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David Mebane, the youngest son of the patri- arch of the family represented the county of Orange in the house of commons in the years 1808-10. He married Miss Ann Al- len, of the Hawfields, and had a large family of children, one of whom is George A. Me- bane, of Mason Hall, Orange county. After the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Young, of Caswell, by whom he had one daughter. He died several years before his last wife.
A considerable portion of this numerous family now live in Orange, Caswell and Guil- ford counties, but a large portion migrated to the west and now live in various states -- Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas.
The substance of the foregoing sketch was. furnished by James Mebane, Esq., of Cas- well county, who is well known throughout the state for his good sense, his public spirit and his integrity. It was furnished at the writer's special request, and for this act of courtesy and kindness the writer desires to. express his gratitude. . The sketch was pre- pared by Mr. Mebane when he was over sev -. enty-five years of age. It contains many facts of interest as matters of history, and having been written, as it evidently was, with candor and modesty, it will be read with pleasure by everyone who admires the spirit and charac-
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ter of the men who achieved our independ- ence. Judging by information received from other sources, the writer is of the opinion that Mr. Mebane, instead of exaggerating, has fallen short of the real facts, and that, in all honesty and fairness, much more concerning the heroism of some of these revolutionary soldiers might have been said. One Nathan- iel Slade, of Caswell county, with whom the writer had an interview some years ago, was in many battles with Colonel Robert Mebane. From Slade's account of Colonel Mebane's bravery and heroism, the description of this patriot's part in the war for independence is indeed far too modest. In describing the bat- tle mentioned above. where Colonel Mebane disobeyed orders and rallied the retreating forces, Slade said he was not far from Me- bane and heard him giving orders in a bold strong voice, "Now give it to them, boys, fire !" Slade said further that this brave col- onel showed an utter disregard for his own safety when the success of his regiment was at stake.
In the last will and testament of Col. John Mebane, of Chatham county, which is dated May the 3Ist, 1834, appears the following clause : "Item. I give and bequeath to my nephew. Dr. John Mebane, of Greensboro, my silver-hilted sword, it being the first sword taken from the British in North Carolina dur- ing the Revolutionary war, by my brother, Col. Robert Mebane." The sword mentioned in the above extract was taken by Colonel Mebane from a British officer somewhere in the neighborhood of Wilmington, North Car- olina. It will probably be handed down as a kind of heirloom of the family for generations to come.
To recapitulate, therefore, the Mebanes came from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and soon after 1700 some of them came over and settled in Pennsylvania. Among the most prominent were Col. Alexander Mebane and his brother William. Alexander Mebane was commissioner, colonel and justice of the peace under the royal government. About 1745 he removed to North Carolina and set- tled in the Hawfields, in Orange county. He married Mary Tinnin in 1741, and several of his children were born before he removed from Pennsylvania. He was a devoted Pres- byterian, and took an active part in establish- ing this denomination in America. He had twelve children, six sons and six daughters.
The names of the sons, with the descendants of the second son, Alexander, follow :
I. Capt. William, born Pennsylvania, 1742 ; married (first) Miss Abercrombie : mar- ried (second) Miss Rainey.
II. Brigadier-General Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, November 26, 1744: died July 5. 1795 : married, February, 1767, Mary Arm- strong; assisted in founding University of North Carolina, 1789. Descendants, four sons and eight daughters: I. James, one of the founders of the Dialectic Society at the Uni- versity of North Carolina, married Elizabeth Kinchin. Three sons: (I) James; (2) William ; (3) Dr. John ; four or five daughters. 2. Robert. 3. Hall. 4. David, married (first) Miss Birney ; (second) Annie Cummins, who was born 1770, died 1844: date of marriage, 1804, died 1819. Children of second marriage: (1) Dr. David Cummins Mebane, born 1805, died May 25, 1866; married Susan E. Watkins. (2) Rev. William Nelson Mebane, born 1808, died 1859: married Mary Hays Aiken. (3) Ru- hamah Mebane, married Dr. Thomas Beaty.
