Descendants
of GREEN BERRY (G. B.) ARLEDGE
of
Polk County, NC
From the working family
history files of
Pam Wilson of Cartersville, Georgia
NOTE: These files are
necessarily incomplete and in a constant state of being updated, so
please send
updates, corrections, additions, comments and so on to me at wilsonpam@mindspring.com.
Last updated July 2006. Specific dates of birth and marriage for living
individuals
or those born after 1925 have been manually removed.
Descendants of Green Berry
Arledge
Generation No. 1
1. GREEN BERRY8
or G. B. ARLEDGE (JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 18 Dec 1816 in Green River Cove, Rutherford Co, NC. He was
listed as
Head of Hosuehold (HOH) in the 1860 Polk Co NC Tryon Twp; HOH 1880
White Oak,
Polk Co, NC. He died 28 Apr 1887 and is buried at Silver Creek Baptist
Church,
Polk Co, NC.
He first married (1) SARAH HOLBERT 23
Mar 1847 in
Rutherford/Polk Co, NC, daughter of BENJAMIN HOLBERT and CHARITY STOVER
(one of
three Holbert sisters to marry three Arledge brothers). She was
born Abt. 1822 in Holbert's Cove,
Rutherford Co, NC, and died Abt. 1854.
He then married (2) REBECCA E.
WALDROP 11 Feb 1855 in Polk
Co, NC [(listed as Bery G. Arledge); bond T. D. Waldrop], daughter of
LUKE WALDROP
and SARAH MCBRAYER. She was born 21 Apr
1829 in Rutherford Co, NC, and died 28 Jul 1914 in Spartanburg Co, SC
of
"endocarditis"; Bur. Silver Creek Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC.
Notes for GREEN BERRY
ARLEDGE:
Was one of first four deacons of
Silver
Creek Baptist
Church, Mill Spring, NC,
when it was organized on 15 April 1840, along with Jim Jackson, Mart
Hamilton,
and Samuel McMurray. [Source: "The Story of Silver Creek Baptist
Church,
1840-1972," pamphlet prepared for Dedication Service of new church
building completed 24 August 1972 and dedicated 8 October 1972]
Witnessed this deed in 1851: State NC
Polk County. Rec'd of
Benjamin HOBERT in Consideration for a negro boy named Harry aged about
one
year old one hundred and fifty dollars with I inwarrant and defend from
all
rights titles and claims forever I in warrant to be a slave for life
Also sound
so far as I now this 11th of May 1848 ISAAC ALDRGE. Attest G.B.
ARLERGE. State
of NC Court of Plea & Quarter, Henderson County, March term 1851
the within
bill of sale was duly proven in open court by the oath of G. B.
ARLERDGE a
subscribing witness thereunto. Recorded and ordered to be registered
Witness.
R. W. Allen CC Registeres 1 April 1851.
Was appointed as Justice of the Peace
upon formation of Polk County
in March, 1855. Greenberry was instrumental in the formation of Polk
County
from Rutherford County. He served as a justice of the
peace and on the school board when the new county was created.
1860 census, Polk County (newly
formed from Rutherford):
lists JOHN ARLEDGE (30), CLEM (35), G.B. (33), LEVI (47) and JONATHAN (
with
slave schedule)
1860 census lists G B 33, Rebecca 30,
Grason 11, Isaac 9,
John 8, Sarah 5 and Elin 3.
1870 census, Polk Co, NC lists GREEN
B. ARLEDGE (53)
A executor of his father's estate,
G.B. was involved in an extended
lawsuit with the Littleton Pittillo estate. See http://www.oocities.org/heartland/prairie/8208/Pittillo.html
for legal records. Interestingly, he was called G.B. Arledge in all the
Polk County
records and Berry Arledge in the Henderson County records.
Children of GREEN BERRY ARLEDGE and
SARAH HOLBERT are:
2.
i. GRAYSON9
ARLEDGE, b. 09 Aug 1848, HOH 1880 (ages 31, 24, no children), 1920 Polk
Co NC
census White Oak twp; 1930 age 82 living with dau Sallie Walker's
family; d. 15
Nov 1931, Polk Co (bur. White Oak Cem, Mill Spring).
ii. ISAAC
"BERRY"
ARLEDGE, b. Abt. 1851, [or 29 Dec 1849: IGI gives both] Rutherford Co,
NC; d.
Aft. 1880, Polk Co, NC.
3.
iii. JOHN
PINCKNEY ARLEDGE, b. 19 Jun 1852, Mill Springs, Polk County, NC; HOH
1880 Polk
Co NC census White Oak Twp (John, Lizzie and Mossie and servant Jane N?
Mul F
28); HOH 1920 Polk Co NC census (Columbus); d.
22 Sep 1929, Henderson Co., NC (bur. Columbus Bapt Church).
Children of GREEN BERRY ARLEDGE and
REBECCA WALDROP are:
4.
iv. SARAH
ANN "SALLIE"9 ARLEDGE, b. 02 Dec 1855; d. 14 Feb 1912,
Polk Co, NC (Bur. Mill Spring Bapt. Church
Cem.).
5.
v. MARY
ELLEN ARLEDGE, b. 30 Jan 1857, Green River Cove, Polk Co, NC.
Generation No. 2
2. GRAYSON9 ARLEDGE
(GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 09
Aug 1848 and was HOH in the 1880 census (ages 31, 24, no children), and
1920
Polk Co NC census White Oak twp; as well as 1930 age 82 living with dau
Sallie
Walker's family. He died 15 Nov 1931 in Polk Co (bur. White Oak Cem,
Mill
Spring).
He married ELEANOR ANN WALDROP 20 Jan
1873 in Polk Co, NC
(Silver Creek), daughter of ROBERT WALDROP and ELIZABETH EDWARDS.
She was born 09 Sep 1855; listed as age 64 in
1920; age 37 on marriage bond; [could this be right? look at childrens'
birthyears], and died 21 May 1927 in Bur. Mill Spring Bapt. Church.
Notes for GRAYSON ARLEDGE:
He served several years in the state
house of representatives
in NC.
Represented Polk County in NC House
of
Representatives in 1889, 1893, 1897 terms.
Children of GRAYSON ARLEDGE and
ELEANOR WALDROP are:
6.
i. SALLIE
LOLA10 ARLEDGE, b. 15 Feb 1883, Polk Co, NC; d. 19 Aug 1961, Bur.
Mill Springs Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC.
7.
ii. BESSIE
ELEANOR ARLEDGE, b. 18 Jul 1884, Polk Co, NC; d. 20 May 1969, Inman,
Spartanburg Co, SC.
8.
iii. BOBBIE
JO ARLEDGE, b. 12 Oct 1886, Polk Co, NC.
9.
iv. MOLLIE
GRAYSON ARLEDGE, b. 24 Jan 1888, Polk Co, NC; d. May 1963.
3. JOHN PINCKNEY9
ARLEDGE (GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 19
Jun 1852 in Mill Springs, Polk County, NC. Was listed as HOH in the
1880
Polk Co NC
census White Oak Twp (John, Lizzie and Mossie and servant Jane N? Mul F
28);
HOH 1920 Polk Co NC
census (Columbus), and died 22 Sep 1929 in
Henderson Co., NC (bur. Columbus Bapt Church).
He married (1) ELIZABETH "LIZZIE ANN"
RUCKER 14 Feb
1878 in Rucker home on Maple Creek, Green Hill, Rutherford CO,
NC. She was born 26 May 1860 in Rutherford
County, NC, and died 18 Jan 1914 in Polk County,
NC (Bur. Columbus Baptist Church).
He married (2) MARY (MRS.) SNYDER 25
Mar 1925 in Mills River,
Henderson Co, NC. She was born 1868 and of
Fletcher, NC (when Married).
J. P.
Arledge
Lizzie
Ann Rucker Arledge
J.P and Lizzie Ann Arledge
Notes for JOHN PINCKNEY ARLEDGE:
Served 28 years as Polk County's
Clerk of
Superior Court. He and Lizzie Ann were also proprietors of the Boxwood
Inn in Columbus, NC,
later known as the Columbus Hotel.
The
Boxwood Inn, Columbus, NC
1910 Polk Co census gives J.P.'s
occupation as Farmer of home
farm, and Lizzie's as Keeper of Boarders. The two boarders at that time
were
attorney James E. Shipman (later to marry daughter Sallie), and
Hercules L.
Moontz, a schoolteacher.
1910 Polk Co census, Columbus Town:
Arledge John P. 56 NC NC NC Farmer,
home firm
Lizzie 49 had 11 children, 10 living;
NC NC NC Keeper of
boarders
Minnie L. 23 School Teacher
Sallie B. 19
Yates A. 17
Roone 15
Ray 13
Shipman James E. 38 NC NC NC boarder
Lawyer
Moontz Hercules L. 25 NC NC NC
boarder School Teacher
After Lizzie Ann died in 1914, J.P.
was listed in the 1920
census of Columbus, Polk Co, NC (age 67) living with daughter Minnie,
son
Roone, and boarders Fred W. Blinton (age 23, b. NC) and Mary Tailor
(29, b.
OH).
Later that year (1920), J. P. moved
with several of his grown
sons to settle in the Mills River section of Henderson County, NC,
to farm. There he remarried in 1925 to a Mrs. Mary Snyder of Fletcher,
known as
Mother Mary to his grandchildren.
Mills
River home of the Arledges, where several members of the extended
family lived
together for a few years in the early 1920s
J. P. died at home of daughter Sallie
Shipman. Buried in Columbus Baptist
Church, Polk County,
alongside Lizzie Ann.
Three of his sons and one son-in-law
were attorneys, one son
followed his role as Clerk of Polk County Superior Court, and one son
was City
Clerk and Tax Collector for Hendersonville, NC. Served 28 years as Polk
County's
Clerk of Court, being elected clerk of the Superior Court of the County
in 1886
and again in 1910.
Listed as one of the four original
commissioners of the town
of Mills Spring
upon its charter. Also a merchant and mill owner, in addition to
serving as
Clerk of Court.
Couldn't find them on 1920 Polk Co
census. Was this when they
were in Mills River??? Need to look in Henderson County.
Notes for ELIZABETH "LIZZIE ANN"
RUCKER:
Buried Columbus Baptist Church.
Was proprietress of the Boxwood Inn or Columbus Hotel in Columbus, NC.
Known as Lizzie Ann, she was a hearty woman, of German descent,
descended from
Huegenot immigrant Peter Rucker of Virginia.
My Uncle Tommy sent me this article
he found online in 2001:
FORD TESTS CARS
Henry Ford
and his
two traveling companions, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone, planned a
trip
into the Southern Appalachian Mountains to
demonstrate the utility of Ford's Model T cars in mountain country. The
good
folks of Polk County
never envisioned such a trip would lead to their descendants commuting
from
their homes to work in far-away Spartanburg,
in a Ford automobile, and return each evening.
Neither did they dream of their descendants working in a Firestone
factory to make, among other things, parts for the strange thing called
automobile. (Note: my father, Jack Arledge, worked for Ford in his
younger days
before going to law school).
In 1911, Mr. Ford
shipped a car of that year's vintage to Spartanburg.
This model was not as adaptable to rural mountain roads as later
models, and
the road from Spartanburg to Asheville was less suited to the
car.
Ford,
Edison and
Firestone left Spartanburg
on the Boiling Springs, S.C. road. Sam,
who served as chauffeur and Ford's right-hand man, was the
driver. The four proceeded to New
Prospect without much inconvenience
not normally
encountered. It was one of the better
roads of the county, with practically no hills, and served Rutherford
and Polk County
farmers as a means of hauling cabbage, apples, and potatoes to
Spartanburg markets.
The exact
time of
year has not been pinpointed. But we
have evidence that it was during school, probably during a lay-by
school term. Whenever a mudhole was encountered, Ford,
Firestone and Edison got off the machine to make it lighter, and to
assist by
pushing it. It
seems Sam was the only one to ride
the entire length of the
trip. Sam was kept busy maneuvering
steering wheel, spark and gas levers, and the three pedals on the left
side of
the floorboard.
It has been
told
that the touring party left what is now Highway 9, at a point near
Beulah Church,
and came into Columbus
on the Peniel Road. The party stayed overnight at Boxwood
Inn. The local populace stirred with
excitement over that new "horseless carriage."
After a good
night's rest and a wonderful home-cooked breakfast at Boxwood Inn and a
delightful visit with the Arledge family proprieters, the touring party
left
Columbus, proceeding out the Old Tryon City road to join the Howard Gap
Road. By way of the latter, Sam was able
to ascend the mountain after many stops, pushings, back-ups, and
"running-go
starts."
The crowning
victory was the entrance into Saluda. The Ford automobile had
conquered the
mountain with four passengers (part of the time), on available roads,
just
three decades behind the puffing steam engines of the Asheville
and Spartanburg
railroad. What a day!
Addendum:
Boxwood Inn
in Columbus was located near
the courthouse and had a normal sleeping capacity for 23 guests.
In time of overflow, it was possible to bed
down a few latecomers on pallets in the hallways and in the
lobby. The Inn
served as a social center for the community.
On Saturday nights, after dinner, the tables were pushed back in the
dining room, chairs stacked in the hallway, and square dances were held
in the lobby
and dining room. Music was furnished by
local fiddlers and everyone had a good time. Some say the automobile
caused the
decline of Boxwood Inn (later re-named Columbus Hotel). Court
attendants and salesmen commuted from Spartanburg, Asheville, and
Charlotte,
giving little thought to a restful night in old Boxwood Inn when the
automobile
became available as a means of their transportation.
Children of JOHN ARLEDGE and
ELIZABETH RUCKER are:
10.
i. MOSSIE10
ARLEDGE, b. 25 Nov 1878, Mill Springs, Polk County, NC; d. 14 May 1943,
Bur.
Cool Springs Cemetery, Rutherford Co, NC.
11.
ii. WILLIAM
BERRY "WILLIE B" ARLEDGE, b. 15 Aug 1880, Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC;
HOH 1920 Polk Co NC census; HOH 1930 Hendersonville, Henderson Co, NC,
farmer;
d. 28 May 1936, Henderson Co, NC (Bur.
Oakdale Cem.).
12.
iii. JAMES
WALKER ARLEDGE, b. 21 Feb 1882, Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1920
Polk Co NC
census; d. 12 Jun 1928, Landrum, SC; Bur. Columbus Baptist Church, Polk
CO, NC.
13. iv.
ISAAC
CURTIS ARLEDGE, b. 30 May 1883, [or 1882] Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC;
lived in
NE & PA for a few years (listed in 1914 Omaha City Directory as
Dean,
Creighton College of Pharmacy, res 4242 Wirt); 1930 HOH Henderson Co,
NC;
attorney; d. 07 Jul 1938, Hoopers Creek Twp, Henderson Co, NC (Bur.
Oakdale
Cem.).
v. NANNIE
SUE (EVIE) ARLEDGE, b. Abt. 1885; d. 1887.
vi. MINNIE
LEE RUCKER ARLEDGE, b. 12 May 1885, Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; never
married;
living with father in 1920 census (age given as 30); 1930 census
boarder w/
Robert F. McFarland family in Columbus, Polk Co, NC on Peak St.; d. 19
Sep
1963, [or Sept 19, 1963 acc. to Cemetery stone] Bur. Columbus Baptist
Church,
Polk CO.
Notes for MINNIE LEE RUCKER ARLEDGE:
Schoolteacher; never married.
14.
vii. JOHN
ADEN ARLEDGE, b. 28 Apr 1889, Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1920 Polk
Co NC;
Clerk of Superior Court; 1930 HOH Polk
Co NC living on Wall St in Columbus; d. 06 Jul 1944, Polk County, NC;
Bur.
Columbus Baptist Church, Polk CO, NC.
15. viii.
SALLIE
REBECCA OR RUCKER ARLEDGE, b. 06 Mar 1891, Columbus, Polk Co, NC; d. 06
Aug
1971, Raleigh, NC; Bur. Shepherd Cem, Mountain Home, Henderson Co, NC.
16. ix.
ALLEN
YATES ARLEDGE, b. 15 Oct 1892, Columbus, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1930
Hendersonville,
Henderson Co, NC; attorney; d. 31 Jan 1966, bur. Decatur, GA.
