Deep River Friends Meeting Earliest Worship 1778 Established
Deep River Monthly Meeting was established in 1778 after earlier Cane Creek and New Garden foundations. The Deep River meeting house evolved from a 1758 frame structure to a brick building in 1875 with a 1928 log hut for Sunday school. The community fostered mills, shops, schools, and civic leaders, with Joseph H. Peele serving as current pastor and Springfield Meeting also traced to Deep River.
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Deep River Friends Church
Springfield
Deep River Friends Meeting
Maryland
Virginia
Carolina
Friends
Cane Creek
Alamance County
Eastern Quarterly Meeting
Perquimans County
New Garden
Deep River
Deep River Meeting
Guilford
New Garden Quarterly Meeting
Joseph H. Peele
Guilford College
Grandson of Mrs. Sallie Pierce Dies in Charlotte
Raymond Miller, grandson of Mrs. Sallie Pierce of 600 Highland Avenue, died at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte yesterday at 12:30 PM. A noted soloist who sang at South Main Street Methodist Church during visits to the city.
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Sallie Pierce
Highland Avenue
Charlotte
Raymond Miller
Presbyterian Hospital
Miller
South Main Street Methodist Church
Ancient Juniper Near Hillsborough Reveals 3000 Year Age
Researchers locate a Juniper tree near Hillsborough California that is nearly as old as the legendary big trees. Core samples from a boring indicate the tree dates to about 3000 years ago.
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Hillsborough
Calif
Deep River Graveyard History and Early Friends Encounters
Sometime about 1740 people began to settle in Deep River. Friends held meetings from 1754 and built a meeting house in 1758 with a 1809 deed for land. The graveyard shows mostly unmarked graves reflecting early Quaker practices. Cornwallis camped near the church before Guilford Courthouse, with three soldiers buried nearby. Notable burials include legislatures and leaders like George C. Mendenhall Nereus Mendenhall Elihu Mendenhall and J M Weatherly.
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Deep River
John Talbot
John P. Cook
George C
Delphina E. Mendenhall
Elihu Mendenhall
Guilford Courthouse
Cornwallis
Wm. S. Beard
Mm. S. Beard
Mary Iddings Scott
Cornwallia
Wm. Beard
Mary
Brazilla Gardner Richard
Nereus Mendenhall
John Howell
John Gordon
Jonathan Harris
Stephen G. Horney
C. R. Wheeler
J. 8. Ragsdale
William Wiley
J. R. Gordon
George C. Mendenhall
North Carolina
Deep River Quarterly Meeting
Deep River Monthly Meeting
J. M. Weatherly
Sawed off tombstones mark Deep River Quaker plots
The article notes a 12 inch height rule for tombstones in Deep River Friends Cemetery. A stone above the limit was sawn, resting atop its lower section. It also references early families and generations linked to Deep River Monthly Meeting with many listed surnames and descendants.
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Deep River
Deep River Cemetery
Friends
Guilford County
Deep River Friends Cemetery
Clarkson
Alt
Hazel
Clarence
Reuben Jordan
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Dffp River Frifns Church
High Point
Nantucket Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Alamance
Randolph Counties
Sprinkle
N. Main St
Dee Sen Ee Sianals
General
Neal's Auto Service
South Main Street
Mr. Briggs
H. Clay Briggs
Cook
William Iddings
Ruth Iddings Ledbetter
Phoebe Ledbetter Briggs
O. W. Thrift
Stephen H
Franklin Davis
Milton Raper
R. A. Cochran
Southern Stone Company
Ralph Thornton
Fred G. Barbee
New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends
Misees
Virginia Ragsdale
Gertrude Mendenhall
Deep River Graveyard
Miss Ragsdale
M. Pauline Mendenhall
Phoebe Horney Holton
Will and
Virgil Horney
ARGUS
W. C. Brown Shoe Shop
North Wrenn Street
DIAL
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