III. Col. Robert, killed during the Revo- lution by the Tory, Hightower.
IV. Col. John, of Chatham county, mar- ried Sarah Kinchin ; son John Briggs.
V. Col. James, married Margaret Allen ; large family.
VI. David, married (first) Ann Allen ; (second) Elizabeth Young; large family.
Also six daughters.
It will be seen, therefore, that of the chil- dren of Col. Alexander Mebane, five of his sons became prominent in the Revolution- one was a captain in the militia, three were colonels, and one was a brigadier-general. David, the youngest of the brothers, was too young to take an active part in the Revolu- tion, but near the close of the war did serve two terms in the militia. All were particu- larly distinguished for piety and courage.
Let us now take up David Mebane (num- bered 4 above) and follow his descendants. Some of David Mebane's descendants think that he is a son of Brig .- Gen. Alexander Me- bane (numbered II above), son of the Col. Alexander Mebane mentioned above, but oth- ers trace him back to a William Mebane. brother of this Col. Alexander Mebane. This William Mebane is one of the first, if not the first, buried in the old Alamance graveyard, near Greensboro, North Carolina. His tomb- stone shows that he was born in 1728, and
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lied in 1774. His oldest daughter was the grandmother of Dr. Calvin H. Wiley, who was the organizer of public schools in North Carolina. David's mother was Mary Nelson. He married Annie Cummins in 1804. Her father, Capt. Francis Cummins, from Ireland, was a captain in Light-Horse Harry Lee's brigade. Her mother was Miss McIlhaney, from Pennsylvania. Tom Cummins, an un- married brother of Capt. Francis Cummins, was in the battle of Guilford Court House. He owned "Henry's Commentaries" in five volumes, bought in London for fifty pounds. This work is now in the possession of Rev. J. Edwin Mebane, a Presbyterian minister of West Virginia. These Cumminses were a pious folk. Annie Cummins was pronounced by Governor Morehead and her pastor the most brilliant woman of their acquaintance. She was equally noted for her piety. At her funeral services her pastor said he believed she knew "Henry's Commentaries" by heart.
husband, David Mebane, who died early, that their descendants owe their excellence of blood as well as of training. She died in 1844, her husband having died in 1819.
Their youngest child, Ruhamah, married Dr. Thomas Beaty. She was much like her mother, both in strength of character and in piety. One of her grandchildren is Rev. Ar- thur Barnes, a Presbyterian minister, who graduated at the head of his class at Davidson College, North Carolina.
The second child of David and Annie Mebane was Rev. William Nelson Mebane, who graduated high in his class at Princeton, in the class of Dr. Alexander Hodge, so well known in Wilkes-Barre. He was a pioneer of the Presbyterian Church in North Caro- lina, and died in 1859, greatly beloved and honored. It is said at his death, by one who well knew him and his work in North Caro- lina, that he was the pioneer of the Presby- terian Church and Christianity in that com- munity. The value of his labors here will never be estimated till the Master shall Him- self make up the account. He found the church destitute, ignorant, careless ; he has left it strong, well taught, active and efficient. He found the community openly profane and immoral ; he has left it one of the most moral and religious in the state. He has had help in this work from ministers of other churches, but it is no exaggeration to say that this is, under God's direction, chiefly his work. He
married Mary Hays Aiken, by whom he had several children. One of his sons is the dis- tinguished lawyer and jurist, Judge William N. Mebane, of the superior court of North Carolina, who was born in 1843 and died in 1895. Judge Mebane was a member of the house of representatives in 1874-5, and of the state senate in 1876-7. He was the author of the bill which re-established the University of North Carolina after it had been closed by carpet-bag rule. He was considered by many as one of the best lawyers in the state. He married Lettie W. Carter. Judge Mebane was awarded the degree A. B. by the Uni- versity of North Carolina, causa honoris, he having left college in the middle of his course to enter the Confederate army, where he re- mained through the whole Civil war, attain- ing the rank of captain. His oldest son, Frank C. Mebane, an attorney, formerly residing in Wilkes-Barre, but now practicing his profes- sion in New York City, graduated at the head Probably it is to her, fully as much as to her. of his class at the University of North Caro- lina in 1892.
