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MY TWO NEPHEWS, RoGER M. WlXIiORNE AND RoBERT
Warren Winborne, sons of my^ brother, Robert W., and to my two sons, stanley win borne and benja- MIN Brodie Winborne, Jr. .May they ever be I'Rori) of their ancestors and in:ir-ECT credit on the Winborne name.
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Town of Murfreesboro, X. C 11
Hertforil County, N. C 14
My Afiolofjy 17
Henry Winborne 20
Thomas Winborne 2tj
Sarah Agatha Winborne 30
Klisha Winl>orne 34
Martha Warren 38
Micajah Tlionias Winborne 43
-Maj. Samuel llarden Winborne 46
A l'"e\v Stray Thoujihts of My Father, Maj. S. D. Winborne 52
Caroline .Vnn Winborne 52
Dr. Robert Henry Winborne Gl
Annie Felicia Parker 67
Itichard Winborne 71
Kobert Warren 74
Mrs. Mary Hare Winborne 78
Clam Ann Winborne 85
Mary Klizabeth Winborne 85
Benjamin Uroilie Winborne .S6
.Mrs. Marjjaret Klla Savage Sit
Kobert Warren Winborne 91
Mrs. .Martlia .\nnie IJurbaae 95
Samuel I'retlow Winborne %
Uriah Vaughan 98
Sarah A. Vaughan, nee .Tenkins 103
Bryan Hare 105
Miss .4nn Scott 107
The Shepherds 108
.1. W. Perry Ill
Buck horn Academy 113
Buckhorn Baptist Church 116
Bertie County, N. C 118
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Hertford County, N. C 121
Northampton County, N. C 125
Nash County, N. C 129
Edgecombe County, N. C 132
Wake County, N. C 133
(iuilford County, N. C 134
Randolph County, N. C 135
Wilson Coiuity, N. C 135
X'rifjinia 13t)
Thomas Wilborne 138
England 1-10
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
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B. B. Winlrorne, Jr.. Stanley Winbonip (>
Hon. W. N. H. Smith 8
Hon. B. B. Winborne (January. 1905) !ii
John Spotswood Anderson 28
Albert Mit-hael Gurley 30
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Gurley 32
Elislia Winborne . . 34
Miiajah T. Winborn.- 42
Major S. D. Winborne 46
Mrs. \V. F. Watson .58
Dr. K. H. Winborne (iO
Richard Winborne 62
William H. Winborne 64
John Wallace Winborne 66
Richard Winborne 70
Robert Warren 74
Mrs. Mary H. Winborne 78
J. P. Massenburg 82
Miss Mary Eliz. Winborne 84
Hon. B. B. Winborne. ( January. 1904 ) 86
Stanley Winborne 86
B. B. Winborne. Jr 86
Mrs. Ella M. Savage 88
R. W. Winborne 90
Roger M. Winborne 92
R. W. Winlwrne. Jr 92
Mrs. Annie M. Burbage 94
S. P. Winborne 96
Mrs. S. P. Winborne 96
Col. Uriah Vaughan 98
Mrs. Nellie V. Winborne 102
Mrs. Rosa T. Winborne 104
J. W. Perry 110
Mrs. Julia Moore Parrish 116
Hayden L. G urley US
Mrs. Lucy Ann Gurley 12n
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TOWN OF MURFREESBORO, N. C.
This beautiful old town is located in Hertford C'ouuty, -N'. C, on the soutli side of Meherrin Kiver, at the head of navigation for sea-going vessels, on a high bluff, about SO feet ab<jve the water of the river. It was first incorporated by an act of the Legislature of North Carolina, ratified January (!. ITs?. Prior to that date, it was known as Murfree's Landing. William Jlurfree donated the laud for the town. .Murfreesboro has al- ways i>een noted for the culture and retiueuient of its citizens, and its si)iendid schools. It lias been the home of many distinguished i)eoi)le in the history of North Carolina, among theui were (Jen. Laurence Ixiker, Col. Hanly Alurfree and Gen. Dickinsou of Kevolutionary fame, Colonels J. X. llarreil and .1. .\L Wynn, Capt. L. C. Lawrence. .Maj. .Ic^sc- .1. Vcates, and others, of the Civil War fame, John 11. WiiechT, tlie great historian of the State, tiie late Chief .liisticc \V. X. II. Smith, the father of the late Chief .Insiicc Manning, of Louisiana, and many other.s. The town of Murfreeslioro, Tennes- see, was caused to lie incorj)orated by Cid. Hardy Mur- free, of the same family, and is named for the same gentleman.
Winton. the county seat of Hertford, was incorpor- ated in 1T6S. nineteen years earlier. That town is lo- cated on the majestic Chowan River, and is now a thrifty and prosperous town.
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The Meherrin l>;i]>tist C'luirch, about one-half mile out of town, is, I think, the seeonil nhlest Baptist church in tliis State, Shihih Church, in Pas(inotank, probably about six years ohlev. One Joseph Parker, ordained liy tlie Shiloh Clnirch, established where the town of Mnrfreesboro noAV stands, about the year 1735, the c-hnrch known as ^leherrin Church. The name Meher- rin. like Xattaway, ( 'howan, Urahaw, was the name of a tribe of Indians. The ]\leherrins had their camping griinnds in ilamiey's Neck. All along the line of Me- licrrin River, on each side, was their hunting grounds. Tlie Indians always selected the most desirable spots of laud for their camping villages, and the white man soon learning this, in their search for the "happy valley," and the attractive liigli lands, made battle against the Red Man, until they succeeded as the occupants of the llfil Man's home and sporting parks. But returning, Meherrin Church, after the location of the town, was moved about one-half mile outside of the town limits and located on the land now owned by James jST. Law- rence, in tlie old oak grove, just beyond the jjresent drive to the Lawrence Mineral Spring, so much resorted til bv the health-seelviug people of the town. Later Mr. T. Capehart traded the present site of the church for the old chureli yard, and gave the members a nice little money donation, to aid in the rejjairiug or rebuilding of the new chui'ch edifice. From the name of the founder, it was frequently s]ioken of as Parker's Church.
In Feliruary, l.'^25, ilarquis de La Fayette, a great (leueral in Wasliington's army during the Revolution,
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visited ilurfreesboro and stopped at the Indian Queen JJotcl, then owned by Henry Kanisay, a very wealthy citizen of the town, lie was given a grand reception. William liea, Dr. Eoriaud, James Morgan, J. G. Kca, Dr. O'Dwyer, Colonel Brici<lc, Lewis M. Cowper, and Jolm \V. Southall were on the; reception committee. (2 ^loore's His., 4). During this same year, June utli, Kev. Daniel Southal jjreached the funeral sermon of General Thomas Wyuns, uncle of our Gol. James M. Wyiius. General Wyniis represented this district in the Congress of the Cniteil States for a number of years. He married iliss ^lanney, of the celebrated family of Manney's Xeck, and they lived at Barfields, just below Winton, on the Chowan River. Henry ilanney, Mrs. Wynns' brother, was then the owner of the old ilanney's homestead. (2 Moore's His., 5). During the late Civil War, the Union sohlicrs invaded the town several times and destroyed much property and carried away many of the valuable family jewels and heirlooms, which they took from the homes of the citizens.
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HERTFORD COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA.
This county was foriucd in tlie year IT."!!,!, fruni C'liDwan, Bertie, and Xorthamjjton counties. It was named for the ^Janpiis of Hertford, an English noble- nuin, a friend of liherty. He was a brother of Lord Conway, who in ITHd introdiu-eil a bill in the House of Lords to repeal the Stamp Act, which act aroused the American Colonies and impelled them to throw off the yoke of English tyranny. He was Embassador to Paris from England during the reign of George III, and after that he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. It was to the ^Marchioness of Hertford that Thompson dedicated his great poem, "The Seasons." The old county of Hert- ford is dear to the Winborne family.
The boundaries of Hertford (^)mlty when established were as follows :
"Beainninff in Bertie Countv at the iirst high land on the northwest side of Mare Branch, on Chowan River Pocosin, running thence by a direct line to Thomas Out- law's plantation, near Stoney Creek, thence a direct line to Xorthampton County line at the plantation whereon James Rutland formerly lived, then along ^Northampton line to the head of Beaver Ham Swamp, thence by a
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direct line to tin- ciistfrniotit jiart of Iverby's Creek, llieiict' (luwn rlic creek to Melierrin Kiver, tlien up the Mc'lien-iu Kiver to the N'irjiiiiia line, tliericc easterly aloiiji' the State line to wIumv tlic Xottaway and Black Water liivers i-i.alesce and t'nrni the Chowan River, thence down the Cliowan Kiver to tiie month of Ben- net's Creek, thence across th(! river to the month of said Mare liranch. and \\]t the branch to the beginning."
The General A-seiiiliJy, liy an Act ratified in Novem- ber, ITott, incorporated the above territory as Hertford County, in the parish of St. l^arnabas. ■ Moore's History does not give the complete boiindarv.
Ahoskie was formerly known by the name of .Vhotsky Ridge (A-hot-sky). The town of Ahoskie is now a thrifty, bnsy little town on the .\tlantic Coast Line Kail- road, nine miles south of Winton, and was incorporated by the General Assend)ly January 24, 1S03.
TIarrellsville is a beatitiful little town, in the centre of a prosperous farming section, in the east end of the comity, and was incor])orated in the year 1S83.
Fnion in the centre of the cotinty. and Majileton be- tween Mnrfreesboi-o and Winton, are the other incor- porated towns in the county. The former was incor- l)orated in 1889, and the latter in 1901.
Hertford County is the mother of a high class of citi- zenshi]), and of beautiful and intelligent women. T love the name of Hertford. Since my return from school, in 1875, 1 have identified myself with all of lier institu- tions and enter])rises. I liave permitted nothing to come between me and tiie welfare of mv countv. Her
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jiL'oplc were kiml and a])]>r('ciative of niv father, and have heen kind to nio and my hvothers. May her sons ever be trne to her, and defend her fair fame, and the honor of her noble \\-omen.
-My Aroi.oGT.
MY APOLOGY.
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I hare always felt pnnid of my parents, and have heeii anxious to know of their ancestry. .\11 are dead. We are separated hy the great chasm. My investiga- tions iiave increased my admiration for them, if that were possilile. I have fonnd an honorahle ancestry. No shame attaclied \n it on either side. I pray that the living may never i)lot it. I met witli trotibles, in my investigations, in olitaining many of the facts, but snc- eess crowned my efforts. 1 foimd among my father's old ]iapers a great nund)er of old letters, family records, co])ies of Conrt records, statements of facts in the cor- respondence of the Winliorne children when thc^y were yonng, that were a great revelation to me. Their letters to each other were model ]troductions, fnll of admira- tion for their family ami for each other, fnll of facts and interesting news ahmit themselves and others. Tliey had no secrets that they withheld from one another. Kach letter was an ojjen book of his life and doings. They e.xcite great admiration.
My grandma Martha and my father and nncles always told me that their oldest Winborue ancestors in this country came from Scotland. Their fondness for stock and stockraising, their love for the chase, the meat of the venison, their manner of wearing their beard witii 3
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clean shaven npper'lij), a style so notable with the Scot- isli gentry, their great admiration for the beautiful and fair complexion, and simple manners and dress of the "(Quaker girl," who so much resembles the Scottish uuiid, and other traits, indicate the nativity of their an- cestors. Wimborne is a familiar name in England to- day. In Dorset County, England, there is a city of considerable importance by the name of Wimborne Minster. There is a Lord Wimborne of great promi- nence in England to-day. In reading about him I no- tice he is Scotch. Whether the names were originally the same, I do not know or care.
I am, also, indebted to my frien<ls who aideil me luuch in getting missing facts, ily brother Ivobert con- tributed to iiiy aiil. The records of Bertie, Xorthamp- ton and other counties revealed much to me. The rec- ords of Hertford (\iunty, however, were burned August 22, 1830, and again, the court-house and records, except the old County Court records since ISJJU, were burned by tlie Union soldiers May 20, 1S62. The records of Xansemond County, Va., were also destroyed by the Union soldiers during the late Civil War between the States. The ili/struction of these records were a great impediment in vei-ifying many facts and in securing others. I am glad 1 made this effort to build a small monument to the memory of my departed ancestors. Not one of them e\'er died insolvent. They paid their debts. They were not rich, nor p()or. Each one left something to their children to enable them to begin the battle of life. They loved their homes and their fami-
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lies. Tliev ('ducated their cliildi-cii. I'Ik'v were kind m'i<>lil)()rs and patriotic citizens. 1 iiiii i;lad to r(»cor(l it.
1 am in my o'2d year and the oldest livini>- member lit' tile family. Shonld auy of my ivin or friends derive any jdeasnre, or my boys receive auy inspiratiim tn niililc ih>eds. fi-oin the pcrnsal of this work of mine, I shall be ami)ly compensated fnr my laboi-s.
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HENRY WINBORNE.
-Xiitliiuii' (leliglits the liimiiin iiiiiul ukivc tluui the study of geneahDgy. JS^otliing ali'ords one so much pride and genuine pleasure than to know that you have an lionorable ancestry. To pass over the lu-idge of time, tliat ccmuects the present with \\\v ])ast, and to see and behold the conditions, the possessions, the habits, the la- bors, and look into the faces and talk with those, who lived centuries before, is the acme of uicutal happiness, and the earthly joy of the soul. Moving back nearly one hundred and sixty-three years, seventeen years be- fore the formation of Hertford County, and thirty-four years before the Declaration of American Independence, when ]Vorth Carolina, Virginia, and other great States (if the American Union, were colonies, owing fealty to the I?ritish Government, we see Bryan Hare, and Henry Winborne, in the fall of the year 1742, driving into Ber- tie County, North Carolina, from "Nansemond County, Virginia, seeking the purchase of lauds and homes in this section, of the land of liVicrty and freedom of conscience.
On the Sth day of December, 1742, Daniel Hough, jdaurer, of Bertie County, in tlie Brovince of North (^arolina, conveyed to Henry Winliorne and Bryan Hare, ])lanters, of Nanseniond County, Virginia, in con- sideration of seventy-seven pounds and ten shillings,
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ciiiTfut money of Vir<>iiii;i. four Iniiidrcd acres of laud in Bertie County, lyinj;' on the soutli side of .Melicrriu C'roeic (now Poteeasi Creek). Tliis land is located a little northeast of ihe town of I'nion in Hertford County, and is endnaced in the boundaries of Hertford County as formed in 17.")!*.
On January ■2'>, 17.")4. Ueuj. Cotton conveyed to Henry Winhorne, of IJerfie County, 250 acres of land, adjoining the laud of .lames Jones, Peter West and others. This land is now iu Winton To\vnslii]i, in Hert- ford County.
On the l:'.tli day of Deceniher, IT.J.I, said Henry re- ceived a patent for TOO acres of land in Bertie County, the location of which is now in the central part of Hert- ford County.
On Ihe 7th day of .March. 17'i4. .Mope? Stallens, of Bertie County, conveyed lo Henry Wiidmrne, of Hert- ford County, 224 acres id' laii<l, lyinjr. I think, iu the Pitch Lauding- section.
On the 10th day of January. 17nO, his son, William Winborue, conveyed tiie above 224 acres to Aaron As- kew, so he must lia\c con\eyed that tract to William.
On tile 14th <hiy of April, 17.''!». Henry Winhorne convened to Jo(d liinl 2.'>0 acrt's of land. His wife did not join in this warranty ileed, so I couclude that his wife, Sarah, must have died prion to that date, as the common law riglil of .lower prevaileil in .\ortli Carolina until 17S4.
Win.yfcnd r. \V inx/cail . 2 .\. C., 24;>. Tlie common law right of dower was tlial the wife, ■*who survived her husband, was entitled to one-thinl interest in valn(> dur-
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illy liei- life, ill all lauds of which lier hushaiid was seized during eoverture. Hence, in selling land, it was necessary for the wife to join in the deed to bar her right of (lower in the hind. This law was changed iu I'iX-i, eh. lii', sec. N. From that date the wife was only entitled to dower iu the lauds of which her hus- band DiEi) seized. The comuiou law right of dower, however, was restored iu North Carolina on March 2, 1^07, Acts 186-T, eh. 54, and which is the hrw to-day.
Henry Wiuborne was a man of affairs and was a large laiulowuer. He was energetic, thrifty, of good judgment, and an honorable iiiau. It seems that he married Miss Sarah Hare, a Quaker lady, of Nanse- inoud County, Virginia, the sister of his companion, Bryan Hare. On October 15, IT 54, Henry Wiuborne and his wife, Sarah, conveyed to John Brickie, of Bertie County, 200 acres of laud, liut since November, 1759, has been iu llcrtfoi-d (•ouut.y, lying near the town of Union.
. So far as we can learu from iiur investigation, Henry Wiuborne and his wife, Sarali, had three children, viz., Sarah, William, and Thomas. They were bom prior to April, 175!>. His wife did not survive the birth of her son, Thomas, very long. Henry never re-married, as we can learu. Later on, wlien the British Govermnent, by its tyrannical laws, so aroused the re.sentnient of the Auiericau colonists, as to cause them to declare their indcpeudcuce of the British Crown, iiud to resort to arms to defeiul their liberties and indeiiendence, Henry Wiuborne, of Hertford County, on the 24th day of May, 1777, enlisted in the Continental Army of America, for
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three years, as a {)rivate in Capt. Josepli Walker's Com- pany, of Hertford County, and of tlic Seventh llegiment of North Cai'olina's Continental Troops. See State IJcc. of iS'. C, Vol. 16, page llSa. His record must have been an honorable one, for 1 tind in the State rec- ords in the office of Secretary of State, at Raleigh, that on the 7th day of April, lT>i(i, tiie State of North Caro- lina granted to him, ■"Henrv Winhiu'iic, a [)rivate in the Continental line," ;JMi aercs of land in this State.
In examining the «dd records of deeds and other papers, I tind that his name, wlien written by others, is spelt in various ways, viz., Winboiaie, Winburn, Win- l)orn, and Winlnitiru. lint in every case where he signed his name, he wroit- it llciinj Winborne. In Capt. Walker's conijiany, .lohn Wiidxirnc, of Hertford County, was Lieutenant. He died during the war, so the State records show. I have been unable to learn what was the blood connection between John and Henry. I regTct tliat w(> have no records to inform us.
Bryan Hare (or as it is often spelt Bryant Hare) was, also, an active and energetic person, and was evidently a Quaker and a nuin of ])rominence. On .March. 30, IT");], Bryan Hare, of Bertie County, conveyed to David Sinclaire 150 acres of land, then in Bertie (but in Hert- ford County since ITaO), lying between Brook's Creek and the i)ublic road to A\'iccacon Ferry. On July 22, 17oS, Peter West, of Bertie County, conveyed to Bryan Hare 100 acres of land in said county on Flat Swamp. This is, also, in the boundary of Hertford County. The records of IIertfi:)rd County were destroyed in August, 1830, and again in 1862, so we are cut oif from much
24 The Winborxe Family.
v;iln;il)l(' and interesting infiirHuiti"n (if tliese prominent people iif Ilerttord County. On January 30, 1758, 15rvan Hare and wife, Sarali 11 are, of Society Parish, in F>ertie County, conveyed to .lohn Brickie 45 acres of laud adjoining the lands purchased by John Brickie from Henry Wiuborne, and tlie other lands of Bryan Hare, known as the Iveuhi'u Powell land, and i)urchased by Bryan Hare from l>eiij. ^Vynus, Exr. of Tlios. Lee.
Bryan Hare married Miss Sarah Shepherd, sister of Solomon Shepherd, of Nanseniond County, Virginia. I can not learn anything, from the records, of Bryan Hare, in Xorth Carolina, after 1758. The destruction of the records of Hert ford ( 'ouuty by fire in 1830 makes it impossible for us to learn what estate Henry Win- borne left, and who settled it. But we know lie left a very considerable estate, as his land remained in the ])ossession of his sons, and a ]iortion was owned by his grandson, Elisha, until sold iu 1829, after the death of Elisha. His family having moved to another part of the county.
