{"id":748,"date":"2011-03-21T01:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-03-21T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:03:07","slug":"roanoke-beacon-abstracts-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/roanoke-beacon-abstracts-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Roanoke Beacon Abstracts Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon. \u00c2\u00a0I extracted articles from the <strong>March &#8211; June 1890 <\/strong>issues to the NC People in the Papers database. \u00c2\u00a0 As usual, I focused on articles of genealogical interest such as obituaries, marriage notices, births, and mentions of specific family relationships. \u00c2\u00a0With this update I added <strong>168 names from 73 articles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Obituaries in this group include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5134\" target=\"_blank\">Julius L. Howell<\/a>, former mayor of Creswell<\/li>\n<li>an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5185\" target=\"_blank\">infant child<\/a> of Thomas Green<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5186\" target=\"_blank\">John Layton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5195\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Carmalt<\/a> of Beaufort County<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5221\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie Clifton<\/a> &#8211; six year old son of lighthouse keeper Thomas Clifton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5245\" target=\"_blank\">Hester A. Darden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5241\" target=\"_blank\">Jennie Marriner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5277\" target=\"_blank\">infant daughter<\/a> of B.D. &amp; Bertha Latham<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5288\" target=\"_blank\">May Buchannon<\/a> (nee Windley)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marriages in this group include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5273\" target=\"_blank\">Annie B. Norman &amp; J.E. Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5258\" target=\"_blank\">Annie Darden &amp; Claud Woodard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5239\" target=\"_blank\">Loula Bateman &amp; John Lewis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5224\" target=\"_blank\">Mamie C. DeCormis &amp; J.E. Reid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5219\" target=\"_blank\">Bettie Mitchell &amp; Charles A.S. Barrus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5172\" target=\"_blank\">Jennie Davenport &amp; John H. Ange<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5162\" target=\"_blank\">Mattie Johnston &amp; W. Fletcher Ausbon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5152\" target=\"_blank\">Margie Garrett &amp; Capt. S.L. Johnston<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5173\" target=\"_blank\">Sadie Davenport &amp; H.W. Mathews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, there are other news items included. \u00c2\u00a0For example, this grade report from the Creswell Academy of some of Principal Dunston&#8217;s students &#8212; could you imagine having your grades posted in the newspaper??<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_749\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/details.php?nameid=5217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-749\" class=\"size-full wp-image-749 \" title=\"roanokebeacon_creswellacademy_1890may\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roanokebeacon_creswellacademy_1890may.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grade reports from the Creswell Academy - May 2, 1890 issue of the Roanoke Beacon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To view the current list of 409 names from Washington County that are in the index so far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb-data.com\/ncnews\/resultlist.php?county=washington&amp;county=washington\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon. \u00c2\u00a0I extracted articles from the March &#8211; June 1890 issues to the NC People in the Papers <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/roanoke-beacon-abstracts-update\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}