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The Homer Keever Collection

Homer Maxwell Keever (Feb. 16, 1905 – Sept. 12, 1979) was an Iredell County teacher and historian who wrote the most comprehensive history to date of Iredell County Iredell: Piedmont County, published in 1976. Mr. Keever was on the staff of the Statesville Record and Landmark writing his column “Out of Our Past” from 1950-1978.

The library houses copies of Mr. Keever's original papers, notes and an index of newspaper articles by Mr. Keever on Iredell County history.

For information on the Keever Archives, contact:

• Joel Reese-Local History Librarian
• 704-878-3093

Local History Articles Index

• Agriculture
• “Rocky Face offers surprises to botanists” Statesville Daily Record, 4/21/1952
• “Copal survives times and taxes” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/1/1955
• “Farmers are alerted to sturdy new weed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/5/1955
• “Statesville had its fling with tobacco manufacturing” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/9/1955
• “Cotton has played important role in Iredell County” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/6/1956
• “Iredell reaches top in production of Hay” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/18/1956
• “Herb trade was once vital industry here” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/21/1956
• “Federal Agency makes variety of Farm Loans” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/27/1956
• “Bermuda pastures may hold key to Problem” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1956
• “Federal Agency makes variety of Farm Loans” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/27/1956
• “Night riders had rough techniques for cutting crop production in 1908” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/9/1958
• “Fence law in Iredell Dates back to 1870’s” Statesville Record and Landmark, 4/6/1959
• “Official record of old stock laws not found; bonds turn up.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/7/1960
• “Agrarian revolt in Iredell began in the late 1880’s with the formation of Farmer’s Alliance” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/3/1960
• “Farmer’s are alerted to sturdy new weed.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/4/1965
• “Iredell man enjoys crops” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/19/1969
• “Dredging days recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/30/1970
• “Cotton gained spotlight as top Iredell product” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Statesville once known for wholesale liquor” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Flax industry existed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/8/1974
• “Tobacco Industry held role on Iredell scene” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Textile dynasty is formed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Roots, medicinal herb center located in city” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Two aspects of herb business during boyhood remembered” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition,
• “Old tax lists reveals many grain mills” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/2/1975
• Airline
• “Olin Township played safe when voting bonds for the long sought Statesville Airline Road” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/14/1957
• “Statesville Airline Railroad: Brief life” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Alcohol
• “Iredell Whisky trade boomed here in 1880” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/13/1956
• “Movement against liquor trade developed early in Old Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/15/1956
• “Iredell Representative played important role in early State-Wide prohibition activity” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/7/1958
• “Distiller’s problems don’t change” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/24/1959
• “Smith opposed in 1928 pre-convention moves” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1960
• “Churchmen opened Smith on Liquor stand” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/26/1960
• “Simmons defection helped anti-Smith bolt” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/27/1960
• “Statesville once known for wholesale liquor” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Arizona
• “Arizona surprise to traveler” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/5/1964
• “Water brings gold to area around Phoenix” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1964
• “Armfield, Joseph Franklin
• “Armfield, Joseph Franklin” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., Vol. I, pp. 41, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979).
• “Armfield, Robert Franklin,” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell., ed., Vol. I pp. 41, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1979).
• Astronomy
• “Second Comet this summer seen here on 50th Anniversary of ‘LaF’ Discovery” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1957
• “Comet still providing show for early risers.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/2/1965
• “Eclipse phenomena described in State” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/9/1970
• Automobiles
• “Early Auto ‘Run’ recalled here” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/20/1958
• “Orient car had classic lines” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/11/1958
• “Account of old trial [auto racing] brings back memories” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28/1960
• “First Ford sold here 50 years ago” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/24/1962
• Authors
• “Early Betts writing turns up in column” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/4/1958
• “State’s published poetry began in Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/7/1962
• “1916 ‘Freshet’ song preserved by student” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/13/1966
• Baggerly
• “Baggerly, Eagle Mills Dreamer, Was 50 years ahead of his time” 5/2/1950
• “Baggerly Tried Hard to Have Railroad Stop at Eagle’s Mills” Statesville Daily Record, 5/11/1950
• “Andrew Baggerly: Dreamer ahead of his time?” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/14/1975
• Bahamas
• “Keever describes Nassau trip” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/8/1969
• Bailey, Andrew
• “Andrew Bailey of Ft. Dobbs military staff was effective frontier soldier” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/12/1969
• Bicycles
• “Statesville suffered through bicycle decade” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/28/1959
• Bingham, Lemuel
• “Bingham, Lemuel” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. I, pp. 156, 157, (Chapel Hill: University of N.C. Press, 1979)
• Birds—See Under Wildlife
• Black History
• “Old newspapers recall days when slave labor was used in Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 12/14/1950
• “Negroes of Statesville taught by Billingsleys” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/29, 1959
• “Religious segregation beginning needs Study” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1959
• Bostian Train Wreck
• “Editior J.P. Caldwell’s story of Bostian Bridge train wreck in 1891 is considered a classic.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1966
• “Cause of Bostian Bridge wreck is still controversial,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/26/1966
• Bragging
• “It isn’t bragging if it’s true” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/4/1969
• Bridges
• “Catawba bridging nothing new” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/16/1961
• “Iredell’s covered bridges” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/16/1968
• “Summers key figure behind area bridges” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/15/1969
• “Dredging Days Recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/30/1970
• Burke, Miss Bertha
• “Miss Bertha Burke, Loray resident, again ‘Eating off her ancestors.” Unidentified Greensboro newspaper, 10/26/1952
• Business
• “Eupeptic Springs enjoyed wide popularity in the Old Days” Statesville Daily Record, 5/24/1950
• “Old Store Records give interesting picture of Iredell 100 years ago” Statesville Daily Record, 10/21/1950
• “Statesville Boasted many stores as long ago as 1830, Keever finds” Statesville Daily Record, 10/21/1950
• “Land speculation was quick road to riches for pioneers” Statesville Daily Record, 5/25/1951
• “Old St. Charles Hotel is symbolic of earlier era in Education” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/6/1955
• “Iredell Innkeeper led rugged life” Statesville Record & Landmark, July 8, 1955
• “Early history of Old St. Charles Hotel is now clouded in Obscurity” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/27/1955
• “Merchant and Farmers Bank organized in Statesville in 1907” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/25/1955
• “Statesville had its fling with Tobacco Manufacturing” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/9/1955
• “Turnersburg pioneered industry in old Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/15/1955
• “Turner manufacturing firm finishes cycle back to tractors” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/22/1955
• “Local industry has interesting past” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/29/1955
• “Southern Bell had a long, hard flight holding its beachhead in Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/5/1956
• “Statesville’s early ‘Industrial Revolution’ saw banning of several local businesses” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/2/1956
• “Development of Furniture Industry came early in Century” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/9/1956
• “Iredell Whisky trade boomed here in 1880” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/13/1956
• “Movement against liquor trade developed early in Old Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/15/1956
• “Herb trade was once vital industry here” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/21/1956
• “Big 1916 flood swept Old Monbo Mill away” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/4/1956
• “The Bad Debt Collection Agency Stirred up Praise and Resentment in Fight against ‘Dead-Beats” Statesville Record & Landmark” 8/22/1957
• “Telephones arrived with bang” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/22/1958
• “Razing of Old Statesville [tobacco] warehouse brings end to era” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/7/1962
• “Borrowing and carrying are outmoded” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1965
• “Auction marks passing of institution [Morrow Store]” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/21/1973
• “Tobacco industry held role on Iredell scene” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Flax industry existed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Cotton gained spotlight as top Iredell product” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Statesville once known for wholesale liquor” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Roots, medicinal herb center located in city” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Textile dynasty is formed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Old tax list reveals many grain mills” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/2/1975
• Caldwell, Joseph Pearson
• “Caldwell, Joseph Pearson (Sr.).” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. I, pp. 304, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1979).
