Welcome to
Tarboro
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Homes Magazine JUNE 2013
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Welcome to
Tarboro
JUNE 2013
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Homes Magazine Staff
Editor/Publisher ........................................................ John H. Walker Ad Sales ........................................................................ Gene Hudson Design ............................................................. Jonathan Mlyniec Advertising Production .............................................. JoEllen Pollard
• Homes Magazine û Anderson Realty ................................................................... 22 Century 21 Realty ................................................................ 4 Tarboro Realty ..................................................................... 6-7
• Advertisers • All About Flowers ..................................................................... 5 Allstate – Sheila Anderson ................................... 15, Back Page Doug Henry Tarboro ............................................................... 23 Edward Jones – CB Bunting III .............................................. 15 Edgecombe County Health Department .................................. 8 Edgecombe Home Care & Hospice ..................................... 11 Gold Buyer ............................................................................. 15 Kennedy Carpet Care ............................................................ 8 Piggly Wiggly ...................................................................... 11 John A. Pollard CPA, PLLC ..................................................... 8 Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal ........................................................... 8 Rick Williams Auto ............................................................. 22 Service Drug ........................................................................... 5 State Farm, Wendy Edwards ................................................. 11 Vidant Medical Center ............................................................ 2 G.T. Ward DDS ..................................................................... 11
Cover ....... Calvary churchyard Photo by Jonathan Mlyniec
Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine If you have story ideas you would like to see in future issues, please contact: John H. Walker at (252) 823-3106 or e-mail to editor@dailysoutherner.com a product of
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9 A Tarboro African American Builder George Henry Harrison, Brickmason
12 Calvary Churchyard a garden sanctuary
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Preservation of African Edgecombe County Courthouses American Cemeteries
19 Historic Tarboro African American Neighborhoods
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Local Artist’s Work at The 1893 World’s Fair
9 A Tarboro African American Builder George Henr y Harrison, Brickmason 10 Calvar y Churchyard a garden sanctuar y 14 Preser vation of African American Cemeteries 16 Edgecombe County Courthouses 19 Historic Tarboro African American Neighborhoods 20 Local Artist’s Work at The 1893 World’s Fair 21 Garden of the Month
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From the Editor/Publisher To our readers: Now that we’re into the heat of summer, we occasionally find ourselves wondering about some of the historical background of our community. As a newcomer of only 16 months, we still find ourselves rereading the historical markers and historic district markers as we continue our education on our new hometown. One of the things we’ve had the opportunity to do is revisit the myriad editions of this magazine that have been produced over the years. As we’ve perused those magazines, we’ve found several stories we thought you might enjoy — newcomers and old-timers alike. In this issue, we choose to recycle a couple of pieces by C. Rudolph Knight, one by Monika Fleming and another by Alice Jones Webb. In addition, our new monthly feature on landscape gardens as coordinated by the Master Gardeners rounds out our offering. We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we did and they either refresh your memories for long time residents or create new ones for the newer resident. Thanks for joining us this month and, since you were, thanks for reading!
