Sketches of Old Warrenton, North Carolina

NORTH CAROLINA

TRADITIONS AND REMINISCENCES OF

THE TOWN AND PEOPLE WHO MADE IT

BY

LIZZIE WILSON MONTGOMERY

EDWARDS & BROUGHTON PRINTING COMPANY

1924

This is a 456 page book with of a 17 page index:

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. OLD WARRENTON AND THE NEW TOWN: A. CONTRAST

CHAPTER II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WARRENTON

CHAPTER III. SOCIAL CUSTOMS OF THE WARRENTON OF FORMER DAYS

CHAPTER IV. SOCIAL CUSTOMS CONTINUED

CHAPTER V. SOCIAL CUSTOMS IN OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER IV. SOCIAL CUSTOMS CONTINUED

CHAPTER VII. THE HOTELS OF OLD WARRENTON

CHAPTER VIII. BUSINESS HOUSES OF OLD WARRENTON

CHAPTER IX. BUSINESS HOUSES OF WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER X. BUSINESS HOUSES OF WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XI. BUSINESS HOUSES OF WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XII. MALE EDUCATION IN WARRENTON

CHAPTER XIII. MALE EDUCATION IN WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XIV. FEMALE EDUCATION IN OLD WARRENTON

CHAPTER XV. FEMALE EDUCATION IN WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XVI. FEMALE EDUCATION IN WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XVII. THE CHURCHES OF WARRENTON

CHAPTER; XVIII. THE CHURCHES OF WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XIX. AN EARLY CUSTOM AND THE CEMETERIES OF WARRENTON

CHAPTER XX. THE COURTHOUSES OF WARRENTON COUNTY

CHAPTER XXI. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON

CHAPTER XXII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXIII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXIV. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXV. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXVI. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON—CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXVII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXIX. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXX. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXI. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON

CHAPTER XXXII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXV. HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON—CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE HOMES OF OLD WARRENTON CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXVII. PROFESSIONAL MEN OF WARRENTON

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE NEWSPAPERS OF WARRENTON

CHAPTER XXXIX. NOTABLE VISITORS AND EVENTS

Index:

