RIT RII IO IRN NAN AIIM WA PIII CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ! . ci ae Sees ewn Hast HER F. C. Salisbury (Note: This is the third in a series of articles on eastern Car- teret as it was 40 years ago. The second part teld about Marshali- berg and continues below, telling of the innovations the Rev. C. M. Levister, president of Graham Academy, made at the school.) New planos were in the music department, a printing plant was installe: . 7 new building known as Roseville Hall for the home of the pres dent, office and music hall, w: one of the many improvement Rev. Mr. Levister lerable time on tri 1 to raise funds for of the school. ! served as music ive in the church This is the William Hancock place at Smyrna, built in 6g ts aE. Bee Bi name of a town they formerly Smyrna Methodist Church. It : 4% . eon : Be pian ee knew. must have been sometime before wood construct boart in? Luge! : iT) 903 Lilt a : ce oy Sees : : cs sass rie e eae : 3 : : ; ee os Bq wee Rrra i a : es | % Which came first, the church the Civil War for Franklin Han- affair with plai oards ft or the school, has been a question cock who died in 1912 had served without backs or desks. i legiate Institute. re : : ) Ei cs ; Tt avs oot % PE vie Ba : nomination was the first to estab- School for 50 years. Three build- 4 wooden vy ater bucket with a ee 4 * : Tt 3 oe rh? 5 ad pend ane ee 9 iii ee ae: io oni ; 1 de”, ; Sapte Mr. Levister lish a church? History names the ings have served this church. egnch shell to drink from. It is JvVil. wCVi : 2. ic , mati ac » fire m vs “ore? ’ . debt some $3 Baptist denomination as the first [he first was located about recalled that a Yankee by the to organize a society and erect 4 quarter of a mile from the lo- name of Cahill was the first by W. J. Plint as vice-president pea er were placed in charge. Faculty The St of Bethlehem Church, built in 1875, served as class The first church was on the property now owned by the fam- Taking advantage of the aid of- a : 5 ’ anes . ne star Cunient ~HUrCn, PULEL L6id, “ve at "Lk aASS- ite r : "ACh > : . : : - , x : : 5 site of the present one, on one- ily of the late Dr. J. J. Davis. fered by the Peabody Educational fice of W. J. Plint were the Miss- ’ s : : Vai A : . - ‘ vc ; a ye oy 5 2 " . < é “ : é C letine his seminarv wor! The hove Hendinnk swenales March <6, 1829, to Core Sound, for slaves. Hall, located near the Baptist Ditmar. ee eee we ne eee eos. North River and Straits district, When the need arose for a new yhurch. Professor H. S. Lee had Fire destroyed the main build- “ ' oF ) . . ‘Pnere . : T PULLS hi wb | ri | O 11 the \ y : ‘ . o" a } “ . 7 2 2? 4 “eh he “Be ea ‘ te irch, eg hg aT perhaps, use, benefits and behoof forever, society by Capt. Robert White y. a teacher, he was #3 vetlring tron 1e ‘anan Ol a pottied arink. ata _ » Pe : a Sill aig : “a years an effort was made to car- : located on the north side of the hurst in 1885, which is the loca- the first in charge of what was ry on the work until the Confer- \ ; + a A ¢ imore Vid. ser ng as Yi or ” re t a | oS wav . > 1c * 5 PEN 5 E 7 . j ey | ‘ wii hat : Pi sohiag- here uton where the highway trom the west is’ old place and Anthony Da- Captain Whitehurst, a_ store le is remembered by those who a at different times building. This decision was made 35 : ‘ ee £4 ; ro A League publications. He _ also rg to Atlantic. The poin | ae ye . Wdten : ; ; ; for the reason that the location Ae utes Samaroo ‘Sted al gsi i he z ; «atte . : F were unable to learn h@w it be: was changed to Jarretts Bay. giving the ¢hildren a meager school . district with Herbert known, a fenced enclosure con- Ai . c ( aptain Ira makes aU ide sweep oak { ror oe , ° : eee sie . se OB "4 oie cme . group of Quakers co: g { p S - N ; ‘ me 1 tains a cemetery. Buried there is — pound Great Marsh Point to avoid cauntv fro, ee oa: = into the the settlement to Smyrna, the [he school house was modeled years the Graham Academy ex- , , . wre ¢ n- ’ Sagi county from Newport, R. pe who church in 1859 became known ase . ON UG Mages) IRE MS Sat or Peas 7 a a seminary student who died in , rt miles brought us in add: ss een! es FR: . 