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Historic Webster Vol. 2 No. 3

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  • Historic Webster is a newsletter of the Webster Historical Society, Inc., created at the Society’s founding in 1974. The publication helped to serve the Society's mission of collecting and preserving the history of Webster, North Carolina. Webster, established in 1851, was the original county seat for Jackson County.
  • VOLUME II, NUMBER 3 WEBSTER, NORTH CAROLINA A Brief Biography He Whom Destiny Appoints By Mary E. Morris The Rev. John C. Love, mentioned in Jim Wells' article on the first black church in Jackson County (Historic Webster, Vol. I, no. 3), led to a letter and a questionnaire from the Webster Historical Society to Mrs. Louise Love Oswell of Port Jervis, New York. In reply Mrs. Oswell sent a brochure and a letter in which she said, "I am happy that he (her father, John C. Love) will be included in a study of the community of Webster. As I see it, his career can only reflect credit on his birthplace." The brochure, He Whom Destiny Appoints, is a brief biography of John C. Love. It was prepared by Mrs. Oswell for her father's 45th anniversary as pastor of the Union Baptist Church of Montclair, New Jersey, held on Sunday, May 7, 1944. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Baptist Church in New York City and writer of the foreward in this brochure, said of Love: "He is a genuine person, sincere , generous , wise , dependable , competent and courageous, and his ministry has done honor to the stock from which he came, the teachers who belped his youth, the friends who have loved and sustained him, and the Christ whose loyal servant he is." The following excerpts from the booklet provide a brief biography of the Rev. John C. Love: "As a boy John Love was not permitted to "just grow"; he is the product of hard-working THE REVEREND JOHN C. LOVE, since 1899 has pastored Union Baptist Church in Mont­clair, N. J., with such distin­guished service that he has become one of the nation's most outstanding clergymen. JOHN AND HAT­TIE LOVE as they looked following their marriage in Ra­leigh, North Caroli­na, October 7, 1897. sensible, Christian parents. He was born in Jackson County, North Carolina, on November 13, 1875, the fifth in a family of seven children. His parents, John C. (Tobe) and Louise Love, both of slave origin in Macon County, North Carolina, purchased the small farm on which John was born soon after they were emancipated. John and Louise Love worked hard to make a home for their children. They knew the value of schooling to a race that had been cast out of shackles, and so the Love brood trudged six miles a day to the simple country school near Webster, North Carolina-three miles to school and three miles home--where they received the crude, basic elements of an education. The Love family didn't have an easy time; nor did any other farm family in those days. The children went to school no matter what the weather. Only about fifty or sixty students attended the small rural institution. Young John was a bright alert scholar. He loved history. The old "Blue back Speller" was the all-around textbook, then, and John delved into it eagerly, impatiently. After school John and his brothers and sisters helped their father on the farm until it was too dark to see, and then they sat around the table in the little homestead studying their lessons by torchlight. The torches were made out of lighted pine-knots placed in candleholders. Even then, John Love was inclined towards the ministry. When any of the farm animals died, he would preach a funeral oration over little feathered or furred bodies. His voice properly solemn, and with the other children gathered around, he would ask for Heavenly forgiveness for a speckled chicken or a grey rabbit. He stayed in the county school until he was a little over fifteen, and then a problem arose. The teacher, like a great many rural teachers then, was not a man of vast education and he began to find the arithmetic problems for the olders students increasingly difficult. Rather than risk embarrassment, he would stay home. John became the substitute for the missing teacher. It was all right the first few times, but finally Father Love got tired of his son's doing duty for the gentleman the county was paying to watch over and advance the education of its young;. and so John was whisked away from school. He got a job driving a team for the Harris Clay Mine. This