June 27, 2014 Coats Museum News
Do the names Wade Stewart, Dan Stewart, Malcolm Fowler, Ted Malone and Floyd Blalock ring a bell with any of our local readers? Read below to see what connection they had with the Coats area. Mr. Thomas H. Stewart of Buies Creek had died after an extended illness. He was the son of David and China Hockaday Stewart. His wife, Mrs. Esther Partin Stewart, survived him. His children were Mrs. Hubert Stewart, Mrs. Howard Hight, Hazel Stewart, Mrs. Norman Lewis, David, Jesse, Russell and Wade Stewart. His two brothers were Charlie and Joe Stewart and his sisters were Mrs. Charlie Bayles and Mrs. Millie Beasley (Dunn Dispatch May 23, 1949). Did you find one answer?
Miss Margaret Lamb Butler, ward of Mrs. J.R. Butler, graduated from ASTC. She planned to do post-graduate work at Florida State University. Elsewhere, Miss Annie Ruth Penny, daughter of A.E. “Archie” Penny was engaged to Clayton Stewart, son of W.F. and Florence Stewart. Margaret Kelly and Clara Thomas entertained the graduates of 1949. Wieners, marshmallows and soft drinks were served. “Over the Wall”, a two-act operetta, was presented by the pupils in the Coats Elementary grades (Dunn Dispatch May 23, 1949). Do we hear the word “pupil” used as much as the word “student” today?
Malcolm Fowler and Ted Malone opened a new furniture store in Coats. It was the “newest” furniture store in Coats. Does that mean there were at least two other furniture stores in Coats? Do you know what other stores sold furniture in Coats in 1949? Two more questions are– for what is Malcolm Fowler best remembered in Harnett County and did he really own the first television in Harnett County (Dunn Dispatch May 27, 1949)?
Congratulations went to Arlene Turlington who had graduated from Peace College in Raleigh. Claiborne Norris served in Criminal Court on the trial of Fred Hall (Dunn Dispatch May 30, 1949). Would it have cost Mayor Charles J. Turlington at least $32,000 to send his daughter to William Peace University in 2014?
Dan Stewart, vice president of CPL, spoke at the Smith Reunion in Benson. The descendants of John Smith who served on the association as officers were Owen Smith, Dr. Elmer Smith, Mrs. W.E. Nichols, R.F. Smith and Joe Overby (Dunn Dispatch June 3, 1949). Coats folks, did you remember that Dan grew up in the old Mollie Stewart Hotel that was located across from our museum? Can you believe that a Coats native was instrumental in helping plan the Research Triangle? Dan’s grandmother was a South Carolina Civil War widow whose picture we had identified last summer by Lib Guy’s half sister from Berkley, CA. when they visited the Coats Museum. His mother’s sister was Mattie Suggs, a local midwife, who delivered hundreds of babies in the Bailey’s Crossroads and Oakdale area. Doris Whitehead and her half-sister Annie gave the Coats Museum Mattie’s midwife instruments.
The Grove 1 and 2 voters approved the road and school bond issue. For the road bond, 174 voted for and 43 against in Grove 1 and on the school bond, 161 for and 46 against. In Grove 2, 153 voted for the road bond and 94 against it and while on the school bond, 153 voted for the school bond and 88 against were counted (Dunn Dispatch June 6, 1949). Can you draw a conclusion that a very small percentage of the registered citizens voted on these two important bonds. If numbers were added correctly, only 458 individuals voted in both Grove 1 and 2. Recall that you recently read in the column that there were 600 registered voters in the town of Coats alone.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd P. Blalock had good reason to be proud of their daughter Sylvia. She had received her AA Degree from Pfeiffer where she was president of the International Relations Club, secretary of the Young Woman’s Christian Association, Literary Editor of the college newspaper, and a member of the Order of the Sundial, an organization with limited membership (Dunn Dispatch June 10, 1940).
Mrs. D.T. Grimes, Mrs. Joe Johnson, and Miss Mabel Lynch were hostesses to the school staff and 27 graduating students. The group enjoyed fried chicken. Jeanine Ennis led in games with Dot Grimes assisting. The seniors played hurly-burly, truth or consequences, and handkerchief race (Dunn Dispatch June 10, 1949). Do high school seniors play those games today? What is hurly-burly?
This I do know. Misses Louise Coats and Annie Ruth Penny were honored at a bridge party given by Mrs. O.K. Keene, Mrs. J.D. Lamm, and Miss Toby Surles (Dunn Dispatch June 15, 1949).
Sgt. and Mrs. Carsie Denning of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, announced the birth of a daughter, Diane Lee Denning on June 14, in Good Hope Hospital. Mrs. Denning was the former Mary E. Lee of Coats. Elsewhere, Clayton Stewart and Annie Ruth Penny were married in a quiet ceremony at the Baptist parsonage in Coats. The bride wore a suit of white Botony wool and a white off the brow Breton hat and a purple orchid. Her only ornament was an heirloom cameo handed down by her maternal parentage (Dunn Dispatch June 17, 1949). Who was this maternal parentage?
