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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">By: <a href="mailto:ben.steelman@starnewsonline.com">Ben Steelman</a><br />
Star News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">A
family of farmers, businessmen and civic leaders, the Trask family left its
mark on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>
for more than a century and a half. Pioneers in the lettuce and truck farming
industry, they later switched to growing subdivisions and shopping centers on
their land — and, in the process left their name on a number of local
landmarks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
patriarch of the clan, Daniel Webster “Web” Trask (1847-1930) was born into a
relatively poor farming family in the Masonboro Sound area of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place>. He served in the
Masonboro Militia, a Home Guard unit, in the latter days of the Civil War and
made his start growing cabbages and collards on Prospect Hall farm, which he
inherited from his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">A
compulsive reader of farm magazines, Web Trask had the idea to cover his beds —
first with boards and later with cheesecloth — to protect his plantings, so he
could get his produce to market two or three weeks earlier than anyone else’s.
By 1890, his crop was so big, he shipped his surplus north on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Coast</st1:placetype>
Line railroad and began to cultivate buyers in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
Trask produce business would really take off, however, under Web’s son George
W. Trask (1876-1963). A hard worker, the younger Trask started off around 1897
with a small farm, Blythe Savannah, in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Winter Park</st1:place></st1:city> community. (His chidren later
joked that it was neither blythe or a savannah.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In
1902, however, with money borrowed from his father, George Trask bought a farm
in the Wrightsboro community, close to the <st1:placename w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Coast</st1:placetype> Line tracks, from his uncle
Christian H. Heide (who suffered from tuberculosis and wanted to move to the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state> mountains
for his health).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Within
two years, George W. Trask had paid off his father, and by 1907, he could
afford to have Wilmington architect Henry Bonitz build a spacious farmhouse for
his family — later known in family lore as “The Big House.” Carefully investing
his profits, he steadily bought more land, until the family tracts amounted to
thousands of acres. Bringing in his sons as partners, he founded George W.
Trask & Sons to handle the northern export business. By the time of his
death, his obituary in the Morning Star hailed him as “the first commercial
planter of field green lettuce on the Eastern seaboard.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">In
his spare time, George W. Trask served as a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> Commissioner from
1918 to 1950. He and his wife, Emma Gertrude McEachern Bornemann Trask, had 11
children and left 32 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Among
George Trask’s children was C. Heide Trask (1902-1957), who followed his father
into the family business and worked intensively on refrigerating produce. C.
Heide Trask was chairman of <st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype>’s
Selective Service (draft) board, 1940-1955, and was chairman of the board of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">James</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Walker</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Memorial</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
At the time of his death, he was a member of the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">State Highway</st1:address></st1:street> Commission. One of his
major accomplishments was pushing through the drawbridge over the Intracoastal
Waterway to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wrightsville</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place>, which was named in
his honor when it opened in 1958.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Trask</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">High
School</st1:placetype> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pender</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> is also named for
C. Heide Trask; the Trask family donated land for the school’s campus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Another
of George W. Trask’s sons was Raiford Graham Trask (1916-1993), who ended up
leading the family in new directions. He developed a number of Wilmington
subdivisions on former Trask farmland, including College Acres, Long Leaf Acres
and Kings Grant, and he was co-developer of Figure Eight Island and the Duck
Haven Golf Club. He also built several shopping centers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Like
