Newspaper Abstracts:
PEOPLE, PLACES, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, ETC. OF

UNION COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,

ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

and also:

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

LANCASTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA

(And other surrounding areas…)

 

1850-1858

 

 

 

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1850

 

January __, 1850, The Christian Magazine of the South (Winnsboro, SC)

-Died at his residence in Lancaster, S.C. of pneumonia, on the 8th ult., Alexander NISBET, in the 56th year of his age.

 

Tuesday, January 1, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Randolph on the 18th, James B. BURNS of Anson to Miss Lydia Ann GHOLSTON, of Randolph.

-Married: On the 28th, J. C. McRAE to Miss Laura HUNTLEY, daughter of David HUNTLEY of Anson.

-Married: In Union county on the 20th, Capt. William P. BENTON to Miss Ailsey Louisa MEDLIN, daughter of Gen. John MEDLIN.

 

January 10, 1850, THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN  (Salisbury, Rowan County, NC)

-Mr. CAMERON, of the Wadesboro' "Argus," has sold out that paper to Mr. Samuel FULTON, who has heretofore been employed in the office as Foreman.  We regret very much to part with Mr. CAMERON, who found it necessary to turn his attention to other business.  Mr. FULTON is a good printer, and we are encouraged to believe that he will give entire satisfaction to the old friends of the Argus as an Editor.  The politics of the paper will undergo no change.

 

Tuesday, January 8, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Cheraw on the 25th, Bryant ELLISON to Miss H. A. THOMAS, all of that place.

-Married: In Anson county on the 30th, John B. LIVINGSTON to Miss Adeline FORT, daughter of John T. FORT.

-Married: In Stanly county by Dr. H. D. KENDALL at the residence of Col. David KENDALL on the 4th, Elems KENDALL of Mississippi to Miss Lidia HOWELL, all of Stanly county.

 

Tuesday, January15, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Wadesboro on the 28th, Glovina, daughter of John STACY.

 

January 18, 1850, CHARLOTTE JOURNAL (Mecklenburg Co., NC)

-Married: Harriet N. CHERRY and Thomas L. KIRK of Stanley County, NC on December 25, 1849 in Union County, NC by Rev. PLUMMER.

 

Tuesday, February 12, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson county on the 3rd, Richard N. BRUTON of Montgomery to Miss Frances, youngest daughter of the late John BURNS.

 

Tuesday, March 12, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 3rd, Parkes BEEMAN, aged 87.  Also, on the 7th, Ellah M. SIRLEY.

 

Tuesday, March 19, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson county on the 7th, Mr. Eli M. LILES to Miss Mary, daughter of Brooks HINSON.  Also, on the 10th, Brooks HINSON, to Mrs. Biddy LILES.  Also, on the 7th, James RATCLIFF to Miss Sarah, daughter of John KNOTTS.

-Married: In Stanly on the 27th, Nehemiah HERNE to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Nelson PENNINGTON all of Stanly.

-Died: In Union county on the 28th, Owen POPE, aged about 55.  Also, on the 10th, Mrs. WILLIAMS, wife of Henry WILLIAMS.  Also, on the 12th, Dennis LILES, formerly of Anson county, aged about 49.

 

Tuesday, April 9, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: At Hernando, Miss. On the 8th, Mrs. Sarah Jane, wife of Dr. J. P. NELMS and youngest daughter of Vincent PARSONS of Anson county.

--Died: In Anson county on the 5th, Thomas FLAKE.

 

Tuesday, April 16, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson county on the 10th, Col. Edmund B. RICHARDSON of Bladen to Miss Sarah Ann MARSHALL of that county.

-Died: In Union county on the 8th, David WEBB, aged about 50 years.  Also, on the 28th, Joshua POPE, aged about 20 years.

 

Tuesday, May 28, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Wadesboro on the 16th, Dr. Ed. F. ASHE to Miss Flora HOWZE.

 

Tuesday, June 11, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Shelby on May 4, aged 62, Mrs. E. B. JENNINGS, widow of the late Maj. John JENNINGS of Cheraw, formerly of Wadesboro.

-Died: Recently in Russell county, Ala., Lemuel INGRAM, formerly of Anson county.

 

Tuesday, June 18, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson county on the 12th, James M. McCORKLE to Miss Rosa L. BUCHANAN, daughter of the late May BUCHANAN.

