Record #:

15245

Author(s):

Spencer, J. L.

Abstract:

Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye, one of the Nation's best-loved humorists who spent the latter years of his life in North Carolina, lies buried in the mountains he loved to roam. Nye, born in Maine, wrote for the Denver Republican and became the editor of the Sentinel in Laramie, Wyoming. He moved to North Carolina in 1886, where a good part of his most famous work was done. His body rests in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church, south of Asheville.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 31, Dec 1939, p9, 18

Subject(s):

Nye, Edgar Wilson, 1850-1896

Record #:

15247

Author(s):

Spencer, J. L.

Abstract:

Indian burial mounds are to be found in large numbers in the states along the Atlantic seaboard, and the number of skeletons found therein point to the conclusion that while the methods followed by various tribes may have varied, there was a universal Indian custom of reinterment. Indian burial mounds have been found over North Carolina, a number of which have been explored in Duplin, Sampson, Robeson, and Montgomery Counties.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 32, Jan 1940, p8, 22

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--Mortuary customs