November 1, 2024 Coats Museum News
In recent Coats Museum News columns, you have read the reasons many immigrants came to the new world. You learned about the vessels they traveled the Atlantic to arrive here and the allocation of food to survive the trip to their new life on an unfamiliar land. You might wonder how they managed to get a spot on a vessel destined to this new world.
The ordinary price of passage to Virginia was six pounds for each passenger over twelve years of age and half price for children under that age. It was not uncommon for someone to die on the voyage. It was often four to five months before the ship returned to port of exit. Many were willing to be indentured servants for a number of years to someone who paid their passage to this country.
During the vessel’s stay in America, goods were delivered, and tobacco hogsheads were loaded on board to take back across the ocean. The ships generally would spend months in the rivers, delivering their goods and often bartering English goods for tobacco or sometimes skins of the wild animals, of which a large number were exported in early days of the colonies.
After the ship was emptied of English goods and loaded for the return trip, which usually numbered about the same number of days, the vessel joined a fleet of ships and returned to prepare for another such voyage to America (“The Johnston Family” 25-36).
Recall that it was estimated that about 22,000 people had settled in Virginia alone by 1654. Others were settling in the Carolinas and Maryland and elsewhere. With all the glowing descriptions of this new world, it should be no surprise of steady flow of traffic for many reasons but for most it was for nothing more than a fresh start on their own land.
Maybe in another column the question of what happened to the native people who called these lands home can be shared; but for now, let’s revisit an article from the December 12, 1994, edition of the Daily Record. The students who attended the old Coats School from the mid 1960’s through 1994 will remember the face of Brenda Sutton. The memories are many of this lady who died at age 51 from a lingering illness. She had been a counselor, teacher, assistant principal and co-worker to so many.
The announcement of another lady’s death was shared in the December 14, 1994, edition of the Daily Record. The Harnett native, Mary Parrish Dennis, 78, of Coats was the daughter of the late L. Carlie Parrish. She was retired from the Burlington Mills. Rev. Jesse Mooney conducted her services at the Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel. She was survived by her husband, T. Howard Dennis; a stepson, Tony H. Dennis and five sisters: Louise McLeod, Thelma P. Johnson, Iva P. O’Neal, Rachel P. Spencer, and Marjorie P. Collier.
Haley Brooke Stewart had a very special birthday at the Erwin Community Building. The Sesame Street theme was planned by her parents-Hughie and Deborah Stewart (Daily Record Dec. 15, 1994).
Excitement was growing. The Coats Boy Scouts Troop 779 and their leader were selling memorial lights to raise funds to spend a week on an island on the Florida Keys. Five dollars for one light and ten dollars would buy three. Julian and Jean Danenburg were so excited that their grandson Brad Butler had been awarded the Presidential Scholarship at Campbell University.
Several folks were ill or hospitalized during the pre-Christmas season. Magdalene Pleasant was injured in a fall while visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ettie Mae Pleasant, at BJMH. Clayton Stewart had a bypass surgery; Inez Parker also had surgery; Tommy Carroll was in Raleigh Community Hospital and Herbert Ennis had knee surgery (Daily Record Dec. 15, 1994).
Kaitlyn Hawley, daughter of Joey and Kay Hawley, had a party to celebrate her first birthday. Kaitlyn was the granddaughter of Ora Pond and Joe Hawley; Grandmother Ora Pond and Tom Jackson had a star named in Kaitlyn’s honor.
Charlie Stevens, 1994 Tri-Six 4A Conference Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player for Triton High’s league baseball champions as shortstop and leadoff batter, had surgery. He had broken the bone in his little finger twice during the fall baseball at Louisburg College where he was a first-year member (Daily Record Dec. 19, 1994).
Several young couples who had Coats connections were speaking their marriage vows. Miss Melissa Renee Strickland married James Adrian O’Neal at the Stoney Run Pentecostal Freewill Baptist Church. Adrian is the son of Jimmy and Ann Johnson O’Neal. Elsewhere, Alisa Ann Glover married Thomas Greg Bailey in Dillon, S.C. Alisa was the daughter of Jimmy and Patricia Glover of Coats (Daily Record Dec. 22, 1994).
Death interrupted the joy that Christmas brings to most families. Mrs. Willie Mae Parrish, 71, of Coats had died on Tuesday at her home. She was a Johnston County native and the daughter of Eula Pauline Williams Byrd and the late Wille B. Byrd. She had been employed as a ward secretary at BJMH. She was the widow of Judson Parrish. Her services were at Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel in Coats with burial in the Coats City Cemetery. Two daughters-Joy Starling Bonilla and Donna Gail Brinker and son, Keith Parrish- survived her. Mrs. Parrish was a member of the Angier Primitive Baptist Church (Daily Record Dec. 22, 1994).
A special thank you goes to the donor of memorials for Casey Jones and Jonah C. Jonson, Sr. The list of museum supporters grows longer weekly.
