This handwritten record was written in longhand by
Jeremiah Solomon, and the work, consisting of some 53 pages, was completed in
1897. Only a small portion has been included here, especially the parts which
impart genealogical data or, at least, a sense of the historical perspective
from which it was written. This book was obtained by Marion B. Solomon of
Dallas, Texas from Mrs. Ted P. Hollifield of Clovis, New Mexico in 1944. I have
asked that this be made available to researchers on the Franklin County, NC
webpage so that it might help some persons with their family research or might
encourage others to come forward with family writings and records which might
benefit us all and stimulate use of the medium in genealogical research. Joe
Max Williams, Columbia, TN, January 10, 1997, joemax@charter.net
A PARTIAL RECORD OF THE
SOLOMON FAMILY AS KNOWN TO ME, JOSIAH BRIDGES SOLOMON, SON OF JEREMIAH AND
ELIZABETH SOLOMON
William
and Diana Solomon immigrated to America sometime previous to the American Revolution,
and settled in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia. When the British Army got
possession of Eastern Virginia, they moved and settled in Franklin County,
North Carolina.
Their children were: Luke, William, Goodwin,
Bennett, Jordan, Elizabeth, Sallie, Jane, and Jeremiah. Note: I never knew any
of these except Uncle Luke and Aunt Sallie and Jane. The other children married
and moved west, and mail facilities being few and uncertain, the families
became unknown to each other.
Franklin County was then a part of
Bute County.
Elizabeth Solomon, daughter of
William and Diana Solomon, married William Judd, and they raised a family in
N.C. Their grandson, William J. Judd married the youngest daughter of Jeremiah and
Elizabeth Solomon.
Luke Solomon married his 1st
cousin, Miss Mary Gordon of Franklin Co., N.C. I do not know of any living
descendant. Their children were: Burchat, Abby, William and Jordan.
Sallie Solomon married a distant
relative, William Solomon. They had two children, Diana and Lucy. Diana never
married. Lucy married a Mr. -------- and they moved west. Do not know anything
of them.
Jane Solomon married Guilford Lewis
of Franklin County, North Carolina. Their children were:
William
A. Lewis, Benjamin B. Lewis, Mary D. Lewis, Augustus M. Lewis, Mara J. Lewis,
Martha A. Lewis, Martha A. Lewis, and Robert G. Lewis.
William Solomon, the head or
progenitor of the family in America had married previous to his immigration
into America, Miss Diana Gordon, of the “Clan Gordon” of Scotland, who was the
mother of the family named on page --. The dates of their birth, removal to
America, marriage and death are all unknown to me, and the family record was
destroyed by fire, and if there is any member of the family living who has a
copy of the record, I do not know who or where he or she is. The Register was
afterward destroyed in the fire which burned down the old family residence and
nearly everything it contained.
William Solomon and his wife Diana
Solomon (nee Gordon) emigrated from
Great Britain, settled first in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia sometime
early in 18th Century, previous to the War of the Revolution, but
the precise year is unknown to me. Several brothers came with them and at least
one of her brothers (i.e. Mrs. Solomon’s brothers). They settled in what is now
Franklin County, N.C., then a part of Bute Co. (Bute Court House was a few
miles south of the present county seat of Warren Co., Warrenton of the present.
The County of Bute was divided into several counties of which Franklin is one.)
William
Solomon settled on a farm 5 miles north of the site of the present county seat,
Louisburg, and a little west of the road leading from Louisburg to Warrenton.
On this farm, his large family of children was raised.
He
and his wife were devout Christians; members of the Baptist Church who
worshipped first at a place called Crocker’s MeetingHouse. Afterwards at what
was known as the Haywood’s Meeting House in honor of Judge John Haywood who
donated the land ( I think two and one-half acres on which the meeting house
was built, just off the Warrenton Road, on the Hayesville Road. The church has
again moved about 2 miles out on the Warrenton Road and is now called Corinth,
I think. This church has an interesting history. Many ministers of influence
have gone out from it to win souls to Christ. I devoutly wish its history could
be written. William Solomon was a deacon and the clerk of this church for many
years before his death, and up to that event. Three of his sons were ministers
of the gospel, viz: Jordan, Bennett, and Goodwin, I think were the 3 ministers.
