The semi-weekly messenger. volume (Wilmington, N.C.), 03 Sept. 1901
Contact Myrtle Bridges 

Gathering at Holly Hill   Fayetteville, August 30.
	On Thursday there was a pleasant reunion of the descendants of the late Duncan Murchison, at Holly Hill, the old family mansion 
near Manchester, in the western part of Cumberland county. Those present, including a few guests were: Captain A.B. Williamson, Rev. 
and Mrs. David M. Fairley, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Williams, Mrs. Margaret McKay, of Summerville; Mr. Robert L. Williams, Mr. James Sprunt 
Hall, Mr. William Fitzhugh, Misses Fannie Williams, of Wilmington; Lutie Murchison, Martha L. Williams, Kate, Janie & Nannie Fairley, 
Eliza and May Williams, Margaret and Nannie Holliday, Kate Horner of Oxford, Emma Belle Williams, Jean Annie and Marie Pemberton, Jamie 
McDiarmid and Roxie Hodges, Masters James Horner, George Williams and John D. Williams, Jr. The Murchison family, one of the most prominent 
in North Carolina, has transmitted to its branches and descendants the characteristics which made the old homestead the abode of hospitality, 
culture, and refinement. Its men are brave, upright and manly-the best types of southern citizenship; its daughters are lovely, God-fearing 
and true-the best types of southern womanhood.

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