Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Author: Carol Moore
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738543109

Historic First Presbyterian Church Cemetery was established in 1831 and over time has survived vandalism, storms, an earthquake, and threats of removal. It is a lasting remembrance to the early citizens of Greensboro who carved a city out of the wilderness. Originally the cemetery was located on the edge of town, but because of Greensboro's growth, it is now nestled in the center of the cultural district behind the Greensboro Historical Museum. Those buried in the cemetery are from all walks of life-from wealthy to poor, those with doctorate degrees to the illiterate, the famous to those whose names are lost for all time, the newborn to the centenarian, the saint to the sinner, and the slave owner to the abolitionist. The early builders of the city and state and veterans of four wars now rest in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

A Presbyterian Bibliography

A Presbyterian Bibliography
Author: Harold B. Prince
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780810816398

Librarians, historians, researchers, students, and others interested in examining the literary production of Southern Presbyterian ministers and works written about them will find A Presbyterian Bibliography invaluable. A 4,187-entry listing of extant published writings of ministers ordained by or received into the Presbyterian Church in the United States in its first hundred years, 1861-1961, this bibliography lists works by and about PCUS ministers and gives locations of all editions found in eight significant theological collections in the U.S.A. Presbyterian seminary libraries are those of Austin, Columbia, Louisville, Princeton, Reformed, and Union (Virginia); included also are the libraries of the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches and the Presbyterian Historical Society. An examination of this listing of published (i.e., printed) books, parts of books, pamphlets, and periodical article repreints shows that PCUS ministers became authors, editors, translators, poets, dramatists, composers, and essayists who wrote sermons, polemics, commentaries, Bible studies, theologies, histories, and letters to Presidents. Content notes and annotations for many books indicate individual minister contributions. A subject index, and indexes leading to every listing of a minister's name and to the main entries of the other presons gives access to the Bibliography.

The Great Revival

The Great Revival
Author: John B. Boles
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813188474

Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in contemporary southern thought and life.

The Forest City Lynching of 1900

The Forest City Lynching of 1900
Author: J. Timothy Cole
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780786480401

Politics in Rutherford County were heated a century ago: the developing textile industry, the growing population, an agricultural crisis and race relations inflamed everyone. Mills Higgins Flack, a leader of the Farmers' Alliance and the county's first Populist in the state House, was allegedly murdered on August 28, 1900, by Avery Mills, an African American. This book documents the murder and the lynching of Avery Mills. The author (Flack's great-great-grandson) considers the phenomena of racial lynching, the Populist movement in the county, the white supremacy movement of the state's Democratic party and the county's KKK activities.

A Claim to New Roles

A Claim to New Roles
Author: Page Putnam Miller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810818095

Examines the new roles claimed by Presbyterian women during the early nineteenth century.

Cracker Culture

Cracker Culture
Author: Grady McWhiney
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817304584

A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review

Governor Alexander Martin

Governor Alexander Martin
Author: Charles D. Rodenbough
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476610576

Governor Alexander Martin of North Carolina was one of the most important figures in the colonial and early state history of North Carolina. A 1756 graduate of Princeton, he was the first president of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina. He served longer as governor of the state than any other person until the election of Luther Hodges in the 20th century. He was conferred an honorary doctorate by Princeton and elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society while he was a U.S. senator. While in the Senate, he fought successfully to open the Senate to the public. He was one of five North Carolina delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He was a friend and protector of the Moravians and other non-conformists. He was the most powerful and effective leader from the frontier region of North Carolina for a quarter of a century. The first chapters of this biography discuss Martin's parents and their high regard for education, his time at Princeton, and his arrival in North Carolina in 1760. The next chapters explore Martin's and Rev. David Caldwell's effort to prevent bloodshed during Governor Tryon's confrontation with the Regulators that led up to the Battle of Alamance, Martin's experiences in the war as second in command of the North Carolina Regiment, his election as senator from Guilford County to the General Assembly in 1777, and his much-celebrated election as governor in 1781. The final three chapters of the book include information about his years in the U.S. Senate, his retirement at his home "Danbury" in Rockingham, North Carolina, his relationship with his family and his very detailed last will and testament. His home, "Danbury," later gave its name to Danbury, North Carolina, in Stokes County, which his nephews helped found about 1848, long after his death.

Breaking Loose Together

Breaking Loose Together
Author: Marjoleine Kars
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2003-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807860379

Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the Great Awakening, against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. The conflict culminated on May 16, 1771, when a colonial militia defeated more than 2,000 armed farmers in a pitched battle near Hillsborough. At least 6,000 Regulators and sympathizers were forced to swear their allegiance to the government as the victorious troops undertook a punitive march through Regulator settlements. Seven farmers were hanged. Using sources that include diaries, church minutes, legal papers, and the richly detailed accounts of the Regulators themselves, Marjoleine Kars delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists. She examines the rebellion's economic, religious, and political roots and explores its legacy in North Carolina and beyond. The compelling story of the Regulator Rebellion reveals just how sharply elite and popular notions of independence differed on the eve of the Revolution.

The True Image

The True Image
Author: Daniel W. Patterson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2012-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807837539

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.

If the Lord Is Willing

If the Lord Is Willing
Author: Charles Rodenbough
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2011-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0557381975

Historical novel based on life of Rev. David and Rachel Craighead Caldwell. His life spanned the Colonial period, Revolution, organization of a nation, and forty-five years of national independence - ninety-nine years plus. On this stage of history he was a noted Presbyterian minister, Revolutionary, Constitutional delegate, pre-eminant educator, medical doctor, farmer, miller, and trained carpenter. He wasa friend and confidant of Governor Alexander Martin, Andrew Jackson, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and particularly of young men who would be the ministers, doctors and political leaders of the young nation. In everything his wife, Rechel Craighead, was his partner, lover, and sustainer.