(What the author doesn’t know is that Jordan and Bennett went to Tennessee and
both were practicing ministers; Bennett was in McMinville, Warren County,
Tennessee, while Jordan was first in Franklin in 1806 and then in Fayetteville,
Lincoln County, Tennessee, where he lived for many years. JMW) He died in the
early years of the nineteenth century, an old man ready for the grim reaper-
death.
It was related to my Aunt Jane, who
was next to the youngest child, that when exhausted by age and disease, so that
he could not get off his bed, he requested his attendants to lift him off his
bed and place him on his knees. They did so and he lifted his feeble voice in
prayer for his children, and granchildren, and his descendants, that they might
be true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the latest generation. Having
finished his prayer, and at his request having been again placed on his bed, he
soon breathed his last and went home to be with his beloved Lord. From my
aunt’s description, the scene must have been solemn and touching to a very high
degree.
It is useless to say that such a man
would stand high in the esteem of those who knew him. He died as he had lived,
without blemish on his moral and religious character, or of a social nature.
His wife, my grandmother, survived
him several years. My father, Jeremiah Solomon, inherited the homestead and
took care of his mother while she lived. She exhibited the sterling qualities
for which Scotch nations are notorious, aiding her husband in rearing and
training her children to habits of industry and piety. Hence, insubordination
was unknown in the family. The household was taught to “ do justice, love mercy
and walk humbly with God.”
All of the sons of William and Diana
Solomon left their native county and went west except Luke and Jeremiah.
William (the son) settled in Tennessee (Warren, Williamson and Lincoln County,
JMW), while the state was a wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and Indians.
Mail facilities were very different from what they are now. I (born in 1824)
can remember when it would take a letter about a month to go from Memphis,
Tennessee to Louisburg, North Carolina and the postage on the letter would be
25 cents, payable at the office of delivery. Besides the length of time it
required to transmit mail matter, and the costs in money to pay for it, there
was, then as now, danger of mail robberies, delays and losses from swollen
streams, breakdowns on account of bad roads, and the clumsy construction of the
old stage coaches. For these reasons, the members of the family thus separated
would inevitably soon lose sight of each other. This result followed in respect
to my uncles on my father’s side. They were soon lost to each other, so that I
can give no account of them
Jeremiah Solomon, the youngest child of William and
Diane Solomon, was born in Franklin County, N.C. January 30th, 1790 A. D. He was raised on a farm and educated in
neighborhood schools, received the best education such schools afforded in that
day, a good practical business education.
He grew to manhood amid the rural scenes of his farm-house, away from
the corrupting association of city life, and after the death of his father
managed the farm and took care of his aged mother as long as she lived, caring
for her as a loving son .
By my grandfather’s will , my father, Jeremiah
Solomon, inherited the old homestead and farm.
I do not remember the date of my grandmother’s ( Diane Solomon’s) death,
and, as stated elsewhere, the register that we had was consumed when the
residence in which my parents had reared their children was destroyed by fire,
some years before my mother’s death (1884)
To this house he brought his young wife, my mother,
upon their marriage, March 4th, 1818.
She was not quiet 18 years old when she was married. On this farm they lived until 1833, when,
finding that he needed more land than the paternal farm contained for the
support of his growing family, he sold the old farm, where sleep the dust of
his parents and other members of his family, to Dr. Wood T. Johnson, and bought
the farm about 6 miles north of the old house, on which he raised his family of
children and on which he died June 18th, 1852.
He, Jeremiah Solomon, my father, was in all respects
a model man. He and my mother,
Elizabeth Solomon, made a profession of religion and joined the Baptist Church
worshiping at Haywood’s Meeting House, I think in 1829- I can hardly remember
the fact. They were both baptized at
the same hour by that grand and Godly man, Rev. Thomas Crocker who for 23 years
was pastor of that church. ( I deeply
regret that the life of said Rev. Thomas Crocker has never been written on
earth. It is written in heaven.) Not long after his union with the church he,
my father was made deacon, which office he held until his death.
