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Michael Tesh Southern
Raleigh, North Carolina
December 1989
Revised October 1991
Revised September 1993
First Posted on the World Wide Web January 1998
Special thanks to
Margaret Killgore Reed of Houston, Texas for her research insights
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The first people named Southern to live in North Carolina were William Southern (ca. 1720-1794), his wife Magdalen Southern (ca. 1735-ca. 1805), and their children. The family migrated from Buckingham County, Virginia, into what is now southeastern Stokes County, North Carolina (at the time part of Surry County) shortly before the beginning of the American Revolution, probably in 1774 or 1775. Today the descendants of this group are scattered widely across North Carolina and the United States.
Map Showing Early Distribution of the Southern Family in the Eastern United States
Background of William Southern
William Southern's origins cannot be known with absolute certainty, but the pattern of available evidence suggests he was born about 1720 in Virginia, and that he was the son of John Southern. Of John Southern nothing is known except that between the late 1740s and the mid-1750s he was living in Albemarle County in central Virginia, in a section of the county that was to become Buckingham County in 1761. The first known document showing John Southern in Albemarle County is a deed dated November 14, 1749, for his purchase of 325 acres from William Webb.(1) Three Albemarle County deeds of gift from John Southern to three sons, all dated January 1, 1755, name William as his eldest son, with James second and Samuel third. (2) Later eighteenth century Virginia and North Carolina documents support a Buckingham County origin for the North Carolina Southerns, and it is probable that the William named in the 1755 Albemarle County deed of gift from John Southern is the William who appeared in North Carolina beginning about 1775.
Other than the information contained in these Albemarle County deeds, nothing certain is known about the family before 1773. Inconclusive evidence suggests that they had lived previously in Middlesex County, Virginia, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The 1726 Middlesex County will of John "Southren" names sons William, Edward, and John, and daughter Lettice.(3) The Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, records some of the births, marriages, and deaths of these Southern family members. The wife of the John Southern who made the 1726 will appears to have been named Catherine. In 1720 a John Southern -- possibly the son named in the will of the older John -- married Margaret Kidd, and their first child William was born in 1722. Later recorded sons of that couple included Joseph, Benjamine, and Samuel. It appears that Joseph may have died as a child, leaving William, Benjamine, and Samuel as the three sons of John and Margaret in order of birth. If Benjamine was James (either with a double given name or known as James for some other reason), or if James was another son whose birth was not recorded, or if the name in the Register was in error, this Middlesex group could match with the John Southern family appearing in Albemarle County in the 1740s. Daughters of John and Margaret (Kidd) Southern were Susanna, Margaret, and Averilla.(4) Link to Southern Families of Christ Church, Middlesex
Other Middlesex County names of the early eighteenth century also appear in later Albemarle/Buckingham records, including Kidd, Saunders, Fearn, and probably others, and the Southerns may have migrated with a few relatives and neighbors from Middlesex into the interior of Virginia during the 1740s. John Southern, whether from Middlesex County or elsewhere, descended from one of several Southerns who immigrated to east Virginia or Maryland from England in the seventeenth century, though the founder of the family in America is not identified. There is no doubt that the name is English.(5)
Albemarle County, Virginia records prior to the formation of Buckingham in 1761 are fragmentary, and virtually all Buckingham County records prior to 1869 were lost in a courthouse fire of that year. However, the Buckingham County tithables lists of 1773 and 1774 survive.(6) Both show William Southern as a head of household, in both years with a Reuben Southern in his household also subject to the tithe. This apparently indicates that Reuben was at least age 16 in 1773.(7) Taking later North Carolina records into consideration, Reuben was probably a son of William born by 1757. Other Southerns appearing in the 1773 tithables list are James and Samuel -- probably William's brothers named in the 1755 deeds. The 1774 list does not include Samuel, but does include a Joseph and two Southerns named James. The relations of the Joseph and second James to William are not known. John Southern appears in neither list, and is presumed dead by 1773.