• “Caldwell, Joseph Pearson (Jr.).” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. I, pp. 304, 305, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1979).
• Caves
• “Cave-in adds chapter to Old Case” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/7/1957
• Census Records
• “Old Census Records Provide Interesting Iredell History” Statesville Daily Record, 4/12/1950
• Charlotte, N.C
• “Change in calendar may explain confusion over events in Charlotte in 1775” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/31/1973
• Churches—See Religion
• Circus
• “Old fashioned traveling Circus Brought Excitement and Opposition to Statesville” Statesville Record and Landmark, 9/15/1954
• Civil War
• “Civil War failed to close two Iredell County Schools” Statesville Daily Record, 6/11/1951
• “Fraley was Union Grove leader until Unionists drove him away” Statesville Daily Record, 9/20/1951
• “Iredell men made gallant records fighting with Confederate Army” Statesville Daily Record, 5/27/1953
• “Stoneman’s raid brought Civil War to Iredell after Lee’s surrender” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/3/1954
• “Stoneman’s Raid closest Brush with Civil War” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/6/1957
• “Civil War Camp Life Described in Letters” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/19/1957
• “Guarding of Railroad Pictured in Letters” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/27/1957
• “Letters Detail Richmond Fight” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/3/1957
• “Ellis Letters tell of Camp life in Virginia” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/10/1957
• “Religious Tendencies of the Civil War Soldiers are shown in Reid Ellis’ Letters home” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/17/1957
• “Ellis Letters show war weariness Beginning During the High Water Mark of the Confederacy” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/24/1957
• “The case of Jonathan Coffey” The State (magazine), 11/16/1957
• “Civil War letters to Ellis Family Resumes [sic]” Statesville Record and Landmark, 8/1/1958
• “Story of Ft. Hamby’s Capture” Statesville Record and Landmark, 8/12/1958
• “Troops miss Stony Point soldier’s cooking” Statesville Record and Landmark,8/13/1958
• Ellis letters describe Gettysburg fighting” Statesville Record and Landmark, 8/22/1958
• “Helper’s Anti-slavery book inflamed South, but failed to help GOP in 1860 election” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/28/1959
• “Series begins from Gaither Brother’s Civil War letters” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/22/1961
• “Civil War soldiers often homesick” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/3/1961
• “Iredell’s Johnny Rebs brought more things than Yankees during War” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/8/1961
• “Gaither letters tell of Confederate action near Richmond” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/15/1961
• “Iredell’s Johnny Rebs had it easy briefly after Seven Days Fighting” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/29/1961
• “Letters reveal one Johnny Reb’s long battle with stubborn malady” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/5/1961
• “Experience in Hospital helpful to Confederate” Statesville Record & Landmark 4/13/1961
• “Letters describe Confederate Pickett Duty along Rapidan” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/20/1961
• “Deep dissatisfaction of Iredell Confederate revealed prior to his death at Chancellorsville Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/27/1961
• “Another letter series from Civil War begins” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/15/1961
• “Letters describe 1863 foray into ‘Bumping” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/5/1961
• “Home front life during Civil War” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/12/1961
• “The Yankees called it ‘Bull Run” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1961
• “Branch’s Brigade First Iredell Unit in Civil War Action” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/11/1962
• “Three Iredell Companies got Baptism of Blood May 31, 1862, in Army from Richmond” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/14/1962
• “Confederates under Lee’s command devise plan for driving Federal Army from Richmond” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/14/1962
• “Role of Army troops is recounted” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/27/1962
• “Gaines’ Mill battle bitterly fought” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/6/1962
• “1862 Virginia Campaign was gamble for Lee” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/31/1962
• “Iredell, Alexander Units fought with Jackson” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/5/1962
• Clock
• “Statesville’s Clock gave alliance chance to flex political muscles” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/4/1960
• “That town clock really caused a furor.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/17/1965
• Comets—See Astronomy
• Cool Springs
• “Cool Springs or Cool Springs, It goes way back” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/4/1955
• “Mitchell’s [Cool Springs] Academy ended era in Education” Statesville Record and Landmark, 5/6/1955
• Courthouse
• “When they tore Courthouse down” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/6/1956
• “Minor matter saves courthouse lawn” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/25/1958
• “Records of Tom Dula trial will help Latter-Day juries reach verdict” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/11/1958
• “Bell, trees remain from 1859 Courthouse” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/24/1959
• “Statesville was scene of famous civil suit” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/15/1960
• “Construction of first courthouse is recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/22/1971
• Cowles, William Henry Harrison
• “Cowles, William Henry Harrison.” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell., ed. Vol. I, pp. 446, 447, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1979).
• Crawford, Leonidas Wakefield
• “Crawford, Leonidas Wakefield,” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. I. pp. 457, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1979).
