The following death notice for Samuel Williams, age 64, appeared in the April 17, 1850 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper.
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SPRUILL, Elizabeth Rebecca (d. 1848)
The following obituary appeared in the April 12, 1848 issue of the Raleigh Register newspaper. Elizabeth Rebecca SPRUILL was the wife of Sheperd S. SPRUILL and a daughter of David LATHAM (a former senator of Martin County). She was 21 years old.
YATES, Margaret (d. 1847)
The following notice appeared in the June 15, 1847 issue of the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register newspaper for the death of Mrs. Margaret YATES. She was the wife of Dr. Levi S. YATES and daughter of D.W. BAGLEY.
CHERRY, Romulus S. (d. 1847)
The following death notice for the death of Romulus S. CHERRY appeared in the June 11, 1847 issue of the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register. Romulus was the 25 year-old son of Darling and Elizabeth CHERRY.
Marriage: HARRISON, A.L. and Hattie LAWRENCE (1898)
On Wednesday morning, Dec. 21st, 1898, at 8 o’clock at the home of the brides father, in Hamilton, N.C., Mr. A.L. HARRISON and Miss Hattie LAWRENCE were united in the holy bonds of matrimony.
The attendants were: Miss Modie HARRISON, of Plymouth, with S.O. LYNN, of Suffolk, Va., Miss Alma HOUSE, of Greensboro, with B.N. ALLBROOK, of Scotland Neck; Miss Annie LONG, of Hamilton, with Gordon HOUSE, of Hobgood; Miss Adelia SKITTLETHARPE, of Hamilton. The wedding march was artistically rendered by Miss Mary BAKER.
After the ceremony, which was preformed by the brides father, Elder M.T. LAWRENCE, the bridal party left for the home of the grooms mother, Mrs. Emma HARRISON, near Plymouth, where a reception was held.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 30 Dec 1898, pg. 2.
Individual Marriages
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BIGGS, Asa (d. 1878)
Death of Judge Biggs — Hon. Asa BIGGS, of the firm of K<…> BIGGS & Co.,died in Norfolk at 12 am of Wednesday the 6th inst. The immediate cause of his death was rheumatic gout.
Judge BIGGS was born in Martin county, North Carolina, on the 4th of February, 1811. he was licensed to practice law in 1831, entered public life in 1840 as a member of the House of Commons from Martin, was re-elected in 1842, and went to the State Senate in 1844. In 1845 he was elected to Congress from the First District, beating Hon. David OUTLAW, and in 1847 was in turn defeated by Mr. OUTLAW. In 1850 <.two sentences unreadable> the result of their joint labors, the Revised Code, would of itself, have been sufficient to have kept green the memories of each of the co-laborers.
In 1854 Judge BIGGS was again elected to the Legislature from Martin and by the Legislature of 1854 and 1855 he was elected to the United States Senate. This position he resigned for the purposes of accepting the United States District Judgeship, which position he held until he resigned and was at once appointed District Judge of the Confederate States.
At the close of the war Judge BIGGS persued the practice of law with marked success and continued in the practice until 1909, when he, in company with Chief Justice SMITH went to Norfolk and opened a law firm.
Judge BIGGS leaves a family of three sons and three daughters. Capt. Wm. BIGGS, of the Oxford Free Lance, being the eldest of his sons.
Source: Roanoke News, 9 Mar 1878, pg. 3. DigitalNC.org website.
Vitals from Sons of the American Revolution Applications
The Ancestry website contains a database of more than 145,000 applications for the Sons of the American Revolution approved between 1889 and 31 December 1970.
Applications require a pedigree and accompanying information to demonstrate a generation-by-generation link to a patriot ancestor. Genealogical information submitted may include references to Revolutionary War pension files, baptismal records, marriage records, cemetery records, census records, family Bible records, deeds, court records, documented family and local histories, and copies of applications to other lineage societies. Applications also typically include a short summary of the ancestor’s service. — Ancestry.com
The following list below is an extraction of vital record data of individuals in the database who have an association with Martin County. The listing below provides the person’s name, their relationship to the applicant, details provided in the application, the SAR membership number, and the applicant’s name. Each piece of information is separated by a dash.
The data represented here is only a portion of the full file. If you see something of interest, access to the files requires a membership (free access is available through July 4, 2011) if you wish to view them on the Ancestry.com website. Alternatively, you can contact the society directly for further information. I can provide lookups but please limit your request to one individual.
Martin County Newspaper Obituaries
The NCGenWeb Project features a database called NC People in the Papers. This database is a collection of items extracted from newspapers and includes births, marriages, deaths, & general news items.
The time coverage varies, but click on the graphic below to see a list of Martin County deaths as reported in the area newspapers. Be sure to check often because the list is automatically updated as new entries are added.
Photo: Rev. William Perry Williams
In 2009, I posted an obituary for Rev. W.P. Williams from a 1900 issue of the Charlotte Observer. One of our site visitors turned out to be a great-great grandchild of Rev. Williams and was kind enough to share this photo of him taken around 1899.
Photo contributed by David Shaffer.