Newsletter of the Tar River Connections Genealogical Society
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CONNECTOR.%™
WINTER/SPRING 2016 Volume 20, Issue 1 2Q T IftM^ I
Preserving thc Past...For the Future
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Josiah Nelson Bone and Louisburg Male Academy
My father was Josiah Nelson Bone.
He was born February 16, 1852 in his parent's farm house on what is now the
Batchelor Road, Oak Level Township, Nash
Countv, North Carolina. He was the third
j i
son born to David and Dinah Armitite
Poland Bone. He was a kind of a studious
boy and went to school almost in sight of
where I live now, near the woods out there
just this side of, west of the Jake Vick
home in a loo school house called the "Old
Field School" or "Common School", located
by the side of the road or path. The log
building was 14' X 18' with two doors and
one window, a chimney and an open fire
place at one end. The scholars were seated
around on split log benches; and went four
months a year- two months in spring, and
two in the summer. The term was divided
because he did not go in extremely cold
weather on account of the open school
building. He went there with such folks as
Axum Kerr, Big Josiah Vick, and Bell
Walker till he got as about as far as he
could go there. Being of studious mind he
begged, borrowed and bought all of the
books he could afford and self- taught himself at home. When he became twenty-one
he rented a field and planted it in cotton,
his father (David) let him have a colt to
break, to plow his cotton with; w-ell, he
made this crop of cotton, and used the
money to go to Louisburg Male Academy, Franklin County, North Carolina to
school. Before the term ended, his money
gave out. His brother Tina borrowed
twenty dollars from a neighbor and that
Josiah Nelson Bone
kept him there until the end of the term
June 3, 1874".
As the attached Report attest to, he graduated. A note written on the edge ol' the
report asked that "hand this to your father,
MSD (the principal)
Teacher's Certiticate
Josiah Bone was granted a Teachers' Second
(2) grade certificate that authorized him to
(Continued on page Sj
Inside this issue:
HO ML
Schooling
3
Donated
Books
5
Rolled in
Sheets
6
Mary
Batchelor
7
You Don't
Mean It
10
Workings on
Supreme Power
11
From the Free
Ciiaph Church
to Oak Levei
Baptist Church
12
Land Entriis,
Warrants,
Surveys and
Grants
1777-1880
14
Last Nash
County Vet
16
A Faint
Record
18
Newsletter of the Tar River Connections Genealogical Society
IHE
CONNECTOR.%™
WINTER/SPRING 2016 Volume 20, Issue 1 2Q T IftM^ I
Preserving thc Past...For the Future
«SP \
//
Josiah Nelson Bone and Louisburg Male Academy
My father was Josiah Nelson Bone.
He was born February 16, 1852 in his parent's farm house on what is now the
Batchelor Road, Oak Level Township, Nash
Countv, North Carolina. He was the third
j i
son born to David and Dinah Armitite
Poland Bone. He was a kind of a studious
boy and went to school almost in sight of
where I live now, near the woods out there
just this side of, west of the Jake Vick
home in a loo school house called the "Old
Field School" or "Common School", located
by the side of the road or path. The log
building was 14' X 18' with two doors and
one window, a chimney and an open fire
place at one end. The scholars were seated
around on split log benches; and went four
months a year- two months in spring, and
two in the summer. The term was divided
because he did not go in extremely cold
weather on account of the open school
building. He went there with such folks as
Axum Kerr, Big Josiah Vick, and Bell
Walker till he got as about as far as he
could go there. Being of studious mind he
begged, borrowed and bought all of the
books he could afford and self- taught himself at home. When he became twenty-one
he rented a field and planted it in cotton,
his father (David) let him have a colt to
break, to plow his cotton with; w-ell, he
made this crop of cotton, and used the
money to go to Louisburg Male Academy, Franklin County, North Carolina to
school. Before the term ended, his money
gave out. His brother Tina borrowed
twenty dollars from a neighbor and that
Josiah Nelson Bone
kept him there until the end of the term
June 3, 1874".
As the attached Report attest to, he graduated. A note written on the edge ol' the
report asked that "hand this to your father,
MSD (the principal)
Teacher's Certiticate
Josiah Bone was granted a Teachers' Second
(2) grade certificate that authorized him to
(Continued on page Sj
Inside this issue:
HO ML
Schooling
3
Donated
Books
5
Rolled in
Sheets
6
Mary
Batchelor
7
You Don't
Mean It
10
Workings on
Supreme Power
11
From the Free
Ciiaph Church
to Oak Levei
Baptist Church
12
Land Entriis,
Warrants,
Surveys and
Grants
1777-1880
14
Last Nash
County Vet
16
A Faint
Record
18