Of course I may be somewhat partial in my estimate
of his work and character as a deacon, as well as in other respects, but not
enough so to bias my judgement, I think.
He was always at his place in the church unless providentially
hindered therefrom. He regarded the
trust committed to him, as a deacon, by his brethren as a high and sacred
trust, and was assiduous in the discharge of its obligations. His conviction of the functions of a church
of Christ, of its sacredness, its doctrines and duties; of its members, theirs
duties and obligations as brethren and sisters in Christ, sustaining the most
sacred relations to each other, were clean and strong, and he had the courage
of those convictions. He was never
hasty in his conclusions about church or other matters, but he was firm in his
conclusions when once made.
He made the teaching of the Bible his guide, as he
understood them, in all the relations of life - especially his church
relations. In all respects he laboured
to be faithful to his God, his brethren and to all men. As a consequence he had the highest esteem
of all who knew him. The better he was
known, the more respect and confidence were enjoyed by him. As a deacon he was affectionately solicitous
and watchful for the peace and prosperity of the church. If he learned of any trouble existing between
any of his brethren he would labor for a private and fraternal adjustment between
the parties concerned. His motto seemed
to be “Be at peace among yourselves”.
And very rarely did he fail to bring about the desired end. He was emphatically a “peace-maker” among
his brethren. In all his experience in
this line of work , he never allowed himself to become blinded or biased by
favoritism nor prejudice. Hence his
brethren soon learned to confide in his judgement and listen to his council.
The last time he was ever from home he went upon a
mission of this kind, riding, as well I remember, some 12 or 14 miles to
adjust, by his Christian intervention, a difficulty which had arisen between
some of his brethren.
He seems to have been recognized by his brethren as
adapted, by his deliberate and solid judgement and his Christian integrity, in
a remarkable degree, to this important work.
And his impartiality in the work gave him great influence with his
brethren.
In the year 1833 or 4 he was appointed a Justice of
the Peace for his county (Franklin) by the State Legislature (who at that time
appointed all Justices). He was duly
qualified according to the laws of the state and entered upon the duties of the
office. He faithfully served his
country in this capacity until his death in June, 1852.
As soon as he had gone through the legal forms of
qualification, he bought such books on law as he needed for informing himself
in the duties of his office, thus qualifying himself for an intelligent
discharge of his duties as Justice of the Peace
Very many cases of litigation were brought before
him every year for trial, and rarely was there an appeal from his judgement to
a higher court, and I do not remember a case of such appeal in which his
judgement was reversed, though there may have been some such cases.
I was the better acquainted with his official life because I wrote many
of his papers at his dictation, and there by learned to love the law as a
profession, and had begun to study it for a profession when it pleased God, in
his infinite condescension and mercy to call me to a higher and purer work, the
proclamation of His Word of grace and mercy to a sinful world of immortal
beings.
As a neighbor my father was kindness itself. I never knew one of his neighbors denied a
favor of him which it was not in his power to confer at whatever disadvantage
to himself. The poor of his community (
and there were many) ever found in him a helper, whether the help needed was
material or moral. And, while he was
far from giving encouragement to idleness or dissipation, he could not with
hold help when needed. In cases of
sickness or death in any of the families of his neighborhood, rich or poor, he
was ever ready to render such assistance as might be needed and he was able to
grant. And this assistance was often
rendered at a great sacrifice of means and time.
Among other things he procured pensions for the
widows and children of deceased soldiers of the Revolution and the “war of
12" without charging them anything for his services.
As in the church so it was in the community in which
he lived. He was a peace maker, and
would cheerfully use his influence to
quiet any disturbance that might arise among his neighbors. And he rarely ever failed in either case,
church or community. Yet he was not
obtrusive with his work as intermediary.