17.
x. ROONE
ARLEDGE, b. 04 Jan 1895, Columbus, Polk Co, NC; living with father in
1920
census; d. 01 Aug 1981, Henderson Co, NC.
xi. ROBERT
MCRAE "RAY" ARLEDGE, b. 07 Jun 1896, Columbus, Polk Co, NC; lived in
Hendersonville, NC in 1930 census; city clerk; d. 07 Feb 1955; m.
ESTHER MAE JORDAN,
03 Jan 1925, Buncombe Co, NC; b. Abt. 1903, NC NC MD; 1930 listed as
stenographer; lived in Richmond, VA in later years; d/o T. Carlyle
Jordan; d.
18 Jul 2000, Richmond, VA [see obit]; Bur. Oakdale Cemetery,
Hendersonville,
Henderson Co, NC.
Notes for ROBERT MCRAE "RAY" ARLEDGE:
City clerk and tax collector in
Hendersonville, NC.
Notes for ESTHER MAE JORDAN:
September 12, 2000
Hendersonville Times-News
Esther J. Arledge
Esther Jordan Arledge, of the
Hermitage Retirement Home, 1600 Westwood Ave.,
Richmond, Va., died Tuesday,
July 18, 2000. She was preceded in death by her husband,
Robert McRae
Arledge. She graduated from Miss Mason's School for
Girls and Castle
on the Hudson Junior College,
Tarrytown, N.Y. She received a master's
degree from the University of
N.C. at Chapel Hill.
She was the past executive secretary
of the N.C. Association
of Insurance Agents, the
second woman in the United States to serve in such a
capacity and the first in the
East or South. She was the two-time past
president of the Soroptimist
International of Richmond, the largest
professional and executive woman's
club in the world. She was a retired insurance
department manager with
Pollard & Bagby, past executive secretary of the
Richmond Association of Insurance
Agents and chairperson of the education department
of Virginia Association of
Insurance Agents. In October of 1961, she was
the first to
receive the Richmond Business &
Professional Woman's Club
Outstanding Business Women's
Award. She was the first woman to serve on
the Reveille United Methodist
Church Board of Trustees.
She is survived by three nephews,
Thomas Rae Jordan of Rosemond, Calif.;
Jeremy M. Arledge of Cheraw,
S.C., and Roone P. Arledge of New York; two cousins, Mrs. Raymond E. Jordan of
Charlotte and Freda Warfield Mullen of Silver Spring, Md.; and five grandnephews.
A graveside service will be held at 3
p.m. Wednesday at Oakdale Cemetery in the Jordan-Arledge family plot.
Memorials may be made to Reveille
United Methodist Church
or the Hermitage Methodist
Retirement Home.
Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral
Directors and Cremation Memorial Center
is in charge of the
arrangements.
Arledge
siblings
in 1935: Roone, John, Sallie, Minnie, Mossie, Ray and Yates
4. SARAH ANN "SALLIE"9
ARLEDGE (GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 02
Dec 1855, and died 14 Feb 1912 in Polk Co, NC (Bur. Mill Spring Bapt.
Church
Cem.). She married WILLIAM MARTIN JUSTICE
14 Jun 1874 in Polk Co, NC (G. B. Arledge home), son of THOMAS JUSTICE
and HARRIET
BAILEY. He was born 18 Mar 1847, and died
02 Apr 1908 in Polk Co, NC (Bur. MillSpring Bapt. Church Cem.).
Notes for SARAH ANN "SALLIE" ARLEDGE:
Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:59:12 -0400
From: James R. Middleton Middleton1@worldnet.att.net
My name is Jim Middleton and my wife
is Alice Ann Justice
Middleton. Although we now live in Mount Pleasant, SC, we
are originally from Winston-Salem, NC where we still have family. Ann's
great grandfather was William M. Justice who married Sarah (Sallie) Ann
Arledge. We are searching for
information about William and Sallie, particulary their son Carr
Michael (Mike)
who was my wife's grandfather.
Sarah married William Martin Justice,
great-grandfather of my
wife Ann Justice Middleton. Sarah and
William's son, Carr Michael, my wife's grandfather, left the family and
disappeared in 1920 +/-. Do you have any
info on him. Carr Michael Justice married Alice Ann Bearden. We
also have a few Arledge books.
We have an original photograph of W.
M. and Sallie Arledge
Justice as well as a New Testament of Sallie's that states therein that
it was
purchased at Silver Creek Church. Additionally, we have a Splawn
family Bible,
printed in 1846, that has written inside
that it was given to Mrs. Rebecca E. Arledge by G. W. Splawn in
1892. Thanks for any help on Mike Justice.
Children of SARAH ARLEDGE and WILLIAM
JUSTICE are:
i. ISRAEL CARR MICHAEL
"MIKE"10 JUSTICE, b. Abt. May 1880; m. ALICE ANN BEARDEN.
Notes for ISRAEL
CARR MICHAEL "MIKE" JUSTICE:
Date:
Thu, 18
Oct 2001 21:13:31 -0400
From:
"James R. Middleton"
<jmiddleton30@home.com>
This gentleman was my wife's
grandfather. She never knew her grandfather and her family
never spoke of him because, as we found out after all were deceased,
"Mike" was not always a law-abiding citizen. Until visiting your
websight tonight, I didn't know his first name was Israel. How
did you find this out? I have a letter, written by a relative in
the
early 1920's that said they heard that "Mike" had died at the Panama
Canal. Do
you have any information about him?
ii. CLARENCE
JUSTICE, m. ??? HAMILTON.
iii. MARY
JUSTICE.
iv. BUTLER
JUSTICE, m. ??? CLARK.
5. MARY ELLEN9
ARLEDGE (GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 30
Jan 1857 in Green River Cove, Polk Co, NC.
She married W. DECATUR WILLIAMS.
He was born 1848 in HOH 1880 Polk Co NC census White Oak twp.
Children of MARY ARLEDGE and W.
WILLIAMS are:
i. SALLIE10
WILLIAMS, m. ??? WHITE.
ii. KNOX
WILLIAMS.
iii. DULA
WILLIAMS.
iv. BERRY
WILLIAMS.
v. MINNIE
WILLIAMS.
vi. EULA
WILLIAMS, b. 1877.
vii. ATTIE
WILLIAMS, b. 1878.
viii. ISAAC
WILLIAMS, b. 1879.
Generation No. 3
6. SALLIE LOLA10
ARLEDGE (GRAYSON9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 15 Feb 1883 in Polk Co, NC, and died 19 Aug 1961 in Bur. Mill
Springs
Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC. She married
WILLIAM MARTIN WALKER 02 Mar 1903 in Polk Co, NC. He was born 25
Mar 1879 in NC; HOH 1930 WHite
Oak Twp, Polk Co, NC on Mills Gap Rd, and died 16 Mar 1962.
Children of SALLIE ARLEDGE and
WILLIAM WALKER are:
i. WILLIAM
MARTIN11 WALKER, JR., b. 27 Jan 1905, Polk Co, NC.
ii. SIMEON
B. WALKER, b. 19 Mar 1906, Polk Co, NC; d. 29 Apr 1922, Bur. Mill
Springs
Baptist Church, Polk Co, NC.
iii. NELLIE
ELIZABETH WALKER, b. 23 Sep 1907, Polk Co, NC.
iv. FREDERICK
BRYSON WALKER, b. 04 Sep 1909, Polk Co, NC.
v. YATES
F. WALKER, b.
1912; m. ??? MCKEE.
vi. J.
BRITT WALKER, b. 1914; m. EVELYN ???.
vii. MOLLIE
ETHEL WALKER, b. 06 May 1915, Polk Co, NC; living in Landrum, SC
in 2000 (Ethel Barton); m. ??? BARTON.
viii. THOMAS
ARLEDGE WALKER, b. 21 Jan 1917, Polk Co, NC.
ix. SALLY
LUCRETIA WALKER, b. 17 Oct 1919, Polk Co, NC.
18.
x. ANNIE
LOLA WALKER, b. 29 May 1922, Polk Co, NC; d. 30 Dec 2000, Greenville,
SC.
xi. CHARLIE
RUFUS WALKER, b. 05 Oct 1924, Polk Co, NC.
xii. J.
PAUL WALKER, b. 1927; m. ??? GILBERT.
7. BESSIE ELEANOR10
ARLEDGE (GRAYSON9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 18 Jul 1884 in Polk Co, NC, and died 20 May 1969 in Inman,
Spartanburg
Co, SC. She married WILLIAM MARTIN WALKER. He was born 25
Mar 1879 in NC; HOH 1930 WHite
Oak Twp, Polk Co, NC on Mills Gap Rd, and died 16 Mar 1962.
Children of BESSIE ARLEDGE and
WILLIAM WALKER are:
i. EDITH11
WALKER, m. ROBERT
MCFARLAND.
ii. ROBERT
WALKER.
iii. JESSE
WALKER.
iv. JOHN
WALKER.
v. BILL
WALKER.
vi. HUGH
EVERETT WALKER, b. 28 Sep 1909; m. HARRIET ELIZABETH FEAGAN.
Notes for HUGH EVERETT WALKER:
from Abrams Family Genealogy by George Carter Abrams of Newberry SC.
Sun
Printing Co 1979
6.2924 Harriett Elizabeth
Feagan b 4/23/1913
m Hugh
Everett Walker b 9/28/1909
son of William
Walker and Bessie Arledge. Harriett is a retired
teacher of
Polk Co. Hugh is a retired lumberman
(Georgia-
Pacific). r
Rt. 1, Blanton Rd., Columbus, NC 28722.
8. BOBBIE JO10
ARLEDGE (GRAYSON9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 12 Oct 1886 in Polk Co, NC. She
married AVERY H. ELLIOTT. He was born in
of Rutherford Co, NC; moved to Akron, OH.
Notes for BOBBIE JO ARLEDGE:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/e/r/Phyllis-E-Wertz/ODT3-0032.html
Children of BOBBIE ARLEDGE and AVERY
ELLIOTT are:
i. EUGENE11
ARLEDGE, b. Aft. 1904.
ii. MARGARET
ARLEDGE, b. Aft. 1904.
iii. CATHERINE
ARLEDGE, b. Aft. 1904.
iv. ROBERT
ARLEDGE, b. Aft. 1904.
v. BLANCHE
ARLEDGE, b. Abt. 1917.
9. MOLLIE GRAYSON10
ARLEDGE (GRAYSON9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 24 Jan 1888 in Polk Co, NC, and died May 1963. She
married JAMES HAMILTON HADDON May
1910.
Children of MOLLIE ARLEDGE and JAMES
HADDON are:
i. MYRIAM11
HADDON, m. ??? PATTERSON.
ii. CHARLES
(REV.) HADDON, m. MURIEL ???.
10. MOSSIE10 ARLEDGE
(JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 25 Nov 1878 in Mill Springs, Polk County, NC, and died
14 May 1943 in Bur. Cool Springs Cemetery, Rutherford Co, NC. She
married WILLIAM (DR.) CHIVOUS BOSTIC, JR.
25 Nov 1900 in Polk Co, NC, son of GEORGE BOSTICK and MARGARET
GOODE. He was born 20 Dec 1877 in Black Oak (now
Bostic), Rutherford Co, NC, and died 23 Sep 1957 in Bur. Cool Springs
Cemetery,
Rutherford Co, NC.
Notes for WILLIAM (DR.) CHIVOUS
BOSTIC, JR.:
Offprint from Forest City Courier,
April 9,
1953 by Virginia Biggerstaff: "Dr. W. C. Bostic, Sr. Has Lived Rich and
Rewarding Life in Practice of Medicine: Has Practiced Medicine Here for
Half
Century"
Highlights: Dr. Bostic began practice
in Forest City
on 1 March 1903 with Dr. G. E. Young, and has delivered more than 4000
babies.
Inspired to study medicine by an epidemic of measles when he was a lad
of 14 in
the Black Oak community (later the town of Bostic when the railroad
station built and
his father, George, became the first mayor. Prior to that time the name
was
spelled Bostick.) During the epidemic, young Bostic helped care for the
ill,
carrying wood and water and helping with household chores. He also rode
Dr.
Young's horse to help the Dr, earning the nickname "Doc". Later
studied medicine at University of Chattanooga Medical College,
graduating at
age 21. Practiced briefly in Polk County and in TN, then
returned to join Dr. Young. In 1915 he attended the Mayo Clinic and was
elected
a life member of the Surgeon's Club there.
Married Mossie Arledge, who died in
1943, and then a cousin,
Miss Bertha Mae Bostick.
Children of MOSSIE ARLEDGE and
WILLIAM BOSTIC are:
i. MARGARET
ELIZABETH11 BOSTIC, b. 29 Sep 1901, Murfreesboro, TN; d. 06 Dec
1996, Bur. Cool Springs Cemetery, Rutherford Co, NC; m. (1) WILLIAM L.
MORRIS;
m. (2) P. D. PURSER; b. Abt. 1900; d. 1934, Bur. Cool Springs Cemetery,
Rutherford Co, NC.
19.
ii. WILLIAM
CHIVOUS (DR.) BOSTIC III, b. 17 Sep 1903; d. 29 Aug 1962, Bur. Cool
Springs
Cemetery, Rutherford Co, NC.
20.
iii. DOROTHY
ARLEDGE BOSTIC, b. 26 May 1908.
21. iv.
KENNETH
ADAMS BOSTIC, b. 07 Apr 1913, Served in WWII; d. 14 Jul 1978, Bur. Cool
Springs
Cemetery, Rutherford Co, NC.
11. WILLIAM BERRY "WILLIE
B"10 ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 15 Aug 1880 in Mill Springs,
Polk Co, NC; HOH 1920 Polk Co NC census; HOH 1930 Hendersonville,
Henderson Co,
NC, farmer, and died 28 May 1936 in Henderson Co, NC (Bur.
Oakdale Cem.). He married BESSIE CAPPS 20 Sep 1905 in Lynn,
NC. She was born 20 Mar 1886 in NC NC NC,
and died 16 Aug 1960 in Henderson Co, NC (Bur. Oakdale Cem.).
Notes for WILLIAM BERRY
"WILLIE B" ARLEDGE:
Polk Co Birth Records show a birth of
a Dovie Elizabeth to
this couple in 1915. Could this be Doris?
Children of WILLIAM ARLEDGE and
BESSIE CAPPS are:
i. JOHN
PINCKNEY11 ARLEDGE, b. 11 Oct 1906, died at age 3.
ii. WILLIAM
COY ARLEDGE, b. 02 Jan 1912, [or 1913? from Betty Arledge Harris]; d.
28 Mar
1977, Asheville, Buncombe Co, NC; never married.
iii. DORIS
ELIZABETH ARLEDGE, b. 27 Jun 1915; d. 29 Jul 1970, Myrtle Beach, SC;
m. CARTER WATKINS.
22. iv.
BETTY
LEE ARLEDGE, b. 28 Dec 1917.
12. JAMES WALKER10
ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 21 Feb 1882 in Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1920 Polk Co NC
census,
and died 12 Jun 1928 in Landrum, SC; Bur. Columbus Baptist Church, Polk
CO,
NC. He married MARY M. PACE 24 Mar 1907
in Saluda, Polk Co, NC. She was born 19
Nov 1885 in NC NC
NC [or may be Page]; HOH 1930 Landrum, Spartanburg SC census, and died
12 Oct 1937
in Bur. Columbus Baptist Church, Polk CO, NC.
Notes for JAMES WALKER ARLEDGE:
Lived in Landrum, SC.
1910 Polk Co, NC census lists WALKER
J. ARLEDGE, age 28, and
daughters Mildred E. (3) and Geraldine (newborn); Farmer, b. NC
Walker died when he cut
his hand on a piece of tin around the barn, got strep infection and
died in
1928 at Landrum.
Children of JAMES ARLEDGE and MARY
PACE are:
i. MILDRED11
ARLEDGE, b. 1909, NC; m. HANFORD
WATERFIELD.
23.
ii. EDITH
GERALDINE ARLEDGE, b. 1910, NC.
13. ISAAC CURTIS10
ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 30 May 1883 in [or 1882] Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; lived in
NE &
PA for a few years (listed in 1914 Omaha City Directory as Dean,
Creighton
College of Pharmacy, res 4242 Wirt); 1930 HOH Henderson Co, NC;
attorney, and
died 07 Jul 1938 in Hoopers Creek Twp, Henderson Co, NC (Bur. Oakdale
Cem.).
I.
