Moses HICKS and another colored gentlemen of the town had a pretty brisk fisticuff early on Thursday morning.
Source: Roanoke News, 30 November 1878. Available on digitalnc.org
Category Archives: Halifax
DAVIE, (Mrs.) – (d. 1802)
DIED – At Halifax, on Wednesday last, Mrs. DAVIE, wife of General DAVIE, late Minister Plenipotentiary to France.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, April 20, 1802.
SITGREAVES, John – (d. 1802)
DIED – At Halifax, on the 4th inst., John SITGREAVES, Esq., Judge of the Court of the United States for the North Carolina district. He served, for a time, as an officer in the revolutionary war. After the peace he was chosen a Member of Congress under the confederation. He was repeatedly elected a Member of the Legislature of this state for his native town, Newbern; and for several years part he held the office of which he died possessed.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, March 16, 1802.
Jane Hunter Visits (1890)
Excerpt from the Beacon Flashes column:
Mrs. Jane HUNTER, of Enfiled, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J.F. NORMAN, on Main Street.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
J.R. Pettitt Wins $150 in Gold (1890)
Mr. J.R. PETTITT, of Halifax county, N.C., won the premium of $150 in gold offered by the Poncomoke Guano company for the largest amount of cotton raised on one acre. He made 1,269 pounds of lint and took the premium.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
W.S. Bailey In the City (1890)
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
Mr. W.S. BAILEY, formerly of this place, but now of Littleton, N.C. is in the city.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 17 January 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
CLARKE, Alexander Lillington and FOY, Clara Bell – (m. 1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 21 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
FISHER, Thomas & GAY, Caroline Washington – (m. 1836)
MARRIED
Source: Raleigh Standard, 21 January 1836. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newpspaers
Riot in Halifax (1889)
From the Scotland Neck Democrat – On last Monday the colored people of Wilmington excurted to Halifax to the number of a thousand or more. In the afternoon some of the party became intoxicated and were disorderly, engaging in a knock down fistcuff. The town authorities had them promptly arrested. Friends of the arrested parties threatened to rescue the prisoners from the Halifax authorities, but the citizens of the town armed themselves, and showed determination to stand together.
Mayor J.T. GOOCH, of Weldon, was telegraphed to and soon an engine and car was procured and 40 armed men under the direction of Sheriff B.I. ALLSBROOK, were in Halifax to see that the intruders from Wilmington were made to stand at the proper distance.
Mayor T.L. EMRY and Mayor GOOCH commanded the force, and order was finally restored without any damage more than the firing of some pistols before the Weldon force reached Halifax.
Joe McNEAL and Sam REESE were each fined two dollars and cost for disorderly conduct, and Chas. ONSLOW and Alexander LORD were both committed to jail in default of a justified bond of $50. It was the attempt to rescue them from the officers while on the way to jail that caused the greater part of the riot.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 6 September 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Hope Hunter Visits Mother (1889)
Miss Hope HUNTER visits her mother Mrs. J.B. HUNTER at Enfield.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 30 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.