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r Columbus Co n my. 6S-70. Pres't of' ava nn ah ::\'a,·al Stores co'., Savau nah, Ga.

POWELL, WILLL-!:'lf LAFAYETTE. r Hertford County. 49-50. POWELL, \YILLIA~l R, T Edgecombe County. 34-5. POWELL, VhLLIA:'l1 ROYALL. T Wake Cou nty. 85-6. 88-92.

Stud. W. F. Col.

Po11:ERS, FRAXK P. (/J Pender County. 87-9. Merchant. \\"illard, Pender Co

POWERS, ]OEN BENJA~IIC>J. (/) New Hanover County. ;r-6. Debater, 76, A. B., 76, w. F. Col. Stud. Jeff. :\led. Col., Phila., Pa. 111. D.,

78, Long Island Med, Col. Hosp., Brooklyn, X. York. Physician. ·w . . Forest.

POWERS, LL'THER ~1IILTO::\. (/J Kew Hariover County. 71-4. M. D., 77, Washington Med. Col., Balto., Md. Post grad. Med. Stud. Belle­

vue Hosp. Med. Col. and Col. of Phys. and Surgs. and Polyclinic, :!\ew York. Phys iciarr. n-S6 \\"ashington Co. b5-7 ::\orfolk, Nebrask a, 87-Los Angelos, Cal.

PRATHER, TH0:'.11/ .. S \V. PRICE, ABRAM VilILFRED.

T Columbus County. 57-8. (/J Marion County, S. C. 80-r.

81-2 S. B. Theo. Sern. Ord., Jnly 24, 82, Reedy Creek Ch., Marion Co .. S. C. Bap. I1Iin. Pastor. 82-4 Antioch. Terral's Bay, S. C. K1-6 Mullins, S. C. Wbi teville. Spring Branch. 86-7 Fair Bluff. 87---511 Laurin burg. Alma. Spring Hill. 92 \\"adesboro. Died :'.\Iay 27, 92.

PRICE, ]A:llES PLEASANT. T Rockingham CoUI1ty. 85-9. Teacher. Bap. Min. Sterling, ~obeson Co.

PRICHARD, GEORGE DAXA BROADMAN. Camden County. 69-7r. Planter. Camden Co. 90-I1Ierchant. Elizabeth City.

PRICHARD, GEORGE TAYLOR. T Richmond, Ya. /6-9. A. M., 79, W. F. Col. Merchant. Planter. SS-Prof. in Oral School for

Deaf and Dumb, Scranton, Pa.

PRICHARD, ]OHN LAMB. T Camden Coun y. 35-40. A. B., 40, A. xr., 44, W. F. Col. 40-r Teacher. l\Iurfreesboro. Ord., l\Iar.,

42, Danville, Va. Bap. Min. Pastor. 42-52 Dan vi lle, Va. 52-5 Lynch­ b:.irg, Va. 56-62 rst Bap. Cb., \Vilmington, N. C. Died Nov. 13, 62.

PRICHARD, ]OHN L. T Camden County. 73-7 .. Orator 76. Died while student at \V. F. Col., Sept. 30, i7-

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REy. THO:i!AS 'MEREDITH

W11s beyond question the ablest man who has yet appeared among the Baptists of North Carolina, and as the l'ounder, and tor ulnoteen years the editor, of the BIBLICAL Rscoanen.iprcbubly d.d ruore to develop tl•c denomination thau any man who has ever lived ln the State, Elder lllercdith was born in Pennsylvania in 1797; c.une to North Carolina as pastor of the New Berne church in 1820;'n·mov~rl to Savannah, Georgia,

,in 1822; settled as pastor lu Edenton, N. C., In 1825; originated the Baptist Interpreter in 183:!, which was changed to the BIBLICAL RE­ CORDER in 183.i; removed· to New Berne in 1835, and was pastor as well as editor, till 1838, when he removed to Raleigh. and taught a 'female school in connection with editorial labors. Elder Meredith was the author of the constitution of the N onh Carnlina Baptist State Conveution , and uf thb masterly address of that body wh-n organized i11 1830. He was· elected a Professor of .J)fathematics in ·w11ke Forest College in 1835, but did not accept the position. He died jn Raleigh iu rs.so. As an euitor, '' he was the equal.ot aoy man in the United States in hls day.. · ·. '

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REV. HUMPHREY POSEY,

An- eminent Baptist minister, was disttngulshed for his benevolent. spirit and great abilities. ·He was above the ordinary size, with a large, frame and tine face and head. "Born in Henry county, Va., January 12, 1780, he commenced preaching in 1803, and was _ordained in 1805 in Buncombe county, N. C., and among "Others preached to the Cherokee r ndians. He was :-egnlarly appoinred s misslonary to the Cherokees at Valley '!'own, inNorth Carolina, by the Baptist Mission Board, of Phila­ delphia, in 1817, and maintained bis connection with the mission until