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A Tarboro African American Builder George Henry Harrison, Brickmason Welcome to Tarboro Magazine
Tarboro’s rich architectural heritage, displayed in the Historic District and elsewhere in town, reflects more than a century and a half of work by skilled craftsmen who lived in the community. Many, perhaps a majority, of these craftsmen were black carpenters, house carpenters and brickmasons. Without the work of these men, many of Tarboro’s impressive structures would not be here. 9
The best known was George Matthewson who built and lived in his house at 421 Church St. But Matthewson was not alone. Some of the other craftsmen who worked with him and carried on his legacy also deserve recognition. Several black and mulatto men were listed as builders in the 1870 census. They were William Mitchell (age 40), Joseph Price (52) Buck Boyd (33), Locust Wright (65) Watson Hagans (34), Thomas Richardson (27), Robert Western (45) Henry C. Cherry (34) John C. Dancy (44), Farrer Prince (24), Anderson Dancy (45), David Jefferson (53), Noah Lloyd (37), all house carpenters or carpenters. At least some of these men were trained and worked as slaves before the Civil War. Joseph Price, or another man with the same name, was listed as a free mulatto carpenter (age 50) in the 1860 census. Also listed as free black or mulatto brickmasons in the 1860 census were David Harris (37), John Harrison (65) and George Matthewson (30). Several of the descendents of these builders carried on the family trade into the 20th Century and the Matthewson family produced black artisans in the county and town. George Harrison, a grandson and a direct descendant of Mariah Matthewson, sister to the five Matthewson sons of John H. Matthewson and Rachel Pender. Each of the five Matthewson sons of John H. Matthewson and Rachel Pender was taught masonry and carpentry by local artisans on the Norfleet Plantation, about two and one-half miles southwest of Tarboro, on what is now West Wilson Street. The daughter was trained as a seamstress. Mariah, the only female sibling of the five Matthewson brothers had nine children: John, George, William, Julia, Allenia, Reva, Louise, Hayward and Mack. Her grandson, George Henry Harrison (born Dec. 15, 1887), continued the family legacy in the building trades in the Tarboro area. He was taught brickmasonry and carpentry by his uncles and great uncles, providing him with life and occupational skills. George Henry Harrison mostly worked along side his great uncle George Matthewson and, also, worked for D. H. Harris, one of the builders noted above. Their major works included Howard Memorial Presbyterian Church, the old town hall, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, St. Paul AME Zion Church and many residential structures throughout the town of Tarboro, and, today, many of the houses in the 45-block historic district are evidence of their skills. George Henry Harrison was first married to Mary Bradley (Sept. 11, 1889 - June 18, 1916), and to this union Mary Geneva was born. He later married Vernal Love, daughter of John Calvin Love and Mittie Kennebrew Love, both graduates of Clark University in Atlanta and later teachers at the Joseph Keasbey Brick Agricultural, Industrial and Normal School near Enfield. Their sons were George Leroy Harrison, Henry Milton Harrison, Alfred Wilbert Harrison, Albert Hubert Harrison, all of whom worked in the buildings trades from 1900 until their deaths in the late 1990s. George and Vernal’s daughters were Naomi, Vernon Dorthula, Irma, and Ruth. George Henry Harrison died on April 15, 1964. (Witten for Welcome to Tarboro Magazine by C. Rudolph Knight a Tarboro native, retired community college educator and a research historian.)
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a garden sanctuary
Calvary Churchyard
by Alice Jones Webb
Calvary Churchyard is probably my favorite place in all of Tarboro. Smack dab in the middle of Tarboro’s historic district, Calvary Churchyard is an often overlooked gem. More than just an antiquated cemetery, the churchyard features plant life from all over the world. The Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, Calvary Episcopal Church’s rector from 1842 to 1889 filled the church grounds with a plethora of trees, shrubs, flowers and herbs. He imported plants native to Europe, Asia and diverse environments in North America. 12