• Crime
• “Jailbreaks basis for campaigns waged by Mallard in Landmark” Statesville Daily Record, 2/18/1954
• “Early Iredell had bigamy case” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/18/1955
• “Time adds romance to sordid case of Tom Dula hanging” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/12/1956
• “Iredell was struck by bizarre outbreak of 7, homicide cases in 1883” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/13/1956
• “Reporter Foresees [Outlaw Otto] Wood’s Career” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/12/1957
• “City’s First Speed Limit: 15 M.P.H.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/19/2003
• “1906 murders led to Lynching” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/16/1958 [date on page mistakenly printed as 1957]
• “Night riders had rough technique for cutting crop production in 1908” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/9/1958
• “Account of old trial [auto racing] brings back memories” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28/1960
• “Statesville was scene of famous Civil Suit” Statesville Record & Record, 7/15/1960
• “Tom Dula’s conviction, hanging involved Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Davidson, N.C.
• “[1839] Letter gives Insight [sic] to Early Davidson Days” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/11/1957
• “Questions about Gen. William Davidson, role in war recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/20/1978
• Deems, Charles Force
• “Deems, Charles Force.” In Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. II, pp. 49, 50, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1986).
• Desserts
• “Nothingness is found in deserts” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/14/1969
• Duke
• “Institute that had hectic career almost became Duke University” Greensboro Daily News, 10/7/1951
• “Kimball ‘Recruited’ for first Duke club” Statesville Record and Landmark, 1/24/1975
• Dula, Tom
• “Time adds romance to sordid tale of Tom Dula Hanging” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/12/1956
• “Dula Ballad wowed long time ago” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/17/1958
• “Records of Dula trial help latter-day juries reach verdict” Statesville Record & Landmark, Dec. 18, 1958. [date on paper mistakenly printed as 12/11/1958
• “Supreme Court records reveal much of Dula’s trail” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/24/1958
• “Witness describes Dula hanging” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/15/1959
• “Nemesis of Tom Dula not in witness list” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/16/1959
• “Historian holds Dula juries as competent” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/24/1959
• “Account of Old Trial brings back memories” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/26/1960
• “Tom Dula’s conviction, hanging involved Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Eagle Mills
• “Eagle Mills, South Troy in 1850 Termed South’s Greatest Section” Statesville Daily Record, 5/3/1950
• “Baggerly Tried Hard to have Railroad stop at Eagle’s Mills” Statesville Daily Record, 5/11/1950
• “Newspapers Campaigned Against Railroad through Eagle Mills” Statesville Daily Record 5/11/1950
• “Famous deed to [Eagle City] voided by 1857 panic” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/28/1955
• Education
• “Early 1800’s saw rapid progress of Education in Iredell County” Statesville Daily Record, 9/11/1950
• “Early settlers in this region had much interest in education” Statesville Daily Record, 6/4/1951
• “Civil War failed to close two Iredell County Schools” Statesville Daily Record 6/11/1951
• “Institute that had hectic career almost became Duke University” Greensboro Daily News, 10/7/1951
• “300 attend teachers public relations event” Statesville Daily Record, 12/8/1951
• “Report cards old and new” North Carolina Education, 2/1953, pp. 12-13, 30, 31, 32.
• “Mitchell’s [Cool Springs] Academy ended era in Education” Statesville Record and Landmark, 5/6/1955
• “Ante-Bellum Presbyterian Schools have given Iredell Rich Heritage” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/20/1955
• “Iredell Teachers fill many types of vacation job” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/10/1955
• “Set’ your mind to ‘New Math.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/19/1955
• “Statesville voted its first city school tax in 1891” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/3/1955
• “City’s first graded school in 1891” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/4/1955
• “Numerous schools flourished here before Graded System was established in 1891” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/17/1955
• “Local College ‘Saved’ in campaign nearly 75 years ago” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/19/1956
• “Rural Iredell area sending over 130 students to College Campuses” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/29/1956
• “Cage of Pet Snakes with Bat and Lizzard [sic] Thrown in Puts Class in Stew of Excitement” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/24/1956
• “Discussion of Modern Schools brings nostalgia for “Good Old Days”, Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/3/1957
• “One of North Carolina’s First Statewide Teachers’ meetings held here nearly Century ago” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/14/1957
• “Public Schools Got Start Early in 1840’s” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/21/1957
• “Pressly was first Superintendent of Schools” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/27/1957
• “Consolidated School Set-up Started in 1924” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/4/1957
• “Iredell Got first State High Schools in 1907” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/11/1957
• “Tape Recorder sets off Fire Drill at Central” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/15/1957
• “Commencement used to be Big Event of Year” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/7/1957
• “Rural [Iredell] Schools sending 150 to College” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/27/1957
• “Central High School Born in Depression” Statesville Record and Landmark, 4/24/1958
• Eupeptic Springs
• “Eupeptic Springs Enjoyed Wide Popularity in the Old Days” Statesville Daily Record, 5-24/1950
• “Eupeptic Springs Healing Powers Spread Over State by Newspapers” Statesville Daily Record, 5/25/1950
• “Institute that had hectic career almost became Duke University” Greensboro Daily Record, 10/7/1951
• “Local School Bus system’s origin clouded” Statesville Record and Landmark, 12/17/1958
• “Negroes of Statesville taught by Billingsleys” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/29/1959
• “Brady’s Almanac lists 89 schools in county in 1902” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/11/1962
• A“lmanac shows South Iredell School consolidation occurred slowly” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/17/1962
• “Geography dictated consolidation [of Troutman-area schools]” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/31/1962
• “Troutman school history is given” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/21/1962
• “Lois Edinger wields firm gavel of NEA” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/8/1965
• “Set your mind to ‘New Math.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/19/1965
• “Let’s keep number and numeral straight.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1965
• “Borrowing and carrying are outmoded.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1965
• “Zero does not mean nothing.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1965
• “Number’s don’t have to be based on ten.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/26/1965
• “1924 consolidation formed seven Iredell High Schools,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/18/1966
• “Retired school teacher [F.B. Madison] passes in Review” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/4/1968
• “Grandpa is learning to teach Grandson” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1969
• “Barium ‘Gymnasium’ being demolished” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/14/1972
• “Academy formed by Methodists” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Early vote in Iredell County on Public School Act led to education system” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/20/1974
• “Old Field Schools, Academies provided early education for students in Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/27/1974
• “Iredell Academies with colorful histories include Clio, Crowfield, Ebenezer” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/3/1974
• “Session Houses played key role in Female Academies” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/11/1974
• “Old Olin school will be sold” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/18/1975
• Entertainment
• “Old fashioned traveling circus excitement and opposition to Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/15/1954
• “Local movies now in 50th year” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/29/1957
• “Fourth of July activities recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/3/1968
• Farmers—See Agriculture
• Fire
• “Old journals recount fire disaster of 1854” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/13/1955
• “City’s Fire Department had humble beginning” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/29/1956
• “Memories prodded for date of old hotel fire” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28/1956
• “Tape Recorder sets off Fire Drill at Central” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/15/1957
• “Flake Burke recalls Disastrous Fire here” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/1/1959
