The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

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JUDGE A. 9. AVERY.
There is no picture extant of Waigh- |
still Avery. The above is a cut of
Col. Avery's most distinguished de-
scendent, the late Judge A. G.
Avery Waighstill Avery was the first
Attorney General Of North Caro-
lima n his grandson, Judge A. G.
Avery, was a member of the North
Carolina Supreme Court.
Of Colonel Of the Militia Of Jones
County in place of Nathan Bryan, re-
signed. In this capacity he was en-
gagged for most of the time for two
years in active service until Corn
wallis went to Yorktown. In 1911 he
employed Hervey Williams. the father
Charleston, S. c., to take charge of
his wife and two little daughters n
his negroes and remove them to Swan
Ponds, in Burke County, North Caro-
lima, which he had bought from
Hunting John" Mcdowell, of Pleas
ant Gardens. He joined his family
late in the year 1881, after it became
apparent that our ancestors a won
their independence.
In 1880, while CORVALLIS was &C.
cupying Charlotte, he caused Colonel
Avery's office with all Of his books
and papers, except such as were in
the house of his friend, Hezekiai
Alexander, to be This evl-
dence of d~isp1easure was visited upon
only a few Of those whom Cornwallis
considered leading offenders.
Colonel Avery was not a stranger
to the people of Burke county, and
hence, after his removal to Burke, he
represented the county in the House
) Of Commons in 1882, 'S3, "a. and
'93, and in the Senate in 1876. In
the year 1901 he was rendered help
but continued to practice his profess
sion from Raleigh to Jonesboro (now
, Tennessee) until a few years before
his death in 1921. He had been rem
, dered speechless by a third stroke o.
I paralysis some months before the mrs
account of the Mecklenburg Declare
o ton of Independence was publlsheC
in North Carolina papers, n hen
: we are deprived of the benefit Of hi:
testimony as to that instrument. l
was only when the Declaration wa!
: printed that sue men as Genera
4 Graham began to realize the import
ance Of the movement as evincing tn
: logged and daring spirit that animal
ed the people of M~ecklenburg. The.
I had never learned before to lool
4 upon that movement through tn
+ glasses of the succeeding generation
|; and had never realized that they ha'
= been actors in one OF the creates
o scenes in our history
IS a Family of Patriots.
h The family Of Colonel Avery, ex
cept his brother. Rev. Isaac Aver!
d who remained in New England, wer
re all patriots. In a letter to Colone
IF Avery from his brother. Solomon
II written July II, 1888. the latter said
le Eleven Averys were killed in tn
q fort at CrotOn ard seven wounde
< Many Averys have been killed IN TN
n, county, but there have been no Torle
y among them of this name TN
he monument at Fort Griswold erecte
l. to those who were killed there b
Of Benedict Arnold's men, has lnscrlbe
ae upon it more names of Avery than c
81 any other family.
lie Rev. Isaac Avery came as ia
ne South as Virginia, where he preache
to at Norfolk and at Bethel, where tn
first battle of the late war was Tough
tie One of his daughters married Jon
le Murphy, the. only son OF James Null
ply. who distinguished himself as
~ soldier at Ramseur's Mills, hine
Mountain. and Cow Pens. Margar'
w StringfelloW Murphy was the motht
1g of Mrs. Thomas G. and Mrs. Wliila1
a N Walton, who reared large fam1ll'
lis in Burke county.
Colonel Waightstil; Avery was OF
er of the most thorough anc accura
IL lawyers in the State. An one OF u
IN earliest Volumes of the NORTH Car
ms lima Reports when law books WEI
not very abundant, one of the luds'
said in an opinion that he had pes
e.. uaable to find authority upon a &c
of tain point, bat. rested his declsit
at upon what Colonel Avery tod M