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PEOPLE AND PLACES OF
UNION COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA,
ANSON COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA
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MECKLENBURG
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CAROLINA
cabarrus county, NORTH CAROLINA
STANLY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
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June 1923
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Friday, June 1, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
-Pageland (S.C.) – Maurice GIBSON, son of Mr. Charles GIBSON, was killed yesterday morning [May 31] by a runaway mule and his body was badly mangled. Mr. GIBSON lives on the Luke GRAVES place east of Pageland…
-The annual family reunion will take place at the home of Mr. U. A. McMANUS, five miles west of Pageland [S.C.], next Sunday, June 3. The public is invited. Mr. McMANUS will celebrate his 76th birthday and will be delighted to have his many friends present. Mr. McMANUS is the father of 24 children and they will be present with their families.
-Jackson Calvin, five-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison PLYLER of Buford township, died Wednesday morning. The little fellow became ill on Sunday and was brought to the Monroe hospital, where he was operated on… The remains were buried at Bethlehem, services being held by Rev. Mr. CHERRY.
-Miss Maggie CULP, daughter of the late Mr. J. A. CULP of Pleasant Valley, S.C., died at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. R. W. DOSTER, on Monroe route 6, last Saturday morning [May 26]. Miss CULP had been in failing health for a number of years, but was critically ill only a short time prior to her death. She was 56 years old. Funeral services were conducted by Dr. D. C. DYCHES, pastor of the First Baptist church of Fort Mill, from Pleasant Valley church, Sunday morning. The remains were laid to rest in the cemetery there. Brother and sisters who survive are: Messrs. T. W. and Henry CULP, Mrs. Will PATTERSON, and Mrs. J. L. MORRISON of Pleasant Valley, and Mr. B. H. CULP of Miama, Arizona.
-Maggie KNOTTS, daughter of W. E. KNOTTS of Monroe, died on the 25th day of May. Maggie was one of the best Christian girls in North Monroe. She was a member of North Monroe Baptist church… She was taken back to her old home, Anson county and buried at Mt. Beulah Baptist church, three miles from Wadesboro. W. B. HOLMES and J. S. TYSON of Cheraw, S.C., and Mr. FUNDERBURK, the superintendent of the Bearskin mill was there and said some nice things about Maggie and the family…
Tuesday, June 5, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
-Mrs. Colon PRICE, wife of the late Patterson PRICE,
died May 28th of paralysis. She had been in very feeble health for
several years but had not been entirely confined to her bed and past walking
until about two weeks before her death. She lived to the ripe old age of
eighty-seven years. There are two children, Messrs. Jas. Thomas PRICE of
Charlotte, and John Allen PRICE of near Unionville, with whom she made
her home; eight grand-children; one brother Josiah PRICE of Arkansas,
with a host of relatives and friends to mourn her death. Her husband was killed in the Civil War when
just a young man. It was remarkable how “Aunt Colon,” as she was familiarly
known, strove to give her children every advantage and the sacrifice that she
made for them. She was a good woman and
a member of Mill Creek Baptist church. Funeral services were conducted at the
residence by her pastor, Rev. A. MARSH, and the body laid to rest in the PRESSON
cemetery. [Note: T. C. Price
married on Dec 27, 1859 in Union Co. to James P. Price]
Tuesday, June 5, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
[Note: This issue contains histories of various schools in the county, including photographs of the newer schools. Only the photograph captions are transcribed here. For additional history, refer to the original newspaper.]
-Clarksville
School [photograph]. Erected 1923. This is a school for colored people in
Buford township. The building shown at the bottom was used last year for a
school. The new one was erected with the aid of the Rosenwald fund and was
completed this spring… Colored schools have been erected in six other places
with the aid of the Rosenwald fund.
-Faulks School
[photograph]. Erected 1922. This school is located in the best farming section
of Marshville township. It contains five large class rooms and an auditorium
which will seat 400 people. It cost $6,000 and has modern equipment. One year
ago the old building was burned and the new building was erected on the 5-acre
lot owned by the school. All of the people in this section are white and
everyone owns his own home. Out of a school census of 142, 140 are enrolled in
the school. Four teachers are employed.
-Wesley Chapel [photograph]. Erected 1923. It is said that this was the first rural graded school in North Carolina. It is located in a fine farming section. As soon as the laboratory apparatus is installed and the library increases this will be an accredited high school in the county. It employs 6 teachers, contains 8 rooms and is an old state high school. It has an enrollment of 191.
-Marshville High School [photograph]. Erected 1922. Fifteen years ago Marshville voted bonds to the amount of $10,000 to erect the first brick building in the county, with the exception of Monroe…. Has modern equipment and contains 18 large classrooms, an auditorium, library, office and laboratory. This school employs 15 teachers and has an enrollment of 394 students.