These brothers or other relatives of William Southern are not researched for this report. A James and a Samuel Southern later appear in the 1790 federal census for Greenville County, South Carolina, together with a Gibson Southern, whose relation to William isn't known but who lived briefly among William's family in North Carolina in the 1780s.(8) Southerns from the Greenville, S.C., area, some of whom now live in North Carolina, could descend from one or more of these three men. The evidence is tentative, but it suggests that William's family maintained contact with relatives from Virginia for a generation as they settled in other parts of the country, and perhaps in some cases joined them in new settlements. It does not appear that any Southerns remained in Buckingham County beyond the eighteenth century.
One other consistent Southern family group of undetermined rerlationship to the Buckingham County Southerns appears across multiple census years. In the last two decades of the 18th century a William Southern appears regularly in the records of Mecklenburg County, in southeastern Virginia on the N.C. line, and tax lists there identify his sons as John, Robert, William Jr., Jesse, and Buckner.(9) Robert eventually settled in northeastern Tennesse in Claiborne County, and William Jr. and Jesse settled across the Virginia line in Lee County, Virginia in the southwestern toe of that state. In the early 19th century Buckner was living in Rockingham County, N.C., not far from the Stokes Southerns. How this family may be related to North Carolina Southerns is not known, but the connection perhaps goes back to Middlesex County. For example, a William born in in Middlesex in 1734 to William and Mary (Saunders) Southern could be William Southern of Mecklenburg County, but such speculations are inconclusive until more is known.
Background of Magdalen Southern
Magdalen Southern's maiden name and parentage are not conclusively known. An affidavit signed by her son Ford in 1839, when he was 74 years old, states that Ford was a cousin to Rachel (Vernon) Ward, wife of John Ward and daughter of Jonathan Vernon and Rebecca Worth.(10) This suggests that Magdalen may have been a Vernon or Worth. The Vernons and Worths were in Pennsylvania earlier in the eighteenth century, and Jonathan Vernon and his family lived for many years in Charlotte County, Virginia, before coming to North Carolina. Jonathan Vernon (ca. 1712-1805) was a witness to William Southern's 1794 will, so it is likely that there was a close relationship between the Southerns and Vernons.(11) But no other evidence supports a blood relationship between the Southerns and the Vernons or Worths, and it is not clear what Ford meant in calling Rachel (Vernon) Ward his "cousin."
A second possibility for Magdalen's origins, based on inconclusive but consistent circumstantial evidence, is that she descended from an anglicized French Huguenot family from the Huguenot settlement called Manakin on the James River in Virginia (Cumberland County). Records of Huguenot births at Manakin include the children of Jaque and Anne Faure born between 1730 and 1749, with Magdalaine Faure born August 20, 1736.(12) Siblings were Marie (1730), Judith (1732), Pierre (1734), Anne (1738), Rachel (1739), Jaque (1743), and Ruth (1745). A 1749 entry is shown for "Boos, son of Jaque Ford."
Records of the Ford family of Buckingham County suggest that by the early 1750s these Faures had anglicized their name to Ford (Jaque Faure became James Ford) and moved upriver with several other Huguenot families into that part of Albemarle County that was to become Buckingham County.(13) Writing in Missouri in 1895, an elderly Walter Ford Maxey described his eighteenth century Ford ancestors who moved from "Monocan Town" on the James River to Buckingham County. He names the children of James Ford and his wife, who was "a Bondurant," as sons Peter, James, and Boaz, and daughters Molla, Judith, Maglin, Rachel, and Anna.(14) The names and relative ages of the children (separated in Maxey's list by sex) correspond to the list of children of Jaque and Anne Faure, assuming that Jaque=James (Jacques translates as Jacob or James), Pierre=Peter, Boos=Boaz (the standard French spelling of Boaz is Booz), and Marie=Mary (nickname Molly, Molla). The Maxey list transposes Rachel and Anne by age and leaves out Ruth altogether. But on balance, it appears that the Maxey list and the King William Parish list could be describing the same family of Faure/Ford.
