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.4	 	           		 December 1991		BULLETIN NO. 48

FROM THE PRESIDENT:

	This is my last time to be writing to you as your president.  I wish to thank everyone for their help and support during the past two years.  A very special thanks goes to June Zimmerman who spends so many hours and hard work publishing our bulletin, and she does such a wonderful job.  

	It is time to renew your membership in the Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, Inc., so please renew before you forget!

	For many years, we have dreamed of having a county historical museum so our children and grandchildren will learn how their ancestors lived and to appreciate them.  This will have to be a county project with everyone working to make the dream come true.  We hope all of you will support the effort to establish and maintain a museum and encourage others to do so.  It is a project that should be worthwhile to everyone in the county.  We have a unique heritage to preserve and pass on to future generations.

	As we begin a new year, I hope it will be meaningful and successful for each of you and for our organization.  Thank you again.

									Mildred Torney

	With the election of new officers in January, we in the Society wish to especially thank the outgoing officers for their many efforts on our behalf during the past two years.  We know they will continue to support and aid us in our endeavors.

	To Mildred Torney, we owe a big THANK YOU.  Her warmth and devotion has been an encouragement and inspiration to all of us.  From out beginning in 1978, Mildred has been the link that has held us together.  Whether serving as President, Vice-President, Treasurer or as a member, she has remained active and enthusiastic.  She has planned many of our activities, contact many guests for our meetings and has been our public relations expert!  On behalf of all of us in the Society, WE LOVE YOU, MILDRED.

ALLEGHANY COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS

Name of Male 		Name of Female			Father of Male		Mother of Male
Andrew J. Warden	Catherine Caudill			Wm. Warden		Polly Warden
Solomon Cox		Rosana Pool			Reeves Cox		Margaret Cox
Samuel Pugh (Col)	Nancy Maxwell (Col)					Jane McMillan
Thomas Hudson		Ellen Hays			Joseph Hudson		Nancy Hudson
John Edwards		Milly McGrady			Isaac Edwards		Gilly Edwards
J.C. Edwards		Ellan Cheek			C.J. Edwards		M.J. Edwards
William Jennings		Cestena Duncan			Martin Jennings		Franky Jennings
Levi Whitely		Rebecca Sturgill			Joseph Whitely		Martha Whiteley
Sidney Dixon		Mary Ann Hill			Zechariah Dixon		Ruth Ann Dixon
Johnson Jennings		Sarah Fowlks			Wm. Jennings		Cynthia Jennings
Walter Adkins		Sarah Pointer			R.J. Adkins		Jane Adkins
G.H. Higgins		Jane Killian			Goldman Higgins	Margaret Higgins
David Richardson	A.V. Toliver			Louis Richardson		Mary Richardson
Spotwood Blevins	Virginia Lundy			Samuel Blevins		Nancy Blevins
G.B. Todd		Nancy A. Edwards		Armstead Todd		Louise Todd
Isom Edwards		Phebe McKnight			Thomas Edwards		Leann Edwards
J.M. Crouse		Julyana Willy			H. Crouse		Bertha Crouse
Hiram C. Nichols		Elizabeth Waggoner		Guy Nichols		Elizabeth Nichols
John W. Dalton		Judy Walker			Joshua Dalton		Pearl Dalton
Josiah Ham		Ginsey Hagy			W. Ham			Elizabeth Ham
John Sturgill		Tincy Pugh			John Sturgill		Virginia Sturgill
Isaac Halsey		Mary Pasley			Short ? Halsey		Betsy Halsey
William Pasley		Catherine Halsey			not known		Jane C. White?
B.B.L. Parsons		Polly Ann Halsey			William Parsons		Lucinda Parsons
Andrew J. Weaver	Candice C. Edwards		Wm. Weaver		Sally Weaver
W.K. Holbrook		M.A. Parks			David Holbrook		Margaret Holbrook