Curtis Arledge
He married (1) ANN ELZADA SMILEY 07
Sep 1910 in Maine
Marriage Records (rootsweb.com). She was
born 04 Apr 1880 in From Waterville, Maine d/o Charles Wesley Smiley
and Elzada
Richardson, and died 11 Apr 1927 in Henderson Co, NC (Bur.
Oakdale Cem.); auto accident. He married (2) HARRIETT FRENCH 30
Apr 1930 in
Henderson Co, NC. She was born 12 Jun
1883 in of Hendersonville
(when married), and died 15 Dec 1973 in lived in Greenville Co, SC
(SSDI).
Notes for ISAAC CURTIS ARLEDGE:
An attorney in Hendersonville,
NC. Also was a pharmacist and taught botany at
the college level [at Creighton University in Omaha]
in Nebraska
for a few years, according to grandson Fred Smiley Arledge.
Notes for ANN ELZADA SMILEY:
Came to Hendersonville
to work as a lady's companion and met Curt Arledge there where he was a
pharmacist in training.
Ann
Smiley Arledge; Ann and Alec . c 1913
Children of ISAAC ARLEDGE and ANN
SMILEY are:
i. CURTIS
ALEXANDER11 “ALEC” ARLEDGE, b. 21 Jul 1911, PA (Pennsylvania); in
1930 working at grocery store, living with father; d. Jun 1994, Polk
CO, NC;
lived in Tryon, NC; m. ALICE ANDREWS, 21 May 1937, Polk Co, NC; b. 13
Jan 1906,
NC; d. 20 Jul 1988, Polk Co, NC.
24.
ii. RUTHELLA
ARLEDGE, b. 07 Feb 1913, Omaha, Douglas Co, NE; served in US Navy
SKD2C; d. 17
Oct 1989, Shelbyville, Shelby Co, KY; Bur. Camp Nelson National
Cemetery,
Jessamine Co, KY.
25.
iii. DORIS
ANN ARLEDGE, b. 27 Mar 1914, Nebraska; lived
in Berea, KY;
d. Abt. 1986.
26. iv.
WILLIAM
RUCKER ARLEDGE, b. 06 Sep 1915, Nebraska;;
d. lives in Candler, NC.
27.
v. GERALDINE
BEVERLY "JERRY" ARLEDGE, b. 06 Jun 1917, Omaha, Nebraska;
d. 01 Sep 1995, Greensboro, Guilford Co, NC.
28. vi.
ALBERT
FREDERICK AUGUSTINE "FRED" ARLEDGE, b. 06 Dec 1921, NC; d. of Lynn
Haven, FL.
Arledge
sisters:
Ruthella, Doris and Jerry
14. JOHN ADEN10
ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 28 Apr 1889 in Mill Springs, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1920 Polk Co NC;
Clerk
of Superior Court; 1930 HOH Polk Co NC
living on Wall St in Columbus, and died 06 Jul 1944 in Polk County, NC;
Bur.
Columbus Baptist Church, Polk CO, NC.
John
Aden Arledge
He married LAURA ALICE WALDROP 01 Mar
1908 in White Oak Twp.
Polk Co, NC, daughter of JOSEPH WALDROP and MOLLIE HUNTER. She
was born 08 Jan 1890 in Polk County, NC, and died 04 May 1967
in Polk County, NC; Bur. Columbus Baptist Church, Polk CO,
NC.
Notes for JOHN ADEN
ARLEDGE:
Was Clerk of Court in Polk County
for many years (elected in 1926). Buried at Columbus Baptist Church.
Lived in the Morgan Hill
section of Polk County, NC, near Stott's Corner. For a few years in
the early 1920’s, the family lived in Mills
River in Henderson
County (with J.P. Arledge and also, I
believe, with Uncle Curtis’ family), and also in the Emma community
near Asheville. Uncle Allen
and Uncle Curt told me story about my grandfather Jack, who, as an
older boy,
was responsible for driving the family cow home when they moved back to
Columbus from Emma—a distance of some 40-50 miles over mountainous
terrain!
Postcard dated Nov. 2, 1943 from
Asheville addressed to Mrs.
J. A. Arledge of Columbus, NC: "Dear Laura, Dr. carried me back to
operating room to day and give treatement of some kind so I know
nothing about
when I can come home, will let you know. Feeling very well if I could
get woke
up. Monday nite. Dad"
Obituary (Spartanburg
(SC) Journal)
John A. Arledge. Tryon NC, July 7
[1944]
Funeral services for John A. Arledge,
55, one of Polk
County's most prominent citizens, who died yesterday morning at St.
Luke's
Hospital, were to be conducted at 4 p.m. today at Columbus Baptist
Church by
the Rev. Charles A. Griffith of Columbus, the Rev. B. G. Henry of the
First
Baptist Church of Tryon, and the Rev. Irby Jackson of the First Baptist
Church
of Rutherfordton.
Six of his sons now at home were to
be the pallbearers. The
seventh son, First Sgt. Keith W. Arledge, is in France with the
American invasion
army. The sons at home are Rupert and Allen Arledge of the Marines,
Lejeune,
NC; James Curtis of the Army, Camp Wheeler, GA; Joe E. and William
Dean,
apprentice seamen at Camp Peary, VA, and J. T. Arledge of Tryon, who is
awaiting his call to service.
Mr. Arledge, born in 1889, was a son
of the late J. P. and
Lizzie Rucker Arledge of Polk County. He lived in the county most of
his life
and took an active part in political and civic affairs. He was Clerk of
the
Superior Court for about 10 years. He was a Deacon of the Columbus
Baptist Church and was Sunday
School Superintendent for many years. At one time he was manager of the
Farmers
Federation in Tryon and was a director of the organization at the time
of his
death. For the past five years he has been secretary of the AAA of Polk
County.
Besides his wife, the former Miss
Lura [sic] Alice Waldrop,
and his seven sons, he is survived by nine grandchildren and the
following
brothers and sisters: Mrs. J. E. Shipman of Hendersonville, Roone
Arledge of
Merrick, NY; Ray Arledge of Fort Bragg; Miss Minnie Arledge of Tryon;
and A.
Yates Arledge of Raleigh.
Notes for LAURA ALICE WALDROP:
She had 7 sons, all of whom served in
WWII (one, Keith, died
in the War). She is remembered by her grandchildren for her excellent
fried
chicken!
Children of JOHN ARLEDGE and LAURA
WALDROP are:
29.
i. RUPERT
ADRIAN11 ARLEDGE, b. 16 Dec 1908, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1930 census
Columbus, Polk Co, NC; salesman for hardware store; d. 19 Jun 1988,
Charlotte,
NC; Bur. Polk Memorial Gardens, Polk Co, NC.
30.
ii. JOHN
THOMAS "JACK" ARLEDGE, b. 19 Nov 1910, Mill Spring, Polk County, NC;
in 1930 living with parents, laborer in auto shop; d. 26 Dec 1979, St.
Luke's
Hospital, Columbus, Polk Co, NC (Bur. Polk Mem. Gardens).
iii. KEITH
WALL ARLEDGE, b. 1913, Polk Co, NC; Served in WWII: 1st Sergeant, 80th
Anti-aircraft Battalion, 82nd Airborne, US Army; d. 09 Oct 1944, The
Netherlands
(Buried in military graveyard in Holland); never married.
These men of the
80th AA came into Normandy by sea to Utah Beach with the
Howell Force on June 8, 1944. They are seen above with a wrecked glider
just
outside Ste Mere Eglise. They are (left to right); 1st Sgt Keith
Arledge (KIA
in Holland),
Leo LaCour, John Sheeringa and Frank Oder.
Notes for KEITH WALL ARLEDGE:
Killed in Holland
during WWII.
ARLEDGE, KEITH W
NORTH CAROLINA
FIRST SERGEANT, 80TH ANTIAIRCRAFT
BATTALION 82ND AIRBORNE
DIVISION
OCT 09 1944
THE NETHERLANDS
BURIED
PURPLE HEART MEDAL
The Tryon Daily Bulletin, Tuesday 31
October 1944
1st Sgt. Keith
Arledge Killed in Action in Holland
The War Department has notified Mrs.
Jno. A. Arledge of Columbus that her son, First Sergeant Keith W.
Arledge,
was killed in action in Holland
on October 9th. Sgt. Arledge was a member of the Glider Unit of the
Airborne
Division. He had received his training at Camp
Claiborne, La, and Fort Bragg,
MC after entering service in March 1942. He arrived overseas in April
1943, and
took part in five major campaigns including North Africa,
Sicily, Italy,
France and Holland.
Sgt. Arledge was 31 years old. He was
a graduate of Stearns High School
at Columbus and attended Wake Forest college for two
years. When he entered the service he was employed by Adams-Millis
Corp. of
Tryon. Besides his mother, he is survived by six brothers, five of whom
are in
the service. They are Rupert Arledge, U.S. Marines in the South
Pacific; J. T.
Arledge of Tryon; Curtis, with the Army in California;
Joe with the Navy in Mississippi; Dean with
the Navy in California
and Allen with the Marines at Cherry Point.
The deceased was a member of the
Columbus Baptist Church. The last letter
from the soldier to his mother was written in Holland on October 1 and
was mailed on
Octoner 14th (according to postmark), five days after his death. The
letter
reached Columbus
on the 25th.
***********
Mama Tootsie told me that the family
was aware that Keith may
have fathered one and perhaps two children before leaving for the war.
31. iv.
JAMES
CURTIS ARLEDGE, b. 1916, Polk Co, NC; d. 05 Apr 1993, Tryon, Polk Co,
NC (lived
on Lake Lanier, SC, in later years).
32.
v. JOSEPH
ERNEST ARLEDGE, b. 26 Mar 1918, Polk Co, NC;
lived in Seneca, SC most of adult life, US Navy WWII; d. 04 Apr 1998,
Anderson,
SC; Bur. Seneca, Oconee Co, SC.
33. vi.
WILLIAM
DEAN ARLEDGE, b. 19 Nov 1920, Polk Co, NC; d. 05 Oct 1974, Asheville,
NC; Bur.
Columbus Baptist Church, Polk CO, NC.
34.
vii. LAWRENCE
ALLEN ARLEDGE, b. 23 Oct 1924, Polk Co, NC; d. 09 Aug 1998, Asheville,
Buncombe
Co, NC; Bur. Columbus Bapt. Church, Polk Co, NC.
15. SALLIE REBECCA OR RUCKER10
ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 06 Mar 1891 in Columbus, Polk Co, NC, and died 06 Aug 1971 in
Raleigh, NC;
Bur. Shepherd Cem, Mountain Home, Henderson Co, NC. She married
JAMES EDWARD (JUDGE) SHIPMAN 16
Nov 1910 in Henderson Co, NC. He was
born 16 Nov 1872 in Henderson Co, NC S/o Thomas Jefferson Shipman and
Anna
Hasseltine Allen, and died 29 Jun 1967 in Raleigh, NC; Bur. Shepherd
Cem, Mountain
Home, Henderson Co, NC.
Sallie
Arledge Shipman
Notes for SALLIE REBECCA OR
RUCKER ARLEDGE:
from the "French
Broad Hustler" reprints in November 1910 section:
Arledge-Shipman
"A surprise wedding, and a very
delighfully pretty
wedding was solemnized at Columbus, Polk Co., Wednesday whenn Miss
Sallie
Arledge became the bride of Mr. James Shipman, or more properly,
"Jim" Shipman, one of the best known lawyers of Western North Carolina.
"The ceremony was performed by Rev.
W. W. Jones, of Campobella, SC,
in th presence of the immediate relatives and friends of the
contracting
parties. It was strictly a home wedding,
and the pretty bride looked very beautiful in her wedding gown of white
messoline. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and
groom left for an extended tour of the North, where they will visit
Cleveland, Buffalo, New York, Washington and
Philadelphia,
where they will be the guests of Mr. Shipman's brother. They will
be at home about the middle of
December. The presents received were
both numerous and handsome and testified the esteem in which the young
people
are held by their many friends. The
wedding was a distinct surprise and possessed an added interest from
that fact
and from the fact that it occurred on the birthday of the groom.
"Among those prsent were Mrs. R. P.
Freeman, Mrs. J.
Williams, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Shipman, of Hendersonville;
Miss Mamie Shipman of Greenville, SC; Dr. and Mrs. Bostwick, of Forest
City,
and other immediate relatives of the bride and groom."
Garnette Arledge wrote:
Thanks so much, Pam. My brother and I
enjoyed the article so
much. We remember stories that Jim Shipman met Sallie Arledge when she
was
eight, he was 26, probably around the age of her parents. He always
said he
knew then she was to be his beloved wife. So when she started courting,
he went
along in the buggy as chaperon. They married when he was 36, she 18
"the
most beautiful bride to ever come to Henderson County." We also
speculate that the 'surprise' about the wedding was that the most
eligible --
and many must have thought confirmed, bachelor and most respected
lawyer in
western NC -- would marry someone from Polk County, and Columbus. All
best,
Garnette
Notes for JAMES EDWARD (JUDGE)
SHIPMAN:
Attorney and Judge in Hendersonville,
NC. Served as Hendersonville City
Attorney, Solicitor of the 18th District, and Judge of Henderson County
Recorder's Court.
Attended Judson College and the
University of North Carolina. Was admitted to the NC Bar on 5 Feb
1900.
Was a boarder listed in J.P. Arledge
household in 1910 Polk
Co NC census: he was 38, a lawyer, while Sallie was 19 at that time.
Children of SALLIE ARLEDGE and JAMES
SHIPMAN are:
35.
i. GARNETTE
ARLEDGE11 SHIPMAN, b. 18 Aug 1911, Hendersonville, Henderson Co, NC;
d. 09 Mar 1971, Washington, DC; Bur. Shepherd Cem, Mountain Home,
Henderson Co,
NC.
ii. MABEL
ELIZABETH "LIBBY" ARLEDGE SHIPMAN, b. Jan 1913, Henderson Co, NC; d.
19 Sep 1954, Connecticut; Buried Shepherd Memorial Park,
Hendersonville, NC; no
children; m. KENNETH COSTINE, Washington, DC.
36.
iii. ANNE
HASSELTINE "TYNE" ARLEDGE SHIPMAN,
b. 1916, NC.
16. ALLEN YATES10
ARLEDGE (JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 15 Oct 1892 in Columbus, Polk Co, NC; HOH 1930 Hendersonville,
Henderson Co, NC; attorney, and died 31 Jan 1966 in bur. Decatur,
GA. He married PHOEBE CARPENTER 1920. She was born 12 Sep
1895 in SC SC SC; Brother
Walter W. Carpenter living with them in 1930, and died Dec 1985 in of
Richmond,
Henrico Co, VA.
Hendersonville attorney,
general counsel for Carolina Power and Light in Raleigh. Attended Wake
Forest University; served as a
trustee there. Received law degree in 1915.
Senior Orations at Wake Forest
University:
1915
R. L. Brown
Unrecognized Heroism
J. P.
Mull The
Farmer, the Neglected Citizen in Legislation,
A. Y. Arledge
The Democracy of the Eleventh Hour
J. M. Pritchard
Shall
the Death Penalty be Abolished?
*B. M. Watkins The
Quest of Freedom,
Earle Prevette The
Mediterranean of the New World
Child of ALLEN ARLEDGE and PHOEBE
CARPENTER is:
37.
i. PHOEBE
ANN11 ARLEDGE, b. 1928, NC.
17. ROONE10 ARLEDGE
(JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 04 Jan 1895 in Columbus, Polk Co, NC; living with father in
1920
census, and died 01 Aug 1981 in Henderson Co, NC. He married
GERTRUDE AGNES STRITMATER. She was born 06 Oct 1908 in New York
City, and died 28 Oct 1995 in
Henderson Co, NC.
Uncle
Roone Arledge, 1995
Notes for ROONE ARLEDGE:
Practiced law in New York City,
retired to Hendersonville, NC.
Arledge, Roone 1895-1981. Biography
Index. A cumulative index
to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 12: September,
1979-August, 1982. New York:
H.W. Wilson Co., 1983. (BioIn 12)
Children of ROONE ARLEDGE and
GERTRUDE STRITMATER are:
38.
i. ROONE
PINCKNEY11 ARLEDGE, JR., b. 08 Jul 1931, Forest Hills, NY; d. 05 Dec
2002, New York City, NY; Bur. Sacred Heart Cemetery, Southampton,
Suffolk
County, New York.