Henry ^Yinborne had one brother, and possibly sev- eral. Thomas Wiuborne, his brother, moved from Xansemond County, Va., to Xorthampton County, N. C., about the middle of the isth century. The records of the latter county show that on July 3, 1758, William Saunders conveyed to Thomas Winborne, of that cotinty, 100 acres of land on (Quarter Swamp, it being a part of the Joseph Lane patent. Henry and Thomas inva- riably spelt their names Winhorne. That was not the ease with William Winborne, of Northampton County, X. C, who also came from Nansemond County, Va., and
IIemry Winbokm:. 25
who speaks of his two brotlicrs, John and Pliilip. They iiiav have Iwen hrothers of Ilciirv and Thomas, l)ut I can not find anvthinc; to justify that conchision. They were evidently kin. See tlie eliapters, "Xorthanipton Co.," and "'Vii-giuia."
NoTK. — Since writing this sl<etoh. I have learned that Henry Winborne. the subject of this sketch, and William Murfree. represented Hertford County in the General Assembly of 1762 and 1763, they being the first representatives from the county. (Col. Rec, Vol. 6, pages 810 and 916.) The names printed on page 801 are incorrect.
■2(\ TiiK WiNBOPvNE Family.
THOMAS WINBORNE.
The son of Henry Winlmi'iic and his wife, Sarah, of whom we have written, was horn between 1754: and 175!) (in the fiirni owned by the hitc Joseph Newsoni, in Hertford Connty, whieli was ihc Wiidiorne homestead. The family records, fonnd anionf>- my father's papers, after iiis death, informs lis that Tliomas Winborne mar- ried Miss Sarali Copeland, a gentle and pleasing (Quakeress. Her parents lieliinged to the followers of George Fox and William Penn, and were noted in their day for their rigid honesty, their plain and simple man- ners, their neat and nnostentatioiis dress, and their beautiful an<l exeuqdary characters and lives. Aliss ('o]K>land possessed in a marked degree the attractions of I hi' pure, liglil-liaircil Scotlisii lassie, and of the cliarming (^)naker gii'l. X" rclined gentlemau can re- sist the charms and fascinations of the beantifid Qunlrr (jirl . unless he is devoid of all love for the beautiful and sublime. The ])oet must have had one of them in his mind when he wrote:
" A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
The children and grandchildren of Thomas and Sarah i-eflected in their lives, to a great extent, the s])lendi(l and beautiful lives and characters of their parents.
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Tluinuis W'iulioriic was a ))laiitfi' ami lived on his tariii. He was a man <if urcat iiidiisfrv and snin-it'ty. lie was his own cariientfi', conijer. and had a t'actorv at which hi* ha<l niad(; barrels and the like t'i)r market, which \va- a very protitahle ent(>r])rise in the days of "tar, ])itch and tiiriKMitinc" in North Carolina. lie carried on a fishery dnrin;.;- the tisliim; seas(jns. He was fund of stock, and of stock raisinu; of all kinds, and j)os- sessed a larfte nnndx-r of cattle, sheep, hous an<l the like. His avo:-ati<jns were ali<»nt the same as jiis father's, and his son, Elisha, siicceedeil him in the same line of hnsi- ness. His fondness tVir stock was inheriiecl hy his de- scendants, and is still ])ossessed, to a hiuii ileirree, hy hi.s descendants of tiie ))resenl day. lie was a maii;istrate in iiis county and a mendn-r of tlie Conrt of Pleas and (,)narter Sessions. lie cared lint little for official life, hnt ])referre<l a ipiiet home life in cumpany with his wife, and with his possessions. He kept well informecl as to the current e\cnls nf the limes, and had ids small lihrarv of bo(^ks around him. ihc rea<linii of wiiirh he much enjoyed.
His wife was tlie sister of .lnhn ('o|ieland, ami auni of James ("opeland, who represented Hertford County in the House of Representatives of the .\orth Carolina (reneral Assembly, in ISlM and ISi':!. ami in the Senate, in lsi'4 and 182,-). ^^
'I'honias \Yinborne died in the early jiart of the BIh century, leavinjr snrvivinir him his widow and two chil- dren, Elisha, who was horn Xovendier (i, 17'-'2, auil Sarah Anatha Winhorne, about 17'.I4. Of these two children 1 will speak later mi in tliis book. The widow
28 The Winborne Family. •
of Thomas, souu'tiiue ;iflcr his death, luarried Mr. Roberson, and by that inarriaiic slie left one child, An- geline, who was boni about 1S12 and died in Missis- sii)pi December <:, IssT. Ani>,eline never married. A few yeai-s ])rior to bei' (k'ath she visited my father and my aunt, Caroline iloore, in M urf reesboro. I remem- ber her as a handsome, whitediaired, aristocratic old lady, well formed, literary in her taste, and a great talker. 1 think her fatbcT moved to Mississippi, and died there. He sold his farm in Hertford to Elisha Winborne, who owned it when he died. It was sold by Elisha's administrator, as appears on the account of sales now in my possession.
I have the will of Charles Jenkins, of Hertford County, an ancestor of my Avife, and Tlnimas Winborne and Sarah Winborne are witnesses to it.
The records of Hertford County prioi' to August 22, Is.'iO, were destroyed by the burning of the court-house by one Wright Allen, who was indicted for forgery, and on account of the destruction of the records, I am un- able to give more infoi-nuition of my old ancestors. I have had to rely on old private |iapers, letters and mem- oranda, found in my father's paiiers, and the records of other counties, and a mass of old papers which have accumulated in my possession in the course of my prac- tice as an attorney. Thomas and his wife lived true and nolde lives, and were greatly respected by the peo])le among whom they lived. N^o greater legacy could they have left their posterity. Their names and characters T reverence and admire.
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'iraiiilson ol A. M. (iurley and wife Sarah K. Son cif llielrdauslili-r Julia Ijy first niarriasc.
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lived in Xorthaiupton County, in tlie Rich Square neiglilxjriiood, or rather his hiuds were situated on (Quar- ter Swamp, in that cuuutv. Quarter Swamp lies be- tween Bryant's Cross Roads and tiie Roanoke River, its waters passing from the west to the east, and empty into Trahaw Swamp, which runs uearly uortii and south, au<] its waters nni uurtli aud (•iu|)ty into Potecasi Creei<, and tlie latter into Mcljcrriu River, about one mile alx)ve its mouth, in Hertford County. Trahaw Swamp lies between the townis of Potecasi and Woodland. It is necessary to know the location of these waters in order to locate the lands of the Xorthauiplon Winborne fami- lies and the Winbornc-.Teid^ins lau<ls, <d' whicli we will speak later.
Williaiu Saunders, July :;, IT-")*^. conveyed to Thomas Winl)orne, Sr.. a tract of laud <iu Qiuirter Swaiuj), a part of Josej)h Lane's ]i;/ktent. The dceil beitij; witnessed by James Grant aud Thoiuas IFuglies. Tiiomas Win- borne, ^larcii li'. \~t\-2. cuuvcyed this same land to James Grant.
There was a third Thomas Winliornc. lie lived in Hertford Coimty at a later ju'riod than either of the other two, but of a different ancestry. See chapter headed "Bertie Couiitv."
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yo TiiK Wi.xiioK.NK Family.
SARAH AGATHA WINBORNE.
Was tlio sister of Elislia Wiiiborne. She married John Giirley, of ^lurfreesboro, N. C, the son of Rev. Hector Gnrley, of Hertford Connty, and his wife. John Gnrley was a school teaelier in Murfreesboro at the Hertford Academy, wliich stood on the lot later known as the Peter Williams residence lot. Eev. Hector Gnr- ley was an Episcopal preacher in Hertford Connty, both before and during the Ticvolntionary period. He was a ripe scholar and a strong defender of the English Crown and the Established Clmrch of England. He preached at St. Lulsc's Chapel at r.uckhorn, and at St. John's Chapel. He died about the close of the war of 1776, and left surviving him two sons, John and Thonuis. The former married the sidiject of this sketch, and they had two childrou, .Vlbert Michael and Joseph. The latter died in Alabanui, lea\-ing a widow and one daughter. Albert ifichael moved to Columbus, Miss., in lS3fi, and engaged in the saddle and harness business. Before going to Mississi])pi he, in 1S35, spent about five months in Elizabeth City, X. C, as clerk. In 1839 he visited T^orfolk, Va., and Manney's Xeck, in Hertford Ciiuuty, to see his kin. He returned to his new home the same year, and nnirried, Jaimary 13, 1847, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Moore, Jackson, Miss., the daughter of John Spottswood Moore and his Avife, Mary V. Murry,
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Son olMuhti liurley and wile Sarah Aijnlha (Jmiey n^e Wiiihorrio.
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iif lliat city, and reared a family of three sons, Hayden L., Jolin Albert, and Fi'aneis Asijury, and four daugh- ters, Lucy, Jidia il., Alary \'., and Sarah Agatha.
Lucy died August, 1SS2, aged 17 years. Julia mar- ried a ilr. ('. B. Anderson, and iuui several children. He died, and she married 8. B. Barrish, and they now live in Columbia, Tenn. I liave received several letters from her. She has a daughter by her first marriage, -Miss Sadie Anderson, living in Ah-ridian, iliss., and .Fiihn Siiotswuod Anderson, who lives in St. Louis, Mo.
-Miss Sarah Agatha Gurley died \\)rU HO, 1905, in .Meridian. She never married. Only two of the Gurley childi'en are living, ilrs. Barrish, and Ilayden L. Gur- ley, ilcridian, Miss.
ALiry mari'ied a .Mr. Bullock, a prosperous merchant in Louisville, Aliss., and left several children. The lx)ys in IS'JO were engaged in the saddlery and harness business in ileridian under the firm name of Gurley Bros. Their mother died in April, 1877, and their father died February 14, 18!t7, aged 7S years and two months. He was born in MurfreeslMiro, X. ("., Septem- ber IG, ISls. Albert il. Gurley di«i nut live long in Columbus before he moved to Canton, in same State, where he reared his family.
Rev. C. G. Andrews, in a written sketch of his life, character and worth, speaks with great laudation of his Christian cliaracter, his splendid influence in his city and in his church, and as a man wlHwe great industry was guided by a broad and masterly intellect and well poised mind.
In 1875 he moved with his family to ileridian, in the
3y The Winbobne Family.
same State, where he lived imtil his death. He accumu- lated a larjj'e estate, and his sous, in the fall of 1890, succeeded him in Ids Inisiui-ss, after he retired in his old age, and wn-e doing well and were prominent citi- zens in that city of about 35,000 inhabitants. He was a member of the ]\Iethodist Churcli. I- gathered the iihoxe facts from a lettei- I found written by him to my father, dated October ■^. ISilO. In that letter he speaks of his mother, who died when he was young, as did, also, Ins father, and speaks affectionately of his uncle, Elisha Winborne, his cousins, and expresses a hope to be able once again to visit IMurfreesboro and Manney's Neck, wliere his happy young days were spent, and com- mune, before the end came, with Jiis kin and old friends, wlio might be living, lie failed to tell in his letter what kin, if any, was his grandfatlier. Hector Gurley, to Eev. "\Vm. Gurley, of Hertford County, a Bai)tist preacher in that county, and who also preached at St. Luke's and St. -lolin's ('ha]iels during the Revolu- tionary period.
On .Tune 24, 1905, I received a letter from Hayden L. Gurley, of Meridian, Miss., telling me of the death of all his brothers and sisters except his sister Julia. His sister Julia, in one of her letters to me, speaks of finding letters among her father's i)apers from his cousins, S. D. Winborne and R. H. Winliorne, and that she has them now. ^Ir. A. il. Gurley, in his letter to my father, speaks of the deatli of their half aunt, Ang-ie Roberson. She was the daughter of the widow of my great grandfather, Tliomas Winborne, who after his death married Mr Roberson. She is spoken
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<jf, also, in oiif of my father's letters, in 1845, to his brother Kolx-rt. Elisha Winhoriie boiiiilit of ilr. Rob- ersou his tract of land iu Hertford County, when the latter niove<l to Mississippi. The land was sold at the sale of Elisha's property in 182!l by his administrator to Ely llarrell, as appears from the account of sales. Since writin<>: the above I have learned of A.E.Gurley, Williamantic, Comi., that lie had a complete history and ficnealogy of the Gurley family. I wrote to him and soon learned from him that my facts about the fam- ily were correct, and that he had a complete history of the family, both iu the old countries and iu .\merica, hack to the year 117.5. The original one, so far as his record goes, being Ingelram de Gurley, who accompa- nied "William the Lion'' from Xormaudy, Erance, to Scotland as his legal advisor.
34 The Wixbokne Family.
ELISHA WINBORNE.
The son of Thomas Wiuborue and his wife, Sarah, (lied July 30th, 1829, in his ;57th year. Like his father, ami his oldest and yonngest sons, his life was short, but he left the record <>{ a true life, <d' which his family was |)nnid. lie left no proud uiilitary record or official Fa nil' as a Iciiacy to his sons, for his short manhood was s|)('Ut in times of peace. He tilh'd ni:i great civil office, fur his life was short, and by nature, like his father, he hived his hdiiie and his faunly better than he did the allni'iiig phantiaiis df public life. Further, he sprang fnnii a faDuly \\li(> considered tiie realities of life more than the siuidows. He inherited the vim. industry, fru- gality, and character of his ])areuts.
On Ai)ril 1, isili, he married Miss Martha Warren, (if S(intham])t(iu County, Virginia, the daughter of Kthelred AVarren, and a wouum of sublime Christian character. 1 will sjieak of lier more ])articularly later on.
Klisha, (luring his short life, accumulated a creditable estate for those days. He was no large property holder, no wealthy man, but a comfortable liver. His sister's brother, Eobert Warren, in Se])temher, 1839, qualified as administrator of his estate, and on December 31, 1829, had a general sale of his ])roperty. I have in my possession the account of sales of tlie property, which is to me quite an interesting old document. It records
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tlif iiafni'e of liis ])ni]HTfy, ;iii<l, also, rcvt-als tlic iiiaii- niT of scrtliiii>- tlic estate of a <lea<l man in those days. Kverytliiiio- was sold. The family liiiile was sold and hoiiaht hy the widow. His three farms, -'the Home ])laiitatioii."' "llie Roherson ])laiitation,"' and '•the Lower plantation," were sold at the sale. Three slaves, Ca-sar. •laeoh and Willis, were sold. 1 reinendier these old slaves w(dl. They were owned hy my father. Ca-sar died dnrinii slavery times, .laeoh and Willis remained with my father ami were faithfnl to the close of the lale Civil War hetween the States. No slaves ever had a kinder and a more hnmane master than did these old servants. They love<l their yonnj>- master, and wonld have fought for him nnder any eireiimstanees.
There were sold horses and a (•om]>leU' oiiiHt for a well ke])t three or fonr-horse farm, an am[(le snpply of provisions of all kinds, carpenter and cooper's tools, and such a variety of harrels that woidd indicate that he had a harrei factoi'y, which was a great and prolilaiile enter- jirise in those days. The old-lime ■"gig" was sold. The fishing ontfit. A nnndier of cattle, sheep, hogs, and the like, tlie hnnlsman's gnns, the hnnting horn, hridles ami saddles, the flax-wheel, the s]»inning-wheel, lihrary of l)ooks, and nearly everything that conld he fonml on a well regulated jdantation can he found in the account of sales. Elisha Winliornc, I wonld jmlge, was not only fond of tilling the soil, raising stock, ami fishing, hnt that he was also fond of the sport of hnnting. and of the flesh of the venison, an<l oi the mnsic of tlu- chase. The ■"Lower ]>lan(ation'" was the Co|)(dand land, and he inherited tliat thronnh his mother.
36 The Winborne Family.
Tlic c-liililrt'ii of Elislia and _Martha were:
ilicajali Tlidinas Winborne, born February 4, 1820.
Samnol Danlcii Winborne, born Alarch 7, 1821.
Margaret Ann Winlmrne, born November 18, 1822.
Caroline Ann \'\'inl)()rne, born May '■>, 1824.
Robert Henry U'inborne, liorii .Inly 21), 1826.
Kieliard Winborne., born Ans;'ust 1, 1828.
Tile niotlier and all tbe children, except Margaret .\iiii, wlio die<| ill infancy, .survived tbe husband and father. ^Margaret and liev father were bnried in the family graveyard on the r)ld homestead, by the side of I heir parents and grandparents. The widow and her ti\-e little ehildren were left to battle with tlie storms and adversities of life. The children began early to learn the responsibilities of life, ami that fact was probably a great help to them in after life. Fortu- nately, however, for the widow and the fatherless chil- dren, IJoliert Warren, the batcheh.ir brother of the widow, took uKither and children to his home, wdiere the willow found a charming home, with one of tlie truest and noblest Virothers that has ever lived, and the chil- dren, not only fotmd an uncle, but another father, wdiom they always reverenced, loved and respected in the high- est degree. Tiie home of Robert Warren was made the home of Elisha Winbome's family, and is still the home of Kobert Warren's gran<l nephew, Samuel P. Win- borne. A nniiiber (d' the family were buried on the soiitliern hill on the old ('edar Hill farm. Elisha Win- borne's life was short, but sincere and lionorable. A true citizen, devoted husband, sincere friend, and an honest and highly respected gentleman.
Elisha Wixbokne. 37
lie, like liis father, and liis grandfather, left a fair estate, sufficient to paj' all of iiis debts and leave a small estate to each of his children. IIo was a consistent member of the Baptist church at Mt. Tabor, in his na- tive county.
The account. -rt' sales of his property, a copy of which 1 liave,slK)Ws tluft Nicholas ,\ske\v bought his "Robersou plantaiidU," and VAy Ilarrcl bought his "Lower planta- tion,'' and the "Hdme ))lantation"' was bid off by Thomas IJritton, who transferred his bid to Henry Lacetter. These lands were subsequently purchased by Perry Carter, of Murfreesboro, who con\eyed a portion of them to the late Joseph Xcwsom and a portion to >>"at!ian S. lloggard. Of the remainder I am not able to learn. Tiionuis Britton bouglit his library of books, who died ami left two sons, \V. T. Jiritton and Jack Brii- ton, both of whom have gran<lchildren in Hertford County. I have made a diligent but ineffectual effort to get some of these books from that family.
38 The Winuorxe Family.
MARTHA WARREN.
The wife of Elisha W'iiiborue was born January 25, 1795, at the Warren homestead in Sontliainptou County, Virginia, adjoining my father's farm.
Martha was of tlie noblest type of true womanhood. She was always bright, cheerful and happy in disposi- tion, strong in character. She had light hair and fair complexion, large and liandsome, and attractive, even in her old age, and loved by all who knew her. She lived a cheerful and beautiful Christian life, and was a con- sistent member of the Baptist church u]i to her death. It was always refreshing to be with her and hear her talk, as she was interesting at all times. There never was a mother more respected and really loved by her children, n<pr a graudmotlier more loved by her grand- children than ilartha Winborne. After a long and happy life and after shedding so nuich sunshine in the lives of so many people, she died December 23, 1S78, in iior S4th year. She was the ninth child of a family of twelve children. Iler yiKnt ^'ront grandfather was Samuel Warren, who purchased the Warren homestead, now in Southampton County. Va., but then in Nanse- moud Comity, Va., from William Gooch, March 31, lT3fi. Tliis deed is now in my possession. It is a curious old document. Tier father was Ethelred War- ren, son of Samuel, and he was born January 16, 1749.
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Ilcr mother was ^fargaret Kiddiek Darden (who was bom February 2."i, ITCiD), and the wife of Ethelred Warren. They were married October 12, 1775. Ethel- red died October W, l.S()7, and .Marsraret, liis wife, died ilay 12, 1S:]4. The offs]iring.s of this marriage were twelve eliildreu, as follows:
Ann Warren, born Augnst 10, 177G, and married Allen ^loore.
Samuel Warren, born .Inne 1(!. 177s, and died July 3, 1789.
Pleasant li. Warren, iwirn December 2!), 1781.
Jetliro Warren, bnrn OctoU-r 27, 17s-'5, and moved to (ireene County, X. ('., and there married. He died leaving one child, Richard I). Warren, who lived in Snow Hill, (ireene ("ounty. X. ('., and married there and i-eared a large family, several <if wiiom are now liv- ing in that cunnly. I remcndx-r seeing him when on a visit at my faihers home, when I was a very small boy. Aly reciillection uf him is, that he was tall and slender, with dark hair and beard. I have in my pos- session a letter from him to grandma .Martha, dated Snow Hill, N. ('.. OctolK'r 2S, ISGn, in which he speaks of his family, and the sad results of the war reducing his financial condition froni one of easy comfort to one one of hard struggle to su])port hi.s family.