 

Tuesday, June 25, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 14th, James NOWELL, late of Richmond county, aged 34.

 

Tuesday, July 2, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 21st, James McCOY, at an advanced age.

 

Tuesday, July 9, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Cabarrus county on the 18th, John A. BRADSHAW of Lexington to Miss Mary B. PHIFER, youngest daughter of the late John PHIFER.

 

Tuesday, July 30, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson on July 21st, Abner DEAN to Miss Rosanna Catharine Amanda Pinckney Josephine Foster THREADGILL, daughter of George THREADGILL.

-Died: At Eutaw, Ala., on the 18th, Col. Alex. GRAHAM, formerly of Cheraw, S.C., aged 48.

 

Tuesday, August 13, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 6th, aged 37, Mrs. Martha W. LEDBETTER, consort of William J. LEDBETTER, daughter of the late William P. LEAK…..

 

Tuesday, August 22, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: Near Wadesboro on the 7th, Edmund HUTCHINSON to Miss Elizabeth PEARL, all of Anson.

-Died: In Charlotte on the 5th, Calvin MYERS, late Sheriff of Anson county.

 

Tuesday, September 3, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 19th, Miss Nancy O’NEAL, aged about 30.  Also, on the 28th, Mrs. Martha HOWELL.

 

Tuesday, September 17, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Cheraw on the 2nd, William SMITH, Sen., aged 64.  He was a native of Cumberland but lived in Cheraw for upwards of 25 years.

 

Tuesday, October 15, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: Near Wadesboro on the 8th, Mrs. Mary McIVER, wife of Daniel McIVER.

 

Tuesday, October 22, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Autauga county, Ala. on the 20th, Col. William R. PICKETT, aged 73 years. A native of Anson county

 

October 23, 1850, ASHEVILLE MESSENGER (Asheville, Buncombe Co., N.C.)

-Died: J. D. SMITH, of Wadesboro’, killed by a man name MORRISON, October 7, 1850.

 

Tuesday, October 29, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: On the 3rd, Charles W. BENNETT, formerly of Anson to Miss Margaret Ann, daughter of James HEARD of Yazoo county, Miss.

-Died: In Anson county on the 13th, Jonathan WILSON, aged about 50.

 

Tuesday, November 5, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Anson county on the 17th, Mary Eleanor, infant of Calvin and Emily W. SPENCER, aged 8 mos.

-Died: In Anson county on Wednesday last, Miss Martha BOGGAN aged 62.

-Died: In Anson county on the 17th, Elizabeth Jane COX, daughter of Peter P. and Sarah COX, aged 7 years, 5 and a half months.  Also, on the 25th, Julius ALLEN, son of the late Young ALLEN, aged 25.

 

Tuesday, November 12, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: At his residence in Chesterfield dist. near Cheraw on the 4th, Malcolm McPHERSON, aged about 68, formerly a resident of Cumberland.

-Died: In Anson county on the 30th, James H. TREADAWAY, aged 24.  Also, on the 1st George THREADGILL, at an advanced age.  Also, on the 2nd Mrs. Ann BOYD, wife of Mr. W. W. BOYD, of Wadesboro.  Also on the 6th, Mary INGRAM, at an advanced age.

-Died: In Wadesboro on Tuesday, Ann PICKET, infant of Martin J. and Eliza PICKET [Pickett].

 

Tuesday, November 19, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Died: In Cheraw on the 2nd Sept., William SMITH, native of this county, aged 64.

 

Tuesday, November 26, 1850, Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.)

-Married: In Anson county on the 21st, W. J. T. MASK to Miss Mary E. KNOTTS.

 

 

1851

March 1851, CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE OF THE SOUTH (Winnsboro, S.C.)

-Died of typhoid fever in Union county, N.C., on the 13th of December 1850, Mrs. Sarah D. WILSON, wife of Hugh WILSON and daughter of James D. CRAIG, deceased and Elizabeth CRAIG, in the 28th year of her age… at an early age was admitted to full communion in the Associate Reformed Church at Tirzah, Waxhaw… a bereaved husband, an infant son… have been left.