39.
ii. JERRY
MONROE ARLEDGE, b. 07 Oct 1932, Kew Garden, NY; lived in New Bedford,
MA and
Cheraw, SC; d. 22 Sep 2002, Pinehurst, NC; lived in Cheraw,
Chesterfield Co,
SC.
Generation No. 4
18. ANNIE LOLA11
WALKER (SALLIE LOLA10 ARLEDGE, GRAYSON9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 29
May 1922 in Polk Co, NC, and died 30 Dec 2000 in Greenville, SC.
She married GEORGE ALLEN LITTLEFIELD.
Children of ANNIE WALKER and GEORGE
LITTLEFIELD are:
i. GEORGE
ALLEN12 LITTLEFIELD, b. lives in Wilson, OK
in 2000.
ii. MARTIN
WALKER LITTLEFIELD, b. lives in Landrum, SC.
iii. LAURA
LITTLEFIELD, b. Married name Laura Becknell Jutzi, of Landrum, SC.
iv. BETTY
LITTLEFIELD, b. Married name Betty L. Mayfield, of Landrum, SC.
v. CANDACE
LITTLEFIELD, b. Married name Candace L. Burns, of Landrum, SC.
vi. MICHAEL
WAYNE LITTLEFIELD, d. Bef. 2000.
19. WILLIAM CHIVOUS (DR.)11
BOSTIC III (MOSSIE10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 17
Sep 1903, and died 29 Aug 1962 in Bur. Cool Springs Cemetery,
Rutherford Co,
NC. He married ELIZABETH STEVENS. She was born 23 Feb 1904,
and died 07 Oct
1987.
Children of WILLIAM BOSTIC and
ELIZABETH STEVENS are:
40.
i. WILLIAM
CHIVOUS12 BOSTIC IV, b. 1930.
41.
ii. THADDEUS
STEVENS BOSTIC, b. Abt. 1932.
20. DOROTHY ARLEDGE11
BOSTIC (MOSSIE10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 26
May 1908. She married DEWEY A. GIBSON.
Children of DOROTHY BOSTIC and DEWEY
GIBSON are:
i. DOROTHY12
GIBSON.
ii. ANN
GIBSON.
iii. DEWEY
GIBSON, JR..
iv. ANDREW
GIBSON.
21. KENNETH ADAMS11
BOSTIC (MOSSIE10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 07
Apr 1913 in Served in WWII, and died 14 Jul 1978 in Bur. Cool Springs
Cemetery,
Rutherford Co, NC. He married (1) MARGARET
CLEARY 1942. He married (2) SUE MCRORIE
1960.
Children of KENNETH BOSTIC and
MARGARET CLEARY are:
i. KENNETH
ADAMS12 BOSTIC, JR., b. Aft. 1942.
ii. MARGARET
LYNNE BOSTIC, b. Aft. 1942.
22. BETTY LEE11
ARLEDGE (WILLIAM BERRY
"WILLIE B"10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 28 Dec 1917. She married EDWIN HARRIS
1936 in Henderson
Co, NC.
Children of BETTY ARLEDGE and EDWIN
HARRIS are:
i. DOUGLAS EDWIN12 HARRIS, b. 1943.
ii. GREGORY
ARLEDGE HARRIS, b. 1953.
23. EDITH GERALDINE11
ARLEDGE (JAMES WALKER10, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1910
in NC. She married ALFRED HARTMAN.
Children of EDITH ARLEDGE and ALFRED
HARTMAN are:
i. JAMES
RUCKER12 HARTMAN, b. 1945.
ii. CHRISTOPHER
HARTMAN, b. 1947.
24. RUTHELLA11
ARLEDGE (ISAAC CURTIS10, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 07
Feb 1913 in Omaha, Douglas Co, NE; served in US Navy SKD2C, and died 17
Oct
1989 in Shelbyville, Shelby Co, KY; Bur. Camp Nelson National Cemetery,
Jessamine Co, KY. She married BRADFORD WOODROW
HORTON Dec 1952 in San Leandro, CA; divorced and remarried c May
1960. He was born 1917 in Washington, DC, and died
1983 in Edgewater, MD;
Bur. Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Child of RUTHELLA ARLEDGE and
BRADFORD HORTON is:
i. SUZANNE12
HORTON, b. 1954, Oakland, CA;
m. TERRY L. THOMPSON, 1980, Berea, KY.
From Suzanne Thompson:
Doris, Bill, Fred and Ruthella
attended Berea College
(why Mama went is a story I can't wait to share; she started out at
Appalachian
State). Aunt Doris became a
nurse and married the town shoemaker
(his shoe shop is still
there). When my
mother divorced my father for the
first time (around 1958) we
traveled in the moving van (in the front seat, thank goodness) with the
furniture and moved to Berea from the Washington, DC area to be
near Doris.
Mama didn't drive; when she re-married Daddy [not for long] she
demanded
he teach her to drive. Daddy was a
Horton; they met in California
where Mama had gone to seek her fortune instead of accepting a full
scholarship
to Vanderbilt in Law. I SWEAR, there's a
pattern here. Anyway, Daddy worked for
Ma Bell and was transferred back to DC (where he grew up) and was the
telephone
engineer who arranged for the first "red phone" in the White House
between
Moscow and Washington. Quite a charmer, quite a ladies'
man. Pearl(e?) Mesta (you may remember her, but
maybe not - a famous Washington
hostess when that sort of thing counted) seemed to be a friend.
When Doris et al came to visit I remember they all got to
visit Blair House which was not open to the public thru his White House
connections. A BIG DEAL in the early
60"s. I remember one evening when
he said he was upset because he'd met VP Nixon and was surprised that
he was so
short. ANYWAY, after divorce #2 we
landed again in
Berea, where we stayed
from 1965 (I was 11) on. I went to Berea as well as my cousin Jim
(who married another cousin
of mine from Daddy's family) and Fred, 2 of Doris'
3 boys. The third, Rick, went to
Eastern, the party school 15 miles away.
You know about Aunt Jerry; Uncle Alec lived forever and died in Tryon,
NC; Uncle Bill is
in Asheville as is his son Bill; his daughter
Jayne is in SC coaching women's college basketball; Uncle Fred lives
near Panama City, FL and his
son, Fred is near Tampa
I think as is his daughter.
25. DORIS ANN11
ARLEDGE (ISAAC CURTIS10, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 27
Mar 1914 in Nebraska; lived in Berea, KY,
and died Abt. 1986. She married CLARENCE
JACOB "SKINNY" RIVERS 08 Jul 1939 in Henderson Co, NC [may be July
9]. He was born 01 Aug 1913 in Berea, KY.
Children of DORIS ARLEDGE and
CLARENCE RIVERS are:
i. JAMES
ERNEST12 RIVERS, b. 1941, Union organizer for UPS (lives in Bowie, MD);
m. ANN ROTH.
ii. RICHARD
MORRISON RIVERS, b. 1943.
iii. FREDERICK
RUCKER RIVERS, b. 1946.
26. WILLIAM RUCKER11
ARLEDGE (ISAAC CURTIS10, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 06
Sep 1915 in Nebraska;,
and died in lives in Candler, NC. He
married MAUDE INEZ WILSON. She was born
14 Dec 1921 in Spruce Pine, NC, and died 08 May 1979 in Asheville,
Buncombe Co, NC.
Children of WILLIAM ARLEDGE and MAUDE
WILSON are:
42.
i. WILLIAM
RUCKER12 ARLEDGE, JR., b. 1955, Asheville,
NC; lives in Asheville NC
ii. NORA
JAYNE ARLEDGE, b. lives in Traveler's Rest, SC (college basketball
coach in Spartanburg).
Notes for NORA JAYNE ARLEDGE:
Greenville News
Arledge paved way for women in WCU
career
February 7, 2006
By Willie T. Smith III STAFF WRITER.
wsmith@greenvillenews.com.
Thirty years ago, Jayne Arledge
became the first woman to
receive an athletic grant-in-aid at Western Carolina University..
On Monday night, she became the first Catamounts female athlete to have
her
jersey retired.. Arledge, coach of the North Greenville University
women's
basketball team for the past 25 years, was honored before the
Catamounts' game
against Appalachian State..
27. GERALDINE BEVERLY
"JERRY"11 ARLEDGE (ISAAC CURTIS10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 06 Jun 1917 in Omaha, Nebraska,
and died 01 Sep 1995 in Greensboro,
Guilford Co, NC. She married ROBERT EDWARD
"BOB" SETTAN 07 May 1938 in Henderson Co, NC [may be May 13]. He
was born 13 Aug 1914 in of Greensboro, NC,
and died Bef. 1995.
Publication Date: September 08, 1995
Greensboro News &
Record
JERRY ARLEDGE SETTAN
Mrs. Jerry Arledge Settan, 78, of
1003 Guilford Ave. died Friday, Sept. 1,
1995, at her residence. Funeral will be 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10 at
Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant.
Born in Omaha, Neb., she lived in
Hendersonville
until her marriage in 1938, and then moved to Greensboro. She was
retired from Thalhimer's
where she was the Bridal Consultant. She was a member of Presbyterian
Church of
the Covenant where she was a circle chairman and a Life Member of the
Women of
the Church. She was a registrar for Guilford County Board of Elections
for 40
years. She was a member of The Kiwaniannes Club, and Greensboro
Historical
Museum Guild. She volunteered for the Shepherd's Center
of Greensboro, Tannenbaum
Park, and the Natural Science Center, and was named a
volunteer of the week in the Greensboro News & Record. Surviving
are son,
Robert E. Settan Jr. of Eden; daughter, Beverly
Settan Glenn of Myrtle Beach, S.C.;
brothers, Fred Arledge of Lynn Haven, Fla.,
Bill Arledge of Candler. The family will receive friends after the
service at
the alcove in back of the church. Memorial contributions may be made to
Shepherd's Center of Greensboro, 302 W. Market St., Greensboro, N.C.
27401 or Presbyterian Church of Covenant,
501 S. Mendenhall St., Greensboro, N.C. 27401.
Children of GERALDINE ARLEDGE and
ROBERT SETTAN are:
i. ROBERT
EDWARD12 SETTAN, JR., b. 1939, lives in Eden, NC.
ii. BEVERLY
ANN SETTAN, b. 1942, lives in Myrtle Beach; m. ??? GLENN.
28. ALBERT FREDERICK AUGUSTINE
"FRED"11 ARLEDGE (ISAAC CURTIS10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 06 Dec 1921 in NC, of Lynn Haven, FL.
He married (1) NELL GEORGE. He
married (2) AILEEN BLEVINS 1946.
Children of ALBERT ARLEDGE and AILEEN
BLEVINS are:
i. FREDERICK SMILEY12
ARLEDGE, b. 1949
Notes for FREDERICK
SMILEY ARLEDGE:
http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/captain_listings/arledge.html
Capt Fred Arledge, Lake Mary, FL
Enjoy exciting inshore
and flats fishing for Tarpon, Snook and Redfish
with Capt. Fred
Arledge in his 19' Action Craft flats boat. Top quality tackle
is furnished,
feachuring G. Loomis rods and Shimano reels, along with
bait, tackle and
license.
Expert or novice, any
age or gender, anyone who gets wide-eyed with joy
from the pleasure of
fishing is welcome. Catch and release encouraged.
Sunscreen suggested.
Smiles required, grins provided, no extra charge
43.
ii. ALICE
ANN ARLEDGE, b. 06 May 1952, was attorney (Fla State
law school); runs day care; has 2 adopted children.
29. RUPERT ADRIAN11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 16 Dec 1908 in Polk Co, NC; HOH
1930 census Columbus, Polk Co, NC; salesman for hardware store, and
died 19 Jun
1988 in Charlotte, NC; Bur. Polk Memorial Gardens, Polk Co, NC.
He married GLADYS WALKER 1927, daughter of ???
WALKER and ???
ALEWINE. She was born 01 Jul 1906 in
Polk Co, NC, and died 16 Mar 1994 in Rutherfordton, NC; Bur. Polk
Memorial Gardens,
Polk Co, NC.
Notes for RUPERT ADRIAN ARLEDGE:
Served in WWII.
Child of RUPERT ARLEDGE and GLADYS
WALKER is:
44.
i. ADRIAN
JERVIS12 ARLEDGE, b. 03 Mar 1928, St. Luke's Hospital, Polk Co, NC;
an attorney in Rutherfordton, NC; served in Judge Advocate General
Corps of the
Army.
Brothers Allen, Joe, Curt, Jack,
Rupert and Dean Arledge, 1960s.
30. JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 19 Nov 1910 in Mill Spring, Polk
County, NC; in 1930 census living with parents, laborer in auto shop,
went to Detroit
to work in auto industry in early years before returning to NC to
attend Wake
Forest College and law school and then practice law in Tryon, NC. His
favorite
kid of law was title research. Actively involved in local politics in
the
Democratic Party. Served in US Navy in WWII though did not go overseas;
was
injured and hospitalized in Bethesda Naval Hospital for a while. He
died 26 Dec
1979 in St. Luke's Hospital, Columbus, Polk Co, NC (Bur. Polk Mem.
Gardens).
He married LURA MORRIS "TOOTSIE" NASH
04 Oct 1935
in Landrum, Spartanburg Co, SC (at her parents' home). She was
born 17 Mar 1912 in Laurens Co, SC;
raised in Landrum, SC; lived in Tryon,
NC all adult life, and died 10 May 1995 in Charlottesville, Albemarle
Co, VA
(Bur. Polk Memorial Gardens, Polk Co, NC).
Notes for JOHN THOMAS "JACK" ARLEDGE:
Attended Wake Forest University,
received JD degree. Practiced law in Tryon, NC. Involved in local
politics.
Served in Navy in WWII.
From the TRYON DAILY BULLETIN,
Friday, March 2, 2001. From Inky Cloud's column "60 Years
Ago":
J.T.
Arledge,
vice-president of Tryon Chamber of Commerce, is in Washington,
D.C., representing the local organization on
the conference of Western North Carolina Industries Council, meeting
with
Senator Bailey and other officials endeavoring to secure defense
industries for
Western North Carolina.
Notes for LURA MORRIS "TOOTSIE" NASH:
Born in Laurens, SC, she grew up in
Landrum,
SC and lived in Tryon, NC
all her married life. Attended Maryville
College in East Tennessee. Very active in the Tryon community on local
boards and
with the Polk County Historical Society. Member of the DAR and the UDC.
Active
member of the First Congregational (UCC) Church of Tryon.
Known as "Tootsie" to all her family and friends. Grew up in Landrum,
SC. Moved to Tryon, NC when she married Jack Arledge, and lived
there all her adult life.
From The Spartanburg
Herald, S.C.;
Nov. 11, 1955
TRYON TEACHER SOCIAL SET BY PTA
Tryon- The Tryon Parent-Teacher
Assoc. will give a reception
for Tryon school teachers Monday at Sunnydale. MRS. ALFRED OAKLEY,
Chairman,
said MRS. GEORGE DUSENBURY and the following past presidents will
preside; MRS.
AUSTIN WOODY, MRS. JACK ARLEDGE, and MRS. E.E. MISSILDINE. The
refreshment
committee includes MRS. L.C. REYNOLDS,
MRS. CARL FORTNER, MRS. C.G. CORPENNING,
MRS. PERRY COGGINS, MRS. ALLAN
CORRELL, MRS. ROBERT DEDMONDT, MRS. ELBERT ARLEDGE, MRS. CRAIG
HANCOCK, MRS. FRED PLACAK.
Children of JOHN ARLEDGE and LURA
NASH are:
45.
i. LINDA
CAROLINE12 ARLEDGE, b. 1938, Tryon, Polk Co, NC.
46.
ii. JOHN
THOMAS "TOMMY" ARLEDGE, JR., b. 1939, Tryon, Polk Co, NC.
47.
iii. SUSAN
EVE ARLEDGE, b. 1944, Tryon, Polk Co, NC.
31. JAMES CURTIS11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1916 in Polk Co, NC, and died 05
Apr 1993 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC (lived on Lake Lanier, SC, in later
years). He married (1) AZILEE NORMAN. She was born 27 Sep
1915, and died 20 Mar
1965 in Wake Memorial Hospital, Raleigh, NC; Bur. Polk Memorial
Gardens. He married (2) ALMA RECTOR HORNE. She was born 03
Feb 1913, and died 13 Jul
1996 in Spartanburg Co, SC.