Now, more than a century later, Calvary Churchyard is a botanists dream. Not only have Dr. Cheshire’s specimens survived, they have flourished. There are towering live oaks, ancient incense cedars, English yews, Japanese magnolia, Chinese hawthorn, and my favorite tree in the whole cemetery, a terrifically twisted old cork oak, which Dr. Cheshire grew from an acorn imported directly from Spain. One of the more unusual botanical examples found among the tombstones is Osage orange. Actually belonging to the mulberry family rather than the citrus family, Osage orange is native to the Red River Valley of Texas and Oklahoma. Its fruit is what makes this tree so interesting. Often called a horse apple, the tree produces a roughly spherical, but very bumpy fruit measuring up to six inches in diameter. Another interesting specimen is the living fossil, ginkgo biloba. The scientific world recognizes fossils of ginkgo biloba leaves that date back 270 million years. You would think that with Calvary Church’s magnificent grounds people would be dying to get in (pun intended). In all of my many strolls through the winding paths of the churchyard, I’ve rarely seen another living soul. I mean this quite literally since Calvary Churchyard is of course, a grave yard, and its many residents are, in fact, well ... dead. I cannot look into the mind of Joseph Cheshire, of course, but I can’t imagine he planted and pruned and tended all of his brilliant plants to be enjoyed only by the longburied. For one to have gone through such great lengths to bring such a wide variety of exotic plant life to the small town of Tarboro, he surely must have meant for those of us still walking and breathing to enjoy his glorious garden as well. Calvary Churchyard is truly a sanctuary. On the other side of the brick wall that surrounds it, Calvary Churchyard is a place of peace and rest. I recently stumbled inside to take a brief respite from my life’s chaos of looming deadlines, squabbling children and copious amounts of laundry. Feeling immediately calmer, I sat on one of the church’s stone benches and took a few minutes to appreciate the azalea blooms and buzzing bees while admiring a trail of furiously working ants trekking across the dirt path. And I took the time to just breathe. I sometimes vacillate between guilt from the past and fear of the future, so I seldom find myself thinking in the present (even when I am very presently folding laundry,
fixing meals, and meeting all of the present demands on my time). But there in Calvary Churchyard amidst the buzzing bees and blooming flowers, I find myself able to just breathe. Not doing anything else, I am able to just be. Casting off my normal mode of frantic doing, I am able to connect with my-
self and find a deep sense of peace and clarity, simplicity and serenity, the kind that can only be found in the here and now. So thank you, Dr. Cheshire. There is at least one living breathing resident of Tarboro who cherishes your work and finds comfort in your garden.
Photographs by Jonathan Mlyniec PREVIOUS PAGE: Calary Churchyard TOP: Leaves and Buds of Osage orange. ABOVE: The living fossil, ginkgo bilobawith leaf example.
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Preservation of African American Cemeteries
By C. Rudolph Knight
Tarboro African American Cemeteries Preservation, was organized and has as its mission to help promote and provide preservation and restoration of the Tarboro and Princeville historical African American cemeteries with programs to enhance education and heritage and cultural tourism. – Tarboro African American Cemeteries Preservation (TAACP) has ten board members plus advisors. The initial board members of the group were Dr. Lawrence W. S. Auld, Gloria Brown, Rev. Dr. Clifford and Marsha Baker Coles, Winfield Crews, C. Rudolph Knight, Virginia Johnson Lewis, Anne Phillips, S. Gatlin Pippin, and Lovie Rooks. TAACP is in a partnership with the towns of Princeville and Tarboro and interested others to promote and provide preservation and restoration of the four African American cemeteries in the towns. Each of the four historic cemeteries is described below. • St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. Samuel S. Nash, Annie Gray Nash sold approximately two acres to Joshua Bunn and Mac Boyd, trustees of St. Paul‚Äôs Baptist Church, for $45.00 to be used as their burial ground on April 29, 1891. In 1866 St. Paul Baptist Church was organized with 16 members from the black community, following the leadership of George C. Caine, a Virginia native who settled in Tarboro soon after the Civil War with his wife, Agnes; they initiated a weekly prayer service, because of the lack of black churches in the community, and within a few years the new church was established under the leadership of Reverend S. A. Davis, assisted by A. F. Flood, Samuel Peny, and Rev. Thomas Owens, the latter minister of the white Baptist church. The church building was moved from its Main Street site to the present location in 1926, and it is a social and architectural focal point of the community. • St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, was founded on March 17, 1892, on approximately 1.5 acres of land, sold by Arabella C. Parker of the first part, and Theodore B. Lyman, Richard H. Battle, and Charles Johnson, Trustees of the Diocese of North Carolina of the second part to Mary E. Perry, Mary E. Harris, Mary J. E. Randolph, Penelope L. Newton, Esther B. Eaton, and their associates of the Mission Helpers of St. Luke’s Parish, Tarboro for the sum of $25.00. To have and to hold: with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said