Why Not, North Carolina : a history of the Why Not Academy, the Why Not Memorial Association, the Why Not community, and the Fair Grove Methodist Church, Part 5

Author: Auman, William T; Stuart, Minnie S. (Minnie Spencer). History of Fair Grove Methodist Church
Publication date: 1986
Publisher: Why Not, N.C. : Why Not Memorial Association
Number of Pages: 180


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11/18/1883-5/4/1970 3


Lawrence, Lenora Bray


12/27/1878-12/15/1967


6


Lawrence, Mary Alice


5/10/1909-4/18/1918


3


King, Jane Auman


King, Janie C.


1/8/1886 13


63


Lawrence, Rufus J. Lawrence, T. W.


Lilly, Edward C.


Lilly, John Dula


Lilly, Mazie Boggs


Lilly, Pearl Auman


Lineberry, Walter M.


Lucas, John Randolph (Randy)


10/28/1881-3/31/1961 3 10/23/1857-4/15/1928 6 died 8/21/1985 17


4/19/1881-10/19/1964 11


4/9/1910-6/6/1944 12


6/25/1886-9/28/1961 11


1879-1963 11


7/5/1948-11/4/1967 10


M


McDonald, Arie Lamonds, wife of James Monroe McDonald


6/5/1880-12/31/1914 2


McDonald, infant of Arie & Monroe


2


Mckenzie, Alexander, infant son


of John & Jane McKinzie 2/15/1886 9


Monroe, Fred, son of J. A. & Hattie Monroe


5/8/1916-7/31/1918 12


Murray, Christina R.


8/31/1887-5/5/1968 9


Murray, Julius C.


10/4/1885-9/20/1973


9


P


Parker, infant dau. of Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Parker


born & died 4/17/1943 8


Presnell, Susannah, wife of Randal 6/28/1807-4/4/1897


11


R


Redwine, Joseph Lee


10/2/1959-4/18/1976 16


Reeder, infant of Mary Reeder


Reeder, William Clarence


5/22/1912-6/12/1971 9


Richardson, infant of Noah


and Lillian


stillborn 11/19/1911


11


Richardson, Christenia, wife of Andrew


11


Richardson, Foster C., Sr.


3/16/1882-1/9/1965


14


Richardson,


Francena Auman


8/25/1851-6/13/1901


11


Richardson,


Hal E.


8/25/1898-9/29/1918


14


Richardson.


L. Roy


9/12/1878-9/22/1960


14


Richardson,


Lillian Stubbs


10/19/1872-5/21/1966


11


Richardson,


Lonnie L.


2/24/1874-12/10/1947


14


Richardson,


Mary Mamie


11/25/1876-10/15/1974 14


2/25/1849-10/10/1926


11


Richardson, Noah Richardson, Wincy Adeline, wife


of S. R. Richardson


4/1/1865-12/20/1893


12


S


Slack, infant of Lundy Jane Slack


3/25/1905-3/28/1905 3


Slack, Earl Braxton


9/18/1884-5/11/1963 3


Slack, Ernest B., Jr.


4/18/1896-11/21/1965 3 7/23/1881-7/14/1961 3


Slack, Elbie Miller


Slack, J. B.


8/13/1862-1/5/1948


3


8


64


Slack, John B., Jr. Slack, Johnnie M.


12/9/1902-4/2/1975 3


10/15/1891-10/24/1910 3


Slack, Lundy Jane


11/7/1862-6/9/1920 3


Slack, Margaret Carter


11/13/1897-2/14/1976 3


Slack, Theodoria Stout


9/8/1896-12/4/1954


3


Smith, Claud Haywood


2/26/1908-8/27/1965 14


10/8/1901-3/11/1957


14


Smith, Haywood D.


1873-1954


14


Smith, Millicent M.


1867-1936


14 5


Spencer, Rev. C. L.


1879-1946


12


Spencer, Clayton


2/13/1877-5/17/1950


12


Spencer, Cora Lee


9/3/1899-8/2/1946


5 12


Spencer, Ellen Hudson


1871-1958


12


Spencer,


F. Pearl


7/16/1891-9/17/1973


12


Spencer, Fruza


6/11/1853-5/15/1927


12


Spencer , J. H.


10/15/1847-6/11/1926


12


Spencer,


Lillie Mae


8/18/1893-3/5/1911


5


Spencer,


Rosanah Elizabeth


12/19/1858-7/14/1918


12


Spencer,


Sarah


1/9/1850-1/26/1923


12


Spencer, Sarah Ann


8/25/1871-7/13/1957


5


Spencer, Susy Ann Trogdon


2/2/1849-5/17/1888


12


Steed, John Franklin


9/17/1882-12/19/1965


6


Stout, Aginess C., wife of Taylor Stout


11/6/1859-8/15/1900 6


Stout, Carl Clarence, Sr.


