Capt. Turner W. BATTLE and family of Nash county have been in Weldon during this week, being detained here by the serious illness of his little boy Gordon.
Source: Roanoke News, 21 September 1878. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
Mr. Bodie HILLIARD of Nash county was in the city this week the guest of his brother, Mr. J.P. HILLIARD.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
Miss Lizzie CARRAWAY of Nash county is in the city as the guest of her cousin, Miss Carrie HILLIARD.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 March 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
T.P. BRASWELL has discovered gold in large quantities on his island farm in Nash county, N.C., about fifteen miles above Battleboro, and near the renowned Mann-Arrington mine. The find is said to be very rich.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Valuable discoveries of gold has been found on the land of T.P. BRASWELL, in Nash county, N.C. It is said to be in large quantities.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 February 1890. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Young WHITEHURST, book-keeper for Branch, Cone & Co., of Spring Hope, Nash county, NC., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. It is thought that irregularities in his books caused him to commit the act.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 26 July 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Raleigh, Oct. 27. — Governor GLENN appoints Archibald H. ARRINGTON, who for nearly two years has been teller of the State treasury, his private secretary. Mr. ARRINGTON is a son of the late ex-sheriff, John P. ARRINGTON, of Nash county, a special friend of the governor, who says by the appointment he honors the memory of his friend.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 27, 1905
Married – January 8th at the residence of Lawrence HORNE, Esq., by the same (Rev. J.E. MANN), Dr. Frank J. THORP of Rocky Mount and Miss Bettie P. BATTLE, daughter of the late Dr. Jas. P. BATTLE of Edgecombe.
Source: Roanoke News, 11 January 1879
Married – January 2nd, 1879 in the Methodist church at Rocky Mount by Rev. J.E. MANN,, Dr. Thomas C. POWELL of Rocky Mount and Miss Mary E. BARNES, daughter of B.W. BARNES Esq., of Edgecombe county.
Source: Roanoke News, 11 January 1879. Available online at digitalnc.org.