Record #:

17201

Author(s):

Hicklin, J. B.

Abstract:

Rev. Humphrey Posey, a Baptist minister known as \"The Great Posey,\" and Rev. William Gannaway Brownlow, a Methodist minister known as \"Parson Brownlow,\" did much in establishing their respective religions in the state's mountain region. Both were circuit riding preachers. Brownlow was later Governor of Tennessee from 1865-1869.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 42, Mar 1939, p7

Subject(s):

Methodists; Posey, Humphrey, 1780-1846; Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877; Baptists

Record #:

17339

Author(s):

Hicklin, J. B.

Abstract:

Hicklin recounts the story of how George Mills, a sixteen-year-old slave, brought the body of his master, Captain Watt Bryson, Company G, 35th Regiment N.C.T., back from a Maryland battlefield where he had been killed in 1863.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 10, Aug 1939, p30

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Deaths, Confederate; Mills, George, d. 1925; Bryson, Watt, d. 1863

Record #:

33192

Author(s):

Hicklin, J. B.

Abstract:

It was a peach of a scrap and old-timers in Western North Carolina still bring it up whenever anybody has anything to say about outstanding personal combats. This article gives an account of one U. S. Marshall’s nearly hour long stand against 13 armed men.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 11, Aug 1938, p6, 20

Subject(s):

Moonshiners; Prohibition--History; Polk County--History

Record #:

33669

Author(s):

Hicklin, J. B.

Abstract:

They were originally known as “Hubers” and were among the early Quaker settlers in this state. One of their descendants, Herbert Hoover, became President of the United States.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 36, Feb 1939, p4

Subject(s):

Quakers--History; Concord--History; Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964