Another son of William Nelson Mebane, Sr., was David Cummins Mebane, famous as . "the last man killed" in the Confederate army on its retreat from Petersburg. When Gen- eral Lee called for two volunteers to burn the Pocahontas bridge across the Appomattox river at Petersburg, Lindsay Wall (now liv- ing at Madison, North Carolina) and Cum- mins Mebane answered the call, well knowing that it meant almost certain death. When the bridge was on fire and the work about fin- ished, a cannon shot took the life of young Mebane. He had gone into the army as a volunteer at the age of sixteen.
The oldest son of David and Annie Cummins Mebane was Dr. David Cummins Mebane, father of (the subject of this sketch) Dr. David Cummins Mebane, Jr., of Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania. He was born in 1805, and died at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1866. He was married to Susan Elizabeth Watkins in 1845. He was a man of liberal and classical edu- cation, a Whig in politics, a Presbyterian of strong convictions in his religion, and a phy- sician by profession. For nearly twenty-five years he was an honored and useful ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church at Greens- boro, North Carolina. It is hard to say whether Dr. Mebane was more noted as a physician or as a church-worker and officer : but, above everything else, he impressed all as a man of God. The following extract is
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from his obituary, written by his pastor, Dr. Jacob Henry Smith, of the First Presbyterian Church :
"The death of Dr. Mebane is a sad loss in every circle of life in which he moved, as husband and father, as Christian and ruling elder, as citizen and physician. With his be- reaved family the church mourns, and espe- cially the families of the poor, among whom he so constantly ministered almost gratui- tously as a physician, and in whose spiritual welfare he was ever deeply interested. Dr. Mebane carried his religion with him at all times, in all places and under all circum- stances. He was everywhere and by every- body known revered and loved as a genuine, benevolent, active man of God. A sadder loss will be realized and in more families, by his death, than that of any other in our whole community. Scores and hundreds will rise up and attest his worth, his Christian useful- ness and universal activity, and call him blessed. He leaves a memory behind, which to his family, to his church and to our com- munity, is a rich and priceless treasure.
In looking up Dr. Mebane, on his moth- er's side we find that in 1760 there was re- corded in Cumberland county, Virginia, the will of a Thomas Watkins. His eldest son was Thomas Watkins, of Chickahominy, who died in 1783. His wife was a Miss Anderson. They reared four sons and seven daughters. Henry was a distinguished captain in the Rev- olution; Susan became the wife of the cele- brated Col. William Morton, another hero of the battle of Guilford Court House. The family were generally noted for industry and probity.
The third son was Joel Watkins, of Wood Fork, Charlotte county, Virginia, who mar- ried Agnes, a sister to Colonel Morton, just mentioned. Among the papers of the famous John Randolph was found the following :
"On Sunday, the second of January, de- parted this life at an advanced age, beloved, honored and lamented by all who knew him, Col. Joel Watkins, of the county of Charlotte and state of Virginia. Without shining abil- ities or the advantages of an education, by plain, straightforward industry, under the guidance of an old-fashioned honesty and practical good-sense, he accumulated an am- ple fortune, in which, it is firmly believed, there was not one dirty shilling. These fruits of his own labors he distributed with a promptitude and liberality seldom equalled
and never surpassed, in suitable provision to- his children at their entrance into life, and on every deserving object of private benevo- lence or public spirit, reserving to himself the- means of a generous but unostentatious hos- pitality. Nor was he liberal with his money only. His time, his trouble, were never with- held on the bench or in his neighborhood when they could be usefully employed. If, as we are assured, peace-makers are blessed, who shall feel stronger assurance of bliss than this man as he passed to an unknown world ?".