 

March 5, 1851, CHARLOTTE JOURNAL (Mecklenburg Co., NC)

-Married: J. Clark DAVIS of Union County, NC and Mary M. WEEKS, daughter of Joseph WEEKS, on February 25, 1851 in Mecklenburg County at the home of Mrs. D. M. McCULLOCH, by Samuel A. DAVIS.

 

March 28, 1851, Southern Christian Advocate

-Died in Concord, NC, Jan. 4, 1851, in the 35th year of her age, Mrs. Margaret ELKINS, wife of ELKINS...left husband and three little children.

 

April 2, 1851, CHARLOTTE JOURNAL (Mecklenburg Co., NC)

-Married: John W. BELK and Elizabeth McCAIN daughter of George McCAIN on March 6,1851 in Union County, NC by John STEWART.

 

April 11, 1851, Southern Christian Advocate

-Married on the 27th March, by the Rev. A. J. CAUTHEN, J. E. RUTLEDGE of Lancaster Dist., to Miss N. M. TRUESDEL [TRUESDALE ?] of Kershaw Dist., SC.

 

August 20, 1851, CHARLOTTE JOURNAL (Mecklenburg Co., NC)

-Married: Miss M.A. BLOUNT daughter of John BLOUNT, and W. S. STEWART on August 6, 1851 in Union County, NC by D. A. COVINGTON.

 

 

1852

 

March 11, 1852, LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster County, S.C.)

-Tribute of Respect to Samuel GARY, who departed this life in Union County, N.C. on the 9th February last. (long eulogy.) From The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Volume 7, 1979.

 

May 8, 1852, NC ARGUS (Wadesborough, Anson County, NC)  

-Married: In Anson county, on the 21st ult., by Rev. William C. SUTTON, Josiah H. STEWART of Union county, to Miss Sarah R. PEARSON, of Anson.

 

May 8, 1852, NC ARGUS (Wadesborough, Anson County, NC)  

-Married: In Union county, on Wednesday evening, the 7th ult., by J.H. WOODARD, Esq., Mr. Wm. T. SMITH, to Miss Salina E. LINK.

 

May 8, 1852, NC ARGUS (Wadesborough, Anson County, NC)  

-Married: In Union county, on the 21st ult., by A. STEAGALL, Esq., Mr. Wm. L. GRIFFIN, to Mrs. Mary S. DAVIS, second daughter of J.H. WOODWARD, Esq.

 

May 19, 1852, Lancaster Ledger (Lancaster County, S.C.)

-Married on Tuesday evening the 11th inst., by Rev. D. P. Robinson, Jno.  N. DAVIS, Esq., of Union Co., N.C., to Miss Mary A. HUEY, daughter of Col. Thos. W. HUEY of this District. From The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Volume 7, 1979

 

July 8, 1852

-W. W. JONES s/o James and Martha JONES born Anson Co., N.C.; moved to Dallas Co. Ala. at age 22; md Eliza C. KNIGHT; moved to Cherokee Co., Ala.; moved to Yalobusha Co., Miss.; died April 13, 1852.

Source: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE AND THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1852-1856. By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith.

 

October 7, 1852

Dasha LEDBETTER d/o Henry and Ann LEDBETTER; born Anson Co., N.C., 1815; moved to Lincoln Co., Tenn. 1818; to Perry Co., Tenn. 1837 where she died August 13, 1852.

Source: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE AND THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1852-1856. By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith.

December 24, 1852, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: Henry FURR, Cabarrus county (no date).

 

 

1853

 

February 5, 1853, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Married: Benj. F. HEADEN of Chatham county to Charlotte WADDILL of Wadesborough, January 21.

 

September 1, 1853

-Mrs. Ann A. HINDS d/o Samuel and Elizabeth KERR; born Anson Co., N.C., March 3, 1804; died August 7, 1853; educated in a seminary.

Source: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE AND THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1852-1856. By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith.

 

September 3, 1853, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: William Henry ARCHIBALD, August 10, Cabarrus county…….(obituary follows).

-Died: Mrs. Laura B. KRIMMINGER, August 23, Cabarrus county.

 

October 12, 1853, Yorkville Miscellany (York, York County, SC)

- Married in the vicinity of Ebenezer, on the 4th inst., at the residence of Madison NEELY, Esq., by the Rev. J. Monroe ANDERSON, Mr. W. D. PHILIPS [PHILLIPS], of Wadesborough, N. C. to Miss Dorcas Catharine POWELL, of this District. (Source: Holcomb, Brent H. York, South Carolina, Newspapers Marriage and Death Notices, 1823-1865. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1989.)