Children of JAMES ARLEDGE and AZILEE
NORMAN are:
48.
i. NORMA
JEAN12 ARLEDGE, b. 1935.
ii. JAMES
CURTIS ARLEDGE, JR., b. 1939.
49.
iii. MICHAEL
PRESTON ARLEDGE, b. 06 Jul 1945, Tryon, Polk Co, NC; d. 05 Jan 2000,
Surfside
Beach, Horry Co, SC [see obit].
32. JOSEPH ERNEST11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 26 Mar 1918 in Polk Co, NC; lived in
Seneca,
SC most of adult life, US Navy WWII, and died
04 Apr 1998 in Anderson, SC; Bur. Seneca, Oconee Co, SC. He
married (1) JUANITA WHITFIELD Abt.
1940. She was born 14 Apr 1918 in
Oconee, SC; d/o Charles A. and Nancy Sue Simmons Whitfield, and died 21
Jan
1986 in SC; Bur. Seneca, Oconee Co, SC.
He married (2) CHERYL ROBINSON Aft. 1986. She was born Abt. 1950.
Child of JOSEPH ARLEDGE and JUANITA
WHITFIELD is:
50.
i. SCOTT
BRADFORD12 ARLEDGE, b. 03 Mar 1943, Wilmington, NC; d. 23 Sep 1995,
lived in Walhalla, Oconee Co, SC; Bur. Seneca, Oconee Co, SC.
33. WILLIAM DEAN11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 19 Nov 1920 in Polk Co, NC, and
died 05 Oct 1974 in Asheville, NC; Bur. Columbus Baptist Church,
Polk CO, NC. He married EDNA EARLE GARRISON
02 Nov 1940 in Polk Co, NC. She was born
Abt. 1916 in of Welford, SC d/o Richard Waddell Garrison and Edna
Pinson.
Notes for WILLIAM DEAN ARLEDGE:
NC State Trooper murdered in line of
duty in the Buncombe
County Courthouse, Asheville, NC. Died October 5, 1974, as a
result of a gunshot wound inflicted by a drunken driving suspect while
administering a breathalyzer test.
From my uncle Tommy Arledge:
Hi everyone:
The following
article is from the TRYON DAILY BULLETIN, Friday, March 3, 2000. I
thought you
would find it very interesting. Uncle
Dean's picture was on the front page and on another page was a picture
of his tombstone
(gravesite) at Columbus Baptist Church Cemetary.
POLK ROAD, BRIDGE TO BEAR
TROOPERS' NAMES (by Jeff Byrd)
Polk County
has not forgotten William Dean Arledge and Clyde Perry.
The two
state
tropers, both of whom were killed in the line of duty, will be honored
soon by
having their names placed on sections of roadway along Hwy. 74.
The N.C.
Department of Transportation (DOT) road naming committee on Feb. 3
approved Polk County's
request that the nearly six-mile section of Hwy. 74 from I-26 to Hwy. 9
be
named the "William Dean Arledge Highway".
The full
transportation board was expected to make it official when it meets
today. Although no dedication ceremony has yet been
held, and no sign erected, the Clyde Stephen Perry
Bridge has existed in Polk County
for eight years. The transportation
board approved the naming of the Fox Mountain bridge over Hwy.
74 for Trooper Clyde Stephen Perry on
Jan. 10, 1992.
"No action
has been taken since approval," on the Perry Bridge,
according to Sandy Nance, the department staffer to the road naming
committee.
That will soon be corrected.
The DOT
public
affairs office will plan dedication ceremonies honoring both men in the
coming
months, ceremonies which are sure to include dignitaries from all over
the
state, Nance said.
William Dean
Arledge and Clyde Perry will be remembered, and that thrills those who
never
forgot.
"I can't
talk
about him much without getting emotional," said Norma Gaut, Dean
Arledge's
niece and broker-in-charge at ReMax Realty in Columbus.
"He was a neat guy. He was one of my very favorite people. I am
delighted that they are finally getting
that road named. I knew they planned to
do it when Hwy. 74 opened."
That plan
apparently stalled somewhere, according to retired Trooper J.D. Silver
of Clyde. Soon after
Polk County Sheriff David Satterfield, also a former trooper, was
elected in
1998, Silver said he picked up the phone, started calling DOT and Polk
County
officials, and got the naming process underway again.
The request
for
Arledge was somewhat unusual and took more time to approve than it
might have,
because the DOT typically names bridges, not roads, for deceased
troopers,
according to Ron Leatherwood, highway commissioner for Division 14, the
district which includes Polk County.
The Polk
County
Board of Commissioners originally requested that all of Hwy. 74 through
Pok
County be named for Arledge, but reduced that to the six-mile section
from I-26
to Hwy. 9. Any further objections were
overcome when it was noted that a 4.8 mile section of N.C. 280 in
Transylvania County, also in Division
14, was named
for Trooper Gyles Harmon in 1992.
"This thing
was promised 10 or 15 years ago, and something fell through about it. I
could
see how the family had been pumped up," Silver said. "Mrs.
Arledge (Dean's widow) had gotten
really excited about it, and then I saw her heart breaking."
So, he
worked to
revive the project. "I just put a
little wind in the sails," Silver said.
Edna Earl
Arledge,
who lives in Asheville
today, said she never wanted Dean to become a state trooper, but today
she
realizes that "he died happy, doing the work he loved."
Dean was
born Nov.
19, 1920, the second-youngest of seven sons of John A. and Laura
Waldrop
Arledge. They were raised in the Morgan Hill section, near
Stott's Corner, and all seven grew up and were in the service together
during
World War II. None of the seven are
alive today.
Dean, a
Stearns High School
graduate, met Edna Earl Garrison of Spartanburg
while she was working as a sectary to his father, who, like his father
before
him, was serving as Polk County's Clerk of
Court. He came from good stock on both
sides. Dean's maternal randfather, Joe Waldop of Mill
Spring, had been chairman of the Polk
County Board of Commissioners.
Dean and
Edna Earl
married in 1940, and after a brief move to work in a Wilmington
shipbuilding plant. they returned
to Polk County.
Dean served in the Navy during the war, after which he went to work for
contractor
John Moore.
What his
heart
really desired, though, was to wear the uniform of a state highway
patrolman.
"He would
see
something, and he'd say, 'If I were a trooper now, I'd write them a
ticket," Mrs. Arledge recalls. When
Dean applied to the State Highway Patrol in 1951, she warned, "You're
not
going to like it. I did everything short
of divorce to keep him off."
But Arledge
could
not be dissuaded. He was inducted on
August 1, 1951, and would serve proudly for 23 years until Oct. 5,
1974, the
day hs died. He was 53 and a Patrol
Sergeant.
On that day
nearly
26 years ago, state highway patrolman Lawrence Canipe, 32, was called
to assist
a Haywood County deputy in apprehending a speeding
driver on I-26 South near I-40. Canipe
brought the driver to the Buncombe County Courthouse in
Asheville.
Patrol Sgt. Arledge was to help administer a breathalyzer test.
What
happened
next, no one knows for sure. The
subject, Edward Collins Davis, 55 at the time, apparently wrested
Canipe's gun
away from him, shot and killed both men there in the breathalyzer room
in the basement
of the courthouse, and fled without being seen.
It was around 7:50 p.m.
Davis was
apprehended the very next
night. A Buncombe County
deputy arrested him for public drunkeness on College Street, about 100
yards from
where the shooting occurred. Silver said
it was his recollection that Davis
had spent the night in a warehouse.
It later
turned
out that, prior to his being stopped on the day of the shooting, Davis
had picked up a hitchhiker in Greenville,
S.C., robbed him of $16.00, put him out on the
side of the road in Hendersonville and headed on
to Buncombe County.
It was
perhaps to
escape that charge that he killed two men, if such actions can ever be
explained.
"It was a
horrible time," Mrs. Arledge recalled.
Dean and Edna Earl had two grown daugters, and each had born a child
just weeks before the tragedy. Deanna
NcNeill lives in Charlotte
today. Her son, Scott, 25, passed the
state bar last summer. Charlotte Long
and her son, Austin, now live in Asheville.
Davis
died of natural causes a few years ago while still an inmate in N.C.
Central
Prison in Raleigh. Arledge and Canipe were posthumously awarded
the American Federation of Police's Medal of Honor.
"Dean had a
smile for everybody," Gaut recalled.
"He worked really hard to do the right thing."
As a
president-elect of the Asheville Shrine Club and a past master of the
Blackmer
Lodge No. 170 AF & AM, Arledge was given a full Masonic rite burial
service, and today his gravestone with Masonic emblem stands behind
Columbus Baptist Church,
just a stone's throw from the road that will bear his name.
CLICK HERE FOR
PHOTOS FROM THE HIGHWAY DEDICATION AND POLK ARLEDGE FAMILY MINI-REUNION
Tryon Daily Bulletin, Tryon NC
http://www.tryondailybulletin.com/News/News.asp?ArticleID=413
Web posted: 8/19/00
Slain Troopers’ Memories Honored
by Jody B. Raines
Polk County
and the State of North Carolina
paid homage
Wednesday to two highway
patrol troopers who were killed in the
line of duty. Friends and family of
the slain troopers gathered at the
intersections of Hwy. 74 and
Hwy. 108
for the official naming of the
Clyde Stephen Perry Bridge on
Fox Mountain Road
and the William
Dean Arledge Highway,
a six-mile section of Hwy. 74 from I-26 to
Hwy. 9. Two separate
ceremonies were held. David McCoy, N.C.
Secretary of the Department of
Transportation, recalled Arledge as
passionate about becoming a
state highway patrolman despite his
wife’s misgivings. He said that
Arledge came to be known by his
colleagues as “a committed
patrolman whose compassion was deep
and far-reaching. Many have
shared with me their memories of
Sergeant Arledge’s great sense
of humor and ever-present smile –
and recall how he used his wit
to keep himself and his co-workers
upbeat and positive about a
job that is dangerous and sometimes
tragic… “These core qualities
– compassion, a sense of humor and
love of family – made Sergeant
Arledge a model state trooper and an
even greater person.” Sgt.
Arledge, a Polk County
native born in
1920, served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II and as a
highway patrolman in
Wilkesboro, Murphy, Waynesville, Asheville
and Polk County during his
23-year career from
1951 until 1974. He
was killed by a suspect while
assisting in administering a breathalyzer
test in the basement of the
Buncombe County
Courthouse. Arledge’s
widow, Edna Earl Arledge,
their daughter Charlotte and grandson
Austin
were present at the long-awaited ceremony to unveil the sign
that will bear Arledge’s
name. J.D. ‘Hi Ho’ Silver, retired N.C. State
Highway Patrol, commented that
Arledge as a man of wit and caring
for his family and fellow officers.
“I recall a time when I told him he
was like a father,” Silver
said. “With his usual wit he said, ‘Does that
mean I have to take out the
garbage?’ He gave us encouragement,
time and laughter.” In
accepting a replica sign of the highway
designation, Mrs. Arledge said
that it was fitting that the ceremony be
held in the hometown that he
loved and served. She said that while
she had not shared his dream
of public service, she realized that he
died doing the work he had
loved. Trooper Clyde
Stephen Perry
was killed during a high-speed
chase on Fox Mountain Road in May
of 1972. A North Carolina
native, Perry was born in 1944 in Lenoir,
graduated from Cove Creek High
School in 1962 and served in the
United States Air Force as Airman
First Class for four years on
active duty. He was sworn in
as a highway patrolman in 1967 and
assigned to the Bessemer City
force. He
transferred to Columbus
in
Holden, N.C. Highway Patrol Commander,
said that
patrolmen are
not assigned trivial duties.
“It is easy to be brave from a distance,
but
our troopers must be brave
every day. It is only when they pay the
ultimate price that they are
given the honor and recognition they
deserve.” Col. Holden said
that the highway designations are a way
to remind people the ultimate
price
that service patrolmen are
sometimes called upon to pay
so that “our daily lives can be lived
safely.” McCoy said of Perry,
“He was a model citizen and true
friend of Polk County
and North Carolina.
Again and again he
heeded the call to serve. For
four years, he served his country as an
Airman First Class in the
United States Air Force. He finished
his
active tour with the 414th
Combat Support Squadron at Oxnard Air
Force Base in California
and continued to serve as an inactive
reservist once he returned
home to North Carolina.” McCoy read a
passage taken from Perry’s
Highway Patrol application that he said
“wonderfully summarizes
Trooper Perry’s sincere desire to serve his
state. “‘I want to become as
active as I can to serve the great state
of North Carolina.
The reason I say it is a great state is that I have
been all over, nearly all over
the United States and have yet to find
a
place that I love more than
North Carolina.’”
Perry’s widow, Vivian
Gail Rominger Perry, daughter
Angela Perry Cardell, son-in-law
Mike, grandson Stephen and
mother, Ruby Perry, assisted in
unveiling the sign that will
designate the Clyde Stephen Perry Bridge.
In accepting the replica sign,
Mrs. Perry thanked the Department of
Transportation for hosting the
ceremony that remembered her
husband’s service and
sacrifice. She said, “Thank you very much
from the depths of my heart.
You’ve made this day very special.”
McCoy said that the ceremonies
were but small gestures to show
appreciation for public
servants like Arledge and Perry and reminded
guests that each time
motorists travel on the section of highway and
cross the bridge on Fox
Mountain Road, they will be reminded of the
service and sacrifice made by
those who serve the state. In addition
to McCoy, Silver and Holden,
the ceremonies were attended by Ron
Leatherwood, Polk County
representative of the NC Board of
Transportation, Sen. Robert
Carpenter, Sen. Virginia Fox, Rep.
Andrew Dedmon, Rep. Debbie
Clary, Rep. James Horn and Rep.
Larry Justus, Trooper Coy
Blackman,
Director of Field Operations,
Polk County Sheriff David
Satterfield and a large contingent of active
and retired highway patrolmen.
Adding to the ceremonies was the
posting of the colors by the
Troop G Honor Guard.
From: Lawrence Arledge
Here are a couple of Uncle Dean
stories.
=============
Dean was the next to youngest of
seven boys in his
family. One of Dean's brothers, Allen,
ran an Amoco service station in Asheville
for many years. Dean would stop by the
station occasionally to visit on his way to/from home.
So, once upon a time, there was a
little boy, 7-10 years old,
who went to Allen’s business for a few days in a row and would just
stand
around for a long time. He would have
nothing to say. Of course, Allen and his
employees were simultaneously amused and concerned about the boy's
presence. They wondered if he might
steal something if they got busy and had to turn their backs on
him. But, attempts to persuade him to leave were
futile.
So, after tolerating this for a
while, Allen said to the boy,
"If you don't leave, I'm going to call the police."
The boy was unfazed.
He remained on the premises.
A few minutes later, by happenstance,
Dean pulled up to the
station in his patrol car. Of course, he
was in full uniform. He got out and
walked into the office and said, "Allen, is this the little boy you
called
me about?"
What is funny is Dean had no idea
what had been going
on. He was merely trying to be cute and
tease the little boy. Little did he know
that Allen had been trying to get the lad to leave.
But, the little boy saw no humor in
Dean's comment. Needless to say, he turned pale and departed
quickly, not to be seen again.
Of course, Dean and Allen had a good
laugh about it. But, it'd never have been so funny without
Dean's usual upbeat manner and frequent witticisms -- where on that
day, he
said the clever thing at the right time without knowing he was figuring
into a
larger story.
Children of WILLIAM ARLEDGE and EDNA
GARRISON are:
i. RICHARD
ADEN12 ARLEDGE, b. Aft. 1940; d. died in infancy.
51.
ii. DEANNA
HOPE ARLEDGE, b. 1942.
52.
iii. CHARLOTTE
ANN ARLEDGE, b. 1944.
34. LAWRENCE ALLEN11
ARLEDGE (JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 23 Oct 1924 in Polk Co, NC, and
died 09 Aug 1998 in Asheville, Buncombe Co, NC; Bur. Columbus Bapt.
Church,
Polk Co, NC. He married RUTH BOSTICK. She was born 09 Jan
1928.
Notes for LAWRENCE
ALLEN ARLEDGE:
Attended Wake Forest University;
veteran of WWII: served in South Pacific in U.S. Marine Corps. For
years, he
owned and operated service stations in Asheville, NC on Tunnel Road and
on Patton Avenue.
