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MAfiGMYlf xmIMGCLEVELANDTO WfHUO10MUfffTABIUEFIEWYTHEV1SPHUNT D. U.,iMcDonaldi and Laurcnct k»pruntf was born in Perthshire, *e. Hand. January 14. 1818, He was liberaHy educated in Scotland, came to Am-erica and located in Duplin about Ihe year 1840. He taught school at Hallsvllle and Riehlands. He then iRHumed the Presidency of the ”Academy ni KenamvMe where he served for a period of about fifteen years and as Prudent of Kenansville Seminary inti I the beginning of the Civil About the year 1848 he was a c -didate for-the Presbyterian ministry atff we? licensed the next year. *e was euly ordained and installed as pastor of Grove Church at He-nansvfllc in May. 1851, and served until Tune 1861. when he was el-“rted ChapUiii of the North Carolina Regiment In lie Confwfcralo Army. After the*,r he resumed his work as ,P and continued as such for the . mce of his life. In addition to h s pastoral work he served Doplin County as Register of Heeds from July.''1885, to about the year IBM. Five of the men whose portraits Rracc the walls of the courtroor were taught by him fli the o Grove Academy. There Is a marh e plate to his memory l» the old Grove church. Doctor Sprunt died at his home In Kenansville, Dec-ember 6, 1884.Professor BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GRADY, son of Anne tSloMt) and Captain Alexander Outlaw Grady, was born near Sarecta, in Duplin. October 10, 1831. He was highly educated. Soon after his graduation at the State University he located in Texas and became * professor of mathematics and natural science in Austin College, at Huntsville, where he served for some time, In the beginning of the Civil 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. ItCourt md was a ^residential elector in the year 1860, In the beginning of the Civil War he entered the service of the Confederacy and bore an honorable port 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 Kenansville. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1865 and rcpre-i giniu. . seated Duplin us a member of thelSuperio State Senate in the years l*68fLn lengh 1870 and 1872. About the year IPMfcernlngitij mu[he Civl eloquent crowds beginnu voluntei Confecle Compan Cavalry describe leader. Ashby's glnia. J
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Kenansville Duplin Times
Kenansville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1949
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