Trustees of the Diocese of North Carolina, for the use of the congregation of St. Luke’s Parish Tarboro of the Protestant Episcopal Church. For trust that the said premises shall be used, kept, and maintained, as a place of burial for the members of said congregation of St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church with the privilege to the rector or minister in charge of said congregation, with consent of the vestry, to sell a limited number of burial plots not to exceed one-half the plot of ground herein conveyed. • St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Cemetery was established on June 14, 1892. The deed was between Arabella C. Parker of the first part and William Whitehead, P. L. Barkerville, George Beale, George Matthewson, George Lloyd, Jas. White, and Jerry Rutledge, trustees of AME Zion Church, Tarboro. The St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was organized in 1866 by Rev. William H. Pitt of Brooklyn, N.Y., along with William Clark, Moriah Clark, Zilhia Wilkins, Green Carthey, Lucinda Bryant, Samson Cook, Walker 14
Banks, Hannah Telfair, Esther Moore, and Roden Lloyd. St. Paul had held the distinction of being the oldest African American church in Tarboro until 2002 when the structure was demolished because of the flood-water damage from the 1999 flood. On the site presently are several monuments erected to commemorate the church’s existence and contributions to the Tarboro community. • Wilson Cemetery, located in Princeville, with the earliest death dates observed in the late 1880s. The presence of the grave of Abraham Wooten (d. 1919), community reformer and minister of Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church who is memorialized by a distinctive stylish marker, and numerous other distinctive grave markers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries suggest that Princeville Cemetery is the last resting place of important early community leaders. The persons interred in the Wilson Cemetery are of transcendent importance at the local and state levels. Princeville is of statewide importance as one of North Carolina’s oldest communities established by freedmen and the first such community in the state to be incorporated. During the late 9th and early 20th centuries, it was a focus of activity that contributed to the spread of African American political rights throughout the state. The restoration and preservation of these cemeteries are extremely important, because in many instances, the markers are the only documentation of family members’ existence. This is particularly important in African American genealogy, since vital statistics records (births, marriages, and deaths) were not collected in North Carolina until 1913 C. Rudolph Knight is a Tarboro native, a retired community college educator, and a research historian.
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Edgecombe County Courthouses By Monika Fleming
Edgecombe County was created in 1741 from Bertie County and according to colonial laws, a court needed to be in each county where sessions would be held on a quarterly basis. Usually a jail was either nearby or a part of the courthouse. Court sessions consisted of criminal trials with juries, the recording of wills and processing estates, the registering of deeds, brands, and bills of sale, and the issuing of licenses for operating mills and taverns, among other legal business. The first courthouse for Edgecombe was actually located in Enfield as that was near the north/south center of the county as the original county included all of what is now Halifax County all the way to the Roanoke River. In 1758 a confrontation with Francis Corbin, the land agent for Lord Granville led to the jail and courthouse being burned to the ground. That same year, Halifax was divided out of Edgecombe to form a new county. When that happened, the town of Halifax then became the county seat for the newly formed Halifax County, and Edgecombe had no courthouse. The colonial General Assembly then indicated that court for Edgecombe County would be held at Redmond’s Old Field. The exact location is not known, but there are one earlier report suggests this was somewhere along McKendree’s Church Road which was rule, off the main road and according to a petition to the Assembly, was “inconvenient to the inhabitants.” Meanwhile, in November 1760, the Assembly approved the establishment of the Town of Tarboro and the charter identified five men responsible for surveying and laying out the town. Another petition was made to the Assembly again asking for a better location for a courthouse. Finally in 1764, after “the Justices of their session for that county having certified” that Redmond’s Old Field was “very improper” for the purpose of the holding court, the Assembly authorized that Mr. Aquilla Sugg, Mr. William Haywood, Mr. Joseph, Mr. Sherwood Haywood, and Mr. James Hall to establish a courthouse in a more suitable place. The legislative act directed