William ARMSTRONG

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 _Thomas ARMSTRONG _|
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|--William ARMSTRONG 
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|                    _Farquhard CAMPBELL __
|_Janet CAMPBELL ___|
                    |_Isabella MCALLISTER _

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Henry Edward MCGRAW

• BIRTH: ABT 1828, ,Fairfield,South Carolina
• DEATH: ABT 1847, ,Fairfield,South Carolina

                      _Edward MCGRAW _______
 _Marshall MCGRAW ___|
|                    |_Rhoda STEARNS _______
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|--Henry Edward MCGRAW 
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|                     _Henry E. EDERINGTON _
|_Jemima EDERINGTON _|
                     |_Mildred (__) ________

James Watson MCALLISTER

                      _Alexander MCALLISTER _
 _Hector MCALLISTER _|
|                    |_Rachel SMITH _________
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|--James Watson MCALLISTER 
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|                     _Watson WOMACK ________
|_Sarah Ann WOMACK __|
                     |_Sallie (__) __________

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Alfred Augustus MCKETHAN

• BIRTH: 8 JUL 1809, Fayetteville,Cumberland,North Carolina,USA
• DEATH: 5 JAN 1890, Fayetteville,Cumberland,North Carolina,USA
• BURIAL: Cross Creek Cem.,Fayetteville,Cumberland,North Carolina

• DIVORCE: N
• MARRIAGE: 22 DEC 1833

1. Hector McAllister MCKETHAN
2. Edwin Turner MACKETHAN
3. Alfred Augustus "Gus" MCKETHAN

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 _ UNKNOWN ___________|
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|--Alfred Augustus MCKETHAN 
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|                      _John "Blind_John" MCKETHAN _
|_Christian MCKETHAN _|
                      |_Grissella MCALLISTER _______

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The Fayetteville Observer-Times, Sunday Morning, March 7, 1982: "The MacKethan Carriage Factory, by Lucile Johnson. Alfred Augustus MacKethan Sr. was connected with a business that was vital to his time, the A.A. MacKethan and Sons Carriage Factory. Born in 1809, he died in 1890...The records in Cumberland County show that the establishment of the Carriage Factory was his lifetime accomplishment, having been organized in 1825 (sic) when he was 26 years old...When the company was established, A.A. MacKethan had as his partner Charles T. Gardner, and the firm was known as Gardner-MacKethan Carriage and Coach Company. In 1866 Gardner sold his interest to MacKethan, and the firm name became A.A. MacKethan and Sons. "The business was located on a large lot on Person and Dick Streets that had been purchased from Alexander and Archibald McLaughlin. Warehouses were located on other lots, one on Cool Spring Street that had belonged to Thomas Waddill and one on New Street that held the Cape Fear Navigation Co. and Warehouse that had earlier belonged to Paris J. Tillinghast. "Alfred Augustus MacKethan did not confine his activities entirely to his business, for he served as representative from Ward 5 on the city council (or the board of aldermen in that day) for many years. "During the Confederate war period, he served on a special committee set up to provide a commissary store for destitute made so by the approaching enemy in 1865 [These were Sherman's forces]."

Birth, death and marriage dates are recorded in his family Bible, which is currently (1997) in the possession of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Dorothy McKethan Mason, of Brooksville, Florida.

Cumberland County NC marriage bond: Dec. 21, 1833.

Cumberland Co. NC Census, 1850: Alfred A McKethan 41 Lovedy 40 Hector 15 Edwin T 10 Alfred A 3

In addition to his obituary, numerous tributes to him were published in various North Carolina newspapers at the time of his death. Some of these were pasted into his family Bible. They are too lengthy to quote in full, but some excerpts are included here:

