John Day 1 was born in OH. He married Maria Antoinette Carrington in Oct 1868.
Maria Antoinette Carrington [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3 on 30 Jul 1850 in Lexington, MI. She died 4 on 24 Jan 1937 in Saginaw, MI. She married John Day in Oct 1868. Maria resided 5 in 1860 in Sanilac, Sanilac, Michigan.
Other marriages:Penoyar, William V.
They had the following children:
F i Henrietta Frances Day
P H Ketchem.P married Eveline A. Carrington in 1872.
Eveline A. Carrington [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 29 Oct 1852 in Lexington, MI. She died on 2 Oct 1872 in Saginaw City, MI. She married P H Ketchem in 1872. Eveline resided 5 in 1860 in Sanilac, Sanilac, Michigan. She resided 6 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan.
Thomas Winsor 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 5 Jun 1852 in London, Ontario, CAnada. He died on 19 Mar 1930 in Seattle, WA. He married Ida Ann Carrington on 1 Jan 1874 in Huron County, MI. Thomas resided 5 in 1900 in Ballard, King, Washington. He resided 6 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States.
Son of Richard Winsor and Elizabeth Longworth.
Seattle pioneer
1869 Engaged later with family in the manufacturing of salt in Port Austin, Michigan
1886 He moved to Washington, where he engaged in the lumber industry.
1897 Candidate for mayor of Seattle, WashingtonPortrail and biographical album of Huron County page 368
Thomas Winsor, senior member of the firm of Thomas Winsor & Co, manufacturers of salt, lumber, staves, heading, shingles, etc, also dealers in general merchandise, Port Austin, was born June 5, 1852, in London, Ont. He is the son of Richard, Sr and Elizabeth Longworth Winsor, and has resided since he was seven years of age in Huron County.
His parents removed in 1869 to Huron City, where the family remained several years and went thence to Port Austin, where they still reside.
Mr Winsor established a general mercantile business at Port Austin, in 1871, and after managing its interests singly for a few months, he became associated with Thomas Neill and after a successful prosecution of the affairs of the concern about three and a half years, its membership was dissolved. In 1875 the firm of Carrington & Winsor wa created, which relation still continues. Their first business was transacted in a brick store, which they erected for the purpose, and where they have since operated. Their stock represents an average amount of $12,000 or more. In 1880-1, they built an extensive salt block and sawmil, which was burned March 27, 1881, involving a loss of $22,000. In the following year a branch store, which they had built in Meade Township, 24 X 80 feet in dimensions, was burned, with a loss above insurance of $2,500. They rebuilt the store and constructed a gristmill at the same place and subsequently sold both. The salt block was also rebuilt and a saqmill erected to aid in the prosecution of their business. They own two wells, having a capacity of 200 barrels daily, and manufacture three grades of salt, distinguished as "packer's salt", "fine" and "second quality". In 1883 they built an elevator on the Port Huron & Northwester Railroad, at Port Austin, which has a capacity of 18,000 bushels, and is one of the largest structures of the kind on the line. The firm traffic in all kinds of grain and produce. They own a dock situated near their mills, built in 1877 by Mr. Winsor and his brother Philip (now a salesman in the store). The land where their works are erected comprises 40 acres nearly, and they own 10 acres south of the village of Port Austin. They conduct a retail and wholesale lumber yard, and operate as builders and contractors; also have a machine shop where a large amount of repairing is done. Another branch of their business is the sinking of salt wells along the shor of Lake Huron. In 1883, Roscoe E., son of Mr. Carrington, was admitted to the firm. Mr Winsor has been and still is Postmaster of Port Austin.
He was married at Port Crescent, Jan 1, 1874 to Ida A Carrington. Their children were born at Port Austin as follows: Eva, Jan 1, 1877; Blanche, Aug 26, 1880; William, Jan 14 1883. Mrs Winsor is the daughter of Mark an Rhoda A Carrington, and was born Aug 3, 1858 at Lexington, Sanilac Co, Mich.
Ida Ann Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8 on 3 Aug 1855 in Lexington, MI. She died on 18 Mar 1931 in Long Beach, CA. She was buried in Seattle, WAshington. She married Thomas Winsor on 1 Jan 1874 in Huron County, MI. Ida resided 9 in 1860 in Sanilac, Sanilac, Michigan. She resided 10 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan. She resided 11 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. She resided 12 in 1900 in Ballard, King, Washington. She resided 13 in 1930 in Seattle, King, Washington.
Descendants of Ida Ann Carrington
Generation No. 1
1. IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON (MARK2, JOEL1) was born August 3, 1854 in Lexington Sanilac CO MI1, and died March 18, 1931 in Long Beach CA2. She married THOMAS WINSOR January 1, 1874 in Huron Co Michigan3, son of RICHARD WINSOR and ELIZABETH LONGWORTH. He was born June 5, 1852 inLondon Ontario Canada4, and died March 19, 1930 in Seattle WA King Co5.
Notes for IDA ANN CARRINGTON: Obituary reads
MRS. IDA WINSOR DIES WHILE VISITING SONWord was recieved in Seattle today of the death of Mrs. Ida CarringtonWinsor, widow of Thomas Winsor, Seattle pioneer, in Long Beach. Mrs.Winsor died Wednesday while visiting her son, Glen Winsor. Her body isbeing brought home to Seattle from California by her daughter, Mrs.Thomas Shields. Mrs. Winsor left Seattle about ten days ago.
She is survived by two sons, and two daughters: Mrs. S. George Rice, Mrs.Shields
and Will Winsor of Seattle, Glen Winsor of California. The funeral willbe held in Seattle. Arrangements have not been completed.Notes for THOMAS WINSOR:
Obituary Reads: Thomas Winsor, Seattle pioneer, passed away yesterday morning
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas M. Sheilds 1434 11 Ave W.He was born in London, Ont., June 5, 1852. In 1869 his family moved to Michigan, where he later engaged in the manufacturing of salt. In 1886 he moved to Washington, where he engaged in the lumber industry.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Thursday, January 14, 1897Candidates running for Mayor of Seattle
THOMAS WINSORThomas Winsor of Ballard, Populists, representitive from the fourty thirddistrict was born in London Ontario. June 5, 1852. He came to the UnitedStates at an early age
and was educated in the public schools of Michigan. He came west andresided
at Ballard for some years and been interested in the lumber business.Children of IDA CARRINGTON and THOMAS WINSOR are:
i. EVA4 WINSOR, b. January 1, 1877, Port Austin Huron Co. MI; d.April 24, 1960, Seattle WA; m. THOMAS SHEILDS, ABT 1899.
2. ii. BLANCH WINSOR, b. August 26, 1880, Port Austin MI Huron Co; d.May 1970, Seattle WA.
3. iii. WILLIAM WINSOR, b. January 14, 1883, Port Austin MI Huron Co;d. April 13, 1961, Seattle WA King Co.
4. iv. GLEN RODERICK WINSOR, b. October 27, 1885, Port Austin MI HuronCo; d. December 1976, Long Beach CA.Generation No. 2
2. BLANCH4 WINSOR (IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born August26, 1880 in Port Austin MI Huron Co6, and died May 1970 in Seattle WA7.She married GEORGE S. RICE.