 

 

1854

 

January 4, 1854, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: Gen. James M. WADDILL, December 26, Wadesborough.

 

Saturday, May 27, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: In this town, on Saturday morning last, Mr. Adam SPRINGER, formerly of Stanly county.

 

June 10, 1854, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died in Anson county, on the 25th ult., of erysipeles, Mrs. Catherine, wife of Joseph J. JOWERS, and daughter of Daniel and Nancy PATTERSON of Richmond Co.,  in the 28th year of her age.

 

Saturday, June 17, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR  (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Married: At Lilesville, in this county on Sunday evening last, by James A. LILES, Esq., Mr. William W. TAPSCOTT, to Miss Harriet H. PAUL.

-Died: On Sunday the 14th inst., at Meltonsville in this county, Mrs. Adeline BIVENS, wife of John BIVENS and the daughter of Wilson CHAMBERS, in the 26th year of age. The deceased has been for the last ten years a consistent and devoted member of the Baptist church.

 

Saturday, June 24, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR  (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died at C.F. College [Carolina Female College], on the 16th inst., Bettie HARRIS, daughter of R. M. and Susan C. ALEXANDER, aged 13 months and 8 days.

-Departed this life at his residence in Anson county, on the 11th of January 1854, Robert HUNTLEY, senr., in the 93rd year of his age.  Brother HUNTLEY was a soldier in the great struggle of his country for liberty – was placed as guard in the battle at Camden when GATES was defeated – afterward aided as one of a scouting party to subdue the Tories…

-Died: Departed this life in Anson, on the 3rd of May, 1854, sister Jane HUNTLY, consort of Robert HUNTLY, Jr., in the 59th year of her age.

 

Saturday, July 8, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-We learn that on Monday last, Parham KIRK, Sr., of Stanly county, met with an accident which caused his death. He was riding upon a load of lumber when the jolting of the wagon throwing him off his balance, he fell to the ground and the wheels passing over his body caused his death in a short time.  He was an aged and respectable citizen, and held the office of  sheriff many years ago.

-Married: In this county, on Thursday evening last, by Rev. T. R. WALSH, Dr. J. B. TWITTY, of C. F. College [Carolina Female College], to Nannie, daughter of John W. FLAKE, deceased.

-Died: In this county, on the 23rd ult., William Joseph,  son of William L. and Harriet L. WHITE, aged seventeen and a half months.

-Died: In this county, on the 3rd inst., James Preston, son of Archibald and Martha A. NIVENS, aged 1 year and 10 days.

-Died: Near Wadesborough, on the 1st inst., Thos. J. HUTCHINSON, in the sixteenth year of his age.

 

Saturday, July 15, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: Near Meltonsville in this county on Friday the 7th inst., Miss Clara LOCKHART, aged about seventy years… Also, near the same place, on the 25th ult., Flora Margaret, daughter of Adam and Ann LOCKHART, aged 14 months.  Also, near the same place, on Thursday 7th instant, Charles, infant son of Townly REDFEARN.

-Died: In this county on the 6th inst., Hannah PINES, infant daughter of Benjamin I. And Eliza A. DUNLAP, aged nine months and a few days.

-Died: At her father’s residence, near White’s Store, in this county, Miss Emily H., daughter of Thomas and Mary W. HUNTLY, aged 20 years, 10 months and 24 days, being born on the 18th of August, 1833, and died on the 24th of June 1854…

 

Saturday, July 29, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: In this town, on Thursday morning last, Martha Lucia, daughter of Thomas S. and Caroline ASHE.

-Died: Near Lilesville, on Tuesday last, Mrs. Martha SEAGO, aged 76 years.

-Married: recently in Chesterfield District, S.C., by Rev. J. W. Miller, Mr. Thomas TOMLINSON, of Anson county, to Miss Eliza M., daughter of O. H. SPENCER, Esq.

 

Saturday, August 5, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: Near Lilesville, on Wednesday last, Benjamin M., son of Wm. D. and Nancy BIRD, age eighteen years.