Father of Female	Mother of Female	Place of Marriage     	   Date	         By Whom Married 
James R. Caudill		Phebe Caudill		A.J. Carson		24 Sep 76	N.H. Vanhoy
Nevel Pool					Reeves Cox		24 Dec 76	Rev EH Billings
Buck Maxwell		Nital Maxwell		Pleasant Hill		12 Nov 76	DA Goins?
N.T. Brown		Susan Hays		Mt Zion Church		13 Nov 76	Rev EH Billings
Calvin McGrady		Patsy McGrady		W. Edwards		9 Oct 76		Rev EH Billings
Henderson Cheek	Lucy Cheek		Wm. Edwards		19 Nov 76	Rev EH Billings
Franklin Duncan		Lena Duncan		J.W. Duncan		19 Nov 76	Rev EH Billings
Joseph Sturgill		Matilda Sturgill		Joe Richardson		24 Dec 76	Rev RC Parsons
Nathan Hill		Rebecca Hill		Z. Dixon		7 Dec 76	Rev RC Parsons
W.A.J. Fowlks		Mary Fowlks		W.A.J. Fowlks		25 Dec 76	Rev J. Shumate
Alexander Pointer	Mary Pointer		at my residence		14 Dec 76	P.C. Higgins
Wm. Killian		Silva Killian		---			2 Mar 76	P.C. Higgins
Jacob Toliver		Matilda Toliver		---			9 Jan 76		P.C. Higgins
Churchill Lundy		R. Lundy		---			23 Dec 76	P.C. Higgins
Hiram Edwards		Mary Edwards		---			28 Feb 76	P.C. Higgins
Nicholson McKnight	Polly McKnight		---			28 Feb 76	P.C. Higgins
Ambrose Willy		Mary Willy		Mt Zion Church		9 Jan 76		Rev J. Shumate
Jacob Waggoner		Margaret Waggoner	Jacob Waggoner		10 Jul 76	Rev J. Shumate
Nat Brown		Polly Walker		J.W. Landreth		22 May 79	J.W. Landreth
Jackson Hagy		Polly Hagy		J.W. Landreth		21 May 79	J.W. Landreth
David Pugh		Elizabeth Pugh		David Pugh's		14 Apr 76	Nathan Weaver
Calvin Pasley		Caroline Pasley		J.S. Parsons		19 Mar 76	J.S. Parsons
Albert Halsey		Elizabeth Halsey		J.S. Parsons		5 Feb 76		J.S. Parsons
Thomas Halsey		Rhoda Anderson					25 Apr 76	Rev R.C. Parsons
Berry Edwards		Emelene Edwards	Nathan Weaver's		26 Jul 76	Nathan Weaver
J.A. Parks		E.M. Parks		J.A. Parks		16 Jun 76	?

	What follows are excerpts from an article dated November 1, 1937 written by George E. Blevins, Springfield, N.C. and submitted to us by Jessie Jones Johnson:

BLUFF PARK

	Bluff Park, formerly known as Basin Creek, has been the object of much comment from tis earliest history, or as long as a s the writer can get any information, the Indians who were driven from this country about 1790, were last to leave their native hunting ground on Bluff Park.

	One hundred and fifty years ago, the smoke of their wigwams, the fires of their councils rose on every prong of Bluff Park. The shouts of victory and the war dance rang through the mountains and the glades.  The thick arrows and deathly tomahawks whistled through the forest, the hunters trace the dark encampment startled the wild beast in their lairs, the warriors stood forth in their glory, and was last to leave their hunting ground on Bluff Park.  The young Indians listened to the songs of other days, the mothers played with their infants, and looked upon Cedar Ridge, the Bell Mountain, the Flat Rock and the Fodderstack with warm hopes of the future.