Child of BLANCH WINSOR and GEORGE RICE is:
i. MARY5 RICE.3. WILLIAM4 WINSOR (IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born January14, 1883 in Port Austin MI Huron Co8, and died April 13, 1961 in SeattleWA King Co8.
Notes for WILLIAM WINSOR:
Obituary reads 4-14-1961William L. Winsor, 78, a Seattle pioneer, and retired saw filer died in ahospital
yesterday. He resided at 1434 11th ave W.
Funeral services are being arranged by the Arthur A. Wright & SonMortuary.Mr. Winsor, born in Port Austin, Mich. came to Seattle with his parentsin 1886. His father Thomas Winsor was a pioneer mill owner here.
The younger Mr. Winsor witnessed the Seattle fire in 1889. He attendedthe University of Washington where he was a track star.
Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Blance W. Rice, seattle, and a brother,Glenn R Winsor, Long Beach Calif.
Child of WILLIAM WINSOR is:
i. WILLIAM JR5 WINSOR, d. Bef. 1961.4. GLEN RODERICK4 WINSOR (IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was bornOctober 27, 1885 in Port Austin MI Huron Co9, and died December 1976 inLong Beach CA. He married PAULINA CHRISTINE A ROSE April 3, 1909 inSeattle WA King Co10, daughter of AUGUSTUS ROSE and EMMA KLASHAK. Shewas born August 7, 1889 in Coleman MI Midland Co11, and died November 28,1979 in Seattle WA12.
Notes for GLEN RODERICK WINSOR:
Glenn Winsor was a sea captian and he would take yachts from Californiato Alaska with many
of the old movie star legends such as Bing Crosby Carole Lomabard BobHope etc.
Glenn died around 1958 or 1959 after Jerry Doyle came back home from theKorean War.
Children of GLEN WINSOR and PAULINA ROSE are:
5. i. EVA ROSE5 WINSOR, b. May 27, 1910, Seattle, WA King Co; d.February 27, 1952, Vancouver WA.
6. ii. DOROTHY JANE WINSOR, b. August 23, 1912, Clear Lake WA; d.February 14, 1979, Seattle WA King Co.
Generation No. 35. EVA ROSE5 WINSOR (GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1)was born May 27, 1910 in Seattle, WA King Co13, and died February 27,1952 in Vancouver WA14. She married VICTOR P NAGEL.
Children of EVA WINSOR and VICTOR NAGEL are:
i. CHESTER ORVILLE6 NAGEL.
7. ii. NONA JANE NAGEL.
iii. LORNA BELLE NAGEL.
iv. GLENNA ROSE NAGEL.
v. CLAUDIA ANN NAGEL.6. DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR (GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2,JOEL1) was born August 23, 1912 in Clear Lake WA15, and died February 14,1979 in Seattle WA King Co16. She married EARLING B. SKOGEN January 19,1935 in Seattle WA King Co17, son of INGVALD SKOGEN and JOHANNEELIASSEN. He was born July 23, 1908 in Egersund Norway18, and diedDecember 1, 1991 in Seattle WA King Co19.
Notes for DOROTHY JANE WINSOR:
On 1-19-1938 Dorothy miscarried a boyNotes for EARLING B. SKOGEN:
Earling came to New York and rode the train through to Montana, afterseeing what he saw, he always said "If I had enough money I would've rodethe train back to NY and got back on that ship to go
home."Earling and Dorothy met at Pacific Luthern College.
Bert and Lena Jacobsen were Earling's Aunt and Uncle
Children of DOROTHY WINSOR and EARLING SKOGEN are:
8. i. KARN JOHANNA6 SKOGEN, b. November 11, 1938, Seattle WA King Co.
9. ii. JUDY PAULINA SKOGEN, b. May 21, 1940.
Generation No. 47. NONA JANE6 NAGEL (EVA ROSE5 WINSOR, GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) She married CURTIS.
Child of NONA NAGEL and CURTIS is:
i. RICKI7 CURTIS.8. KARN JOHANNA6 SKOGEN (DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR, GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born November 11, 1938 in Seattle WA KingCo20. She married GERALD NICHOLAS DOYLE February 4, 1957 in SeattleWA21, son of ARTHUR DOYLE and CHRISTENA KAYSER. He was born March 8,1938 in Alexandria South Dakota22.
Children of KARN SKOGEN and GERALD DOYLE are:
10. i. RONALD "RON" MICHAEL7 DOYLE, b. October 4, 1957, Seattle WAKing Co.
11. ii. ALAN PATRICK DOYLE, b. November 17, 1961, Seattle WA King Co.9. JUDY PAULINA6 SKOGEN (DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR, GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born May 21, 194023. She married (1)HARRRY E CHARD ABT 1959. She married (2) OLAV BJORKLUND ABT 1965.He was born October 19, 1923 in Stranda Norway24, and died April 28, 1996in Kirkland WA.
Children of JUDY SKOGEN and HARRRY CHARD are:
i. RALPH KIMBER7 CHARD.
12. ii. GLENN IVAN CHARD, b. May 29, 1961.Children of JUDY SKOGEN and OLAV BJORKLUND are:
13. iii. TOR7 BJORKLUND.
14. iv. ANNA BJORKLUND.
Generation No. 510. RONALD "RON" MICHAEL7 DOYLE (KARN JOHANNA6 SKOGEN, DOROTHY JANE5WINSOR, GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was bornOctober 4, 1957 in Seattle WA King Co25. He married TONA ANN KRUEGERAugust 23, 1980 in Seattle WA King Co26, daughter of KELSEY and DELPHINA"MAE". She was born November 13, 1958 in Everett WA Snohomish Co27.
Children of RONALD DOYLE and TONA KRUEGER are:
i. MICHAEL THOMAS8 DOYLE, b. September 22, 198427.
ii. KEVIN ALAN DOYLE, b. January 20, 198827.11. ALAN PATRICK7 DOYLE (KARN JOHANNA6 SKOGEN, DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR,GLEN RODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born November 17,1961 in Seattle WA King Co28. He married LORI ANN ENGLE April 20, 1986in Reno NV29, daughter of ROBERT ENGLE and HAZEL WUNDERLICH. She wasborn March 27, 1962 in Seattle WA King Co30.
Children of ALAN DOYLE and LORI ENGLE are:
i. PATRICK ALAN8 DOYLE, b. July 17, 1993, Seattle WA King Co30.
ii. EMMA ROSE DOYLE, b. August 27, 1994, Seattle Wa King Co30.12. GLENN IVAN7 CHARD (JUDY PAULINA6 SKOGEN, DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR, GLENRODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) was born May 29, 196131.He married LISA ANN PENA in Seattle WA King Co. She was born July 26,1965 in Seattle, WA King Co32, and died September 4, 1994 in Seattle, WAKing Co32.
Child of GLENN CHARD and LISA PENA is:
i. IVAN GLENN8 CHARD, b. March 9, 1990, Seattle WA King Co33.13. TOR7 BJORKLUND (JUDY PAULINA6 SKOGEN, DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR, GLENRODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) He married PATTI.