-Died: Near Lilesville, on the 26th ult., Lydia Francis, daughter of William And Rachel HENRY, aged three years, two months, and seven days.

 

Saturday, August 12, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Married: In Richmond county, on the 6th ult., by James L. YATES, Esq., Mr. Isaiah PRIEST to Miss Nellie, daughter of the late Allen MacDONALD.

-Died: Near Lilesville, in this county, on Sunday inst., of diarrhea, Rev. Malachi SEAGO.

-Died: Near Lilesville, in this county, on Monday last., Mrs. Rachel, wife of Mr. Wm. HENRY.

-Died: In this vicinity, on Sunday night last, Mrs. Rachel LITTLE.

 

Saturday, August 19, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: Near Lilesville, on Thursday morning last, Miss Martha HENRY, daughter of Wm. HENRY.

 

Saturday, September 16, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-Died: On the 3rd inst., at the residence of her son, Thomas WATTS, in Chesterfield District, S.C., Mrs. Lavina WATTS, aged between 85 and 90 years. She has been for the last 52 years a devoted member of the Baptist church. She was wife of Thomas WATTS, deceased, and sister of the late Robert HUNTLY, Sr., of this county.

-Carolina Lodge, No. 48, A.Y.M., Tribute of Respect… Brother Basel M. THOMPSON departed this life on Saturday the 2d inst.… [lengthy tribute, but gives no personal information]

-Died: In this county, on the 31st of August last, Joseph Washington, son of Flavel B. and Mary A. FLAKE, aged 6 months.

-Died: On the 6th inst., in Anson county, at the late residence of her grandfather, John LEE, Miss Sarah LEE, in the 18th year of her age… Her mother, Mrs. Winnie LEE has passed through many painful vicissitudes of life – has been twice married, both of her husbands dying prematurely.  Yet she had a hope in her three lovely children, Rosa, Sarah and John… [lengthy obituary says she lost her other two children in late July from the same disease.]

 

Saturday, September 30, 1854 THE PEE DEE STAR (Wadesborough, Anson Co, NC)

-State of North Carolina, Court of Pleas and Quarters Session, July Term A.D. 1854.

Duncan McLAURIN and others vs. Christian McLAURIN, Oliver ELLIS and wife Ann, Jane McLAURIN, Mary McLAURIN, Lauchlin McLAURIN, Abigail McLAURIN, Isabella McLAURIN and Sarah McLAURIN, the widow, heirs at law of Neill McLAURIN, deceased. Petition for partition of land….  [Note: the defendants in this case were not residents of the state.]

-Died: At C. F. College [Carolina Female College], on the 23rd inst., Sarah Jane, d/o T. L. and Frances GALE, aged 1 year, 2 months and 19 days.

-Died: In Choctow county, Miss., on the 3d inst., of Pulmonary Consumption, Mrs. Nancy KINDRED, wife of Davis KINDRED. She was born in Anson county, N.C. on the 30th of November 1811, and died September 3d, 1854… She has left six children, four sons and two daughters…

 

October 14, 1854, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: John SMITH, October 2, Anson county… (obituary follows).

 

November 4, 1854, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died in Anson County, on the night of the 18th ultimo, after an illness of five days of congestive fever, Josiah ALLEN, aged 18 years and one month, son of Joseph and Nancy ALLEN. He was a young man of great promise and kindly disposed and loved by all who knew him.

-Died in Union County on the 16th ultimo, Susan Rebecca, daughter of Col. F. INGRAM of Anson.

-Died at Lilesville, October the 7th, Ella Florence, daughter of James A. and Tempie LILES, aged 10 months and 20 days.

 

November 22, 1854, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: Norfleet D. BOGGAN, November 8, Wadesborough.

 

December 16, 1854, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married in Anson County, by John BROADWAY, Esq., Col. James M. BROADWAY to Miss Susannah MORRISS, all of that County

-Died near Lilesville, Anson County on the 4th inst., Mrs. Martha MEACHAM, wife of W. G. MEACHAM, Esq., at an advanced age.  (note: a researcher asked that I note a correction here. This is Martha Winfree Meacham, wife of William Smith Meacham, not “W.G.” Meacham, although this is what the original newspaper said).

 

 

1855

 

April 6, 1855, CHESTER STANDARD (Chester, S.C.)