~ 1824, accomplishing great good, In 1824 he settled in Cherokee, Ga., ~ and became a very successful agent for the Hearn school, relieving it of much pecuniary embarrassment. In 1844 he married a second time.and . removed to Newman, where he died, December 28; 184G. · Dr. J: H. Campbell, iu his ''Georgia Baptists," records it "as his de­

liberate conviction that Humphrey l:'osey was naturally one of the great­ est men, and for his limited opportunities, oneot the greatest preachers1 he bas ever known. His person, his countenance, his voice, the throes . of his gigantic mind, the conceptions o! .hlslarge christian soul, all pro· claim him great." '!'he first time Dr. Campbell ever met him was at , the Georgia Baptist Convention, in. 1835, near Penfield, and the Doctor says: . s , Such men iis Mercer, Sanders, Dawson, Thornton, 'Mallary,

' v Brooks and others were there, but1Posey v<as a giant among them all."

. Dr. C. D .. Matiary wrote and pubhsbed,a "Life of Humphrey Posey." .; ) '\ I ..

REV. JOHN LAMB 'PRI~ciiiRD . \, ' Was bom·in Pasquotank county, N. c: Prof. John Armstrong found.

him, at the age of twenty-three, a carpenter, and {l\Y&kened in him a thirst for knowledge. The next year, 1835, be presented himself at Wake Forest Institute, then a manua~ labor school, with his kit of tools on his shoulder and asked the privilege of. working for an ~ucation. In 184'l he graduated with· honor, spent a year as·master Qt an academy in Murfreesboro, N. U., aud theB at .the insta~ice of the Rev •. John !(err,., settled as pastor in Dan Tille, Va.· Here he remained' ten years, preach­ ing a p:irt of his time for the churches of Yanceyville ,and Mllton,· N. C. In 1852 he removed to Lynchburg, Va.,·where for four years M labored with intense ardor and distinguished success. ln 1856 he became pastor of the First Baptist chuJ'ch of \\'ilmington,

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NOR~H CAROLINA BAPTIST ALMANAC.

.N. C.,·and at once entered upon the enterprise of erecting a new house -0f. worship. He was not permitted to tlni:;il this work, but he liv(·Ll lotJg enough to sec that his labors woL1ld bo' rewal'llcd lJy ;.:lvl ng the Baptist~ ·of, Wilmington the hant!sorncst; church strncturc !11 tile ::Hate. · In 18G2, the little blockade steamer, ."Kate," bro1.1glit the yellow fever to Wilmington, and among- its last and noblest victims was this great and good man. He died a hero and a martyr, and his virtues have ·been fittingly commemorated in an admirable manner,l.Jy the Rev. J. D. Iluf- ham, D. D. , ,

Elder Prichard. wa' ·twice married, first to Miss Uar-y B. Hinton, of Wake county, N. C. His se0ond wife was Miss Jar]e, eldest daughter of H.ev . .Umes B: 'l'aylor, D. D., of R\cl1mo11d, Va. His eldest son, ltobert, graduated at Wake Forest College, and was an ac!!Cptcd missionary to China when he died. Ilis eldest daughter, Mary, b the wife of Prof. Ct1;irleS E. 'l'ayl<>r, of Wahe Forest College. ·

' REV. J. J. FINCH. • J

'rhis excellent man was !;lorn in Franklin connty, N: C., February 3d, 1814; attended academies in Loulsbllrg and Haleigh. and spent t.wo ses­ sions at Wake Forest College. He became pastor of the Edenton Bap­ tist church in 1835; removed to Newbern in 1838, where for seven years he was the honored pastor of. the leading Baptist church of the S•ate. In 1845 be was called to Raleigh, .where, in connection with his duties as pastor, he aided his wife in conducting a prosperous female school, called· Seclgewick Seminary. He died of consumption, January 21st, '

.1850:, ·A volume,of his sermons, published by his brother, Rev .. G. M:. L. Finch, after bis,death, shows that he was a pri:achcr uf more than onli- niiry m~rlt. . · · · · , . . _

' ·:REV. T.HO:MAS CROCKER. I I

For more,than thirty years Thornas Crock1~r was an eloquent, faithful and successful preacher of the gospel, and hundreds of persons Jn the counties of Wake, Franklin, Wfirren and Granville were brought to Christ by his labors. He waa a mighty man,of Gpd in his day, and was bo:·n h~ 1786, a11d.dled December 8th, 1848, uged sixty-two years. ,

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. JUDGE THOM.A~ SE1''l'LE, SR. For a series of years Jud~ Settle was the MO<lerator of the Beulah

