ALLEN, Alexander – (d. 1836)

DIED

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Source: Raleigh Standard, 21 January 1836.  Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newpspaers

BISHOP, Sidney & ALBRIGHT, Sally (m. 1857)

MARRIED — In Chatham county, on the 1st inst., at the residence of Daniel SMITH, Esq., by Rev. John HINSHAW, Dr. Sidney BISHOP to Miss Sally ALBRIGHT, daughter of the late John ALBRIGHT of Alamance.


Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

WOODY Monument (1905)

Saxapahwaw, Oct. 20 -At a reunion of the WOODY family at Spring church Wednesday, a monument was unveiled bearing the following inscription: “John W. WOODY and wife, Pioneer Settlers and Parents of the WOODY Family, South.” The monument is of North Carolina and New Hampshire granite and was unveiled by little Thomas Clarkson WOODY, of High Falls. John W. WOODY and wife came from Maryland and took up land in this vicinity during the reign of the Lords Proprietors. They have many and distinguished descendants scattered over the United States, though only a few members of the family remain within the limits of the original settlement.


Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905

Servant Takes Revenge (d. 1905)

A discharged negro servant in the family of Constantine SELLERS, of Alamance county, sought to take revenge by putting rough on rats in the coffee. The poison was detected before any of the family drank the coffee. The negro woman was arrested and sent to jail.


Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905