Elizabeth Warren, l)orn April 10, 1788, and first mar- ried Thomas Weston, of Hertford Count,v. He died and she married Thomas Gritlith. There were no chil- dren by either marriage.
Edith Warren, Iwrn December 29, 178.5, and married John Moore.
40 The Winborne Family.
Etliclrcd Warren. Jr., liorn April 9, 1790. He mar- ried Lydia Mnrdniigli, df a ]iroininent Virginia family. She was very liaiid.'^oiiie and foud of social life. I found among my grandma's old letters, an artistic little card, on which was written the following:
"Mrs. Lydia B. Warren will receive com- l^any on Fri<hiy, (Itli May, at 7 o'clock p. m."
This card was enclosed in an envelope equally as ar- tistic, and directed to "Mrs. Martha Winborne." The year is not given.
These were the parents of the late Joseph E. Warren and William G. Warren, and the grandparents of the present Ryland Warren, son of Joseph, and Miss Sallie Warren, the daughter nf William.
Ixyland still owns the old Warren Homestead, and Sallie lives at her father's old homestead on Meherrin River, in Manney's Neck, in Hertford County.
Robert Warren, born July C^, 1792. He lived and died on his "CV'dar Hill Farm," in ilanney's Neck, in Hertford County. Of this splendid person I will speak later.
Martha Warren, boni Janiuiry 25, 179.5, and became the wife of Elisha Winborne.
Margaret Riddick Warren, named for her mother, was born Decendu'r :], 1797. She died in 1S81 in her S4th year. She never married.
Priscilla Warren, born April 28, 1801, and married Perry Carter, of Murfreesboro, N. C, a man of wealth and of large business interests, and a gentleman of aris- tocratic bearings. Thev reared a family of several
Maetha \Vai;ue.\. 41
(liiughters and one son, all of whom were liiglily edu- cated and greath' adorned the social circles of their day. Tiiey have one daughter now living, Miss Ellen Victoria Carter, who was a great heauty wlien young, and who was imicii admired l)y a host of siiiti>rs, all of whom she declined. She is now living at the Old Homestead in .Miirfreesboro, X. C, with one of their granddaughters, iliss Pri.scilla Warren Williamson. They were the parents of the late distinguished Hajitist divine. Rev. .Jose|)li Iv Carter. They have grandchildren, also, in Kaleigli, X. ("., (Mrs. John E. Ray), in Philadelphia, Pa., in Colorado, in Florida, anti in tiie northwest. They are a very intellectual people.
-Mr. Carter was the family bidder at the sale of the ])roperty of my grandfather, Elisha Winborne, in De- cember. 1>!29.
Sanuiel Darilen Warrt'U. horn heceiiiiier 4. ISO."*, and died .Itme 7, ISIS. Their first ciiild, whom thev named Samuel, died at eleven years of age, au<l the sec- ond oni', named Samuel, died at the age of thirteen.
Of the above large family of children but few of their <leseendants are now living.
Ethelred Warren, their father, served in the Conti- nental army of ITTt! for American freedom and was evi- dently an officer of high rank. Ilis old sword, gun and two pistols, epaulettes, used in the war of 1776, re- mained at my old home, in the ]ios.session of grandma Martha, up to the time T left home for school in 1871. What became of them after that, I do not know and can not find out, except that my brothers and sisters tell me it is ]n'obable they were destroyed in a fire that con- 6
42 The Winborne Family.
sunied an old house in the coruer of the yard, iu which many of the old family relics were stored. Grandma regarded them as sacred hcirlndias, and she so often, in my hoyhood days, interested me in telling me about the war tales which she learned from her father. lie was in the battle at Yorktown when (Jen. Cornwallis sur- rendered his arms.
Ethelred Warren, the l)rother of grandma, served in the war of 1812 in Captain Sebrell's company, of South- ampton County, Ya. He was a gallant and brave sol- dier, and a ])atriotic and devoted Virginian. He was mustered out of the army, after the war, in the city of Norfolk, Va., and walked home, in company with two army eompanions. AVlim he reached home he re- marked, so we have l)een told by the older members of tlie family, that he was about exhausted, and that if lioiiio had been one Imudrcd yards further he would have fallen by the wayside.
Ethelred Warren, Sr., although he lived in Virginia, I find from the records of the Secretary of State's oifice in Raleigh, a grant to him from the iState of 36 acres of laud iu ]\Ianney's Neck, dated Xovendier 17, 1790, ly- ing on Poplar Branch, and adjoining the lands of Carr, Ridlev and .Tethro Darden.
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MICAJAH THOMAS WINBORNE. ."* •*
Necessity is a fipvcrc master. Oltt-dienee t(j tliity ex- cites atiiiiiratidii. Devotion to iiiotiiiM-, lirotluM-, sister, aiul iiiiclc. and love of fellownian. arc snhlinic traits of liiiiiiiiii ciiaractcr. Tlicv arc possessed bv tiic uol)ic and tile true. Siicii was the vonuji I'lan wiiosc name appears alMJVc. Fatherless, witii a \vido\vc(l inotlicr with live yoiiuj; chihlrcn ile])cndent almost entirely ii])on the b(tiinty anil love of his nncic, Kolx-rt Warren, for sup- port, thi- yoiiiiir man felt the necessity, at an early age, of makin'r an eti'ort to relieve his uncle and assist in the sup]Kiri and welfare of his mother anil brothers and sis- ter. He was llic .ildisi. At the early asje of fifteen years, we find liini i-lerkini; for Lewis .M. ("owper, in Mtn-frcosboro, X. ('., where lie remained abiuit fifteen months. Mr. Cowjicr havinj;: closed his business to accept office, youuii' AViid)orne finds employmeni with Webb \- ("a])eliart. in Windsor. X. ('.. where he remained for about two years, when he soUjLrlit and obtained a situa- tion with Paul it' Peirram, of X'orfolk. Va., and after a while he seeks a still more lucrative em]doynu'ni in the city of Paltimore, and while there his services were soufiht by W. II. i- Ti. TJnrdsall, a larire mercantile firm in ^lobile, Ala., where he went in Octolx'r, 1S42. Hut the youns: life, so full of promise, was soon ended. In Sei)tember, 1843, he was taken sick with yellow fever.
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and after an illness of two days, on September 19th, l'^4;!, he ])ass('d awav. far from the land of his nativity and the loved ones at Jiome, who thought of Mike as an ideal Imy, At flic request of .Madam Le Vert, wife of Dr. 11. S. I.e Vert, he was Iniried in the city cemetery, ill the ])rivate lui of that gocid lady, by the side of his yonng companion, a Mr. Scott, from Virginia, who died from the same cause about the same honr. A beautiful monument was erected at his grave by his new made friends. The letters from -Tames Thomas Smith, A. G. Parker, Xelson Parker, and others, of Mobile, to my father (and now in my possession) about the life, char- acter, death and burial of his brother, are convincing proof that he was held in the highest esteem by the best people of that city. The letters of recommendation from his former employers, when he went to Ijaltimore from Xorfolk, are the most flattering. His letters indi- cate that he had a very high order of intellect, and was a thoughtful and observant young man, far above the aver- age. While in Xorfolk he secured from ITfin. Kenneth iiayuur, a mend)er of Congress from Xorth Carolina, the aiipointment of his brother, Samuel, as a cadet to the Pnited States Military Academy at West Point. And w bile in Baltimore I find him writing to his uncle, Rob- ert Warren, about bis brothers, luibert and Richard, ex- ])ressing a purpose of preparing Robert for the naval academy, and of trying to secure his appointment from Congressman Rayuor. Tn his letter lie writes that after getting Robert, (whom be comiiliments by referring to him as a very bright boy), provided for, he will then look after his youngest brother, Richard. He also writes in-
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telligeiitlv of the ilcliales in ( 'oiiiiress, and tlic dilferent, k'iuling statesmen of that i\:\\. IIo died at the age of •23. Ilis life was a brilliant meteor of merit anil native ability. His lirotlier Sam settled his estate. The brotherly devotion of the W'inborne boys for each other is sublime.
46 The Wixbokxe Family.
MAJ. SAMUEL DARDEN WINBORNE.
The seeoud cliild of Elislia Winbonie and his wife, ilartha. Gen. IJohf. E. Lee is quoted as having said tliat "Duty is the sublimest word in the English lan- guage," and all that the word implies was the guiding .star of Sanuiel Darden AVinborne, in his conduct as son, citizen and father, and in all the other i-elations of life. He was born on the 7th day of March, 1821, in Winton Township, Hertford County, JSTorth Carolina, and died on the 3d day of Ai)ri1, ISO."), in his seventy-fifth year. His long life was one of activity and usefulness. Hav- ing been left fatherless when about eight years old, he and his widowed mother and his young brothers and sis- ter were taken Iw his batclielor uncle, Robert Warren, to the farm of the latter in Manuey's Neck Township, of the same county. \t this early age he commenced to dc\-Mtc liiiusclf to the duties of tlio farm, and to the care and support of those so tmfortunately deprived of their natural iirotector. His energy, thoroughness and good l)usiness judgment soon gained for him the confidence and affection of liis uncle, and made him of great assist- ance and usefulness. From time to time during his youtli, and when his services could be spared on the farm, he attended TJuckhorn Academy and made the most excellent use of liis opportunities.
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Ma.j. Sa>[uel Dardex Wixdorxe. 47
In 1840 he was appointoil hy I fun. Kenneth Rayuer a cadet to the United States ililitary Academy at West Point, where he .succeeded well, and was a room-mate of the late illustrious Gen. \V. S. Hancock. As inter- esting evidence of liis pleasant memories and associa- tions of this ])erio(l of his life, I copy the following let- ter and invitation, now in my possession, and found among his papers at his death:
'"TiiF, (^oiii's OF Capet.s
Request the ])leasnre of the comjiany of ^Fr. Samuel Winborne at their Military IJall. to he given on the even- ing of the ;5(llh of August.
>rAXAGEKS.
C. T. Baker, -1. -T. ('. Bibb,
T. ('. Hammond, W. T. Hurwell,
;M. Lovell, W. 1.. Crittenden,
L. il'Laws, W. S. Hancock,
E. K. M'Lean, .\. Pleasanton,
II. .M. Whiting, 1). B. Sacket."
Written at bottom:
"With Kksi'ects of ai.i. the Fellows. Camp Tyler. West Point, N. Y., August .5th, 1841."
The postage was 25 cents.
"GovERx's IsLAxn, N. y., July 9, 1880. My Deak Wixborxe : — I received an hour since your favor of July 5th. Be jdea.sed to accept my thanks for your recollection. I had a note frotn Peck a few days since, and then I thought of you. and those of our friends who attemjttcd to put him out of the window of
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Xo. -'7 'Cnc'liloft,' North Barracks. That wouhl be considered 'hazing' to-day. Your letter shows yon have (hme well in life. * * *
It is qnite interestinp,- to read of yonr past history since we have met, and 1 am rejoiced that yon have been enabled to do so well for yonrscif and for yonrs. Yonr views of life and the past are all good, and it would 1)(^ a i)leasnre to see more of yon. If matters turn out as yon expect I shall certainly be enabled to meet yon, and yon will have bnt to let nie know when you can come.
Gill, during ami subs('(|uent to the war, was a superin- tendent of a Kentucky Railroad, made a fortune, retired and, I believe, lately died.
Truly yours, Winf'd S. Hancock.
Me. S. D. Winborxe. Bid(Jirl:<:r;]]r. N. C.
What became of Wooten? "Tar River"' (Ilawkin) has died long since."
After he had been at West T'oint about <me year, his own declining health, and that of his uncle made it necessary for him to resign and return home. Although only about twenty years of age, he at once assumed the active management of the farm, which was afterwards devised to him by his uncle, subject to the life estate of his mother and some other changes, and again devoted his energies to her maintenance, and to the support and education of his younger brothers and sisters. Their gratitude for these struggles and sacrifices of his early manhood were manifested by the warm devotion which they entertained for him through life. Having dis- charged his duties to them, on the .30th day of March,
Ma.i. Samuel Daudex Winbokne. 49
1S50, lie was united in marriage to >Mi's. Marv II. Mas- seiiljurg (nee I'retlow), of Soiitliaiui)t(.>n Comity, Vir- ginia, who was thereafter the loviug, alfectiouate and faitiifiil eom])anion of his life, and who survived him ahoiil five years. His marriage was a happy one, aud to the graeioiis iufliieiiee, eoiisiderate helpfulness, and sweet Christian eharaeter of his devoted wife, must be airrihiited iiiueli of his subsequent success. As hus- band and father he was affectionate and indulgent, and the luqipiness, comfort and welfare of his family, and the education of his children were ever objects of his loving solicitude and ])ri>videut care.
Ill lN-17 he was appointed on tlie staff of C(d. Starkey Sliar]!, of the Hertford County Militia, with the rank of ^lajor. Among his old papers was found an order from Col. Sharp, dated ^lay 7. ISoO, commanding him to attend a general review in Wintoii on June 0, 1850, and to advertise tiie time and i)lace. At tiie oi)ening of the Civil War in iMll, when tlic militia was re-organ- ized fi>r the conflict, he was elected Lieutenant of the company, of which Win. J. ^lajctte was Ca]>lain. His coiii])any was not called into service, but during the en- tire war he was loyal and active in iiis support of tiie Cdiifedera.cv, and for the greater [lart of the time was a ]>urciiasing agent of the Quartermaster's Department, commanded by Gen. Roger A. Pryor. He was a man of vigorous mind, strong will and unusual force of char- acter. His devotion to his State and county was in- tense, and he was esteemed by all who knew him as an exemplary citizen, lie never sought official position, 7
50 The Winborne Family.
but took a deep interest in all public questions. He hail the courage of his convictions, and was ever ready to assert and uiaintaiu what he believed to be right.
Before the war he was an ardent Whig, but after- wards an uncompromising Democrat. In 1872 he was elected a mend)cr of the Board of County Commission- ers of his county and served in that capacity for four- teen years. During much of this time the Eepublican mendjers of the Board were in the majority, and it is but just to say that it was duo in a large measure to his watchfulness, efficiency and unflinching courage that the deplorable conditions which existed, at that time, in so many eastern counties of the State, never prevailed in Hertford. By his services in this, at that time, most responsible position, he not only conferred lasting bene- fits upon his county, but earned and received the grati- tude and esteem of all good citizens. He likewise served as uuigistrate, before and after the war, and as tax assessor in his township, and here as in all other positions, piddic or private, he discharged his duties faithfully and fearlessly.
As a neighlior he was kind and considerate, and as a friend proverbially loyal and true. ITis helpful hand was generously extended to every worthy ap]3eal of the suffering or unfortunate, and among his neighbors he was ever looked up to for liis sound judgment and wise counsel. He was frank and outspoken in all his rela- tions with others and scorned decc]ition and hypocrisy. Tn his earlier life he was not connected with any relig- ious organization, but for some years prior to his death had been a member of the Baptist Church at Buckhorn.
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Death came to him svukleiilv, and douhtleris as ho would have wished, while he was still in the full possession of Iiis faculties and in the midst of his family. A few vears before, he had beeii partially paralyzed, and apjja- rently had almost recovered from its effects, when the last and fatal stroke seized him while conversing with his family at the dinner table. His remains were laid to rest under the shade of the trees in the old family burying ground at Cedar Hill, where his useful life had l)een sj)ent.
His children were as follows:
Clara Ann, born on the 20tli day of October, 1851, and died of ])neumonia while at school at the Chowan Haptist Institute, in ifurfreeslKjro.
Benjamin Brodie, born on the 14tii day of April, 1S54, and now living in Mnrfreesboro, X. C.
ilary Elizabeth, born on the 11th day of August, lS5(i, and died, as did her sister, of ])neumonia, at the Chowan Baptist Institute.
ifargaret Ella, born on tiic Kith day ><i' .\]iri], 1858, who married L. J. Savagi', of Norfolk, \'a., and now residing in that city.
Robert Warren, born October 2. l^()l, and now liv- ing in Roanoke, Va.
Martha Ann, born on the 28th day of July, 18(U, and the wife of Dr. Thomas I. Burbage, of Como, X. C.
Samuel Pretlow, born on the HJth day of August, 18fi(>, and now livinir at the old homestead, Cedar Ilill.
52 TiiK Wimj(.)i;nk Family.
A FEW STRAY THOUGHTS
OF
MY FATHER, MAJ. S. D. WINBORNE.
My L-arliest distiiu-t recollection oi my father was in l^.'i!) or IStiO. He was well dressed, rather slender, weight about 14:5 pounds. He was sitting at night in the family circle talking over the excited condition of the country politically, and that he appi'ehended that the States would soon be engaged in a fratrieiilal war. lie depicted thc^ horrors of war in such a gra])hic man- ner that it made a lasting impression on me. He was a strong Whig, but when secession was favored by his State, he was absolutely loyal.
lie was a man of great energy, great kindness, yet firm and as brave as a lion. lie liad about forty slaves, and no slave ever had a kin<ler and more considerate master. I never knew him to whi]> but one of his grown slaves, and that T remember as distinctly as if it were of recent occurrence. Edmond, a large, tall, and stort fellow, had treated one of the slave women cruelly and she complained to her master. Edmond kept shy of bis master for a day or so. One rainy morning my father went to the barn, and Edmond was in the room shelling corn. .\s he saw his master he made an effort to break out of the door, when his master caught him near the neck and threw him to the ground and bad him tied, and he whijtped him good. This was during the
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war, and Edmond ran away sliorlly tlicroat'tcr. lie was tlie onlv one of Iiis t*la\Ts that left him before Lee's siirrend(>r. Maiiv of tlieiii stayed witli him for several years after the end of hostilities. He paid them wages .fi'om the em I of the war.
lie was a mend)er of the Home Oiiard, and cue day, while he was drilling his men, back of the Buekhorn Academy, he gave the order to donble-quick (the mem- bers were not young), and as they started, one of the front men fell and abont a dozen others stumbled over him, and the whole line tund)led. Hut his sharp, shrill voice caused them to (luickly regain their ujjright posi- tion. I thought it a great joke and T went home and related the scene to my mother and grandmother, who greatly enjoyed it.
He also held civil offices and was connected with the Commissary I)ef)artment of the Confederate Army and secured great quantities of su]>])lies for the government. While engaged in this work he had some vi'ry narrow escapes from being killed by the T'nion soldiers. I was with him most of the time and learned much of the real meaning of war. .\boiit ten days tefore Lee's sur- render, Lewis' riiiou Cavalry made a raid through l\Ianney's Xeck and robbed every family of nearly all they had. They reached my father's just after dinner. They catne suddenly and caught iny father unawares. He was sitting in his room loading his pistol as one of the number rushed in on him. Seeing the pistol the Yankee drew his pistol and commanded my father to surrender and give ii]) his pistol. The latter refused, but drew it on the Fnion officer. Thev faced each other
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for sevei'al miiiutey with drawn pistols, each threatening the otlier. I stood hy mv father holding his coat, ex- pecting to see one or both men killed, but the Union officer was intimidated and failed to rob the bureau drawers and other places in the house, as he intended. As they went out of the house with their pistols dra^\'n and threatening each other, and got to the yard gate, there appeared about twenty other Union soldiers. My father then surrendered his pistol. They had every mule and horse he had bridled to take away, except one, and they ordered him to bridle that one. My father re- fused, when another officer drew his pistol and pointed it to his ear and threatened immediate death if he did not obey. He looked the Yankee in the face and said, "You may kill me, but I will not bridle my horse for any man to steal." They failed to force him, and they left, taking every miile and horse with them. The im- bridled one they attempted to drive. She made her es- cape, in about a mile from home, and returned that night. He always had an extreme dislike for "cant and hypocrisy" of all kinds, and he did not conceal it. His bold and fearless demmciation of hypocrisy and deceit in men sometimes made him enemies.
He was a great friend to the needy and the dis- tressed. He never turned one off who came to him for help for his family. During the dark days of war he was ever the friend of the soldier's family, and the- wid- owed woman, and the fatherless children. He never lost by it.
He was a kind neighbor and friend. I remember, in 1868, when his neighbor and friend, J. R. Darden, was
Maj. Samuel Dakdex Winboexe. 55
all broken uj) and disheartened by the results of the war, he appealed to my father, when the latter bought his farm, took a deed for it, paid him tlie money, and told him to renuiin there, and see if he could recover from his troubles. .M r. Uarden rallied from his troubles and my father, in November, 1872, re-sold him the farm for the same he gave for it, plus the interest on the pur- chase price. lie would help his neighbors, but never exacted any unjust reward. These deeds arc on record.