others in his family, Raiford Trask entered politics. He served on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Wrightsville</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:placetype> Council and was mayor of <st1:placename w:st="on">Wrightsville</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype>,
a <st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> Commissioner (1952-1956) and a
trustee of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Wilmington</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> for 10 years. He
donated much of the land for the present campus of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">North
Carolina Wilmington</st1:placename></st1:place> (and sold much of the rest to
the college at bargain rates). Trask Coliseum on the UNCW is named in his
honor. In 1973, Raiford Trask donated large tracts of land to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hanover</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:place> school system. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Trask</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Middle
School</st1:placetype></st1:place> is named for his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Many
members of the Trask family are buried at <st1:city w:st="on">Wilmington</st1:city>’s
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Oakdale</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The family monument is
decorated with carvings of cornstalks and lettuce heads, sources of much of the
family’s prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;">“The Trask Family — 1986″ by
George Graham Trask provides much genealogical data, and “The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Carolina</st1:place></st1:city> Trasks” by Frederick Graham Trask
offers family history and stories. Both books are available for study in the
local history room of the New Hanover County Public Library, 201 Chestnut St.,
Wilmington <a href="http://www.myreporter.com/?p=1855">[Map this]</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;">Date posted: June 3, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Linda Rooks <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Richardson</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGI7cWxSnxmSWe-oS-h033QIhqsljnOtc4fzYY6JDeYkCJnNLy1mlUVsQfGTWK-U1gmp1Nd28esCPAJaWoV2v2mAupfyEhjvMHmZYZQJcRsoZYqMCGunb3ltSa0kFMhg_6aHULnsU2ciHW/s1600/David+Brinkley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGI7cWxSnxmSWe-oS-h033QIhqsljnOtc4fzYY6JDeYkCJnNLy1mlUVsQfGTWK-U1gmp1Nd28esCPAJaWoV2v2mAupfyEhjvMHmZYZQJcRsoZYqMCGunb3ltSa0kFMhg_6aHULnsU2ciHW/s1600/David+Brinkley.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 18pt;">David Brinkely</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 18pt;">Birth: Jul. 10, 1920<br />
Wilmington<br />
New Hanover County<br />
North Carolina, USADeath: Jun. 12, 2003<br />
Houston<br />
Harris County<br />
Texas, USA<img height="13" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/s/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/08/clip_image002.gif" width="3" /><br />
Television Personality/Newscaster. Brinkley was born on July 18, 1920, in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a main fixture on television for over 50 years including on NBC and ABC, beginning his career as a broadcaster in the 1940s. Appearing as a co-anchor with Chet Huntley on the news program, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" from 1956 to 1970, and "This Week With David Brinkley" from 1982 until he retired in 1997. In 1992 he won the George Foster Peabody Award for his report on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during World War II. He also appeared as a narrator on the 1961 film, "The Challenge of Ideas" and as himself in an episode of, "The Jack Benny Program" on September 25, 1964. He was well-known to television audiences as a news analyst for his terse, biting comments and dry wit. He was also the recipient of two more George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 Emmy Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. In 1995 he wrote his memoirs, "11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks Of News, and Other Stuff On Television." He retired from broadcasting in 1997. He died June 11, 2003, at the age of 82, after a fall at his home in Houston, Texas. (bio by: <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46537737" target="_blank">K)</a><br />
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Parents:<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18556176">William Graham Brinkley (1875 - 1928)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17531128">Mary <i>West</i> Brinkley (1879 - 1966)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=findagrave&keyword=David+Brinkley&mode=blended" target="_blank">Search Amazon for David Brinkley</a> Burial:<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=7567008&CRid=48265&">Oakdale Cemetery</a> <br />
Wilmington<br />
New Hanover County<br />
North Carolina, USA<br />
Maintained by: Find A Grave<br />
Record added: Jun 12, 2003 <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 18pt;">John Dillard Bellamy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 18pt;">Birth: Mar. 24, 1854<br />
Wilmington<br />