2/25/1892-11/18/1963 13


Stout, J. T., Sr.


9/15/1853-12/21/1918 6


Stout, Myrtle Chloe


1889-1910 6


Stout, Ruth Maness


11/26/1892-8/22/1964


13


Stout, Sarah Donnah


11/27/1887-6/18/1979 5/20/1869-5/6/1956


12


Stuart, Mary Weeks, wife of Verne


4/9/1908-7/20/1983


12


Stuart, Minnie Spencer


6/25/1872-3/7/1968


12


Stuart, Verne Spencer


3/19/1906-2/11/1974


12


Stutts, Lundia Dunlap, wife of Henry S. Stutts


6/11/1884-8/25/1961 5


Stutts, Henry S.


5/22/1867-4/4/1926


5


Stutts, Junie, Clady, Claudie, infants of Henry Stutts


T


Townsend, Beulah T.


12/9/1902-9/17/1984 13


Townsend, Clarence and Clinton, twins, children of Daniel and Beulah


2/6/1938


13


Townsend, Daniel


6/10/1905-11/30/1974


13


Trogdon, infant of A. B. & Ethel Trogdon


9/13/1912-9/13/1912


11


Trogdon, , Gertie L., dau of


W. B. & A. W. Trogdon


7/21/1893-4/22/18 ?? 7


Trogdon, J. W.


1889


11


Tucker, A. R.


1875-1954 13


Tucker, Henry C.


11/25/1844-8/2/1887


13


Smith, Garland Dwight


Spencer, Burley A.


10/30/1891-5/25/1910


Spencer, E. L.


11/15/1845-12/19/1891


6


Stuart, Chas. E.


5


65


Tucker, Jane


8/31/1913-7/31/1897 13


1871-1929 13


10/18/1911-3/15/1984 16


9/19/1812-2/25/1896 13


V


Vandever, Julia M.


11/7/1889-4/25/1906 9


Varner, B. Frank


1/10/1892-2/5/1951 10


Varner, Beatrice Yow


5/15/1894-9/26/1974 10


Varner, Marie Elda


7/19/1925-8/8/1977 10


Voncannon, Blanche, dau. of


Cora and Milton


12/5/1902-7/25/1904 13


Voncannon, Cora K.


1882-1950


13


Voncannon, Milton F.


1880-1921


13


Vosakalns, Aleksanders


5/17/1877-12/8/1950


6


W


Westmoreland, Lola Edna Freeman, wife of Paul Westmoreland


4/24/1915-6/20/1937 3


14


Y


Yow, child


2


Yow, A. L.


5/28/1834-5/30/1899


12


Yow, Alfred L. (Bud)


2


Yow, Agnes B.


1823-1907


7


Yow, Dalton, infant


10


Yow, Elisha R.


1832-1880


7


Yow, Estelle


died 6/19/1889


8


Yow, Jas. Martin


12/17/1857-2/16/1939


8


Yow, Martitia L.


1/17/1857-10/2/1886


12


Yow, Martha J.


8/2/1828-8/23/1886


12


Yow, Mary Ellen Lowdermilk


12/17/1856-8/7/1936


8


Yow, Noah W.


11/11/1855-7/13/1935


10


Yow, Raymond Darrell


10/3/1937-10/12/1985


11


Yow, Susanna Chriscoe


5/31/1864-10/29/1917


10


66


Tucker, Sarah E. Vuncannon


Tucker, W. C.


Tucker, William


Wright, Lucille C.


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INDEX


Please Note:


The names in the following three lists of names printed in the text are not included in this index:


1. List


of Ministers Serving the Fair Grove Methodist Church from 1859-1947 (see page 36)


2. List of Students in Attendance at Why Not Academy, 1905-1906 (includes names of parents of students and student's post office address -- see page 52)


3. Index to Persons Buried at the Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery (see page 60)


This index was prepared and typed by William T. Auman. Please notify him of errors and omissions so that future editions of this book may be corrected accordingly.