factory manufactured chinaware from materials brought from the mines, dried it and shipped it to the potteries. (Only the clay was shipped from the mines. The china ware was made elsewhere.) Throughout this time John never ceased to study every book available in the community, including the classics and other books dealing with Biblical history. He remained on his job until nineteen years of age, when he was ordained and went to Johnson City, Tennessee, to take over the pulpit of the Thankful Baptist Church. It was from here on that John knew his main call was for the ministry. He stayed fifteen months at the small church and gained valuable experience. He learned the importance of administrating church funds properly and of having the full confidence of his congregation. But the serious-minded young Continued On Page 6 SUMMER, 1975 By Grace Hall Brown conducted this examination. After finishing school at Cui- The Historical Society of Web- lowhee, I spent one year at the ster requested me to provide State Normal in Greensboro, some information and compar- where I took a special teacher ison between teaching in Webster training course. Then upon re­more than sixty years ago and turning from that college I was today. This is a difficult assign- elected by the local school board ment since I have kept no records to teach in the elementary grades for reference and will have to at Webster. Mr. Will Cowan, Mr. rely principally on memory. I J. L. Broyles, and Mr. Polk have had little contact with or Allman were on the board. This responsibility for our public was in the fall of 1908, two years school system since my two after the new wooden building children graduated some forty was erected. years ago. But the following I do not know the size of Web-things I do remember: ster Township at that time, but . To be eligible for teaching in students came from miles a­Jackson County in the early round; namely, the Ashe Settle­years of this century one had to ment, Hog Rock mining area, Big take a state examination. I took and Little Savannah, Love's Cha­this July 14, 1905, at the Jackson pel, and from quite a distance County Court House in Webster around Webster. Most of these and was granted a First Grade students walked each day. At the Certificate. This I still hold and end of each month we sent a prize. Frank Brown Sr . Continued On Page 2 COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR YEAR 1910 THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS of the WEBSTER HIGH SCHOOL invite you to be present at their FIFTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT March twenty-eighth and ninth nineteen hundred ten SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Webster, N.C. PROGRAM MONDAY EVENING, 8 O'CLOCK Exercises by Primary and Intermediate Grades TUESDAY, ll O'CLOCK Sermon, by Dr. S. C. Mitchell PresidentS. C. University TUESDAY, 2:30 O'CLOCK Literary Address, by Dr. E. M. Poteat President, Furman University Greenville, S.C. TUESDAY EVENING, 8:30 O'CLOCK Final Entertainment ~~~~ A complete copy, identical in wording but not in form, of an ~~~~j :::: engraved commencement announcement issued by Webster;:;:: :;:; High School in 1910. ;:;~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:=:::::::::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::~:::;;:~~=~::;:~~=! Historic Webster, Summer 1975, Page 2 Webster School Some Sixty Years Ago ·Continued From Page 1 report to the office of Mr, Will Henson, Superintendent of Jack­son County Schools at that time, and the one who had signed my teaching certificate. The school building consisted of four large rooms on the first floor connected by halls, and a large front porch. On the second floor was a spacious auditorium with an elevated stage in the back end and one or two small rooms in front, perhaps used for storage or consultation. There was no cen­tral heat or toilet facilities, but we did have a pump for fresh water under a roof extension from the building. The rooms were heated by large woodburn­ing ·iron stoves. Each room was equipped with a blackboard, table and chair. We had no janitor service. Each teacher made her own plans to take care of these needs for which she was responsible. Students had individual desks, a big improvement over the long benches that we sat on when I was a child in the old River Hill Baptist Church building. Then there was no other place for public school classes to be held , and the building was rented from the church. Following are the names of the