Excerpt from the Beacon Flashes column:
The little stranger at Mr. W.T. SPRUILLS’s is a girl, he will have it that it is his boy. Being the first he can have his way for he will call Willie.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 12 September 1890. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Dr. J.T. STRICKLAND, of Thomasville, was in town last week, wearing a particularly happy expression on his countenance. The explanation is easy. A recent turn of the wheel of fortune made him a father. He has a right to be happy.
Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 5 February 1890. Paper available at Google News Archive.
Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
A bright eyed little miss has arrived in town, Mr. W.C. AYERS is the happy man.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 4 April 1890, pg 3. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Excerpt from the “Creswell Letter” column:
Mrs. A.L. CAHOON, wife of our new merchants (who was formerly Master of Str. I.D. COLEMAN), presented the Captain with a fine daughter on the 24th inst., which makes his second child and causes him to look very happy.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 9 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
On the 12th inst., Mrs. M.M. ALEXANDER, wife of one of our popular merchants, presented her “liege lord” with a fine daughter and he now says he is worth a million.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
