Services for Adam Hubert Bancom were Monday at Center Point Holiness Church with the Revs. Cleo Kelley and J. R. Chalk officiating. Burial was in Sardis Cemetery with Shackelford Funeral Home of Savannah in charge. Mr. Bancom, who was 71, died Sunday morning at his home in Sardis. He was a native of North Carolina and had lived the past 54 years in Sardis. He was a retired farmer and a Holiness. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Meleria Wade Bancom; two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Thomas and Mrs. Eulalia Helms, both of Charlotte, N. C.; and a brother, Down Bancom of Charlotte.
(Source: The Lexington Progress, (Lexington, Tennessee) February 3, 1982. Submitted by Amanda Jowers)
Died at Washington City on the 7th instant, in the 53d year of his age, Major General Thomas Blout, Representative in Congress from North Carolina. His remains were interred with military honors and Congress have resolved to wear crape on the left arm for one month as a testimony of their respect for his memory.
(Source: The Centinel, Gettysburg, Pa , February 26, 1812. Submitted by Nancy Piper)
At the house of Doctor L. Les Delley, in the town of Havana, in the island of Cuba, on the 24th of April, 1823, Doctor Wallace Alexander Henderson, eldest son of Maj. Lawson Henderson, of Lincoln county, N. C. who was born in said county on the 2d December, 1799. At the age of ten years, Dr. Henderson commenced reading the Latin Language with the Rev. John Robinson, of Cabarrus county; and finished reading the Latin and Greek languages with the Rev. John M. Wilson, of Mecklenburg county. From thence he was removed to Greenville College, in Tennessee, where he obtained a diploma at the age of nineteen. Shortly after leaving college, he returned to Lincoln, and commenced the study of physic with Dr. William McClean; which he continued afterwards with Dr. McKenzie, of Charlotte. After finishing his course, he went to the city of New York to attend medical lectures; where, in the winter of 1821-1822, from the severity of that climate, he contracted pulmonary consumption. * * *
—Western Carolinian, June 17, 1828
Died: on Nov 26 last, in the State of Miss, Col Duncan Stewart, aged 60 yrs, a native of NC; afterwards a resident of Tenn, but an inhabitant of Miss since 1811.
[Daily National Intelligencer, JAN 22, 1821 - Submitted by K. Torp]
In North Carolina - Bela W. Strong, Esq. killed in a duel
(Source: North American Review - July 1815)
May 1815 - In Carolina - General Arnoldas Vanderhorst
(Source: North American Review)
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