Children of LAWRENCE ARLEDGE and RUTH
BOSTICK are:
i. LAWRENCE ALLEN12
ARLEDGE, JR., b. 1955, of Asheville, Buncombe Co, NC.
ii. CHERYL
LYNN ARLEDGE, b. 1957, Jacksonville, NC.
53.
iii. CURTIS
YATES ARLEDGE, b. 1965, Asheville, Buncombe Co, NC.
35. GARNETTE ARLEDGE11
SHIPMAN (SALLIE REBECCA OR RUCKER10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 18
Aug 1911 in Hendersonville, Henderson Co, NC, and died 09 Mar 1971 in
Washington, DC; Bur. Shepherd Cem, Mountain Home, Henderson Co,
NC. She married MURRAY BONHAM JONES 15 Oct 1938
in Henderson Co, NC. He was born 14 Oct
1911 in Columbus, GA,
and died 02 Feb 1968 in Hendersonville, NC; Bur. Shepherd Cem, Mountain
Home, Henderson Co, NC.
Children of GARNETTE SHIPMAN and
MURRAY JONES are:
54.
i. MURRAY
B. "SANDY"12 JONES, JR., b. 1946, Baltimore,
MD; lives in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
55.
ii. GARNETTE
"SALLIE" SHIPMAN JONES, b. 1941, Meridian, MS;
changed name to Garnette Arledge
36. ANNE HASSELTINE
"TYNE" ARLEDGE11 SHIPMAN
(SALLIE REBECCA OR RUCKER10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1916
in NC. She married LARRY BAGWELL 1940 in
Henderson Co, NC.
Children of ANNE SHIPMAN and LARRY
BAGWELL are:
i. JILL
SHIPMAN12 BAGWELL.
ii. RONALD
RUCKER BAGWELL.
iii. EDWARD
LAWRENCE BAGWELL.
37. PHOEBE ANN11
ARLEDGE (ALLEN YATES10, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1928
in NC. She married ARTHUR BONNELL (DR.)
CODINGTON who died in of Decatur, GA.
Child of PHOEBE ARLEDGE and ARTHUR
CODINGTON is:
i. BONNIE12
CODINGTON, b. Aft. 1946.
38. ROONE PINCKNEY11
ARLEDGE, JR. (ROONE10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 08 Jul 1931 in Forest Hills, NY, and died 05
Dec 2002 in
New York City, NY;
Bur. Sacred
Heart Cemetery,
Southampton, Suffolk County, New York. He married (1) ANN
FOWLER. She was born 1949. He married (2) GIGI
???. He married (3) JOAN HEISE 1953. She was
born 1930.
Notes for ROONE PINCKNEY ARLEDGE,
JR.:
Attended Columbia College. President
of
ABC-TV Sports and later News Divisions. Subject of a number of books
about his
contribution to broadcasting, including Marc Gunther's "The House That
Roone
Built: The Inside Story of ABC News" (Boston: Little Brown, 1994).
From Columbia University web site
bios
on their trustees
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/trustees/bios/Arledge.html]:
Roone Arledge
Columbia,
B.A., 1952
Roone
Arledge is the chairman of ABC News. Prior to being promoted to
chairman in
March,
1997, Mr. Arledge served as president, and previously served as
President of ABC Sports
where he has been credited with revolutionizing the coverage of sports
on
television.
Mr. Arledge
is widely regarded as one of the most innovative people to work in the
television
broadcasting industry. Under his leadership, ABC News has received
nearly
20 Peabody Awards. The
winner of 36 individual Emmy Awards, in 1990 he was
honored
with broadcasting’s most prestigious distinction: induction into the
Television
Academy
Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the
International Radio and Television Society and he is the first
television executive to
receive the
Medal of the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee.
Mr. Arledge
serves as a director on the boards of The Council on Foreign Relations;
Arts
&
Entertainment Networks; The History Channel and ESPN, the all-sports
cable
channel.
Mr. Arledge
received the John Jay Award in 1979, the Gold Baton from the Alfred I.
duPont–Columbia University Awards in 1995 and the
Alexander Hamilton Medal in
1998.
News Release
[http://www.asu.edu/asunews/Releases/Walter.html] by Keith Jennings
<k.jennings@asu.edu>:
November 6, 1997
Roone Arledge to receive 1997
Cronkite award
The name Roone Arledge is synonymous
with innovation in
television news and sports. On Nov. 11, Arledge will be recognized for
his
achievements when he receives the 1997 Walter Cronkite Award for
Excellence in
Journalism and Telecommunication.
Arledge is widely regarded as one of
the most innovative
people ever to work in television. As president of ABC News, and
previously, as
president of ABC Sports, Arledge played a key role in shaping American
television.
Arledge was named president of ABC
News in 1977 and developed
one of broadcasting's most respected news organizations through
creative news
programming and commitment of resources to both domestic and
international news
coverage.
After serving nearly 20 years as
president of ABC News,
Arledge was promoted to chairman of ABC News in March.
Prior to his appointment as head of
the news division,
Arledge was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 (1976?).
During his
tenure he introduced many new technologies, including instant replay,
slow
motion and advanced graphics. He also worked to introduce journalistic
values
and a personalization of athletes to sports broadcasting.
Arledge's impact can be seen in the
programs he has created:
"World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," the leading network
newscast for nearly a decade; "Nightline," the first network news
program in the late-evening time period; "20/20," the popular
newsmagazine program that has been on the air for 19 years; "PrimeTime
Live," the news division's second hour-long, prime time news broadcast
and
winner of four Investigative Reporters and Editors awards for
distinguished
investigative reporting; "This Week," which has set the standard in
Sunday news programming since 1981; "ABC's Wide World of Sports," the
most popular, most honored and longest-running sports anthology series
in
television history; and ABC's "Monday Night Football," television's
longest-running, prime time sports series.
From Freedom Forum Online, June 1
1998
[http://www.freedomforum.org/professional/1998/6/1arledge2.asp]:
Roone Arledge took ABC News to the
top, then watched its
decline
By
Adam Clayton Powell III
World Center
6.1.98
In
his 21 years running ABC News, Roone Arledge saw his own reputation
grow
from
that of young Turk to elder statesman. He also saw ABC News rise to a
position of unquestioned
industry leadership, only to slide back in
recent years
under
the shadow of NBC.
ABC’s
decision to name Arledge president of ABC News in the 1970s was
viewed at CBS and NBC as the
promotion of what, in today’s terms, might
be
described as a Bob Costas/Matt
Drudge hybrid. After all, Arledge was not
a
journalist. He had only done
sports and was famous for adding glitter,
glitz, bold
graphics, "Wide World of
Sports" and "Monday Night
Football."
And
Arledge did introduce bolder graphics, bright red diagonal banners
across
the corner of the screen, and
big
blocks of text superimposed on
correspondents’ reports. One
CBS producer called it "news for the
blind." But
Arledge also confounded his
critics by spending more money and more
broadcast time on real
news—hard news—than his competitors did.
Was
ABC’s audience share trailing in the evening news time-slot? Arledge’s
solution: Hire Barbara Walters
away from NBC and team her with longtime
CBS
anchor Harry Reasoner. The
team made history—Walters was the first woman
to
anchor a network evening newscast—but after a huge opening-night
audience, the awkward format
and the anchors’ sour on-air chemistry
doomed
the
broadcast.
Arledge moved quickly to control the
damage, promoting Walters, dumping
Reasoner
and creating "World News Tonight." Publicly praising Walter Cronkite
as
the best anchor in America,
Arledge competed with not one, not two, but an unprecedented three co-anchors. He built
the Washington desk around ABC
veteran anchor Frank Reynolds,
built a new national anchor desk in Chicago
anchored by Max Robinson, the
highly regarded anchor of CBS’ Washington
station, and created a new
foreign desk headquarters in London, anchored by
Peter
Jennings—who himself had anchored "ABC Evening News’ over 10 years
earlier.
In
the 11:30 time-slot, he created a new program, "America Held
Hostage," with
Ted Koppel reporting the Iran
hostage
story every night for 15 to 30 minutes. At
CBS
and NBC, the move was a joke: Everyone knew you could not use a news
program to compete with
"Tonight," and besides, who could have
enough
material to do a nightly
program on a single story? To the consternation
of the
critics, thus was born
"Nightline."
Did
CBS have "60 Minutes"? Arledge invented "20/20." Once
again, however, he
created a disastrous anchor
team, pairing Esquire magazine editor Harold
Hayes
with Australian author and art critic Robert Hughes. On the program’s
opening night, Arledge told
reporters he hated the broadcast and its
hosts. The
next
morning, he was watching "Good Morning America," with guest host Hugh
Downs. By midday, Arledge had
fired Hayes and Hughes and
hired Hugh.
At
the same time, Arledge began raiding CBS and NBC News, importing talent
from
the rival networks with offers of considerably higher salaries. From
CBS,
he
picked up such pros as Mort Dean, Jeff Greenfield, John Laurence, Mike
Lee,
Richard Roth, Barry Serafin and Gary Shepard, as well as other
executive
producers, producers and
editors. (Disclosure: I left CBS News in 1981
to go to
the
ABC News/Westinghouse 24-hour cable news service, Satellite News
Channels, as director of news.)
Arledge also spent more on news
coverage. On President Carter’s trips
overseas,
CBS and NBC would each typically send a team of 30-40
people—then would watch as
ABC’s plane arrived and 45 got off. Fifty-two
weeks
a year, day in and day out, ABC was often the first with the broadest
bookings for satellite feeds
of
domestic and overseas news. CBS and NBC had
to
bargain with Arledge’s team for time on ABC’s satellite transmissions.
Needless to say, ABC always
fed its stories first. Quoting the famous
line from
"Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid," we at CBS kept asking
each other,
"Who are those guys?"
As he
built ABC News in the late 1970s, Arledge deliberately weakened news
leader CBS. He had unexpected
help in
this undertaking from Richard Salant,
president of CBS News, and his
chief deputy, senior vice president Bill
Small,
who
suddenly left to run NBC News, taking with them Roger Mudd, Bernard and
Marvin Kalb, and still more
CBS correspondents, producers, and editors.
Amid
the
confusion, Arledge stepped in and hired longtime NBC anchor David
Brinkley. So by the time
Walter Cronkite stepped down in 1981—pushed out
by
CBS,
which was alarmed by Arledge’s sudden public courtship of Dan
Rather—CBS had lost much of
its bench. "World News Tonight"
quickly went
into
the lead and stayed there for most of the 1980s.
Arledge even made the right move when
his bosses were convinced he was
wrong. The 24-hour Satellite
News Channels were not reaching as large an
audience as cable news pioneer
CNN, and network accountants were
convinced there was no room
for two 24-hour news networks. So two years
after
it
started, SNC was sold to CNN. (Today, SNC partners ABC and
Westinghouse—now CBS—are on the
sidelines, and CNN, NBC and Fox have
24-hour services.)
Arledge accomplished all of
this—"World News Tonight,"
"Nightline," "20/20"
and a 24-hour cable news
network—in four years. He spent the next 17 years
defending his turf and
consolidating his gains. Now, with few new
territories to
conquer, he has officially
handed the leadership to David Westin, a
lawyer and
former ABC network president.
But Westin today inherits a division on
the
wane:
"World News Tonight" is a distant second behind NBC, and it sometimes
runs
last, behind NBC and CBS. "Good Morning America" now trails NBC’s
"Today" by a wide margin.
Arledge tried again a few years ago
to start a new
24-hour cable news channel, but
network accountants prevailed again,
arguing
there could not be room for
four 24-hour news
networks.
Nor
is the corporate context encouraging. ABC’s prime-time entertainment
schedule actually fell behind
that of the upstart Fox network among
advertisers’
favorite viewers, 18- to
49-year-olds, and there are persistent reports
that ABC
will
make major changes to its entertainment team soon. Geraldine Laybourne,
wooed
to ABC after she built the Nickelodeon network from scratch, suddenly
quit
ABC/Disney last week after propelling ABC’s children’s audience to its
highest level in years.
Now
it is ABC that is weakened. And ABC needs a new Roone Arledge.
Roone Arledge, one of the 100 most
important Americans of the
20th Century
Date: December 10, 2002
ABC News chairman Roone Arledge was
remembered Monday in New York by colleagues
as an inspirational boss and a pioneer who transformed sports
television.
Arledge, who died Thursday of
complications from cancer at
71, created such shows as Monday Night Football, Wide World of Sports
and
Nightline. The 36-time Emmy winner, who was president of ABC News and
Sports
more than a decade, was cited as on of the 100 most important Americans
of the
20th centure by Life magazine in 1990.
"I'm not sure I really trust myself
to try to tell you
everything Roone ment to me," ABC Good Morning America host Diane
Sawyer
told mourners at St. Bartholomew's Church. "But the biggest suprise to
me
last Friday morning was the silence in the universe and the place where
I used
to hear Roone thinking. I never noticed that he was the global
positioning
system."
"Some reunion," said Peter Jennings,
gazing out at
the vast church in which every pew was occupied. "That man was no
saint,
but look around you. Had Roone not been as interesting, compelling and
complicated, surely not that many of us would be here."
(Taken from the St. Petersburg Times
Newspaper Tuesday December 10, 2002)
Henderson, Transylvania
and Polk Counties | December 28, 2002
Roone Arledge's roots in Polk County
Times-News Staff Report
Though he
was born and raised in New York City,
Roone Pinckney
Arledge had deep roots in Polk
County.
His
grandfather was an original commissioner of the town of Mill
Spring and a longtime clerk of
court in Polk County
who later moved to Mills
River. An uncle served as city
clerk in Hendersonville. His parents retired
in Hendersonville from New
York. Roone
Arledge Jr. was born July 8, 1931, in Queens,
to Polk
County native Roone Pinckney
Arledge and Gertrude Agnes
Stritmater, a New
York City native. A brother,
Jerry Monroe Arledge,
who was born a year
later, has lived in New
Bedford,
Mass., and Cheraw, S.C.,
according to a
history of the Arledge and
Greenberry families of Polk County.
Roone
Arledge Sr. was born in the Polk County town of Columbus
on Jan. 4, 1895.
A lawyer
for Equitable Life Assurance, he led discussions about
World War II news around the
family dinner table, instilling
in his son a
lifelong hunger for facts and
information, The New York Times
said in a
4,000-word obituary of
Arledge. His mother, Gertrude, pressed
him to excel,
which he did both academically
and in every other pursuit in
his school
days.
The
television executive's parents lived in Hendersonville
in
retirement. Roone Arledge Sr.
died Aug. 1, 1981, and Gertrude
Arledge died
Oct. 28, 1995.
The senior
Arledge was the son of John Pinckney Arledge, who was
born June 19, 1852, in Mill
Spring in Polk County.
In 1877 he married
Elizabeth "Lizzie
Ann" Rucker, the daughter of Capt. William H. Rucker of
Green Hill in Rutherford
County. J.P., as he was
called, served for 23 years
as Polk County's clerk of
court.
"Lizzie Ann," a hearty woman of German
descent, was proprietess of the
Boxwood Inn (later the
Columbus Hotel),
according to the Greenberry
Arledge family history.
After
Lizzie Ann died in 1914, J.P. and several of his grown
sons moved to a farm on Mills
River, said Jack Jones, a Henderson County
genealogist who is distantly
related to the Arledges. In
1925, J.P. Arledge
married Mary Snyder of
Fletcher. He died in
1929 at the home of a daughter, Sallie Shipman, and
is buried at Columbus Baptist
Church
alongside Lizzie Ann.
Besides the
TV pioneer's father, two other sons of J.P. were
attorneys. One followed in his
footsteps as Clerk of Court in
Polk and
another served as city clerk
and tax collector for Hendersonville.
There are
still plenty of folks in Polk County related to the
broadcasting pioneer.
"It's
full of Arledges," Jones said.
A public
relations official at the Greenville-Pickens Motor
Speedway recalled that in
1971 Roone came to Greenville
to broadcast a stock
car race.
"The
race was broadcast live to the nation on ABC Wide World of
Sports," recalled the
speedway's Keith Cochran.
