Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Category Archives: Durham
Rev. Cunninggim Succeeds Rev. North (1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 25 February 1915. Available online at the Internet Archive.
PEGRAM, John D. (Rev.) – (d. 1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 28 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
SMOOT, Edward (d. 1905)
Durham, Oct. 25 — Edward, the little son of Rev. and Mrs. T.A. SMOOT, while playing in a small automobile with several companions, fell out of the machine and was caught by the neck between the sharp sides of the tin portion of the car. Had he not been quickly rescued and given medical attention he would have died, for as he hung, he was rapidly choking to death.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 26, 1905
Conduct Business in Jail (1905)
Durham, Oct. 21 – W.R. MURRAY, under sentence to serve two years in the jail of Durham county, this med<…> of his sentence from two years on the public roads having been made by the governor and announced today, is making every preparation to begin his sentence Thursday morning, this being the time to which he had previously been respited by Governor Glenn.
The news of the governor’s action was a shock to MURRAY and his friends, but there is no criticism. MURRAY thinks it’s hard on him, but has no criticism of any one and is ready to begin his sentence. He was cheerful tonight and his only talk was of making arrangements for the inevitable.
He is still president of the W.R. MURRAY Company, and will hold that position with salary during his confinement. From his cell he will keep in as close touch with his business as possible, and in his daily mail will be a report from his house, showing every detail of what has been done and sending him duplicate contracts of everything transacted for his concern. If possible he intends keeping a duplicate set of books in his little cell and will serve his time in the best possible spirit and with as much profit to himself and business as possible.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 25, 1905
JENKINS, Della (d. 1905)
Durham, Oct. 23 — A negro woman by the name of Della JENKINS, aged about fifty years, met a horrible death in the western part of the city yesterday afternoon. She was burned in a fearful manner at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and death resulted at 5:15 o’clock last night. Her burns were such that a great deal of the skin on her body slipped off before death. The woman was using gasoline in a stove, when there was a loud explosion and she was covered in flames. She ran to a bed, jumped upon it, and covered up. The bed clothes caught fire, this firing the bed, and the house was saved with trouble.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905