Married in Anson County, N. C., on the 25th ult., by the Rev. Mr. BROADAWAY, Mr. Robt. T. SMITH of Miss Pattie M., daughter of John M. M—– of Wadesborough (ibid.).

(Source: Marriage and Obituary Notices from the Chester Standard, The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR, Volume I, Number 4, Fall, 1973.)

 

May 23, 1855, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Married: Martha E. McRAE of Richmond county to Dr. Wm. M. RICHARDSON of Wadesboro, May 8.

 

May 30, 1855, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Married: L. BLACKMER, of Salisbury, to Miss J. A. COLE, of Anson county, May 15, Carolina College, Anson county.

 

August 31, 1855, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died in Wadesboro, on the 21st July, Mary S., daughter of R. A. and Mary PAUL, aged about 3 months.

 

October 20, 1855, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married in Anson County on the 4th inst., by the Rev. Q. A. LARTY, Dr. W. C. RAMSAY to Miss Amelia C. BENNETT, daughter of James C. BENNETT, Esq., all of Anson county.

-Died in Monroe, 20th ult., of Typhoid fever and congestion of the lungs, after an illness of 21 days, Rev. William M. RAFTERLING, in the 39th year of his age.

 

November 15, 1855, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married on Tuesday evening, the 6th  inst., by the Rev. S. H. BROWNE, Rev. Joseph W. FALKNER to Miss Mary C., daughter of Col. Joseph WHITE, all of Anson Co, NC.

 

 

1856

 

May 21, 1856, THE LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster, SC)

-Married in Union County, N. C., on the 29th April by Thomas C. WILSON, Esq., Mr. Leroy HELMS to Rachel, daughter of Hugh B. CRAIG, all of said county.

 

June 5, 1856 THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE (Nashville, TN)

-Martha Ann BOWEN w/o James A. BOWEN, born Dec. 20, 1831; died April 29, 1856; d/o James R. and Susan WOOD, formerly of Anson Co., N.C.

 

June 18, 1856, THE LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster, SC)

-Departed this life at his mother's residence in this District on the 7th inst., of Pneumonia, Mr. John A. NISBET, in the 22d year of his age.…  His father Mr. Alexander NISBET, died in 1849. His aged mother Mrs. M. H. NISBETT, still survives… interred at Tirzah Church, Union Co., N. C.…

 

Saturday, July 12, 1856, DAILY HERALD (Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C.)

-Died: In Richland Dist., S.C., on the 7th July, Mr. Wilson P. SHERON, aged about 20 years, a native of Union county, N.C.

 

July 31, 1856, ASHEVILLE NEWS (Asheville, Buncombe Co., N.C.)

-Died: M. M. CHANEY, hanged for negro stealing, July 11, 1856 at Lancasterville, S.C.

 

August 16, 1856, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married near Lanesboro, on the 26th July, by N. M. HUBBARD, Esq., Capt. James PRESLAR to Miss Laura Ann GRIFFIN, all of Anson.

-Died near Wadesborough, on the 8th instant, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Ann P. LEAK, relict of the late Wm. P. LEAK, in the 71st year of her age.

 

October 10, 1856, THE LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster, SC)

-Died, on the 15th of September, Mrs. Sarah E. NISBET, wife of John C. NISBET, and daughter of Hannah NISBET, in the 28th year of her age…member of Associate Reformed Church at Tirzah, Union Co., N. C.


October 10, 1856 Due West Telescope

-Died of consumption on the 15th of September, Mrs. Sarah E. NISBET, wife of John C. NISBET and daughter of Hannah NISBET, in the 28th year of her age.  …[survived by] two small children, …mother, husband… [member] the Associate Reformed Church at Tirzah, Union County, N.C.

 

December 16, 1856, PEE DEE HERALD (Cheraw, S.C.)

- Married, on the 2nd inst., by the Rev. O. A. Darby, Dr. H. T. HOWZA, to Miss Carolina, second daughter of the late Clemant MARSHALL, of Wadesborough, N. C.

(Source: Marriage and Death Notices from the Pee Dee Herald, Brent Holcomb, C.A.L.S., The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR, Volume XV, Number 1, Winter, 1987)

 

December 17, 1856, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Married: Green B. LISENBY of Anson county, to Ellen SIKES, December 14, White’s Store, Anson county.

