Category Archives: Franklin

WHITE, John – (d. 1883)

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John WHITE, better known as “John Jew,” died at Franklinton on Monday, the 30th ult.  He was well known by all the citizens of Franklinton, and many mourn his loss. He had been in bad health for some time, but no one was expecting his death so soon.  John WHITE was for a long time employed at the Franklinton Hotel, and was well known by the traveling public, and was much thought of by the proprietors of the hotel.

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Editorial note: the obituary below also appeared in the same issue.

On Monday, 30th ult., at 11pm, John WHITE, a most trustworthy waiter in the Franklinton Hotel, after a short but very powerful attack of pneumonia, passed away in the vigor of manhood to his final rest.  He leaves a wife and two children to miss his cherishing care.  His honesty and fidelity had won for him many friends both white and colored.  He came here a stranger from Richmond, Va., but he soon won the confidence and respect of the community by his upright course.  We, who have for so long been associated with him our daily labors, can bear testimony to his faithful discharge of each and every duty making our labors lighter by his cheerful demeanor and merry conversation.  But now he is gone – we trust and believe to that happy clime where there is no more labor, sorrow, sickness nor death.  His friend — Fannie MAYFIELD.

Source: Banner-enterprise (Raleigh, NC). 10 May 1883. Available at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.

GILL, Ransome – (d. 1890)

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Mysterious Murder in Franklin County – Raleigh, NC, January 23 — A special to the News Observer, from Louisburg, gives an account of a sensational murder in Franklin County night before last. Ransome GILL, a well-to-do farmer, living about three miles from Franklinton, was a juror in court and was going home from Louisburg in his buggy late in the evening, when he was mysteriously shot. He was found next day six miles from Louisburg with a bullet hole through his head. His horse was found unhitched and tied about three hundred yards away. GILL was found lying on his face with his overcoat on and both hands in his pockets. The ball had apparently been fired from a 38 calibre revolver. Robbery was evidently not the object of the murder, as GILL had some money on his person when found. The affair is enveloped in profound mystery.

Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 29  January 1890.  Paper available at Google News Archive.

Blanche Barden Home (1890)

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Miss Blanche BARDEN who has been attending the Louisburg Female College, returned home on Monday. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Pattie BAGLEY, of Louisburg.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 20 June 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.

Lightening Strike (1890)

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During a thunderstorm the storehouse of A.D. ELLIS, nine miles north of Louisburg, N.C., was struck by lightening and entirely destroyed.  There no insurance on either house or goods, and the loss is about $2,800.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 20 June 1890, pg 1. Available online at digitalnc.org.

Burglaries

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Several burglaries have lately been committed in Franklin county, in this State, the perpetrators of which have not yet been discovered.  The principal sufferer is Thomas LANIER, Esq., who has had his premises robbed of a considerable sum of money, and most of his papers of value, such as bonds, notes, &c.  We trust the villian or villains will shortly be discovered.

Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, March 16, 1802.

TYNES, Nathaniel (1801)

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Whereas Nathaniel TYNES, removed himself from the County of Edgecomb, when a Youth, and his Friends do not now know where he is, or whether he be still living; any Information, either of the Place of his Residence, or (if dead) of his Death, will be thankfully received by his Relation.  — Elias BOWDEN.  Franklin County, Sep 24.

Source: Raleigh Register, September 29, 1801

 

DENT, James (d. 1835)

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DIED — At his residence in Franklin county, 20th ult., after a lingering illness, James DENT, Esq., aged 57.  As a citizen, he stood high in the several relations of life, both public and private; as a Justice of the Peace, his inflexible and rigid adherence to justice, will be held in high estimation by all with whom he had intercourse; as a husband, he was loving and kind; as a father, tender and affectionate; as a master, humane and forebearing.  He has left a disconsolate widow, and seven children, with a large circle of friends and acquaintances, to lament his death.

Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 14 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-14/ed-1/seq-3/>

HUNTER, Osborn – HUNT, Betsey (m. 1800)

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MARRIED — At the house of John HUNT, Esq., in Franklin County, on Thursday last, Osborn HUNTER, Esq., of Johnston County, to Miss Betsey HUNT, daughter of the said John HUNT. 

Source:  Raleigh Register and Weekly Advertiser,  2 December 1800.

 

PERSON, Thomas (d. 1800)

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DIED — At the house of Major TAYLOR, in Franklin County, on Sunday the 16th inst., Thomas PERSON, of Warren, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

This gentleman was long a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina, as well before as since the Revolution: and at all times conducted himself in such manner as to manifest a proper and steady regard, not only to the interests of his immediate constituents, but likewise to the welfare and happiness of the people of the State at large.

He was a member of the fifth Convention and of all the subsequent Conventions had in this State.

In time of the revolutionary war, Mr. PERSON took an active and decided part in favour of his country.  Early in that contest he became Brigadier General of the militia for the district of Hillsborough; and on a variety of occasions, shewed himself a decided Patriot, and a warm and zealous friend to the Rights of the People.

He died as he lived, a firm and fixed Republican, and although he left no children, yet from his uniform and laudable conduct in public life, and particularly through his liberality to the University of <…> State he has raised up for himself a name which will neither be forgotten nor <…> while men are grateful, and which the means of enlightening and informing the minds of the youth of our country shall be held as they now justly and properly are, one of the <…> securities of the liberties of the people, and a happiness and blessing to society.

Source:  Raleigh Register and Weekly Advertiser,  25 November 1800.

THOMAS, Jordan and LONG, Nancy – (m. 1800)

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MARRIED — On the 22nd ult., Mr. Jordan THOMAS to Miss Nancy LONG, all of Franklin county.

Source: Raleigh Register,4 February 1800, pg 3.