1906. while attending the Institute. Grea, t} ey ; ue Ma x 1m river along which they settled; Church. r reek ‘ 1e Ve ' Wwnic . Orniry - “4 ara . arr s ; . . Cree at the hea of which 1S a group of settlers at Jarrett Bay Church records are lacking as ing a fire in a nearby commu- 4 recall the good cooking of Aunt | Sally Ann Davis who. presided As the county school system | had started caring for the educa- of the main building, the Mis- sionary Society abandoned the idea to rebuild and carry on a private school. With the exception | buildings were sold. The parson- age was purchased by William village. The other two structures were | in other constructions. Star Church was to meet its fate in a Credit is given to Dr. Graham for all the good the school ever church in the eastrn part of th county during his years as Presi- ham Collegiate Institute. There are many persons in| who revere the memory of Dr. | Graham and the Rev. Mr. Levis- |j During the seven-year period | when Dr. Graham was not at the | his time as Presiding Elder of the | district to the work of the several the county. Dr. Graham was born in the | small community of Eagle Mills | in Iredell county. As an orphan|f§ by Barnet and Jane Mullace of the settlement in which he was ness in later years when he took |] his foster mother into his home | caring for her until her death in 1906. the county he brought with his |} phan girls of young age from his | former home, arranging changed to that rraham Co re : : ee = among the people, also which de- as superintendent of the Sunday A shelf in the corner contained The expensive ideas « a 1906 and Dr. a build; a building. cation of the present one on the’ teacher of the school. members during the term of of ate ) . PRS Oe sa Ma . rooms until the Academy building was erected in 1888. The new half acre of land given by An- The building was of the plainest Association, a school was opened by, Violetta Jacoby and Helen “ inine Tne 2liie > 1% TA . a. m~NATe hea ine : ; { . > é< . . : he Jone d the Blue Ridge Con to catch tne line ; snubbing it to to be granted to their exclusive building, a new site was siven the 113 , reputation in the coun- ing. in 19 ‘or the nex \ + ico ¥ ing. in 1911. Fo 1e next two North. v Collegiate Institute, he went to Smyrna is at a junction point 9] twee py Wi ; 7 4: , . ’ i main road between Abner Wil- tion of the present building. kno} as the Peabody school. ence decided not to replace the ; Ls Oe , : : of Anti-Saloon joins that running from Marshall- ric? ows : nies © Te vis swamp. owner and ship master, was _ attended school under his instruc- of the campus was too far from ‘Saloon Leavue r. supplanting the we name : ube BE ad mee ery Supplanung the towns name, jisted as Warren’s Meeting House the Civil War on a charge of child.’’ Many of his former scho- showed no evidence of expanding In 1913, Conference Le ton, N. C., where it continued to Peabody fund 3 , ‘ Ja f ; eabody tund, a northern philan- ‘oner: Pees Ses Pas > a Washington Collegiate Institute. 1 northern philan General Assembly in 1816 and the enemy, he burned the vessel. built near the Baptist Church. : tow! fas calle Peat 296 ae ae 1 eee ’ 4 of Smyrna 1 was called Peatown. We In 1832 the name of the church tages came those of educational, School became the center of the Bethlehem Church became H 1 ‘ , : u oh sading out into Core Sound, e¢ » k m as Smyrni ike ¢ ij Pie " come known as Smyrna. Like a With the change of the name of three months schooling yearly. sanks as principal. During the the body of John Luther, age 20, OE st al ; > eg shallow water. A run of three gave the name of Newport to the the Smyrna Missionary Baptist He died from over-exertion, fight- located the ‘villase of Smvrn: sgt locat wey Nite’ 68OF omyrna. may have given the place the to the date of organization of the nity. Former boarding students | === es . ns over the kitchen. ii tional needs before the burning |§ | of the church, the remaining Davis and moved nearer to the torn down and the lumber used | forest fire several years later. did and for the expansion of the ding Elder and head of the Gra- | Carteret County ard elsewhere ter. head of the Institute, he devoted |f Methodist Churches North, within at an early age, he was raised | born. He was to repay this kind- |} after the death of Mr. Mullace, When he moved his family into | wife ard six children three or- | roster homes and education for them. |] He built a family home which is | still standing, though in a dilapi- | dated condition, about opposite | the new West Carteret School. Dr. Graham passed his last days at Ronda, N. C. The Rev. Charles M. L also came from the western of the state. Of humble parent: he became a “‘printer’s ) in a small print shop at a Salary of $75.