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red on December iuReverend JAMES MENZIES SPRUNT D. D.. '■on ol Christ an* 'McDonald* and Laurenct Sprunt, was tan. in Perthshire, «C' Haml. January 14. I81H. He was IDMn^ educated in Scotland, came in America and located In Duplin about the year 1840. He taught school at Hallsville and Hlehlands. He then assumed the Presidency of the Grove Academy at Kenansvllle where he served for a period of sbout fifteen years and ^ rroti dent of Kenansville Seminary _ m-til the beginning of the Civil War, About the year 1848 he was a candidate foi^the Presbyterian ininia-r^rrtnr licensed the next yean lie PWly nrdamed and *DS^e* n8 pavtor of Grove^hureh at Ke-S' IS“~acui Ch.pl*In »' ““North Carolina Heguneol n l Confederate Army. After the war he resumed his work as a'p®f ,r SrSSItatial aS such for the br -anee of his life. In addition to h s part oral work he wved Duplin County as Register of Heeds rom July.'1885, to shout the year 1881. Five of the men whose portraitsgrace the walls of the courtroor were taught by him at the old Grove Academy. There Is a marble plate to his memory in the old Grove church. Doctor Sprunt died at his home In Kenansville, Dee-ember 6, 1884. .vKProfessor BENJAMIN *™INX UN GRADY, son of Anne (Sloan) and Captain Alexander Outlaw Grady, was bom near Sarecta, m Duplin, October 10. 1831. He was highly educated. Soon after h graduation at the State University he located in Texas and became =» professor of mathematics and natural science in Austin College, a Huntsville, where he served for some tlmer In the beginning of the Ctvtl War he promptly volunteered his services to the Confederacy and enlisted in Company K. Twenty-. fifth Regiment, Texas Cavalry, and served at times as a sergeant. It Is said that he declined offers of promotion, preferring to be a plain soldier. While in service twa State he became ill with typhohl fever and remained In Peace Institute Hospital at Raleigh until the dose of the war. After the wai he returned to his home county, resumed his work as a teacher and was elected and served as Superintendent of Schools from the year 1881 util elected as a member of Congress. In that capacity he served from March 4, 1891, to March 8,1895, when he again resumed ms work as a teacher and continued in that work for the balance of his life, A handsome high school building near Kornegay’i bridge beara his name. Professor Grady died at bin borne in Clinton. March 0,1914Dr. JOHN MILLER FAISON, sonof Martha W. (Hicksi and Doctor* Hanry W. Faison, was born near ajfrii*n*t In Duplin, April 17, 1862.’ Ha attended Faison Male Academy and graduated at Davidson College. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia and complet--*! a postgraduate medical course Hew York Polyclinic in 1885 which he promptly commence practice of hi* profession l Home community. For many 1 the sick and affliobecame a leader in ms profession. He served as Solicitor In the County Court and was a Presidential elector in the year I860. In the beginning of the Civil War he entered the service of the Confederacy and bore an honorable pari in that struggle. He was Captain of Company C, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel in the Fifty-first North Carolina Regiment. After the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Kenansvllle, He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1865 and represented Duplin as a member of the State Senate in the years 1^68. 1870 and 1872. About the year 1P8QDIstriecity ui the Cl oloque crowds beg inn volunt Confelt; Comp* Cavolr descril leader Ashby ginia. Super! .n leng cerninat* f\jsiO LOCAiMn-CONDITIONf\ \ fv v
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Kenansville Duplin Times
Kenansville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1949
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