In recent Coats Museum News columns, you have read the reasons many immigrants came to the new world. You learned about the vessels they traveled the Atlantic to arrive here and the allocation of food to survive the trip to their new life on an unfamiliar land. You might wonder how they managed to get a spot on a vessel destined to this new world.
The ordinary price of passage to Virginia was six pounds for each passenger over twelve years of age and half price for children under that age. It was not uncommon for someone to die on the voyage. It was often four to five months before the ship returned to port of exit. Many were willing to be indentured servants for a number of years to someone who paid their passage to this country.
During the vessel’s stay in America, goods were delivered, and tobacco hogsheads were loaded on board to take back across the ocean. The ships generally would spend months in the rivers, delivering their goods and often bartering English goods for tobacco or sometimes skins of the wild animals, of which a large number were exported in early days of the colonies.
After the ship was emptied of English goods and loaded for the return trip, which usually numbered about the same number of days, the vessel joined a fleet of ships and returned to prepare for another such voyage to America (“The Johnston Family” 25-36).
Recall that it was estimated that about 22,000 people had settled in Virginia alone by 1654. Others were settling in the Carolinas and Maryland and elsewhere. With all the glowing descriptions of this new world, it should be no surprise of steady flow of traffic for many reasons but for most it was for nothing more than a fresh start on their own land.
Maybe in another column the question of what happened to the native people who called these lands home can be shared; but for now, let’s revisit an article from the December 12, 1994, edition of the Daily Record. The students who attended the old Coats School from the mid 1960’s through 1994 will remember the face of Brenda Sutton. The memories are many of this lady who died at age 51 from a lingering illness. She had been a counselor, teacher, assistant principal and co-worker to so many.
The announcement of another lady’s death was shared in the December 14, 1994, edition of the Daily Record. The Harnett native, Mary Parrish Dennis, 78, of Coats was the daughter of the late L. Carlie Parrish. She was retired from the Burlington Mills. Rev. Jesse Mooney conducted her services at the Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel. She was survived by her husband, T. Howard Dennis; a stepson, Tony H. Dennis and five sisters: Louise McLeod, Thelma P. Johnson, Iva P. O’Neal, Rachel P. Spencer, and Marjorie P. Collier.
Haley Brooke Stewart had a very special birthday at the Erwin Community Building. The Sesame Street theme was planned by her parents-Hughie and Deborah Stewart (Daily Record Dec. 15, 1994).
Excitement was growing. The Coats Boy Scouts Troop 779 and their leader were selling memorial lights to raise funds to spend a week on an island on the Florida Keys. Five dollars for one light and ten dollars would buy three. Julian and Jean Danenburg were so excited that their grandson Brad Butler had been awarded the Presidential Scholarship at Campbell University.
Several folks were ill or hospitalized during the pre-Christmas season. Magdalene Pleasant was injured in a fall while visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ettie Mae Pleasant, at BJMH. Clayton Stewart had a bypass surgery; Inez Parker also had surgery; Tommy Carroll was in Raleigh Community Hospital and Herbert Ennis had knee surgery (Daily Record Dec. 15, 1994).
Kaitlyn Hawley, daughter of Joey and Kay Hawley, had a party to celebrate her first birthday. Kaitlyn was the granddaughter of Ora Pond and Joe Hawley; Grandmother Ora Pond and Tom Jackson had a star named in Kaitlyn’s honor.
Charlie Stevens, 1994 Tri-Six 4A Conference Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player for Triton High’s league baseball champions as shortstop and leadoff batter, had surgery. He had broken the bone in his little finger twice during the fall baseball at Louisburg College where he was a first-year member (Daily Record Dec. 19, 1994).
Several young couples who had Coats connections were speaking their marriage vows. Miss Melissa Renee Strickland married James Adrian O’Neal at the Stoney Run Pentecostal Freewill Baptist Church. Adrian is the son of Jimmy and Ann Johnson O’Neal. Elsewhere, Alisa Ann Glover married Thomas Greg Bailey in Dillon, S.C. Alisa was the daughter of Jimmy and Patricia Glover of Coats (Daily Record Dec. 22, 1994).
Death interrupted the joy that Christmas brings to most families. Mrs. Willie Mae Parrish, 71, of Coats had died on Tuesday at her home. She was a Johnston County native and the daughter of Eula Pauline Williams Byrd and the late Wille B. Byrd. She had been employed as a ward secretary at BJMH. She was the widow of Judson Parrish. Her services were at Rose and Graham Funeral Chapel in Coats with burial in the Coats City Cemetery. Two daughters-Joy Starling Bonilla and Donna Gail Brinker and son, Keith Parrish- survived her. Mrs. Parrish was a member of the Angier Primitive Baptist Church (Daily Record Dec. 22, 1994).
A special thank you goes to the donor of memorials for Casey Jones and Jonah C. Jonson, Sr. The list of museum supporters grows longer weekly.