Association. He was born in Rockingham county, N. 0., March 10th, ,178.9. '!'he .law was his chosen profession, though he was a poli.tician during a part of ~1is life, having served in the United States Congress in 18)-7, and also in 1819, when ·he declined re-elC'ction. He was Speaker .of the Ho"use of Commons of North Carolina in the sessions of 182'3-'27

·~~ ... and in 183~ was elected a i udge of the Superior Court,, which office !1~ filled till his resignation in 185<!. He died August 7, 1858. His Inst offi­

·, cial position was that of chairman of the court of his county. He was the father of Hon. 'l'~lOlJ!as Settle, at one tirue on the Supreme j:ourt b<:nch of North Carolrna, and now United t3tate:: district juclo-e in Flori- da; and of, .Mrs. Gov .. D. s .. I~eid. I b

- l . . . ~ ' ·'· '· . ., ·. . . ,' , REV. JOSIAH CRUDUP '

Wa~. bom i~ W~~ cou~ty, ·N. C., J;~nt;:ny 5th, 1791. He lived for SOLlle t~me in th\l'fan;iily of Mr. Bo~bitt, m11ster of the Louisburg Acauemy, a ripe scholar, a devoted chrl'Stuin, and a good teacher. Ile· was ordained In Angust, 1813, Reys. John Purefoy, William Lancaster aac1 Hobert 'l' Daniel forming the presbytery. l;Ia ving been elected by his county t~

, the State Legislat11re, and being refused a sc2.t in that body because he i- was a pastor, his friends ran him for Congress, anU lie served in that

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ation which existed in Wilmington. this date three druggists have , cil to the calls Of "duty with more From these citations will be elimi- died." courugc. Ho dic.l as became a nnted the references to the number October 9. Railroads petitioned man, in t.h.s path of duty." of cases and deaths. The same storY for cars to handle provisio~s, an~ November :1rd. "As yet no reliable of illness and interments was tolJ mayor asked that he Le notified of

8• ns of rrost nor has the tb errncme­

daily, with ever Increasing number gifts. "\"':ilm\~gton is one v.ast t~~ been under 4,), There are two or until cold weather broke the strength fever hospital. . J •. S. De~rmer, three desperately sick in nearly of the epidemic. ; telegraph agent, died rn the line of every house." much he will be missed by bis pcu- The first public reference to the duty.

h t t N ve nher 4th Deaths arc now Pie. But God knows best w. a o malady was contained in the columns October 11. "But for a. sense of 0• 1 • · ddcn No frost yet. 'I'rces do.'' '£here is a tablet to his meru- of the Wilmington J'ournal for Sep· duty we confess we would have very s.u ·

ory in St. James Church, with the tembcr 15th, 1862, in a card as fol· little heart or inclination to worry looFk \Hnt0rYt. b ""th t th', date ~u·1 · t D 4 "Greater · · · 1 . . . "r otn co er ~n o 1, ,, w i nung on, cc. · - c following inscr.ipt.ion ; ows: with the publication of a paper. 1

b 11 ti ontained a notice

Love hath no man than this, that a ''The Vestry and Congregation of "Persons employed in gas hou~es 1'ho streets are entirely deserted, t .1e club~ 1~V. ~. l.Iitchell, super in- man Jay down his life for his St. James, to the memory of Rov. are exempt from yellow fever. This save now and then a hearse or a I signde t J.f ·ti n mpany quoting

hi h r: I . · , b · ki ten en o ie gds co , ~ friends" is a Biblical truth w ic Robert Brent Dr ans, D. D., for 2.i has been attributed to the inhala- physicians uggy is seen ma mg .· of cas The issue for this has been exemplified many times. years Rector of this Parish. A \ tion of the gas tar. 'l'o enjoy the I its weary rounds. May .wo be, :i.bl;i g~~~e carrie~l ~oticc of l\lr. Mitchell's Probably no more vivid, appealing' Christian gentleman, au affectionate 11 same exemption as the gas-makers, to st~utl ?ur guadrd kagamfst North· ckath. and righteous application has ever pastor, able, zealous, true, assiduou~ use a mixture of one-half tar and ern 10vas1on an eep .rom our, November 10th. Contained notice been applied than in the case of respected and beloved. A go.od so:- tho other half oil (sweet or pea- town a touch more ~?lluti~g than from B. w. and w. L. Beery, build· two ministers of the Gospel, and at dier of Jesus Christ, he fell at hi.s nut preferred). Let a cloth bd that of yellow fe;~r. This com- crs of ships for the Confederate least one physician of Wilmington post during the pestilence of 186'..'. moistened with it and worn on the ment showed a SJ?lrit of wonderful Government, advising all workers to during the dreadful visitation of He rests from his labors. Dorn upper part of the chest next to ~he· loyalty and devotion to the South- return on November 17th. They of- yellow fever in the Fall of 1862. The January !J, 1800. Died October 14th, skin. 'fhe cloth should be re-moist- ern cause. ft r9d