Children of TOR BJORKLUND and PATTI are:
i. RICHARD8 BJORKLUND.
ii. JAMES BJORKLUND.14. ANNA7 BJORKLUND (JUDY PAULINA6 SKOGEN, DOROTHY JANE5 WINSOR, GLENRODERICK4, IDA ANN3 CARRINGTON, MARK2, JOEL1) She met DEL VAN NATTA.
Child of ANNA BJORKLUND and DEL VAN NATTA is:
i. JESSICA8 VAN NATTA.
Endnotes1. Glen Winsor's Birth Cert
2. Death Certificate.
3. Huron Co Biography.
4. Glen Winsor's Birth Cert
5. Death Certificate.
6. Dianna Winsor.
7. Social Security Death Index.
8. Dianna Winsor.
9. Birth Certificate
10. Marriage LicenseIda Ann Carrington married Thomas Winsor. They had a son, Glen RoderickWinsor. Glen Roderick Winsor married Paulina Christine A
Rose. Glen and Paulina had a daughter..Dorothy Winsor. Dorothy
married Erling Skogen, who had a daughter Karn who had two sons.
One, is Alan, my husband.
They had the following children:
F i Eva Winsor F ii Blanche L Winsor 1 was born 2 on 26 Aug 1880 in Port Austin, MI. She died in May 1970 in Seattle WA. Blanche resided 3 in 1900 in Ballard, King, Washington. M iii William Winsor 1 was born 2 on 14 Jan 1883 in Port Austin, MI. He died on 13 Apr 1961 in Seattle, King Co, WA. William resided 3 in 1900 in Ballard, King, Washington. M iv Glenn Roderick Winsor
William W. Kelly 1 was born 2 in Nov 1860 in New York. He married Gertrude A Carrington on 23 Nov 1887 in Port Austin, MI. William was born in 1860 in New York. He resided 3, 4 in 1900 in Detroit Ward 14, Wayne, Michigan. He was employed as in Lumberman.
Lumberman
Gertrude A Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8 in May 1858 in Lexington, MI. She died in Aug 1912 in Detroit, MI. She married William W. Kelly on 23 Nov 1887 in Port Austin, MI. Gertrude resided 9 in 1860 in Sanilac, Sanilac, Michigan. She resided 10 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan. She resided 11 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. She resided 12 in 1900 in Detroit Ward 14, Wayne, Michigan.
Subj: Re: Huron_County_
Date: 1/6/00 12:17:34 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: DMHEBNER
To: CtcbholmesCornelia,
I noticed this Huron County marriage that might be helpful. Let me knowif you have any questions.....Diana M. Hebnerdate of license: Nov 22, 1887
groom: Wm. W. KELLY, age 27, white, residence Detroit Mich., birth place New York, lumberman, father Aug. Kelly, mother Harriet M. Milk, previously married no bride: Gertrude A. CARRINGTON, age 29, white, residence Port Austin, birthplace Michigan, occupation ---, father M. Carrington, mother Rhoda A. Butler, previously married no date and place of marriage: Nov 23, 1887 in Port Austin
official: Jno. C. Anderson, minister
witnesses: Geo. H. Van Woert of Port Austin and Mary J. Van Woert of Port Austin1900 Census lists no children born
Roscoe Eugene Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 on 23 Aug 1861 in Lexington, MI. He died 7 on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, Lee, NC. He was buried in Buffalo Cemetery. He married Jesse Mann on 18 Jun 1884. Roscoe was born 8 in 1862 in Michigan. He died on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, NC. He resided 9 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan. He resided 10 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided in , N.C by a Detroit firm to take charge of the brownstone pl. He resided 11 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 12 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 13 in 1920 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided 14 in 1930 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina.
Other marriages:Stroud, Lillie Belle
St Clair, Cornelia Annis
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan
1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan, and the employ of Wright and Kethum Lumber
Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company
Secretary of the Aldrich Stone Company
1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan
Farmed; Raised canteloupe,asparagus and dewberries.
1888 Living in Arizona. Working with Wells-FargoNotes from Elizabeth Carrington O'Connell on Roscoe Eugene Carrington
Aug. 23, 1861 Born to Mark and Rhoda Anne Butler Carrington
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan (Book)
1870s School in Port Cresent (Letter from friendmentioned this)
Jan. 23, 1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1881 Still in Port Austin (Age 21)
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan (Age 22)
June 18, 1884 Married Jesse Mann (Age 24)
July 19, 1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan and the employ of Wright and Ketchum
Lumber
April 28, 1888 Jessie Mann Carrington died.(E. says she died inchildbirth. I had heard she had T.B. E. says she also haddiabeties. They were living then in Arizona. (Mother had told methat he was working with Wells-Fargo.)
October 8, 1889 Chicago: Fisher Lumber Company wrote him letter ofrecommendation even though he was not in their employ. (Age 29)
March 11, 1891 Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company. "Been in ouremploy nearly a year." (Age 31 )
Winter, 1891: Fifield, Wisconsin. Lumber Grader and Scaler. "Wellposted on til Feb. 10, 1893 Lumber"
August 1895 Came to Sanford, N.C.
August 21, 1895 Sanford Herald, August 20, 1945 "Left Michigan andwas sent to Sanford by a Detroit firm. He was sent by the firmto take charge of the brownstone plant, the old quarry plantjust on the edge of Sanford."
November 14, 1895 Sanford Express, "Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary ofthe Aldrich Stone Company, left for the Atlanta Expositionyesterday morning." (Age 35)
November 21,1895 Sanford Express, "Mrs. Carrington, of Detroit,Michigan, and mother of Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of theAldrich Stone Company arrived here last week and will probablyspend the winter in Sanford."
January 23, 1896 "Mr. R.E. Carrington, superintendent of the Aldrichstone company has returned from a trip through Canada andthe North. He tells the "Express" that they have enoughorders to keep them busy at the quarry through the spring andsummer. The saws are kept going day and night. A new quarry hasbeen
opened near the old one. The railroad has been extended to it."
March 27, 1896 "The Aldrich stone company have agreed to donate a block of their brown stone to go in a monument on the Guilford BattleGround. Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of the company inwriting to Col. Morehead at Greensboro says: "We have notforgotten our promise to donate a block of our brownstone toyour grounds, and trust nothing will prevent itscompletion and erection by July 4th. The plan we willmake a beautiful and attractive monument, containing aboutforty-five cubic feet of Sanford, Moore County, N.C.brownstone."
April 17, 1896 "Mrs Carrington, mother of our townsman, Mr. R.E.Carrington,
Mrs. William H. Smith and Miss Ada Pierce, who spent the winter
here left for the North yesterday morning. Mrs. Carringtongoes to her home in Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Smith and Miss Adawill stop in Buffalo, New York."
1896 Married Lillie Belle Stroud in Sanford
September 1899 Lillie Stroud Carrington died in childbirth
September 19, 1901 Married Cornelia Annis St.Clair at the St.Clair homein Sanford,N.C.Sanford Express, September 5, 1895 "The Aldrich and Southern Red andBrownstone quarries are running their saws day and night to keep up withthe orders. Sanford brownstone is in reat demand and is used inpreference to much of the stone quarried in the North. These stonecompanies pay their hands from 75 cents up to $3.00 a day and the most ofthis money goes into the hands of our merchants. Stone quarrying in thiscommunity is destined to reach immense proportions."
