Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-21
TWO NAMES OF CREDIT AND
RENOWN.
A Delightful Sketch of Ye Olden
Time By Rev. A. r.. Nor
gan, of This City, Who
Writes Under the
Non de Plume
Manhattan.
For THE ARGUS:

MdHy are CH0 lies GHat DlHu GIo
North and the South together as
component parts of this one great
country. For either the North or
the South to be deprived of the glory
it derives from the other would be
an i~rreparable loss. Of all the per-
sonal and family relations that have
ever been established between New
England and Dixie, none have been
more unique in their elements, none
ever brought to us a greater genius
or a better citizen, few, if any, have
partaken more fully of the romantic
in the best sense Of the term, and
certainly none has ever brought to
us more real culture or more brains,
than the subject of the short story Of
a life that 1 am now to try to tell. 1t
is but proper to add here that the
character of DR.. Seavey, a. outlined
above, was well matched by the
wealth and social standing of the
Newkirk family, from which he re-
ceived the gift of a beautiful bride, a
woman who proved herself in every
respect a worthy helpmete.
About the year 1885, near Roches-
ter, New Hampshire, was born the
man whofor a generation was known
to the people of New Hanover, Pen
der, Bladen, Duplin and lower
Sampson counties as DIR. jeremiah
B. Seavey, OF as many improperly
pronounced it, "Seaby." His boy
hood seems to have been uneventful;
but was spent, as New Englanders
are wont to do, in the dilligent pur-
suit of knowledge. He was a boy of
studious habits, possessing a mind of
rare acuteness and comprehension;
he thoroughly mastered his text
books, and by the time he had at
tanned his majority had graduated
and received his diploma in medi-
cine.
But at this time serious indications
of lung disease were manifest, and
threatened to cut short his promising
life. It was decided that a change
of climate was advisable, and the boy
doctor set sail for Cuba, where he
hoped soft tropical breezes would WOO
back his falling strength. AT Cape
Hatteras, off the coast of North Caro-
lima, his ship was wrecked, and all
but himself and a few others were
lost, the ship becoming a total loss.
After the wreck Or. -Seavey made
his way to Wilmington, n. c.,
where some one recommended the
pine woods of North Carolina for the
relief of his incipient tuberculosis,
and the hospitable home of Bryant
Newkirk, forty miles from Whining
ton, in the turpentine orchards of
lower Sampson, as a suitable place
for him to stay a while. From Will
mington toNewkirks the doctor rode
on horseback. The stranger of re-
spectacle appearance was never turn
| ed away from Bryant NeWkirk's
| door, and his vast wealth in negroes
and lands enabled him to make his
| home a center of culture and refined
ease, we'll suited to attract and en-
rapture the young man from the
bleak hills of New England while in
search of health, to the ece of
which quest the pleasant surround
ings of the Newkirk home were so
well adapted.
This old Southern home, with its
command of luxurious ease, supplied
all that the intellectual and social
side of such a man as young Seavey
was at that time, desired, while the
nectar of the pinewoods healed his
incipient lung trouble and soon re-
stored him to perfect health. Six
months quickly passed. Winter came
The young New Highlander consent
ed to teach school for a while. Miss
Annie Julia Newkirk, one of hii
hosts daughters, at the time a mere
child, was one Of his pupils in the
lschool, and later became the wife O
the teacher.
AS yet no one in that community
knew that the young man was !,
Idoctor of medicine. He had no
Thought it well On first acqnaintanc'
to tell all he knew of himself. Blu
he was thoroughly professional;
born "doctor and surgeon" ant
looming suddenly one day on a yer,
sick negro, he could not refrain from
: giving the relief which he saw tn
sufferer so much needed. This inc
dent helped to end his days in tn