New Hanover County<br />
North Carolina, USADeath: Sep. 25, 1942<br />
Wilmington<br />
New Hanover County<br />
North Carolina, USA<img border="0" height="13" src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/s/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/08/clip_image002.gif" width="3" /><br />
US Congressman. Bellamy was a member of the North Carolina State senate from 1900 to 1902. He served as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1899 to 1903. (bio by: <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46587085" target="_blank">Evening Blues)</a><br />
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Spouse:<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34895202">Emma May <i>Hargrove</i> Bellamy (1857 - 1944)</a>*<br />
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Children:<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35440204">Eliza M <i>Bellamy</i> Williamson (1877 - 1969)</a>*<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">*<span class="fakelink">Calculated relationship</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=findagrave&keyword=John+Bellamy&mode=blended" target="_blank">Search Amazon for John Bellamy</a> Burial:<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=8067171&CRid=48265&">Oakdale Cemetery</a> <br />
Wilmington<br />
New Hanover County<br />
North Carolina, USA<br />
Maintained by: Find A Grave<br />
Originally Created by: <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46587085">Evening Blues</a><br />
Record added: Nov 07, 2003 <br />
Find A Grave Memorial# 8067171</div>Tour Old Wilmingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172717433028289232noreply@blogger.comOakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th St, Wilmington, NC 28401, USA34.2457294 -77.93174239999996234.241920900000004 -77.935895899999963 34.2495379 -77.927588899999961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-34823420241926210622012-03-24T13:54:00.000-04:002013-04-07T15:34:13.091-04:00Group Tour Discounts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">Henry Bacon was the architect for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and the Bellamy Mansion on Market and 5<sup>th</sup> Ave in Wilmington. He is buried in Oak Dale Cemetery </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">Henry Bacon, Jr. (Nov. 28, 1866-Feb. 16, 1924), best known as the architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., spent much of his youth in Wilmington, North Carolina, and he designed some notable buildings in the state as a result. The friendships he made in Wilmington as a youth led to several commissions in Wilmington and Linville, a mountain resort established by Wilmingtonians. In contrast to his predominantly classical designs for which he is generally recognized, his little-known North Carolina work displayed his artistic approach to an informal, rustic architecture suited to coastal and mountain settings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">Henry Bacon, Jr., was born in Watseka, Illinois, one of seven children of Henry (1822-1891) and Elizabeth Kelton (1831-1912) Bacon of Massachusetts. In the 1870s Henry, Sr., a civil engineer, moved the family to the Wilmington area. He had been assigned to the Wilmington office of the United States Engineer Department to take charge of construction of the great New Inlet Dam and Swash Defense Dam near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, a major engineering feat (see Bishir and Southern, <em><span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black';">A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina)</span></em>. The family lived in Southport from 1876 to 1880 and moved to Wilmington in 1880.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">After graduating from Wilmington's Tileston School in 1884, Henry Bacon, Jr., attended architectural school at the University of Illinois for a year, worked in a Boston architectural office, and then moved to the prestigious New York firm of <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#comingSoon"><span style="color: red;">McKim, Mead and White</span></a>. He was involved with that firm in planning for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Subsequently, in partnership with the noted architect James Brite and then on his own, Bacon gained widespread respect and many honors as an architect in the Beaux-Arts tradition. His Lincoln Memorial (1912-1922), for which he won the prestigious Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, was by far the most famous of his works, which included important campuses, public buildings, and, in keeping with Beaux-Arts principles, memorials in collaboration with premier sculptors of the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">Bacon maintained contact with family and friends in Wilmington, including his sister Kate Bacon McKoy. (He suggested a design for a house in Wilmington for Kate and her husband, but the couple chose another plan, which was built by local architect-builder <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000212">James F. Post</a>.) Although his oeuvre tended toward monumental classical designs, for friends from Wilmington he planned