He suffered largely by the civil strife, but his ener- gies never Hagged. and he went to work to rebuild his fortune. I was his only child old enough to bo of ser- vice to him. It is the proudest act in my life that I cheerfully entered the struggle and rendered him every assistance in my power. There was no work on the farm that I did not do my part. I took pride in enter- ing into his life work. He showed his warm apprecia- tion throughuut his life of my early efforts in his behalf. I so often reflect with great pleasure on that struggling period to rebuild a lost estate.
In 1867 or spring of 186S I made my first trip to Winton. Two negroes from ifanney's Xeck, Kiddick Britt and Jim ^lyrick, were to be whipped, at the wiiip- ping post, fur stealing a yoke of o.xcn from Capt. W. J. Majette. They carried the oxen to Portsmouth, Va., sold tliem and came back home, when they were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be whipped. I went with father. K. G. Cowper was Sheriff of the coimty, and J. B. Hare was his deputy. The old whipping post had been torn (Io\\ni and the negroes were stripped of their clothes to the waist and swung to a limb of a
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cedar tree, tlieir feet hardly toueliino- tlie ground. SheriiT Cowper whipped Myrick ami Hare whipped Hritt. As the green-parched hickory whips woidd lash ai-iiund their unde bodies the skin woidd part and blood ilv. This was the last punishment of this kind inflicted ill this county. It was cruel and barbarcnis. I could never favor such punishment. This common law mode of pmiishment was abolished in North Carolina, August 23, 186S. Acts ISiiS, eh. 44. Why was the law not changed earlier '< Read Prescott's Conquests of Peru and of Mexico. The question is hard to answer, although the American people were Christianized and civilized.
My father tnld me that he had been informed by his old uncle, Robert Warren, that his brother, Richard, was in favor and statue like his grandfather, Thonnis Winborne. Frum reading the old letters of the family, anil from what my father told me, and the pictures of the old members of tlie Winliorne family, his great grandfather, Henry Winbnrue, was a well ]nT)portioned p-entleman, about ."> feet '.» or 10 inches high, with black beard and hair, strong body and mind, active, energetic, and determined in purpose. The pictures of the older members of the family im])ress me that he was no ordi- narv man. I regret we have no ])ortrait to ]iortray the character and features of this old gentleman. We can only find them iu bis offspring. Of all the great trials of mv father, the une that seeuied to exasperate him the most was his disfranchisement during the Reconstruc- tion period, when the ex-slaves were allowed to vote for the adoption of a State Constitution and for all govern-
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mental officers of the State, and lie and lii.s like disfran- eliised, and not allowed to vote. It is vivid in my miud, when the ex-slaves an<i the worse element of society, and the enemies of Sonthern homes, were allowed to vote and fix tlie laws, while the o\\Tiers of the soil, and the true menihers of Southern homes were denied a voice. This was irorsp Ihnu (he war. It did more to encamj) in the heart of the Southerner a dislike for the North than all el.se connected with the Civil War. I went each tiay to ^lurfrecsboro dnring this farce of voting- to carry the news at night to my father, who was willing to for- gi\-e all hilt this outrage. I find I am making this too long. I coiihl write ])ages ahont him. IFc was tlio ecmi- panion of his children. So mote it be.
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CAROLINE ANN WINBORNE.
The flaugliter of Elislia Wiiiborne was greatly loved liy her brothers. As a youug lady she was handsome and iinieh admired. She married her cousin, Brittou Moore, of ^lurfreesboro, X. C, the sou of Allen Moore and his wife, Ann Warren Moore. They had several children, Arro, Thomas, -Tidia, Pattie, Lonnie L., Euclid and Carrie, all of whom are dead e.xcejit Arro and Lonnie L, Tucde Brittou .Moore died during the early part <<{ the late Civil War. Tlis wife and several children survived him. The war stripped them of much of their estate. They saved their home in ilur- freesijoro. They were looked after and cared for Ijy the widow's brothers, Samuel and IJoliert, until the children were educated and able to be self-sustaining. .Tulia and Huclid died young. Thomas died just as be reached manli((od. Pattie and Carrie nnirried in Chowan County, X. C., and were living in Edenton, X. C, at the time of theii- deatli. EacJi loft cbildi'en. Lonnie married Miss Virgil Calvert, of Jackson, X. C, and they are now living in Edenton, X. C, doing well and have several very ]iromising children. Miss Calvert was the grandilangliter of Samuel Calvert, of Jackson. The Calverts can boast of an aristocratic lineage. Their family history carries them directly back, in an uuliroken chain, to Lord Baltimore, who was Sir George
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Arrc marrii-d Ki'v. \V. F. Watson, a l>a])tist divine, and they are now livinn in Monroe, X. C. Arro is a very aeeoni|ilisbed and intelleetiial woman. She has a weifrbty iiody as well as a stroii<>- and vijinrons mind. Her mother iidierited mneh of the dis|iosilion and char- acter of licr niotlier. Her letters to her brothers, after they left home, were full of valnal)le information, wholesome advice, an<l encouragement to tlicm in their lite striiaijles. These letters were the products of a clear and strong mind. She died in Kdeiiton, X. C., .Xovem- ber 1st, isiis, jn<i seven days prior to the deatii of h(>r brother, Itoliei-t, who was the last one of that noble family to pass into eternity. She was a devout member of the Baptist church, having jvrofesscd religion when young. She and lnisban<l were for a lung time mem- bers of the old liuckhorn Bajitist ("burcli. I-'inally ihey moved their membership to the Baptist cliurcli in the town of their residence. Her brothers were, during their lives, devote<l to their sister. Her brother, Samuel, was her guardian and receive<l her share from her father's estate from liis administriitor. and m.inaged it to her advantage, and at her arrival at f\dl age he i)aid her every cent due her. Her brother, Robert H., was tiie administrator of her husband's estate. Xo sister ever had more devoted brothers.
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DR. ROBERT HENRY WINBORNE.
Xo (•(jiiiitrv lias fver furnislied to the world higher types of iiiiinhooil than the •"Old South,'* and the subject of this sketch was a most worthy represeutative of the best products of liis tjay. His respect for woman was profound, and indeed in the gentleness and graceful cJiarm of the women of the "Old South," and tiie venera- tion in wliich they were held, will be found the secret of the knightly chivalry and courtly bearing of its men.
Attractive iu ]iersonal ap]iearance, of pleasing man- ners and an entertaining conversationalist, he easily won the esteem and friendshi]) of those with whom he came in contact. High-toned and honorable in all his dealings, he always connnanded res])ect and confidence. ]]{' was a great student and a man of extensive learning, but found recreation and pleasure in numly si)orts. He loved animals, and nature in all its f<jrms — the forest, field and ojien sky. Hunting was his favorite j)astime, and no music was sweeter to him than the nutny-voiced chorus of his hounds in the fox chase. Tie was a good story teller, and the centre id' an interesting group wlier- ever he found a congenial (•onii)any. Until afflicted by sorrow at the death of his sons, and ill health, life had many pleasures for him, iiiid he delighted in making it brighter for others. He was devoted to Xorth Carolina and all her interests. TTis knowledge of her historv and
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Irailitidiis, ;iii<l liis ae'(j\iaiiitanft' with the public men of his day, was extensive and intimate.
He was born on the 16th (hiy of July, 1826, and from early youth his bright intellect and thirst for knowledge gave promise of his subsequent attainments. His stu- dious habits, and scholarly tastes were encouraged not only by his mother and brother, but by his nncle, Robert Warren, with whom they resided after his father's death, and they gave him excellent educational advan- tages. In his youth he attended Bnckhorn Academy, of which Prof. -lohn Kemberly was then principal, and between him and his teacher was formed a warm and lasting friendshiii. In 1.S43 he matriculated in the T'niversity of North Carolina, gradnating with distinc- tion in June, 1S47, with the degree of A. B. Among his classmates were (Senator) M. W. Ransom, (Sena- tor) John Pool, and (General) T. J. Pettigrew, and others, wdio snbseqnently became distinguished, but he was excelled in scludarship only by Messrs. Pettigrew and Ranseni. The latter, in referring to his college class, of Avhich he was always proud, has often stated that the contest betwcn himself and the subject of this sketch, for the second honor, was very close. His schol- arship, as well as the esteem in \vhich he was held, is attested by the fact that he was the society valedictorian of his class in the Philanthropic Society, to which he belonged. His loyalty and devotion to his alma mater continued through life, and the alumni reunions in 1SS9 and 1S95, which he attended, were to him occasions of the keenest ]deasure. After leaving the University he taught school for two or three years in Orange Hill,
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Floridii, and thereafter for about the same period in Tarboro, X. C. Among his ]nipils at the latter place were the late Judge Fred Phillips and Dr. il. B. Pitt, now of Edgecombe Countv. \Vhih> at Tarboro au inti- mate frieudsiiip was I'ormcd JK^tweeii liiiii and the late Judge Howard, which continued through life. In the fall of 185;? he entered tlie medical department of the University of Virginia, wlicre he remained one year, lie continued iiis medical studies at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in the sum- mer of 185."). Shortly after his graduation be located in Chowan County, near Holly's Wharf, for the prac- tice of his ]n-ofessiou, and hei-e he continued to reside until liis death, on Xoveudier 7, ISDS. He ranked high iu ills profession and ])ractice<l with much skill and suc- cess. For years he was an active member of the Xorth Carolina Jledical Society and was among its first Presi- dents. It has l>een the good fortime of but few men to be more sincerely loved by his neighbors than Avas Dr. Winborne. Tan ilcClareu, in his beautiful story, "Be- side tiie Bonnie Brier Bush," says of the old doctor of Driiiiilochty, "he has served this glen with a devotion that luis known no reserve, and a kindliness that never failed." The same nuiy be justly said of this scholarly and skilled jiiiysician, whose response to the appeals of suffering and affliction was measured by no sordid sel- fishness. In s\inshinc and storm, cold or heat, night or day, whatever the discomfort to liimself, when disease or suffering called, he went, and often without reward or the ho])e of reward. We love to tell in song and storv of the heroic deeds of those who have faced shot
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and shell with luiilauiited lieart; but no man in the , trenches of Sebastopol or on the heights of Gettysbtirg bore himself with more knightly coitrage than did this good niau in battle with Imman suffering. Upon his tomb there cotild surely l)e no more appropriate inscrip- tion than the old and consecrated saying, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Aside from his professional attainments, Dr. Win- borne was an exemplary citizen, and took a deep interest in jiublic affairs. In 1805 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention of his State from Clmwan County, and rendered valmible services to his State in that body. On several occasions since the war he was urged to become a candidate for Congress from his dis- trict, but he preferred to devote his life to the noble pro- fession which he loved and adorned.
On April 10, 1^62, lie was married to Miss Annie Fe- licia Parker, whose mother was. a Miss Skinner and the aunt of Hon. Thomas C Skinner, of Hertford, and Hon. Harry Skinner, of (!reeuville. Their children were as follows:
Martha Warren, liorn ]\Iarch 27, ISfi;!, and now liv- ing at the old home of her father.
Robert Warren, born January 10, 180.5, and died of heart disease on October 11, 1S90. At the time of his death he was a young physician of gTeat promise.
Peter Parker, born June 2.5, 1867, and died June 3, 1892. At the time of his death he had just completed his junior year at the University of Xorth Carolina, where he had maintained an exceptionally high grade of
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scholarship, and liis death was doubtless attributable ti. his excessive work as a studeut.
Elizabeth Skinuer, born February 22, ItsTO, died De- cember 10, 1872.
Kieliard, born February- (j, 1873, and now residing in Norfolk, \'a., where he is meeting with much success in business. On June 23, 1903, he was married to -Margaret Cofield Warren, of Edeuton, X. C, a member i)f tlie distinguished Warren family of that county, and tiiey now have one cliild, Margaret Warren, born April 12, I'JOo.
William ITutching-s, born Octolxjr 14, 187o, and now residing at the old home, lie was married on Decem- ber 28, 1!)(I4, to Annie T. Elliott, of ("howan County, X. ('., and resides at tlie homestead of his father. He is a leading citizen in his county and tlie present Chair- man of the Board of Education in his coimty.
Mary Skinner, lx>rii ilarcli 10, 1878, and now teach- ing in Beaufort, X. C.
doim Wallace, born July 12, 1884, and now a stu- dent in the senior class at the University of Xorth Carolina.
Tlie death of his sons was a great shock to Dr. Win- borne, and not only saddened his life, but his health soon began to fail. For the last two or three years of his life he was a great sufferer from valvular insuffi- ciency of the heart, and tliis was the ultimate cause of his death. His brother, Sam, was the guardian of his estate when he was a minor.
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"Jime 16th, 1905. Hon. B. B. Wisburne^ Murj'vecshoro, N. C.
De.vr Wixborne: — Your letter of the 10th came in my absence. Ynuv nncle, i)r. 11. 11. Winbonie, did rep- resent Chowau ( 'oiinty in the Constitutional Convention of 1865, caHed to rehabilitate the State. He was a MTV itscfnl and intlnential nicndier there, as yon will see by the records of that body. According to my present recollection he never rejn-eseuted the county in ihc l('i;islatur('. lie was always, however, a Icailing fac- Inf ill the political and business affairs of onr connty, and I have rarely ever known a more thoronghly intelli- gent and conscientious leader i>f pul)lic thought. The county luis sntl'cn'd greatly by his death. We very greatly need leaders of his stamp. If 1 were called upon to name Dr. AVinliorne's ]iredominant characteris- tic, I would nieution open, honest candor and disgust and contempt f<ir anything which savors of cant or hypocrisy. [ never knew a man who so thoronghly hated cunning and meanness in ]iolitics, religion or business.
T shall be delighted to aid you further in any investi- gation whicli you <]esire to make into the life of one of my best friends, whom I have always earnestly admired and loved.
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ANNIE FELICIA PARKER.
'i'lic wife <if KiilHTt Ik'iirv \Viiil)uriK' (Ic-sei'iided from the oldest and most [iromiiieiit families of tlie Albemarle section. Her iiiateriial i;raii<lfailier was llciirv Skin- ner, of I'ei'ciuiiiians Connl.v, X. ('.. wlio was a direct descendant from Kicliard Skinner, of that cotuity, wlio was one (jf the jurors in the famous suit of l\'//(. Wii- liuiiis r. Will. Hull. It was an action of (Iclhiuc for a feather bed, 1 pair hiankets and 1 y/c/'/c. tried Ajjril 11, 1704. (("ol. Kec, Vol. 1. ].. (WIS.) He was after- wards a mendier of tlie Colonial ilou.se of Assembly from his county in 1 7-'! I-17:*>'>. His son, Kicliard, was sheritf of the county in 17^!^. His son, .loiin, was also ])rominent in tlie State bolli iiefore and after tiie war of 177(i, was a member of tlie House of Assembly from 17(i!l to 1771. He was corporal in Captain Katon's Company in the Continental army. Kidisted in .May, 1771), aiid was honorably discliarn'cd Xovendier 1, 177>^. to serve as a civil officer. His brother, Thomas, was also in the Continental army, in ('apt. Blount's Com- ])any, from Jnly 20. 177^, until the clo.se of the war. William, another .son. was a member of the Halifax (^on- aress, .Vpril 4th. 177(), and was by that body ai)])ointed Lieutenant in the Continental army, where he served with gallantry.
Jonathan Skinner, another of the family, was also a
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j>r<iniiii('ut man in the State from the East. He served in the lI<in..H' ivmn 177'.' In 17S5, except oue session, and again in the Senate from 17U0 to 1793.
William Skinner married Miss Jeneslia Bond, of C'liiiwan C'linnty, and their son, Henrv vSkinner, married ^liss Sarali Tioiierts. Henry was a member of the Hottse from Chowan ("onnty from 1S13 to 181.5, and in the Senate in lM(i. Their daughter, Elizabeth B. Skinner, marrieil Peter Parker, of Chowan Cunnty, and their daughter, Aimie Felicia, married Robert Henry Win- borne.
.Mrs. Annie F. Winborne's ance.stry on her paternal side is equally as distinguished. Her father, Peter Parker, was the .son of Elisha Parker and his wife Eliza- beth ^STorfleet, of Chowan Coimty. Elisha Parker's pa- rents were Peter Parker, Sr., and his wife, Mary Wal- ]ac<^, of Chowan, and Mary Wallace was the daughter of John Wallace, of Albemarle. The old John Wallace home was in Chowan Comity, abotit oue mile from the Chowan River, at Holly's Wharf. Annie Felicia's mother, after the death of her husband, Peter Parker, in 1839, married Jonathan White, in ISl-fi, by whom she had several children. Her father-in-law liecame Annie's guardian, and after her marriage a suit was entered against her guardian for a proper .settlement. The re- sult of the suit never demonstrated to the plaintiffs that she had been squarely dealt with by her guardian. Win- hornc r. White. 69 N". C, 253.
John Wallace (sometimes we find it incorrectly spelt, John Wallis), was a large land owner and a man of uuich wealth and influence. He was a Scotchman. A
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man of strong character, of great exeoitive ability, and a sueccssfiil business man. He flourished in the begin- ning and the first quarter of tlie ISfli century, and was loyal to his government.
The oldest Jolm Wallace (Wallice) is a i)arty to an agreement, in KiC-a, between Edward Earle, of Claren- don, Lord Iligii Chancellor of England, (ieorge, Duke of Albemarle, and others. (Col. Kec, Vol. I, p. 7(i.) lie also served as a juror in February, Ui'Xi, (Col. Rec, Vol. 1, J). 388.) ifis brotlier, Robert Wallace (Wallis) was a member of the Court. (Vol. 1, p. -t:5."). ) Thomas Wallace (Wallis), of Chowan, died about IT.jO, and left a will, now of record in the office of Secretary of State in Raleigh. lie mentions his wife, E^lizabeth, his sons, \\ illiam, Johnothan, and John, an<l his daughters, Eliz- abeth, Judeth, Mary, and Susannah. Thomas was a brother of John, the ancestor of Annie Felicia. Wills were recorded in Raleigh in office of Secretary of Stale up to about 1760.
Richard Winborne, son of R. 11. Wiuborne and wife, Annie F., married Miss ^rargarcl C. Warren, June 2:], 1!)0;3, who.se paternal ancestry runs to Thomas 1). War- ren, of Chowan County, thence back to the Warrens of Williamsburg, Va., to Gen. Samuel Warren, of the war of 1776-82. They have one child, ^largaret Warren Winborne. Samuel Warren, the grandfather of Martha Winborne, wife of Elislia Winborne, a member of same family. Wm. TT. Winborn(>. sim of R. H. Winborne and wife, married December 28, 1!)04, ]\riss Annie P. Elliott, whose i)arents rank with old Chowan's best ])eo])Ie. They live with his mother. Annie F., lives at
70 The Wi.\u(jknk Family.
tlu' (lid ancc\stral Ikulk — tlic Ikiuic <it' lier nld ancestor, .luhu Wallace. The old iiKimtr Imuse lias been added to and luudernized. It is now an ideal- conntry home, within one mile of the banks of the majestic Chowan Kiver, at a point where the distance across the river is between four and five miles. Tt is on or near the site of an old Indian villai;e or eitv. ller mother was the sis- ter of James Costen Skinner, the father of Hons. Thomas Gregory Skinner and ITarry Skinner, both ex- members of ( 'onii'ress, and the latter is now United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of jSTorth Carolina. Her two daniihters and yonngest son, John Wallace, live with her. Richard is in business in Norfolk, Va.
lUCII Al:li W IMioKNK. Vimiii:esl son of Kll.-ha Wliiboriu-. Died ill ISti-i 111 LatiraDKe. Teuii.. u^ej 3:1.
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RICHARD WINBORNE.
