Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEOGRAPHICAL: Your story leaves the impression there were only Hill Billies there, from the Smoky Mountains. That's like saying all aviators are from Kitty Hawk, N. C., for that same year the Church of God did inaugurate its return at Camp Creek, N. C., same year the Wrights first flew at the other end of the State. The Church of God is now firmly established with some 4,000 congregations in 44 States-22 foreign countries...
Since it was publicly announced 60 days ago both here and in Europe that I am preparing to exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church, here in North Carolina, in order to solve this 90-year-old mystery, my associates and I have received letters from Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all parts of the U. S., and among those writing was a son of a former President of the United States, a U. S. Senator, several college presidents and prominent authors as well as historians. Just thought you would be interested in knowing...
...your July 20 issue you had an article regarding the exhumation of the body of Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer...
...State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney was not executed, but taught school in Rowan County, N. C., and lies buried at the above mentioned place. He also said that, during his lifetime, he visited Peter Stuart Ney in North Carolina. My father was pastor of the Third Creek Church, and, as a child, I knew intimately several people who were pupils of Mr. Ney. Dr. Woods, who was our family doctor, was also associated with Dr. Locke, who was at Key's bedside when he died, and Dr. Locke stated that, just before he breathed his last...
...have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several books on this subject have been written by ministers and doctors, but I feel that this is a mystery to be solved by a detective, and this is why I secured permission from the Session of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church to again exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, and we propose to sift the earth in an endeavor to locate a silver plate which was thought to have been worn in Ney's head, and also a bullet that was supposed to have been in the calf...