	When the white skins had Bluff Park surrounded, we see a great many white skins slipping up the flat rock ridge, most o all with guns, most all had the flint lock rifle.  Some had the flint lock shotguns.  The Indian pickets saw more white skins slipping up Cedar Ridge, the Indian pickets saw that the white skins carried the long barrel guns with plenty of powder, bars of lead and bullet molds in their shot pouch to run more bullets when needed, a strip of flax cloth for patching, a horn full of dry powder.  The poor Indian had no gun, he had to rely on the bow and arrow and the tomahawk.  There seemed to be no ray of hope for the poor Indian.

	The warriors viewed the situation: they saw the last visive of hope removed.  The old warriors sat down, but they wept not. They felt that they must all be shot with that great gun, and would all soon be at rest in fairer regions where the great spirit dwelt, in a home prepared for them brave.  Those Indians under the command of their great chief and leader, White Cloud, had killed some white skins.

	Basin Creek, now Bluff Park, afforded the best hideout for the Indians, braver men never lived, truer men never drew the bow.  They had courage beyond most of the human race.  They shrank from no danger, they feared no hardship.  They were true to their friends and their homes.  If they forgave not injury, neither did they forget kindness; if their vegence was terrible, their fidelity and generosity were unconquerable also.

	A treaty was formed with White Cloud and he was allowed to move out from Bluff Park, going westward, following up the many Indians who had preceded them in their western journey.  We see them leave their happy homes on Bluff Park; they move across by the Little Grandfather mountain—the aged, the helpless, the women and children, few and faint, but fearless still.  The smoke no longer curls over their lowly cabins.  They move on with the slow unsteady step, the white man wit his flint lock rifle and flint lock shotgun is upon their heels, for terror or dispatch,  but they heed him not.  As they pass over the crest of the Blue Ridge they turn to take a last look at their departed homes.  They cast a last glance upon the graves of their father,s and departed loved onces, whose bones are markers; they utter no cries, they leave no groans.  There is something in their hearts that passes speech.  There is something in their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity which stifles both.  The children whimper, they cry.  They do not wish to leave their native playground and their sacred hearth stone on Bluff Park, but their chief and leader, White Cloud, leads the way and they must follow on.

	The reason why that White Cloud lingered so long on Bluff Park was that it afforded a better refuge, and afforded better game than any other section, and also in case of an attack by the white skin Bluff Park afforded better protection.  The white skins do not wish to enter into an Indian trap, so many high cliffs of rock on Bluff Park over which the foot of man has never trod.  The Indian warrior gets around and conceals himself among the crevices of those high rocks with his deadly bow and arrow.  The white man will not enter because its a known death.  Several white men had been shot through with an arrow on passing through that section by an Indian arrow at great distance and no one knew from whence the arrow came.  

	The Indians being all run out from Bluff Park, leaving  a lot of the half and quarter blood scattered along the crest of the Blue Ridge from the Shenandoah to the Smokies.  Many white settlers began to settle in on Bluff Park.  This section of the Blue Ridge was named Basin Creek because of the many basins found on each prong of this creek which was found to be rich as the Nile.  No traveler going up the east prong of this creek would think for a moment that they could cross over the top of the Blue Ridge near the Bluff or Fodder Stack.  Pikes Peak in Colorado looks more accessible. Standing down on the east prong looking eastward, the Bluff looks more like the Alps in Switzerland, but going up the west prong of Bluff Park it looks more accessible. 

	During the years from 1884 to 1900 the good neighbors and friends then living on Bluff Park got together with their crude mattocks, hoes and axes and built what is known as Grassy Gap road, leading all the way from the Abshers and Springfield road, crossing the top of the Blue Ridge, intersecting with the Laurel Springs road.  They built this fine one-way drive road and placed it on such a fine grade that no Government Engineer of this day see any cause to remove any part of the grade.

	As long ago as the whites can get any history, long before the Civil War, after the Indians vacated Bluff Park, this section was settled mostly by Irish and Scotch descent and a mixture of Indians on the half and quarter breed, being the Sizemores, Chandlers, the Harts, the Osborns and many others of the finest blood.  It was noted that those early settlers were of the finest specimen of humanity.  Not only the early settlers on Bluff Park but this fine blood extended from the Shenandoah to the Smokies and on each side of the crest of the Blue Ridge for several miles.  The influence of those early settlers to this day show a fine generous specimen of humanity. 