• “Razing of old Statesville [tobacco] warehouse brings end to era” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/7/1962
• Flood
• “Big 1916 flood swept Old Monbo Mill away” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/4/1956
• “Rain and flood virtually washed away early loop” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/23/1962
• Fort Dobbs
• “Archaeologists want to dig at Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/25/1968
• “What did Fort Dobbs look like?” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/29/1968
• “Soil provides clues to location of Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/8/1968
• “Fort Dobbs restoration plans are discussed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1968
• “Interest in old Fort grows” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/6/1968
• “Diggers at Ft. Dobbs beginning to strike pay dirt” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/23/1969
• “Archeological work is continuing at Ft. Dobbs site” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/23/1969
• “Ft. Dobbs restoration plans are discussed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/24/1969
• “Midden is found at Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/12/1969
• “Ft. Dobbs excavation work is completed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 09/1/1/1969
• “Features of Ft. Dobbs located in diggings” Statesville Record & Landmark, 09/6/1969
• “Governor’s instructions led to erection of frontier Fort” Statesville Record & Landmark, 09/6/1969
• “Arthur Dobbs fussed with assembly” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/5/1969
• “Old Fort builder talented young man” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/12/1969
• “Fort builder was very busy man” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/19/1969
• “Hugh Waddell, builder of Ft. Dobbs, led troops successfully in province” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/3/1969
• “Andrew Bailey of Ft. Dobbs military staff was effective frontier soldier” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/12/1969
• “Activities of Walter Lindsay stand out among soldiers in history of Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 02/19/1970
• “Lindsay served as ‘Law North of Third Creek” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/26/1970
• “Concept [of Ft. Dobb’s appearance] is developed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/2/1970
• “Fort stood guard against attack from North” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/2/1970 Progress Edition
• “Dr. Fergus was colorful soldier at Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/12/1970
• “DAR has owned Fort over 50 years” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/31/1971
• “Artifacts from Ft. Dobbs are exhibited” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/2/1971
• “Ft. Dobbs remains link with frontier” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Deeds provide Ft. Dobbs clues” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/12/1974
• “Archeologist explores Ft. Dobbs Surroundings” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/24/1974
• Fourth of July
• “4th of July activities recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/3/1968
• Gary, Kays
• “Letters to Kays Gary.” Charlotte Observer, 7/8/1966
• Ghosts
• “Iredell ‘Ghosts’ threw rocks” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/30/1958
• “Wild ‘Santer’ beast plagued area in 1890” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/4/1959
• “Elmwood ghost stories revived,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/20/1965
• “Tale of Santer revived by strange sightings” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/2/1972
• Grand Canyon
• “Keever is impressed by colorful canyon” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/22/1969
• Great Britain
• “’Liz’ proves to be unusual tour guide for group visiting British landmarks” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/12/1973
• Granville
• “Granville land warrant one of the early documents in Iredell’s history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/8/1975
• “Early settlement of Iredell area found in Lord Granville’s holdings around 1749” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/23/1973
• Harmony
• “Harmony Camp Meeting story told” Statesville Daily Record, 10/11/1951
• “Meeting at Harmony deeply rooted in past” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/7/1955
• Hawaii
• “Down in Iredell: Hawaii – A blend,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/17/1964
• Henkel, Paul
• “Henkel, Paul.” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed. Vol. III, pp. 111, 112, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1988).
• Hiddenite
• “Hiddenite discovered by Adlai Stephenson, Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1955
• Historic Buildings
• “Memories prodded for Date of old hotel fire” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28, 1956
• “When they tore the Courthouse down” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/6/1956
• “Minor Matter’ saves courthouse lawn” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/25/1958
• Hospitals—See Medical
• Indians
• “First Settlers here found Catawba tribe” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1956
• “Early settlers had trouble with Cherokee Tribe” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1956
• “Soapstone Indian pot is dug up by Benfield” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/25/1964 [no Keever by-line]
• “Battle with Indians reported” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/29/1968
• “Arrowheads,, numerous artifacts found in Iredell recalls presence of Indians” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/30/1973
• Iredell County
• “Efforts to Divide Iredell into New Counties Failed” Statesville Daily Record, 6/1/1950
• “Iredell’s beginnings parallels that of U.S.” Statesville Daily Record, 7/19/1950
• “Iredell’s early life filled with politics and intrigue in North Carolina Legislature” Statesville Daily Record, 7/25/1950
• “Establishing historic facts is like working a jigsaw puzzle” Statesville Daily Record, 8/9/1950
• “Old Store records give interesting picture of Iredell 100 years ago” Statesville Daily Record, 10/5/1950
• “Good grazing land helped bring first settlers to Iredell County” Statesville Daily Record, 5/28/1952
• “Early History of Iredell given in Record of First County Court” Statesville Daily Record, 8/30/1952
• “Iredell early settlers wanted to leave no David Copperfields” Statesville Daily Record, 5/25/1953
• “Iredell County created by close vote by General Assembly in 1788” Statesville Daily Record, 6/4/1953
• “Rockwell notes descendants of Martyrs among early settlers in this community” Statesville Daily Record, 9/11/1953 (no Keever by-line)
• “Iredell quashed numerous plans to dismember county” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/18, 1956
• “Clues shed new light on new puzzle in Iredell’s history” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/11/1958
• “Telephones arrived with a bang” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/14/1958
• “Column will go back 100 years” Statesville Record and Landmark, 1/8/1959
• “Fence law in Iredell dates back to 1870’s” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/6/1959
• “Exact locations of Iredell County township boundary lines remain puzzle” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/6/1960
• “Fine print on deeds reveal early history,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/18/1964
• “Down in Iredell: Hawaii—A blend” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/17/1964
• “Runaways, 50 years apart, Strikingly alike” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/19/1964
• “Journal of Francis Asbury, pioneer Methodist bishop, describes only two trips to Iredell,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/15/1964
• “Letter to Kays Gary” Charlotte Observer, 7/8/1966
• “Battle with Indians reported” 6/29/1968
• “Fertile lands drew settlers” Statesville Record & Landmark, 02/23/1970 [no Keever by-line]
• “Lindsay served as ‘Law north of Third Creek” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/26/1970
• “Iredell history story of progress” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/2/1970 Progress Edition [four and one-half page article]
• “Iredell snared limelight” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/20/1972
• “Early settlement of Iredell area found in Lord Granville’s holdings around 1749” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/23/1973
• “Five Distinct periods found in Iredell’s Past” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/8/1974
• “Iredell’s territory changed in 1847” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 8/8/1974
• “Granville land warrant on of the early documents in Iredell’s history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/8/1975
• “Iredell: Piedmont County, (Statesville: Iredell County Bicentennial Commission, 1976)
• “Williamsburg lost bid as county seat” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Iredell, James
• “Judge James Iredell figured prominently in coalition, decision” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• A“ugust 8, 1774: Rowan Resolves occupied prominent place in Tar Heel history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/1/1974
• Israel
• “redell tourists find tough security measures during visit to Israel” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/28/1973
• Ivey, Thomas Neal
• “Ivey, Thomas Neal.” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. III, pp. 260, 261, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1988).
