Each link below will open one photograph. (This way you don't have to wait for them all to load just to see a few photos that you are interested in.) To download any of these photographs, click on the photo with your right mouse button, then save. All are in jpeg format.
Judge Archibald Debow Murphey defended another of my ancestors, Dr. David Worth, the father of Barzillai Gardner Worth and NC Gov. Jonathan Worth. Dr. Worth was accused of murdering one of his patients. Murphey's defense was said to have been so brilliant that the case was used for many years as a model for the training of aspiring young lawyers. Murphey was a man with visions far beyond his times, and therefore has been referred to as "The Dreamer". He is credited with being the father of public education in North Carolina.
Photograph of the Barzillai Gardner Worth and wife Mary Elizabeth Jessie Carter family taken on the porch of their home in Wilmington, NC on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary in June of 1895. The figures that have been blotted out beside the porch rails were believed by my mother to have been servants. Another face in the center seems to have been removed also. The image of Julia Ada Worth appears to have been superimposed over another image. The explanation for this and the identities of the removed persons are not known. If you download this one, make sure you get the names of the people pictured that are given below:
Top row, left to right: Jacob Weller, William Elliott Worth, Eunice Virginia Worth (Weller), Cornelia Murphey Worth (French), Joseph Barzillai Worth, George Reade French, Jr., Archibald Carter Worth, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Worth (6).
Second row down: Eugene Jackson Woodward, Nellie Shay (Worth), Mary Elizabeth Jessie Carter (Worth), Barzillai Gardner Worth.
Third row down: Mary "Mamie" Ida Weller (32), Jessie Hemans Worth (7), Mary Jane Worth (Woodward), Emma Marie Woodward (baby), Elizabeth Huske Anderson (Worth) (4), John Browning Worth (baby) (14), Gracie Amelia Brink (Worth) (36), Margaret Wright Worth (8), Barzillai Gardner Worth, Jr.
Left of rail: William Joseph Woodward. Right of rail: Joseph Marion Woodward.
Fourth row down: Isabelle Carew Woodward (24), Julia Ada Worth (Herring) (41), William Graham Herring, Gladys Murphey Herring (baby) (42), George French Worth (13), Mary Brink Worth (37), Mary Clara Woodward (25).
Fifth row down: Elizabeth Prentess Woodward (28), Eunice Cora Woodward (27), Cornelia Alice Woodward (26), Eunice Worth (10), Charles Worth Woodward (21).
Front row: Arthur Douglas Worth (34), William Hoffer Worth (39), Frederick Clarkson Worth (12), Joseph Barzillai Worth, Jr. (38), Archibald Carter Worth, Jr. (11), Barzillai Worth Weller (33), William Anderson Worth.
The Barzillai Gardner Worth home in Wilmington, NC. It stood where the parking lot for the New Hanover Co. Public Library is now.
William Mitchell, husband of Miss ??? McKeithan and father of Clara Clarissa Mitchell (Woodward). (Bet my ancestor can whup your ancestor! He was a butcher, too - and outlived four of his five wives.)
Susan Rebecca Fletcher Goulder, first wife of Thomas Adam Bowen and the mother of all his children, with her youngest two children, Annie Sue Lewis Bowen and Richmond Goulder Bowen.
Photograph taken by Arthur Finn Bowen of his brothers. Left to right: Richmond Goulder Bowen, Harry Marvin Bowen, William Thomas Bowen, Andrew H. Bowen.
Thomas Adam Bowen, his daughter Iphigenia Bowen (Freeman), and her daughter Medora Lazelle Freeman.
William Joseph Woodward and wife Mary Jane Worth when Mary was plump. (All other pictures that I have seen of her depict a painfully thin woman.)
The William Joseph Woodward home in Fernandina, Florida. This photograph was probably taken by one of the children years after the Woodwards had left Florida. The house was still standing in the 1960's. The Woodward family lived in Fernandina after leaving New York City. They later moved to Wilmington, NC, where Mary Jane Worth's family lived.