A 1761 Albemarle County deed of gift from James Ford to Anne Chastain (if indeed Jaque Faure, possibly his daughter Anne, married into another Huguenot family) shows that William Southern owned adjoining property, and thus it is likely that William Southern knew James Ford (Jaque Faure) and his daughter Magdalen (Magdalaine, or "Maglin" in the Maxey letter).(15) In North Carolina two decades later, three of the children of William and Magdalen Southern are named Ford, Judith, and Boaz. Magdalaine and Judith were both common given names among female children at Manakin, and though Judith was also a common English name, Magdalen was not. Boaz was a rare given name then as now. The names Ford, Boaz, and Judith among Southern children with a mother named Magdalen suggest a tie to the Huguenot Faure/Ford group.
Like the Southerns, the Fords are also seen in the limited Buckingham records that survive. The fragmentary 1764 tax list (the list is alphabetized and no surnames appear after the letter G) includes James Ford with two tithables, 700 acres, and a slave named Gilbert. Peter Ford is seen with 405 acres, and James Ford, Jr., without land. This could be Jaque Faure with his two older sons Pierre and Jaque, the later just starting out as a separate tithable at age 21 and landless. Boaz would have been 15 or 16 this year, and perhaps the second tithable in his father's household (James himself is the first tithable) but too young to appear separately. A decade later, the 1773 and 1774 tithables lists show James Ford (levy free, thus probably elderly), James Ford, Jr., and Boaz Ford.(16)
One other item of circumstantial evidence supports a "French connection" for Magdalen Southern. In a 1784 Surry County, N.C. power of attorney recorded ten years later after the formation of Stokes County (1789), Jacob Sallee of Buckingham County, Virginia, authorized "his friend" William Southern to sell a parcel of land on Sallee's behalf.(17) The Salle family was one of the largest Huguenot clans at Manakin, and a Jacob Salle was born there in 1744.(18) The power of attorney was witnessed by a Peter Ford. While this Peter Ford may not have been the brother of Magdalen Ford (other sources suggest her brother Peter was in Kentucky before 1780), another "Pierre Faure" was born at Manakin in 1745 to Pierre and Marie Faure, and was perhaps a cousin or other relation. This second Pierre Faure/Peter Ford may have been the witness to the power of attorney.
There is no doubt that the Southerns had associations with the Buckingham County Huguenot descendants, including the Fords. While it seems possible, if not highly probable, that Magdalen Southern's parents were James Ford (Jaque Faure) and Anne Bondurant, the evidence of Magdalen's parentage remains circumstantial. In the absence of a marriage bond or other conclusive document, her origins cannot be known with absolute certainty. It is unlikely that any such conclusive document survives.
William Southern and Magdalen, whatever her background, probably married in the early to mid-1750s, when William was in his early to mid-30s, and Magdalen (if Magdalaine Faure/Magdalen Ford born 1736) in her late teens to about 20. It is possible that William had a previous wife who was the mother of his older sons, Reuben and possibly William II and Gibson, and that the couple was married after 1760. But there is no evidence to support that speculation other than (1) the two decade separation of births between the oldest and youngest children, which is not unusual for the period, and (2) the names "Reuben" and "Gibson" among the older Southern youths do not seem to have any precedent in either the Southern or Ford clans. But whether William had a previous wife remains an open question.
Life in Virginia and the Move to North Carolina
The gifts of land John Southern made to his sons when the area was still part of Albemarle County, and the presence of William and his brothers in the surviving 1773 and 1774 Buckingham tithables lists, are virtually all that can be known of the family's life in Virginia. Like the majority of their neighbors, they appear to have been yeoman farmers of moderate and independent means who did not own slaves.
The first North Carolina document to show William Southern is the 1775 Surry County tax list.(19) This implies that the Southerns moved from Buckingham between the time the tithables list was taken there in 1774 and the following year when the Surry tax list was taken. No other Surry tax lists survive until 1780, and county records during the early years of the Revolution are sparse. (Link to Southerns in Surry and Stokes County Tax Lists, 1775-1801). William (or the younger William Southern) is identified as a chain bearer in a 1779 land survey by surveyor Charles McAnally along Hewins Creek, where the Southerns themselves settled.(20) After 1780, William appears consistently in tax lists and other records until his death in 1794.
