The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-05
WILMINGTON, n. c.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1906.
A OBITUARY..

Hon. r. T. Bennett, Of WadesbOro,
who makes it his duty to write the
obituary of every person who dies In
Arson, has just added another speci-
men Of his unique composition TO his
collection of rare obituaries. He uses
some expressions which no n but
he could originate: For instance. in
the obituary on Mrs. DOty, given be-
low. the difference he draws between
old-time and pr~esent-day ideas on re-
ligion: Hell has been deluged with
rose water and the kingdom of heaven
is now practically from within"
By the way, the Judge Spencer spo-
ken Of by Colonel Bennett was killed
by a t~urkey-cOck. He was a very
old man and had become quite feeble.
He was sitting in a chair in the shade
of a tree in his yard one day, when
the turkey, it was supposed, became
Infatuated because of the bright-coior-
ed dressing-gown and red scull cap the
Old gentleman wore and attacked him.
He was asleep at the time and receiv-
ed a shock from which he could mol
rally. Colonel Benefits life sketch Of
his descendant, Mrs. Doty, is:
We are grjeved to record the death
Of Harriet Doty, widow Of Marshall l..
Doty, which occurred at the home of
her daughter, in Richmond county.
November 9, 1904. The child OF
Nathan Hemby and his wife,
Marcia Pegues, who was the daughter
of CIaudius Pegues and his wife, who
was the daughter of Judge Samuel
Spencer, of Revolution fame. Nathan
Hemby's first wife was a sister of Nor
fleet Dabbs BOggan, many years clerk
of our old county court. Harriet Hem
by was born December 9Th, 1885, in
Arson county. Educated at the schools
the devoted to the teaching and in
struction of the daughters of the best
citizens She had in this respect an
admirable training-not so consum-
mate as tina given in the more famous
schools in the cities, but the training
was such that girls could spell cor
rectly, write and cipher and behave.
Her father was a care-taker for
wealthy planters, designated as over
seer, if there be such word. He was
much given to chewing gum, a somber
looking man and silent-sO I remem-
Der him. The mother of Harriet was
endowed with unusual sense and in
dustry.
Marshall /. Doty came here from
Newark, New Jersey, a skilled and
finely trained coach and carriage pain
ter. The Hembys were Methodist in
religion. Away back there that church
had much Hw%orshiping instinct,
camp meeting ~revivals. Everything to
arous the religious sentiment Of the
young enthusiasm in this direction was
put to the service of this noble denom-
nation! Marshall Doty caught the
fervor and l must record 1t here,
though born a Primitive Baptist, these
occasions of fervor played upon my
soul as the win upon an Eolian harp
and l sought and found comfort. We
carried a burning bush into some Of
those houses The humber the oc-
~upants the more we waved 1t is a
far away cry from then In now.
He'll has been deluged with rose water
and the Kingdom of Heaven is now
practically from within. Men of INTEL
ligence have no apprehension of the
torments of an old-fashioned CONT
METAL hell. Let's do right! We must
do right! The merciful man hath no
enemies"
IICCS 81 NAAS pa ~ VI -
we'll ordered life. 1 wish to give dates
in this poor mortuary notice but I
have delayed this testimony in the
hope of acquiring them and yet there
are none accessible except those 1 have
recapituiated.
Yesterday l read a bench warrant is
sued by Judge Samuel Spencer at
Jonesboro, Tennessee, for the arrest
of Governor Sewer, who had reared
the state of Franklin within the do
minion of North Carolina. The judge
was On the circuit known as Nero,
comprehending Davidson county, Ten
nessee, wherein is now the city Of
Nashville. SEWER, when arrested, was
fetched to Morgan, in this state, and
released OF bail. The clamor passed
without bloodshed. The late Marquis
of Salisbury, answering some re1ec-
tons on ~aristocracy, said that it was
some times based on the fact that the
ancestors of such We're rendering SER
vices of value to the government long
ago. BY this test MRS. Doty was an
aristocrat. her husband inclined te
the Presbyterian church and here
FORMAL admission he worship.
ned. Few women were more industri-
ous thar she. OF late years a mer'
camille business was conducted by her
. She governed her w household,
kept the a among n~eighbors, hon
pred her father and mother, feared
God, r~everenced his sanctuary and full
of patient virtues entered into res
eternal.