But when one of his neighbors would tell him of his trouble with another
neighbor, he would use his influence for an amicable adjustment, and rarely
failed. Such was the esteem in which he
was held, by those who knew him most intimately, for integrity and impartiality
in his dealings with his fellowmen. He
would deal honestly and conscientiously with all with whom he had dealings,
either in social or business life.
But in the family circle my father’s character was
most conspicuously manifest. Here the
man, the husband, the father, and the master- all in one-were manifest in all
their true colors. Here were no
concealment, no restraints, but freedom in most emphatic form. While not given to any sickly
sentimentality, nor to any great degree of demonstrativeness, he was in all
essential points, a model head of his home circle.
Being the youngest child of his parents, he had in
early life been, as a matter of course, petted. This trait never entirely left him, i.e the fondness for being
treated with deference, not to say partiality.
But what he expected from others, he was ready to grant to others, in due proportion.
He was always with his family when not called away
by business. No companionship. However genial or
attractive could long detain him from his family. He loved his home , wife, and children, and never wantonly
remained away from them.
While extracting strict obedience from hie children,
to parental authority, he was a tender parent and watchful for the best
interest of his children. He ever had
an ernest affection for and interest in the members of the family. When called from home by demands of
business, as he often was, he would attend to the business with all possible
dispatch and hasten back to the bosom of his family, to the enjoyment of home
pleasure and domestic quiet.
He desired that all his children should have
educational advantages, and hence he furnished then with opportunities for
securing such education as were necessary to that end. By his assistance I. His oldest son, took my
degree of A. M. From Wake Forrest College, N.C. My youngest brother William graduated from Columbian College,
Washington, D.C., while our sisters were educated at Warrenton Female
Collegiate Institute, Warrenton, N.C. and Oxford Female College, Oxford,
N.C. In his will he provided for the
education of his younger children by his executors. His youngest son , the pet of the family , died of Typhoid fever
while attending the University of VA., Jan., 1859.
When the Legislature of the State passed a law submitting
the question of the establishment of Free Schools to the votes of the people,
my father, who though about the largest taxpayer in his precinct (township)
went around among the poorer neighbors urging them to vote for the law, as it
would prove an unspeakable benefit to them.
( I do not remember the year, but think it was 1840 or 41.)
My father
was the owner of about thirty Negro slaves, the older ones by inheritance, all
the younger -say , from 25 years of age down to infants- had been born his, and
he had raised them, by the help of my dear mother. To raise the children of his slave women was no easy task, as the
mothers were, as a rule, very careless of their young children. Of these slaves he was always tender and
watchful. He never over worked them,
supplied them with good and suitable clothing, and fed them the same kind of
food of which he and his white family ate.
When sick the regular family physician was called to attend them and he
and my mother would wait at their bedside if seriously ill, and tenderly care
for them. A number of them ( and other
slaves also, i.e slaves of other men) were members of the same church of which
the master and his family were members and all partook of the same church
communion. He taught all his children
to treat servants kindly.
The Patriarch of the colored family was “Uncle
Jack”. We were all taught to call the
older servants “uncle” and “aunt”.
Uncle Jack could read quiet well tho’ he confined his reading almost
entirely to the Bible. More than that
he had a peculiar mode of arithmetic calculation which was always correct in
results, but perfectly unintelligible to everybody else.
But Uncle Jack was an astronomer in some
respects. He knew nearly all the
constellations visible to our natural vision, and frequently predicted solar
and lunar eclipses with approximate precision.
In addition to his powers names above, “Uncle Jack”
was a prophet. He almost invariably
foretold the death of almost any member of the family, weeks before the
event. He could not predict the
individual members of the family, but he would tell whether it would be one
full grown or a child. When he was
getting too old to do regular work, my mother had him a new house (built?)
Up in the grove, and had him attended to - his meals and water carried to him
and general attention paid to him.
Sometime before the dreadful and unholy war between the States, he told
the family that terrible times were coming.