buildings in more informal styles. He designed the <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#B000050">Donald MacRae House</a> (1902) in Wilmington in a picturesque Queen Anne-Shingle style. Beyond the city beside the sound, he designed <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#B000051">Live Oaks</a> (1913), an octagonal villa for Walter and Agnes MacRae Parsley, wherein he employed a local shell-rock material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">When the Wilmington MacRae family and others developed the mountain resort village of Linville, Bacon designed some of its earliest buildings in an elegant rustic mode suited to the mountain setting. Using the abundant local chestnut bark and natural branches in artful fashion, he planned <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#B000052">All Saints Episcopal Church</a> (1910-1913), for which Agnes MacRae Parsley of Wilmington was a major donor. He also designed at least three cottages in similar style. His use of natural chestnut shingles and sheathing inside and out set a local pattern for the distinctive resort community, a mode that continued until the chestnut blight wiped out the great trees.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt;">Bacon also designed two notable memorials in North Carolina: the <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#B000053">Women of the Confederacy Monument</a> (1913) on Union Square in Raleigh, with sculptor Augustus Lukeman; and the <a href="http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000028#B000054">Gabriel James Boney Confederate Monument</a> (1924) in Wilmington, completed after his death, with sculptor Francis H. Packer. At his death in 1923, Bacon was buried in the family plot in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery; his marker was designed after a classical drawing found on his desk. Although not often recognized in larger studies of Bacon and his contemporaries, for Bacon his Wilmington-related friendships and projects were an important part of his oeuvre and his life. A state highway historical marker in Wilmington, one of the few (possibly the only one) in the state memorializing an architect, recognizes his presence and work in the city.</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comOakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th St, Wilmington, NC 28401, USA34.2457294 -77.93174239999996234.241920900000004 -77.935895899999963 34.2495379 -77.927588899999961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-69931427890889127762012-03-06T17:07:00.000-05:002012-03-06T17:07:44.342-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><center><b><span>ARTHUR BLUETHENTHAL</span></b></center> <blockquote> <b>Born November 1, 1891, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Son of Leopold and Johanna Bluethenthal. Educated Phillips Academy, Exeter, and Princeton University, Class of 1913. Business, Tobacco Products Corporation, New York. Joined American Field Service, May 6, 1916; attached Section Three, France and Balkans, until May 11, 1917. Croix de Guerre for conspicuous bravery around Verdun. Enlisted French Aviation, June 7, 1917. Trained Avord and Pau. Breveted September 22, 1917. Leave in America. Attached observation groupe,Sergent. Killed in combat over the lines, near Maignelay, June 5, 1918, region of Amiens. Croix de Guerre with palm. Buried Esquennoy, Oise, north of Breteuil. Body transferred to Wilmington, North Carolina.</b> Escadrille Bréguet 227, March 17, 1918, </blockquote><b>WHEN Arthur Bluethenthal joined the Field Service in May, 1916, he could not sign up for the full six months because he had a contract to coach the Princeton football team that fall. So it was arranged with the French authorities to reduce slightly in his case the period of enlistment. But, when the time came for him to return to America, it was his own deliberate choice to obtain a release from his engagements at home and to continue the career which was to lead, from honor to honor and without one regret or looking back, to his death, two years later, in aerial combat above the German lines. </b><br />
<b>In the fall of 1916 the Field Service was expanding rapidly and "Bluie," as we called him, had come to the fore as a leader. He was the sort of man to whom others instinctively looked for guidance and the sort of man who radiated a spirit of ready and cheerful co-operation, qualities which were of great value, when every liner brought scores of new and undisciplined recruits from America and when the Service was extending its work to Northern Greece and Albania. </b><br />
<b>"My life does not belong to me now," he wrote on one occasion to a friend in America. "It belongs to France, to the Allies, to the cause to which I have pledged it. And, if I should never come back, I do not want you to feel badly. I am glad I have had a chance to live in times like these and to do my bit for the future of the world. . . . . At home it was a holiday all the time. Here it is the stern facts of life and death. And it is hard to explain the way we feel about it all, especially about France, we who have volunteered to fight for her." </b><br />