The youngest of the ehiklren, like his oldest brother, Mica jail, impelled bv a noble desire and ambition to seek his fortune in a strange land among strange people, in November, 1S48, in his twenty-tirst year, buoyant witli hope, left the homo i)f his mother, to whom he was so strongly and hivingly attached, and made his way to ilacon, Fayette Cuinity, Tennessee, reaching there after a journey of over live weeks. His letters to his mother, after reaching Tennessee, are pathetic and touching. They portray the feeling and unlimited devotion of son for mother, but at the same time showed phiek and de- termination, traits of character so strongly develojjcd in the nattires of his brothers. He remained Init a short time at JIacon, when he moved to LaGrauge, in the same State, where he spent the remainder of his days. He met with success in business. In 1S57 he mar- ried Ifi.ss .Maggie Howard, of LaGrange, a lady of considerable literary acc(im])lishments and refinement. T have a inuuber of her letters written to his mother. They had two children, Rolx>rt and Lillie. Fncle Rich- ard died in September, 1S(:'>2, aged 33 years. His wife's letter to his mother, conveying the sad tidings of his death, and of her heart sufferings in her loneliness, was a sublime expression of heart and head. The war swept away most of their estate. IHs wife and two children
72 The Winbobke Family.
survived liini. .Mr. W. 1'. Lipscomb, LaGrauge, Tenn., wild married his wife's sister, in a letter to me, dated -Iniie S, 1905, informs me tliat Iloljert died soon after tiie death of liis fathcn-. TIk^ widow re-married and had two cliiklren by lier seemid marriajie. She died June 16, 1S7S. After the re-marriai;i" nf her mother, Lillie lived with her aunt, l\[rs. TTerndoii. In October, 1878, Lillie, while fleeing, witli lier auiils, Mrs. Herndon and Mrs. Lipscomb, from llie plague nf yenow fever, which was then throwing its dark shadows over sontlnvestern Tennessee, contracted the fever irom which she was try- ing to escape, and died in October of that year in Win- chester, of her native State.
Richard met with success in business and won the respect and esteem of his fellowmen in his new-made home. He was reared to work on the farm, and at the same time to feel the importance of an honorable, dig- nified and chivali-ous bearing. It was but little trouble to him to succeed and make friends. His brother, Sam, in a letter to his brother, Robert, of ilarcli 26, 1848, speaks of him as follows: "Dick is ]iloug-liiug every day with me, and rides, at leisure times, as if he was Avorth thousands of dollars, and you will find him the finest looking man of all of us when von see him again."' Rich- ard's letters to his mother, brothers and sisters, after he went West, show the strong ties of love that existed be- tween them and bound them together by imperishable devotion. He, Sam and Caroline, had black hair, while Mike and Robert had light colored hair.
His brother, Samuel C, was his guardian and re- ceived his i^art of his father's estate from the adminis-
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tratnr, Kdlx-rt Warri'ii, and iiiaiiaiictl it (hiring liis uii- noritv. Wlicn lie arrived al Iffjal ago iiis ijiiardian set- tled witli iiiiii ill full. Aud fruiu tinn- to tiiiic liis l)nitl)er, Haimicl, advanced to him the legaov left him in his rn-!e !{<ihert Warren's will, ixdore its matnrity, ;iiid further siinis in additi" ii, to eiialilc hini to begin the hatfle of life.
.\ftcr the death, in l^T^*^, of his nioflier. the antlior of lliis skeleli (|iialitied. in .\i>ril. 1X7!», as administrator of his I'nele Kiehanl Winhorne. and settled with his brother, Samnel, which settlement showed that the latter hail overjiaid the amounts due his hrother, Richard. (See tile records in Hertford ("oiinty).
Richard Winhorne was a spleiiditl looking gentleman wiien I last saw liini in IStil. during his last visit home. I learn from one of his letters to his brother. Roliert, tliat he joined tlie Biickhoni Ba]itist ('iiiirch in l.s42.
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The Winboene Family.
ROBERT WARREN.
No history of Elisha Winbonie's family would be fomplete without the name and character of Robert War- ren. After I he dcatli of his hrother-in-law, he became the loving head of that family, whom he took from their old home on the east side of Potecasi Creek, on the farm lately known as the Joseph Newsom farm, to his delight- ful home, "Cedar Hill," in ilaimcy's Xeck, the north- eastern ])art of Hertford County, when he made them. by his kindness, reverence and respect the devotion of a briither and an uncle, lie was a well-to-do old bachelor, who lived on his "Cedar Hill Farm," and his manners and style of living savored of the old Colonial gentleman, lie was a gentleman in the truest sense. Gentle, kind and atrectionate in liis dis])osition ; strong in his attach- uiculs; dignihed and courtly in manner; hrm and jwsi- ti\-e iu character. He was passionately fond of the sporr nf fox and deer hunting, and always kept his well trained ])ack of houn<ls, which he greatly valuecl. He clung to the old style of dress, that so jieculiarly nuirked the old, well-dressed Colonial gentleman. His home was well known as "Cedar Hill."" and it is to-day a beautiful old country home. He was devoted to his sisters and his sis- ter ilartha's children. The letters written to him by his Winhorne nephews when fr<iui lionie ( a number of which 1 have) show their wonderful <lcvotion to Idiii and ilis-
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close tlie lofty character of lliiri grand niau, this de- voted brother, and this affectionate and big-hearted niicle.
He died ill .Tannary, ls4(!, and left a will, of whicli I lie fill lowing is a copy:
ROBERT WARRENS WILL.
■"I, Robert Warren, of the connty of Hertford and Stale of North Candina, being of sound mind and mem- ory, idit considering the nncertainty of my carthl,v ex- istence, do make and declare this my last will and testa- ment, in manner and form foUowing; that is to say:
First. I lend to my sister, iiargaret R. Warren, the ii]il)er rouiii in the south end id" my dwudling during her natural life.
Scroiiil. I leave the whole of my estate, that is, my huKJs, iuiduding my dwelling, improvements, etc. Three Negroes, viz.: Pompey, t'haney and Closes; my stock of all kinds, farming utensils, houstdiold and kitchen furni- ture to renuiin and be kept together in the care of my IK pbcw, Saimu'l D. \\'inborne, for the use and benefit of mv sister, Martha D. Winborne, during her natural life, and at her death or marriage 1 give and l)et]ueath >mto my ne]iluw, Samuel 1). Wiubfjrne, all my estate as above named by his jiaying to my nejjhew, Richard Winborne, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, to him and his heirs forever.
And, lastly, 1 do hereby constitute" and a])point my ne])hew, Samuel T). Winborne, and my friend, Jet R. Darden, my lawful executors to all intent* and purposes, to execute this my last will and testament according to
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till' true- intent ;unl nu-anini;' of the same and every part and elanse thereof, lierebv rcvokinji' and declaring ut- terly \-oi(l all other wills and testaments by me hereto- fore made. In witness whereof I, the said Robert War- ren, do hereunto set my hand and seal, the 6th day of Febrnary, A. D. ISU.
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Signed, sealed, published and decdared by the said Robert Warren to be his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request and in bis presence, do subseriV)e our names as witnesses thereto.
T. D. Vai^n, Sam'l a. Dahden, Elias Britt.
State of Xoirni Cakolix.v — Hertford County.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, February Term, 1.S46.
Tlie within last Will and Testament of Robert War- ren, deceased, was exliibited in o])en Court at this term f(ir ])r()l)ate and the due executiim of the same proved by tlic oath of Samuel A. Darden, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
At the same time Samuel 1), Winlmrne, one of the executors therein appointed, a])|)eared in open Court and was duly qualified as such, and prayed and obtained an order for Letters Testamentary thereon.
Test: L.']\1. Cowper. Clerk."
Roliert Warren was the administrator of Elisha Win- borne and sold tlie pro]ierty of the estate in December,
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1829. After liis death "Cedai- Hill"' remained as the liome of the Winhonie familv, and to-day is the home of l{ol)ert Warren"-; i;rand ncjilicw. Sanuiel Pretlow Win- borne.
While nearly sixty year^ have rolled away since his death, yet he lives in the hearts of his grand nephews and nieces, like he did with their ancestors, and for wliom they clierish a feelinj; of devotion unparalleled. The [)Coi)le with whom lie lived .spoke of him as ''one of tlio noblemen."
My father alone <|ualified as his executor and settled the estate.
The Winborne Family.
MRS. MARY HARE WINBORNE.
The wife of Samuel Darden Winborne was a Miss Pretlow, of Soutliampton County, Virginia. Her an- cestors were Quakers, and sincere and pious people, true to their sect. Xo family in the Old Dominion stood better than the PretloAvs. Tlie old records of the family reveal that Thomas Pretlow and his wife, Rebecca, landed on o\<\ \'irginia s<iil fmm Kugland about the year 1632, about ten years after the first Powhatan massacre. The Pretlows are of Norman origin, and the name was originally Predlow, so it is lianded do-mi to us from the (lid mendiers of the family. Acc(>rding to the tradition of the family, the male I'rcdhiws of Normandy were sol- diers in the Norman army, iind fought under William the ■ Conqueror in the battle nf Hastings, and that the mother of the Pretlows of England, as they were known after the Conquest, was a member of the royal family of William. This is going back to remote days, but they are family traditions, and it i> jn-oper to transmit them to (inr posterity. Pietnrning to the genealogy of the family as an American product, we learn that Thomas Pretlow and his wife, Relxicca, had by their marriage two sons, Joseph and Tlmmas, and one daughter, Char- lotte.
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Uied Augiisi 24. 1900. aged 72 year? and 7 inunllis.
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f>f this iiiari'iage. 1 will relate an iiifideut, however, that iiiav help some one else who may have more time ami liettcr facilities than I, to search into it.s history.
In the snmnier of ISTs or isT'-', while 1 was a young lawyer, living in Winton. X. C., I was at Old Point Comfort, ^'a., for a few days. While there I met a re- fined and well edneated gentleman of abont 5.5 or 60 years old, of the name of Harrison, who was spending the summer there with his family, from Cincinnati, (^hio. lie inqnired of me one day where I was from. In the conversation I sjjoke of my mother being a iliss Pretlow, of Sontham])ton County, Va. lie at once be- came very nuicli interested in onr conversation and asso- ciations while I remaineil at Old Point. lie stated that one of his ancestors was a ^liss Pretlow, from that same county. I met his wife and daughter and found them very interesting. 1 left Old Point and went to Xew York. He learned where I was going and ]»resented me with a ticket for the tri]).
There are two branches of the Pretlow family in \'ir- ginia. ily molher's family descended from Jose])li, and the other family <lescended from Thomas, Jr. My mother's grandfather was Jose])h Pretlow, who married Miss Ann Scott, of Southampton County, Va. They had only one child, Joseph. Tie married Miss ^lary Hare. January 8, ISIS, the daughter of Bryan Hare, of Xansemond Cotnity, Va. Bryan Hare married iliss Sarah Shc])herd, of Xansemond County, the sister of Solomon Shepherd, of that county.
Joseph Pretlow and his wife, ^fary Hare, were the l)arents of my mother, ^fary Hare Winborne. nrr Pret-
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|(i\v. Their children were: Zelinda Ann, born July 4, IS 111. Tiobert Scott, born Xyvil 7, 1S21. Joseph, born December 1, 1822, and died iu 1862, nmnarried. John, born April 12, 1825, and died December 19, 1901. He mai'ricd the accomplished Miss Deborah Kicks, of Rich- mond. Va. Thev had no cliild. Tiie widow still sur- vives, and lives at his old homestead, about five miles from Franldin, Va. Mary Hare, born January 30, 1828. Sarah C, born September 18, 1832. Elizabeth A., born February 12. is;!.-), and died at my father's July 10, 18(i."., from typhoid fever. She was a very beautiful and attractive woman, and had many ad- mirers.
My father qualified in Southampton County, Va., on the estate of my motlier's brother, Joseph, and in the winter of sixty-three and fcmr carried me to the late home of my uncle and left me thei-e with the overseer to liiok after matters and report to him when he would come up. I rememlier some of my experiences while there. Mv uncle was a Quaker and did not own slaves, but he had four or five negro l)oys "Ixnnid to him," and they renuuned after his death until the end of the war and the estate was closed u]). These boys occupied a house in the corner of the yard, and the potato cellar was under that JKiuse. T would often go over to this house at night and the boys would roast ])otatoes for me, and pick the banjo and dance for my amusement. It would amuse mv father very nnieli wIkmi he would come up and listen to my description of the dances. Zuni and Ivor stations, on "N". and W. Railroad, were the only nearby townis. That is where T went to buy a little candy.
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ilr.s. Aim .Scott I'lX'liuw, widuw of Joseph, was stay- ing witli Ikm- l)rotlic'r, James Scott, a wealtliy old bache- lor, who lived in Southampton County, and had iier little granddauffhter, Sarah V. Pretlow, with her, when, on the night of Deeendier 14, l.s-iO, about t) o'clock, one .Matthew Drake, a white man living in the neighborhood, murdered .Mr. Scott at the gate of his front yard, and llien rail into the house and murdered ^Irs. Pretlow, my urandniother, and liltle Sarah, who was Iviug in bed asleep. Tlie servant girl made her escape and ran to a neighbor's house and gave the alarm. Drake was eatight, indicted, convicted, and hanged. Robbery was the motive for the murder.
Zelinder .\nn Pretlow nuirried Edward Everett Hol- land, a planter, in .Naniemond County, \'a., about four miles from Holy Neck Chapel. They had several chil- dren, but only reared two sons, Charles E. and Edward Everett, Jr. Charles E. married a Miss Sue Jones, of his native county, and engaged in the mercantile busi- ne-is in Sufl'ojk, Va., and met with success, lie was killed Se])tembcr 21, lS!t4. at Poykin's, Va. He was waiting for a train and was standing on the railroad track, when an engine, shifting cars, backed a car on him and crushed him. He died just Ix^forc reaching Suifolk on the ti-ain, which was conveying him to his home. He left a widow and several children, who are living at his home in Suffolk. He was a devout member of the Christian Church.
Edward Everett lives in Suffolk, Va. He is and has been for a number of years President of the Merchants 11
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and Farmers Hank of Xansenioiul, in Suffolk. He is, also, a well equipped lawyer in full praetice. He is now on Governor llontagne's staff and ranks as Colonel. He married Miss Olelia Lee, daughter of Col. P. H. Lee, of his coimty, and a distinguished officer in the Con- federate army. His wife died sc\-eral years ago, leaving one son, Pretlow, and one daughter, Bettie. He has never re-married. Fortune smiles upon his labors.
Robert S. Pretlow uiarricd Miss Isabella H. Cook, of Isle of Wight County, Va. He lived at his father's old home until about ISfiO or ISlil, when he moved with his family to Dublin, State of imliaua, where they lived to his death, February :il . 1 SS."). Tliey had eight children, James, Deboraii, Mary, Bell, Jos(^])h, ('lotilda, Robert E. and Elizabeth. .Tames returned to Virginia about 1S90, married a lady in Xansemoud County, and several years thereafter dieil iu I'^'aukliu, \'a., where his widow and childr(>n now reside. i)ehorali ne\-er married, but devoted luueh of licr life to teaeliiug. The last I heard of her she, l»y a very wise and judicious investment of her money in soiue real estate, had accunuUated a con- siderable estate and was living iu M iunea])olis, Minn. Roliert is a doctor in Indiana, ('lotilda is a missionai'v iu (lihara. ("ulia. Tlie whole family were sincere mem- bers iif the (^luiker church, and all highly educated, ^lost of the children live in Indiana. JMary Hare Pret- low married February 18, 184('>, James Massenbnrg, of Southampton County, ^'a., who only lived six months and four days after the marriage. She had one child by the marriage, James Pretlow ]\Iassenbnrg, now of Henderson, N. C, and who married Miss Carrie
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James .Mas.-eiiliiirii, tlie liiisliaiid i>\' .Marv iiiiri' I'l-et- li w, died Se]itend)er .'!, lS4(i. au'ed -J'-i vears ami two iiK.utlis. On tlie :5<)tli day of May, \s:>(), the widow, .Mary Mare ^[a.ssenhiirji-, ncc Pretjow, married Samuel Dardeii \Viiili<iriie. nf lifrtfuril ('miiity. X. (".. aud is the mother of his ciiildreii, wiio.so names and a!:::es liave l)een jriven. She <lied Aujiiist l'4, \'M»K She was edu- eated in the schools of iier (dinreh. She srradiiated at the Quaker Colleii:e for yonnu' ladies in Piiiladeljdiia, and while there at school she atlentled religions services at the (dd (Quaker church, now standing in that city within an enclosure, so sacred to so many familii's in our lia])i)y land of free<loni. She was a woman of snlilime and gentle character, a devoted inuther. a Christian w<i- man, and a loving ami alfectionate wife, .softening, at all times, the hard hlows of her Imshand in his struggles and hattles of life. After she married out of the chnrch of her parents, she joiiie<l the i;a]>tisi church at !5nckliorn, and remained one of its truest memhers u\> tu her death. Her sister, Ann, after her marriage. joine(l the Chris- tian chnrch at Ilidy Xeck, in Xanseniond County. Her sister, Elizabeth ( P>ettie as she was called) and her hrothers. Robert. .Tose]ili and .Inhn. remained memhers of tlie eliurch of tlieir ancesturs uj) ti. their death.
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'I'lie oldest (liui^litcr and t-liild of Samuel D. and ^lary II. \Vinl)orne died in iliirfreeshoro in 1S(;4 while at- tending school at the C. B. F. Institute, in her ir)th vear, after a brief illness. She is buried on the south- ern hill at home.
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The second dauiihter anil third child id" S. I), and M. II. WinlK)rne died at the C\B. F. Institute in Mur- freeslxiro in February, 1S73, while there at school, after about three days illness. I was then at Columbian Uni- versity, Washington, 1). C, wlicu tlie shocking and sad news of her deatii readied nie. \Ve wrote to each other every week, and tlial week her letter clid not come. The cause was soon revealed to nie by letter from home and the visit to me by Kev. .Tose])h F. Carter, who was here when she died.
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BENJAMIN BRODIE WINBORNE.
'J'ln- eldest suii of Samuel J >. W'iubonie was boru on April 14, 1S54-, at the family liduiestead, Cedar Hill, in Manney's Neck, Hertford Cotmty, North Carolina. At the time of his birth his nncle. Dr. R. H. Wiuborue, was attending lectures at the University of Virginia, and at the suggestion of the latter lie was named Benjamin Hrodie, in honor of a distinguished English Surgeon, for whom Dr. Winborne had great admiration. In youth he attended Buekhorn Academy, a flourishing classical school, of which Capt. J. H. Picot, a graduate of Columbia College, of New York, was principal. In ISTl he entered Wake Forest College, where he re- uiaiucd for one year, and thereafter continued his itudies in Columbian l.Tniversity iu Washington, 1). C, receiving from the latter the degree of B. L. in June, IS 74. He then studied for one year in the oftice of Judge W. N. II. Smith and Hon. George V. Strong, of Kaleijih, N. C., and began the practice of law in June, 1 ST.-), in Winton, N. C, having received his license from Ihc Supreme Court of the State the preceding February and before he had attained his majority. He soon won his way to the front rank of his profession, and for a mimber of years has been one of the leading and most successful mendK'rs of the bar in the Eastern part of the State. In 1S77 he was elected Solicitor of the Infe- rior Court of Hertford County — a Court of limited
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tTiiiiiiiiil jurisdiction — and served in this capacity for a ininil)i'r of veaiv. In isill this Court was abolished, and a criminal Court of "eneral jurisdiction was estab- lished in its stead. At the earnest solicitation of the citizens of his countv, he accejjted the judgeship of this latter Court, and served for a term of six years, except for a short interval when he resigned to serve in the Legislature of 1S!I.") — being re-apiiointed Judge after its adjournment by Gov. Carr.
From 1N78 to lS!t4 he served as Chairman of the Democratic E.vecutive Committee of Hertford County, and it was under his management that the ascendancy of the l{e])ublicau jiarty in tlie county was overcome. He was one of tiie thirty-lliree Demoerats in the Stjite, elected to tiie House of ]ve[)reseutatives in the fall of 1S!»4, and in the Legislature of 1895 lie took an active and leading ])arf. In IMMJ he was one of the North Caro- lina delegates to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, lie was again nuule Chairuuin of his party in ISDO to r.M)L', when he resigned. In the fall of 1004 he was again elected a mendier of the Legislature, and served in the session of l!»()."i. In this body he was Chairman of the Democratic caucus, Chainnan of the Judiciary Committee, and of otlier important commit- tees. He was the author of much important legislation, and took a leading jiart in the debates of the session. On Decendier 28, 1870, he married Miss Nellie H. Vaughan, a daughter of Col. T^riah Vaughan, of Mur- freesboro, N. C, and a lady of exceptional beauty and rare loveliness of character. They were blessed with the following children :
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Triah Vaii.nliau Winbomc, born May 13, 1884, who (lied in infancy on Aiigust 5, 1884.