• Lillington
• “Birth of Lillington is blocked,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/28/1964
• Lindsay, Walter
• “Activities of Walter Lindsay stand out among soldiers in history of Ft. Dobbs” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/19/1870
• “Lindsay served as ‘Law north of Third Creek” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/26/1970
• Jackson, Andrew
• “At which Aunt’s home did Jackson draw first breath?” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/16/1967
• Jordan, H.H.
• “Short news items colorful story of H.H. Jordan” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1960
• McElwee, John Harvey
• “McElwee, John Harvey.” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. IV, pp. 146, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1991).
• Maps
• “Old Map’s Tryon Mountain Puzzler” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/29/1955
• Math—See under Science
• Mayhew
• “Mayhew reunion is set Sunday” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/18/1959
• Medical
• “Eupeptic Springs: Good Digestion” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Landmark credited with causing location of Asylum in Morganton” Statesville Daily Record, 2/2/1954
• “Writer does Research on Test for Phlebitis” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/8/1956
• “Never in all the History of Dentistry did so many probe so long and carefully for so little” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/1/1957
• “Crisis viewed from a ‘Containment’ angle” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/23/1958
• “Landmark files tell of 1918 Flu epidemic” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/1/1959
• “Statesville went all out to fight smallpox” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/24/1959
• “Iredell surgery began in 1896” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/6/1959
• “Billingsley Hospital had checkered career” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1959
• “Despite meager start, hospital growth evident” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Mining and Minerals
• “Iredell Gem Hunters try luck in Macon” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/9/1958
• Morrow Store
• “Auction marks passing of institution [Morrow Store]” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/21/1973
• Mott, John James
• “Mott, John James.” In Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. IV, pp. 335, 336, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1991).
• Music
• “1916 ‘Freshet’ song preserved by student.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/13/1966
• Newspapers
• “Old Newspapers recall days when slave labor was used in Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 12/14/1950
• C“ivil Rights hot political issue in days of Landmark’s founding” Statesville Daily Record, 1/11/1953
• “Infant Landmark aided by change in political complexion of County” Statesville Daily Record, 1/18/1953
• “Development of local news page strong point with early Landmark” Statesville Daily Record, 1/26/1953
• “Landmark credited with causing location of Asylum in Morganton” Statesville Daily Record, 2/2/1953
• “When Landmark was an upstart” Statesville Daily Record, 1/4/1954
• “Development of local news page strong point with early Landmark” Statesville Daily Record’ 1/25/1954
• “Landmark account debunks story of Nixon Curry’s Fine Exploits” Statesville Daily Record, 2/9/1954
• “Jailbreaks basis for campaigns waged by Mallard in Landmark” Statesville Daily Record, 2/18/1954
• “Statesville ‘Landmark’ gets new editorial punch; Newspaper was once powerful influence in State” Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 5/2/1954
• “J.P. Caldwell’s ‘Landmark’ was Scripture in Iredell” Winston Salem Journal and Sentinel, 5-2-1955
• “Landmark permitted itself to be scooped twice on development of Lookout Shoals” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/1/1955
• “Young reporter wrote of Auto Mishap” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/17/1956
• “Politics was main fare of early papers here” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/7/1956
• “Reporter Foresees [Outlaw Otto] Wood’s career” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/12/1957
• “Early Betts Writing turns up in Column” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/4/1958
• “Landmark Editor Clark recognized value of Wrights’ early airplane” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/1/1958
• “Column will go back 100 years” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/8/1959
• “Editor Caldwell right about news.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/22/1965
• “Close-Up Account” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/2/1965
• “Editor J.P. Caldwell’s story of Bostian Bridge train wreck in 1891 is considered a classic.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1966
• “Cause of Bostian Bridge wreck is still controversial.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/26, 1966
• “Information, Please” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/10/1968
• “Landmark’s history long, colorful” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “First copy of Record published during 1931” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Publications remembered” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Daily Record top competitor for Landmark in Journalism Field” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, April 8, 1974
• New Hope
• “How New Hope got its name” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/21/1955
• “New Hope township emerged in 1828” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Ney
• “Napoleon’s [sic] General’ Was a Controversial Figure” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/29/1954
• “Ney Story has Sequel” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/31/1954
• “They didn’t find Nye’s silver plate” Statesville Record and Landmark, 8/3/1954
• Olin Township
• “Olin at one time may have been larger than Statesville” Statesville Daily Record, 4/20/1950
• “More History about Old Time Olin” Statesville Daily Record, 4/22/1950
• “Olin almost replaced Trinity as Center of Methodist Learning”, Statesville Daily Record, 7/15/1950
• “The Olin story…Methodists form educational association” Statesville Daily Record, 6/18/1951
• “The Olin Story…New Institute gave area dreams of Grandeur” Statesville Daily Record, 6/23/1951
• “Olin Story…School Falls Victim to Political Strife” Statesville Daily Record, 6-27-1951
• “The Olin Story…New Institute Officials Continue with Program” Statesville Daily Record, 7-2-1951
• “Tradition Analyzed that Olin could have become Trinity College” Statesville Daily Record, 7-5-1951
• “The Olin Story…Methodist Switch to Trinity left Iredell School in Air” Statesville Daily Record, 7-11-1951
• “Olin Continues Unsuccessful Battle for Church’s Support” Statesville Daily Record, 7-18-1951
• “Olin gains upper hand in its flight for Methodist Support” Statesville Daily Record, 7-25-1951
• “Southgate Barely misses support of Vanderbilt’s for Olin School” Statesville Daily Record, 8-1-1951
• “Olin hits the skids.. Few traces are left of College” Statesville Daily Record, Aug. 13, 1951
• “Institute that had hectic career almost became Duke University” Greensboro Daily News, 10/7/1951
• “Olin Township played safe when Voting Bonds for the Long Sought Statesville Airline Road” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/14/1957
• “Old Olin school will be sold” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/18/1975
• Pacific Ocean
• “Pacific‘s colors eye-catching,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/30/1964
• People
• “Local woman stakes claim to Florida Land” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/20/1957
• “Iredell again claims York family member” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/11/1958
• Philosophy
• “25-hour day is all that is needed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/21/1973