<b>When America entered the war, "Bluie" was serving with Section Three in the Balkans. Returning with his Section to France in May, 1917, he enlisted at once in the Foreign Legion, from which he was transferred to the Air Service. He received his preliminary training at Avord and later instruction at Pau. </b><br />
<b>After a four weeks' leave, which he spent with his parents in Wilmington, North Carolina, he joined an observation group at the front. In this work he at once made his mark. "You remember," wrote a friend, "Bluie's easy-going, complacent confidence in football days? Well, it is still a part of him when we fly over the German lines. He gets in his plane and goes up and does his work just as calmly as he sits down to breakfast. That sort of nerve helps us all, the old flyers as well as the new." </b><br />
<b>Towards the end of May, 1918, he was transferred from the French service to the American Naval Aviation. But he refused to leave his comrades while they were engaged in the desperate aerial fighting, which marked the second of the great German drives in 1918. This gallant act was recorded in official dispatches and endeared him to his comrades in a way that only an airman who has flown at the front through an attack can fully appreciate. It was a fateful decision for "Bluie," for his life ended in this battle. He was killed "while directing distant artillery fire" on June 5th and buried with all military honors by his comrades in the cemetery at Esquennoy, near Breteuil, in the Amiens sector." </b><br />
<b>He was cited posthumously in Army orders. A palm was also added to his Croix de Guerre. And, when news of his death reached Wilmington, where a host of friends had followed his career with increasing pride since first he went away to college, all business houses closed for an hour, all flags were flown at half mast, and a very impressive memorial service was held by the citizens in the Opera House. </b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 14pt;">The Temple of Israel congregation was made up of German Jews who had immigrated to Wilmington around 1840 and had become well established in the city.<span> </span>Families associated with the Temple include the Bluehtentals, the Dammenhaums, the Jacobs, and the Bears.<span> </span>The Jewish Reform cemetery is a part of the Oakdale cemetery and is encircled with a fence ornamented with a Star of David. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 14pt;">Source: <u>A Pictorial History of Wilmington </u>by Anne Russell </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 14pt;">Book available at Two Sister Bookery At the Cotton Exchange. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comOakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th St, Wilmington, NC 28401, USA34.2457294 -77.93174239999996234.241920900000004 -77.935895899999963 34.2495379 -77.927588899999961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-4810392557657987852012-01-07T15:50:00.001-05:002012-01-23T11:55:22.649-05:00A Captain and his dog<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 14pt;">This monument in Oakdale Cemetery commemorates the deaths of Captain William Ellerbrook and his faithful dog Boss, who gave up his life in an effort to drag his master from a burning building at the corner of Front and Dock Streets.<span> </span>Captain Ellerbrook was master of a Heide Company tugboat and a volunteer fire fighter.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 14pt;">One fateful night in 1880, Captain Ellerbrook answered a call to save the burning store. Running into the burning building, Ellerbrook was caught by failing timbers, hearing his owners screams for help, his dog, Boss dashed into the burning building, only to be found the next day beside Ellerbrook’s body with a piece of cloth torn from his master’s coast sill in his mouth.<span> </span>The dog was buried in the casket with Captain Ellerbrook.<span> </span>Much loved and respected, their funeral was attended by hundreds of Wilmington Citizens.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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We took these pictures thru the window of the crept. Can you see the faces? The weirdest part is, everytime I look at these pictures, the faces seem to change. !!!! <div><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style "> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1 addthis_button_facebook at300b" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#" title="Send to Facebook"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_facebook"></span></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2 addthis_button_twitter at300b" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#" title="Tweet This"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_twitter"></span></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3 addthis_button_email at300b" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#" title="Email"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_email"></span></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4 addthis_button_print at300b" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#" title="Print"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_print"></span></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact at300m" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#"><span class="at300bs at15nc at15t_compact"></span></a> <a class="addthis_button_expanded" href="http://hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com/#" title="View more services">0</a><a class="atc_s addthis_button_compact" href=""><span></span></a> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comOakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th St, Wilmington, NC 28401, USA34.2457294 -77.93174239999996234.241920900000004 -77.935895899999963 34.2495379 -77.927588899999961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-48924764591726667782011-12-03T11:55:00.000-05:002011-12-03T11:55:20.603-05:00Bellamy Row<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FKR7KYq8Hr5L5OCGQ71ktke76Xip5L6klp6Dg_zctqKcUcvNaVynx5njmhDYKblXWNV4io2ujveZSeHTf60vqBCCcM-dPWLrmr41LxRtVXchXlvdUR9_PO1U0q1F8g33iOENkSPA9G88/s1600/Oakdall+2+010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FKR7KYq8Hr5L5OCGQ71ktke76Xip5L6klp6Dg_zctqKcUcvNaVynx5njmhDYKblXWNV4io2ujveZSeHTf60vqBCCcM-dPWLrmr41LxRtVXchXlvdUR9_PO1U0q1F8g33iOENkSPA9G88/s200/Oakdall+2+010.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">“Bellamy Row”</div><div class="MsoNormal">By Lori Erwin Rose</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Year after year thousands of people step into the Bellamy’s lives.<span> </span>As a quest you will be introduced to this family’s history and get to know them on a more personal level.<span> </span>As a volunteer you have the opportunity to fix up their home, renew their garden and perpetuate their stories; and how grade of a feeling that can be. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Visiting the Bellamy House is one thing but visiting the Bellamy’s themselves is entirely something else.<span> </span>You will find most of the main family buried in Oakdale Cemetery-Section M.<span> </span>They call it “Bellamy Row”.<span> </span>For those unfamiliar with Oakdale, you will find this </div><div class="MsoNormal">Serene Cemetery located at the end of 15<sup>th</sup> street off of Market. <span> </span>Established in 1852 and purchased for $1,100 the first 65 acres began to take shape forming rolling hills and majestic landscapes.<span> </span>The perfect place to rest where trees will shield you and sunlight will dance on your stone.<span> </span>Now its 165 acres and in this gals opinion one of the most beautiful locations in Wilmington.<span> </span>Its quiet there, its peaceful there but most of all it’s a place to ponder your past and think about your future.<span> </span>Where will you decide to be laid to rest?<span> </span>Will your monument be tall like Robert Bellamy’s grave or small and plain like sisters Eliza & Ellen’s. <span> </span>Their graves match as do Marsden & Willies.<span> </span>Baby Kate’s marker is tiny, symbolizing a short life yet reflecting a great loss.<span> </span>The Bellamy family member’s grave markers are not huge & foreboding, but rather plain and ordinary.<span> </span>There are no elaborate ornaments and bold claims.<span> </span>Everyone faces in the same direction. Fitting I think, after all, the civil war laid out for the Bellamy’s the path that would shape their future lives.<span> </span>Curving and winding as old views turned into new and change was inevitable… <span> </span>As this family once stood together united to their cause and firm in their convictions they now lay together in the same way.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So take a moment won’t you?<span> </span>The next time you have the chance to visit the Bellamy’s. You have seen their mark they made @ 503 Market Street<span> </span>now walk among them at Oakdale Cemetery. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Reflex on this family; what they stood for, their beliefs, ideas and morals. Their markers are a reminder of their past, but far greater is the lesson of how frail we all are.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Before John Bellamy died he gathered his children beside him and asked of them to be kind to each other. Not to quarrel and to treat their mother with respect. The Bellamy children honored their father’s request and they left us all with treasures to enjoy. Thank you. Thank you.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">May many happy blessings come your way….warm regards Lori</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-21175536933657773872010-05-21T15:18:00.002-04:002010-05-21T15:18:46.780-04:00About Oakdale Cemetery<div id="leftcol"> <h1>About Oakdale Cemetery </h1>By Janet Seapker <br />
<div id="captionright"><img class="picright" src="http://www.oakdalecemetery.org/images/Spring-By-Eric-Kozen.jpg" />Photo by Eric Kozen</div>Oakdale was part of the Rural Cemetery Movement that swept the US in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Rural cemeteries converted large tracts of land into garden settings. As families purchased lots, they mixed ornamental plants in with the native vegetation, making Oakdale one of the city’s most beautiful spots. The cemetery is resplendent with blooming plants all year around, but especially so in the spring. <br />