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three (and undoubtedly oth~rs) free- 1862. In peace.'' ened once or twice a day. It should October 21. Acknowledgement taining $10,000 which had been lost ly and gladly worked night and day The terrific epidemic was brought he covered with a piece of oil-clbth macle by the mayor of $1,120 cou- near Smith's Creek. to rP-lieve the sick and suffering, and to Wilmington from Nassau in JulY ;o prevent it staining the clothes. tributcd by 20 Jewish citizens. The NoYcmber 11th. ''Only two inte.r· to"'bring the comforts of religion to of 1862 by the blockade-running i'lie odor of the tar may be un- Confederate government offered th· m<Jnts yesterday. Our streets beglll the dying. Each in turn sacrificed stenmer Kate. Two members of tlioe pleasant at first. After getting ac· uso of the Seamen's Home Hoa• to look lively once more; people his life for his fellow man, contract- crew died. Many suspicious casca customed to it, it j · quite agree· pital. ''The mortality exceeds ~m.r· cdming in ancl seem glad to ge~ back. ing fel'er and succumbing within a followed during successive week9. able. thing since Wilmington was u town. On ).!onday next the publication of short time. 'l'he tw-0 ministers were Tho disease "·as pronounced yellon "Tuesday, September 16th-There Coffins, coffins is the great want the ,Journal will h<' resumed." Rev. John Lamb Prichard, pastor <>f fever on September 15th. Ilunrlred~ appeared n statement signed by Dr. and so continues. Coffins cannot b'l November 13th. ''One new case the First Baptist Church, and Rev. of terror-stricken residents left im I James H. Dickson, in response to a obtained as people J.ie. Last Sun- reported and three interments yes R. B. Drane, rector of St. James mediately hardly taking time to cl?~<' query from tho ~.layor John Dawson day was the saddest of all days terday. It would be well for those Episcopal Church. The physi~ian their homes. This was the object1v~ saying that there were firn cases of we have yet seen.'' citizens now absent not to retu • .:i was Dr. James IT. Dickson, a man desired by the authorities. Busines~ Yellow fever.'' October 14. ''All help in our office for the present." A card ,appeared beloved by everyone and for whom suspended, stores closed, hous<'~ :E'rom this date, through Novrm· 1 gane, servants sick, editor alone 1 demanding that the authorities ~~ke probably more individnals hnve been were barred, streets were deserted ber 19th, there were daily reports of left. Thia necessitates discontin· ~~cps to fumigate all houses. v.n~h named than any other who cvef Stark fear reigned. From the mid new cases ranging from 10 to 100 uance of paper. A daily bulletin hail been closed during the epH1ern1c. lived in Wilmington. 1 dle of September to the beginning daily. • will be published until conditions i'\oYember 15th. ·•:::o ·many per· 1 There aro persons yet alive who of N'ovcmber nearly a thousand per 'l'he question was asked, how many improve.'' For five weeks then ap· sons ham died that we request sub-

re~nll the horror and tho desolation snns died. It was necessary to burr of the Commissioners of tbe town peared a: single sheet about 8xl:l stribers again to give names nnd nd· of the scourge. Nearly 65 years have' tho de:ul in trenches, sometimes with were still in Wilmington. inches in size. It was printe!l dresses. The mortalitY yesterday elapsed ~ince the memorable epidem· out coftins. Physicians, druggist~ September 25th. Practically all double column, on only one side of was startling, with eight interments.'' io, which wrought death and suffer- :ind volunteers lahorec1 unceasingly. physicians aro completely exhausted. tho paper. It merely gives facts November 16th. "New cases arc ing in this community. The present Tlireo druggists die1!. A ~anitatior. Tho telegraph office is closed. The nbout the cpirlemic and reports few but we expect deaths to con· generation has no conception of it's rommittcc was formed, which workti l population, following the prcmedi- from the Confederate army. tinue. Few diseases are more prcs- awful seopc. faithfully. 'fhc Rcene was one of tatcd purpose of the published October 15. "The fever ha1 trating than yellow fever." . The visitation of influenza some utter desolation, like unto that which notices, has greatly thinned out. :. spared neither age nor sex. It has November 17th. ''654 dcn.t rn th~