A


Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad, 17, 46 Academies, see Schools


Aconite, North Carolina, 51 Alexander, Marjorie, 33


Allbright, Thomas, F., 6


Allen, Elsey, 56


Anson County, North Carolina, 15


Asbury, Rev. F. E., 29


Asheboro, North Carolina, 9, 15, 17, 28 Auman, Alson, 24


Auman, Charles B., 33


Auman, Clinton, 32 Auman, Clyde, 59 Auman, E. W., 29 Auman, Etta Jane, 33


Auman, Euclid, 33, 56 Auman Family, 42 Auman, Henry, 24, 28


Auman, Hillary, 16


Auman, Rev. J. Clyde, 32 Auman, Jacob, 16 Auman, Rev. James Auman, 32, 33 Auman, Jefferson, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 39


Auman, Lydia, 25, 28


Auman, M. C., 29, 39, 57


Auman, Martin, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 24, 35


Auman, Susannah, 28


Auman, Velon, 58


68


Auman, Warren, 16 Auman, William T., iii, 60, 68 Auman's Chapel, 6 Austin, Etta Auman, 32, 58 Austin, Dr. John W., 33


B


Bean, Ina, 51 Biggs, Rev. G. H., 33 Blueback Speller, 29 Bolling, W. H. H., 16 Boroughs, Professor James P., 24, 31, 38, 39, 42, 46, 55, 58 Brandy Station, Virginia, 13 Bristow Station, Battle of, 14 Brown, Dorothy Lilly, 33, 37 Brush Arbor, 6, 24, 41 Bulla, Imogene, iii Burgess, Ada Monroe, 42


C


.


Cagle, Ernest, 57, 59 Cagle, Katie Bell, 42


Cagle, Lloyd, 37 Cagle, Margaret, 37 Cagle, Margaret Slack, 37


Cagle, Martin A., 6, 29, 31, 39, 42, 46


Carolina Population Center, 19 Caviness, Hattie, 30


Cedar Point, Virginia, 12


Champion, Mrs. Hester, 58


Chatham County, North Carolina, 15, 16


Children's Day, 29, 30 Chisholm, John F., 39, 46


Christian Church, 18, 42


Christian, Samuel H., 15 Civil War, 6-16, 38 Cole, L. C., 35 Cole Pottery, 19 Cole, (Widow), 8 Confederate States of America, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16 Army


Camp Jackson Hospital, 15 Camp Mangum, 11 Company F, Forty-sixth Regiment N. C. Troops, 11 Court-martial, 9, 14, 20 Deserters, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16 Disease in, 11, 12, 15 Draft-dodgers, 7, 10 Draft Law, 7 Peace Movement, 7, 13 Unionists, 7, 10 Women in, 10


69


Cox, Eleazer, 28 Cox, Elma, 28, 29 Cox, Fred J., 34 Cox, H. J., 28


Cox, Hannah, 28


Cox, Mabel Stuart, 33, 42


Cox, Mary Ann Lowdermilk, 28


Cox, Ross, 33 Cox, Sarah C., 28


Cox School House, 38


D


Davidson County, North Carolina, 15, 40 Democratic party, 16 Deserters (see Confederate States of America)


Draft Law (see Confederate States of America) Draft-dodgers (see Confederate States of America) Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 12


Dunn, Jas. S., 8


E


Elon College, 32, 33


F


Fair Grove Methodist Church, 6, 18, 23-37, 55, 57, 58, 59 Board of Trustees, 56, 57 Cemetery, 35, 56, 57, 59 Gravestone Inscriptions, 60-65


Christian Endeavor Society, 31 Class Meetings, 25 Lighting Methods, 33-34 Marriages, 33 Missions


Foreign Missions, 30 Nagoya, Japan, 32 Tokyo, Japan, 32 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 32, 35 Parsonage, 30 Singing, 27 Song Books, 27


Sunday School, 28, 29, 31, 32, 35 Baraca Class, 31 Philathea Class, 31 Superintendents of, 29-30


Fayetteville and Western Plank Road (see Plank Road) Fayetteville, North Carolina, 5, '23 Fayetteville Observer (newspaper), 7 Flower Hill, North Carolina, 51 Fogleman, Carrie, 31 Fogleman, Rev. W. D., 31 Fredericksburg, Battle of, 13


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G


Garner, Enoch, 12 Garner Family, 42 Garner, Professor George F., 29, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 55, 56, 58 Garner, John, 58 Garner, Nancy, 58 Garner, W. C., 56 Gollihorn, Alpheus, 9 Gollihorn Springs, 8 Gollihorn, William, 7, 8 Graves Candle Company, 18 Graves, D. R., 57 Graves, David, iii Graves, Harwood, 59