• Plants
• “Rocky Face offers surprises to botanists” Statesville Daily Record, 4/21/1952
• “Copal survives times and taxes” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/1/1955
• “Farmers are alerted to sturdy new weed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/5/1955
• “A lesson in genetics: silks, tassels, wind” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28/1965
• “Roots, medicinal herbs center located in city” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Two aspects of herb business during boyhood remembered” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Poetry
• “States published poetry began in Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/7/1962
• Politics
• “Iredell County has furnished State Two Lieutenant Governors” Statesville Record and Landmark, 11/11/1954
• “Iredell took its politics seriously in 1908” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/25/1958
• “Local woman [Mrs. Maggie Gillespie] Early Politician” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/6/1958
• “Iredell Representative played important role in early State-Wide prohibition activity” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/7/1958
• “Ties of friendship [with David Furches] stronger than Politics” Statesville Record and Lanmark, 8/15/1958
• “No punches pulled in early Iredell Politics” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/28/1959
• “Iredell Populists aroused political temper” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/3/1959
• �“Iredell Republicans of 1880s had strong voice in State politics” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/17/1959
• “Whig Iredell inflamed by secession talk” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/22/1959
• “Helper’s anti-slavery book inflamed South, but failed to help GOP in 1860 election” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/28/1959
• “Smith opposed in 1928 Pre-convention moves” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1960
• “Churchmen opposed Smith on liquor stand” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/26/1960
• “Simons’ defection helped anti-Smith bolt” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/27/1960
• “Statesville’s clock gave alliance chance to flex political muscle” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/4/1960
• “Vice President Stevenson’s 1894 Statesville visit recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/11/1962
• “GOP Vice President here in 1910” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/15/1962
• “1938 debate foreshadowed amendment” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/31/1963
• “Birth of Lillington is blocked” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/28/1964
• Poor House
• “Iredell Poorhouse of 1848 won praise of Dorothea Dix” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/19/1963
• Post Office
• “Brady’s 1903 Almanac pinpoints location of 50 Post Offices in Iredell at that time” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/20/1961
• “Stony Point Post Office has 135—year history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/29/1961
• Railroad
• “Baggerly Tried Hard to have Railroad stop at Eagle’s Mills” Statesville Daily Record, 5/11/1950
• “Newspapers Campaigned Against Railroad Through Eagle Mills” Statesville Daily Record, 5/11/1950
• “Salisbury-Statesville Train Trip was Big Event for Editor in 1858” Statesville Daily Record 6/19/1950
• “Arrival of Train Service Brought Great Celebration to Statesville” Statesville Daily Record, 6/28/1950
• “Railroad come to Statesville despite some local opposition” Statesville Daily Record, 7/10/1950
• Statesville Leaders suggested Railroad use as early as 1833” Statesville Daily Record, 8/22/1950
• “Statesville began its agitation early to get railroad services” Statesville Daily Record, 11/24/1950
• “Alexander waited patiently for the ‘Junebug” Statesville Record and Landmark, 8/12/1954
• “A. T. & O made it as far as Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/15/1955
• “Guarding of Railroad Pictured in Letters” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/27/1957
• “June Bug’ Right of way raises problem” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/17/1958
• “Railroad gave Statesville its biggest day” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/14/1958
• “Railroads factor in city growth” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/11/1959
• “Editor J.P. Caldwell’s story of Bostian Bridge train wreck in 1891 is considered a classic.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1966
• “Cause of Bostian Bridge wreck is still controversial.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/26/1966
• “Statesville Airline Railroads: brief life” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/8/1974
• Religion
• “North Iredell Methodism Centered at one time in Snow Creek Church” Statesville Daily Record, 8/17/1950
• “Methodist Church has been vital force in Life of Iredell County” Statesville Daily Record, 8/23/1950
• “Covering Methodist Circuit in 1834 took month’s travel by minister” Statesville Daily Record, 8/29/1950
• “Historian traces development of Methodism in Statesville” Statesville Daily Record, 9/25/1950
• “The Olin Story…Methodists form Educational Association” Statesville Daily Record,
• “County Baptists got their start around Grassy Knob” Statesville Daily Record, 9-4-1951
• “Methodist Protestants play key role in settling Union Grove” Statesville Daily Record, 9-14-1951 (date on newspaper page given incorrectly as Sept. 4, 1951)
• “Harmony Camp meeting story told” Statesville Daily Record, 10/11/1951
• “Snow Creek Church will mark 150th anniversary on Sunday” Statesville Daily Record, 8/13/1952
• “Rocky Mount Methodist Church marking its 100th anniversary” Statesville Daily Record, 8/16/1952
• “Rockwell notes descendants of Martyrs among early settlers in this community” Statesville Daily Record, 9/11/1953
• “New Methodist District Parsonage Represents Latest in Six Moves” Statesville Daily Record, 4/1/1954
• “New Prospect Church century old” Statesville Record & Landmark, Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1955
• “[Union Grove Methodist] church boasts colorful history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/22/1955
• “Historical Sketch” by Homer M. Keever and Rev. L. Baine Laye. (Stony Point Methodist Church) 1956
• “Lutherans open Cornerstone Box” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/19/1956
• “New Sterling Church founded before 1790” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/13/1956
• Old First Methodist’s Church Destroyed by Flames during year 1907” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/9/1956
• “Stony Point Church record date to 1823” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/23/1956
• “Conference makes few changes in Ministerial Appointments for Churches in Iredell County” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/18/1957
• “Religious Tendencies of the Civil War are shown in Reid Ellis’ Letters home, Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/17/1957
• “Beginnings of Pisgah Church are clouded in Obscurity” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/18/1957
• “[Broad Street Methodist] Church sets Homecoming Service Sept. 22” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/19/1957
• “Conference makes new Salem Church single station: Rev. W. H. Pheagin to be Pastor” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/12/1958
• “Preacher overcomes handicaps” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/18/1958
• “York, Rev. Bascom Arlendo” Journal of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference, 1959
• “Troutman Methodist’ founding is recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/7/1959
• “Gay’s Chapel has proud history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/29/1959
• “Dr. Pressly’s 1895 Sermon on New Woman ‘Took Legs’” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/29/1959