While the Stewart and Penny family were sharing some happy moments, the family of Tom J. Barnes, 43, of Route 2, Angier, who died at Good Hope Hospital after a brief illness, were mourning his death. His service was at Bethel Church and burial was in the Harnett County Memorial Cemetery. His wife, Mabel Parrish Barnes, and his three children-T.J. Barnes, Jr., Mrs. John Stephenson and Wilma Barnes survived him. His siblings were Jack Barnes, Ed Barnes, Mrs. Etta Moran and Mrs. Alice Bolton (Dunn Dispatch June 17, 1949). Questions-Was this the Barnes family who was kin to Captain Henry Barnes of the Black River Tigers or possibly the Barnes fellows who built an airplane in Barclaysville?
How many of you are NASCAR fans? Do you know who the first Earnhart was who raced cars and better yet-what color was his car? Were there any female racers in the Earnhart family? Donald Page, who has enjoyed making and assembling models for most of his life, has shared some of his NASCAR models and his military models from the Korean to the Afghanistan War. It is worth a trip to the museum to see his work. Drop by the “cool” museum and look at all the exhibits which represent the DNA of the Coats community.
What a small world we live in! H.L. and I were volunteering at the museum when Mike Eaves, formerly of the Rockingham area, dropped in to see the museum. The Coats Museum folks have visited the Rankin Museum in that area many times. Mike’s wife, Susan Rankin Eaves, is a retired principal. They now reside in Crooked Creek in Fuquay Varina. How surprised we were to discover that the Eaves family lives four houses from our daughter, Lenee Smith and her family.
Thank you goes to Walmart for awarding a grant to the Coats Museum. Thank you to my husband, H.L. Sorrell, for remembering our fathers, Lentis Sorrell and Jonah C. Johnson, Sr., on Father’s Day and for my niece, Ann Dorn, by giving to the Coats Museum Endowment. Thomas Stephenson was a neighbor, schoolmate and friend who died this past weekend, a memorial has been sent to the Coats Museum Endowment to honor his memory. Thank you goes to Mary Ellen and Ed Lauder for remembering Dan Stewart, Dorsey Daniel, and Lottie Pollard. Thank you Linda Pollard Cobb for also honoring Dorsey Daniel with a memorial.
For the last few years, several of the volunteers have spent three and four days a week volunteering at the Coats Museum to get all the history and exhibits in place for visitors to explore. Most of the work is now complete. The Coats Museum Board of Directors voted that the museums can now change the schedule for public viewing. Beginning in July, the museum will be only opened on Thursdays from 9-3pm and on Sundays from 2-3 pm. The museum will be closed on all other days unless by appointment.
Do the names Wade Stewart, Dan Stewart, Malcolm Fowler, Ted Malone and Floyd Blalock ring a bell with any of our local readers? Read below to see what connection they had with the Coats area. Mr. Thomas H. Stewart of Buies Creek had died after an extended illness. He was the son of David and China Hockaday Stewart. His wife, Mrs. Esther Partin Stewart, survived him. His children were Mrs. Hubert Stewart, Mrs. Howard Hight, Hazel Stewart, Mrs. Norman Lewis, David, Jesse, Russell and Wade Stewart. His two brothers were Charlie and Joe Stewart and his sisters were Mrs. Charlie Bayles and Mrs. Millie Beasley (Dunn Dispatch May 23, 1949). Did you find one answer?
Miss Margaret Lamb Butler, ward of Mrs. J.R. Butler, graduated from ASTC. She planned to do post-graduate work at Florida State University. Elsewhere, Miss Annie Ruth Penny, daughter of A.E. “Archie” Penny was engaged to Clayton Stewart, son of W.F. and Florence Stewart. Margaret Kelly and Clara Thomas entertained the graduates of 1949. Wieners, marshmallows and soft drinks were served. “Over the Wall”, a two-act operetta, was presented by the pupils in the Coats Elementary grades (Dunn Dispatch May 23, 1949). Do we hear the word “pupil” used as much as the word “student” today?
Malcolm Fowler and Ted Malone opened a new furniture store in Coats. It was the “newest” furniture store in Coats. Does that mean there were at least two other furniture stores in Coats? Do you know what other stores sold furniture in Coats in 1949? Two more questions are– for what is Malcolm Fowler best remembered in Harnett County and did he really own the first television in Harnett County (Dunn Dispatch May 27, 1949)?
Congratulations went to Arlene Turlington who had graduated from Peace College in Raleigh. Claiborne Norris served in Criminal Court on the trial of Fred Hall (Dunn Dispatch May 30, 1949). Would it have cost Mayor Charles J. Turlington at least $32,000 to send his daughter to William Peace University in 2014?
Dan Stewart, vice president of CPL, spoke at the Smith Reunion in Benson. The descendants of John Smith who served on the association as officers were Owen Smith, Dr. Elmer Smith, Mrs. W.E. Nichols, R.F. Smith and Joe Overby (Dunn Dispatch June 3, 1949). Coats folks, did you remember that Dan grew up in the old Mollie Stewart Hotel that was located across from our museum? Can you believe that a Coats native was instrumental in helping plan the Research Triangle? Dan’s grandmother was a South Carolina Civil War widow whose picture we had identified last summer by Lib Guy’s half sister from Berkley, CA. when they visited the Coats Museum. His mother’s sister was Mattie Suggs, a local midwife, who delivered hundreds of babies in the Bailey’s Crossroads and Oakdale area. Doris Whitehead and her half-sister Annie gave the Coats Museum Mattie’s midwife instruments.