Stanley \Vinbt)rne, born Aiigust 25, 1886, and now a young man of bright ]n-oniise and a stndent at the Uni- versity of North Candina. He was named for Judge vStanlev Matthews, whose intellectual and legal ability his father greatly admired.
Benjamin Brodie Winborne, dr., born Xoveud)er 10, 1889, and now attending school in Mnrfreesboro, K. C.
]\Iicajah Winljorne, born February 3, 1890, died June 6, 1896. A more comprehensive sketch of the sul)ject hereof will be found in the Biographical History of Xorth Carolina, iiublislied in IIH).-).
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Tlic tliinl (laughter and Imirtli cliild of Saimu'l 1). and .Marv II. Winbornc, iiiarricd, .May 1(J, issii, Leroy .1. Savagi', of ^iort'olk, Va. Ho wa.s tlit'ii a nieuiber of the firm of Savage, Son iS: ("n., who were doing a hirgc and proiitable commission biisines.s. After several years tiie firm dissolved and he heeame eonneeted with otiier tii-ms in the same line of business uj) to his deatii, April 11, llMil. .Vf his <lealii. and for several years prior thereto, he and his family lived at their home on ("lairborne Avenue, in Norfolk, Va. lie was the son of Col. Alexander Savage, a distingnished Confed- erate soldier, and bis wife, .Mary Lee, of Xansemond County, Va. His widow and her si.\ ehiidreii, Samuel \\'., born .Vpril 2<!. iss:5 ; ilary Lee, born .March 14, 188.5; Karlie, born ilarch 1, ISST; Leroy John, born OclnluT 11, 1S81I; Sarah Eliza, born Ai)ril lH, 1S!)2, and Margaret Ella, born SejitemlKT 7. I'.KMI, still live at the same jilace, which is ownecl by I'^ila.
My sister, Ella, graduate<l at tiie C. 11. F. Institute at Murfreesboro in the class of isTU. She is a most refined and charming woman. She has had a hard struggle to get along and su]i])ort and educate her chil- dren. She is jihilo.sophical and cheerful under all cir- cunistances. She received about $3,000 insurance money from her husband's insurance for her benefit, and 13
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about the same amount from her father's estate, and lier home was given to her by her father. With this help, and by the best of management she has succeeded in getting along well, educated her children as they grew up, and is a prince of a little woman. She has added to her income by taking a few select boarders. She has enlarged her home and now she is comfortably fixed. A kind Providence has blessed her, and her splendid judgment, strong au<l clear mind, and exalted diristian charactei- make her the lovely heroine of the family. I tliink she is more like, and the best repre- sentative of the family, of our father. May she always be happy, is the wish i)f the writer.
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Tilt' si'iMiul son of Saimu'l I >. \\'iiilniriii- ami liis wife, .Mai-v. I)ol) (as I will speak of liiiii ) lias always been a gri'al favorilc in tin- t'aiuilv. From i-arly life lie gavir evidenee that he iiosscsscd a lirijrht and elear mind, a fondness for books, and a disposition and tact for mak- ing fricn<ls. These traits of eharaeter and mind have greatly develojied in his niatnrer years. .Many of iiis brisiiit and elite savings, wlien voiing. are remembered by the writer. When a small Ihiv he was a little slow in learning to ride horseback. One day he ventured to ride a mule down the broad avenue in frmii of the house at home, and the muii' i-ither threw iiiiii or lie fell off. It hurl him. biii his e.xperieiice seemed to amuse hiiii. ami lie came to the house lio|ipiiig, but laugliing. ami an.xious to relate his recent troubles. lie told us how the mule drew his back nj) into a knot, ami jumped, as if ;ill his legs Were intle.xible.and described the ]ieculiar .sensations about hishead. lie thought his head fell off from his iMidy. and suddenly his body came to jiieces, and all his jiarts were thrown in a pile on the sand. He told it with great gusto and vivacity, greatly to the amusement of his father and Miss Jennie Kiddick, who was visiting the family at the time. lx>b was educated at Huckhorn .Veademy and at the University of his State. He grad- uated with honors at the University in the class of ISSl,
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ivcfixiiiy tlie A. II. (IciiTL't'. Kr<iiu September, IS^l, tu •laiiiiarv, 1SS2, lie and Locke Craig, another graduate of llie 1 'iii\ersit_v, laiiglit seli(i<il ami wrvf tlii' principals in file Cliapel Hill Academv. Froni .lauuary, 1.SS2, to -hine, 1N,'^2, be tanght school at Rialto, Chatham Conn -, X. C He read hnv dnring the time he was teaching ami obtained his license to practice in Fehrnary, ISS."!. In May, 1SS;5, lie located in IMiirfreesboro, and joined I lie wi'iter in the practice of law, nnder the firm name of Winborne 6l' IJro. He quickly came to the front as a sound lawyer and an attractive speaker. We had a large practice. In the fall of 1S85, in the 24th year of his age, he was elected, as a Democrat, to the Legislature of his State. He was the first Democrat elected to rep- resent the comity in the General Assembly since the days of reconstruction. By his pleasant and courtly man- ners, his ipiickness and readiness in debate, and his ability as a lawyer aiLil a student, he made considerable reputation and added largely to his roll of friends in the State. His knightly and chivalrous bearing, and fond- ness for the sublime and beautiful, lias always made him a delightful comjianion. On Xovend)er 24, 1SS7, he married in Chicago, 111., ]\Iiss Dora Merrifield, at the home of her sister. He met Miss ]\rerrifield when she was teaeliing at tln^ C. F>. F. Institute for yottng ladies, in Murfreeslioro. She was from Valparaiso, Ind., and the daughter of .Fudge Thomas T. Merrifield and wife, Katheriue. of Valjiaraiso. Boli was attracted to her by her great beauty and remarkable iutellectmil attain- ments. They hail two children, Tioger M., born August 1, 1889, and Robert AV., Jr., boi'u 'May 10, 1S92. They
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In -May, 1S91, Boli, with iiis family, muved from M iirf reeshoro to Biiona Vista, \'a., then a most flonrish- in_a: iK'^^' town in Kockbridjic Cotinty, <>n the ('. and O. Railrnad. In-tween Lvn('hl)nri;' and Lexington, \'a.
In 1M)7-N he rejiresented liis adopted county in the Legislature uf Virginia, and he was a strong candidate iiir tlie nomination as one of the two delegates from his cdinily to the recent C'onstitntional Convention of Vir- ginia, the contest, being Ijetween him and I'X-Cougress- nian St. George Tucker, <>f Lexington. Neither of these rival candidates receivi'd the nomination, bnt a "dark horse" was nominated. lie was the common- wealth's attorney, and City Solicitor for the city of Hnena Vista from is'.ni mitil OcIoIkt, IIKH. wlien he resigned and moved to Roanoke. \'a., where he now re- sides and is enjoying a lucrative practice and a happy home. Dora, his wife, died .laniiary 21, l!X)(), and on February 8, liM)3, he married Rosa T. Vatighan, of .Murfreesboro, the younger sister of bis brother. Beuj. H.'s wife, a lady e(|ually as attractive and accom])]ishcd as liis first wife. lie is a fortunate man. Hob is a line lawyer, a sober, ])olished and sclndarly gentleman, a iH'autifid sjieaker, an affectionate husband and father, a true brother and a devoted son. .May he and his good family live long. Rosa, his wif(>, is a qneenly looking woman and a noble woman. Judge iferritield, the gi-andfather of Roger and I\ob(>rt, was a distinguished lawyer and jurist. He was a |)rominent !Mason, and in )>olitics a Democrat. Tie was a delegate to the National
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The youiigest daughter of Samuel and Mary was a devoted child to her parents up to their death and admin- istered greatly to their eomforl and happiness as they were closing the book of life. In favor she is more like her mother than any of the children. She exhibits, also, much of her mother's vivacity and quickness of percep- tion, bright and cheerful disposition, and her zeal and earnestness in the performance of the duties of life. On tiie fith of January, lf^^7, slie married Dr. Thomas 1. Burbage, a young practicing physician in Manney's Neck, and they resided for about two years with her parents. They built on a tract of land, about a mile north of the old home, given Annie by her father. They now have a beautiful country home and an army of six children living, and one dead. The roll is: Landon Winborne, born l)ecend)er 8, 1887. Mary Olivia, born October 28, 18!J0. Samuel Thomas, bom March 27, 1893. Annie Elizabeth, born June 10, 1S9G. Miriam Pretlow, born ilay 9, 1901. Thomas Irwin, born Feb- ruary 16, 190.^. Little .Mildred Ella was bora April 5, 1899, and died June 27, 1900.
Annie is a Iwautiful mother, true to her church at Buckhorn, of which she is a devoted member, an accom- plished lady in her family and a great help to her hus- band, who is now a busy and successful physician. Annie was educated at the C. B. E. Institute in Mur- freesboro.
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SAMUEL PRETLOW WINBORNE.
Tlio youngest eliiM of Samuel L». Wiiibume and liis wife, ilary IL, was the companion of his father, and tlie dntifnl and loving son <d' his mother, in their de- clining years, "lie was the staff of their old age." He never completed his education. His school days were spent at the old Buckliorn Academy, near his home, Horner's Military School, at Oxford, X. ('., and one year at the University of Xorth Carolina. He is our father's successor, as owner and occu])ant of the old homestead in ]\Ianney's Neck. On the 2d day of No- ler, 1S!I2, he married the accomplished, the modest 1 educated daughter of Rev. Reuhen Jones, of Ohurcldand, Va., Miss Jessie Jones. They have four children — all girls — Mary Pretlow, born August 10, 1893; Annie Sue, horn Sc])tcmber IT, 1895; Helen, horn June 22, 1897; Dova, horn November 29, 1900. Jessie's mother was ]\Iiss Susan Perry Deanes, who died in April, 18G2, leaving her husband, the Rev. Reuben Jones, surviving her. He died in December, 188.">, in his 77th year, while he was pastor of the l>aptist church at Churchland, Norfolk County, Va., and after serving that church as pastor for forty-two years. He was an eloquent and good man. Sam and Jessie are staunch Baptists and consistent members of Rnckhorn Church. He is a Justice of the Peace and a member of the
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Samuel is a successful fanner, a good citizen, and presides with di<;iiity and ease at the old homestead of |{i)li(i-t Warren and liis father. Major Winhcirue. May he draw inspiration from their noliie lives, and live lonj; to enj<iy his interestinji; family.
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URIAH VAUGHAN.
Tlie father of ^Xellie, tlie wife of the author of these sketches, and Rosa, the wife of Robert AV. Winborne, was a remarkable man. He was the younger son of John Vanghan and his wife, Sarah Vanghan, nee Rog- ers, who lived on a fana about three miles from Mur- freesboro. They were peojile in eomfortable circum- stances and with strong native intellects. When young he was restless and anxious to engage in the mercantile liusiness. At the early age of !."> he left school and his home, and came to Murfreesboro and secured a posi- tion as clerk in one of the leading stores. He soon de- veloped great talent and qualifications as a business man and nierehaut. l^)ef(ire arrix'iug at full age, he em- barked in the mercantile business, in his town, as prin- cipal in his business. Success crowned his efforts. ^^'hen a young nuin he married Miss Sarah A. Jenkins, of Hertford County, the licautiful and accomplished daughter of Henry HeBerry Jeiddns and his wife, Sarah Anumda Jenkins. They reared a family of eight chil- dren. Xo hai)]iier home could be found anywhei'e than theirs. He and his wife were devout members of the ^lethodist church. He accumulated a large estate be- fore the Civil War, most of which was lost as a result of the war. Xot surrendering to the fate of the civil
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titritV', lie i-L'iiowod liis energies, aud success soon again crowned his efforts, lunl he died .lannarv 19, 1890, one of llie weallhie-t men in liis section of llie cnnntry. His wife snrvived liini and <lied .lamiarv ITi, I'.HI).
Col. I'riali Vangiian was a Christian genllenian, witli a wonderful store of wistlnni and knowh'<lge, chivalrous in his i)earinii and in his admiration of nohle woman-
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frienii. lie estahlished the cotton commission house of Vaiighan \- Harne-^. in ^'orfoli<, Va., after the Civil War, and with his eapital, and iiy his wonderful km^wl- edge of men ami of business, the ffrni made a large amoinit of money and establishe<l an enviable reputation.
His wife's life was one that the best might emulate. Their children living at their death are .Mrs. 1). .V. Barnes, Thomas .] . N'aughan, I'riah N'aughan, and Mrs. 13. B. Winborne, of Murfreesbom, X. ( '. ; .Mrs. K. H. Stancell, of Margarettsville, N. (". : .Mrs. T. W. Haw- kins, of Charlotte, X. ('.. an<l .Mrs. K. \V. Winborne, of Koanoke, Va. They lost three children, .luiia, Benja- min and William in childiiood. Their oldest daughter, .\niiie. iiuirried Geo. L. .\v\>>. of Norfolk, \'a. Shr died in .June, 1880, leaving surviving her one son. Fred- erick Arps. who now resides in Xorfolk with his father.
Col. Uriah Vanghan left a will, ami his two sons, Thomas and Uriah, and B. B. Winl>orne, (pialitied as his executors and settled his estate. The names of the Vanghan daughters are: Aiuiie, Bettie. .Vlice, X(dlie, Rosa and Sarah A.
Bettie, a lady of many attractions, married David A. Barnes, of Xortham])ton County, who was a])pointed
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-Imliic of tlic Siiprrior Court in the First Judicial Dis- Irirf of Xortli Carolina iu IstiG by the Provisional Gov- ciiujr of tlie State, W. W. Iloklen, and he held the otiice i.nril .\u\}\ 1S(>S, when the officers jjrovided for under the Canhy Constitutiou of 18GS took ciiarge. Judge Ijariies, a few years after his marriage, moved to Mur- freesboro to live, where he died June 24, 1892, leaving sur\-i-\'ing him his wife and one son, David C., and three daughters, IJessie, ISarah and Annie.
Alice married Dr. Robert H. Stancell. They have no children. Mrs. Stancell has a strong and vigorous intellect and unusual liusiuess qualifications for a wo- num.
Sarah A. nuirried Tiiomas W. Hawkins, of Warren County, X. C. They moved to Charlotte, JST. C, where they now live. Mr. Hawkins is a lawyer and a success- ful business num. His wife is a most charming and in- tellectual woman. They have four children, two sons," Vauglian and Thouuis, and two daughters. Rose and Sarah.
We have already stated the fate of Xellie and Rosa.
Friah's grandfather. Yaughan, was William Vaughan, of Hertford County, -wdio was a ])ri\'ate in the Con- tinental army of tlie War of ITTfJ, so was William's son, John, the father of Uriali. After the Revolution- ary War of 1776, the State of Nortli Carolina granted to William Vaughan, the father of John, a grant for IS.", acres of laud iu Hertford County, adjoining the otiier lands of William, the land of Jonathan Rogers, ^^'illialll Figures, William Porter and Renj. Izells. The grant was signed liy Gov. Richard Caswell.
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•lolui X'aiiglian's sous, William ami I'riali, were liis executors.
Iriali's uiotlier was Miss Sarah Rogei's, daughter of Jonatliau Rogers, the frieud and neighbor of William N'augliau, Sr. William Porter, mentioned in said grant, is an unele of the late K])inetus Porter, of Hert- ford (jouuty, who was the son of Benj. Porter.
John X. Vaughan, Norfolk, Va., and Charles T. N'aughan, Murfreesboro, X. C, are the sons of William Vaughan, Jr., the elder brother of I'riali, and who died June -l-l, 1SS4, on his farm near .Murfreesboro.
.John X. N'augliau married his cousin, .Miss Annie Lawrence, of Murfreesboro, the aunt of my law jjartuer, Lloyd J. Lawrence.
Charles T. Vaughan married ^liss (lertrudc Ilarrell, of Murfreesboro, the accomplished daughter of Col. Jar- rett X. Ilarrell, the lifelong friend of my father.
Tlionias .1. \'anghan, son of Triah, married Miss .Mary Karlev iirowni, of IJaltiniore, Md., OctoK-r i'l, INS."), the grancklaughter of Bisiioji John Earley, of the iMethodist Episeoi)al Church, South. Tiicy live in Mur- freesboro. Thomas has nnieh id' the business sagacity of his father, and in favor resembles him more than any of his children. He was a great favorite with his father, and is with the whole family, lie is economical an<l saving.
I'riali Vaughan, son of I'riidi, Sr., married Janmirv 20, ISSl, ^liss Fannie Earley Prown, of Lynchburg. \\\.y another granddaughter of Pisho]) Earley, and sister to Thomas' wife, ^farv. They also ri'side in ^lurfrees- boro. Both of the sons are merchants and are doing a
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large and protital)le business. Uriah is one of the most pojMilar, as well as a snecessfnl business man, in his town. He has two very attractive daughters, !Marv and Sarah, and wlio are great favorites in the family. Thomas has no children.
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SARAH A. VAUGHAN, NEE JENKINS.
Tlie wife of L'riali \'aiii>liau was beautiful in man- ners, retiring in nature, and a tine tvpe of the old South- <iii lady. She was the daughter of Ilenrv DeBerry •lenkins and wife, Sarah A. Jenkins, of Hertford County. Henry was the son of Winhorne Jenkins, Jr., and his wife, Susanna DeBerry, daughter of Peter DeBerry, of Xortliainpton Coiinty, X. V. Winhorne Jenkins, Jr., was the son of Winhorne Jenkins, Sr., and Ids wife, Ennna, of Northampton. Charles Jenkins and his wife were the parents of Winhorne Jenkins, Sr. Tiie former died in fall of 1772, leaving a will, in whieli he devised his jiroperty to his daughter, Elizalxjth, and his sous, William, Henry, Charles and Winlwrne. His four sons and William Murfree were his executors.
Winhorne Jenkins, Sr., died in the fall of 1793. He seemed to have been a man of large business interest, and a large landowner in his ( Xorthampton) Cotmty. I find among his ]iapers important business documents at late as October 15, 17.il. He appointed his sons, Winhorne and Benjamin, his executors. His will is 'dated July 20. 1790, and the executors' sale was Jan- uary 23, 1797. Tn a deed to him, October 15, 1757, from Moab Williams, he is spoken of as being in Bertie Coimty, N. C. The lands of the Jenkinses, like those of the Northampton Winbornes, were situated princi-
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pallv on Quarter and L'raliaw Swamps and Potecasi Creek.
Winborne Jenkins, Sr., had grandsons by the name of Winborne Odoni and Winborne Parker. Old man Cliarles Jenkins evidently married a Winborne. Very probably one of William Winborne's daiighters, who lived in the same neighborhood and died in the sunmier of 1748.
Winborne Jenkins, Jr., died in the first part of the year 1814. The sale of his property was had by his son and executor, Henry DeBerry Jenkins, April 2, 1814. His brother, Benjamin, also left a son by the name of Winborne Jenkins, who lived and died on his farm, about four miles southeast of Murfreesboro. Mr. Wil- liam Tom Parker now owns the farm, or a part of it.
Henry DeBerry Jenkins died at his home in Hertford County at the small town of ilapleton, four miles east of ]\Iurfrecsboro, in the year 185(5. He was a nmn of considerable estate. His wife siirvived him several years.
All tlic Jenkinses were peo])le of much wealth and re- finement.
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BRYAN HARE.
In the early part of iMli eeutiiry tliis man lived in Xanseniond Comity, \'a. lie was a (Quaker, and a man of .some wealth and prominence in hi.s county and sec- tion, lie was a good man and all of his kin were proud l(j acknowledge their kinship. lie married Miss Saraii Shepherd, sister to Solomon Shepherd, of Xansemond County, \'a. lie had three brothers, John, Elijah and Harrison, and one sister, Sarah. The latter married about 1750 my old ancestor, Henry Wiidjornc, so it ap- ])ears. Bryan Hare and his wife had one son, Jesse, and three daughters, Mary, who married my mother's father, Joseph Pretlow ; Ruth, who married James C^opeland, of Xanseniond County. Va. They left sev- eral children ; and Elizabeth, who married Samuel Copelaud, of said county, and they left children.
1 liav(i an old deed in my possession dated October 15, 1751, wliereiu .Moab Williams conveyed to Wiuborne Jenkins a tract of land on Potecasi Creek, and the deed is witnessed by Bryan Hare, Jr., Charles Jenkins, and William Jenkins.
I can get no trace of Bryan Hare after 175S. It seems that my father's and my mother's families run back to this Hare family.