The family of William Joseph Woodward and Mary Jane Worth. Daughter Emma Marie Woodward was not yet born. Left to right, standing: Isabelle Carew Woodward, Joseph Marion Woodward, Eugene Jackson Woodward, Mary Clara Woodward. Seated: Cornelia Alice Woodward, Elizabeth Prentess Woodward (baby), William Joseph Woodward, Mary Jane Worth (Woodward), Charles Worth Woodward, Eunice Cora Woodward.
A later photograph of the William Joseph Woodward daughters which includes Emma. However, daughter Eunice Cora Woodward had died of typhoid. Left to right: Isabelle Carew Woodward, Mary Clara Woodward, Cornelia Alice Woodward, Elizabeth Prentess Woodward, and Emma Marie Woodward.
Arthur Finn Bowen and wife Isabelle Carew Woodward as a young married couple.
Four generations. Left to right: Barzillai Gardner Worth, Isabelle Carew Woodward (Bowen), Isabelle Worth Bowen, Mary Jane Worth (Woodward).
The young family of Arthur Finn Bowen. Left to right: Mary Elizabeth "Libby Lee" Bowen, Eunice Woodward Bowen, Isabelle Carew Woodward (Bowen), Rebecca Fletcher Bowen (baby), Isabelle Worth Bowen, Arthur Finn Bowen, Annie Goulder Bowen, Phyllis Eugenia Bowen.
The Arthur Finn Bowen home at the head of Ferndell Lane in Raleigh, NC.
The old cemetery at Sunset Lake in Middle Creek Twp. near Holly Springs in Wake Co. on the property that once belonged to Christopher Woodward where he owned and ran Woodward's Mill during the Revolutionary period. Sunset Lake Rd. on which this cemetery is located follows the same path that led to Woodward's Mill many years ago and is only about 1/4 mile from the dam where the mill was once located. There were once marked graves in the central area of this cemetery as well as many other unmarked graves. Someone removed all the stones during WW II and this central area is now void of any stones, but it is known that the cemetery has been used since at least the early 1800's. This was probably the location of the Woodward family cemetery and where Christopher Woodward and his grandson Joseph Woodward must have been buried. (Joseph's father, Pleasants Woodward, inherited the homeplace and mill, later sold the mill and some of the land to the Utleys, and lost the rest of the land to insolvency. Pleasants is believed to have died in Carroll Co, Tennessee where he went to live with his daughters. Joseph later repurchased a part of this family land.)
Joel Cullom and his second wife Nancy Arnold Hogg.
The humble home of Joel Cullom and later the home of his son Berry Cullom. This photograph was taken by my father. One of the prints was developed in 1959, but there is another undated print that appears to have been developed earlier. At the time that this photo was taken, the home was being used as an outbuilding/storage building by the Dickens family that had purchased the property. The old oak trees that shaded the house are still standing, but the house has been torn down. The Joel Cullom cemetery is about a hundred yards away. Can you imagine trying to raise 17 children in this house?
The family of Ambrose Newell Cullom, son of Joel Cullom and Nancy Arnold Hogg. This photograph was taken in 1920 at his home in Wilson on the occasion of the wedding of John W. Massie and Selma Lee Cullom. Left to right: Louis Wilson, Ada Belle Cullom (Wilson), Charlie Wilson (baby), Francis Wilson, Mary D. Howard (in front), Ruby Agnes Cullom (Howard), Ruth Howard (in back), Berta Howard (in front), Claude Howard (all 3 Howard daughters were by Claude Howard's previous marriage), John W. Massie, Mary Annie Cullom (Tysor) (seated), Herman Chafin Tysor, Jr. (baby), Selma Lee Cullom (Massie), Ambrose Newell Cullom (seated), Pattie D. Cullom (a cousin, daughter of A. N. Cullom's brother, Julius Jefferson Cullom), Florence May Cullom, Dora Melissa Cullom (baby), Clyde Smith (Cullom), Eugene MacIntosh "Mac" Cullom, Eugene Huffham Cullom (baby).