years ago was bad. In no manner night characterize a buried nnrl ton!! Ma11y are ''rcfugeeing'' in different turned aside for no profession or epidemic estimated. This does .not can it be compared to tho devastat- forgotten Pompeii or Herculaneum. places in North and Sou~h Carolina. calling, no matter how sacred .:ir include scares of negrocs and whites ing effects of the yellow fever period, The flower of Wilmington's Youn.: September 27th. General P. T. useful. Rev. R. B. Drane, rector of interred in private graveyards. It which in truth made Wilmington a n anhood was serving in the Confe:l e<'aurcgard sent Dr. Choppin of his St. James Episcopal church, died , iK impossible to asccrt~in accurate veritable eharnel house for nearly e:ate Army. The fact, combined witfi stnfl' to Wilmington to help fight the here last night. A Joss tho coru- records as both hlr. Qu1gky, super four months. With a population the wholesale exodus of other citi- epidemic. munity nt large will suffer." 1 intendcnt, and l\lr. Hyde, the secro· slightly in excess of ten thousand, zens, alone served to keep the deatl.< September ~9th. 'l'he paper con- October 1G. "All carriers gone. 1 tary, of the cemetery company, have there were several thousand cases of below tt thousand. Rev. hlr. Prich tained a letter asking whether yel· Persons can secure copies of uaily died." . . fever with estimated deaths ranging ard's diary gives a heart-sickening low fever had been designedly in· bulletin by sending for same. All November 18th. •'Xo descnphon from 800 to 1,000. When it is re- record of the suffering and dying troduccd into Wilmington, in order doctors are well and earnestly en- I can convey the appearnnce of uttc: memberc<l that the policy of pub· His description is emphasized anJ to cripple one of the Confeclcracy's gaged in the discharge of th.•ir I desolation and dcsert10n the town licity immE>diatcly decided upon by accentuated by the Wilmington chief ports of entrance. The Jour· duties." exhibited during the Jong weeks of the authorities causerl probably 50 Dai!v Journal. "'itcs may he seen nal expressed the opinion that it was Oc·tobcr 20. '':Mr. Quigley,. su~cr· l the eJ?idcruic. \Ye ~nve g.one all o;e~ per cent of the residents to lean~. in the Wilmington Public Library. merely a bad stroke of fortune which intenclcnt of the cemetery, died to· town ll1 hr~ad daylight \\1thou.t m1cet the full effect of the scourge can These papers indicate that it was ut- hall caused the outbreak and that day, and his assistant is sick. Ile- ing a Yelncle ex~~pt doctors rn~· c::tsily be appreciated. tc·rly impos~ihle to list all of t!tos..i such a horrible visitation could not mand for coffins and hearse's ex- gi<'s, or hearses, sce~ng no hum~~ .c~ ,

, ·aturnlly, in such a catastrophe who died. Therefore, it has been Co· have been designedlY planned. ceecl any day yet." cept those controlling such. BHr.~ · 1 thao "·<'re many heroes and hero- timatetl that 11carly one thousnn:l September 28th. Dr. Jame~ ~· October 21. ''We have ~een : body seemed to have left to.,.;n .. It

inc~. \\'ith the limitations of an persons lost their !i\·os in tho ep1 Dickson, called ''the beloved p ys1 painerl tr> learn of the illnes3 of was in truth a melancholy bme. arti le of this nature it is manifest- ilemic. It is known that within ~ell einn,'' died. His funeral was ntt!'n~· Hcv. Mr. Prichard.'' As noted ubo e, l::;icknc•ss, death, d~s~rtion a_nd fum,, ly impossible to list them. Upon weeks nl'arly 700 persons were hune I C<l both by Hcv. Dr. Drane and Rev. :'.Ir. Prichard died in November. inc seemed comb1mn~ ,aga~nst - U3'., such occ·a,ions there are several out- in Oaktlale cemetery in Wilmingtou ~Ir. Prichard, who shortly thAcrlcafttir ~fter he had rallied from the dis- No\·emli,<'r., F19th. th Ilt~lr)lt1c 1·tst,?.1a~

;rnd in an adjoining colored cemtJ were to join their friend. I were r>bancloncu. rom e 1 s ... , ,stan1ling figure~ whose dcrntion and s h J tt h sc " · l ten· nearbY. martns. Mr. tcp en ewe. , cas ca · clccm"·' th(' bc"t policY to hido not 1· work Rfterll"ard, eause them to be · ' k d. d t ti o to! er 25 A faint pencil no•e -u More than one hundred years ago ier of one of the 1.i~.11 s 1C a IC c 1 • · •1nrr. For this reason the retord had f.ttingly recalled. so• it "·as with the 'l'I t 1 n a bulletin written to Mr. Henry ~ l

in 1821, W!lmington went th. rough •i same time. 1e paper commen ec : o ' • bee. 11