 

December 17, 1856, THE LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster, SC)

-Died at her residence in Union Co., N. C., 23d Nov. 1856, Elisabeth CRAIG, in the 63 year of her age. Her disease was Pneumonia…connected herself with the Associate Reformed Congregation worshipping at Tirza. After her marriage she transferred her membership to Shiloh, an Associate congregation, her husband being a member of that body. When these congregations united, she returned to Tirzah for convenience of worship. She was one of the founders of Tirzah; and the younger sister of A. J. NESBIT. Her husband, all her children and grandchildren except Sanford, son of H. WILSON Esq., preceded her into the spiritual world.…

 

December 24, 1856, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Died: Joshua SIKES, December 18, Union county.

 

 

1857

 

January 3, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married near Wadesborough, on the 2nd inst., by the Rev. O. A. DARBY, Dr. H. Y. HOWZE, of Wadesborough, to Miss Cornelia F. MARSHALL, second daughter of the late Clement MARSHALL of Anson.

 

January 10, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married by [N. M. HUBBARD], Mr. Cyrus A. BARKLEY to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of the late Thomas D. GREEN, both of Anson.

 

January 24, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died in Wadesborough, on the 2nd inst., of Dropsy, Mrs. Lucy PATRICK, aged 70 years.

 

February 9, 1857, THE TIMES, (Greensboro, Guilford County, NC)  

-Married: In Union County the 22nd, Jan. at the residence of M. W. Cuthbertson, Esqr., by Rev. G. W. Ivy, Mr. John Cuthbertson and Miss M. M. Phifer, all of Union.

 

February 19, 1857, Yorkville Enquirer (York Co, S.C.)
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Married in Union County, North Carolina, on Tuesday the 10th instant, by John Gordon, Esq., Capt. Julius Friedeman [Friedman?] of “Mary Mine,” in this district, to Miss Elizabeth Wolf.

Source: Holcomb, Brent H. York, South Carolina, Newspapers Marriage and Death Notices, 1823-1865. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1989

 

May 13, 1857, THE LANCASTER LEDGER (Lancaster, SC)

-Died of Consumption in Lancaster District, on the 29th ult., Mr. James Harvey NISBET, in the 21st year of his age, leaving a wife and numerous train of relatives…on 2d of Nov. last admitted to full communion in the Associate Reformed church at Tirzah, Union County, N. C.

-Married on the 5th of May 1857, at the House of John Porter Sr., by Rev. W. C. Patterson, G. D. Broom of Wolfsville, N. C. to Mary P. Porter of Lancaster District, S. C.

 

May 22, 1857, DUE WEST TELESCOPE (Due West, S.C.)

-Died of consumption in Lancaster District on the 29th ult., Mr. James Harvey NESBIT in the 21st year of his age, leaving a disconsolate wife… member of the Associate Reformed Church at Tirzah.

 

May 30, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married in Union Co., on the 28th ult., by Eli LILES, Esqr., David T. LILES to Miss Susannah, eldest daughter of B.B. SMITH, all of Union. [note: Her father’s name was Burrell Baxter SMITH, who moved to Henderson County, TN after 1880.]

 

June 6, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died near Wadesborough [___], Mrs. Sarah H. PAUL in the [______].

 

June 27, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died in Anson Co, NC, on Tuesday, 16th inst., Thomas Chambers LANCE, in the 30th year of his age.

 

July 15, 1857, Raleigh Register and NC State Gazette (Wake Co, NC)

-Married: Robert M. SIMS to Kate C. LUCKY of Lancaster Dist., S.C., June 25, Wilmington.

 

October 31, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Died on Wednesday the 21st of October, Miss Mary Ann SHEPHERD, eldest daughter of Augustin SHEPHERD, Esq., Wadesborough, Anson County, NC, after suffering during many months. The ills consequent upon a continuous and wasting disease.

 

November 5, 1857, Southern Christian Advocate

-Died in Concord, NC, Sept 26, 1857, Susan ELKINS, wife of Willis ELKINS and daughter of John HOUSTON, born Jan 6, 1822, and united to the M. E. C. in 1835...

-Married near Wadesboro, NC, Oct. 28, 1857, by T. R. WALSH, the Rev. Hilliard C. PARSON, of the S.C. Conference, to Miss Cornelia Frances LEAK, daughter of W. R. LEAK, Esq., of Anson county.