Joseph John Cullom, son of Joel Cullom and Nancy Hogg, and his wife Mary Eliza Johnston.
James Robert Cullom, son of Joel Cullom and Nancy Hogg, with an unknown lady friend. "Uncle Jim" volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army in place of his brother, Joseph John Cullom, who was raising a young family at the time. Jim was both wounded and imprisoned as a result. His extreme unselfishness was never forgotten by the family. When he died, his body was brought from Dunn, NC to be buried in the Joseph John Cullom cemetery.
Frank Seymour Cullom, Dr.Willis Richard Cullom, Jesse Munson Cullom, and Rev. Joseph Robert Cullom, all sons of Joseph John Cullom. Dr. Willis Richard Cullom was a well-known Baptist minister and Doctor of Divinity at Wake Forest College. Rev. Joseph Robert Cullom moved to SC where he served as a Baptist minister and the first Superintendent of Schools in Allendale Co.
Nancy Vance Cullom (Higgs), daughter of Joseph John Cullom and Mary Eliza Johnston, and unidentified family members. Nancy is second from the left. If anyone can identify the other people in this photo, I'll be glad to include their names.
The children of Frank Seymour Cullom and Hattie May Cook (Cullom). Left to right, standing: Virginia Ernestine Cullom, Hattie Frances Cullom, Mattie Marie Cullom, and Frank Shelby Cullom. Baby: John Clifford Cullom, Sr.
The original Quankie Baptist Church was built on land donated by Joseph John Cullom adjacent to his home. It was here that Dr. Willis Richard Cullom and Rev. Joseph Robert Cullom received their early religious training.
How about this house that stood somewhere in Halifax Co.? At first, I thought it must be the home of Joseph John Cullom, but someone else said they thought it was the home of J. Dorsey Parker near Darlington. That's possible since he was my father's great-grandfather, the father of Mary Rebecca Parker (Cook). I have never seen a photo of the home of David Thomas Cook and Mary Rebecca Parker (Cook), so I can't rule that out either. Virginia Holdford Stultz who lived in the Joseph John Cullom house as a young child wasn't sure if this was the same house or not. Jesse Matthews Cullom who lived down the road from his grandfather and spent a lot of time in the home when he was a child, said it might have been Joseph John Cullom's home, but he wasn't sure either. Can anyone positively identify it?
This is believed to have been the kitchen of the Joseph John Cullom home. As with many homes of that period, the kitchen was separate from the house. Virginia Holdford Stultz remembered the kitchen as being very dark with almost no ventilation since it had only one window. This certainly agrees. Can anyone confirm that this is in fact the kitchen?
The photos of Joel's home, Quankie Baptist Church, Joseph John Cullom's kitchen(?), and the other unidentified home were all taken on the same roll of film no later than 1959 and probably earlier. In 1959, I was 11 years old. I remember my father taking me to Halifax Co. as a child and showing me the graves of his ancestors, but I never remember him showing me these homes. Because of the smaller, more yellowed prints of those photos that appear to be much older than the 1959 prints, I believe these pictures were probably taken well before 1959. We have family photos that were the same shape and size as these older prints that were made in the early 1950's when I would have been too young to remember these houses if I ever saw them.
My server space is limited and graphics take up a lot of space, but if anyone has some early photos of the Cullom, Cook, Bowen, Worth, Woodward, etc, etc, families they'd like displayed here, I'll put them up if I can - on a rotating basis if necessary. Either attach a scan to email and send it to me, or send me a copy of the photo by snail mail and I'll scan it. I prefer jpg format because it's already compressed and takes less space. Or, if you have a photo up on your server already and you'd like me to link to it and display it here, just send me what I need to make the link.