the men to “contract with workmen for the building and directing of a suitable and sufficient court-house, clerk’s office, prison and stocks in the town of Tarborough on such parts of the lots set apart by the commissioners for the said town. “ The act went on to authorize a poll tax on each resident for two years to pay for the building, and declared that Redmond’s Old Field site could no longer be used. The location was the southeast corner of the intersection of St. George St. (now Main St. ) and St. James St. where Providence Bank is currently located on what was designated as lot No. 60 on the original town plan. Records indicate the courthouse was completed in six months by William Dunn. There are no known drawings or images of the first courthouse in Tarboro, but two different visitors described it as a large wooden building standing on brick pillars consisting of two rooms, one small and one larger. It is believed to be the same building used when the North Carolina General Assembly met in Tarboro in 1787 and it accommodated the over 180 legislators and the additional spectators. In his journal Bishop Francis Ashbury of the Methodist Episcopal Church wrote in Dec. 1796: “We came to Tarborough. They had made a fire in the small apartment of the courthouse, and I thought it was for preaching, but it was for dancing and the violin lay on the table. Mr. Clement (another Episcopal minister) wad kind enough to stop the scene and we had a serious congregation to hear my sermon.” 17
After standing over 50 years, it appeared that the original courthouse for modern facilities. In 1941, the Courthouse annex had opened was no longer suitable. In a June 1832 article in the Tarboro Free on Main St. next to the post office to provide more office space and Press, a committee was appointed to build a “fire-proof” courthouse. provide room for record storage. ,Mr. R.M. Fountain, chairman of the Edgecombe County CommisThere is no indication that the previous courthouse had burned, but we do know that several jails in the state had burned and the state sioners addressed a public audience in 1962 and explained that both the jail, that had not been renocapitol in Raleigh had burned vated since 1923 and the courtin 1831. house were in serious need of The proposal for the new repairs. He indicated that durcourthouse designated “ diing rain storms, court had to mensions of 40 by 56 feet, be postponed because of leaks two stories high with the lower and that it was “dangerous to floor to be 12 and the upper occupy the courtroom in times story 13 feet from the floor to of strong winds or accumulathe ceiling. The lower floor to tions of snow.” contain four rooms with a cenThe county commissioners tral passage of 40 by 20 feet approved a bond project for and the upper story consist of $600,000 with matching grant three rooms, two of which will from the federal government be for jury rooms and the other to construct a new courthouse the court room.” and jail. The bond passed with In December 1835, just two a public vote of 2,066 for the and a half years after the probond to 258 against. posal, the newspaper reported The 1890 town hall had been on the completion of the new recently been demolished and courthouse. The structure replaced with a modern buildwas designed by Mr. Bragg of ing, upsetting a number of local Warrenton and Mr. Lynch of residents, so the county comVirginia was the low bidder to missioners made two promises construct the building at a cost to the public. One was that the of $6,000. The newspaper deold town clock that had been clared that the new courthouse in the town hall would be incould not be “surpassed by any stalled in the new courthouse. village courthouse in elegance The second was that the deof appearance, durability of sign of the new courthouse materials, and convenience in would be more historical in arrangement of the various ofdesign, unlike the new town fices.” Top: A post card of the courthouse as it looked in the 1930s hall. The architectural style The fire proof element was Above: The photo shows the courthouse in the 1950s. was Colonial Revival inspired proven the next summer when by Williamsburg, Va. structhe courthouse was struck by lightning in a summer storm. And while the building was damaged tures and was designed by Taylor and Crabtree of Nashville, Tenn. with the collapse of the belfry and broken windows, it did not catch This new courthouse was dedicated May 28, 1965, on St. Andrew St. next to St. James United Methodist Church at the location of the fire. This second courthouse survived for almost 130 years with modifi- former Pittman Hospital. The 1835 courthouse was torn down the following year. It had kept cations over time. In 1900, improvements made on the 1835 courthouse included adding vaults, moving offices, adding passages to the body of Col Louis D. Wilson in the winter of 1848 after he died connect the wings. In keeping with the fire proof plan, the floors in the Mexican War until he could be buried after a major blizzard. were