Roanoke Beacon Blog

On Ancestry.com, there is a book titled Branson’s North Carolina Business Directory: containing facts, figures, names and locations, revised and corrected annually – that includes some information about Washington County. I thought it would be of interest to share an excerpt here as many of these names I have come across in the newspaper:

COUNTY OFFICERS
Clerk of Superior Court – J.A. Nelson
Coroner – Theophilus Ash
Commissioners – R.S. Goelet, Ch; J.B. Chesson, jun.; M. Jackson, A.M. Phelps, G.W. Jones
Register of Deeds – John Carroll
Sheriff – J.M. Bateman
Surveryor – H.F. Phelps
Solicitor 2nd District – Joseph J. Martin
Treasurer – Levi Jackson, jun.

Hotels & Boarding Houses
Hotel, Plymouth – Spruill & Davenport
Hotel, Plymouth – Mary Lee (col.)
Sanders House, Plymouth – R. Sanders

Lawyers
Armistead, T.S., Plymouth
Collins, Josiah, Scuppernong
Jones, E.W., Plymouth
Johnston, S.L, Plymouth
Latham, L.C., Plymouth

Physicians
Hardison, H., Scuppernong
Lewis, H.G., Mackeys Ferry
Norman, H.H., Scuppernong
Wolfe, H.E., Lees Mills
Walker, Barry M., Plymouth
Ward, W., Plymouth

There is more here, so if you have an Ancestry membership, it’s worth checking out [link here], not only for this county, but others. If you

Roanoke Beacon – 16 Sep 1898

Beacon Flashes

• Mrs M. OWENS has been visiting friends near Edenton this week.
• Mr. W N COOPER has returned home from a visit to Baltimore.
• Mr. G H HARRISON has been North this week to purchase new goods
• Miss Nona BRINKLEY is manipulating yard stick at M. OWENS & Co.
• Mr. C D LOANE and wife have been visiting the northern states this week.
• The Republicans and Populist Senatorial Conventions will be held here today.
• Mr. W F OWENS, of Creswell, was here this week visiting his uncle, Mr. B OWENS.
• Mr. L P HORNTHAL has been north this week purchasing new goods for his fall and winter trade.
• Attorney Edmund ALEXANDER returned Wednesday from a professional visit to Columbia.
• Mr. W A ALEXANDER returned home from Virginia Beach Monday, bringing his family with him.
• Mr. W L SHARED has purchased the R B LATHAM residence corner Main and Washington streets.
• Miss Janette MARTIN was called to Avoca Saturday by the illness of her mother. She returned on Monday.
• Rev. <…> B GREEN wade has been holding a series of meetings at Christian Hope, on Long Ridge, the past week.
• Mr. Herman HORNTHAL, of Norfolk, has been in our town this week visiting his brother, Mr. L P HORNTHAL.
• Miss Mattie BENNETT, of Williamson, has been visiting relatives and friends in our town the past two weeks.
• Mr. J A Wiloughby, of the firm of J A Wiloughby & Co., has been in Baltimore this week burying fall goods.
• Mr. L L OWENS has rented the Hornthal residence corner, Main and Jefferson streets, and gone to keeping house.
• Mr. W L SHERROD’s new store is nearing completion. It will be one of the largest and best buildings in the town.
• The pretty Miss Eloise DAVENPORT, of Brunswick, Ga., is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Laura LATHAM, and other relatives.
• Mr. H H Brown left Monday for Newport News, Va., where he has gone to do some important business. We wish him much success.
• Miss Irma MARSH, who has been visiting our town for two weeks as the guest of Miss Nina HARDISON, returned to her home in Bath, Monday.
• Miss Leslie HARRISON left Wednesday morning for Morganton, where she will resume her standing <…> upon her duties as Librarian for the D. & D. Institute.
• Mr. Mathias OWENS, of the firm M. OWENS & Co., has been in New York this week selecting fall and winter goods. Their stock this season will be out of sight.
• Mrs. Annie LATHAM returned home on Wednesday from Delaware where she had been visiting relatives for several weeks. While absent Mrs. LATHAM purchased her fall and winter goods.
• Our friend, Hon. H B WARD of Plymouth, the silver tongued orator, and Democratic nominee for the Senate from this District spoke at the town hall Thursday evening last. He is a fine orator and made a lasting impression upon our people. Messrs. WARD and MILLER will be glad to have a joint debate with the fusion nominees and when they get through with them they will be too sick for duty. Bet the fusionists will never canvas the district with them. — Washington Progress

Marriage Licenses
January 3, 1890
pg. 3

The following marriage licenses were issued by Register, J. P. Hilliard, during the month of December, 1889:

• White:
  • L L Newberry and Lena Reid
  • W A Forbes and Katie Johnston
  • Charles Martin & Bertha Newberry
  • Ellis Davenport and Mary Lamb
  • James Craddock and Carthia Lamb
  • Wm. Ange and Mary Reddic
  • W. W. Chambers and Jennie Skittletharpe
  • A S Johnston and Inez Lewis
• Colored:
  • N B Bell and Susan Armistead
  • James Clagon and Eliza Kenedy
  • W H Pettiford and Mary Moore
  • Wm. Cooper and Clemie James
  • Wilder Smith and Mary Reddick
  • Amithy Giffer (Anthony Giliam) and Caroline Phelps
  • Littleton Ford and Jane Carter

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Martin-Newberry
December 20, 1889
Pg. 3

At the residence of the bride’s mother, on Third street, Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock, Capt. Charlie Martin, of Str. Gracie Titus, and Miss Bertha Newberry, of this city, Rev. C. W. Robinson, officiating.

The happy couple left per Str. Plymouth for Norfolk, where they will make their future home. The Beacon extends best wishes.

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Marriage Licenses
November 8, 1889
Pg. 3

The following marriage licenses were issued by Register J. P. Hilliard during the month of October:

White: W T Spruill and Alice C. Hilliard, John McAllister and S.M. Spruill , Chas. T. Howard and S. B. Pearce, Henry J. Swanner and Viola A. Snell.

Colored: Drew Martin and Ann Mariah Downing, Johnson Manu and Elizabeth Rhodes, L. L. Howell and Alice Arnold, John Alexander and Nancy Harney, Louis Ballard and Annie Norman.

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