He knocked around with the women a great deal, and he died at a woman's house by the name of Dollarhite. The record does show that by 1852, he had a license to sell liquor at a general store - even though, as an Orange County representative in the General Assembly, he introduced a bill to form a chapter of the Sons of Temperance. Lore has it Durham had a two-story home called Pandora's Box, near the present intersection of Corcoran Street and the Loop. Today, it's a parking lot. Antioch Church is guarded, fore and aft, by sturdy old oaks, and its churchyard is ringed on three sides by bare oak woods.
Dampness blows up out of the steep gully behind the church.
One end of the graveyard is a Christmas tree of artificial wreaths and bows, a tag of the '90s. But most of the place, with its mossy and weathered stones, is Everytime. Most of the stones are uniform, upright rectangles, though there are enough elaborate monuments to give the place visual and historic interest. Some are deceptively new, such as the stone of the Quakenbush couple, dead these 145 years - fresh, shiny and legible. But there are more, many more that testify to the anonymity that is for all of us our final resting place.