• “Religious Segregation beginning needs study” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1959
• “Troutman [Methodist] Church sets Centennial” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/11/1959
• “Bethel Baptist Church will mark 100 years of Progress at Celebration on Sunday” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/14/1960
• “Short-lived Cambridge Associate Presbyterian Church of 1820s faced problems like today’s” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/20/1960
• “Churchmen opposed Smith on Liquor stand” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/26/1960
• “Liberty Methodist Church pushed to completion by Gem Collector [sic]” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/28/1960
• “Richard King, Presbyterian, played major role in establishing Methodism along Snow Creek” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/22/1963
• “Circuit rider Ellis is credited with beginning Methodism around 1813 in Stony Point” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/3/1963
• “Journal of Francis Asbury, pioneer Methodist Bishop, describes only two trips to Iredell,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/15/1964
• “New Macedonia Methodist church finished,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/23/1964
• “New steps taken in long history of Pisgah Methodist church, harking back to 1801.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/17/1965
• “Pattern of moving early Methodist churches ‘From isolation to mainstream’ is cited.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/1/1965
• “Bishop’s failure to reach ordination service in 1808 affects Snow Creek church history.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1965
• “Moss” Chapel Methodist Church has its roots in 1802 Camp Meeting on Trumpet Branch.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/8/1965
• “A Lutheran preacher’s account of the 1801-02 revival in North Carolina” Statesville Record & Landmark, October 1968
• “Methodist work undergoing many changes” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/23/1969
• “Our Church History. Statesville: Broad Street United Methodist Church” 1973
• “Church growth in city reviewed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Early settlers no surprise in Presbyterian background” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Baptist Congregation organized during 1789” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Camp’ Ground is listed” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Lutherans organized about 1815 in area” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “Methodist movement traced back to 1780” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th
• “Academy formed by Methodists” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• “The New Methodist Story and Background of Area Churches” in The Heritage of Iredell County. Mildred J. Miller, ed., (Statesville: Genealogical Society of Iredell County, 1980).
• “Rocky Mount United Methodist Church” in The Heritage of Iredell County. Mildred J. Miller, ed. (Statesville: Genealogical Society of Iredell County, 1980).
• Revolutionary War
• “Iredell County was stronghold for Whigs prior to Civil War” Statesville Daily Record, 11/4/1950
• “Adam Lawrence story illustrates Big Revolutionary War Scandal” Statesville Daily Record, 8-23-1951
• “Iredell Whigs at Ramseur’s Mill” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/30/1955
• “Whig Iredell inflamed by secession talk” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/22/1959
• “August 8, 1774: Rowan Resolves occupied prominent place in Tar Heel history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/1/1974
• Roads
• “Plank roads historically important though they never succeeded here” Statesville Daily Record, 1/4/1951
• “Olin Township played safe when voting bonds for the long sought Statesville Airline Road” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/14/1957
• “Street name changes proved too puzzling” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1957
• “Iredell quickly leaped to front in good roads movement in 1911” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/8/1974
• Rockwell
• “Rockwell notes descendants of Martyrs Early Settlers in this Community” Statesville Daily Record, 9/11/1953
• Rowan County
• “August 8, 1774: Rowan Resolves occupied prominent place in Tar Heel history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/1/1974
• Runaways
• “Runaways, 50 years apart, strikingly alike” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/10/1964
• Santer
• “Wild Santer’ beast plagued area in 1890” Statesville Record and Landmark, 2/4/1959
• “Tale of Santer revived by strange sightings” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/2/1972
• Science
• “Rocky Face offers surprises to botanists” Statesville Daily Record, 4/21/1952
• “Scientists say varied woodland hues all due to chemistry” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/25/1956
• “Second Comet this summer seen here on 50th Anniversary of ‘LaF’ Discovery” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1957
• “A lesson in genetics: silks, tassels, wind.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/28/1965
• “Set your mind to ‘New Math.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/19/1965
• “Let’s keep number and numeral straight.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/20/1965
• “Borrowing & carrying are outmoded.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1965
• “Zero does not mean nothing.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/25/1965
• “Numbers don’t have to be based on ten.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/26/1965
• Spanish American War
• “[Spanish-American War hero Richmond Pearson] Hobson extended big welcome at Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1959
• Sports
• “County Basketball teams begin second half of season’s card” Statesville Daily Record, 1/29/1951
• “League leaders refuse to be ousted in county cage race” Statesville Daily Record, 2/5/1951
• “Scotts, Cool Springs defend [basketball] crowns at Mid-Piedmont tourney” Statesville Daily Record, 2/12/1951
• “County basketball teams vie for position as race nears end” Statesville Daily Record, 2/26/1951
• “Cool Springs Six beats Harmony” Statesville Daily Record, 9-29-1951
• “Troutman spotted as top [basketball] team, boys of District Weaker” Statesville Daily Record, 11-30-1951
• “Girls show strength: Cool Springs, Scotts to pace teams of Loop” Statesville Daily Record, 12/1/1951
• “Celeste Boys, Scotts girls are loop’s surprise teams” Statesville Daily Record, 1/21/1952
• “Springers risk clean slate, Hiddenite, Scotts Aim for leaders” Statesville Daily Record, 1/28/1952
• “Troutman faces two though games during week in district” Statesville Daily Record, 2/4/1952
• “Iredell [basketball] teams end season Friday” Statesville Daily Record, 2/25/1952
• “Gilreath paces Iredell All-Conference [basketball] team, Troutman puts Whitener, Matheson on Mythical Six” Statesville Daily Record, 3/20/1952
• “Thomas sweeps boys votes” Statesville Daily Record, 3/21/1952
• “Harmony surprises team in Boys’ Loop: Action to end for holidays” Statesville Daily Record, 12/15/1952
• “Landmark story tells of Beginnings of Baseball in Iredell County Seat” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/10/1954
• “Statesville and Charlotte papers hailed scoring punch of Osceolas” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/16/1954
• “Landmark found pace too furious” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/18/1954
• “Early basketball games played by Lantern Light” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/22/1955
• “Rain and Flood virtually washed away early [basketball] hoop” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/23/1962
• “Barium ‘Gymnasium’ being demolished” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/14/1972
• “Iredell snared [basketball] limelight” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/20/1972
