The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-10
ALAMANCE'S HISTORY
Miss Stockard' S Work Issued
From the Press Here
It Tells Of the First Settlements, the War Of the
Regulators, the Battle Of AIamance
and LindIey's Mill.

There was proud young woman in Raj
eigh yesterday-Miss Sallie w. Stock
ard of Alamance county.
If she was not proud she had right
to be. She was here watching her His
tory of Alamance" issued from the
press.
1t is printed by the Capital Printing
Company, and makes neat book OF 100
pages, clearly printed and substantial
ly bound. The first edition consists OF
1000 copies.
Miss Stockard is "a graduate Of the
University of North Carolina-a young
lady of remarkable intellect and great
industry. She has given her book the
greatest care and watched its progress
with much pride, not only experimenting
its printing, but attending personally to
the sale of every copy.
81 tell you it is hard she said as she
held the first copy tenderly in her hands,
81 need every bit of the encouragement
/ can get Some men say: 81 am very
much interested in what you are doing
but can't buy book Others tell me,
II am much interested-the work you
are doing for North Carolina history is
"a great one
But yet" she added seriously, His
torians can not live on good wishes.
They are not wind flowers to thrive on
vapor. But money is the same to
writer as il is to anybody else. We
can't write history when we don't have
anything to eat you know. 1t is hard
to do anything in the way of literature
in North Carolina. 1t takes great
amount of energy and vital force to
bring a book into existence; it takes a
still greater perseverance to sell it
then.
But the subject was not pleasant and
she quickly changed it as she carelessly
turned the leaves of the book with her
slender fingers.
Now my book is dedicated to Gen.
Julian S. Carr" she explained, mot be-
cause he had the book published or had
anything to do with it's publication, but
because he befriended me once in very
gentlemanly manner, something l do not
wish to forget"
Thus she went through the volume,
pointing out it's various features that
she considered most interesting and val
liable The history of the Indians who
first inhabited the county, its first per-
manent white settlement, the war OF the
Regulators the battles of Alamance and
Lindleys Mill and other stirring scenes
of the Revolution.
There are so few people," she eX-
planned half sadly that know the Amer
lean Revolution began right here in Ala
nance"
Then there are chapters on the early
churches of the county the schools, and
history of the beginning of cotton manu-
featuring in this State The pioneer in
this was Edwin NJ. Holt, who built the
first cotton mill in North Carolina on
Alamance creek.
The second half of the book is devoted
to Family History" and will be espe-
cially valuable to Alamance county peo-
pie and those descended from them.
Three chapters are devoted to the AL
brights, one to the Montgomery's, one
to the Mebanes, one TO the Hollis, one to
the Fousts, one to the Clendenen fam
lily. The other families whose history is
here traced are: Stafford, Cook, Puryear,
Newlin, Scott, Trolinger, White and
Turner.
In every respect the book is most
admirable and complete one, and should
be in every North Carolina library how
ever large or small
The manuscript was read by several
eminent men before it was printed, and
they speak most highly of it as work
Of historic value
Miss Stcckard is especially proud OF
this one from DR.. Kemp P. Battle, pro-
fessor of History at the University OF
North Carolina:
Il have been permitted to examine the
manuscript of Sallie w. Stockard's His
tory of Alamance, and have found it
comprehensive. interesting and instruc-
tive. 1t is of peculiar value to the. peo-
pie of Orange and her daughters-Ala-
nance, Caswell, Person and Durham too.
most of which was once her territory
But, as old Orange was for years large
part of the State and as many most i'm
portant historical incidents occurred
within her borders, Miss Stockard's book
should be owned by all who are interest
cd in the history of the State"
Miss Stockard is now in the city solic-
iting subscriptions for her book and
would be glad to call upon anyone desir-
r;o ie,