"State Geologist J.A. Holmes was here and at Egypt last week in theinterest of State's exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Samples of coalfrom Egypt and brownstone from Sanford will comprise a part of thatexhibit."
News and Observer, June 6, 1897 THE ALDRICH STONE COMPANY:
Some years ago the above company was organized by some gentlemen of meansand enterprise of Detroit, Mich. The company acquired the mineraslrights in a large body of land lying on the outskirts of Sanford. All,or nearly all, of it is underlaid with this beautiful brown-stone. Theybuilt a first-class plant for quarrying, sawing and dressing the stone, built a spur into the quarry from the main track of the C.F. & Y.V. road and began the quarrying, dressing and shipping of stone. The lpanic overtook the enterprize, but it did not disturb it. A year of more ago Mr. R.E. Carrington, formerly a resident of Michigan, come to the quarry as general manager. He came with but little technical knowledge of the business, but he was a through buiness man and he applied his knowledge of business in general to the management of the company and the result is that it is working every hour, day and night. The engine and boilers and derricks and the twenty-five or thirty stone saws are all as busy as the ycan be with orders ahead for all the stone they can quarry and ship. This stone is now going into the Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, Va., of which structure Mr. Chas. H. Reade, of Richmaond, is in charge. Mr.Reade is one of the South's leading architects, and his endorsement of the stone and adoption of it for the handsome building referred to, and for other edifices being constructed under his supervision is a sufficient guarentee of the excellence of the stone. The stone is going also into the handsome new Presbyterian church now being erected in Charlottesville, Va.
Large shipments are being made to Lynchburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other points, and Mr. Carrington finds it necessary to increase his capacity in order to meet the growing demand. Mr.Carrington is a hustler and one of the cleaverest of the many young men who have come South to aid in developing its vast demand resources. He did not come with an idea of revolutioning things in a day, nor did he come with the expectation of laying down a thousand dollars and within amonth or so pick up ten thousand and wend his way back again. He came knowing that it takes grit, energy and economy to accomplish great results here, the same as it does elsewhere. He brought these things with him and he has applied them at his quarries at Sanford with good results. He is careful to ship only the best and clearest stone without faults, flaws or blotches and will not ship a piece of stone to go into a first class contract unless it is perfect in every particular. In thisway he has
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brownstone DiscoveredIn 1889, the first of several large brownstone quarries opened in Sanford. Brownstone, a deep reddish brown sandstone, underlies Sanford and much of northern Lee County. Since the beginnings of settlement, the stone had been used by local builders for house foundations, chimneys, cemetery walls, and the like. In the mid-1800s, the engineers who built the Western Railroad through the area exploited the stone's decorative potential in their beautifully crafted culverts. Brownstone was quarried locally on a small commercial scale during the 1870s and 1880s.
In America's fast-growing cities, interest in architectural brownstone reached a fever pitch during the late nineteenth century, a period aptly christened the Brown Decades. Romanesque brownstone government buildingswere built throughout North Carolina and elsewhere, and row after row of apartment buildings known as "brownstones" went up in New York,Philadelphia, and other cities. By the end of the 1880s, Sanford's enhanced rail connections enabled it to cater directly to this burgeoning national market. In 1889, the local press urged, "The people of Sanfordowe it to themselves to have the brownstone quarries in a quarter mile ofthe depot operated. Let's agitate and force this excellent building stoneupon the market. It is of the best in the U.S. and there is enough of ithere to build a New York or Chicago." And indeed, in August 1889 a Philadelphia concern leased quarry sites from several land owners in theSanford area.
In February 1890, W. H. Smith of Michigan, the contractor for a federal office building then under construction in Wilmington, leased a site southwest of the downtown and put twenty-five stonecutters to work. The stone was shipped to Wilmington on the newly completed Cape Fear & YadkinValley Railroad. African American stonecutters made up the majority ofthe workforce at the Smith quarry, as they did at most later Sanford quarries. The success of W. H. Smith's quarry inspired local landowners and northern capitalists to step up brownstone production. In June 1891,the Moore County Brownstone Company opened a quarry on a ninety-acretract west of downtown. Sanford's brownstone industry flourished through the turn of the century, but a shift in national taste away from the heavy Romanesque forms and rich coloration of the 1880s and 1890s toward the lighter, classical compositions popularized by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 gradually led to a slackening of demand for the local stone. Brownstone remained in use locally, for window lintels and other façade trim in downtown Sanford commercial buildings.
One of Lee County's architectural paradoxes is the virtual absence of sophisticated brownstone construction, despite the prevalence of brownstone quarrying. The Endor Iron Furnace and the Western Railroad used brownstone in the mid-1800s, but during the peak years of production, only the 1908 Lee County Courthouse and a handful of commercial buildings in downtown Sanford used brownstone in its dressed form. The stone was used with more frequency in Sanford landscaping. The front yard of the early-twentieth-century John R. Jones House at 402 Hawkins Avenue is bordered by a low brownstone wall punctuated by stone gate posts and short piers capped with pyramidal blocks, and a set of brownstone steps leads up to the house of quarry owner Roscoe E.Carrington at 214 Summitt Drive.
Jesse Mann died on 28 Apr 1888 in Texas or Arizona. She married Roscoe Eugene Carrington on 18 Jun 1884.
Died of Tb or childbirth
Roscoe Eugene Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 on 23 Aug 1861 in Lexington, MI. He died 7 on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, Lee, NC. He was buried in Buffalo Cemetery. He married Lillie Belle Stroud in 1896 in Sanford, NC. Roscoe was born 8 in 1862 in Michigan. He died on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, NC. He resided 9 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan. He resided 10 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided in , N.C by a Detroit firm to take charge of the brownstone pl. He resided 11 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 12 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 13 in 1920 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided 14 in 1930 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina.
Other marriages:Mann, Jesse
St Clair, Cornelia Annis
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan
1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan, and the employ of Wright and Kethum Lumber
Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company
Secretary of the Aldrich Stone Company
1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan
Farmed; Raised canteloupe,asparagus and dewberries.
1888 Living in Arizona. Working with Wells-FargoNotes from Elizabeth Carrington O'Connell on Roscoe Eugene Carrington
Aug. 23, 1861 Born to Mark and Rhoda Anne Butler Carrington
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan (Book)
1870s School in Port Cresent (Letter from friendmentioned this)
Jan. 23, 1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1881 Still in Port Austin (Age 21)
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan (Age 22)
June 18, 1884 Married Jesse Mann (Age 24)
July 19, 1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan and the employ of Wright and Ketchum
Lumber
April 28, 1888 Jessie Mann Carrington died.(E. says she died inchildbirth. I had heard she had T.B. E. says she also haddiabeties. They were living then in Arizona. (Mother had told methat he was working with Wells-Fargo.)
October 8, 1889 Chicago: Fisher Lumber Company wrote him letter ofrecommendation even though he was not in their employ. (Age 29)
March 11, 1891 Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company. "Been in ouremploy nearly a year." (Age 31 )
Winter, 1891: Fifield, Wisconsin. Lumber Grader and Scaler. "Wellposted on til Feb. 10, 1893 Lumber"
August 1895 Came to Sanford, N.C.