imhlished daily. Yisiting :.11 •• t"o ministers nnd the physician k ' l f 1 d " th similar epidemic. So far as 1s nown • Yesterc ::iy was an aw u ay. i·cs'i<lcnt ph~·sicians s•ood to c1r n entione<l. Their deaths nd1led to 3 Th · d h " D " R e • } tJ1e ef!crts theu were not to be com September 0. e paper issue • 'utt, saying t at •urs. r ... uc .e pMts like men and exerteu t 1em· the gloom and sorrow which nccom- 18 •o It · t t• th t "' ti · d d h h b d n·a• 1 I nared to the horrors of 6~. 10 ·i warning s a mg a in 1e had die an er us a11 " 0 1 • selves unceasing]~·:' , . . Pnnied the CIJitlmk. As the ''ears ' s ti f ti ·th t t "6 I ·t f th ~ '"O R t l t • 11elievecl that no other ou 1cro 1uirect rays o 1e ~un e grca es October .. • n sp1 e o e <.t 0 • Ko\·cmbcr :.!0th. • ,en m 1ou

ha,·e Ji:Jsse<l their deeds have been tcwn ever sufferecl such a calamity uanger exists.'' lation on every hand, the pa~r seemed to Jia,·e eucounteretl thtJ ~lorifieil. Space permits hrief men- as did Wilmington, with proportion On this dnte a squad of army

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1-.-.- tion on!~· of their splendid work. · 'l'l • ., ,\ , 1 Steamer Kate for the drea{ u v131· l> ,1 p . h d ate lo~s of life anrl illness. physicians and nurses .arrived. ie profes~ion. The query, • • re we :n tn, ti'oit t.rough• tiiion Wilmington. by \CL •' r. nc nr wns an out- Friendship, both inah·idually an<l paper rarriccl. a. letter fr~m Dr. n moral community'" was aa.;w-rcd " u • l K t

standing figure in the Baptist min- collecth·ely, is ulways manifested in J. A. Miller. He was ill at Rocky by saying "that there was .1ar'..lly' the boat. \Yo learn that tie a e i:'trv. Rev. 1Ir. Drane held a similar' · · t t from Nassau to this port ran u~ou

• time of trouble. \Vilmrng on was nu :-fount after service in the army. a lawver left in the eommun: Y soin~ ob.•tru"lt'rin uear Smith\'lllti position in the Episeop)ll Church. exception to thiR general rule. From Ho said he wished he could help to retnil his wares." 011 lhJs ~ "' ' t• 11 k '1 l' · I d to "''l · "ton d \'now Sou'.!11iort) und par ia Y sun ·. ·' r. rH' iar came "1 mm., e,·erv section of the State and the his community fight the clisease an<! :;am& <late a notice appeaM1 eigJH' l t t al)ollt ls.,- Ho \ras 1'nstru111ent0l 1·n ' · · ti .•. g11ard ·,· .. on board an,', we rus v.J. ' '' { South, came donations of prov;s1on, :;ent a check for $50. by P. W. Fanning, secretary .:if 1c "' 0

<:arryin~ forward a movement which \·egetables, meats, medicines, accom October 1. Thero appeared a sanitary committee. This rniii tl~nt tL<l damage• is not great. rc•sultcd in the erection of the hand- paniecl with gift" o.i. thousancls of $tatrmcnt signod by the exhausted a bakery would be establis:ied but "'oveml:icr ~bt. •'We arc ac1dscJ some ~·ir ·t Baptist church, at the ,Jolla rs. Substantial assista~cc liter· ,·ct inclomitable physicians. 'l'his as there were only a half d•iz~n that the telegraph ofrice will. bu corner of Fifth and l\larkl't street. ally poured in. '£he town was pro.s· ~air! that people in the country barrels of ilour at hand, ;;Hts wou!d opened tomorrow." He left an interesting diary whic-h tratc nn<l helpless. Without the :ud ll"ould have to provide vehicles ii be welcome. j\'ovember ~-!th. Came the exultant the writer has had the pri,·i!egc of so freely and generously gb·en by thcv desired medical attentio11, so October 27. Underlying the ref· and optimistie announcement aft~r perusing. other cities and sections, famine tha't evcrv moment of the phy- b t · n period of suffering and ~orrow This vividly portra•·s the efforts Id h d 1 d ·t· gr'1 1 spectre • , crences in this and su seq•J~n JS· ne\-er before, nor sinl'e, expenenre.d.