Adams, Albert, Allen, Alston, Amis, Anderson, Andrews, Angerman, Archer, Armistead, Arrington, Asbury, Askew, Atkinson, Aycock, Backhouse, Badger, Bailey, Baker, Ballard, Barham, Barker, Barnum, Baskerville, Batchelor, Battle, Baughm, Baxter, Beckwith, Beecher, Bell, Bellamy, Benedict, Bennett, Best, Bickett, Bingham, Blackwell, Blanton, Blount, Bobbitt, Bocock, Bond, Booker, Bouckus, Boyd, Bragg, Brainerd, Branch, Brehon, Brewer, Brickhouse, Briggs, Broadnax, Brodie, Brodies, Bronson, Brown, Browning, Brownlow, Buckner, Burgess, Burroughs, Burton, Burwell, Busbee, Cabaniss, Calhoun, Cameron, Campbell, Carpenter, Carr, CARTER, Cates, Cawthorn, Cawthorne, Chalmers, Chambliss, Cheatham, Cheek, Chenault, Cheney, Cheshire, Christian, Christmas, Clark, Closs, Cockran, Cole, Coleman, Collier, Collins, Conigland, Connell, Connor, Cook, Coopers, Copeland, Cox, Crawford, Creighton, Crinkley, Crittenden, Crossan, Crossland, Crump, Culbreth, Cullom, Cunningham, Curran, Dameron, Dancy, Daniel, Darden, Davidson, Davie, Davis, Day, Dedrick, Deems, Devereux, Dickson, Donnellan, Douglass, Dowlin, Downing, Dowtin, Dozier, Drake, Drakes, Draper, Dromghoole, Dugger, Duke, Dumas, Dunnavant, Dunnivant, Durham, Eades, Eaton, Eben, Edwards, Egerton, Evans, Exum, Ezell, Faison, Falkener, Fane, Faulcon, Feggins, Field, Finch, Finlay, Fisher, Fitts, Flannagan, Fleming, Foot, Foote, Ford, Fort, Fowler, Freeman, Frost, Fuller, Gaines, Galespie, Gardner, Gayle, George, Gilliam, Gilmour, Gloucester, Glouster, Goodloe, Goodrum, Gordon, Graham, Grainger, Grandison, Graves, Green, Green's, Gregory, Griffith, Grimes, Grover, Haithcock, Halbert, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardy, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Harriss, Hastings, Hatfield, Hawkins, Hayes, Haywood, Heath, Heck, Henderson, Hendricks, Herr, Hervey, Hickman, Hicks, Higgs, Higham, Hill, Hodges, Hogue, Holden, Holloman, Holt, Holton, Honfluer, Hooker, Hooper, Hopkins, Horton, Howard, Hudgins, Humphries, Hunter, Hyde, Hyman, Ives, Jackson, Jane, Jarvis, Jeffreys, Jeffries, Jenkins, Jerman, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Katzenstein, Kearney, Kennedy, Kerr, Key, Kimball, King, Kingsbury, Lacy, Lane, Lanier, Lazarus, Lea, Lee, Lees, Leigh, Lewis, Little, Loeb, Long, Loughlin, Lowe, Lucas, Macon, MacRae, Madden, Marshall, Martin, Massenburg, Maxwell, Mayfield, Mayo, McCraw, McCullough, McDowell, McGee, McGhee, McGraw, McIlhenny, McLean, McLemore, McNair, McRae, McRorie, Milam, Milams, Milbank, Miles, Millard, Miller, Mills, Mitchel, Montford, Montgomery, Moore, Moran, Mordcai, Mordecai, Morgan, Morse, Morton, Moseley, Mosely, Mundy, Myers, Newell, Nichols, Nicholson, Norwood, Nunnery, O'Connor, Osborne, Otey, Owen, Owens, Paine, Palmer, Palmers, Parham, Parker, Parrish, Patillo, Patterson, Paxton, Payne, Pearson, Peck, Peebles, Peele, Peeler, Peete, Pendleton, Penrose, Perdue, Perkinson, Person, Persons, Pescud, Pettway, Petty, Phillips, Picot, Pitcher, Plumer, Plummer, Plunkett, Poindexter, Polk, Pope, Porter, Powell, Pretlow, Price, Primrose, Pritchard, Purefoy, Purnell, Ramseur, Randall, Randolph, Ransom, Reynolds, Reynoldson, Rhodes, Rice, Richardson, Ridgeway, Riggan, Riggs, Rivers, Rodgers, Rodwell, Rogers, Rooker, Roper, Rowland, Rowlett, Ruffin, Saintsing, Sampson, Saunders, Scarborough, Schloss, Schofield, Scoggin, Scott, Seapark, Shaw, Shell, Sherwood, Shook, Shroyer, Simms, Simpson, Singletary, Skelton, Skinner, Slade, Sledge, Smedes, Smith, Solomon, Somerville, Southerland, Speed, Spruill, Stallings, Stamire, Steiner, Strother, Stuart, Sutton, Swann, Syme, Tannahill, Tarwater, Tasker, Tatum, Taylor, Terrell, Thomas, Thompson, Thorne, Thorpe, Thorps, Towers, Tucker, Turnbull, Turner, Twitty, Vaiden, Vann, Varell, Varells, Vaughn, Verell, Vines, Volkes, Volks, Waddill, Wade, Wagner, Wainwright, Walsh, Walters, Ward, Warren, Washington, Watkins, Watson, Webb, Weddell, Welden, Weldon, Westray, Wharton, Wheeler, Whitaker, White, Whitfield, Whitman, Whitmore, Whitney, Wiggins, Wilcox, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wilson, Wimbish, Wolfenden, Wood, Woodson, Wooten, Wright, Yancey, Yellowly, Young,