 

November 12, 1857, THE TIMES, (Greensboro, Guilford County, NC)

-Married: In Yadkin county, on the 20th ult., by Rev. Geo. B. Wetmore, Col. Wm. Martin Pickett, of Anson county, and Miss Mary Jane Jarratt, only daughter of Isaac Jarratt.

 

November 19, 1857, THE TIMES, (Greensboro, Guilford County, NC)

-Married: Near Wadesboro, on the 2nd ult., by the Rev. T. R. Walsh, the Rev. H. C. Parson, of the S.C. Conference, to Miss Carnelia F., daughter of W. R. Leak, Esq., of Anson county.

 

December 19, 1857, NC ARGUS (Fayetteville, NC)

-Married in Union Co., on the 1st instant, by E.W. LILES, Esq., Mr. John C. SIKES to Miss Jane, only daughter of  C. AUSTIN, Sheriff of Union Co.

-Married in Union Co., on the 3rd instant, by E.W. LILES, Esqr., Mr. S.H. MULLIS to Miss Ellen Ann MANESS, daughter of Thomas MANESS, all of Union.

 

 

1858

 

January 23, 1858, THE TIMES, (Greensboro, Guilford County, NC)

-Married-At Ansonville, on the 7th inst., by Rev. Mr. Walker, Mr. John A. Boyden, of Salisbury to Miss Mary, daughter of Stephen W. Cole, Esq.

 

March 5, 1858, DUE WEST TELESCOPE (Due West, S.C.)

-Departed this life in Union Co., N. C. on the 18th of February, 1858, Mrs. Mary STEWART, wife of John STEWART, Esq., in the 61st year of her age. … She was, for something more than forty years, a consistent member of the Associate Reformed Church, at Shiloh, in the Waxhaws.... [survived by] an aged husband, two sons and five daughters.

 

March 26, 1858, NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERIAN
-Married: In Anson Co. near Wadesboro on 7th inst., Jackson McRAE of Montgomery [Co.] to Miss Sallie, daughter of Clement BIRMINGHAM.
Source: Marriage and Death Notices from the North Carolina Presbyterian, 1858, abstracted by Katharine Ken Kendall (NCGS Journal VOLUME XX, NO. 1, FEB 1994)

 

August 13, 1858, DUE WEST TELESCOPE (Due West, S.C.)

-Died at his residence in Union Co., N. C. on the 27th ult., John WALKER, Esq. in the 78th year of his age. … in early life connected himself with the congregation worshipping at Tirzah. He was three times married and raised a tolerably numerous family. … A few days before his death he walked out to the graveyard which was near, in company with Mrs. WALKER, and was observed to contemplate with more than usual solemnity, the last resting place of loved ones, till at length struggling emotion vented itself in a flood of tears. He then remarked to Mrs. WALKER, “I have been three times married have lived about 11 years with each of my wives; I now think our separation is near.”

 

October 9, 1858, NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERIAN
-Died: Near Meltonsville, Anson Co., on 24 July, Bettie BEVINS [BIVENS?], daughter of John BEVINS [BIVENS?] and adopted daughter of H. A. and E. J. CRAWFORD, age 5 years.
Source: Marriage and Death Notices from the North Carolina Presbyterian, 1858, abstracted by Katharine Ken Kendall (NCGS Journal VOLUME XX, NO. 1, FEB 1994)

October 16, 1858, NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERIAN
-Died: At Carolina College, Anson Co., on 17th ult., Mrs. Tabitha R., wife of Stephen W. COLE, age 47 years.
Source: Marriage and Death Notices from the North Carolina Presbyterian, 1858, abstracted by Katharine Ken Kendall (NCGS Journal VOLUME XX, NO. 1, FEB 1994)

October 16, 1858, THE TIMES, (Greensboro, Guilford County, NC)

-Died in Anson county, on the 17th ult., Mrs. Tabitha, wife of Stephen W. Cole, aged 47 years.

 

December 2, 1858, NC ARGUS (Wadesborough, Anson County, NC)  

-Married in Union county, on the 16th ult., by A. HARLEY, Esq., Mr. John C. GRIER, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of James T. CHRISTENBERRY.

 

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