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11 I sidan's time could be conscrveu. 'UCS n·as the expression of · ~. ':•a· I l 1 to Cr·'Ct the building and tho rlread- t 't t• I adY cl1'ot1·Ms'1nrr 11" fli · I' 0 •• 1.iy ''''1J111ington. We had a sp cur 1' - o a s1 ua ion a re 0 ,,, " ~· October 1. Appeared an o cia

11 d l f r fro ·t d ful da"s of the pestilence. Entries 1 d · t' 'J'l 'V'I ling thetic hope an appea 0 > fr,nnt on Saturday nnd Su.n ay , yon< escrJp ion. iose ' 1 11

• \cttnr from John l)awson, mayor. f I h t ld t'1 •r w icl t " wero made by Dr. Prichard until he tonians who remained in the stricken tlt,"i'i·l,1.ng tlie sisters from ''The It was ~ t t af c1° 't wet~ · ~ ''\N" ui nigJitg, General Yellow Jack .1s .n~ was stricken with the rlrcadfu! · f JI •t·o 1 to a11pr · " ' relieve the aw u s1 ua ion. 1 ' tliore He has dono all t.ho m1sc.h1c.; town \Vere 10 u posi i 1

c:· Convent of Our Lady of .Mercy" aiid rai'n but sJ1'nht hope for cold 11 11 I d II ·s d·ary refi ts a11 un · th ·d ' 11 ·,·e11 " 1·n Jils 1101,·c•r. Uc ;,as fin:i Y y1c <. ma a y. 1 1 e. • ciate e a1 so quic' Y gi · .~t Charleston for their devoted bl' h h daunted spirit of hope and faith. He p d 't hi c of np " weather. The pu JC soup ou~~ ed. We must say he died h::ircl, t < ror~cr. an sui

11 e messag s .' service as nurses in all homes, ir- opened today where the .siek imu., " had a premonition that his life would p at on ,·ent to every commun1t\' f·ite of a sinner.

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' · . ·' rc.'specth·e of race or belief. nn.edy w1·11 be served gr. atu1tuously. ' · A t· l app 'al' he sacrificed. However, he refused whirh helped during the '1istrcss111g ·0 t bcr 0 ''Tho utores ha"e been , November :28th. n ar 1c e.' c · c o ~. " ' October 28. ''The negrocs are <~Y- · · · s J1o might trv to yield to suggt'Stions that he join t~mes. Wilmington was able. t~ re· dosed, their proprietors gone. The

1. n"' much more rapidly than at the ed criticizing person w ·

!:is wife and children who were in c1prol'atc, -to tone communtt~ 11t l l 1 ked and provisions s.·but .. to profiteer ::it the expens~ of l \'irginia at the time. least. 'l'his was Ch~rlc~~on .w~en the :,o~rs T~~ authorities h/lVO taken outbreak of the epidemic." griCJrnuslY stricken comm~n!ty :m3

E'alling at their posts of duty, Dr. earthquake of 188ti de\ast.1ted that t~ . tt . hand One store for October 29. "1'.he weathe; ls suggesting- that the authorities r.on· Dickson died September 28th and city. Wilmington responded im.me , ~ ma fer in ' · will- be kept chilly enough, but m a}! con•ct(!?C·) trol the ~ituatiou. Her. ;\Ir. Drane, October 14th, while cliutely. Citizens generously remrnd· sa e ,,0 provisions there is no frost. Not a~ythi;-g 1 With the beginning of December the epidemic was at its height. Dr. ed Cl;arleston that tho opportunity op~\ bcr z. ":N"o annual moving like it. We know our sold:ers ill 1SG2, Wilmington again became nor Prichard was not attacked until late was eagerly grasped as Charlest.,1n c 0 d b . tho war would be glad to .iavo, a, mal. Tho p_gople bravely rene\~e.l hi October. Ile died the middle of had helped Wilmington in 1863. of tenants, and lan;1lord s. a s~~t. mess of soup and bread from h~ I their spirit anrl cne1·gy. They trrnJ :November when the disease was wan- The Wilmington Journnl for 18(1:.! Uousc•s now aro all c ose 111 c~cry publie soup house." · as best thry couhl to forget tl11i ing. The three were together con- in its dailv stories of the frarful section. On.e can walk for blo!ks Octobc: 30. ''We are glad the orutc suffering aud ~orro\V caused by tinuously. They went from home epidemir furnishes an absorbingll' without scerng a house .open ~r policy of publication of f:icts <'arly th<• dc:ith of nearly n thousand per­ to home offering comfort and con- dcscripti~·c narrative more gripping oecupie<l. Oi~ somo mornmgs ~h~s aervcd to get people out of town. sons in three month~. 'l'hcy lost 1io solution to tho sick and dying. '£he and nerve-racking than the wildest 'n~~k tl~o editor . has come to his Nirt'eteen-twcuticths could do no time in br:l,·cly attacking the prou­ phoi~ph reveals a stranl:'o coin- fancies of an Edgar Allan Poe or a office '~;ithout seerng a soul on the good. 'l'hcy would furnish only ]rm~ yet to be fatc·l, through c·on· cid Dr. Dickson and Rev. Mr. Victor Ilugo. From a rather large streets. months to devour the scanty suppl; tinuanrc of lo~·alty to 1he Conferl· Pri in diiath, as they were in sta{f the dreadful malady rc<luced October 3. A formal protest :!}eel of foods, or Jives to be devoured erato Govornment and the Southel'll life, a.re close to each other. Their the ~iewspaper force until only th<! again.st th~ .steamer Kate 'be~n~ by the fell destroyer." ''Don't fiu-1 rnuso \Yhich was so dear to every graves are not a dozep feet apart. editor remained. Not until then di.J pcruuttocl agam ~o com~ up to ·h~ f;nlt.'' heart. In beautiful Oakdale cemetery they the paper mnke any change. Finally rity. It was dec~ded that ~he boa. October 31. ''A Richmond pap~r Bleep peacefully-Christian heroes the regretful an11ouncement that should be ~cld" ;n quaran~rnc: copied a letter from 'f. Collendcr, 1 whose deeds and actions testified that necessity alone forced abandonment J October G. . 'I?e sky 18 ieally \own dork of Wilmington, di~ted they were willing to die for their of publicatio ·ith a Rmall hulletiu I beautiful but it is a fatal beauty O~tobcr ~l. 1821. Tho commumca· fellow man. to he subs•ituted. 'l'ho bulletin, to us who know that yesterday over tion said that the yello~v fever A mourning congregation in the c?pies of which may be. seen at the 60 persons sickened. Of these a cpidemill of that early time had