principals of Webster School while I taught there: The Rev­erend J. J. Gray, minister of the Webster Methodist Episcopal Church South at that time; Mr. J. 0 . Allen, a graduate of the University of South Carolina, and a cultured gentleman; and Mr, T. Few Shipman from Henderson­ville, a graduate of North Caro­lina University at Chapel Hill, a Christian gentleman and an ex­cellent disciplinarian. I will not attempt to name the grade teachers in exact order of service. There were only four at any one time. Perhaps Lillian Sti ll well was there one year ahead of me. Others were Susie Hooper of Jackson County, Ger­trude Honeycutt of Cleveland County (her father was former pastor of the Webster Methodist Church), Miss Bradshaw, per­haps from Eastern North Caro­lina, Cullie Myers Edwards from Charlotte, North Carolina, and myself. Cullie boarded at the Lawrence Cowan home. She and I still correspond after all these many years. She is in a retire­ment home now because of a broken bone. The first Monday in August was the opening day of school at Webster which closed in March at the end of eight months. We taught from 8:30 or 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the after­noon. From 12 noon until 1 p.m. we had an hour for lunch. Since there was no cafeteria we carried our lunch and ate in the building on cold and rainy days, and on the porch or on the lawn when weather permitted. There was no cessation of school for harvesting any kind of crops. We often had as many as thirty-five or forty students in each room , as we taught more than one grade. Within the years I spent there, I taught from the fourth through the seventh grade. Subjects were reading , writing, arithmetic, history, geography and grammar. My salary was the fabulous sum of forty-five dollars per month. This was the highest salary at that time for teaching in the elementary grades. :asm." JACKSON CouNTY JAcKsoN CouNTY CouRT. This has been a disagreeable Court week. •• In the first place we have had no accommodations here and hence I have to write my Journal at the close of the week instead of doing so daily.-We have had to hold Court in a open house with no floor in it and the weather has been verry cold.-There has not been much business done, but I have been greatly wearied all week. Almost every man at court had some business with me, and in a majority of cases the business amounted to nothing. I have also, been greatly pestered with persons wishing to become prose­cutors on Indictments I think I can say with safety, that I have never been at a place, or in a County, where there seemed to be as much Mallice and diabolical revenge.-Revenge seems to rankle in the bosom of every one. Few, even of the best citizens of Jackson County, seem to he free from it. Wednesday evening, about 4 O'Clock Court adjourned and late as it was, I left the place and rode some thirteen or fourteen miles towards home. Had. a cold ride and was late in the night reaching the place at which I usually stop.-I reached home tonight at dark-Had a cold ride today. Had the company of my f r iend P. W. Roberts Esqr. M'. R. is a pleasant traveling companion. Treasurer's Report. JACKSON COUNTY School funds for the year 1884. Amount received, $4,007.82 do paid out. 3,961.30 do carried to fund of J885, 4H.52 Which strikes a baJatce, 4,007.82 Sehoolfnnds for the year 188;>, Amoun~ rooeived, e.t,8SJ5.71 do paid out, 4,:la9.35 do in the treasury, 5:Ki.a() do due districts not t.aoght hun. year, Leniog still in the ~real!lury , )faji str~tes fi ne~, b t-lon_~?;ing to School fund, General funds of 188-l. !)77.f>f. J.;8 7G ;)8.45 Amount received, do P~tid ~"1t $~ ,221.W 2.151 .!17 do earrit>d to funds of 1885, 75.6!1 !triking a balance of 2 , '2~7 . .16 Genera.ltuuds of 1885. Amount receivf'.d, do paid out $a,7o3.uor funds fur the year 18H4, Amount ree1-ived, 11 I 1J22.!J8 do pltid out,. V7'!