-Mineral Springs School [photograph]. Erected 1922. This school was also made possible by the consolidation of the schools of Mineral Springs, Pleasant Grove, and Bakers. The building cost $12,000 and contains modern equipment. It has 6 rooms, a large auditorium, and office and library, and employs five teachers. 167 pupils are enrolled.
-Stephenson School [photograph]. Erected 1920. This school has the distinction of being the first brick school building erected in a rural district in Union county. It is a result of the first consolidation project in the county and was formed by the consolidation of the Ebenezer School in Goose Creek township and Center Grove School in Vance township. The building cost $6,000 and was erected on a 5-acre lot donated by Mr. J. M. STEPHENSON. Four teachers are employed and the school has an enrollment of 145 out of a census of 148.
-Waxhaw High School [photograph]. Erected 1922. This building was erected at a cost of $25,000 and contains 16 rooms. The auditorium on the first floor has a seating capacity of 600. It employs ten teachers four of whom are in the high school department. The school is modern in every way and has an enrollment of 240.
-Mt. Pleasant School [photograph]. Erected 1922. This school grew out of the consolidation of Mt. Pleasant and Midway. It cost $6,000 and contains four rooms and a large auditorium. The school has an enrollment of 154.
-Prospect High School [photograph]. Erected 1923. The school consists of 8 large classrooms, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 500 people with dressing and music rooms adjoining. The building is on the old camp site and was erected at a cost of $15,000. The school is equipped modernly and six teachers are employed, four in the grammar department and two in the high school. The purpose of this school is to give high school training to the people in the school district. 188 are enrolled in the school.
-Benton Heights High School [photograph]. Erected 1922. This is to be a Junior High School. Students of the tenth and eleventh grades can enter the Monroe High School. The building was erected at a cost of $25,000 and is modern in every way. It contains about 8 rooms and a large auditorium. The old building was converted into a ten room building for a teacherage. 185 pupils are enrolled.
-Union High School [photograph]. Erected 1920. This school is located in a strictly rural community in Lanes Creek township. Four years ago only two teachers were employed. Now there are five teachers, five classrooms and a large auditorium. The building cost $5,000. Out of a census of 160 there is an enrollment of 165 which is due to the fact that students from the adjoining district attend in order to secure the high school instruction.
Friday, June 8, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
-The case against Mrs. Clara Bell KLUTTZ, charged with the killing of her brother last month, came before the Judge and the defendant was bound over to the next term of Superior court under a $1,000 bond. Several witnessed were introduced by both the defendant and the state. Mrs. Maggie HELMS was the first witness for the defense. She told the story of the shooting in a few words. “About nine o’clock several of us were at the home of Mrs. KLUTZ and were playing the victrola. Clara Bell (Mrs. KLUTZ) pulled a pistol out of a holster in a drawer and emptied the cartridges in her lap and was playing with the pistol. Her mother told her to put the gun up but the girl snapped the pistol twice. At this time her brother, Vance WENTZ, came up to her and his sister pointed the gun and fired, the bullet entering his head over his right eye. He fell over backwards without saying a word and his sister ran to him crying ‘I didn’t mean to shoot you. I didn’t know it was loaded.’ She said as she left the room that if her brother died she would kill herself. She did not aim at him but merely shot at random. His sister picked him up.”
-Death of Mrs. M. C. AUSTIN – Mrs. Harriet STATON AUSTIN, wife of Mr. M. C. AUSTIN, died at her home in New Salem township early Wednesday morning, after an illness of two or three years, the last of which she spent in bed, with her death expected at any time. She was 72 years of age on the 23rd of last month. She was the daughter of the late Enniss Staton and was born and reared near the spot where she died…. The interment was at Hamilton’s Cross Roads. The six sons of the deceased acted as pall bearers and the funeral was attended by a large number of people… Mr. and Mrs. AUSTIN were married nearly fifty years ago. They lived most happily and built and maintained a country home of plenty, wherein they reared six sons and two daughters to manhood and womanhood, all of whom had left the parental roof except one, Mr. Brady AUSTIN, who with his family, lived with them…. In her life she connected herself with the Baptist church… The sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. AUSTIN are: Messrs. Fulton, Enniss, Joe, Columbus, John and Brady, and Mrs. George FUNDERBURK of Buford township and Mrs. Crump WADDELL of Anson county. Her brothers and sisters are: L. A. STATON, H. W. STATON, J. E. STATON, and Jesse STATON, Mrs. W. L. PARKER, Mrs. Ashley HELMS and Mrs. M. F. PHIFER. [Note: Harriet Staton married on August 10, 1873 in Union Co. to Marcus C. Austin].
