by mcncdmin | Mar 19, 2020 | People
Lydia Holman came to Mitchell County in 1900 to serve as a private duty nurse for a woman suffering from Typhoid. The woman got well and moved away. Holman stayed for the next 58 years serving the people of Mitchell County. Holman had graduated from the Philadelphia...
by mcncdmin | Mar 19, 2020 | History, People
The Civil War was hard, certainly, on the soldiers called away from home, whether or not they believed in the cause for which they fought. It was also extremely trying for their loved ones left at home. One couple separated by the Civil War was Garrett DeWeese Gouge...
by mcncdmin | Mar 19, 2020 | People
According to the Bakersville Methodist Episcopal Church South Sunday School record book, on a pleasant morning in June 1881, 11-year old Ella Bogue Clapp attended the service conducted by Mr. W.S. Hyams. The congregation sang “At the Beautiful Gate,” the lesson was...
by mcncdmin | Mar 18, 2020 | History, People
Nancy M. DeWeese was born 2/2/1842 in Missouri, where her parents, Louis DeWeese and Rachel Matilda McKinney DeWeese, had moved. Her father died when she was 5, and her mother took her and her two sisters, Jane Elizabeth (1837-1889) and Mary (1844-1929) back to North...
by mcncdmin | Mar 18, 2020 | Economics, People
When the Carnation Dairy receiving station opened in Spruce Pine on September 4, 1941, the Asheville Citizen reported that a large crowd was in attendance to hear speeches by state and corporate officials. An open house was held prior to the speechmaking, and “iced...
by mcncdmin | Mar 18, 2020 | People
J.G. Heap and his wife Anna Lyons are buried in the Bakersville Historic Cemetery. He and his business partner E.B. Clapp are credited with bringing the first large-scale mica mining operation to Mitchell County: a story well known. But there is another worth telling...
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