-U)8 d,) <·a.rried to funds of 1885, l.t:J :tO Tubl l. . $1,122 Qd. Pour fund~ for 1 ~8;3. Amnont received, do paid out, do i11 th9 treasury, ii,IGJ.25 547.4;) 61382 Total, tll,l61 25 I ... C·HALL· ()ouatJ Treasurer. . Th_is is a copy of the Jackson County Treasurers Report for 1884-1885, loaned to Historical Webster by Harry Cagle. Historic Webster, Summer 1975, Page 3 :;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~;:;:::::;:~:=~~==:::::::::::;:::~::::;:i f East La Porte Burial Ground \~ ~ ~ For my delay in submitting this article to the Editor and typeset· ter, I apologize. The message derived from the Frontier Ceme· tery, in reading names and in­scriptions, seemed too heavy for me to write. So, a little time was needed for me to get it together. What surfaces is as follows-, Americana. In East La Porte, the oldest legible marker was that of Absolom Hooper and his wife Sarah Hooper. Actually, the pre· sent monument is a replacement of a former Stone which read, " Absolomon Hooper, Revolution­ary War Hero." The white mar· ble monolith standing in its stead states the names and Absolom's dates are 1757·1845, Sarah's are 1762-1856. We do not have at hand the dates nor places where Absolom fought for the new Republic, but among the Hooper Family archives there surely is some record for which the Web­ster Historical Society would be grateful. Although the Mountain people were not ''slavers'' by practice nor persuasion , some slave graves are to be found directly at the foot of the Hooper plot. Maybe some of these are of Bond· Servants. Names are not affixed, nor legends. We are limited in our space, so it must not be construed that we intentionally omit any names that are legible. Even· tually, we may be able to have a follow up to this article and more fully explore the lives of our early people here remembered. Coming downhill from the Hoopers, the Davis Family has a stone inscribed " Sarah, Wife of J . W. Davis ; Born 1796." Sarah Davis may have lived to hear of the War of 1812. We wonder if Javan Davis, 1848, might have been kin, or decendant of J. W. and Sarah Davis? Near the summit of the Ceme· tery Hill are other old Stones. One reads John L. Potts 1817·1887. The Potts family is today prominent in this County, and there are several. Martha Allison, 1825-1885 is the first date among the Allison Family represented. Among the Smith family stones is that of "Rebecca Justice Smith, Born 1805, Lived to be 91". Even today, ninety-<>ne years of age is noteworthy. R. N. Smith's headstone is inscribed with the Masonic emblem, Egypt Shrine. The Coward family has a hand­some Coward Family center Stone, and members grouped around. Eric Coward and Maude Zachary Coward are there, Susan Jane Coward also is remembered in stone, one of the many infants buried with wistful, loving care among their kin. One can almost reconstruct the tragedy of the young mother buried beside her baby , in the grave of Lizzie Wilson, wife of J. D. Zachary, 1885. Many Zacharys are here. There are C. B. Zachary and wife Mary A.; Woodford Zachary and wife Mary 1826; J. Davis Zachary 1861, and others. The name that caught my attention was "Zang Zachary''-that has flavour, such a short life-1863-1887. The Robbins family is at East La Porte Cemetery; Rachel Shel­ton's stone is dated 1832, being the earliest Shelton there. Then we find Daves, Powell, Wike, Ashe, and Lowe and inter ming­ling of family names indicating blood lines that intermingled to sustain the Frontier American Stock we still find in our " Moun­tain Empire." The thread of the theme here is culminated in the recent dates and is evidence that the mountain men are still fighting to hold our country together. There is "Jun­nyO. Jackson, Staff Sgt. 22 Yrs." "Thos A. Jackson, Cpl. Army Air Forces, W. W. 2 Joseph B. Mid­dleton, North Carolina, SP4, U.S. Army, Vietnam. among the Jack· son and Middleton families. All over America, these stories are to be found; loving families, early settlers, Much Courage. Little old East La Porte dates into an unknown distant past. But we have carved in stone a stead­fast History we are proud of. Respectfully submitted to The Webster Historical So· ciety by Elizabeth Keys :;:;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 1!!~~;_1 ::;:: Cookbook are still :::: :::: available. Miss Mildred ::::: ~~~~ Cowan and Mrs. Joe ~~~~: :::: Rhinehart will have them ::::: :;:; for sale at the Fourth of ::;l r July celebration at =~=~ :::: Webster School, Friday, :;:; ~~t~::~::~;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::J mttuc HIIID 11m Editors: Mrs. Louise Davis Ms. Alice Harrill Dr. Marilyn Jody Circulation Manager: Mrs. Jennie Lon Hunter Typists: Mrs. Sarah Barrett Mrs. Jennie Lou Hunter Contributors : Mrs. Grace Hall Brown Tommy Buchanan Harry Cagle Loy Deitz Ms. Elizabeth Keys Prof. R. L. Madison Ms.MaryE.Morria Membership Runs From January 1975 to December 1975 Tbe classes of membership and dues are as follows: Active (resident of Western N.C.) : ........... ts.oo yearly Associate (outside Western N.C.) : ...... ts.oo yearly Contributing: ...... .......