The three youngest children of this Joel and Agnes Morton Watkins were Henry A., William N. and Jane, wife of Col. Clemment Carrington. Their second child was Susanna, who first married William P. Hunt, of Mary- land, and became the mother of James and Ruth H. Hunt and of Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Thomas P. Hunt married Ann M. Field, and two of their- children, Miss Susan C. Hunt and Mrs. A. M. Wells, are now living at 146 North Frank- lin street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mrs .. Susanna Hunt, after the death of her first hus- band, became the wife of the celebrated Pres- byterian divine, Dr. Moses D. Hoge, of Rich- mond, Virginia. The oldest child of Joel and Agnes Morton Watkins was Polly W., who- married John Dupuy, of a Virginia family- of Huguenot descent, noted for piety and" ability. They had seven sons and four daugh -. ters. The oldest daughter was Susan, who. married Benjamin Watkins, of Pittsylvania. county, Virginia. He seems to have belonged to the same family as the Watkinses above. mentioned, and to have inherited their char- acteristics. He was a man of large means, of fine social gifts, liberal, upright, and in the latter third of his long life (he was eighty- nine years at his death) a man of exemplary piety .. He was the father of the Cascade Presbyterians Church in Pittsylvania county, which was be- gun and principally guided under his support- and by his means and energy. This, and the fact that all their twelve children became- pious men and women, was probably due in large measure to the wife and mother. From: them are descended numerous prominent peo- ple in Virginia and North Carolina-Pres -. byterians-quite a number of whom are prom- inent ministers of the Gospel in that church. The third child was Susan Elizabeth, who- married Dr. D. C. Mebane, of Greensboro, North Carolina, and these became the parents: of Dr. D. C. Mebane, of Wilkes-Barre, Penn --
COLONEL ALEXANDER MEBANE M. MARY TINNIN IN 1741
1. Miss Abercrombie Brig. Gen'l Alexander, b. Pa, Nov. 26, Col. Robert Col. John Col. James
1. Miss Ann Allen
Capt. William 10.
1744, m. Feb. 1767, Mary Armstrong- m.
In.
David m.
daughters
2. Miss Rainey
Died July 5, 1795.
Sarab Kinchin
Margaret Allen
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2. Miss Elizabeth Young
James, m. Elizabeth Kinchin
Robert
Hall
1. Miss Birney
David m.
Eight daughters
James
William Dr. John A.
David Cummins, M. D.
Rev. Wm. Nelson
Ruhamab
m.
m.
Susan E. Watkins
Mary Aiken
Dr. Thos. Beaty
Mary Ellen
Rev. Benjamin Watkins, D. D. b. May 26, 1850, m. Nov. 21, 1878
Susan Agnes
David Cummins, M. D.
Rev. Wm Nelson, Ph. D.
Robert Lee
m.
Rev. F. P. Ramsay, Ph. D.
Bettie G. Carter
F. M. Ramsay
21, 1887,
Evelyn P. Kent
18 years of age
1. Robert Lee Ramsay, Ph. D born Dec. 14, 1880.
1. David Cummins Mebane, born Sept 20, 1879, died Nov, 9, 1881.
1. Lola Ramsay, born Dec. 6, 1885.
2. John Cummins Ramsay, horn June 27, 1890,
3. Foster Pierce Ramsay, born Dec. 22, 1891.
3. D. Cummins Mebane, Jr., boin Dec. 8, 1892.
4. Jessie Mebane, born March 17, 1895.
1. Elizabeth Kent Mebane, born Sept. 24, 1888, died Aug, 9, 1896.
2. Franklin Pierce Ramsay, born Ang. 17, 1884. 2. Mary Galloway Mebane, born Feb, 11, 1881.
8. Ellen Ramsay, born Jan. 24, 1887. 3. Wm. Carter Mebane, M. D.,
born Nov, 1, 1882.