Sometime before the war broke out , I was visiting my dear mother and while
there visited “Uncle Jack”. He said he
was very glad to see me, and we soon fell into conversation. Soon he seemed in a strange mental condition
and with his gaze fixed steadily on vacuity went on to tell me of the fearful
crisis that was near at hand and the form of words “North and South”, “South
and North”and “Oh, the sadness, the trouble,” seemed to fall from him
unconsciously.
“Uncle Jack” was (a) member of my father’s
church and I think an ernest Christian.
He died soon after this visit. I
never saw him again. I think he is in
heaven, with both his heavenly Master and his “master according to the
flesh.” The entire family, white and
colored mourned the death of “Uncle Jack”
None but those familiar with the institution could
have any conception of the strength of he attachment that existed between the
masters and their slaves. It is true
that there were great differences in the degrees of this attachment in
different families, as there were both in filial and parental affections. And, as a rule, the slaves took as much
pride in his master’s family as did the master in his slaves. Yet there were cruel masters and there were
wicked slaves. And these gave trouble. But these constituted the exceptions and not
the rule. A conscientious slave-owner
felt keenly the solemnity of the responsibilities that grew out of this
relation. And those slave owners who
had no conscientious scruples would be restrained from cruelty from self
-interest. The slave was valuable only
as he was treated humanly.
This much in regards to the slave and his master.
In the family circle my father’s true character was
most conspicuous, and its dominant traits best seen. Next to his devotion to his divine Master’s cause, which he
always seemed to regard as supreme, were the interest of his family. For the protection and advancement of these
interests no vigilance was too exacting, no sacrifice of ease too great, for
him to make. His assiduity in the discharge of paternal duties was unremitting.
When the duties of the day had been performed, and
the family had gathered in the family room after supper, he was the gentle
father, ready to enter into feeling of
the circle, and always ready to counsel and encourage his children in any
enterprise that met his approval. Nor
did he ever give any advice to his children that he would not be willing for
the world to know. It was all
harmonious with the Bible- in fact, drawn from it. He made the Bible his guide in all relations of life whether as
husband, father, master, jurist, neighbor, deacon or friend.
He was a man of strong convictions and had the
courage of his convictions. Hence at
times, he would seem to a stranger abrupt and wanting in true courtesy. But those who knew him understood him and
never became offended.
The Tar River Baptist Association had been formed of
churches which had seceded from the Kebeekee Association on account of the
anti-mission tenets of the Kebeekee. My
father was sent every year as a
delegate from his church to the “Tar River” Association. And altho’ the Association was founded upon
missionary principles there were quiet a number of the individual members who
were opposed to the missionary movement, and a still larger number who were
indifferent to it.
Among those who antagonized the mission movement was Rev. Willougleby Hudgins, at one time the most influential minister in the Association “Tar River”. Largely through his influence the mission spirit of the churches had well died out , never having been very strong, and but little had been done to keep that little alive.
In 1844 the association met with “the church
worshiping at Brown’s Meeting House” in Warren Co., N.C. This was the wealthiest church in the
association and “Elder Hudgins was its pastor, and was elected “Moderator” of the
association. I was also in
attendance. This body met on
Friday. On Saturday a question arose as
to whether there should be a “missionary sermon and collection for missions on
the next day- Sunday. Rev. Hudgins
opposed it. Most of the members of the
body stood in such awe of Rev. Hudgins that they did not dare oppose him. But my father rose to the demands of the
occasion and advocated the cause of missions and urged it as our duty.
During the discussion that followed on the motion to
have the sermon and collection old Bro. Michael Collins, by permission , made a
motion to test the question as to whether the Association was a missionary body
or not. The question was put and
carried in the affirmative by a small majority- the Moderator not voting, but
sitting at his desk or table with his head bowed during the time.
Thus the cause of missions was sustained in the body
largely through my father’s instrumentality, and the influence over the Body
broken as to the mission cause
From that time onward there has been no question as
to the relation the Association has sustained to missions, and from a small
body of some eight or ten churches it is now (1896) one of the largest of most
influential District Association in the State.