"That race is now famous in NASCAR history as the very first to be
broadcast in its entirety from flag to flag.... Stories have it that
Roone
met with the drivers before
the race and told them that `this
TV thing could
be a big deal for NASCAR' so
be on your best behavior.... The
result was 200
choir boy laps, basically a
train, with little of the
bumping, grinding, and
wild stuff that had been a
usual element of GPS Grand
Nationals in the
past."
Arledge's
remark about TV as a big deal for racing, Cochran
added, "was probably the
understatement of the
century."
Roone
A Memoir
by Roone Arledge
I wonder what he'd have made of me.
I'm talking about the little boy with
the thatch of red hair
and the funny-sounding first name who grew up on suburban Long Island
in the middle of the twentieth century: Roone Pinckney
Arledge. What would he have thought of this full-grown graybeard in the
next
century, walking with a cane? What would he have made of my thirty-six
Emmys
and my directorships ranging from ESPN to the Council on Foreign
Relations and Columbia University (ESP-what? he might ask), and
my three wives and four children and five grandchildren? And the
Lifetime
Achievement Emmy I'm to receive for News, the first of its kind to be
given by
the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences? And, last
but far from least, my late-life disease that now afflicts so many
human
beings?
A "legend in television," did you
say?
I've been called that, much to my
chagrin. Legends are the
dead, people like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig whose images are carved in
relief in
deepest center field at Yankee Stadium. And I'm very much alive despite
the
cane, still chairman of ABC News and working on these memoirs in my
spare time.
But which would be stranger to the
little boy? The idea that
he might grow up to win a lifetime achievement award in television?
Or television itself?
(Until I was eight, I don't think I
had ever even heard of
television.)
I have an equally hard time relating
to the little boy I once
was, the one his schoolmates nicknamed "Genius." (Whether he was or
wasn't one he once lost a spelling bee because he muffed the word!
That's
right: "g-e-n-i-o-u-s"!). "Roone" was safer. The good thing
about being called Roone, my father told me, was that people always
remembered
who you were. There are a lot of Johnnys, he said, a lot of Jims, Bobs,
and
Bills, but I've never run across another Roone.
He knew wherefrom he spoke: His name
was Roone, too.
Dad was right, as he was about nearly
everything. In all the
years since, I only encountered one more Roone, and that's my son, who
soon
became known in the family as Boss and who christened his own first son
...
Benjamin!
Of course, there's always an
exception, somewhere. In what
was once East Berlin, an ABC crew once came across the statue of a
Prussian
field marshal who'd served as Bismarck's
chief of staff. His inscribed name? "Roon." My ABC colleagues took a
picture of the statue, simply added an e to the end, superimposed a
photo of my
face on the general's, and proudly presented it to me.
My father, in fact, had been
christened without the e, too.
My grandfather chose "Roon" for him, a minister's last name that he'd
discovered written in an old family Bible. The Pinckney -- my
grandfather's
middle name, as it was my own -- was borrowed from an illustrious South
Carolina family that went back to Revolutionary
days, whereas we Arledges, at least through my grandfather's
generation, were
farmers from Scotland.
As for "Roon," Dad added the e, went to Wake
Forest, and after serving as a
sergeant in France
during World War I, came north to work as a real estate lawyer for
Equitable
Life Assurance.
My father's choice of the law was
doubtless influenced by
having grown up in a family famous for arguing and debating around the
dinner
table but even more so by his brother, Yates. Yates Arledge was locally
celebrated for having defended the Carolina Power & Light Company
in court
against a farmer whose mule had been electrocuted by a fatal encounter
with an
electrified fence that had been erected by the company. The farmer
wanted
restitution for his mule. Yates filed a countersuit on behalf of the
company,
charging the mule with negligence. As everyone knew, he contended,
mules were
endowed with special intelligence. A horse might have run into such a
fence,
not knowing any better, but a mule? Never. The mule should have known!
The judge in question laughed both
cases out of his
courtroom.
My mother, Gertrude, was a Scot, too.
I learned good manners
from her, personal reserve, and most of all the love of excellence and
attention to detail (a characteristic that, over the years, annoyed
some of my
ABC colleagues no end). But it was from my father, I think, that I got
a
passionate, an almost insatiable, curiosity about the world around me,
and a
devouring appetite for news and media. My earliest broadcasting memory
is being
huddled around the living room radio, a kind of mini-cathedral in dark
wood
with a lit doorway at the bottom where the dial was, listening to FDR's
fireside chats. President Roosevelt was one of my father's heros.
Another was
Douglas MacArthur. I can summon to memory the announcement on our radio
of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December
seventh fell on a Sunday that year, and the special news bulletin broke
into a
football game. When not long afterward, we heard that the Japanese had
invaded
the Philippines,
my father opined, "We've got MacArthur out there. He'll be terrific."
The next day, in school, I remember being called upon to explain what
had
happened -- probably my first experience in journalism.
Children of ROONE ARLEDGE and JOAN
HEISE are:
i. ELIZABETH
ANN "BETSY"12 ARLEDGE, b. 1958; m. ??? KIRK.
Notes
for ELIZABETH ANN "BETSY" ARLEDGE:
http://nasw.org/mem-maint/awards/01NOVAbios.html
ELIZABETH ARLEDGE has been a
documentary producer, writer,
and director for over 20 years and has broad experience in developing,
producing, directing, writing, reporting, and editing for national
network,
cable, and public television. She began her career at WCVB-TV in Boston
where she was a
founding producer of the award-winning longtime series CHRONICLE. After
joining
WGBH/Boston in 1982, Ms. Arledge produced a series of local half hour
documentaries, including the winner of the Corporation for Public
Television
Local Broadcasting Award, "Two Intimate Journeys." This program was
also awarded the American Women in Radio and Television Award.
From local programming Ms.
Arledge moved to national
production in 1983, as an associate producer and then producer on
FRONTLINE,
where she produced, wrote, and directed 10 programs and received the
California
Trial Lawyers Award, the John Muir Medical Film Festival Award, and was
nominated for a national Emmy for "The Death of Nancy Cruzan. " For
WNET/13 in New York,
Ms. Arledge produced and wrote "Live Long and Prosper," which won the
OWL Award. For CBS News she produced a series of documentaries and
stories for
"Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel." For NOVA, Ms. Arledge produced
"Surviving AIDS" (1999) which was awarded the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Excellence in Television Award, and was
nominated for a WriterÕs Guild Award. She is currently at work
developing a six
part series for NOVA on ChildrenÕs Hospital Boston. She lives in
Cambridge, Mass.
with her 12-year old daughter.
2001 Science in Society
Journalism Awards, Television
Elizabeth Arledge,
producer/writer, NOVA/PBS
Julia Cort, NOVA staff
producer/writer
Robert Krulwich, NOVA
correspondent
"Cracking the Code of LIfe"
ii. SUSAN
LEE ARLEDGE, b. 1961; m. ??? WESTON.
iii. PATRICIA
LU ARLEDGE, b. 1962; m. ??? LOONIE.
56. iv.
ROONE
PINCKNEY ARLEDGE III, b. 1964.
39. JERRY MONROE11
ARLEDGE (ROONE10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 07 Oct 1932 in Kew Garden, NY; lived in New
Bedford, MA and Cheraw, SC, and died 22
Sep 2002 in Pinehurst, NC; lived in Cheraw, Chesterfield Co,
SC. He married SUE KIRKLEY. She was born 29 Nov 1937.
Notes for JERRY MONROE ARLEDGE:
Graduate of University of NC; Owner
of several
women's clothing companies, including Kay Windsor Fashions.
Children of JERRY ARLEDGE and SUE
KIRKLEY are:
i. JERI
SUE12 ARLEDGE, b. 1960.
ii. SALLIE
SMITH ARLEDGE, b. 1962; m. JON WOOD.
Generation No. 5
40. WILLIAM CHIVOUS12
BOSTIC IV (WILLIAM CHIVOUS (DR.)11, MOSSIE10
ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1930. He married SANDRA MORRISON.
Children of WILLIAM BOSTIC and SANDRA
MORRISON are:
i. ELIZABETH STEVENS13
BOSTIC, b. 1959.
ii. BROOKE
ARLEDGE BOSTIC, b. 1960.
iii. GRAHAM
HUNTER BOSTIC, b. Abt. 1962.
iv. JASON
CHRISTIAN BOSTIC, b. Abt. 1964.
v. STACIE
BOSTIC, b. Abt. 1966.
41. THADDEUS STEVENS12
BOSTIC (WILLIAM CHIVOUS (DR.)11, MOSSIE10
ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born Abt. 1932. He married ??? MCDONALD.
Children of THADDEUS BOSTIC and ???
MCDONALD are:
i. THADDUES
S.13 BOSTIC.
ii. SARAH
M. BOSTIC.
42. WILLIAM RUCKER12
ARLEDGE, JR. (WILLIAM RUCKER11, ISAAC CURTIS10,
JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1955 in Asheville, NC;
lives in Asheville NC. He married MELISSA KATHRYN PENRY 1980 in
Winston-Salem, NC.
She was born 1956 in Winston Salem, NC.
Children of WILLIAM ARLEDGE and
MELISSA PENRY are:
i. WILLIAM
RUCKER13 ARLEDGE III, b. 1983.
ii. CURTIS
PENRY ARLEDGE, b. 1985.
43. ALICE ANN12
ARLEDGE (ALBERT FREDERICK AUGUSTINE "FRED"11, ISAAC
CURTIS10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1952. Was attorney (Fla State
law school); runs day care; has 2 adopted children
Children of ALICE ANN ARLEDGE are:
i. ADEN13
ARLEDGE, b. 1990.
ii. SHEA
ARLEDGE, b. 1992.
44. ADRIAN JERVIS12
ARLEDGE (RUPERT ADRIAN11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1928 in St. Luke's Hospital, Polk Co, NC; an attorney in
Rutherfordton, NC; served in Judge Advocate General Corps of the
Army. He married (1) POLLY EVELYN BRYANT 02 Jun
1951 in First Baptist Church, Rutherfordton, Rutherford Co, NC.
She was born 29 May 1930 in Mitchell Co, NC
d/o Charles Bryant and Ella Stewart, and died 28 Sep 1990 in Bur.
Rutherfordton
City Cemetary, Rutherford Co, NC. He
married (2) RUBYE ??? 09 Oct 1992 in Gaffney, SC.
Notes for A. JERVIS ARLEDGE:
From WHO'S WHO IN THE SOUTH AND
SOUTHWEST, Volume 9, page 40,
Marquis--Who's
Who, 1965:
ARLEDGE, Adrian Jervis, army officer,
lawyer; b. Tryon, N.C.,
Mar. 3, 1928; s. Rupert Adrian and Gladys (Walker) A.; student
Gardner-Webb Jr. Coll., 1945-47;
LL.B., Wake Forest Coll., 1950; m. Polly Evelyn Bryant, June 2, 1951.
Admitted
to N.C. bar, 1950, U.S. Tax Ct. bar, 1954, U.S. Dist. Ct. for Western
N.C. bar,
1954; practiced in Rutherfordton, N.C., 1953 -- ; partner firm Owens
&
Arledge, 1957 -- ; atty. Rutherford County, 1960-62. Mem. Rutherford
County Planning Commn.,1961 -- . Served
to 1st lt. AUS, 1951-53; capt. Res. Recipient Distinguished Service
award as
Rutherfordton's Outstanding Young Man of the Year in 1960. Mem.
Rutherford
County Bar Assn (pres. 1961), American, North Carolina
bar assns., N.C. State Bar, N.C., N.C.
Jr. (gen. counsel, 1957-58, chmn.
by-laws and policy, 1958-59, elections and credentials, 1959 --),
Rutherfordton
(pres. 1961) chambers of commerce, Am. Legion, Phi Alpha Delta.
Democrat.
Baptist. Club: Rutherford County.
Home: 310 Charlotte Rd.
Office: 304 1/2 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, N.C.
Children of JERVIS ARLEDGE and POLLY
BRYANT are:
i. BONNIE13
ARLEDGE, b. 07 Dec 1952, Atlanta, GA; d. 07 Dec 1952, died as infant;
Bur.
Marietta National
Cemetery, Marietta, GA.
ii. ELIZABETH
ADRIAN "BETSY" ARLEDGE, b. 1964, Rutherford Co, NC; formerly Dir of
Communication, National Legal Aid and Defender Association
iii. TRACY
CAROLINE ARLEDGE, b. 1966, Rutherford Co, NC; m. DONALD JOE CRAIG,
1997,
Tanner's Grove Methodist Church, Rutherford Co, NC.
45. LINDA CAROLINE12
ARLEDGE (JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11, JOHN ADEN10,
JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1938 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC. She
married BOBBY GRAY WILSON 1956 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC. He was born
1932 in Timberlake, Person Co,
NC.
Notes for LINDA CAROLINE ARLEDGE:
Nationally-known figure in field of
rural and community
transportation. Lives in Afton, VA, where she is a transportation
consultant. Graduate of Mary Baldwin College.
Notes for BOBBY GRAY WILSON:
Graduate of Wofford College in
mathematics; did graduate work at University of Tennessee. Retired in
1997 after 27
years as computer systems consultant for the Institute of Textile
Technology. Now in Afton, VA
with own consulting firm for manufacturing and optimization software.
Children of LINDA ARLEDGE and BOBBY
WILSON are:
57.
i. PAMELA
SUSAN13 WILSON, b. 1957, Tryon, Polk Co, NC.
58.
ii. CARA
CHANDLER WILSON,
b. 1961, Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co, SC.
iii. AMY
ELIZABETH WILSON, b. 1965, Lynchburg, VA; m. FREDERICK DUNBAR "BO"
GRIST
III, 1994, Tryon, Polk Co, NC; b. 1967, Savannah, GA.
Notes
for AMY ELIZABETH WILSON:
Graduate of University
of Virginia in English (poetry), with
masters from University of Mississippi. Now holds
a PhD in clinical psychology from University
of Georgia and in practice in Sandy Springs, GA.
Active horsewoman, showing jumpers and hunters. Lives on horse farm in
Alpharetta, GA.
Amy and Bo have one daughter, CAROLINE CHANDLER GRIST, born 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Notes for FREDERICK DUNBAR "BO"
GRIST III:
Served in Peace Corps in Papua
New Guinea. Masters in
History from University of Mississippi.
Previously working in international business and community development
in Athens, GA; MBA from Georgia State University,
now working in electronic commerce.
46. JOHN THOMAS "TOMMY"12
ARLEDGE, JR. (JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11, JOHN ADEN10,
JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1939 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC. He
married (SARAH) ANNE "ANNIE" SPANGLER 1974 in Cleveland Co, NC.
She was born 1945 in Cleveland Co, NC. Tommy died February 14, 2008 in Rutherford Co, NC.
Notes for JOHN THOMAS "TOMMY"
ARLEDGE, JR.:
Has lived in Shelby, NC; various
places in Hawaii,
upstate SC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Much work in Christian broadcasting.
Child of JOHN ARLEDGE and (SARAH)
SPANGLER is:
i. EDWIN
AUSTIN "EDDIE"13 GARDNER,
b. 20 Oct 1970, Cleveland Memorial Hospital, Shelby, Cleveland CO, NC;
d. 23
Jan 2002, Gowensville, Greenville Co, SC.
Notes for EDWIN AUSTIN "EDDIE"
GARDNER:
Tryon Daily Bulletin 1-24-2002
Edwin “Eddie” Austin Gardner, 31, of
Gowensville, S.C.,
died
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002, at
his home.
A native of Cleveland County, he
completed a
course of study
for mentally and physically
challenged students at
Lahainaluna High School in Maui,
Hawaii. For 10 years he
volunteered with his parents
in Hawaii’s “Youth with a
Mission”
and “Lightbringers,” a program for the homeless. He
was a member of St. John
the Baptist Roman Catholic
Church in Tryon.
Survivors include his mother, Annie
Arledge and stepfather,
“Tommy” Arledge of
Gowensville; his father, Wayne Gardner
and stepmother Windoll Gardner of
Lake Norman;
one
stepbrother, Jeremy Gardner of
UNC Charlotte; his maternal
grandparents, Edwin and Catherine
Spangler of Shelby; and
his paternal grandmother, Sara
White Gardner of Shelby.
A celebration of life will be held at
a later date.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of
the Carolina Foothills,
130 Forest Glen Dr., Columbus, N.C.
28722.