August 21, 1895 Sanford Herald, August 20, 1945 "Left Michigan andwas sent to Sanford by a Detroit firm. He was sent by the firmto take charge of the brownstone plant, the old quarry plantjust on the edge of Sanford."
November 14, 1895 Sanford Express, "Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary ofthe Aldrich Stone Company, left for the Atlanta Expositionyesterday morning." (Age 35)
November 21,1895 Sanford Express, "Mrs. Carrington, of Detroit,Michigan, and mother of Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of theAldrich Stone Company arrived here last week and will probablyspend the winter in Sanford."
January 23, 1896 "Mr. R.E. Carrington, superintendent of the Aldrichstone company has returned from a trip through Canada andthe North. He tells the "Express" that they have enoughorders to keep them busy at the quarry through the spring andsummer. The saws are kept going day and night. A new quarry hasbeen
opened near the old one. The railroad has been extended to it."
March 27, 1896 "The Aldrich stone company have agreed to donate a block of their brown stone to go in a monument on the Guilford BattleGround. Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of the company inwriting to Col. Morehead at Greensboro says: "We have notforgotten our promise to donate a block of our brownstone toyour grounds, and trust nothing will prevent itscompletion and erection by July 4th. The plan we willmake a beautiful and attractive monument, containing aboutforty-five cubic feet of Sanford, Moore County, N.C.brownstone."
April 17, 1896 "Mrs Carrington, mother of our townsman, Mr. R.E.Carrington,
Mrs. William H. Smith and Miss Ada Pierce, who spent the winter
here left for the North yesterday morning. Mrs. Carringtongoes to her home in Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Smith and Miss Adawill stop in Buffalo, New York."
1896 Married Lillie Belle Stroud in Sanford
September 1899 Lillie Stroud Carrington died in childbirth
September 19, 1901 Married Cornelia Annis St.Clair at the St.Clair homein Sanford,N.C.Sanford Express, September 5, 1895 "The Aldrich and Southern Red andBrownstone quarries are running their saws day and night to keep up withthe orders. Sanford brownstone is in reat demand and is used inpreference to much of the stone quarried in the North. These stonecompanies pay their hands from 75 cents up to $3.00 a day and the most ofthis money goes into the hands of our merchants. Stone quarrying in thiscommunity is destined to reach immense proportions."
"State Geologist J.A. Holmes was here and at Egypt last week in theinterest of State's exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Samples of coalfrom Egypt and brownstone from Sanford will comprise a part of thatexhibit."
News and Observer, June 6, 1897 THE ALDRICH STONE COMPANY:
Some years ago the above company was organized by some gentlemen of meansand enterprise of Detroit, Mich. The company acquired the mineraslrights in a large body of land lying on the outskirts of Sanford. All,or nearly all, of it is underlaid with this beautiful brown-stone. Theybuilt a first-class plant for quarrying, sawing and dressing the stone, built a spur into the quarry from the main track of the C.F. & Y.V. road and began the quarrying, dressing and shipping of stone. The lpanic overtook the enterprize, but it did not disturb it. A year of more ago Mr. R.E. Carrington, formerly a resident of Michigan, come to the quarry as general manager. He came with but little technical knowledge of the business, but he was a through buiness man and he applied his knowledge of business in general to the management of the company and the result is that it is working every hour, day and night. The engine and boilers and derricks and the twenty-five or thirty stone saws are all as busy as the ycan be with orders ahead for all the stone they can quarry and ship. This stone is now going into the Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, Va., of which structure Mr. Chas. H. Reade, of Richmaond, is in charge. Mr.Reade is one of the South's leading architects, and his endorsement of the stone and adoption of it for the handsome building referred to, and for other edifices being constructed under his supervision is a sufficient guarentee of the excellence of the stone. The stone is going also into the handsome new Presbyterian church now being erected in Charlottesville, Va.
Large shipments are being made to Lynchburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other points, and Mr. Carrington finds it necessary to increase his capacity in order to meet the growing demand. Mr.Carrington is a hustler and one of the cleaverest of the many young men who have come South to aid in developing its vast demand resources. He did not come with an idea of revolutioning things in a day, nor did he come with the expectation of laying down a thousand dollars and within amonth or so pick up ten thousand and wend his way back again. He came knowing that it takes grit, energy and economy to accomplish great results here, the same as it does elsewhere. He brought these things with him and he has applied them at his quarries at Sanford with good results. He is careful to ship only the best and clearest stone without faults, flaws or blotches and will not ship a piece of stone to go into a first class contract unless it is perfect in every particular. In thisway he has
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brownstone DiscoveredIn 1889, the first of several large brownstone quarries opened in Sanford. Brownstone, a deep reddish brown sandstone, underlies Sanford and much of northern Lee County. Since the beginnings of settlement, the stone had been used by local builders for house foundations, chimneys, cemetery walls, and the like. In the mid-1800s, the engineers who built the Western Railroad through the area exploited the stone's decorative potential in their beautifully crafted culverts. Brownstone was quarried locally on a small commercial scale during the 1870s and 1880s.
In America's fast-growing cities, interest in architectural brownstone reached a fever pitch during the late nineteenth century, a period aptly christened the Brown Decades. Romanesque brownstone government buildingswere built throughout North Carolina and elsewhere, and row after row of apartment buildings known as "brownstones" went up in New York,Philadelphia, and other cities. By the end of the 1880s, Sanford's enhanced rail connections enabled it to cater directly to this burgeoning national market. In 1889, the local press urged, "The people of Sanfordowe it to themselves to have the brownstone quarries in a quarter mile ofthe depot operated. Let's agitate and force this excellent building stoneupon the market. It is of the best in the U.S. and there is enough of ithere to build a New York or Chicago." And indeed, in August 1889 a Philadelphia concern leased quarry sites from several land owners in theSanford area.
In February 1890, W. H. Smith of Michigan, the contractor for a federal office building then under construction in Wilmington, leased a site southwest of the downtown and put twenty-five stonecutters to work. The stone was shipped to Wilmington on the newly completed Cape Fear & YadkinValley Railroad. African American stonecutters made up the majority ofthe workforce at the Smith quarry, as they did at most later Sanford quarries. The success of W. H. Smith's quarry inspired local landowners and northern capitalists to step up brownstone production. In June 1891,the Moore County Brownstone Company opened a quarry on a ninety-acretract west of downtown. Sanford's brownstone industry flourished through the turn of the century, but a shift in national taste away from the heavy Romanesque forms and rich coloration of the 1880s and 1890s toward the lighter, classical compositions popularized by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 gradually led to a slackening of demand for the local stone. Brownstone remained in use locally, for window lintels and other façade trim in downtown Sanford commercial buildings.
One of Lee County's architectural paradoxes is the virtual absence of sophisticated brownstone construction, despite the prevalence of brownstone quarrying. The Endor Iron Furnace and the Western Railroad used brownstone in the mid-1800s, but during the peak years of production, only the 1908 Lee County Courthouse and a handful of commercial buildings in downtown Sanford used brownstone in its dressed form. The stone was used with more frequency in Sanford landscaping. The front yard of the early-twentieth-century John R. Jones House at 402 Hawkins Avenue is bordered by a low brownstone wall punctuated by stone gate posts and short piers capped with pyramidal blocks, and a set of brownstone steps leads up to the house of quarry owner Roscoe E.Carrington at 214 Summitt Drive.