In closing this brief and imperfect sketch of my
father’s life I must add that , with all his paternal kindness, he never
allowed any filial disobedience to paternal authority. His children had been so trained as that
disobedience to their parents was never
thought of as a possible thing.
All the children loved and honored our parents, and obedience in such
conditions, though the requirements thereto were sometimes very different from
our wishes, was a matter of course. Thank God for such parents to have been mine.
As he had lived, so did he die, after a few days of
confinement to his bed, in the sixty-third year of his age. His end was peaceful, with all his family
about him. But oh how unexpected was
his departure! It was in June. I was sitting by his bed-side fanning him
and raising himself to a sitting position he said “ I can not understand
this....” he never finished the sentence, but as he was falling to one side I
caught his sinking head on my arm. He
had a few slight gasps and was gone with no distortions of his features but as
falling to sleep.
“Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for
the end of that man is peace.”
His death was deeply felt by all classes of the
community.
His remains rest in the family burying ground of the
old homestead in Franklin Co., N.C., where he died.
This Bridges family is of English
descent, but when they came to America, I do not know.
Benjamin Bridges was one of the
early settlers of what is now Franklin Co., NC and lived some 8 or 10 miles
south of the present capitol of the county, Louisburgh. My impression is that
he married Miss Rebecca Drake a near relative of Sir Francis Drake.
Benjamin Bridges had 2 sons, William
and Josiah. Whether he had daughters or not I so not know, or even whether he
had other sons.
He was in the Army of the Revolution
and in Gen. Gates’ division at the battle of Camden Courthouse, SC.…
Since
writing the above, I remember that he had at least one daughter who married a
Lewis, the father of Guilford Lewis, who was the father of the Hon. A. M. Lewis
and his brothers and sisters. A.M. Lewis died in Raleigh, NC where he had
resided and practiced law about 40 years.
Josiah Bridges, my grandfather,
married a Miss Martha Williams, of whose ancestors I know nothing. Suppose she
belonged to the numerous family of that name in Franklin Co. Her first husband
was a lineal descendent of Sir Francis Drake, and she had no children by him,
or if she did I never heard of it.
He had a number of children, viz:
John, Josiah, Benjamin Bell, William, and George W. His daughters were Tempe,
Martha, Lucy and Elizabeth. All these lived to be grown and married except
William who died young. John left the state and went to AL before my
recollection. I do not know whom he married. He had a son who the family called
Frank who visited his relatives in NC when I was a lad of about 12 years of
age. He was a fine specimen of manhood. Josiah Bridges, son of Josiah Bridges,
married Elizabeth A. Hutchins of Wake County, NC. Tempe married Caswell Finch
of VA. Lucy and Martha each married a Denby. The Denbys were named Thomas and
John. Both my Aunt Denbys having died, the men left NC and moved to Indiana.
Benjamin Bell Bridges married
Rebecca Southerland of Warren Co., NC, daughter of James Sutherland. George
Bridges married Miss Delany Bryant of Nash County.
Elizabeth Bridges and my father,
Jeremiah Solomon, were married March 4, 1818.
was in every sense a worthy
wife of my father. Her mother died when
she was quiet young, but old enough to have received such careful training as
to qualify her for the faithful discharge of her duties of life.
She
had received only such school education as was afforded by neighborhood schools. These are what was known as subscription
schools. The aspirant to the position
of “School Teacher” would go around among the citizens of the neighborhood in
which he proposed to teach and ascertain how many pupils each head of the
family would agree to send to school -or enter as pupil - at a specified price
per term of so many months. If he could
secure pupils enough to justify his teaching the school, he or she ( but almost
universally he and not she ) would fix a day for “opening school,
when it was expected that every pupil “entered” would be on hand, and usually
they were all there, ready to take the measure of the new teacher. This they generally accomplished in two or
three days. I do not mean that they
measured his scholarship, but the man.
Whether he loved children, whether he was firm in his demands upon them;
whether he was kindly disposed toward his pupils, or was a surly or tyrannical
disposition. And it was a rare thing
that the teacher was not correctly measured and estimated before the first week
if school was out
But
if my mother had not the educational advantages which are enjoyed by the
present generation, she was a woman of rare mental endowments naturally, and
used these natural powers wisely and conscientiously.
