Newspapers of Stanly County
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News Stories
Newspaper Abstracts extracted and used with permission
from Julie Hampton Ganis
Stories from surrounding counties, regarding folks connected with or living in Stanly County.
1862 - 1866
1867 - 1869
1870 - 1880
April 14, 1859, NC ARGUS (Wadesborough, Anson County, NC) - A very sad
occurrence took place, on Saturday last, at the mill-dam of Col. John E. AUSTIN,
of this county, on Rocky River. The river was quite high, and a party, consisting
of two brothers and two sisters, children of Mrs. Jacob LITTLE, of Cabarrus
or Stanly county, who had been to Charlotte with a wagon, and were returning
home, undertook to cross the river above the mill dam, in flat, at a private
ferry belonging to Col. AUSTIN, where another wagon had crossed in the flat
but a short time before, and were carried by the force of the current towards
the dam. One of the poles used to guide the flat slipped out of the hands of
one of the parties, and the flat became unmanageable. Mr. Wm. AUSTIN and one
of the LITTLES, perceiving that the flat would inevitably go over the dam, jumped
out and swam ashore. The other Mr. LITTLE and his two sisters were carried over
with the wagon, four horses and the flat. The wagon ran forward and off the
flat, excepting two wheels, which caused the flat to keel up at one end and
throw the young ladies out into the river. The young man, their brother, recovered
them and replaced them in the flat, and finding that he could do nothing with
the flat himself, after floating down the river some distance, told his sisters
to hold on to the flat while he would swim ashore and seek help and return to
their rescue. He did swim ashore, and ran to Mr. GREEN’S, about a half
or perhaps a mile, and returned and found the flat floating down the river,
the wagon loose and his sisters gone. One of the bodies of the young ladies
was afterwards found lodged against a raft. The body of the other had not been
found at last accounts. They were both undoubtedly drowned. It is thought they
and the wagon were thrown out at a rapid and rough shoaly place in the river,
or that they had attempted to grasp hold of a small tree which bent over the
stream and near to the water, and were dragged in that way and drowned. It was
a deplorable fate for the poor, helpless young women, and is a heart-rendering
accident to their widowed mother, as well as their brothers, and everybody.
It is wonderful that they were not all lost; and it is probable that if they
had all remained in the flat, and kept their presence of mind, they might all
have been saved. One of the horses broke loose and swam out but the other three
drowned. [note: The girls that drowned were Nancy E. LITTLE (b.1834) and Delphia
L. LITTLE (b.Apr 14, 1836), both daughters of Jacob. W. “Jack” LITTLE
and Margaret “Peggy” LOVE] (photocopy)
Millingport, NC Fatal Brush Pile Fire,
Apr 1904
Mrs. Hurlocker, who lived near Millingport, Stanly county, was burned
to death Friday, her clothing catching from a burning brush pile.
The Landmark, Statesville, NC 26 Apr 1904
Norwood, NC Fire, Apr 1904
FIRE AT NORWOOD
A fire which broke out at Norwood, Stanley county, at 5 o'clock Saturday morning
destroyed seven frame buildings on the north side of Main street, extending
from HARRIS & McANLY'S brick storerooms to SAM BLALOCK'S livery stables.
The BLALOCK block, which contains the Central Hotel and the storerooms of U.
B. BLALOCK, caught on fire, as also did the BARNHARDT building, on the same
side of the street, but by desperate work and the bucket brigade these buildings
were saved, with very little loss to buildings or stock. The total loss is estimated
at $10,000, with little insurance.
The Landmark Statesville, North Carolina 1904-04-26
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