"Through the chairman of the committee, Col. C. W. Broadfoot, the following resolutions were submitted and unanimously adopted: "The people of Fayetteville having lost a popular, respected and honored fellow-citizen by the death of Alfred A. McKethan, and having met in town meeting to give public expression to their sense of the loss they have sustained, would call attention to some of the prominent points in the character of him they mourn. "In the long list of the honored dead who lived in Fayetteville none ever gave more earnest, hearty and untiring services in places of public trust to his fellow-citizens than Alfred A. McKethan. His time, talents and purse were at command to all [cut off] "His word was as "current Money" with the merchant, and passed undisputed wherever he was known. His charity was open, ready, wide and gracious. He gave a willing ear as well as helping hand to the tale of distress, and the poor and humble called upon him as their friend. If the blessings of such are of any worth, then was he rich indeed. "Impulsive by disposition, fiery by temperament, ardent in all he undertook, he was an active, zealous, whole-souled man - in the front rank always when any danger was to be met or any responsibility borne. "A prominent figure in our town and county for more than half a century, we look back upon his four-score years with prie, and say to our youth: Emulate his devotion to the public good, remember his unbounded charity, and learn to live as he did for others and nor for self. "Catching the inspiration of his life work, now that we are about to lay him away, we speak these kindly words to his memory, and cover with the mantle of charity his faults. "All places of business will be closed and the town bell tolled at the time of his funeral as a public mark of respect to his memory. "The Secretary of this meeting will send a copy of its preceedings to the family and to the town papers. "The chairman appointed Messrs. G. A. Thomson, H. R. Horne and H. I. McDuffie a committee to request the closing of all places of business and the tolling of the bells of the churches from 3 to 4 P.M. "It was suggested that the County Commissioners have the court-house draped in mourning. "The public meeting was, in the best sense of the term, a representative body of all the professions, trades and branches of business in our midst, and a noticeable and pleasing feature of the gathering was the large number present of colored men who had been in the employ of the deceased, or who had other abundant reasons for paying their meed of respect to his memory."

From an obituary (there is no indication of which newspaper): "In 1832 Mr. McKethan founded the great carriage factory on Person street, which has been continued without interruption for nearly 60 years, and which was for a long time the most extensive establishment of the kind, in its output and operations, in the South. His only living child, Maj. A. A. Mckethan, is now the surviving partner of the business. "The funeral services took place from the Presbyterian Church at 3:30 o'clock on Monday afternoon, Rev. T. P. Barclay officiating, assisted by the Rev. C. W. Byrd, at which time the business houses were closed, the bells of the city were tolled, and the vast concourse attending the remains to their last resting place bore touching evidence to the esteem in which the departed citizen was held. "The following well-known and esteemed colored men of the community - who had either been his former slaves, or were for many years in his service - were among the sincere mourners at the funeral services, taking seats in the body of the church near the bier: Joshua Council, F. Nelson, Jackson Campbell, Richard Dane, Pilgrim Barge, William Ashe, Joshua Hadley."

Excerpt from a letter to a newspaper: "...Of all the business men I ever knew he was the most approachable. At all times he was ready to hear the humblest of both races, always ready to help the distressed...While on a visit to Fayetteville in the winter of 1873 I saw the old gentleman passing the Market House, accompanied by a Confederate soldier, humbly clad. My attention was directed to them by a remark by a citizen. 'There he goes again: that makes three for this morning.' On inquiry I learned that ever since the close of the war Mr. McKethan was in the habit of giving to every needy soldier whom he chanced to meet a suit of clothes, sometimes a suit of flannel under-clothing, and my informant stated..."He has been doing this thing ever since the war, and no body seems to know it. I found it out by accident..." "Alfred McKethan was a glorious old man, and I cannot help asking you to publish this as my tribute to the memory of the best-hearted man that Cumberland county ever claimed as a son. [Signed] Old Confed."

Charles Augustus POELLNITZ (General)

• BIRTH: 1 SEP 1807, ,Marlboro,South Carolina,USA
• DEATH: 25 JAN 1891, ,Marengo,Alabama,USA

• MARRIAGE: BEF 1835

1. Mary Euphradia POELLNITZ
2. Eliza Rosalie POELLNITZ
3. Ellen Florence POELLNITZ
4. Charles Augustus POELLNITZ
5. Ida Celeste POELLNITZ
6. Caroline De_Bondely POELLNITZ
7. Josephine De_Bondely POELLNITZ
8. Stella Octavia POELLNITZ
9. Julia Wilhelmine Brandenstein POELLNITZ
10. Evie Ludwig POELLNITZ

                     _Frederick Carl Hans POELLNITZ _
 _Julius POELLNITZ _|
|                   |_(__) DE_BONDELI _______________
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|--Charles Augustus POELLNITZ 
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|                    _Ben ROGERS ____________________
|_Elizabeth ROGERS _|
                    |_Margaret MCALLISTER ___________

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