47. SUSAN EVE12
ARLEDGE (JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11, JOHN ADEN10,
JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1944 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC. She
married JAC WESLEY ROBINSON 1966 in Tryon, NC. He was born 1944
in Merrick, Long Island, NY.
Notes for SUSAN EVE ARLEDGE:
Has lived in Germany
and Italy on US military bases, as well as in Columbus, GA and
Fayetteville, NC.
Notes for JAC WESLEY ROBINSON:
Career in US Army.
Children of SUSAN ARLEDGE and JAC
ROBINSON are:
i. EVE
CAROLINE13 ROBINSON, b. 1971, Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, m. JASON
FOWLER in 2004; lives in Fayetteville, NC. Eve and Jason have a son, ADEN WESLEY FOWLER, born 2006 in Fayetteville, NC.
Notes for EVE CAROLINE ROBINSON:
Graduate of UNC-Wilmington, now is a
financial professional
with Merrill Lynch.
ii. KEITH
ARLEDGE ROBINSON, b. 1976, Fayetteville, NC.
Notes for KEITH ARLEDGE ROBINSON:
Graduate of NC State
University in Raleigh, NC.
Also studied abroad in Lancaster, England, lived in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and traveled
widely through Europe. Works for Outward Bound
in outdoor adventure education.
48. NORMA JEAN12
ARLEDGE (JAMES CURTIS11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1935. She married (1) BOBBY DEAN
MILLS. She married (2) RICHARD GAUT.
Children of NORMA ARLEDGE and BOBBY
MILLS are:
i. B.
DEAN13 MILLS, b. Abt. 1957; m. GAIL ???.
59.
ii. JANICE
ELAINE MILLS, b. 1959, lives in Surfside Beach, SC.
60.
iii. DAVID
ANDERSON MILLS, b. 1962, lives in Garden City, SC.
iv. LAURA
ANNETTE MILLS, b. Aft. 1963.
49. MICHAEL PRESTON12
ARLEDGE (JAMES CURTIS11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 06 Jul 1945 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC, and died 05 Jan 2000 in
Surfside
Beach, Horry Co, SC [see obit].
Notes for MICHAEL PRESTON ARLEDGE:
Michael P. Arledge
SURFSIDE BEACH - Michael P. Arledge,
54, died Wednesday, Jan.
5, 2000, at Conway
Hospital. He was born
Sept. 26, 1945, in Tryon, N.C., a son of the late James and Azilee
Norman Arledge. He was a graduate of East Carolina University
with a bachelor of arts degree. He was a Navy veteran, serving in the
Vietnam
War. Survivors include a daughter, Kristin Beal of Goldston,
N.C.; three granddaughters, Anna, Melissa, and
Kali; a sister, Norma Gaut of Tryon; a brother, Jay Ayledge of Surfside
Beach; and several nieces and nephews. A
memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Goldfinch Funeral Home,
beach
chapel. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box
316, Conway 29526.
Child of MICHAEL PRESTON ARLEDGE is:
61.
i. KRISTIN13
ARLEDGE, b. of Goldston, NC as of 2000.
50. SCOTT BRADFORD12
ARLEDGE (JOSEPH ERNEST11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 03 Mar 1943 in Wilmington, NC, and died 23 Sep 1995 in lived
in
Walhalla, Oconee Co, SC; Bur. Seneca, Oconee Co, SC. He married
(1) SYLVIA BEDENBOUGH. He married (2) MARLENE
BOTTOMS.
Children of SCOTT ARLEDGE and SYLVIA
BEDENBOUGH are:
i. JANICE13
ARLEDGE, b. Bef. 1986.
ii. JULIE
ARLEDGE, b. Bef. 1986.
Child of SCOTT ARLEDGE and MARLENE
BOTTOMS is:
iii. SAMANTHA13
ARLEDGE, b. Abt. 1990.
51. DEANNA HOPE12
ARLEDGE (WILLIAM DEAN11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1942. She married (1) WILLIAM
BRADFORD. She married (2) JAMES MCNEILL.
Child of DEANNA ARLEDGE and JAMES
MCNEILL is:
i. SCOTT13
MCNEILL.
52. CHARLOTTE ANN12
ARLEDGE (WILLIAM DEAN11, JOHN ADEN10, JOHN
PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1944. She married ROBERT LONG.
Child of CHARLOTTE ARLEDGE and ROBERT
LONG is:
i. AUSTIN13
LONG.
53. CURTIS YATES12
ARLEDGE (LAWRENCE ALLEN11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1965 in Asheville, Buncombe Co, NC. He
married DIANE SESSA. She was born 1966 in Brooklyn, NY
Notes for CURTIS YATES ARLEDGE:
Curtis Y. Arledge
Wachovia Corporation
North Carolina
Arledge is a Managing Director and
Head of the firm’s
Fixed-Income Division, with responsibility for fixed-income sales,
trading and
research services. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
Princeton University.
Children of CURTIS ARLEDGE and DIANE
SESSA are:
i. TAYLOR JO13 ARLEDGE, b. 1994, New York.
ii. DILLON
CURTIS ARLEDGE, b. 1995, New York.
iii. ANTHONY
JAMES ARLEDGE, b. 2000, Charlotte, NC.
iv. AVA MARIA ARLEDGE b 2007 in NC
54. MURRAY B. "SANDY"12 JONES,
JR. (GARNETTE ARLEDGE11
SHIPMAN, SALLIE REBECCA OR RUCKER10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1946
in Baltimore, MD;
He married (1) CYNTHIA LINTON.
Children of MURRAY JONES and CYNTHIA
LINTON are:
i. MURRAY B. "TRIP"13
JONES III.
ii. CHASE
LINTON "SKIP" JONES.
Children of MURRAY B. "SANDY" JONES,
JR. are:
iii. MERCEDES13
JONES.
iv. JESSIE
JONES.
55. GARNETTE "SALLIE"
SHIPMAN12 JONES (GARNETTE ARLEDGE11 SHIPMAN, SALLIE
REBECCA OR RUCKER10 ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9,
GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7, AMOS6,
ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3,
CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1941
in Meridian, MS; changed name to Garnette Arledge. She married
SHERWOOD ROSS. He was born 1933 in Chicago, IL.
Notes for GARNETTE "SALLIE" SHIPMAN
JONES:
Changed her name to Arledge.
www.squareonepublishers.com/gen_authors.html
(2004):
Garnette Arledge received a Bachelor
of Science degree from
the University of Maryland, and a Master of Divinity degree from Drew
Theological School. A spiritual
director specializing in death and dying education, Garnette is a
professional
writer and columnist, as well as an experienced Hospice Chaplain. An
active
lecturer and educator, Garnette chaired the New Jersey Coalition for On
Our Own
Terms--a Bill Moyer's PBS special on dying.
From garnettearledge.com:
About Garnette Arledge, M.Div.
Garnette Arledge has written
books and magazine and newspaper articles on spirituality and wellness
for more than three decades. Widely traveled in Europe and India, she
was raised in the Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina. As a
teen-ager in Washington, DC, she learned to fly a private plane. She
began writing at 9. After receiving a B.Sc. in journalism from the
University of Maryland, she moved to Pittsburgh where she won an award
for best feature article at the Pittsburgh Press.
After working on Capitol Hill, she
married, moved to Princeton,
NJ, became a freelance writer and eventually Editor of the Florham Park
(NJ) Eagle. As a single mother, she raised two children, both now
independent and creative. She a has little grey friend, Sasha The
Bereavement Dog, and two grandchildren in Spokane.
She has long had an active interest
in creativity, spirituality
and healing, co-founding the East Coast's first holistic health center,
the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton Area in 1976. Later,
she received a Master in Divinity degree from Drew University
Theological School, and worked as a Hospice Chaplain. She also served
as the Hospice Patient Services Coordinator for Atlantic Health Systems
in Millburn and Morristown, N.J, training volunteers and educating the
public in dying wellness.
Her next book, due out Spring 2007
from RedWheel/
Weiser/Conari,
with the working title of "Paradise of Aloha" is a relaxed teaching
guide on giving the gentle Hawaiian touch therapy Lomilomi. "After
supporting the dying, I wanted a spiritually uplifting hands-on mode to
bring joy and space to both the living and the stressed."
Recently Garnette has been training doulas (end of life midwives) in
sitting vigil with the dying.
Earlier when Bill Moyer's On Our Own Terms: Dying in America was
telecast on PBS, she was chair of the New Jersey Community Coalition
that coordinated health-care providers and civic and religious
organizations, training them to deal sensitively with terminally ill
patients and their families. She is founder of the non-profit Angels
Eve, Inc, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit wellness education center training
doulas.
Now available as a retreat leader and for talks, she is author of the
trade paperback On Angel's Eve, a spiritual guidebook for sitting vigil
for caregivers of the dying. The book vanquishes fear of dying by
exploring the world wisdom traditions of Buddhism, Vedanta Hinduism,
Sufism, Judaism, and Christianity. Its practical techniques offer
helpful strategies for caregivers longing for the ineffable 'something
to do.' She specializes in guiding people in preparing Living Wills,
legally, properly and spiritually; and in writing their own Spiritual
Testaments, which are ethical wills. Her articles regularly appeared in
Sacred Journey journal as well as in Britain's Sacred Space journal.
For years, she wrote a column, The Safety Net, on dying well, for the
Recorder Newspaper Group of central New Jersey. She is now working on a
novel “Night of the Mothers.”
A spiritual director and Lomilomi giver in private practice in
Ulster County, NY, she lectures at the Oncology Support Program
Benedictine Hospital and leads retreats on refining listening skills,
nourishing spiritual hunger with poetic tools, writing legal living and
ethical wills, forgiveness issues and touching the truth within by
laughing at everything you can. Presently she works on a biography
about creativity and spirituality and is preparing her poetry for a
chapbook.
Children of GARNETTE JONES and
SHERWOOD ROSS are:
i. ELIZABETH ARLEDGE13 ROSS, b.
1972,
Mercer Co, NJ
62.
ii. ANDREI
ROBINSON "DREW" ROSS, b. 1973, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
56. ROONE PINCKNEY12
ARLEDGE III (ROONE PINCKNEY11, ROONE10,
JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1964.
Child of ROONE PINCKNEY ARLEDGE III
is:
i. BENJAMIN13
ARLEDGE.
Generation No. 6
57. PAMELA SUSAN13
WILSON (LINDA CAROLINE12 ARLEDGE, JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1957 in Tryon, Polk Co, NC. She married
GREGORY MARK SMITH 1990 in Chapel
Hill, Orange Co, NC. He was born 1962 in
Lexington,
Henderson Co, TN. They divorced in 2002. She married Neil Davis "Dave" Boggess III in 2007. He was born in 1954 in Greenville, SC.
Notes for PAMELA SUSAN WILSON:
“Pamela
Wilson is Associate Professor of Communication at Reinhardt
College in Georgia. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College majoring in
cultural anthropology. After receiving an MA in
anthropology and folklore from the University of Texas at Austin and an
M.A. in
Radio/TV/Motion Pictures from the University of North Carolina, she
received
her Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Cultural Studies) from the University
of
Wisconsin, where her dissertation was a study of the cultural politics
surrounding a 1958 NBC television documentary on Native American
rights.
Inspired
by attending the World Civil Society Forum, Indigenous Peoples Caucus
and the UN Working Group on
Indigenous Populations in Geneva, Switzerland in
2002, she organized and chaired double panels/workshops on "Indigenous
Media in the Age of Globalization" and "Global Indigenous Media"
at both the 2003 and 2004 Society for Cinema and Media Studies
meetings. These gatherings of scholars and indigenous
media producers led to her collaboration with Michelle Stewart and the
germination of a current book project on Global Indigenous Media, due to be published by Duke University Press in June 2008.
Wilson’s
writing on various aspects of media and popular culture has been
published in
the journals Television and New Media;
Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Historical Journal of Film, Radio
and
Television; Camera Obscura; and South Atlantic
Quarterly, as well as a number of anthologies. In 2005, she
participated
in a Fulbright Hays Seminar studying the impact of national development
projects on ethnic minority cultures across China.”
In my spare time (besides teaching,
academic work and
being mom to a teenager), I enjoy delving into family history and
maintaining
the Arledge Family History Project, as well as traveling anywhere in
the world I’m
able to afford to visit. My email is wilsonpam@mindspring.com.
I currently live in Cartersville, Georgia.
Child of PAMELA WILSON and GREGORY
SMITH is:
i. NOLAN
TIMOTHY WILSON14 SMITH, b. 1992, Madison, Dane Co, WI.
58. CARA CHANDLER13
WILSON (LINDA CAROLINE12 ARLEDGE, JOHN THOMAS "JACK"11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1961 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co, SC.
She married JEB BURCHENAL 1990 in Waynesboro, Augusta Co,
VA. He was born 1962 in New York City, NY.
Notes for CARA CHANDLER WILSON:
Graduate of Duke University and
University of VA
medical school, specializing in infectious diseases. Residency at Johns
Hopkins
University and fellowship at Harvard University
(Mass. General Hospital) doing HIV research. Now doing
HIV research at University of Colorado in Denver.
Notes for JEB BURCHENAL:
Graduate of Princeton
University and Cornell Medical School, specializing in
cardiology. Residency at Johns Hopkins University
and Fellowship in angioplasty at Harvard (Brigham and Women's). Now a
cardiologist in Denver.
Children of CARA WILSON and JEB
BURCHENAL are:
i. CLARE
ARLEDGE14 BURCHENAL, b. 1992, Boston, MA.
ii. WILSON
HOLLAND BURCHENAL, b. 1995, Boston, MA.
59. JANICE ELAINE13
MILLS (NORMA JEAN12 ARLEDGE, JAMES CURTIS11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1959 and lives in Surfside Beach, SC.
She married STANFORD KELLEY THOMAS. He was born 1958.
Notes for JANICE ELAINE MILLS:
I am Janice (Jan) Thomas, oldest
daughter of Bob Mills and
Norma Arledge Mills. I currently reside
in Surfside Beach, SC
with my husband, three daughters, dog Pearl,
cat Scooby and Turtle Joe. I have worked
in some form of media since 1978. (radio, network television and cable
television) I am currently employed by
NextMedia Group, LLC as their Business Manager.
NextMedia is based in Denver
and they own about 60 radio stations throughout the United
States.
Stan and I have been married 20 years
and have three
daughters. Our oldest daughter Christi
is a Freshman at USC in Columbia. Our second daughter is Ashley
is 16 years old
and a Junior at Socastee High School. Our third and final
daughter Haley is 9 years
old at a fourth grader at Seaside Elementary School. We are truly
blessed.
Children of JANICE MILLS and STANFORD
THOMAS are:
i. CHRISTINA
JEAN14 THOMAS, b. 1981.
ii. LAURA
ASHLEY THOMAS, b. 1984.
iii. HALEY
ELAINE THOMAS, b. 1991.
60. DAVID ANDERSON13
MILLS (NORMA JEAN12 ARLEDGE, JAMES CURTIS11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1962 and lives in Garden City,
SC. He married MELISSA RAMSEY.
Child of DAVID MILLS and MELISSA
RAMSEY is:
i. JESSICA
NICOLE14 MILLS, b. 1991.
61. KRISTIN13
ARLEDGE (MICHAEL PRESTON12, JAMES CURTIS11,
JOHN ADEN10, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8,
JONATHAN7, AMOS6, ISAAC5,
WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE, CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2,
JOHN ALDRICH/1) was living in Goldston, NC
as of 2000. She married ??? BEAL.
Children of KRISTIN ARLEDGE and ???
BEAL are:
i. ANNA14
BEAL.
ii. MELISSA
BEAL.
iii. KALI
BEAL.
62. ANDREI ROBINSON
"DREW"13 ROSS (GARNETTE "SALLIE" SHIPMAN12
JONES, GARNETTE ARLEDGE11 SHIPMAN, SALLIE REBECCA OR RUCKER10
ARLEDGE, JOHN PINCKNEY9, GREENBERRY8, JONATHAN7,
AMOS6, ISAAC5, WILLIAM4 ALDRIDGE,
CLEMENT3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1)
was born 1973 in Raritan Twp, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
He married PATRICIA KIENHOLZ.
Children of ANDREI ROSS and PATRICIA
KIENHOLZ are:
i. LILLY
FREYA14 ROSS, b. 1997, Spokane, WA.
ii. ALEXANDER
KIENHOLZ ROSS, b. 2001.
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