MARRIED – On Thursday the 24th ult., Mr. William LACY to Miss Sally B. OVERTON, both of Rockingham county.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, July 6 1802.
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DOLTON, John and GENTRY, Eliza W. – (m. 1802)
MARRIED — An on the 12th inst., in the same county [Rockingham], Mr. John DOLTON, to Miss Eliza W. GENTRY.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, January 26, 1802.
GENTRY, Joseph & GALLOWAY, Eliza – (m. 1802)
MARRIED — On Tuesday the 5th inst., in Rockingham county, Mr. Joseph GENTRY, to Mrs. Eliza GALLOWAY, widow of James GALLOWAY.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, January 26, 1802.
ADAMS, David R. – (d. 1859)
DIED – In Madison, Rockingham county, on the 19th inst., of Typhoid Pneumonia, David R. ADAMS, a student at the “Beulah Male Institute,” in the 17th year of his age.
Source: Weekly Standard, 2 March 1859, page 3.
REED, Anselem and REID, Annie C. – (m. 1859)
MARRIED – On the 17th inst., at Gov. REID’s in Rockingham county, by Rev. E. DODSON, Anselem REED, Esq., of Aillsdale, NC, and Miss Annie C., youngest daughter of the late Reuben REID, Esq.
Source: Weekly Standard, 2 March 1859, page 3.
HARRELSON, Dan & CARTER, Elizabeth – (m. 1918)
Marriage license issued by the register of deeds: Mr. Dan D. HARRELSON, of Rocky Point, and Miss Elizabeth CARTER, of Madison, NC.
Source: Pender Chronicle, 18 April 1918, page 1.
Joseph Scales in Jail (1900)
Joseph SCALES, a negro aged 15, is in jail at Reidsville for outraging a 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. John HUSKEY, who captured him herself and marched over to the house at the muzzle of a revolver. There she range the farm bell and men came and took the young brute to jail. Only his youth saved him from lynching.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 September 1900. Available online at digitalnc.org.
How An Indian Was Baptized (1878)
Professor Edward FONTAINE, who is now in Reidsville, once baptized a negro, Mark DAVIS, the slave of the nephew of Jeff DAVIS, at Canton, Miss. Mark had accidentally killed a young white man while ‘possum hunting. Under the gallows the sheriff was so affected he couldn’t tie the rope and Mark helped him tie it around his own neck. He thanked Dr. FONTAINE under the gallows, “Master,” said he, “when you come to die, I pray God I may be one of them sent to bear you from this world.” But the Sunday previous he was baptized. He preferred to be dipped like the other negroes. The jailor and Mr. FONTAINE quietly took him down to the creek at Canton, but the thing had got wind, and a great crowd was on the banks, and among them was a band of fifty Choctaw Indians. The creek not far from the bank was some 15 feet deep. After Mark had been dipped, Dr. FONTAINE made the cross of Christ on his forehead, and just then “kerdip” came a sound, and a Choctaw had taken a running leap and plunged head under into the deepest of the stream. As he arose he made a cross on his face and said with a grunt, “Hell’s gone!” Dr. FONTAINE had delivered an affecting sermon on the bank of the creek, and this Indian had understood it. He baptized himself. They all shook hands, and the Indians returned to his tribe a converted man.
Source: Roanoke News, 21 September 1878. Available online at digitalnc.org.