The Grove 1 and 2 voters approved the road and school bond issue. For the road bond, 174 voted for and 43 against in Grove 1 and on the school bond, 161 for and 46 against. In Grove 2, 153 voted for the road bond and 94 against it and while on the school bond, 153 voted for the school bond and 88 against were counted (Dunn Dispatch June 6, 1949). Can you draw a conclusion that a very small percentage of the registered citizens voted on these two important bonds. If numbers were added correctly, only 458 individuals voted in both Grove 1 and 2. Recall that you recently read in the column that there were 600 registered voters in the town of Coats alone.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd P. Blalock had good reason to be proud of their daughter Sylvia. She had received her AA Degree from Pfeiffer where she was president of the International Relations Club, secretary of the Young Woman’s Christian Association, Literary Editor of the college newspaper, and a member of the Order of the Sundial, an organization with limited membership (Dunn Dispatch June 10, 1940).
Mrs. D.T. Grimes, Mrs. Joe Johnson, and Miss Mabel Lynch were hostesses to the school staff and 27 graduating students. The group enjoyed fried chicken. Jeanine Ennis led in games with Dot Grimes assisting. The seniors played hurly-burly, truth or consequences, and handkerchief race (Dunn Dispatch June 10, 1949). Do high school seniors play those games today? What is hurly-burly?
This I do know. Misses Louise Coats and Annie Ruth Penny were honored at a bridge party given by Mrs. O.K. Keene, Mrs. J.D. Lamm, and Miss Toby Surles (Dunn Dispatch June 15, 1949).
Sgt. and Mrs. Carsie Denning of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, announced the birth of a daughter, Diane Lee Denning on June 14, in Good Hope Hospital. Mrs. Denning was the former Mary E. Lee of Coats. Elsewhere, Clayton Stewart and Annie Ruth Penny were married in a quiet ceremony at the Baptist parsonage in Coats. The bride wore a suit of white Botony wool and a white off the brow Breton hat and a purple orchid. Her only ornament was an heirloom cameo handed down by her maternal parentage (Dunn Dispatch June 17, 1949). Who was this maternal parentage?
While the Stewart and Penny family were sharing some happy moments, the family of Tom J. Barnes, 43, of Route 2, Angier, who died at Good Hope Hospital after a brief illness, were mourning his death. His service was at Bethel Church and burial was in the Harnett County Memorial Cemetery. His wife, Mabel Parrish Barnes, and his three children-T.J. Barnes, Jr., Mrs. John Stephenson and Wilma Barnes survived him. His siblings were Jack Barnes, Ed Barnes, Mrs. Etta Moran and Mrs. Alice Bolton (Dunn Dispatch June 17, 1949). Questions-Was this the Barnes family who was kin to Captain Henry Barnes of the Black River Tigers or possibly the Barnes fellows who built an airplane in Barclaysville?
How many of you are NASCAR fans? Do you know who the first Earnhart was who raced cars and better yet-what color was his car? Were there any female racers in the Earnhart family? Donald Page, who has enjoyed making and assembling models for most of his life, has shared some of his NASCAR models and his military models from the Korean to the Afghanistan War. It is worth a trip to the museum to see his work. Drop by the “cool” museum and look at all the exhibits which represent the DNA of the Coats community.
What a small world we live in! H.L. and I were volunteering at the museum when Mike Eaves, formerly of the Rockingham area, dropped in to see the museum. The Coats Museum folks have visited the Rankin Museum in that area many times. Mike’s wife, Susan Rankin Eaves, is a retired principal. They now reside in Crooked Creek in Fuquay Varina. How surprised we were to discover that the Eaves family lives four houses from our daughter, Lenee Smith and her family.
Thank you goes to Walmart for awarding a grant to the Coats Museum. Thank you to my husband, H.L. Sorrell, for remembering our fathers, Lentis Sorrell and Jonah C. Johnson, Sr., on Father’s Day and for my niece, Ann Dorn, by giving to the Coats Museum Endowment. Thomas Stephenson was a neighbor, schoolmate and friend who died this past weekend, a memorial has been sent to the Coats Museum Endowment to honor his memory. Thank you goes to Mary Ellen and Ed Lauder for remembering Dan Stewart, Dorsey Daniel, and Lottie Pollard. Thank you Linda Pollard Cobb for also honoring Dorsey Daniel with a memorial.
For the last few years, several of the volunteers have spent three and four days a week volunteering at the Coats Museum to get all the history and exhibits in place for visitors to explore. Most of the work is now complete. The Coats Museum Board of Directors voted that the museums can now change the schedule for public viewing. Beginning in July, the museum will be only opened on Thursdays from 9-3pm and on Sundays from 2-3 pm. The museum will be closed on all other days unless by appointment.