1920 CHERRY LANE TAX RECORDS

NAME				ADDRESS		AGE	POLL TAX	    ACREAGE

Ayers, A.A.			Cherry Land, NC		91	       1			93
Ayers, M.H.			  “       “			86                 1			
Anderson, Haley			Sparta, NC						150 Homeplace
Andrews, R.P.			Glade Valley, NC		33                 1			75 Home
Absher, Maud			Elkin, NC						1 Glad Valley
Brinegar, John			Air Bellows			       4			20
Bennett, Wm. A			Glade Valley, NC            49	     1			31 Home
Bennett, Walter A. 		Sparta, NC	            23                 1			
Bauguss, M.T.			Glade Valley, NC	            41                 1                                    45 Home
Bauguss, J.T.			Glade Valley, NC	            45                 1                                     35 Home 
Bauguss, R.H.			Glade Valley, NC	           43                  1                                     47 Home

Bauguss, B.M.			Glade Valley, NC	           47                  1			58 Home

Bauguss, W.R.			Glade Valley, NC	           49                  1			92 Home

Bauguss, Ennice			Glade Valley, NC	           					39 

Blackburn, J.J.			Glade Valley, NC	           64	     			84 Home & ?

Blackburn, C.G.			Glade Valley, NC	           23                  1			40 Part of J.J.

Brooks, A.J.			Sparta, NC	           37	     1			279 Home

Brooks, J.A.			Sparta, NC	           51				50 Home

Brooks, T.M.			Sparta, NC	          26		     1			72 Woodruff & ?

Brooks, A.A.			Sparta, NC	          28		     1			42 Brooks & ?
	
Brooks, L.T.			Glade Valley, NC	          33		     1			82 ?

Brooks, M.T.			Glade Valley, NC	          30		     1			78
				
Brooks, C.M.			Glad Valley, NC	          42		     1			137 Home

Brooks, R.M.			Doughtin, NC	          48		     1			128 Home
		
Brown, John W.			Elk Spur, NC	          46		     1			52 Home

Brown, A.J.			Miles, NC	          66					130 Home
	
Brown, C.F.			Miles, NC	          88		     1			50 Home

Brown, Nannie			Miles, NC

Bussell, J.P.			Miles, NC	          28		    1			

Blevins, F.Q.			Glade Valley, NC          31		    1			54 Home

Ball, A.J.			Glade Valley, NC						248 	

Ball, Verna			Glade Valley, NC	         
			
Bryant, J.W.			Glade Valley, NC          48		    1			31

Bryan, Mrs. H.V.			Glade Valley, NC    

Bryan, D.F.			Glade Valley, NC	         22                   1
	
Bryan, Lillie V.			Glade Valley, NC						541
	
Bryan, A.J. & Lillie V.		Glade Valley, NC						103 Aaron

Bryan, A.J.			Glade Valley, NC	      56					446 Brush

Brock, C. Frank			Sparta, NC	      					205?

Boyden, C.V.C.			Pinnacle, NC

Benge, Fred			Ennice, NC

Benge, Cornelious		Sparta, NC						65 Home Place

Barker, M.T.			Benham, NC						73 Part of ?

Brown, James W.			Thurmond, NC						193 Part A.J. Brown
		
Brown, John L.			Miles, NC						60 Home

Bryan, Mallie Heirs		Trap Hill, NC						7
	
Bryan, R.B. Dec.			Trap Hill, NC						?

Bryan, J.Q.A. Dec.		Trap Hill, NC						?

Bolling, W.H.			Galax, VA

Cillins, P.C.			Glade Valley, NC           28	        1			230 Home & ?