Graves, Nell, iii, 18, 35, 56


Graves, Noah, 11, 12 Graves, Phil, 18, 35, 56


Graves, Shelton, 59


Green, Capt. D. C., 9 Gross, Connie, 58 Guilford County, North Carolina, 40


H


Hammer, Minnie Hancock, 28, 58


Hammer, William C., (US Congressman), 28


Hancock, Jane Page, 28


Hancock, Jennie, 38


Hancock, John, 15 Harper, Lacy, 41 Hatcher's Run, Virginia, 15 Hill, John, 13 Hogan, 42 Hulin, D. F., 51


I


Inner Civil War, 9, 16


3


James River, Virginia, 12 Joyce, Vern Ann Stuart, 26, 37


К


Keeling College, 42 Kennett, Rev. W. C., 24, 30 King, A., 16 King, Boyd, 37 King, Cora Juanita, 33 King, Etta, 33 King, J. E., 29 King, James A., 25, 30, 31, 33, 39, 46


71


King, James B., Jr., iii


King, Jane, iii


King, L. J. (Mrs. James A. King), 39


King, Lonnie A., 29, 30, 31, 55, 57, 59


King, Mae, 42


King, Susan, ii, iii


King, Vernon, iii


King, W. Carson, 55, 56


L


Lassiter, Alma, 42 Latham, John, 11, 12


Lawrence, Nora, 42


Lawrence, Ruth, 60


Lawrence, T. W., 39, 46


Lawrence, Thomas, iii


Lawrence, W. P., 39 Leach, Colonel James Madison, 15 Lemonds, Lela, 56 Leonard, Burgess, 42


Lexington, North Carolina, 15


Lilly, J. D., 37, 57


Lilly, Pearl, 37


Lincoln, Abraham, 8 Lineberry, Zachary, 6, 23


Lowdermilk, A. C., 57


Lowdermilk, Conie S., 37, 58


Lowdermilk, Rev. E. G., 39


Lowdermilk, Rev. W. R., 39 Lucas, John, 8 Lucas, Nixon, 39 Luck, Elijah, 14


Luck, Ivey, 19


Luck, Lucinda Latham, 37


Luck, William, 10


Luck's, Inc., 19


Luther, Mary Ann, wife of Riley Luther, 12, 13, 14 Luther, Riley, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 M


Macon family, 19 Macon, Nancy, 39 Maness, L. C., 51 Maness, Rev. W. L., 32 Marshall, Mary Lilly, 33 Matthews, Mrs. George, 58 McDonald, D. W., 11 Mckenzie, Jack, iii, 60 Mckenzie, Ruth, iii McNeill, Calvin, 38 McNeill, E. E., 39, 46 McNeill, Martin, 33


72


Methodists


Methodist Churches Flag Springs, 34 Love Joy, 34 Macedonia, 34 Melton Grove, 34 Mt. Gilead, 34 Mt. Moriah, 6, 23 New Hope, 25, 34 Pleasant Hill, 30, 34 Seagrove, 57 Methodist Church Circuits Flag Springs, 34 Love Joy, 34 Seagrove, 34 Thomasville, 57 Why Not, 34 Methodist Conference, 18, 55, 57


Miller, J. R., 39


Monroe, C. L., 57


Monroe, Clayton, 37 .


Monroe, J. A., 29


Montgomery County, North Carolina, 10, 11, 15, 40 Moore County, North Carolina, 7, 10, 11, 15, 40 Morgan, Rev. Frank, 32


Morris, Tula, 42 Mourner's Bench, 26, 27


0


Ogburn, Rev. J. C., 30 Ogburn, Rev. T. J., 32


Okeeweemee, North Carolina, 51


Old Gap, 19


Orange Courthouse, Virginia, 14


Owens, Mrs. William, 10


Owens, William, 7, 8


P


Page, Billy, 31 Page, James, 15, 16


Page, Jane, 16 Page, Martha Shamburger, 15, 16 Page, W. J., 16


Page's Toll House, 15, 16, 42


Parks, Carolina, 27 -


Peace Movement (see Confederate States of America) Petersburg, Virginia, 12, 13


Pike, Alfred, 10


Plank Road, 5, 7, 15, 16, 18, 23, 42 Point Lookout, Maryland, 15


Political Parties (see under name of party)