• “Basketball sees shift to offense in decade” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/24/1951
• Statesville
• “Statesville Didn’t Make Much News in 1851, History Shows” Statesville Daily Record 6/7/1950
• “Statesville Began coming out of Doldrums in late 1850’s” Statesville Daily Record, 6/13/1950
• “Panic wrought much havoc on North Iredell in 1857” Statesville Daily Record, 7/6/1950
• “Beginnings of Statesville traced: First streets Named, Laid out” Statesville Daily Record, 8/9/1950
• “Williamsburg was earliest attempt to establish town in North Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 10/25/1950
• “Levying tax on income not new to city of Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/7/1955
• “City’s water problem dates to Village Era” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/6/1955
• “Statesville voted its first city school tax in 1891” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/3/1955
• “Old record book covers history of Statesville’s City government from 1855 to 1893” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/19/1956
• “City’s first speed limit: 15 M.P.H.” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/19/1957
• “Street name change proved too puzzling” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/16/1957
• “Telephone’s arrived with a bang” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/22/1958
• “Railroad gave Statesville its biggest day” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/14/1958
• “Where did Statesville get its name?” Statesville Record & Landmark, 6/17/1959
• “Hobson extended big welcome at Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1959
• “Statesville suffered through bicycle decade” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/28/1959
• “Exact locations of Iredell County township boundary lines remain puzzle” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/6/1960
• “City’s changing face was evident by 1890” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1960
• “Chamber of Commerce began to bolster town’s progress” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1960
• “Razing of old Statesville Warehouse brings end to era” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/7/1962
• “Tennessee’s Statesville is very small village” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/27/1964
• “Dredging days recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/30/1970
• “Naming of Statesville Explained” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/8/1974
• Stevenson
• “Stevenson is rooted deeply in Old Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 7/26/1952
• “Adlai Stevenson’s ancestor left Iredell for Kentucky at age of 75” Statesville Daily Record, 10/22/1952
• “Hiddenite Discovered by Adlai Stephenson, Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1955
• “Vice President Stevenson’s 1894 Statesville visit recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/11/1962
• Stony Point
• “Stony Point post office has 135—year history” Statesville Record & Landmark, 11/29/1961
• Taylorsville
• “Taylorsville Marker slow coming” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/10/1959
• Tennessee
• “Tennessee’s Statesville is very small village,” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/27/1964
• Theatre
• “Horn in West much improved” Statesville Record & Landmark, July 11, 1955
• “Local Movies now in 50th year” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/29/1957
• Thompson, David Matthew
• “Thompson, David Matthew” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, ed., vol. VI, pp. 27, (Chapel Hill: Univ. of NC Press, 1996).
• Trees
• “Scientists say varied woodland hues all due to chemistry” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/25/1956
• Troutman
• “Troutman Methodists’ founding is recalled” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/7/1959
• “Troutman [Methodist] Church sets centennial” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/11/1959
• “History of Troutman needs flesh on bones” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/2/1960
• “Geography dictated consolidated [of Troutman—area schools]” Statesville Record & Landmark, 1/31/1962
• “Troutman school history is given” Statesville Record & Landmark, 2/21/1962
• “Address to 64th annual Troutman family reunion” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/24/1968
• Turnersburg
• “Turnersburg pioneered industry in Old Iredell” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/15/1955
• Stony Point
• “Stony Point still around despite critics during its Earlier Days” Statesville Record And Landmark, 8/27/1954
• Union Grove
• “Fraley was Union Grove leader until Unionists drove him away” Statesville Daily Record, 9-20-1951
• “Methodist Protestants play key role in Settling Union Grove” Statesville Daily Record, 9/14/1951 (date on newspaper page given incorrectly as Sept. 4, 1951)
• Veterans
• “Hobson extended big welcome at Statesville” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/22/1959
• Waddell, Hugh
• “Hugh Waddell, builder of Ft. Dobbs, led troops successfully in province” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/3/1969
• Weather
• “Forecasting or frost was big news in 1881” Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/12/1957
• “July 2nd is crucial day to weather prophets” Statesville Record and Landmark, 7/2/1959
• “Bermuda High villain in recurring snows” Statesville Record & Landmark, 3/12/1960
• “Rain and Floods virtually washed away early [basketball] loop” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/23/1962
• Wildlife
• “Unusual flowers grace Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 6/5/1951
• “A county flower: Magnolia would be apt for Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 6/16/1951
• “Praying mantis’s origin, habits prey on mind of our professors” Statesville Daily Record, 10/4/1951
• “Rocky Face offers surprises to Botanists” Statesville Daily Record, 4/21/1952
• “Preying Mantis lives down bad reputation” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/4/1955
• “Unusual Xyrus found in local bog” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/13/1955 [Note: correct spelling of plant name is Xyris.]
• “Copal [tree] survives times and taxes” Statesville Record & Landmark, 09/1/1955
• “Statesville area, once prairie, boasts variety of trees” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/26/1956
• “Clues indicate local area was once prairie” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/2/1956
• “Cage of Pet Snakes with Bat and Lizzard [sic] Thrown in puts class in Stew of Excitement” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/24/1956
• “Scientists say varied Woodland Hues all due to Chemistry” Statesville Record & Landmark, 10/25/1956
• “Keever Discusses Unique Blossoms” Statesville Record & Landmark, 4/16/1957
• “Boys watch spiders in battle to death” Statesville Record & Landmark, 5/23/1957
• “Hardwood Forestry 3-way Project” Statesville Record & Landmark, 7/8/1957
• “Mantis threatens small snake” Statesville Record & Landmark, 9/19, 1957
• “Here’s the tale of the Short, Unhappy lives of Two Snakes, Held Captive with a Mantis.” “Statesville Record and Landmark, 10/3/1957
• “Beetle disrupts calm of Offices” Statesville Record and Landmark, 6/19/1958
• “Millions of Starlings are attracted to Statesville area” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/9/1961
• Williamsburg
• “Williamsburg was earliest attempt to establish town in North Iredell” Statesville Daily Record, 10/25/1950
• “Williamsburg lost bid as county seat” Statesville Record & Landmark, 100th Anniversary Edition, 4/8/1974
• Women
• “Local woman [Mrs. Maggie Gillespie] early politician” Statesville Record & Landmark, 8/6/1958
• York Family
• “Iredell again claims York family member” Statesville Record & Landmark, 12/11/1958
• “York, Rev. Bascom Arlendo” Journal of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference, 1959