Creed, Mrs. R. Bell		Glade Valley, NC						150 Home

Crouse, Jessie			Glade Valley, NC           28                     1			43 Home

Crouse, R.A.			Glade Valley, NC           37                     1			164 Home

NAME				ADDRESS		AGE		POLL TAX	    	ACREAGE
Crouse, J.W.W.			Cherry Lane, NC		55					100 R.F. Caudill
Crouse, Fannie			Cherry Lane, NC							55 Home
Crouse, R.H.			Cherry Lane, NC		28		       1			
Crouse, T.Y.			Cherry Lane, NC		37		       1			68 Home
Crouse, J. Morris			Cherry Lane, NC		55					140 Home
Crouse, John A.			Cherry Lane, NC		46		       1			80 Home
Crouse, Charlie			Glade Valley, NC		21		       1			
Crouse, Marget J.		Glade Valley, NC							56 Home
Crouse, C.M.			Sparta, NC		81		
Crouse, J.O.			Sparta, NC		24		       1
Course, W. Monroe		Sparta, NC		36		       1			85 Home
Crouse, John Sen,		Glade Valley, NC		57		
Crouse, Morris W.		Sparta, NC		35		       1			
Crouse, George S.		Sparta, NC		31		       1			110 Home
Cheek, E.O.			Cherry Lane, NC		64	
Chapell, R.L.			Glade Valley, NC		45		       1                       
Caudill, Andrew			Miles, NC		23		       1
Cox, Grant			Moved to Wilkes 	33		       1			21 Home  
Carson, Charlie			Miles, NC		33                               1			65 Home
Caudill, J.W.			Glade Valley, NC		48		       1			107 Home
Caudill, J.M.			Glade Valley, NC		41		       1			77 Home
Caudill, S.F.			Sparta, NC		24		       1			135 Home
Choate, John T.			Cherry Lane, NC		36                               1			8 Home
Choate, L.E.			Cherry Lane, NC		39                               1			97 Home
Chambers, J.W. 			Cherry Lane, NC		48                               1

	More of the 1920 Cherry Land Tax List to follow in future Bulletins.

INQUIRIES:

	From Orella H. Chadwick, Tillamook, OR: I now have a computer and I am going to start putting all the HOLLOWAY information that I have on it pertaining to the John, James and Nancy (who married Amos WAGGONER) who were the only presently known children of Stephen, Stephany HOLLOWAY found on 1772 Surry Co. taxlist.  Was there another daughter how married an EDWARDS?

	Stephen was listed in the 1784-85 Census of Wilkes Co., NC, Capt. JOHNSON's Dist.  (this became Roarin' River in 1797; he was six doors from Emanuel Rose, the father of John HOLLOWAY's first wife Mary who died before 1840; John married 2nd Matilda PARTT).

	On the 1800 Census, John is in Wilkes Co. On the 1800 Census for Ashe Co. is james with 1 M 26-45 and 1 F 26-45.  Who did he marry?

	What became of Stephen and his wife (who was she?)?  They haven't been found on either 1790 or any census after.  Did he or a son go to Fayette Co. KY?  There was a Stephen there and a Robert in Woodford, which was formed froM Fayette.  Because of a Court Case iN Wilkes Co. over a calim for land that both Geo. BREWER and Stephen filed on and seemingly the same claim in Orange Co., I jumped to the conclusion that this Stephen was the same as the one Robert HOLLOWAY named in his will in 1776.  Was it?

PUBLICATIONS

	ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM HENTRY WRIGHT AND WIFE POLLY ANN ROYAL AND THEIR DESCENDANTS by Watie Delfa (Wright) Ellis, Lawrenceville, IL.  Price $25, soft bound, plus $3.25 postage and packaging.  Have traced 22 family lineages from native country to the colonies and their migrations until converged into my family: Terry Irby, Scott, Riggs, Tompkins, Stayton, Baker, Casey, Riggs, Hendricks, Dearinger, Paget, Creson, Steelman, Atwood, Royal and Wright.  Conclusion of 50 years research.