Lillie Belle Stroud was born on 30 Jan 1875 in Alamance Co. North CArolina. She died on 10 Sep 1899 in Sanford, NC. She married Roscoe Eugene Carrington in 1896 in Sanford, NC.
Died in childbirth.
Walter Bourke Beeson 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 on 17 Jan 1880 in Detroit, MI. He died on 16 Aug 1922. He married Doris Penoyar. Walter resided 11 in 1900 in Detroit Ward 4, Wayne, Michigan. He resided 12 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan. He resided 13 in 1910 in Saginaw Ward 8, Saginaw, Michigan. He resided 14 in 1930 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.
Doris Penoyar [Parents] was born on 4 Oct 1888 in Ausable, MI. She died in Jan 1974 in MI. She married Walter Bourke Beeson. Doris resided 1 in 1930 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.
They had the following children:
M i William Harvey Beeson 1, 2 was born 3, 4, 5 on 20 Apr 1913 in MI. He died 6, 7 on 3 Nov 1986 in San Diego, CA. William resided 8 in 1930 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.
Robert McKinney was born on 3 Feb 1922 in MI. He died in 1943 in Alameda, CA. He married Barbara Morley in 1943.
Barbara Morley [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 15 Jul 1924 in Saginaw, MI. She died on 21 May 1972 in Shaker Heights, OH. She married Robert McKinney in 1943. Barbara resided 3 in 1930 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.
Other marriages:Moseley, Thomas Wilder
Roscoe Eugene Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5, 6 on 23 Aug 1861 in Lexington, MI. He died 7 on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, Lee, NC. He was buried in Buffalo Cemetery. He married 8 Cornelia Annis St Clair on 19 Sep 1901 in Sanford, Lee, NC. They were married on 19 Sep 1901 in St.Clair's home in Sanford, n.C.. Roscoe was born 9 in 1862 in Michigan. He died on 20 Apr 1946 in Sanford, NC. He resided 10 in 1870 in Sand Beach, Huron, Michigan. He resided 11 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided in , N.C by a Detroit firm to take charge of the brownstone pl. He resided 12 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 13 in 1880 in Port Austin, Huron, Michigan, United States. He resided 14 in 1920 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. He resided 15 in 1930 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina.
Other marriages:Mann, Jesse
Stroud, Lillie Belle
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan
1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan, and the employ of Wright and Kethum Lumber
Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company
Secretary of the Aldrich Stone Company
1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan
Farmed; Raised canteloupe,asparagus and dewberries.
1888 Living in Arizona. Working with Wells-FargoNotes from Elizabeth Carrington O'Connell on Roscoe Eugene Carrington
Aug. 23, 1861 Born to Mark and Rhoda Anne Butler Carrington
1869 Lived in Port Cresent, Michigan (Book)
1870s School in Port Cresent (Letter from friendmentioned this)
Jan. 23, 1876 Port Austin, Michigan
1881 Still in Port Austin (Age 21)
1882 In Saginaw, Michigan (Age 22)
June 18, 1884 Married Jesse Mann (Age 24)
July 19, 1886 Left Saginaw, Michigan and the employ of Wright and Ketchum
Lumber
April 28, 1888 Jessie Mann Carrington died.(E. says she died inchildbirth. I had heard she had T.B. E. says she also haddiabeties. They were living then in Arizona. (Mother had told methat he was working with Wells-Fargo.)
October 8, 1889 Chicago: Fisher Lumber Company wrote him letter ofrecommendation even though he was not in their employ. (Age 29)
March 11, 1891 Morse, Wisconsin: Pemokee Lumber Company. "Been in ouremploy nearly a year." (Age 31 )
Winter, 1891: Fifield, Wisconsin. Lumber Grader and Scaler. "Wellposted on til Feb. 10, 1893 Lumber"
August 1895 Came to Sanford, N.C.
August 21, 1895 Sanford Herald, August 20, 1945 "Left Michigan andwas sent to Sanford by a Detroit firm. He was sent by the firmto take charge of the brownstone plant, the old quarry plantjust on the edge of Sanford."
November 14, 1895 Sanford Express, "Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary ofthe Aldrich Stone Company, left for the Atlanta Expositionyesterday morning." (Age 35)
November 21,1895 Sanford Express, "Mrs. Carrington, of Detroit,Michigan, and mother of Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of theAldrich Stone Company arrived here last week and will probablyspend the winter in Sanford."
January 23, 1896 "Mr. R.E. Carrington, superintendent of the Aldrichstone company has returned from a trip through Canada andthe North. He tells the "Express" that they have enoughorders to keep them busy at the quarry through the spring andsummer. The saws are kept going day and night. A new quarry hasbeen
opened near the old one. The railroad has been extended to it."
March 27, 1896 "The Aldrich stone company have agreed to donate a block of their brown stone to go in a monument on the Guilford BattleGround. Mr. R.E. Carrington, secretary of the company inwriting to Col. Morehead at Greensboro says: "We have notforgotten our promise to donate a block of our brownstone toyour grounds, and trust nothing will prevent itscompletion and erection by July 4th. The plan we willmake a beautiful and attractive monument, containing aboutforty-five cubic feet of Sanford, Moore County, N.C.brownstone."
April 17, 1896 "Mrs Carrington, mother of our townsman, Mr. R.E.Carrington,
Mrs. William H. Smith and Miss Ada Pierce, who spent the winter
here left for the North yesterday morning. Mrs. Carringtongoes to her home in Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Smith and Miss Adawill stop in Buffalo, New York."
1896 Married Lillie Belle Stroud in Sanford
September 1899 Lillie Stroud Carrington died in childbirth
September 19, 1901 Married Cornelia Annis St.Clair at the St.Clair homein Sanford,N.C.Sanford Express, September 5, 1895 "The Aldrich and Southern Red andBrownstone quarries are running their saws day and night to keep up withthe orders. Sanford brownstone is in reat demand and is used inpreference to much of the stone quarried in the North. These stonecompanies pay their hands from 75 cents up to $3.00 a day and the most ofthis money goes into the hands of our merchants. Stone quarrying in thiscommunity is destined to reach immense proportions."
"State Geologist J.A. Holmes was here and at Egypt last week in theinterest of State's exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Samples of coalfrom Egypt and brownstone from Sanford will comprise a part of thatexhibit."