73


Post Office Confederate, 6 Seagrove, 6 Why Not, 6 Presnell, Alfred, 12, 15


Presnell, Allen, 15


Presnell, Clay, 19


Pregnell, Josiah, 6


Presnell, R. (probably Randell), 12, 13


Presnell, Sarah, 28


Presnell, Silas, 24, 28


Presaly, Capt., 8 Pressly, Lt. B., 8


Progressive Era, 39


Prosperity, North Carolina, 51 Protracted Meetings, 26


Public Schools, see Schools


R


Raleigh, North Carolina, 16 Reconstruction, 16, 38 Republican party, 16 Revival Meetings, 26, 27 Richardson, Mamie S., 6 Richardson, Noah, 5, 28, 31 Richmond, Battle of, 12 Richmond County, North Carolina, 15


Richmond, Virginia, 12, 16 Robbins, North Carolina, 18


Russell, David, 13


Russell, Rev. John, 32


S


Salem, North Carolina, 5 Schools


Academies, 38, (see also Why Not Academy, Keeling College) Public, 17, 18, 38, 39, 40, 42 Subscription, 38 (see also Cox School House) Scott, G. W., 51 Seagrove Lumber Company, 42 Seagrove, North Carolina, 17, 18, 19, 42, 46, 48, 51, 57, 59 Seagrove School, 6, 8, 15, 23, 42 Seagroves, Edwin, 17 Secession, 8 Shamburger, Capt. Peter, 8 Slack, Emory, 33 Slack Family, 41 Slack, J. B., 59 Smith, H. D., 29 Spencer, Addison, 25 Spencer, Alfred, 19 Spencer, B. L. 28


74


Spencer, Rev. C. L., 38 Spencer , Rev. Charles, 32


Spencer , Conie, 26


Spencer , E. L., 25, 29


Spencer , Graham, 29


Hattie, 26


Spencer , Spencer, J. H., 29, 31, 39, 46


Spencer ,


Janie, 29


Jesse, 13


Spencer, Spencer , May, 33 Spencer, Minnie, 30


Spencer , Sergeant Nathan, 14


Spencer, Rev. T. A., 32


Staley, Donna Lawrence, iii, 60


Steed, Joe, 28


.


Steed, Martitia Page, 28


Stowe, Rev. J. H., 30


Stowe, Rosa, 58


Stowe, Xannie, 31


Stuart, Charles E., 27, 29, 31, 37, 57 Stuart, Charlie, 41


Stuart, Mary, 37


Stuart, Minnie Spencer, 23, 26, 37, 42, 56, 58


Stuart, Vern S., 37


Sugg Creek, 24


T


Taylorsville, Virginia, 13 Texas, 28


Trogdon, Ethel Biggs, 32


Trogdon, J. W., 25, 28, 29, 30, 38


Trogdon, W. L., 51


Tucker, Delano, 28


Tucker, Edmund, 28 Tucker, J. D., 11 Tucker, Jane, 35


Tucker, Lou, 28


Tucker, William, 6, 24, 28


U


Unionists (see Confederate States of America) United States Army Indiana Cavalry, 9 Sherman's Army, 9 United States Military Academy, 15


Vanderford, John, 9 Voncannon, Henry, 11 Vuncannon, Letha, 28, 29 Vuncannon, Milton Filmore, 33 Vuncannon, Peter, 29


75


W


Walters, Priv. William F., 9 Weir, Lt., 13 Wesleyan Church, 19 Westminster Seminary (Maryland), 32 Whigs, 15


Why Not Academy, 17, 18, 25, 31, 32, 38-54, 55 Baseball Team, 41


Board of Trustees, 39, 46


Brass Bands, 41 Catalog for 1905-1906, 43-54 Commencement Exercises, 41 Commercial Department, 48 Debates, 41 Discipline, 41, 49


Disease, 46 Dormitories, 40 Examinations, 47 Expenses, 50


Library, 48 Literary Course, 48


Miscellaneous Rules of Conduct, 50-51


Penmanship Department, 48


Physical Education, 47


Religion, 47


Shorthand and Typewriting Department, 48 Text Books, 49


Why Not Academy and Business Institute, 40


Why Not Memorial Association, 18, 23, 55-59 Board of Directors, 59


Board of Trustees, 56, 57 Committees


Constitution and By-Laws, 56 Grounds, 56 Historical, 23 Williams, Rev. Ben, 32


Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 5, 23


Worth Lumber Company, 31


Y


Yadkin College, 39 Yow, A. L., 6, 24, 25, 28, 35


Yow, Alfred, 5, 12 Yow, Alfred L., 35, 39 Yow, Bonnie, 42


Yow, Elisha, 35


Yow, Henry, 25


Yow, Martitia, 28, 38


Yow, Mary Ellen Lowdermilk, 38


Yow, Sarah, 39


Yow, Worth, 24


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