She was
a model. She always treated her husband
with a marked respect, and his opinion with due deference, while he often
sought her opinion on matters pertaining to their mutual interest. I do not remember an instance in which my
father entered into any business of
importance in regard to which he did not consult my mother’s judgment, while
she never had a disposition to assume the direction of management of affairs
which belonged peculiarly to his department of family government.
With
true wifely devotions and confidence in his judgement and integrity she leaned
upon him, looked up to him as the head of the family, deferred to his
judgement when they held diverse opinions on any given question of family
affairs. Hence they lived together
thirty two years without discord or strife , each striving to promote the best
interest of the family, training their children to habits of industry and
usefulness and , above all else, training them in love and service of God. As intimated above.
she was above praise. She was ready to do all that sacred name
involves at what ever cost of toil and self denial. She never refused nor failed to do what her sound judgement
guided by the word of God dictated as her duty. In every instance her watchful eye was upon her children, to
admonish , to restrain, to encourage and, whatever she thought necessary, to
punish for the good of the child. She
was ever indulgence when indulgence was admissible, but beyond that she would
not go. Like my father, she required strictest
conformity to parental authority. When
she spoke she meant all she said and exacted all that she required of her
children, obedience to the letter.
Parental authority was the supreme law of the household.
And
yet she and my father were devotedly affectionate to their children . Their love, however, was not of the sickly
sentimental character that was fickle or changeable, or that prompted them to
silly, not to say , cinnival indulgence of the whims and caprices of
inexperienced youth. It was of that
sturdy and unchangeable character that jealously watched for the lasting
welfare of the children, both as citizens of the state and heirs of the eternal
inheritance.
Now,
in my old age , I thank God for such parents.
On
the 9th of Sept.,1884, after remaining a widow of more than 32 years, she
quietly fell asleep in Jesus at the old house in which she had lived 50 years
and her remains rest in the family burying ground beside those of my father,
mingling with those of a number of her children.
BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES OF SOLOMONS
Jeremiah Solomon, youngest son and child of William
and Diana Solomon, was born in Franklin Co., NC, January 30th, 1790
and departed life June 28th, 1852.
Elizabeth Bridges, daughter of Josiah and Martha
Bridges, was born in Franklin Co., NC, April 8th, 1800 and departed this life
September 9th, 188-.
Jeremiah and Elizabeth were married
March 4th, 1818.
Diana Martha Solomon February 10th, 1819-June 30th,
1820
Lavinia Ann Solomon May 2nd, 1821-October 5th,
1884
Josiah Bridges Solomon January 18th,
1824
William Purefoy Solomon April 22nd,
1826-February 21st, 1873
Elizabeth Helen Solomon February 13th,
1829-March 20th, 1849
Mary Ellen Solomon March 22nd,
1834
Jeremiah Henry Solomon January 18th,
1836-January 29th, 1859
Lucy Isabella Solomon September 6th,
1839-June 17th, 1856
Martha Augusta Solomon October 20th, 1843
Lavinia Ann married William Powell
of Wake Co., NC, March 8th, 1843
Josiah Bridges married Mary Malissa
Burges of Warren Co., NC, October 22nd, 1849
Mary Ellen married John C. McCraw of
VA, July 28th, 1859
William Purefoy Solomon married Mary
Pryor Brinkley of Halifax Co., NC
Martha Augusta Solomon married
William J. Judd of Wake Co., NC
Children of Josiah B. and Mary
Melissa Solomon
John Burgess Solomon, 06 Mar
1853, Warren Co., NC, 15 July, 1884, Magnolia, La Rue Co., KY
William Thomas Solomon, 25 Aug 1850,
Davis Co., NC,
Josiah Bridges Solomon, 06 Dec 1854,
Warrenton, NC, 12 Sep 1856, Warrenton,
NC
Martha Alston Solomon