Durham Family Reinterred As Monument Rises In Sunset
Oct. 20. A new granite monument at Sunset cemetery in Durham County signals the reinterment of the Durham family remains from nearby sections. The inscription chronicles Micajah Durham and his son Capt Plato Durham, with notes on their Civil War service, Reconstruction leadership, and legendary deeds.
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Jby
Lunce
South
Durham
Carolina
Robert Lee Durham
Virginia
Micajah Durham
Plato Durham
Sunset
Capt. Durham
Jah Durham
Plato
Cleveland County
Lee
Jackson
Capt
North Carolina
Battle of the Wilderness
N. Y
Rutherford County
New York City
Charleston
Jenny Lind
Micajah
James L. Webb
Shelby
Stonewall
Gaston County
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Robert Durham
Old Sunset Cemetery
Ellenboro Opens New Potato House
Ellenboro on October 20 reports the completion of the fourth sweet potato curing house by the Ellenboro Sweet Potato Storage Company Inc. The 30 by 60 foot building on the Seaboard railway can hold about 20 000 bushels in crates and will serve this year’s harvest. The facility will stay open to the public until November 1, 1930 unless filled earlier.
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Ellenboro
Mooresboro R-1 community notices and events
Mooresboro R-1 notices report Rev Harrill’s regular sermon at Race Path, local weddings including Ther man Packard and Dessie Daves, and social visits such as Mr and Mrs Scoggins in Charlotte and other neighbors. Also notes a 31,000 annual US traffic death toll and a planned nonstop cross country flight by Dale Jackson to visit all 48 state capitals in one trip.
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Mooresboro
R-1
L. D. Harrill
Gastonia
I. D. Harrill
Webb Lockadoo
Gladys Robinson
Effie
Essie Goode
Belle Hawkins
Zeb Earley
Dobbinsville
Zelia Jolley
Mt. Pleasant
Theron Jolley
Clarence Goode
Shelby
Dale Jackson
St. Paul
Minn
United States
Sermon, visits noted in Shiloh News column
Rutherfordton area notes on Rev. Watson Abrams sermon at Shiloh and multiple visits as families like Ledbetters, Culbreths, Hawkins, Ruppe, Smiths, Jones, and others travel to Spindale Alexander Ellenboro Avondale and Asheville. Local residents from Georgia and Greenwood appear in social roundups.
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Rutherfordton
R-1
Watson Abrams
Shiloh
Guilford Ledbetter
Spindale
Sharpe Rupe
Hamlet
N. C
Alfred Snyder
Greenwood
8. C
Charlie Smith
Ruth
J. A. Smith
J. L. Smith
Roland
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Durham Family
Ruthenyard
Cleveland
Sunset Cemetery
Cation
Rutherford
Prof
Stonewall Durham
Bessemer City
Father
Hood
Philips
Phillips
Maia
Shiloh News
Blanton
Henry Smith
Avondale
Asheville
Sewell McBrayer
Bridgewater
Estelle Jones
Robert Pintuff
Odessa Jones
Leo Smith
Wade Smith
Alexander
Luther Turner
Georgia
Fia
Camel Pleasure Hour
N. B.C. Network
WJZ
Associated Stations
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