4. Ellen Pratt Ramsay, born
Sept, 29, 1896.
1 D. C. M.]
1. Tom Sperring Mebane, born June 4, 1888.
2. Robert Ramsay Mebane, born July 20, 1890.
Margaret Archer Mebane born Nov. 16, 1890, died Aug, 9, 1896.
3. Helen Watkins Mebane, born Feb. 26, 1893.
1. Mebane Ramsay, born Sept. 8, 1892.
4. Alice Early Mebane, born Dec. 26, 1883
4. Wm. Nelson Mebane, Jr., born Oct. 3, 1896.
-
m. March 26, 1883
b. April 13, 1856, m. Sept
m. Dec. 21, 1887
Drowned wben
Jessie Sperring
Six
- 2. Annie Cummins
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sylvania. She was born June the 4th, 1823, and died March the 3rd, 1891. One who knew her well and measures his words wrote of her : "She was a woman of devoted piety ; confessing Christ in girlhood, she submitted herself through life to His Spirit. She loved Jesus. She prayed much to God. Her Bible was her delight. Her piety was humble, sin- cere, real. She was remarkably faithful. She was all the time industriously doing her task, and doing it the very best she could. Hers was a life of unremitting toil; in the spirit of obedience she served. Among the faithful she was distinguished by rare unselfishness. She was loved as a mother by all her ten sons and daughters and twelve grandchildren; and now they are saying to one another, 'how un- selfish our mother was'."
I. Summary .- The Mebanes, the Cumminses, the Watkinses, and the Dupuys were all characterized by piety, probity, patriotism, and public spirit : had industry and measura- ble success in means and honors, and each of the four strains showed persons of ability and eminence. Perhaps the Cumminses and the Dupuys contributed most of piety and genius ; the Watkinses and the Mebanes, most of thrift and strength. But it is an ancestry combining all elements of noble worth. and without a stain.
II. His Brothers and Sisters. The fam- ily remained in Greensboro, North Carolina, after the death of the father, educating the daughters in the seminary there. In 1874 they removed to Davidson College to edu- cate the sons. In 1880 it broke up, the mother afterward living with her children. Passing over the children that died young, and Robert Lee Mebane, who was accidentally drowned in 1880, at the age of eighteen, still mourned as the loveliest of all, there remained the fol- lowing: Mary Ellen, wife of Rev. F. P. Ram- say, Ph. D., (University of Chicago, where he won a fellowship), now president of King College, Bristol, Tennessee, a Presbyterian minister. He graduated first in his class at Davidson College, taking the debater's medal and the orator's medal while he was a mem- ber of the junior class. He is a man of won- derful industry, a devoted, painstaking stu- dent of God's word, and, possessing withal graet physical endurance, and is regarded as one of the most intelligent and acute thinkers in the ministry of his denomination. He is the author of "Exposition of the Book of Church Order," and of a number of articles
in biblical interpretation. He is an able preacher and has oratorical abilities of a high order. As a teacher lie has rare facility in imparting knowledge, and his scholarship is recognized by competent judges as extraordi- nary, not only in its thoroughness but also in its scope. In view of his remarkable men- tal equipment, he would adorn almost any chair in any of the great universities of this country. They have four children, the eldest (twenty-three years of age) a Ph. D. of John Hopkins University, and tutor in that institution.
Rev. Benjamin Watkins Mebane, D. D., Mt. Airy, North Carolina, a Presbyterian minister. Graduating first in his class at Da- vidson College, he delivered the valedictory, won the debater's medal, and was commence- ment president. He is regarded as one of the most intellectual men in the Southern Church, and is a scholarly and eloquent preacher. He has been unusually successful in the pastor- ate, having that happy faculty of enlisting the attention and winning the affections of young as well as old, both as pastor and preacher. He married Bettie G. Carter. They have three children living, the son a physician, now interne in hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Susan Agnes, wife of Mr. F. M. Ramsay (brother of Dr. F. P. Ramsay above men- tioned), Laredo, Texas. He is an unusually successful merchant, has been called to the office of elder of the Presbyterian Church, and is a leader in liberality and public enterprise. They have three children.