News and Observer, June 6, 1897 THE ALDRICH STONE COMPANY:
Some years ago the above company was organized by some gentlemen of meansand enterprise of Detroit, Mich. The company acquired the mineraslrights in a large body of land lying on the outskirts of Sanford. All,or nearly all, of it is underlaid with this beautiful brown-stone. Theybuilt a first-class plant for quarrying, sawing and dressing the stone, built a spur into the quarry from the main track of the C.F. & Y.V. road and began the quarrying, dressing and shipping of stone. The lpanic overtook the enterprize, but it did not disturb it. A year of more ago Mr. R.E. Carrington, formerly a resident of Michigan, come to the quarry as general manager. He came with but little technical knowledge of the business, but he was a through buiness man and he applied his knowledge of business in general to the management of the company and the result is that it is working every hour, day and night. The engine and boilers and derricks and the twenty-five or thirty stone saws are all as busy as the ycan be with orders ahead for all the stone they can quarry and ship. This stone is now going into the Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, Va., of which structure Mr. Chas. H. Reade, of Richmaond, is in charge. Mr.Reade is one of the South's leading architects, and his endorsement of the stone and adoption of it for the handsome building referred to, and for other edifices being constructed under his supervision is a sufficient guarentee of the excellence of the stone. The stone is going also into the handsome new Presbyterian church now being erected in Charlottesville, Va.
Large shipments are being made to Lynchburg, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other points, and Mr. Carrington finds it necessary to increase his capacity in order to meet the growing demand. Mr.Carrington is a hustler and one of the cleaverest of the many young men who have come South to aid in developing its vast demand resources. He did not come with an idea of revolutioning things in a day, nor did he come with the expectation of laying down a thousand dollars and within amonth or so pick up ten thousand and wend his way back again. He came knowing that it takes grit, energy and economy to accomplish great results here, the same as it does elsewhere. He brought these things with him and he has applied them at his quarries at Sanford with good results. He is careful to ship only the best and clearest stone without faults, flaws or blotches and will not ship a piece of stone to go into a first class contract unless it is perfect in every particular. In thisway he has
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Brownstone DiscoveredIn 1889, the first of several large brownstone quarries opened in Sanford. Brownstone, a deep reddish brown sandstone, underlies Sanford and much of northern Lee County. Since the beginnings of settlement, the stone had been used by local builders for house foundations, chimneys, cemetery walls, and the like. In the mid-1800s, the engineers who built the Western Railroad through the area exploited the stone's decorative potential in their beautifully crafted culverts. Brownstone was quarried locally on a small commercial scale during the 1870s and 1880s.
In America's fast-growing cities, interest in architectural brownstone reached a fever pitch during the late nineteenth century, a period aptly christened the Brown Decades. Romanesque brownstone government buildingswere built throughout North Carolina and elsewhere, and row after row of apartment buildings known as "brownstones" went up in New York,Philadelphia, and other cities. By the end of the 1880s, Sanford's enhanced rail connections enabled it to cater directly to this burgeoning national market. In 1889, the local press urged, "The people of Sanfordowe it to themselves to have the brownstone quarries in a quarter mile ofthe depot operated. Let's agitate and force this excellent building stoneupon the market. It is of the best in the U.S. and there is enough of ithere to build a New York or Chicago." And indeed, in August 1889 a Philadelphia concern leased quarry sites from several land owners in theSanford area.
In February 1890, W. H. Smith of Michigan, the contractor for a federal office building then under construction in Wilmington, leased a site southwest of the downtown and put twenty-five stonecutters to work. The stone was shipped to Wilmington on the newly completed Cape Fear & YadkinValley Railroad. African American stonecutters made up the majority ofthe workforce at the Smith quarry, as they did at most later Sanford quarries. The success of W. H. Smith's quarry inspired local landowners and northern capitalists to step up brownstone production. In June 1891,the Moore County Brownstone Company opened a quarry on a ninety-acretract west of downtown. Sanford's brownstone industry flourished through the turn of the century, but a shift in national taste away from the heavy Romanesque forms and rich coloration of the 1880s and 1890s toward the lighter, classical compositions popularized by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 gradually led to a slackening of demand for the local stone. Brownstone remained in use locally, for window lintels and other façade trim in downtown Sanford commercial buildings.
One of Lee County's architectural paradoxes is the virtual absence of sophisticated brownstone construction, despite the prevalence of brownstone quarrying. The Endor Iron Furnace and the Western Railroad used brownstone in the mid-1800s, but during the peak years of production, only the 1908 Lee County Courthouse and a handful of commercial buildings in downtown Sanford used brownstone in its dressed form. The stone was used with more frequency in Sanford landscaping. The front yard of the early-twentieth-century John R. Jones House at 402 Hawkins Avenue is bordered by a low brownstone wall punctuated by stone gate posts and short piers capped with pyramidal blocks, and a set of brownstone steps leads up to the house of quarry owner Roscoe E.Carrington at 214 Summitt Drive.
Cornelia Annis St Clair 1, 2 was born 3, 4 on 16 Mar 1874 in Moore, NC. She died 5 on 9 Oct 1949 in Sanford, Lee, NC. She was buried in Buffalo Cemetery. She married 6 Roscoe Eugene Carrington on 19 Sep 1901 in Sanford, Lee, NC. They were married on 19 Sep 1901 in St.Clair's home in Sanford, n.C.. Cornelia was born on 16 Mar 1874 in MOore County, NC. She was born 7 in 1875 in NC. She was born 8 in 1880. She died on 9 Oct 1949 in Sanford, NC. She resided 9, 10, 11 in 1930 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. She resided 12 in 1900 in Sanford, Moore, North Carolina. She resided 13 in 1920 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina.
Carrington Bible Class named in her honor.
Church choir, Women of the Church, Sanford Literary Club.
On faculty as music teacher at Clifford Seminary in Union, S.C.
colored Presbyterian Church in Sanford.Graduated from Mitchell College in Statesville, Nc with degree in music. Outstanding Bible teacher. Taught Bible in First Presbyterian Church
After the deaths of their parents in 1886 in Pocket, N.C., FairleySt.Clair (age 26) moved his entire family with him to Sanford , N.C.where he started The Sanford Express on August 3, 1887. Addie wasteaching school which helped support the family.
Cornelia attended Mitchell College in Statesville,N.C. She thentaught music at Union School at Carthage, N.C.
"Miss Cornie St. Clair, who spent the summer in the city of NewYork taking music lessons, returned home Monday and left on the nexttrain for Lauringburg to resume teaching there. She was accompanied byMiss Mary Arnold, of Pocket, who will assist her." "The SanfordExpress," September 5, 1895.
Cornelia Carrington was an outstanding Bible teacher, and taughtBible in the First Presbyterian Church in Sanford, and in the coloredPresbyterian Church.
