Central North Carolina collection / researched and compiled by James Vann Comer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comer, James Vann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Carolina--Genealogy.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--History, Local.

Genre:

Genealogy.

Local history.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

Akron, OH : 48 HrBooks, 2015-

Place of Publication:

Sanford, NC : Comer Genealogical Services, 2015-

Summary:

"My intention in this publication is to fairly represent the complete history of Central North Carolina by merging oral tradition, genealogical research and historical research."

Contents:

Volume 1. Academies/schools throughout book with teachers found in Masons

Bastardy records (1869-1873) & throughout book

Cemeteries/graveyards & stories of witches

Churches (Euphronia Presbyterian: 1844-1895)

Court house (Moore County, N.C. Floor collapse

1823 & Fire

1889)

Divorce records (1870-1871)

Indians (Indian Mound & Devil's Tramping/Tromping Ground)

Ku Klux Klan (1866 & 1869 incidents) and game cock fighting

Masonic lodges (Pansophia No. 25, Chalmers No. 151, Carthage No. 181, Crain's Creek No. 213, White Hill No. 321) members biographies

Mormons (Central NC: 1895-1921 & Cameron Branch: 1895-1898)

Old Roads (Conner Road/Cotton-Williams Road/Raleigh Road)

Plank Roads (Fayetteville & Western and Graham & Gulf)

Buie/Gilchrist/Campbell/Browder Settlement (ghost town)

Dowd's Mills / Town of Carbonton

Carter's Mills (ghost town) and story of James Lakey's murder

Town of Carthage (county seat)

Chalmersville & Crane's/Crain's Creek (ghost town) and town of Cameron

Parkwood (ghost town) and story of moonshiner "Bone" Taylor

Savage Spring settlement (ghost town)

Revolutionary War (Chatham & Moore) soldiers in Masons

Mexican War (Chatham) & Civil War (Chatham & Moore) soldiers in Masons

Comer photographs.

Volume 2. Churches (Crain's Creek, Sandy Run/Deep Creek Missionary Baptist)

Court House (Harnett County, N.C. Fires- 1881, 1892 & 1894)

Dobbins' Mill (Barbecue Creek [Harnett County])

Hanging (Benjamin Douglass "Ben" [1869] Moore County)

Ku Klux Klan

Masonic Lodges (Buffalo, 172 [Lee]; Mount Vernon, 143 [Chatham]; Pine Fores, 186 [Harnett])

Mineral Springs [Betts'/Chalybeate Springs (Hector's Creek Twp., Harnett County, N.C.); Hickory/Mount Vernon Springs (Matthews Twp., Chatham County,N.C.); Mineral Spring/Jackson Springs (Mineral Springs Twp., Moore County, N.C.) Lemon's Mineral Springs (Greenwood Twp., Lee County, N.C.)]

Mining (Coal [Egypt Fire Damp Explosions- 1857 (two), 1895, 1899, 1900; Powder Explosion- 1863; Coal Glen Explosion- 1925. All mining victims listed; Governors visits-1860 & 1864], Copper, Gold and Iron Ore) covering from above High Falls to below Buckhorn Falls

Newspapers (Chatham, Harnett, Lee & Moore)

Pastors (Rev. Orren Churchill, Rev. William Green King, Rev. William Henry Harrison Lawhon, Rev. Martin McQueen)

Public hangings- Chatham Coutny, N.C.'s last public hanging- William S. Shackleford [alias- James P. Davis] (1890) harnet County, N.C.'s last public hanging- Edwin Purvis "Ed" (1897) Moore County, N.C.'s last public hanging- Ben Bostick (1891)

Central North Carolina Railroad towns- Western R.R. (Spout Springs, Swann's Gulf, Ore Hill); Raleigh & Augusta Air Line R.R. (Moncure, Osgood, Colon, Sanford, Worthy's Crossing, Morris Town, Munn's Station, Lemon's Springs, Johnstown Crossing, Cameron, Robers' Crossing, Silver Springs/Walnut Grove Crossing, Bynum's/Winder/Vass, Manly Station, Blue's Crossing/Aberdeen, Keyser)

Mechanic's Hill Community [now Robbins, N.C.]

Academies/Schools (Cool Springs, Crain's Creek pp. 4-5, James Maske/Caldwell/Lemon Springs pp. 236-239, Mineral/Jackson Springs pp. 54-55, Mount Vernon Springs pp. 46-51, Poplar Springs, Sanford High School)

Union Home School (Students and parents/Guardians listed 1878-1899)

The Rosenwald Schools (Black)

Williams (1869), Jefferson (1887) and Lee (1907 Counties

Miscellaneous

Postscript (Volume 1)

Business and full name indexes (3,820 entries),

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC:

935514799