1 made inquiry if the late Jackson 15. Hare, of Hert- ford County, descended from this same Hare family, but I found that be did not. His father was named U
10(1 TiiE WiNBOENE Family.
J\ioses Hare aud was an Irisliman, wlio came directly to tliis coimtry from Ireland during the latter part of the LSth century, and married several years thereafter a xMiss Constant, of Gates County. They had two chil- dren, Jackson B. Hare and John. John went to Texas and married in that State, lie died in his adopted State, leaving a family of suns and daughters.
Tliere was a Thomas Hare living in i\Iauuey's Neck about ninety years ago. I find his name as a witness to old deeds for land in the Buckhorn section.
Sir John Hare, of England, was a man of great promi- nence.
Edward Hare represented Hertford County with Peter Wynn in I he Colonial House of Assembly of North Carolina in 17(JS), and at the session of 1771 he and Benj. Wynn represented the county. (Vol. 8 Col. Rec, pages US, l-tti and 303).
Tiios. E. Hare married Henry AVinborne's grand- (hnighter, Sallie Sharpe.
Have not bt-cu able to trace lii'vau Hare's brothers, • Idhu, Elijah and Harrison.
.Moses Hare represented Carteret County, North Carolina, in the Assemblies during the same time Ed- ward Hare represented Hertford. What kin were they to Bryan Hare I have been unable to ascertain. Some one later may succeed in comjileting these investigations.
What relation were they to Sir .lohu Hare, of Eng- land, who was so prominent in his country in tlie I7th century ?
This question T leave unanswered. T think, however, with tlie aid of tlie National Library at Washington, 1). C., it can be correctly answered.
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MISS ANN SCOTT
Was the wife of Josepli Pretlow, and tliev were my luotlier's i>Taii<l]ian'iits. Slie was tlie ilaiijiliter of Wii- liaiii Scoir and his wife. She liad one lirotlier, James, 1)111 no sister. William Scott was a man (d' i;reat wealth, so was iiis son, .lames. He was a direet descendant of Sir Peter Scott, (d' Knjiland, wlio was one of the ciiarter memhers of Viriiinia in the ehartor of KJO'.t, yranted In- Kiiiii .Tames. .Tames Scott, his sister. .Vnn Scott Pret- low. and h(>r uranddaiiiiliter, Sarah ('. Pretlow, were mnrdered liy .Matthew Drake, as before rehited.
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THE SHEPHERDS.
My gTandiuotlier, ou my inuther's .side, was Miss ^lary Hare, of Nansemond County, Va. She married my grandfather, Joseph Pretlow, January S, ISIS. Her mother was Miss Sarah Shepherd, sister of Solomon Shepherd, of Nansemond County, Va. Putting my grandmother's age at 23 when she was married, that woTild make lier birth about 17,7.">. So her brother, Solo- mon Shepherd li^•ed in the last half of the 18th century. This could not have been the original Solomon Shep- herd, of Xansemond. We find the name of the oldest Solomon Shc])berd, of Nansemond, mentioned in Ijisliop Jleade's "Old (Jhnrches and Families of Vir- ginia," as licing a lay delegate to an Episcopal Conven-' tion of 1735, witli Rev. Artliur Emmerson, Willis Eid- dick and Eichard Baker. Solomon Sheplierd and Wil- lis Riddick, of Xansemond, AVere members of the Con- vention of Virginia in 1788, to ratify the United States C\>nstitution. Was he the same Solomon Shepherd who was a lay delegate to the Con\'ention of 173.5 ? Putting his age in 1735 at 25 years, tJion in 17Ss be was SS years old. Solomon Sliepberd, my mother's grandfather, was, in 1788, about 25 or 30 years of age. My mother's old ancestor, Bryan Hare, who married Sarah Shepherd, the sister of Solomon Shepherd, of Xansemond, came to
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-North Caroliua in 1742, autl, so far as 1 can learn, he ami liis wife, Saruli, left the Slate iu 1758. They prob- ably returned to Xauseniond and, some years thereafter, I am Injd his family moved t(j Cincinnati, Ohio.
Thei-e was a John yhei)herd, whom I am told by the old members of the T. 1). \'ann family in ilanney's Neck, who came from England in the ISth century and settled near Ilicksford, N'irginia, and that he had a brother, Solomon Shejiherd, who settled in Nansemond County, \'a. That John ha<l a son, Solomon, who came to North Carolina aud setlled in ^Manney's Neck, Hert- ford County, at the j)Iace later known as the John Wad- dill place (and by the way, one of the i)rettiest country homes in tlie State), now owaied l)y J. G. ^Majette, the Chairman of our Board of County (^onnnissioners. This Solomon married a iliss Carr, of that iieighlHirhood, and they were the ])arents of Sallie, the wife of Tilghmau D. \ ami, of jramiey's Xeck, who was born September 24, 1.S12, and died l)ccemlx>r 21, 1875. Iler father, Solo- mon Shepherd, died ilay 5, 182!). aged 45 years and buried at the old Waddill ])lace. Thus it a])i)ears that he married young. My niothei- and .Mrs. Sallie N'ann claimed to be kin.
Kx-Chief Justice James E. Shepherd. Raleigh, X. C, is a direct descendant of the original Solomon She]ihcrd, (if Xansemoiid Cdunty, Va. lie has an uncle, Soloniim Shepherd, now living in Philadelphia, Pa. There was, also, a Solomon Sheppard from Carteret County, X. C. who was a very prominent man before, during and after the Reviilutiouarv War of 177*^.
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Itieluird Slii-pln'iMl, iiro iiicnti<iiii'(l aiiKHiii,- I of Virginia by King . and tiiey lauded in the in tlie 17th centnry. family for ])rodnc,ing were a people of lofty and they were so rega late Chief Justice^ of Solomon Shepherd, of of the old type.
]ireac-lier, and Matthew Shepherd t he grantees iu tlie Second Charter lames, of England, etc., in 1609,
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This man is and has been m}' friend from my early nianliood. Sliortly before I located in Winton, X. C, in the summer of 1875, he resigned the clerkship of the Superior Court of Hertford County, and my old friend, \V. J. Gatlini;-, succeeded him in office. Perry, after resigning as Clerk of the Court, remained in Winton and was engaged in several business enterprises. Ue was young, active and successful. He soon became my friend and gave mi' much encouragement in those strug- gling days of every young lawyer's life. He was my first client and paid me my first fee. His friendship was a fountain of hope. T can never pay the debt of gratitude. He has ever since been my closest friend, and the friend of all my family. He scorns meanness. He admires honorable conduct. He is a friend to any honorable man. He is a big-hearted man, pliilantliroi)ic in feeling, frank and jiositive in his dealings with his fellowman. Devoted to his native State, and loyal to his adopted State. He moved to Xorfolk about 1879 and engaged in the cotton commission business and met with much success. He is President of the large com- mission house in Xorfolk, of the J. W. Perry Co. He is also Vice-President of the Citizens Pank of that city, and is to-day one of the leading, wealthiest and most en-
112 The \Yixboene Family.
terprisiiig- citizens of Xorfolk. Xo truer, nobler, sincerer man ever lived. His wife's mother was the great grand- daughter of Starkey Sharpe and wife, Sarah Sharpe, iii'i' Winborne, and his uncle married my wife's aunt. Hut these marriage relations had nothing to dn with the formation of the strong ties of friendship that have existed so long between us, as neither of us knew of it until recent years. It would be a blessing if such men couhl live always as examples of noble manhood, and true citizenship.
BucKnoRX Academy. 113
BUCKHORN ACADEMY.
Tlie acadcuiy of Buckhoru is located in ilannoy's -Xcc'k Township, Hertford County, X. C, on a lot ad- joining the lot of tlie old Colonial Episcopal Chapel, St. I>nkc, wliicli was sitiiate<l lietween tlic |)ublic road and I lie present liiiekliorn iJajitist cliiirch.
Tliere Iiad Ix-en an establislied school at Hnckh(n'n for a nmrilicr of years before it was iiicoi'):)orated. The first charter granted the school was by an act of the Ixigislature of Xortli Carolina, ratified January !J, 1847. Tlie trustees mentioned in this charter were John Wad- dill. Braekney T. Spiers, Abrain Riddick, Samuel .Mo(.re, Walter ilyrick, Elisha 1). IJritt and Tilnian D. \'ann. They were incorporated under the name of "Trustees of Buck Horn Academy." (See Laws of N. CI, lS4(5-7, ch. 120). The name is now written "Buck- horn." The school at this old classic and historical spot has been ]n-eside(l over by some of North C^U'olina's finest and best teachers. Prof. Kim!)erly i)resided for a nniuber of years prior to his lieconiing a member of the faculty of the State University at Chai)el Hill. Then Geo. W. Neal, father of Judge Walter Xeal. George A. V>v\U, a graduate of the University in the class of 1852, also presided for several years. Prof. Julian Henri Picot took charge a few years ])rior to the Civil
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Huc'kliorn boys and led them, as captain, in the war. In ISOT he re-opened the Academy, and still presides over it, teaching the "young idea how to shoot." It was under the tutorship of this gifted, scholarly, and knightly gentleman that 1 began to clind) the ladder of knowledge. I'lie days when the old blue-back speller, Smith's Grammar, ^litchell's Geography, and Ray's Arithmetic are fresh in my memory. Then followed Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, the English readers, Latin Grammar and Header, (';esar, Virgil, Cicero, Hor- ace, the Greek Alphabet, Greek Reader, Bible, Homer, and the like, with all the air-castles as to the future, which are generally found in the life of the school boy who knows but little, but thinks be knows it all. When the world looks so small as comjiared to bis own majesty. Tbe\- were happy days. We loved to talk of the majes- tic oaks from little acorns grown, but were never willing to admit that we were like the oak. We were majestic from the beginning, and no one dared to dispute it. Our preceptor was never unkind, never iui]uitient, always for- bearing, forgiving, and ready to assist us. He never assmned the jiosition of a master, holding in his hand the iron rod, Iml he was a com])anion, and won the re- spect and love of his scholars by the promptings of a nolile heart and a great soul. His boys loved him. My earliest recollection of him was in ISGl, when I would go with my lialf-ln'other, James P. Massenburg, to school, dressed in the uniform of a miniature soldier. A red flannel waist with small brass buttons and red stripes down the sides of my knee pantaloons, was my nuiiurm. T can never forget the spring we were reading
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\ iri;il, wlicii tile iild ('(iwjKT ucsin) wdiiuin'.s boes went to war. Tlicy Hew over tlie academy hiiildiiin', iiiakiug- a soimd si iiiptliiui>' like tlie tlmiiders of Mt. Sinai, aud the old negro woman and lier cliildren were ninning aud ringing eow-l)e]ls and beating tin pans, trying to atop the old i\ing Bee and to lead the army baek home. liecess was taken and ("a](tain Picot invited the boys to watch the bees and the chase, with the belLs ami beating of tin piiiis. 'I'lic iiiiich distressed old woman finally con- (piered the old king with her nuisic and landed them hack at her hive. .\a])oleon never was as proud of a victory as was the old negro woman. We returned to the school room and the master of the languages stood in the midst of the room and read aloud the charming dis- course of N'irgil on the bees. He never nnide iiimself more attractive to his "boys" than on that occasion. May the hallowed and classic old ])lace lx> forever presided over by a worthy successor. It was froni this old acad- emy that my great uncles, my father and his brothers, and his children drank fmm the fountain of knowledge. We w<M-e taught that —
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■'The proper study of mankind is man."
I could tell of some of the fishing and swinuning stories that were so beautifully and imjiressively related to ns, under th(> shade of the old spreading oaks (not beach), if I lived in some disiani land. The old boys will remendier
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BUCKHORN BAPTIST CHURCH.
Duriinj,' the eiirly I'olonial days tliure was erected a chm-eli editiee ealleil St. Luke, on the acre lot of kind, just in front of the present Buckhorn Baptist Chnrch luf, in ilamiey's jS'eck, Hertford County. It was called St. LnkeV Chapel and belonged to the Established Cluireh of England, where those (.)f that faith worshiped as well as others. The old bnihling stood not jnst in front of the present bnilding and the road, but it stood in the old oak grove, abont half way in front of the open sp;ice, between the present church Imilding and the acad- emy bnilding. The frame of the ohl church building was standing when I was a very small boy. I remember it distinctly, and recall the time it fell and was taken away. When the American Colonists became restless under English o])pression, and the spirit of the Regula- tors began to antagonize English institutions, old St. !,id-:e, old St. John's Chapel, ami other Colonial churches were used by the different religions denomina- tions for religious worship. Prior to 175S, Rev. Mat- ihias Brickie, a nai)tist preacher in Hertford County, preached to his followers in the old St. Luke and St. John's chapels. Hector Gurley, an Episcopal preacher, lireached at same i)laces to those of his faith. Hector :iii<l his followers were generally royalists. About 1758
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118 The Wixuokne Family.
BERTIE COUNTY, N. C.
Prior tri 17,")!) all of that part of Hertford County ly- ing on the east side of Poteeasi Creek was a part of Ber- tie County, hence we find tlie early records of the Hert- ford County Winbornes in Bertie County. So far as the records show, Henry Winborne, my old ancestor, was the first Winborne to locate in Bertie County in the ter- ritory which has been known as Hertford County since Xovember, 1759. From tlio records of Bertie we find Benjamin Wiidxirne and wife, Sarah, of Bertie County, May 12, 1813, conveying a tract of laud in that county to Jacob Burtonshell. He married ]\[iss Sarah Jones, daughter of William Jones. From the best information obtainable, they were the parents of Thomas Winborne, who lived in Hertford County, for a long while, with W. T. Bynmn, and died about 186!) or 1870. I remem- ber seeing him se\'eral times wlien I was a yoimg lad riding about with ]uy father. Old man Tommy Win- borne, as he was known fen- a long wJiile before his death, married a ]\Iiss Copeland, the daughter of Benj. Copeland, who lived near Frazier's Cross Roads in Hert- ford. They are mentioned in the will of Benj. Cope- land, which was ]irobated in August, 1839. Thomas, by his marriage, had three children, Mary, Albei't D. and A. J. Winborne.
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Mary died without marrying. A. J. Wiuborne mar- rit'd a Miss Griftitli, sister of Henry Griffitli. She died and he married Miss Eliza Wynns, sister of J. T. and Geo. W. Wynns. Andrew Jackson died in 1857, leav- ing surviving him his widow, Eliza, and one child, Khctta. .\ibert D., his lirother, settled his estate. Albert I), moved to Bertitv, near where his grandfather lived, and married Lavinia ^larsli. Old man Tommy Win- borne outlived all of his family, and in his latter days he spent a lonely life, spending most of his time with his friends, \V. T. IJyuum and James A. Worrell, of Hertford Couutv, and was reeardcd as a man of riffid honor and correctness. His grandfather was also named liciij. WiulMirne, who on the 1st day of August, 1762, obtained from the State a grant for 26-t acres of land in .Northampton County, adjoining the lands of Thomas Ward, William Saunders, James Ililliard, Pliiiip Win- borne and others. This whole family lias died out.
T find a deed from Josiah Duggan, of Martin County, to Henry Winborne of that county, for a tract of land in Bertie County, dated August 31, 1S16, lying on Smith- wick's Creek and Roanoke River. Harry W. Stubbs, Esq., an attorney-at-law in ^fartin County, informs me tliat he has searched and that there are no records of any Winbornes in that county. There may be some de- scendants in the southern part of Bertie County, on the Roanoke River, of this old family, but I can not trace them.
It again appears from the records of Bertie County that on May 8, 1824, George Clements and wife, Sarah, of Pitt Conntv, conveved n tract of land on Roanoke
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The name, Sarali, was a favorite name for the girls of olden times. I tind the major ])art of the wives named Sarah. It is an easy name to call. Besides it finds iu oriain in the Bible.
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HERTFORD COUNTY.
There were oilier Wiubornes in this countv tlian niv ancestors. John Winborne, of this eonntv, was in tlie War of 1770 as a Lieutenant in ('apt. Joseph Walker's Coni])any from Hertford County. (State Records, Vol. 10. p. '.144. Vul. K!. p. 1185). He died while a Conti- nental soldier. ( \'<il. H>, ]>. llS.")). If seems that he left no family.
Sarah Winborne, daughter i>f Henry WinliDnie and his wife. Sarah, married when quite young Starkey Sharp, of Hertford County, who was a very wealthy and prominent citizen in the eastern end of the county. She died in 1777, leaving surviving h(>r her husband and three children, Sarah, Klizabeth and Jacob Sharp. Eliz- abeth married Xathaniel Ilarrell, and they had several children, Starkey S. Harrcll, Sr., who died in 1S:30; Xancy Ilarrell, who died in 1S4.">. Starkey S. Ilarrell, Sr., was the father of ilarv Harrell. the wife of L. R. Jernigan, and S. S. Ilarrell, Jr.
Sarah Sharp, nee W'inborne's granddaughter, Nancy Harrell, daughter of Xathaniel Harrell and wife, Eliza- beth, married Wm. L. Smith in ISlfl, and they had two children, John L. Smith, born in ISH, and died in same year, and William Xathaniel Harrell Smith, born 1S12 and died while he was Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of X'.,rth Carolinn in 1889. Wm. L. 10
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Smith died leaviug his wife surviving, and she married a Mr. Tancey and had one child, ^Vntonio, who died young. Sarah's son, Jacob Sharp, married Miss Nancy Hunter, of Gates County, in ITyU. From this mar- riage some very prominent men eminated, notably. Col. Starkey Sharp, Benebury and Jacob; Gen. Jacob H. Sharp, of the late Confederate army; from Mississippi.
Starkey Sharpe was a descendant of William Sharpe, one of the grantees ,in the charter of 1609 of Virginia, and was Sheriff of Hertford in 1TS7. St. Eec, Vol. 21, pp. 1061, 1071. He was a prominent man in his day and time. Fn.ini this marriage, also, descended Mary ilarrell, the wife of Lemuel R. Harrell, of Hert- ford County, and the mother of Hon. T. R. Jernigan and .Mrs. .Mary J. Perry, wife of J. W. Perry, Nor- folk. Va.
Sarah's daughter, Sarah, nuirried Thos. E. Hare and died in ISK) without leaving children.
William Wiulidruc, son nf Henry, lived in Hertford County, and mi .lanuary 10, 1780, conveyed to Aaron Askew a tract of land of 221 acres on Spring Branch, in the county of Bertie, and adjoining the lands of Mary Parker and William Byrd. The dee<l is witnessed by William Xorthcott and Richard Baker. He married a few years after this a lady whose Christian name was Judith. Her surname I have been unable to learn. They were tlie parents of John Winliorne, late of Hert- ford Coinity, who Avas born in 1787.
John Winborne, son of William, married Nancy Siniiius, and they lived just on the extreme east end of Hertford County, or it may be, the farm lies just over
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tile line ill Jiertie C'uuuty. 1 liavc seen tlie farui ofteu. 'J'liey had two t-hildren, William J., boru iu IJSIT, and Watson S. Winliorne, born in March, 1S2(). John Win- borne die(l ill .lime, 1S47, leaving siirviviiig him his \vid(j\v, Nancy, and two sons. Their daughter died while wvy young. William .1. and Watson IS., his two sons, (]ualilied in the fall of IMT, in llertfor<l County, as administrators of their father. The sale of his prop- erty was December !(!, Is-IT. lie left an estate of several thousand dollars, after jiaying the few debts he owed.
.Xaucy Winborne. widow of John Winborne, died in iNtif). Her will was probated in Hertford County at February Term, IMiti, of the Court of IMeas and Quar- ter Sessions. She devised her ]iroperty to her .son, Wat- son Simons Winborne, and the sons nf Win. J. Win- home, who was then dead. William .1. Wmborue, son of .lojiu, married Mary K. Siumn^ in 1^:!T i<v 1 >:!s, and they lia<l two sons, Jose|)h W. Winborne, born .\|iril 13, 1S42, and John S. Winborne, burn .luiie i:i, ls4s.
Jose])h W. Winborne, son of W. .1.. married Miss Lu- cretia Baker, daughter of (Jeorge IJaker and wife, of Hertford County, and they hail two .sons, Charles A., who died aged three years, and .lose])h II., born in A])ril, 1S(!4. He was a gallant and bra\'e soldier in the Coii- iVderate army and died at Morgantoii, .\'. C., while a Mildicr in necember, 1^(J4.
