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Zelma Ford m. NC b. Jan 18, 1927 ?NC d. Aug 26, 2019 Collettsville, Caldwell Co. NC |
John Matthias b. Sep 14, 1953 ?Collettsville, Caldwell Co. NC |
Myra |
Lisa |
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Eva |
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North Carolina Counties
at beginning of 1840
and at beginning of 1850
showing the creation of Caldwell Co. from Burke Co. in 1841. |
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John Holloway and William Miller were chain
carriers for a survey of 1,000 acres bordering the Catawba River at Quaker Meadows
for Col. Charles McDowell, dated Aug 29, 1779
(Photocopy
of the survey record). Miller owned the neighboring land.
Charles was the older brother of Col. Joseph McDowell, Jr.
(1756-1801) who led Burke Co. troops at King's Mountain on Oct 7, 1780. The
Quaker Meadows estate had been inherited by Charles in 1775 after the death of
his father, Joseph Sr. |
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Map of
Burke County NC from 1777 to 1799 showing where the McDowell, White and Holloway
families settled. |
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John Rader was the postmaster of Collettsville and lived across from the post
office at 4355 Collettsville Rd. |
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Collettsville, in the late 18th century, was known as White's, home of
William White who served as Justice
of the Peace in Burke Co. from 1782 to 1790. In the 1790's, William was called
"the grand patriarch of this settlement" according to
Bishop Francis Asbury. His plantation,
called Mulberry Grove, was located where the Mulberry Creek flowed into the Johns
River. |
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In Sep 1978, John Rader encountered at the Lenoir NC Library
George Holloway and wife
Lisabeth, who were looking for the location of
Holloway Mountain and burial sites of Holloway ancestors. John told them that
their was "an old cemetery" in the "old Milton Shera place on Johns River, under
Fletcher Knob" next to the Dickson place, which has "in it Dicksons ... but no
Holloways that I know of. There may be though."
Lisabeth's Notes. |
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John's father bought the land on Holloway Mountain sometime after 1915 from
Columbus "Lum" Holloway (1872-1929), the son of George W. Holloway (son of
Robert Holloway) and Mary Collett. John
told Lisabeth Holloway in 1978 that Lum Holloway owned a sawmill and was killed
in an accident there [Dec 1929]. Edgar Rader lost the
land the same year in the 1929 crash. John described the land as "twenty-five
acres either side of the river [Little Mulberry Creek] that’s good for cultivation,
and about fifty for pasturage; the rest was mountain land” [Holloway, Lisabeth M.,
journal]. |
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Peggy McDowell, daughter of Col. Charles McDowell,
married Col. William Dickson (1775-1855). Their large two story frame house was
built for them in 1833 and is one of the historical sites in Caldwell Co. NC.
[Lenoir Service League]. They are buried in the Dickson Cemetery in the Globe.
A photo of the
cemetery taken about 1979 [findagrave website]. |
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Quaker Meadows, home of Charles and Joseph McDowell, is a historical site just
two miles northwest of
Morganton NC. Photo
of Historical Marker. |
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Sources: Clarke, Elmer T., Manning Potts, T., Payton, Jacob S., Eds., The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury, Vols. 1-3, Nashville TN, Abington Press, and London, Epworth Press, 1958. Dickson Cemetery, or Glass Family Cemetery, Lenoir, Caldwell Co NC., findagrave website. Dickson Family Bible. Holloway, Lisabeth M., meeting with John Rader, Postmaster, Collettsville NC, notes from visit, Sep 14, 1978 [year of 1987 written at top is a mistake]. Huggins, Edith Warren, comp., Burke County, North Carolina Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records, vol. II, Southern Historical Press, Easley SC, p. 125. Lenoir Service League, Remembrances in Caldwell County N.C., 1976, keyed map. North Carolina Land Grants, vol. 2, at Morganton NC Library, p. 6, #1476, transcribed by Lisabeth M. Holloway Oct 9, 1987. Scott, W. W., Annals of Caldwell Co., Lenoir NC, 1930, pp. 64-65, 118. Vineyard, M.L. & E.M.Wiseman, Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2, Franklin NC, 1997, pp. 96, 233-234, 315-317. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. "Zelma Rader Obituary", in wchovita website, Collettsville NC, 2019. |
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