concrete, the brick walls resting on a foundation of cement The courthouse also was the site of a funeral for George Johnson, and corrugated iron and the furniture was “entirely of iron and steel, Edgecombe’s first soldier to die in World War I. It was also the location for traveling evangelist Billy Sunday, who preached a sermon to highly polished so that it cannot rust.” In 1911, Wheeler and Stern, architects of Charlotte, presented de- a full house in May 1928. Political rallies, fundraisers and historic signs for additions to the building. For the next year and half, court monuments were located in the front of the building. Two of the monuments were taken from the 1835 structure and are met in the Opera house on the second floor of the Tarboro Town Hall, which had been constructed in 1890. In Sept. 1912, the renovated located inside the front doors of the current courthouse recognizing military service in the American Revolution. The Wilson monument, courthouse reopened for business at a cost of $20,000. The fourth Edgecombe courthouse, which was actually the third now on the Town Common, was originally placed on the corner of courthouse in the town of Tarboro was proposed in the early 1960s the courthouse property in 1850 where it stood until it was moved when the town and county leadership were going through a desire in 1904. 18
Historic Tarboro
African American Neighborhoods By C. Rudolph Knight
This writing is an introduction to a forthcoming essay on four black was incorporated and named for Turner Prince, a charismatic leader neighborhoods that developed in Tarboro. The essay was planned as in the community. a part of the celebration of the Tarboro’s 250th anniversary and will Over the years, Princeville developed into a thriving self-sufficient focused on the participation in community activities and the contriand self-governing black community, serving as an example of lawbutions made to the Town of Tarboro by its black citizenry from 1760 abiding citizens handling their own governmental affairs. The town to 2010. boasted its own stores (including three groceries), taverns, churches, Blacks have had a continuous presence in Edgecombe County from civic organizations and a school. It was supported by self-employed its founding in 1733 with slavery existing from the earliest days. By artisans, e.g., brick masons, carpenters, plasterers, blacksmiths, the second decade of the 19th Century, many seamstresses, and wheelwrights. These small farms in the county had developed into skills, learned during slavery, gave an adsubstantial plantations with the dominant vantage for employment in the years foleconomy relying on an enslaved black labor lowing emancipation. force. On the eve of the Civil War there were Also, many residents of Princeville were over 10,000 slaves within the county. day workers, crossing the bridge into In addition to clearing land, planting and Tarboro each morning and returning to tending tobacco and cotton and harvesting, Princeville each evening. However, this patslaves also performed other tasks. They oftern was interrupted by the 1919 flood when ten were highly-skilled carpenters, masons, the high water prevented this back-andseamstresses, blacksmiths and mechanforth daily trek, disrupting the work force ics, providing much of the material culture to which the white community had become necessary to the daily operations of these 802 Edmondson Avenue – home of Mrs. Willie Spicer and accustomed. her daughter Lizzie Harris. farms. W. S. Clark, a prominent land developer, Hence, slaves on larger plantations conpurchased Panola Plantation and Lloyd structed foundations and chimneys from Farm for his grandson, W. G. Clark Jr., to handmade bricks, constructed finely dehandle the development of this area east of tailed houses and other buildings, forged Panola Street. Lots were offered for sale, hardware and ornamental ironwork, sewed creating the black neighborhood known as and embroidered clothing, and crafted beauEast Tarboro. This ensured that the day-latiful furniture and moldings. bor work force would always be available, Along with slaves in Edgecombe County, even during flood times. the 1860 census lists 64 free blacks living East Tarboro is an extension of Princeville in the antebellum Tarboro area, many bein many ways. To this day, many of the ing free by virtue of a parent who was free, families are inter-related. Like Princeville, manumission for meritorious service, or, in East Tarboro evolved into a thriving selfsome instances, through self purchase. sufficient neighborhood, replete with its 502 Baker Street - home of Eliza Mitchell, grandmother to In this geographical area, these free blacks Louis Belcher. own houses, churches, convenience stores, contributed greatly to the town’s economy, a drugstore, a dry-cleaner, pool halls, nightengaged in the same occupations as their enclubs and other black-owned businesses. slaved counterparts. However, as a part of the Town of TarThe 1870 census identifies several black