Rev. William Nelson Mebane, Ph. D. (University of Chicago), Dublin, Virginia, Presbyterian minister. He graduated third in his class at Davidson College, North Car- olina, but has since surpassed all the rest of his family in scholarship, and has attained eminence as a teacher. He studied theology at Columbia and at Princeton, and after com- pleting his Ph. D. course in Semitic lan- guages and literature at the University of Chicago, where he won a fellowship, he stud- ied in Germany and Switzerland. At one time he was acting professor of Greek and German at Davidson College, North Carolina; at an- other, professor of Greek and German at Federicksburg College, Virginia, and later professor of Latin and modern languages at Hanover College, Indiana, now occupying the same chair in King College, Bristol, Tennes- see. He married Evelyn P. Kent, and they have two children living.
Dr. David Cummins Mebane himself, now
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of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, April the third, 1856. He was educated at Davidson College and the University of the City of New York. from which institution he received the degree of M. D. in 1883. The same year he settled in Parsons, Pennsylvania, where he did a large general practice in medicine for twelve years. In 1895 he removed to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and has practiced his profes- sion in that city ever since. He resides at 62 West Union street. He is also the pro- prietor of the City Pharmacy, 60 North Main street, where he conducts a dispensary and treats a large number of patients daily. On September 21, 1887, he married Jessie Sper- ring, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her father, William Hewitt Sperring (a promi- nent merchant on "Public Square" in the six- ties), married Jane Ann, the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Stocker, of Plains, Pennsylvania. Dr. and Mrs. Mebane have four children: Tom, the oldest, aged sixteen ; Ramsay, D. Cummins, Jr., and Jessie. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and takes a deep interest in the affairs of his adopted city and state. To perpetuate the traditions of his family and to prove worthy of his father, whose name and profession he bears, is his highest ambition.
WILLIAM HENRY REICHARD. Among the few men who have been connected with one industry for more than four decades and have seen it grow from a very small beginning to gi- gantic proportions is to be named William Henry Reichard, superintendent of the wire drawing de- partment of the Hazard Manufacturing Company of Wilkes-Barre, in which capacity he has served since 1880. He comes of a long line of iron workers, being in the fifth generation from George Reichard, who was one of the earliest ironmas- ters, and connected with this industry near Read- ing. Pennsylvania, in the early part of the seven- teenth century.
The Reichard family is traced back to the Dutch settlers who located in New York in 1625. George Reichard (grandfather), who was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, son of George Reichard, mentioned above as being connected with the iron industry in its early stages, was also an ironmaster. He came to East Penn, and there had charge of the iron works, having prev- iously learned the trade of forgeman. He took an active interest in religious matters, and lib- erally supported the churches of his day. He re-
mained a resident of East Penn until his death, at the age of eighty years. He was twice mar- ried. By his first wife, who died young, he had six children. By his second wife he had four children, and of the former one son. Owen, de- ceased, and one daughter, Mrs. Fred Kugler, a resident of Sandy Run, Pennsylvania. The mother of these children died at the age of twen- ty-two years. His first wife, Hattie Frantz, was a descendant of a Dutch family, which came to Pennsylvania in pioneer days. Her father was contemporary with the Indians of that time, with whom he was very friendly, accompanied them on their hunting trips, and they never harmed him or bore toward him any ill will. Mr. Frantz married a Miss Clater, but some of her brothers and sisters were less fortunate than her husband,. for one evening, while gathering wild grapes. they were suddenly set upon by the savages and killed. Their bodies were buried near Lehigh- ton, and a stone with an appropriate inscription was erected to their memory by the Historical Society of that section.
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