In 1852, prominent Wilmington businessmen purchased 65 acres for a new cemetery to be located beyond the town limits, which was 8th Street. The cemetery became known as Oakdale and was NC’s first rural Cemetery. The first burial occurred on February 5, 1855—Annie DeRosset, the six-year old daughter of the cemetery president, Dr. Armand John DeRosset. <br />
Oakdale Cemetery contains the graves of the movers and shakers of Wilmington, NC. The eloquent epitaphs and symbolic funerary art tell stories of those who lie beneath and bring them to life for the living. The graves represent veterans from all wars and all branches of service, politicians, mayors, congressmen, artists, architects, writers, developers, merchants, planters, fraternal order members, insurance men, exporters, immigrants, victims of Yellow Fever epidemics, wives, mothers, infants and children, and a female Confederate spy. <br />
Oakdale is an active cemetery conducting burials and selling lots. The Board of Directors of the non-profit Oakdale Cemetery Company oversees the development of land and future planning for the cemetery.<br />
<h1>A Rural Cemetery</h1>During the 19th Century, the rural Cemetery Movement emerged as an alternative to crowded urban, generally church graveyards. Oakdale exemplifies this movement. In the romantic spirit of the Victorian era, the rural cemetery generally was located on hilly terrain and featured winding paths, large shade trees, flowers and shrubs, and appealing vistas. It was meant for the living as well as departed loved ones—just like Oakdale today. The rural Cemetery concept was a forerunner of public park development in America. <br />
Rural cemeteries began in 1831 with the opening of Mount Auburn in Cambridge, near Boston, Massachusetts. A succession followed, among which were: <br />
<ul><li>Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, 1836 </li>
<li>Greenmount, Baltimore, 1838</li>
<li>Spring Grove, Cincinnati, 1844 </li>
<li>Allegheny, Pittsburgh, 1845</li>
<li>Hollywood, Richmond, 1847 </li>
<li>Elmwood, Detroit, 1849</li>
<li>Magnolia, Charleston, 1850</li>
<li>Oakland, Atlanta, 1850 </li>
<li>Calvary & Rosehill, Chicago, 1859</li>
<li>Cedar Hill, Hartford, 1863</li>
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Of Oakdale Cemetery, a 1911 pamphlet stated, “ . . . nature seemed to have molded the ground for that purpose and left it for man to beautify.” If nature’s contribution defines its beauty, the monuments and sculptures contained within enhance Oakdale’s reputation as a place of history and wonder. Ornate inscriptions, stained glass and massive mausolea contrast with simpler monuments and markers, all of which together relate the story of a city and its people. Finely crafted monuments alternate with the flora that tower high above. Oakdale is truly an outdoor museum and arboretum. Still an active cemetery, these hallowed grounds still today offer comfort and inspiration to the living.<br />
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Photo courtesy of New Hanover County Library by Louis T. Moore</div>Oakdale Cemetery was chartered on December 27, 1852 by the General Assembly of North Carolina. The founders purchased 65 acres for $1,100. The acreage now has grown to 165 acres of natural beauty. Created during the era of the Rural Cemetery Movement in the US, Oakdale was the first in the state, only fitting for the most populous city in the state at the time. It was five blocks beyond the town boundaries.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-31446407871328368112010-05-19T07:53:00.000-04:002010-05-19T07:53:49.872-04:00Confederate Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaeE-a8hqOLrLm4BL_6u3P9l22ZylauUiQ25wwN4dnezjo4FuHdRguhGEkoE-3MqKnzKeKeGrgKWoJ58yEw-KWEgYZ_90TC9bHXQhc95FIv9gIHhSHG2-LNS3oVW37lMPf6P0hvAOEtB1z/s1600/Confederte+Day+055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaeE-a8hqOLrLm4BL_6u3P9l22ZylauUiQ25wwN4dnezjo4FuHdRguhGEkoE-3MqKnzKeKeGrgKWoJ58yEw-KWEgYZ_90TC9bHXQhc95FIv9gIHhSHG2-LNS3oVW37lMPf6P0hvAOEtB1z/s320/Confederte+Day+055.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-79234947024644359142010-05-18T17:16:00.000-04:002010-05-18T17:16:34.980-04:00Poor Nance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTr0Uid81bYdBMGbYrRF9xjVY2_wEq1IoT-VS7Y_Ii7jd-XrmIWv8ulY0C2YEwDohS0UU8QU7bcyjXuTdMY12-GIbPhAFo4TSUrXxlMWq_g29YMgNUHml1gBWgQa2r6tI-oCPlNA6lt0Fu/s1600/Nance+Grave+Site.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTr0Uid81bYdBMGbYrRF9xjVY2_wEq1IoT-VS7Y_Ii7jd-XrmIWv8ulY0C2YEwDohS0UU8QU7bcyjXuTdMY12-GIbPhAFo4TSUrXxlMWq_g29YMgNUHml1gBWgQa2r6tI-oCPlNA6lt0Fu/s320/Nance+Grave+Site.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684389999361512891.post-76853927386210844892010-05-18T17:09:00.000-04:002010-05-18T17:09:21.887-04:00Oakdale Cemetery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsb7aZ3APqRawOGGlbFv12lm2ynr1CLV5oExpLj_9I31kwsmqX-WfpqgHlTKyFcsu5lHbJC6QCoU867IFmlMZA9LKyrkRYJfODmi_vJgHL4-VKQWJPNrzKBm_OCMtp2fJf6te6o1_kZ_l/s1600/grave+yard+pics+2+010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfsb7aZ3APqRawOGGlbFv12lm2ynr1CLV5oExpLj_9I31kwsmqX-WfpqgHlTKyFcsu5lHbJC6QCoU867IFmlMZA9LKyrkRYJfODmi_vJgHL4-VKQWJPNrzKBm_OCMtp2fJf6te6o1_kZ_l/s320/grave+yard+pics+2+010.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0