Class of 1891
SALEM ACADEMY
FORK ACADEMY
GUILFORD COLLEGE
May 14, 1891--Thirty Eight Diplomas--Below we append the names and residences of the thirty eight young ladies who will
gradute at Salem Academy at the approaching commencement, May 31st to June 3rd:
Georgia Baxter, Sparta, Ga.; Agnes Brownson, Texas; Agnes Coleman, Sedalia, SC; Bettie Cox, Sedge Garden, NC; Dora Cox,
Cedar Fallas, NC; Bula Cox, Dunn, NC; Mamie Dryden, Fayetteville, TN; Carrie Edwards, New Hill, NC; Rosa Ellis, Salem, NC;
Lizzie Fitzgerald, North Danville, VA; Lena Fields, Kinston, NC; Annie Green, Columbia, SC; Susie Gullek, Washington, DC;
Bloomfield Gamill, Roanoke, VA; Maud Harris, Reidsville; Emma Hale, Clinton, SC; Bertha Hicks, Raleigh, NC; Ella Hinshaw,
Winston, NC; Sue Heard, Elberton, GA; Edna Lindsay, Reidsville, NC; Eloise McGill, Fayetteville, NC; Fay McCallee, Marion,
VA; Annie Makepiece, Franklinville, NC; Katie Moses, Richmond, VA; Virginia McMuray, Wadesboro, NC; Mattie Mason,
Conelave, NC; Bessie Ponder, Tuskegee, AL; Annie Reed, Wentworth, NC; Sadie Sitting, Houston, TX; Lillian Thompson,
Raleigh, NC; Blance Thomas, Thomasville, NC; BessieThomas, Thomasville, NC; Ona Thomson, Gaffney City, SC; Carrie
Taylor, Texarkansas, TX; Lucy Waddill, Bennetsville, SC; Mattie Woodill, Raleigh, NC; Mary Watson, Winston, NC; Laura
Whitner, Fort Reed, FL.
Commencements--Fork Academy closes May 27th with public exercises. Address by Hon. A. Leazar of Mooresville.
Speeches and declamations by students. Concert. Music by Pilgrim Cornet Band. Marshalls: C.M. Cope, W.S. Bailey, L.M.
Williams, J.C. Pack, D.A. Watkins, C.A. Orrell, C.W. Sheets.
To Mr. E.D. Stanford we are indebted for a very pretty invittion to attend the Commencement Exercises of Guilford College,
May 27th at 10 a.m. The class of ‘91 comprise Messers. Joseph H. Peale, Frank B. Benbow, Simon A. Hodgin, Alzanon E.
Alexander, Elisha D. Stanford And Arthur Lyon.
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THE UNION REPUBLICAN
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May 14, 1891--Graded School Closes--Tomorrow our most excellent Graded School will close a very gratifying session by
exercises suitable for the occasion in the chapel of that building and an invitation to all who may feel an interest to this institution
is extended. Prof. E.A. Alderman of Goldsboro, will deliver the address. CLEMENT MANLY, Esq will present the H. Montague
and Standard Music Company Medals, while Prof. W.A. Blair will bestow the diplomas to the Graduating class. The names upon
the class roll for the session just closing are as follows: Lucretia Gorell, Birdie Fallin, Eva M. Miller, Sallie McGhee, Ida Hinshaw,
Carrie Martin, Carrie Hoskins, Gertrude Vaughn, Sadie F. Bitting, Lillian Crutchfield, Annie Farish, Lizzie Crawford, Virginia
Murphy, Elva Blair, W. Harwood, Thos. Linville, T. Wyatts de Vane, John L. Patterson and M.W. Norfleet.
Oct. 1, 1891
Died at the Age of 122 Years-- So says the Greensboro Record, in speaking of Jane Wilson, col., who died in that city a short
time since, and a brief review of facts in the case are given in that paper, alluding to the old lady’s sojourn in this city at one
time, all of which we re-produce for what interest may be derived therefrom:
The Record published the death in this city recently of an aged colored woman, named Jane Wilson. She was the
grandmother of the wife of James S. Edwell, a worthy shoemaker of this place. Having heard that she was over one hundred
years old when she died, we called on Edwell, and got from him the following facts:
Jane Wilson was a slave and had belonged to four of the old F.F.V. families--her last owner being R.J. Flippen, of Danville,
who knew her age and told her after the surrender of Gen. Lee that she had lived to see two great revolutions end in this
country--meaning the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, in 1781 and Gen. Lee in 1865.
Jane Wilson was 12 years of age when Cornwallis surrendered, and up to a short time before her death, could relate many
instances of those troublesome times. She lived in Winston in 1876, and an effort was made to get her to go to the
Philadelphia centennial, but she could not be induced to do so.
She seldom knew what it was to be sick, up to the last few years of her life, when she was kindly cared for by the husband of
her grand-daughter, with whom she lived twenty-two years.
It is a well authenticated fact that she had reached the remarkable age of 122 years.