boro, the East Tarboro neighborhood was carpenters, including William Mitchell, Jonever self-governing, although, in time it seph Price, Buck Boyd, Locust Wright, Watgrew until it was larger in population than son Hagans, Thomas Richardson, Robert Princeville. Western, Henry C. Cherry, John C. Dancy, East Tarboro accounted for nearly all of Farrer Prince, Anderson Dancy, David Jefthe blacks living in Tarboro, although a very ferson and Noah Lloyd. few had always lived near the river along The same census lists David Harris, John Water and Granville Streets. As more blacks Harrison, and George Matthewson as brick migrated into Tarboro for work, the depot 906 Bradley Avenue – home of William Henry and Ethel Pet- neighborhood, off of North Main Street, masons. In 1863, Union soldiers encamped in the taway Lewis, along with their five children, Varnell, Vivian, came about. Another residential area occuarea of Freedom or Liberty Hill on the south William Henry Jr., Bessie, and Alice Faye. pied by blacks was Keechtown, which was bank of the Tar River, immediately across located west of Albemarle Avenue between from Tarboro. Enslaved and free blacks were attracted to the area by Wilson and Phillips Streets. the comparative safety and protection offered by the soldiers. It is thought that the Emancipation Proclamation was read here. Note: Portions of this column appeared in an article in ”Folk Art of the Coastal Plain.” Following the war, many of these blacks stayed with some purchasC. Rudolph Knight is a Tarboro native, a retired community college educator, and a research ing bits of land and others simply squatting. In 1885, the community historian. 19
Local Artist’s Work at The 1893 World’s Fair By Monika Fleming
In 1893, the United States celebrated the 400th anniversary of Co- on native holly wood from Roanoke Island, which was a very light lumbus’s voyage to the New World with a World’s Fair in Chicago. colored wood. Mrs. Kidder’s biographer continued her description Each state had the opportunity to plan an exhibit that would show- “when the carvings were complete, Atlantic Coast Line paint shop case the state’s products. employees M.M. Parker and J.A. Craig gave the desk a piano polElias Carr, a planter in the Old Sparta area and active member of ish.” The completed desk appeared to look like the panels were ivory the local Grange, was appointed by Congress as a Commissioner for insets. North Carolina. Elias appointed the wife of his neighbor Robert CotBefore the desk left North Carolina by train for Chicago it was put ten, now a land owner in Pitt County, as lady manager for North on display at the Orton Hotel in Wilmington. Viewers paid a dime to Carolina’s exhibit. Sallie Cotton and her husband Robert had lived in see the desk, and the funds collected from hundreds of viewers paid Tarboro in the 1860s after their marriage and were members of Cal- the shipping to Chicago. After the fair ended, the desk was returned vary Episcopal Church. In the 1880s Robert purto North Carolina. For over 30 years, the house chased land in neighboring Pitt County, but they was used by the director of the North Carolina still kept connected to their friends in Tarboro. Archives. Eventually it was given to the North As the manager of the North Carolina exhibit, Carolina Museum of History. Sallie traveled the state to gather support and maSallie Cotten knew what she was asking of 30 terials from North Carolina. She also traveled to year old Kate Cheshire. She was a self taught artChicago several times to meet with other state ist and worked in several media. She had a small leaders and learn about programs in other areas studio next to her parents home on Church. St. that women were involved with. She painted in oils and watercolors. She made Sallie later helped establish North Carolina pottery and fire place tiles that she also painted. Federation of Women’s Clubs and served as its She also worked in charcoal as well as her wood president. She wrote a book, The White Doe, carvings. about the Lost Colony with all proceeds going In addition to the intricate carved panels in the to a scholarship for young ladies to further their Virigina Dare desk, Kate also carved the baptiseducation. She established an End of the Century mal font cover and the chalice holder at Calvary book club in Greenville that encouraged reading Church using her signature ivy leaves. Her largand sharing knowledge on topics. est work was that altarpiece at Grace Episcopal Sallie worked with Mary (Mrs. Charles) Price Church in Lawrence. of Salisbury, another lady manager from western Sallie Southall Cotten, wife of Robert Cotten a Kate was one of the people responsible for Grace merchant after the Civil War, founded North Carolina and Florence (Mrs. George H.) Tarboro Church, one of the mission churches of Calvary. North Carolina Women’s Clubs after attending the Kidder of Wilmington. Together they raised over 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago. She taught school on the grounds of