The Carrington Bible Class in the First Presbyterian Church wasnamed in her honor.The News and Observer, Monday Morning, October 10, 1949: Deaths andFunerals
"Mrs. Cornelia Carrington. Sanford. - Mrs. Cornelia St.ClairCarrington of Sanford, widow of Roscoe E. Carrington, died unexpectlySunday morning at her home in Sanford at 11:45 o'clock. She had been illless than an hour. She was born in Moore County, the daughter of thelate Duncan Murchison and Mary Jane Campbell St.Clair. She was alifelong member of the Presbyterian Church and for years taught theMcNeill Bible Class. The Carrington Bible Class of the church was namedin her
honor. She was a member of the church choir for many years and active inall the work of the women of the church. She was a charter member of theSanford Literary Club. Before her marriage she was on the faculty as amusic teacher at the Clifford Seminary of Union, S.C. Funeral serviceswill be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the PresbyterianChurch, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Chalmers McCutchen and burialwill be in the Buffalo Cemetery. Surviving are one son, Roscoe E.Carrington of Sanford and three daughters, Mrs. T.D. Wall of Wadesboro,Mrs. J.S. Burch of Raleigh, and Mrs. James Gillon of Philadelphia, Pa.:four grandchildren; one sister, Josephine St.Clair, all of Sanford."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mygrandmother, Cornelia St. Clair Carrington, was a fifth generation "pure"Scot. She was born on March 16, 1874 in the Pocket community of MooreCounty near the House in the Horseshoe. She was the great, great, greatgranddaughter of Roderick McIver who was born in 1727 in Parish of Sleat,Isle of Skye, Scotland. He was married to Nancy McIver in 1758 who wasalso born and raised on the Isle of Skye. He died March 7, 1810 in MooreCounty, North Carolina. Their remains were removed from their originalgrave and are now in the Buffalo Cemetery in Sanford, North Carolina."My people", as my grandmother called her fore bearers, did notfight in the American Revolution. When my mother asked mother-in-lawif she would be interested in joining the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, my grandmother looked at her in shock and horror and said,"Oh no, I could never do that! My people took The Oath!"
My mother had no idea what her mother-in-law meant by thatstatement. Years later she
learned that after the Battle of Culloden the English made the Scots signan oath in their own
blood that they would never raise a hand against an Englishman again.Cornelia St. Clair Carrington was born in Moore County on March16, 1874. She was the daughter of Duncan Murchison Sinclair (1818/1886)and Mary Jane Campbell (1837/1885). Mary Jane was the daughter ofIsabella McDonald (1810/1895) and Daniel Campbell (1810/1894). Thememory of the massacre of the McDonalds by the Campells at Glencoe,Scotland at 5:00am on Saturday, February 13, 1692 was still very muchalive in the Pocket/Horseshoe area of North Carolina when Isabella andDaniel Campbell married in 1854. Indeed, the memory of the massacre isalive in Scotland today. When my cousin and I went to Scotland in 1995our guide told us not to mention the Campbell line of our family in theHighlands. He half-jokingly told us that until very recently some tavernshad "NO CAMPBELL'S ALLOWED" signs on the door. Hospitality was veryimportant to the Scots and the fact that the McDonalds were hosts to theCampbell's for two weeks before the massacre and then were slaughteredby them (while they were sleeping) was unbelievable. When IsabellaMcDonald married Daniel Calvin Campbell the Moore County "Pocket Scots"must have been horrified. It is rumored that her family crossedIsabella's name from the family Bible and immigrated out west from pureshame.
My grandmother was born a Sinclair but when their parents died in1885 and 1886 her oldest brother, Uncle Fairley St. Clair, moved thefamily to Sanford, N.C. and, as folks said around town, changed them"from Sinners to Saints". Actually, St. Clair is the original name fromScotland and before that from France about a thousand years ago, so UncleFairley was correct. He started this areas first newspaper, "The SanfordExpress" on August 3, 1887.
My grandmother was an artist and a musician as well as a "scholar".At a very young age she began drawing illustrations for her brothers'newspaper. Cornelia attended Mitchell College in Statesville, N.C.Before her marriage to my grandfather, Roscoe Eugene Carrington, she wason the faculty as a music teacher at the Clifford Seminary of Union,South Carolina. In 1895 she spent the summer in New York taking music atColumbia.
In 1901 Cornelia married Roscoe Carrington from Michigan. In 1902 myfather, Roscoe Carrington, Jr. was born. Three more children camealong: Gertrude Carrington Wall, Mary Carrington Burch, and AnneCarrington Gillon. Despite having a full time job as a wife and mother,Cornelia kept working for her brother as an illustrator as well asproof-reader. She was a founding member of the Sanford Literary Club.She was a life long member of the First Presbyterian Church in Sanford;for years she taught the McNeill Bible Class; the Carrington Class wasnamed for her. She wrote the first History of the Women of the FirstPresbyterian Church of Sanford. She taught the black women at theBlandonia Presbyterian Church decades before integration.
She was a truly remarkable woman. She died October 9, 1949. Shecalled and told my father that she didn't feel like going to church thatSunday morning. My mother and father went to see about her and she diedforty-five minutes later. She is buried in Buffalo Cemetery beside herhusband and near her great, great, grandfather and grandmother, Roderickand Nancy McIver. I still miss her.
They had the following children:
M i Roscoe Eugene Carrington F ii Gertrude Kelly Carrington F iii Mary St Clair Carrington F iv Anne Butler Carrington
James Hazelhurst Gillon 1, 2, 3, 4 was born on 3 Feb 1903 in Waycross, Georgia. He died 5, 6, 7 on 25 Feb 1984 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, NC. He married 8, 9 Anne Butler Carrington on 13 Jul 1929 in Sanford, Lee, NC. They were married in Jul 1928 in CArrington's home, Summitt Avenue, Sanford, n.C.. James was born 10, 11, 12, 13 on 3 Feb 1903 in GA. He died on 25 Feb 1984 in Fayetteville, NC. He resided 14 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina.
Fayetteville Observer
James Gillon Jr.
FAYETTEVILLE-- James H. Gillon, Jr., 81, of Heritage Place, Fayetteville,died Saturday (2/25/84).
A Graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Buffalocemetery by the Rev. Marion Curry.
He was a native of Waycross, Ga., son of the late James H. andMarjorie McLaury Gillon. Gillon was president of Carron PharmacleuticalProducts Co. in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the former executive directorof the Boy Scots in Sandord and was a member of Masonic Lodge 151.
He is survived by his wife, Anne Carrington Gillon, and severalnieces.
The family will receive friends at the home of Dr. Larry O'Connell,2020 Windmill Drive.
Memorials may be made to the Endowment Fund of Heritage Place, Inc.,Fayetteville.
Anne Butler Carrington [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6, 7 on 28 Sep 1908 in Sanford, Lee, NC. She died 8 on 17 Apr 2006 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, NC. She married 9, 10 James Hazelhurst Gillon on 13 Jul 1929 in Sanford, Lee, NC. They were married in Jul 1928 in CArrington's home, Summitt Avenue, Sanford, n.C.. Anne was born on 28 Sep 1908 in Sanford, NC. She was born 11 in 1909 in North Carolina. She resided 12 in 1920 in Sanford, Lee, North Carolina. She was baptized in Philadelphia, Pa..
Graduated from Converse College with degree in music. She and husband, Jim, owned and operated a rubber manufacturing plant.
OBITUARIES FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2006
Anne C. Gillon
Ms. Anne Carrington Gillon, 97, of Fayetteville, died Monday, April 17, 2006, at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. Ms. Gillon graduated in 1929 from Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and was the former owner and operator of Carron Products Co. She was a lifelong member of First Presbyterian Church.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at First Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville. Officiating will be Dr. John W. Coker Jr. and Dr. James B. McCoy III. Burial will follow at Buffalo Presbyterian Church cemetery in Sanford.
Ms. Gillon is survived by three nieces, Cornelia B. Holmes of Fayetteville, Elizabeth C. O’Connell of Sanford, and Margaret B. Marsh of Raleigh; a great-niece; and four great-nephews. Arrangements made by Rogers and Breece Funeral Home of Fayetteville.