Family Card 9/13/21 - Person Sheet
Family Card 9/13/21 - Person Sheet
NameHarriet Susan Morgan
Birth12 Feb 1853, North Carolina
Death27 Dec 1907, Rutherford County, NC
BurialWhiteside Family Cementery, Pumpkin Center, Rutherford Co., NC
Spouses
Birth12 Dec 1846, Rutherford County, NC
Death11 Jun 1915, Rutherford County, NC
BurialWhiteside Family Cementery, Pumpkin Center, Rutherford Co., NC
OccupationPastor
MotherAlmira Catherine Lynch (1824-1910)
Misc. Notes
Have seen his first name spelled Zachariah.

Zachary was elected in 1892 as the first pastor Whiteside Valley Baptist Church [later moved and renamed Chimney Rock Baptist Church] and pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Rutherford Co., NC 1892-1893. At that time it was common to be pastor of several churches at the same time since most churches only met about once a month.

The below was posted on http://genforum.genealogy.com/nc/polk on 1/14/04 by Nancie O’Sullivan

Article from the Carolina Spartan, dated May 23, 1886.

Mills Springs, Polk Co., N.C.
Mr. Editor: Allow me to say through your columns, that everything in our little town and surrounding community seems to be on a general boom, which characterizes our mountain people at this age. Notwithstanding we are situited here at the foot of the mountains, we have an unbounded desire to move on with the progressing world. To this end we have employed one of the best school teachers in Western N.C. , Prof. Z.T. WHITESIDES, our teacher, is an accomplised gentleman and a graduate of Wofford College. We have enrolled in our school about 100 pupils and would be glad to have more. We feel safe in saying, that if any one wishes to go to school, he will not find a better place, nor a healthier welcome anywhere than at Mills Spring.
Our merchants are carrying a larger stock of goods than ever before.
Our farmers have pulled down their old fences, cleared away their hedges, made their fields larger, plowed their ground deeper and are up and doing.
We would not forget our Baptist church at this place.
Last Saturday the church met in conference and re-elected unanimously ELDER J. BRIGHT, who has served the church faithfully for the two years past. God has abundantly blessed his labor in our midst. In this church, it is said, by old members, that he received the largest vote ever cast for a pastor. Brother BRIGHT was born and partly reared in Spartanburg County, S.C. His father moved from there to Madison county, N.C., in 1850. Also the writer of this article is a native of your county. { Spartanburg}
Brother BRIGHT has many friends and relatives still living in Spartanburg county, and the state may well be proud of such a man as Rev. J. BRIGHT. To know him is to love him.
It is now hoped that Mills Springs will soon publish a local paper, which will add much interest of our little town and county.
Notwithstanding we claim to be so highly favored, there is something yet that we lack and that is a railroad. Our people are now beginning to see the need of such a thing and are willing to vote to build us a road.
How shall we be without a railroad and connection with outer world?
J.A. THORN
Marriage5 Jul 1879, Rutherford County, NC
ChildrenHattie Almira (Died as Infant) (1880-1880)
 Hattie Mira (1882-)
 Sally Jane (1887-1955)
Last Modified 3 Jun 2002Created 13 Sep 2021 using Reunion for Macintosh
Revised September 13, 2021