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Professor BEPWAjvi1 LIN GRADY, son of Anne (Sloani 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 Ills services to the Confederacy *nd enlisted In Company X. 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 p aln soldier. While in service in IW* State he became 111 with typhoid fever and remained In Peace Ins lute Hospital at Raleigh until the close of the war. Alter the war he returned to his home county, resumed his work as a teacher and was elected and served a* Superintendent of Schools from the year 1031 util elected as a member of Congress. In that capacity he se -ved from March 4, 1891. to March 3.1895, when he again resumed his work as a teacher and continued In that work for the balance of his ilfe, A handsome high school building near Kornegay’f bridge hears hia name. Profeasor Grady died at hifi home In Clinton, March 8. 1914 Ir JOHN MILLER FAISON, son of Martha W. (Hicks! and Doctor* Henry W. Faison, wa* born near Faison, in Duplin. April 17, 1863.* Ha attended Faison Male Academy and graduated at Davidson College. He atudied medicine at the Uaivenilty of Virginia and completed a postgraduate medical course at New York Polyclinic in 1885 after wh'ch he promptly comraen-thc practice of hia profeaalnn _i« koine community. For many ra 1* vUli«l the *ick .wl fcffllc-
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Kenansville Duplin Times
Kenansville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1949
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