F	B	NC	May	Dom. Servant	Typhoid	
(Illegible)	15	1	?	B	NC	May	 ---	Chol. Inf.	
(Illegible)	15	3 1/2	F	B	NC	Nov	 ---	Dysentery	
(Illegible), Elizabeth	?	?	?	B	NC	Dec	 ---	Cholera	
Edwards, William	73	73	F	W	NC	Nov	Farmer	Typhoid	
Cherry Lane Township									
None listed									
Piney Creek Township									
Hines, Ellen	73	22	F	W	VA	May	Keeping House	Consumption	
Sparta									
Edwards, Berry	52	73	M	W	NC	May	Farmer	Typhoid	
Gilham, David	56	60	M	W	NC	Dec	Tanner	(Illegible)	
Gilham, Polly	56	70	F	W	NC	Dec	Keeping House	 ----	
Crouse, Rufus	61	3/12	M	W	NC	Nov	 ---	Chol. Inf.	
Woodruff, Sarah Jane	70	26	F	W	NC	Dec	Dom. Servant	Disease of Bowels	
This record was submitted by Thomas D. Hamm of Spiceland, Indiana.  He states that the “Household Number”  above refers to the household number on the regular manuscript census.  Using it you can find the family of the deceased.  
INQUIRIES:

Orella Holloway Chadwick, Tillamook, OR would like to correspond and exchange information with other descendants of Daniel HOLLOWAY and Sarah Jane BROOKS (gr-grandparents); John A. HOLLOWAY and Elizabeth BAUGUES (dau. Emanuel and Amelia- dau Reuben SPARKS and Cassia BUTTERY).  James HOLLOWAY was bro of John who m. Mary ROSE, dau. Emanuel and Mary HAMPTON?  I am not sure who he married or how many times, but he states in the declaration for Rev. Pension of Capt. Samuel JOHNSON “that he lived with Johnson the balance of the Rev. War., was b. 4 Apr 1770.”  In 1787 Cen. for Wilkes Co. Stephen, Stephany HOLLOWAY, HOLIWAY was listed with 1 m 21-60 (this could be Stephen or John, who by censuses was b. 1766) 4 m under 21 over 60.  Who were the other two males?  3 f (Stephen's wife and two daus., one a Nancy who m. Adam WAGGONER, the other???)

Mrs. Grace Sevick, Medford, OR is researching HOLBROOK in Virginia and Wilkes and Ashe Counties in North Carolina.  Also TOLIVER/TALIAFERRO in Virginia and Wilkes and Ashe Counties in North Carolina.

Virginia Hill, Gilbert, AZ is researching HILL families.  Any information anyone can give is appreciated.

MY NATIVE LAND

I love its rocks and little rills				I love a nearby old spot
I love its dear old woodland hills			My childhood home with grassy lot
I love its pleasant shady nooks			Where free from care I romped and played
I love its rippling, pebbly brooks			And thought not of the tracks we made.
I love the home we builded here			O! Yes, I love that land I know
Though many trials oft came near.			Where hickory's tall and white-oaks grow
I planted shrubs around the lawn			The chinquapins and chestnuts too
Perennial flowers that still bloom on			And many others that I knew.
Other hands will tend them now			The rocky road o'er brushy hill
And watch them bloom and fade, I know.		Out past the church and Perry's mill.
I love the large old spreading oak			And best of all, old friends so true
I saw each morn when I awoke			Dearer far than those here new.
It stands beside the grassy lawn			I ne'er may see those friends again
And shades the house each dewy morn.		But hope to meet on a fairer plane.

									Mrs. J.J. Waddell

	This was written by Mrs. Waddell after she moved to Idaho from Alleghany County.  Her granddaughter, Mrs. Audrey Waddell Schiffler of Wendell, Idaho shares it with us.

OBITUARY FROM THE PAST

	WILEY ALSON WADDEL was born March 14, 1832 and departed this life January 31, 1923, making his stay here 90 years, 10 months and 18 days.  He was married to Caroline Griffith in 1852.,  To this union were born seven sons and one daughter, all of whom are living except one son who was killed in young manhood.  His aged wife who has been a faithful and dear companion for more than seventy years, is now left a lonely and sad widow.  She looked over to the side of the old hearthstone where he usually sat, at his chair now vacant, and weeping said to her son “It seems to me he ought to be there.  The place looks so vacant I can hardly bare it; and when I think of how long we have sat around this fireplace together, of the joys and sorrows we have shared together here, and that now his voice is still and I hear his footsteps no more, my heart is so heavy.  I feel it will not be long 'til I go to join him.”  Oh no, we will note hear his voice again here, but we should not weep or wish him back.  We believe he is one of the church triumphant around the throne of God.  He professed a hope in Christ in early life and joined the Primitive Baptist church at old South Fork.  He lived a faithful and consistent member until his death.  He loved his church, and loved to have the ministers in his home, and loved to talk of the truths of the Bible and its promises, and of his hope of heaven.  He as humble, patient and kind.  He told his children he was just waiting to hear the summons, “Come up higher.” “Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”  

	He served three years in the civil war, and at one time was very sick. His bed was a soldier's blanket on a hard floor and his coat was his pillow.  He told me he was so filled with the love and nearness of his Saviour that his bed felt like the softest bed of downy feathers.

	He was blessed to live to a good old age, and then to pass away without much sickness.  Though he had suffered a great deal the last few months, he could get up and walk around and was on his feet when he sank down and expired without a struggle.

	His children all live in the surrounding country and have all been kind to their father and mother.  Jesse, Billy, Lee, John, Eliza, Caney and Muncy, let us not grieve for father and to the grandchildren I would say Do not grieve.  We know he was a good, kind husband, a good father and grandfather and a good neighbor, but he is gone.  Mother, do not weep as those that have no hope for he has only heard the voice of his heavenly Father telling him to come up higher.  He has obeyed the summons.  Now let us all remember the council he gave and live right a few more years and be ready and waiting and watching as he was when the summons comes for us.  He was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Cranberry church where his membership had been the greater part of his life.  

			Our father's gone to his tomb:
				But 'tis not cheerless; hope dispels the gloom.
			While we are weeping o'er the hallowed ground
				He is but sleeping, till the trumpet shall sound.

	The funeral was conducted by Revs. S.L. & J.A. Blevins and Rev. Isom Fender.

								Written by Mrs. Jesse J. Waddell 

Continued from previous Bulletins:*These passages can be found in the original Bulletin or in the source below.
	
Manarin, Louis H.  N.C. Troops: 1861-1865: a Roster: Volume IX: Infantry, 32nd-35th and 37th Regiments. Comp. Weymouth T. Jordan Jr. Vol IX Division of Archives & History, 1983. 601-604.