-Mr. Miles THREATT, who lives near Jefferson [S.C.], will celebrate his birthday with a dinner June 26. He is about 92 we are told.
Tuesday, June 12, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
-Mrs. Frances MEDLIN, widow of the late Mr. Newton MEDLIN, died yesterday morning about one o’clock at her home about four miles north of Monroe on the Morgan Mill road. Mrs. MEDLIN was a fine old lady, a member of the primitive Baptist church. One son, Mr. J. C. MEDLIN, and two daughters, Mrs. Latta BAUCOM and Mrs. Alonzo GRIFFIN survive. Mr. MEDLIN died about two years ago…. Interment was in the Union Grove cemetery. [Note: Frances E. Chaney married on Nov 7, 1875 in Union Co. to Ira Newton Medlin].
-Mrs. Lizzie BENNETT, wife of Mr. Henry BENNETT, died at her home in North Monroe yesterday morning, following an illness of about ten days. She was about 65 years of age. Besides her husband, there are two sons, Preston and Wriston BENNETT, of Charlotte, and one daughter, Miss Lillie BENNETT. Mrs. BENNETT was a splendid woman, a daughter of the late Benjamin and Mary LILES, who lived near Wingate. Mrs. BENNETT was a devoted member of the North Monroe Baptist church… The remains were buried in the W. M. GRIFFIN cemetery in east Monroe township. [Note: D. H. Bennett married on Jan. 24, 1883 in Union Co. to Elizabeth Liles].
Friday, June 15, 1923, Monroe Journal, (Union
County, NC)
-Rev. S. E. RICHARDSON, a native of this county, and a well-known minister of the Western North Carolina Conference, died in a hospital at High Point last Tuesday evening…. He has been suffering for years and his death was not unexpected…. The funeral was held at China Grove yesterday and the body was interred in Chestnut Hill cemetery at Salisbury…. The deceased was the son of the late Esq. Joe RICHARDSON of Jackson township, a prominent citizen of the county who died a few years ago. He was born in Jackson township and was 49 years of age. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Selma PHILLIPS of North Wilkesboro, and five children. Mr. James RICHARDSON of Osceola, and Mr. John RICHARDSON of Mineral Springs are brothers of the deceased, and Miss Emma RICHARDSON, who lives at the old home place in Jackson township, is his only sister….
-Willie May, 16-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bunyan ROSS of Monroe township, died Monday afternoon, after an illness of ten days… interment was at New Hope in Buford township.
-Mr. John C. ADAMS of Chesterfield county died at a hospital in Charlotte last Sunday following an operation for tumor on the brain. Funeral was conducted at Philadelphia Baptist church, of which he was a member… Mr. ADAMS is survived by his wife and two small children, by his aged mother, and a brother and sister.
-Stanly County News: Mrs. R. A. MILLER was called to Marshville on Friday to see her mother, Mrs. Bryant AUSTIN, who had fallen and dislocated a hip and broke her leg. She died on Sunday morning. Mrs. AUSTIN was also the mother of Mrs. D. F. RITCHIE, who died a few months ago. She attended her daughter’s funeral and spent a few days with relatives in this vicinity. She had lived to an unusual age, being ninety-seven years old. She was a PARKER before her marriage, and was reared in the new London neighborhood.
-All night long Mrs. John A. CLONTZ sat upon her
front porch and kept a lonely vigil for the return of her aged husband who had
gone out to lock his corn crib early in the evening and did not return. The old
couple, about eighty, lived alone. Monday evening Mr. CLONTZ went as
usual to lock his crib. Mrs. CLONTZ retired and went to sleep. Later she
woke and found that her husband had not returned, and being in feeble health,
made such search as she could for him. But being unsuccessful she sat through
the night on the porch waiting. Tuesday morning the body of Mr. CLONTZ
was found at the corn crib door, his walking cane sticking in a hole in a block
where he was accustomed to put it while locking the door. The door being still
unlocked, it is supposed that he must have died just as he reached the crib
door. He was subject to attacks of the heart and it is thought that one of
these came upon him and he died instantly. Mr. and Mrs. CLONTZ had
reared their family and continued to live alone at the old home though much
advanced in years. Mr. CLONTZ was a Confederate veteran, a member of the
Truelight church, and an old citizen held in high esteem. Their sons and
daughters are Messrs. E. S. CLONTZ of Salisbury, W. M. and A. A. CLONTZ
of Goose Creek and Mrs. F. E. WILLIAMS of Goose Creek, Mrs. C. T. MILLS
of Monroe, and Mrs. Dora LITTLE of Georgia. [Note: John Adam Clontz married on Dec 12, 1867 in
Union Co. to Ester Emailine Griffin].
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