Watson S. Winborne, son of Joim, died in .lime. I !•():;, at his beautiful home in the east end of the county, leaving surviving him his wife, Arabella Winliorne, iirr ]>assiter, whom he married in ls4s, and she and one
124 Thk WiiNBoKNE Family.
daughter, Xaucv I'ai-tlieiii:!, survive the head of the fauiilv. S. M. Auuuick (jualitied November Hi. 1!)03, as his aduiinistrafdr.
John Simons Winliorue, son nf Wui. .1., lives at the east end of Hertford (bounty, and married in 1S71 iliss ilary E. Perry. Tiiey have four sons, T. W., born De- cember 14, 1873; C. W., born in 187(3; W. B., born in 1885 ; L. H., born in 188!) ; and three daughters, ^linnie M., Lillie B., and ^Mattie L. His (hiughters born in 1878, 1883 and 1885, respectively. He is a worthy and I rue man and citizen.
Joseph II. Winbonie, son of Joseph, married his cousin, ]!^ancy Parthenia Winborne, daughter of Wat- son S. They are living now in Lawreneeville, Virginia, and have several sons and daughters.
Of these Winbornes, John S. and Joseph H. Win- boi'ue, and their sons, are the only survi\'ing male mem- bers.
XoRTHAMPToX CnrXTY. 125
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C.
On tliL' 4tli of ilarch, 174Sj Jacob Bass conveyed a tract of laud iii Xorthainpton County, X. C, to William Winbornc, of Xanseuiond County, Virginia, and Win- borne settled in the former county. A few months thereafter Wiuborne died, and left a will, which was probated August, 174S. He devised his property to his Sons, William Winborne, Dempsey Wiuborne, Jesse Winborne, and his three daughters, Jane, Esther and Alice. His son, David Winborne, is not mentioned in his will. He directs that his lands in \'irgiuia shall be sokl by his executors, and names his wife, Annie, and his two brothers, John and Philip Wiuborne, as his execu- trix and executors. William signed his will ]Viniam Winhome.
Philip Winborne, Sr., Win. Wiul)nruc's brother, died in the spring of 1777, and his will was jirobated August, 1777.
He devised his jiroperty tn his wife, Annie Wiuborne. To iiis sou, Pryan Winlmrne. he devised his manor plantation. To his son, James, and his graiulson, David Jonicaiu (evidently Jernigan). (See record of deed from David Jernigan to Bi-yan Winborne, in Book Xo. 7-40IS, dated July, 1786), and his daughters, Annie and ^Tary, and David Wiuborne, son of his brother, Wil- liam Winbiiriie, he ileviscd the remainder of his estate.
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iris sons Bryan ami .lames were made his executors. William Boone, William Winliorne and John Barnes «'ere the witnesses to his will.
David Winborne, sou of AVilliani Wiuborne, Sr., and who is not incntioned in his father's will, hut made a beneficiary in his uncle's, Philiji Wiuborue's, will, died in 1779, and his will was probated in June, 1779, his brother, William Winhorno, dr., and William Boone are tlie witnesses. lie dc\'ised his property to his wife, Elizabeth Winbdi'nc, and his son, James Winborne, and apjiointed them his executors. Cicero Wiuborne was born shortly after the death of his father. The will re- fers to his mother'.s condition.
Dempsey AVinbornc, son of William Winborue, Sr., died in the first ])art of the year 1816. His will was admitted to probate in .March, 1816. lie devised his property to his wife, Fereby Winborne, and his sons, Lemuel, Henry and William, and his daughter, Rheua. William Goosley and Richard Whitaker were his execu- tors, and Robert Slici-od, William Webl.) and Polly Bra- zill were the witnesses. His son, Gilford is uot men- tioned in his will.
Gilford J. Winb(U-ue, sou of Dempsey Winborne, died in the fall of 1827, unmari'ied. His will was pro])ated December, 1827, and he devised his interest in his father's estate to his brothers, Henry and William Wiu- borne, and ap]iointed his mother, Fereliy Winborne, his executrix. The witnesses to the will are Joyner Boone, Britton Barkley and Isaac Hall.
William Winborne, son of William Winborne, Sr., died in 1807 and his will was admitted to probate in
KOETHAMPTON CoUXTY. 127
Jmie, IhUT. lie devised his property to Lis wife, ISarali, aud sons, William, Deuipsey, Jesse, Henry, and Ills tliree dangliters, Ann Spenee, July Lassiter, and Dully Wehl). His son, William, and friend, Kicbai'd Wliitaker, were his executors. K. J. Uailey and Isaac Griliin were the witnesses to the will. He signed his name sometimes Winboriij and sometimes Wiriborne. lie must have married ilarietta Grant. The will of \Vm. (Jrant, Sr., is dateil June 1.5, 181.S, aud probated in 1 )cc(iiil Hf, \^:',i), in which he speaks of his sister, ila- rietta Wiulinrnc. and her daughter, Aljsala William Winborne.
Jesse Winiiorne, son of William, Sr., moved to Madi- son C'ouinv, Kontneky, and mi the (itii day of October, ISOi), sold and conveyed to his brother, Uem{)sey, 50 acres of land in Northampton County, X. C, on Urahaw Swamp, lyinii' on the road to Murfreesboro, and adjoin- ing the lands of his brother, William, and others. He signed his name sometimes ]yinborn, and Winborne.
And I find the Xortiiampton Winborncs signing their names at different times, Winborn and Winborne.
William Winborne, Benjamin Winl)i)rno, John Win- borne and Philip Winborne, of Xt»rtham])ton County, are cotemporaries of Heni-y aud Thomas, aud they may have been brothers. I think they spelt their names Winboi^e.
John AVinborne. above, lived in that part of jSTorth- ampton County which was cut oft" into Hertford County 1750. He was Lieutenant in the Continental aiTny in Capt. Joseph Walker's Comjiany, Seventh Regiment of North Carolina Troops from Hertford County, and
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was killed or died in the war. (State Kec, Vol. IG, p.
ns5).
Ill Company F, First Ivegiiueiit of ^'ortli Carolina Troops, iu the late Civil War, fhere was a Winborne C. Davis from near ilargarettsville, in Northampton County, X. C. Capt. Thomas U. Boone, Clerk of the Superior Court of Hertford County, ]^. C, tells me that he knew Davis well, and ihat he was a splendid looking man, and a brave and gallant soldier. He was wounded in the battles at Sharpsburg and at Gettys- burg, and died in Pennsylvania. I notice that Martha Hancock, in her will which was probated in Xorthamp- ton County in ISTs, speaks of sister Sarah Win- borne and her granddaughter, Mary Eliza Davis. Was Winborne C. Davis the brother of Eliza? I tried to iiiid out something of these people, but I can find no record or any jierson who can give me any information about them more than I have obtained in my research. ;\rrs. Hancock's niece, Eliza, lived in tlie Margarettsville neighborhood.
The ]Srortliam])toii Wiiibornes are extinct.
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Nash County. X. C. 129
NASH COUNTY, N. C.
Josiali Wiuhonic died in ITSKS aiul his will was pru- bated in XovoiiiImt, 17'.'^. Me devised his pi'operty to \t\fi widow, Feiiliv Wiidmriie, and I'uur suns, Abraiiani, •lolm, David and dosiah. The tirst three sons were the execntors named in the will, and Wilson Taylor, ilat- thew Johnson, Willie Hopkins and Priscilla Johnson wore the witnesses to the will. His will reads like he might liave been a preacher of the Gospel. Ou October 5, ITi^ii, tlie State granted him o4.") acres of laud in Xash County, on tiie waters of Beaver Uam. This land he dis])osfs of in his will.
David Winborne, sou of Josiah, died in 1S4S, and his will was probated in February, 1848. lie devised his property to Ids widow, Isly Wiuborue, and his chil- dren, .lolin Q., dames, Josiah, Ivey J., David, Melauey, who nuirried a Btizzcll, Xaucy, who marriinl a Williams, .M:iry, Kliza ('., Martha A.. John \'., and Isly Jane, lie a])pointed his son, Josiah, his e.xecutxjr. The wit- nesses to his will were William Ilaro and Menton M. Goodwin.
David Winborne was a Justice of the Peace in his county in 1822 anil 1823. He resigned and the Lcgis- iiitnre of that session filled the vacancy by appointment by an act of the General Assembly. He was also a ilethodist preacher. 17
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David Winbonie, .Ir., son of David, Sr., died in 1876, and his will was proljated in May, ISTG. He never mar- ried, and he devised his estate to his nephew, Festus Winhorne, son of his brother, John Q. Winhorne, de- ceased. He made A. F. Lewis his executor. The wit- nesses to the will were : B. D. Statt and D. M. Statt.
Mary Winhorne, daughter of David, Sr., died in 1870, and her will was probated in Wovember, 1879. She never inarrie<l. Her estate she devised to her sis- ter, Martha A., wife of J. R. Brown, her sister Isly Jane, wife of J. A. Brown, Lilly .1. Winborne, her niece, and a daughter of li(>r iirofhcr, John Q., and John Festus AVinbornc, a son of her brother, John R. Winhorne, deceased. J. A. Brown, the hnsband of her sister, Isly Jane, was appointed e.xecutor, and D. M. Statt and K. W. Statt were witnesses.
John V. Winborne, son of David, died in 1901, and his will was admitted to ])robate August :i!>, 1901. He devised his estate to his wife, Katie Winborne. He had 1111 children. llis wif(> was named as executrix and W. (i. Kemp and J. .1. Keui]) were the witnesses. J. D. Winborne, Seliiia, .\ . ('., is the ]iersonal repre.sentative of John V. Winborn.
John Q. Winborn was a soldier in the Civil War be- tween the States. He was Lieutenant in Company D, 17th Regiment, X. C Troops, from !Mash County. He served throughout the war, but his wherealiouts since the war T have been unable to learn.
Ivey J. Winborn married and died leaving one son, William Brock Winborne.
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William Brock Wiuboriie married .March 4, IMiO, widow Catliariiic Rt-hecca \Vats(Hi, of Louisljurg', X. ("., file anllior uf llic design of the Confederate Hag, "The Stars and Bars," and also of the large Confederate Hag. lie dieil March 12, lS<s;], at Pinet.ops, X. ('., leaving his widow and two daughters surviving him. One of the dangiiters married \\". S. Whittield, and llie otlu'r mar- ried 11. S. Wehb, all of l^inetops, Wilson County, X. C. The widow i-; 74 yi'aiv uhl and writr-; an inli'rrsting lellcr.
1 understand tliat only one of the Na.sh County fami- lies of Winhoi'u's is now living, and he is J. I). Win- horne, living ueai' Selma, .X. C. 1 iiave written him twice, iiut can not hear fmni him. .\ly letters wei-e re- turne<l.
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EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N. C.
The records <<{ this cuuutv sluiw tliat formerly some Winbonies lived there. Josiah Winboiirn conveyed land in the eonuty October 1-2, IT!*"). Joseph Wiuborn a few years later nnd<es a conveyance. James Winbnrn is found there in Febrnary, 1817, and on Febriuiry 9, 1828, Lydia Winborne, of Xorthampton Connty, con- veys him land in Edgecombe. Joseph I. Winborn ap- jiears on the records as a vendor of land in 1832 and 1833.
In 1899 Henry Winburne die<l, leaving a will, in which be devises land to his son, William H. Winliorne. Justice II. G. Connor writes mo that he knew of Abram Winborne, of Tarboro, N. C, bnt he died several j'ears ago. The records do not show from what section of the country these people came. Bnt evidently they sprang fr.im the Xortluimiiton and Xash families. There was Hlisha Winborne in Halifax ('(nmty in the early ]iart of the 19th century, bnt be went from Xorthampton, and returned after a few years to his native county. These families are now extinct.
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Wake County. 133
WAKE COUNTY.
.Te.«;it' Wiiiboruf, of Wake, was biigk-r in Coniijany 1, "Wake luiusiers," iu tlie late Civil War. lie married but never liad any cliiblreu. Since tlie war he served with ability as Cuiinty Coniini.ssioner of that county for several terms. He is a man of a good estate, and stands as an e.xeniplar t-itizen. \Yithin the last year or so, he left Wake County, and is now living at Elon Col- lege, X. C. lie has educated several jioor children who did not have tiie means to educate themselves. lie was a Justice of the Peace, and a leading and model citizen in his community. I have been unable to learn his ancestry.
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GUILFORD COUNTY, N. C.
^Ya]tev A. Wiiibdiii-n tigiircil prominently in business and official atiairs in Guilford County. We lind him party to a law suit reported in 4 D. & B., l'71, Ilubhard r. Walter A. W'iiiliorne. He was the victor in the suit. We find him again as plaintiff in the suit of Walter A. Winburn c. Gorrcll, 3 Ire. Eq., 117. He wins again. He was SheVitT of his county from 1847 to 1857, and was a large property holder in and around Greensboro. ]S;o information can l)e obtained as towlierche came from, or when he became a citizen of that coimty. He had a brother by the name of Cornelius. ISTeither married. Cornelius died, and Walter left Greensboro about 1860 or 1861 and moved to Tennessee. He was a steward in the Methodist ehurcli, and a Whig in politics.
One of the old members of the Greensboro Bar, who remembers Winborne well, tells this incident about him : A man by the name of Witty was taking a barrel of mo- lasses from a wagon, a lioop came off and the contents began to run out, when Witty exclaimed with much em- phasis. "'The devil." Winborne remarked to him, "Man, don't take the name of vour maker in vain."
RA.NDOLrn County, N. C. 135
RANDOLPH COUNTY, N. C.
Richard W. Winburne was a Lieutenant in a conipauy from tliat county in llie Civil \\ ar.
Calvin 11. Wellxjrn, or Winljiirnc, was a Lieutenant in Company L from Randolph County, tlic "Cwliarrie Rifles."
I can not get any information of the ahuve two sol- dicers since the close of the contlict uf armsi .
WILSON COUNTY, N. C.
James Madison Winburn, of Wilson ('onnty, was a gallant srddier in the late C^ivil War. He enlisted Jan- uary 2G, 18G2, as a private in Com])any F, the Fourth Regiment. We have nothing from him since the war. So far as I can learn the Winburns of tliis county have become extinct.
Xor is there any trace of any Winbornes in Pitt County, so T am informed by the Clerk of the Court of that county, who made a search for me.
I'PiC, The Wixborne Family.
VIRGINIA.
Mv investigations have slinwu heyonil iloiiht that tlie old Wiiibdi-ues came from Virginia to Xortli Carolina (luring tlie first lialf oi tlic IStli century. My old an- cestor, Henry Winbiirne, came from Nansemond Connty, \'a., in l~-^-2. William Winborne, of Xortliampton County, N. C, came from the same county, in 174S, and David, Philip and Thomas Winborne came between 1742 and 1750. Hearing that there was a family of Wiidwrnes in Norfolk, Va., I wrote to Elisha J. Win- borne, 300 Chestnut street, Berkeley, Va., to learn some- thing of his ancestry. In his letter of May 25, 1905, to me he writes that bis father was Henry A. Winborne, b(irn .lanuarv 1, 1S0'.>, and lived near Carrsville, Va., and that his motlier was Eliza A. Winborne, nee Hol- land. That his mother died December 7, 1873, and his father died March 3, ISSO. His grandfather was Elisha Winborne, of Xansemond County, Va. That his father had a brother, John Winborne, Avho lived in the same county.
Henry A. Winborne left several children, Solomon .T., Alexander J., A. X., Junius W., Gustavnis, and Eli- sha J. Winborne. Elisha J., in his letter to me, writes tliat he is 66 years r.ld ; that he served through the late Civil War under the command of Gen. Wm. Malione, and that he and the older members of his family were members of the Christian Church.
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lie writes furtlier, that lie had heard his father speak often of lirvan Hare, hut Iw eoiihl give nothing definite ahciit Hare. .\re tliev kin i Here I meet with another Kiiliieon in the destruction < f tlie records of Xansemond County, \'a. The Clerk of the (jourt there informs me that the records of that conutv only go back to 1866. Suffolk, tiie county seat, was the heatl(|nartcrs for the rnion soldiers during the late Civil War, and remained uniler their control during the military government in the Southern States that followed the war. The South can never recover completely from the destruction of her records during the war. The abolition of slavery was a blessing in disguise. With the continuation of the insti- tution of shivery, the South could not have retained its intellectuality and its wonderful civiiizatinn which was the glory and admiration of the New World. The rec- ords of the genealogy of her sons and daughters were the evidence of her glory and tlie proud boast of iier sii]ic- riority. The genial rays of the sunny South, awakened a feeling of patriotism and chivalrous bearing, upon the altar of the hearts of the jieople, that never permeated the ice-bound bosom of the X<u'tlierii clime.
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138 The Winbokne Family
THOMAS WILBORNE.
This party presents an inturcstiug inquiry. Was his name originally A\'inborne 'i Is he the Thomas Wil- borne who figured so prominently as a Regulator in Orange County, :N. C, in 17()8-9 i Is he the father of Ii(il)ert Wilborue, a member of Capt. James Vaughan's comi)any nf ( 'nutini'iital trodps from Xorthampton County {
In Deed Book '■] of Xorthami)tiiu records I find a con- tract to convey land from Thomas Wilborne of that county to Jiilm Robertson, of tlic county of Brunswick, in tiie Colony of Virginia. In the body of this contract the name is written alternately Wilborne and Winborne, btit signed Thmnas Wilbiiruc. This paper is dated Oc- tober 10, 17 Go. In the same Book I lind a deed dated October 10, 1703, indexed Thomas Winborne to John Robertson for the land mentioned in the above contract. All through tliis deed the grantors are written Thomas Winborne and wife, ^fargaret. but signed Thomas Wil- borne.
In same Imok 1 find anuthcr deed from Thomas Wil- borne and wife, ilargaret, dated November 1, 1763, to Robert Jones, an attorney-at-hn\' of that county, to whom lie conveyed a part of his lands in Occoneechy J^eck. He was evidently, from these records, a man of much wealth. This deed is written and signed Thomas Wil-
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borne. 1 tiuil trmii tlie records of ^^ortllalllI)t<lIl, utter tlie l\e\olutioii, Iiohert Will)orne, of tliat county, convey- hii!; some of the same lands formerly conveyed to Thomas Wilhorne. From the list of the Coutiuoutal troops from >»orth Carolina (State Records, Vol. 16), I find Koberl Wilhorne a private in Capt. James Vaiiijhan's ('oiii]iany, Tlli Regiment. Capt. Vaughan was from Xortliampton County. There are a number of people by file name of Weiborn and Willburn in North ('arolina. Thomas Wilhorne left Xortliampton Conntv about IT'M.
140 Tmc ^YrxBOKNE Family.
ENGLAND.
111 Dorset C'uiinty the luiiucs of Winiborne, Sherborne, ]\Jilborne, Cvauboriie, Winterborne are proniineut and leading. John (,)uest, of Scoteli parentage, when he was elevated to the peerage, he ado]ited the name of Lord Wimbornc. That is some evidence that the above Dor- .'!et County iiaiues, ending with 'iinrne'" are Scotch names. I mention these facts thinking that some more coinjietent and energetic member of the Winborne family may in the future trace the origin of our name. I was usniied by my uncle, R. II. Winborne, for Sir Benjamin Collius Brodie, Bart,, one of the most distinguished phy- siologists and surgeons in England in the early part of the 19th century. A very full account may be ftmnd '■^' him in the Encycloptedia Britarmica.
My son, Stanley, was named for Justice Stanley ]\Iat- thews, of Ohio, who was a member of the Supreme Court nf the Ignited States from May 12, 1881, to March 22, 18SD, the date of his death.
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CONCLUSION.
III wriiiiii; tlic forofioing skctclie.s T did iiimdi more tliau I !~tartfd out to do. lint after bcainniug the work it bccaiiic fa.seinatiiia'. ft ci'eated a burning de.sire to look further, and l\ini nw ail the light pos.sible. I con- gratulate myself bv indulging the hope that what was .so interesting to nic may contribute to the pleasure of some one else. .\ man has but a little soul who does not enjciy living in the past. The jiast contains the foun- tains of wisdom, of knnwledge, and of inspiration. It is the mile-post for the future.
Tt wouhl liave greatly pleased me to have made my sketches more extensive and taken in my many friends, and my county, but the labors of life made it beyond my jiower. I ask the kinil criticisms of my friends and the |)eople of my comity, whom I have served st) hing, and whose interests are so dear to me. Vale, vale, et lonxjum rale. B. B. ^YIXB()I{XE.
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