First Bnptist Church erected the library was about ~he .size of ? let· number must die. It will be long subsitlcd and tii:i.t absC'nt per50J~9 \ monument to Rev. Mr. Prichard. The ter head. Its publication. contrnuprJ beforA any of us who have seea migl:tt return. The c~mm~nt , !!1·~ inscription is as follows: "Hev. John for five weeks. The .P0~iey of the the October through in Wilming· da:c was, •we must live 10, ,,01.~ Lamb Prichard June 6th, 1811-No- Journal from the begrnmng, .mis .tu ton will take pleasure in autumn but at th.i same trn1~ wo .1ssu1, vember 13th, 1862. Pastor of the tell the truth about the epidemic. weather" absent citizens they cannot rct:un First Baptist Church, Wilmington,• 'fhis W?S cleei"!led th~ bcsttlmet~\oJ o~tob~r 8. ''Xo further outside for some time without rnnnrng a N. C. seven years. During that time, of ~akmg rcs1<~cnts cave ie ~1 Y1• physicians can be used now due to. '••

· Poss1bl.o rcmed. JCS were .aescnbe1. tlie fact that tlier·e are 00 ac·· deadly risk. the new church edifice was project- · T c w th I d d h . h b' from time to time. s.uggcst10ns WCr() commodat1'ons." Pend1·ng 1'n1pre•'· i:'ovember 1. Dr. • . or . ec an commence , w 1c o Ject en- ~- · · d t of

· l · i a. dvance. cl that burnrng t.ar b.arrels, ! me!lt of negroe• '.>y the w·ao.on ,. business man, ncc·prc~1 en .. listed his warmest sympat nes anr , ,, • · <l d 'Ilrn · d f · bl · Wh mhalatron of tar and refug.e m the I k , secti'on of tho quarter- the Howard Assoeiat1011,, ie ·. most 10 e ahga e exertions. en ma ors l h' h los~

our city was scou.rged by Yr.How pine woods ]'.ast of the city, were m~ster's department, stopped, be- commcn• was, "At t is t11ne is 1 , h . d th' t \"I 'l son_rccs of relief. . . c."use of need for them as grav~ i'• irrl)11:trnble for m:i.n. respond- • r.,·er, e remnme a 1s pos . ,, 11 e .. .. ~

0 · · t · t ti · k cl d · Extracts from tho Journal, at 111 1.

d t ,, /"' mm1s ermg o 1e sic an yrng tervals, will now be given. From r Jggcrs an s:~yau s. . his summons came and this good these the present clay reader may October 8. Col. Jame~ T. Miller, man laid him dowu to his cverlast- gain an insight into the terrible situ collector of the port, died, and to ing rest."

+-on Dr. Dickson's tomb is the fol­ Ten ]..,wing: ''Dr .. Jas. II .. Dicksou, born

1801, Died 1862.'' «urecious in the Right of the Lord is the death of

'His saints.'' On October 15th, 1862, the Wilmington Journal said: ''Rev. :'lfr. Drane die(l yesterday. 0 ho\v

Killed Thousand of Jhousand Pop u 1 at ion But Immortalized

Heroic Group

By LOUIS T. MOORE