the mission $4,000 for the Chicago Fair exhibit. Those three church for many years. An article in the July 1998 ladies wanted the North Carolina exhibit to demThe Communicant, the Episcopal Church newsletonstrate how the state fit into the national heritage so the Lost Colony ter, described Kate’s dedication to the church and its mission. She became part of the theme. They also collected items that were made served as Secretary of the Diocesan Women’s Auxiliary from 1904 in North Carolina – furniture, home woven rugs, a type of fabric -1913 and its third president for five years. She also carved the gavel made only in the state called “blue jean” material that we know as still used by the organization that state organization, now known as denim, and split bottom or woven seat chairs. Episcopal Church Women. The centerpiece of the exhibit was to be a desk designed and made Kate also worked in the mission field and helped establish a church by North Carolina craftsmen out of local woods with detailed carv- in the mill community of Mayodan. ings of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Coat of Arms and the White Doe, the Additional examples of Kate’s talent can be found in fireplace tiles legend of the Lost Colony. and carved mantels of several homes along Church St. Today her Mrs. Kidder commissioned Silas McBee an artist and architect drawings can be found in the handicap restroom in Clark Hall at from Lincolnton to design the desk. Kidder had met McBee when he Calvary. There are six lovely sketches of the church from various had designed some of the interior of St. James Episcopal Church in views. Wilmington. According to a biography of Florence Kidder by Susan Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Kate’s artistic talent and love Block, “master carpenters of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad shops for the church, was that she accomplished her creations in spite of a crafted the desk under the supervision of E.V.McKenzie and E.B. serious health problem that she had suffered all her life. According to King.” sources her hands were severely bent and one leg was much shorter Sallie convinced Tarboro native and old friend Kate Cheshire to than the other so she was hindered with a serious limp. It is not do the paneled carvings for the desk. Kate was Katherine Draughn known if the problem was a birth defect or polio, but Kate never let Cheshire the daughter of Joseph Blount Cheshire, the rector of Cal- her physical problems stop her achievements. vary Episcopal Church. Kate lived her entire life in Tarboro, leaving Kate died on January 5, 1935 at the age of 72, and is buried in her only to attend St. Mary’s School in Raleigh. She carved the panels family’s plot in Calvary Churchyard. 20
‘I enjoy our little place’ 1003 East Saint John St. For Welcome to Tarboro Magazine photos by Al Hull
“Margie’s out here every day,” said Marjorie Shaw’s husband Jordan. “All day.” He exaggerates, but it is easy to believe after you visit the Shaw residence at 1003 East Saint John St. in Tarboro. It is the Edgecombe County Master Gardeners Garden of the Month for June. “I would stay out here every day if I could,” said Marjorie “Margie” Shaw, who was raised on a farm near Mildred. After tiring of working in factories, Shaw, 69, went to Edgecombe Community College and became a beautician. She still does women’s hair, is the beautician for GoldenLiving residents and still finds time to prepare meals for more than a dozen “little ladies” every week. She recently received a humanitarian award from the Perry-Weston Institute for her good work. “I do what I do,” she said. “I enjoy it. I’m an outside person, though. I can be so tired and come outside and feel revived.” What she does is tend to a yard full of colorful plants and trees. It is difficult to name a plant that is not in one of the many beds in the Shaw’s yard. Roses, nadina, daisy, hibiscus, peony, hosta, phlox, lilies of all types, coral bells, lilac, loropetalum, red bud, salvia, camellia, dogwood, smoketree, cedar … you get the idea. “Most of them come back every year,” Marjorie said. “They come back too much. They multiply too much and are a problem. I can’t keep up with ‘em. I try to give many away.” Shaw does not claim to have any secrets to her success. “I start wedding in February,” she said, “and I feed ‘em well, really well.” She buys plants in Tarboro, Rocky Mount, Greenville and Wilson, and admits to stopping and digging up something she likes from the side of the road. “I want to plant ‘em and see ‘em grow,” she said. Their old house is a former military barracks they added on to. Jordan’s 75-foot by 50-foot vegetable garden is on the adjoining lot. The Shaws have three and a half homemade rain barrels. The 1999 flood reached their roof, but several trees that were fairly ordinary before the flood rebounded and now bloom. “I enjoy our little place,” she said. “I’m so thankful; the flood didn’t wash it away.” end
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