• 10.00 yearly Supporting: . . . ..................... UO.OO yearly Sustaining: .................. flQ.OO yearly Life: ........• 100.00 AU contributions are Income tax deductible. Historic Webster, Summer 1975, Page 4 !~!r======================='======================================='=============================================================================================='==================='======,===============,=======================================I: I w::~ ~:~~~;~~~~;~~;;;, ~;;~~~~:~:·~~"~: I :;:; visited here. Some are deceased but their good old fashioned dishes have been passed on ::;:: ~;~; by loving relatives. No attempt has been made to arrange these recipes in any definite { : ;:;:order. Just read them and the donors' comments and try them. You will not be :;:;: J disappointed in the results. The folded sheet will fit very handily in your Webster t: ;:;: Cookbook. :;:;: Hot Rolls This roll recipe was the specially of Cagle's Restaurant owned and operated by Paul Cagle for eighteen years in Clayton, Georgia. 2 cakes compressed yeast 1112 cups lukewarm water 2 beaten eggs 112 cup melted shortening 2 teaspoons salt V2 cup sugar 6 cups sifted flour Dissolve yeast in water, add salt, sugar, eggs and shortening. Beat well. Add flour one cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Place in a bowl and cover. Let rise in bowl covered with damp cloth out of draft until double in bulk. Knead. Shape into rolls. Let rise in greased pans until double In bulk. Bake at 425 deg. Paul Eugene Cagle Webster, N.C. Easy Butterscotch Pie 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 5 tablespoons flour 3egg yolks (beat until thick and lemon colored) 112 teaspoon vanilla 211" cups milk lf" cup or less maple flavored syrup 3 T butter (I use one) Blend flour and sugar, add milk and eggs and cook until thick In double boiler. Add butter, vanilla, and syrup (the syrup Improves flavor). Beat with egg beater If mixture is not smooth. Cool, put in baked shell, cover with meringue from egg whites. Sprinkle with cocoanut and brown in moderate oven. Clara Rogers Hyder Clinton, Oklahoma Sweet Mixed Pickles In separate pans or vessels put: 1 peck green tomatoes slic.·.·.·.·.·. ..· .·.·.·.·.·.·.· .. . . <·~.. :.:·:·><·:.:.: .. · ::.:.:.:· :~b!~erfo~c~~~~~~:1~[~ge~tr:1~~ lt The Webster Cookbook .......... ~.\:.·:[:.·: a i~~~";u~~~i~~~c;a~tc:p~~~ie~i 1 Drawer W the college team for two years, ,.... Webster, North Carolina 28788 played on the All Star Team, and lt Enc losed iss---------. Send me cop ies of THE WEBSTER COOKBOOK at $6.00 plus .75 for w rapping and mai li ng . No rth Caro lina r es ide n ts add .24 s al e s tax . Indicate on sepa rate sheet if books a re to be m a i led to othe r than person making orde r. Gi ft ca rds wil l be in c lud ed if indi c ate d . NAME ·.· ~~~ths~~=~:~c~~7e~~n~:med All lt ·.· In later years an All Star Team lt .,. consisting of Full bright, Cowan, ""'- ~:.:::~.~:. WAloliosdoyn ,P Fatitnocna,n Lneorno,y S Jauma nPitaat t(oann, lJllltlf'" Indian ), Malcolm Brown, and "'- coaches Whatly and MacDonald ,.... .·. of wee won many cups and other lt ::: ~::;hdsJ~r~~~:e:~~r~nse~~~ont~~ * ::; state tournaments. * ::: Mark Watson Field at Sylva lt STATE ------ \. ~!~i~~~it:~Y~:l~!~g ~ ADD RE SS CITY ZIP --- ::: son. lt ;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~::******************** Historic Webster, Summer 1975, Page 8 Webster School History By Robert Lee Madison It was probably in 1869 that, under the direction of General E. R. Hampton, County Examiner, elected by the County Board of Commissioners, the first public school for Webster Township was established. June 1, 1865, L. J. Smith, Capt. J. W. TeiTel!, and B. H. Cathey were chosen as the firSt County Board of Education by the joint board of Magistrates and County Commissioners. The County Education Board for 1886 included J. W. Terrell, B. H. Cathey, and Rev. B. N. Queen. From 1869 until 1905 no schools of more than ordinary or local interest were taught in Webster except the old Webster Academy and later some excellent terms of private school under the instruction of Prof. W. H. H. Hughes, a lame Confederate veteran, who was for some years County Superintendent. The Webster Academy, which stood where the Caler Hedden home now stands, housed for several years a really superior school for that period. Among some of the first teachers were the Rev. P.R. Young, Captain J. F. C. Allison, Miss Faucett, and Miss Laura Woodfin. The enrollment at one time was 100 p

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