Several other Buckingham names -- including Baker, Webb, Walker, Peters, Hughes, Martin, Duncan, and others -- also start to appear in Surry/Stokes, N.C. records by the mid-1770s, and it appears that there was a general migration from Buckingham to Surry on the eve of the Revolution. Other neighbors and friends to the Southerns in Surry/Stokes included the Vernons from Charlotte County in southside Virginia, and Wards, Zimmermans, Vaughans, Vawters, Hickmans, and others from Culpeper County in northern Virginia.
The reasons for this migration are unclear, but they were probably economic. John Southern's gift of land to William in Albemarle County mentions a "tobacco house" on the property, and the area was part of the Virginia tobacco-growing district during the colonial period. This district extended into the northern piedmont counties of North Carolina, including modern Stokes County. Tobacco was probably an important cash crop for these settlers, though they also grew corn and grains and raised livestock. Tobacco depleted soil rapidly, and the search for new tobacco lands prompted migrations across Virginia and the northern piedmont of North Carolina in the eighteenth century. However, it is not clear why these lands in Surry County had not been claimed previously in earlier waves of settlement into the North Carolina piedmont from Virginia and the mid-Atlantic colonies that began in the 1740s. It is also uncertain why some of the new settlers received state grants for land and others (such as William Southern) did not. These questions require a broader study of land occupancy and ownership patterns of the region during the colonial period.
The Composition of the Southern Family in 1775
When they came to North Carolina in 1774 or 1775, William was in his mid-50s, and Magdalen approaching 40. They were accompanied by, or at least later joined by, as many as eight younger people named Southern. While it would be tempting to say that all were their children, only three are positively documented as children of William and Magdalen. Evidence for the others is circumstantial. These younger Southerns and the nature of the evidence, presented in order of their probable relative ages, are as follows:
Gibson: Gibson Southern (ca. 1753-ca. 1833), lived among the North Carolina Southerns for a few years in the 1780s after the Revolution. He had enlisted in Buckingham County, Virginia, in 1776, and thus does not appear to have been with the others in the 1774-75 move to North Carolina, though it is possible he was with them and returned to Virginia to enlist at the beginning of the war. His relation to William is not at all clear. He may have been a first son, perhaps even by a first wife named Gibson(21), or he may have been a nephew or some other relationship. He appears in the mid-1780s state census as a separate householder, though he lived in North Carolina only four or five years and moved to Greenville County, South Carolina before 1790. His pension records establish his birth at about 1753; a secondary source places his death in 1833, and names Mary Peters as his wife.
Reuben: Reuben Southern (ca. 1757-ca. 1835) appeared in William's household in the 1773 and 1774 Buckingham County, Virginia tithables lists and was almost certainly William's son, born by 1757, though there is no positive documentary evidence of their relationship. He bought and lived on a farm adjacent to William and Magdalen in Surry/Stokes County, where he lived until the end or near the end of his life. His wife or wives have not been identified, though another researcher has suggested his wife was Polly Davis. (This may have been the Polly Southern who along with Reuben was a witness to a 1794 power of attorney between Jacob Sallee and William Southern; see Footnote 16). Known children of Reuben are sons Joshua, Stephen, Daniel, and Reuben Jr., and daughter Anny. Most Southerns now living in North Carolina descend from Reuben and his sons Joshua and Stephen.
William (II): A younger William Southern (1758/59-ca. 1835, called William II for this report) was born in 1758 or 1759 and may have been with the family in 1775 when he was about 16. He enlisted in Surry County in 1780, so he was certainly in North Carolina by the time he was 21. However, it is possible that he was a nephew or other relation to the older William and came to North Carolina with another family of a different name. Other aspects of this William's life suggest differences with the rest of the family. He was the only Southern in North Carolina ever to own a slave, and unlike the others, who could at least write their names, he appears to have been completely illiterate (see discussion on William II below). After the Revolution he bought a farm on Snow Creek to the north of the older William's farm, where he lived until the end of his life in the 1830s.
Boaz: Boaz Southern (born early-mid 1760s, died 1830s?) is first identified as a separate householder in the 1789 Surry County tax list with 100 acres that appear to have been taken out of William's 315 acre farm, which is shown as 215 acres that year. This suggests that Boaz was a young man coming out of William's household, though in 1790 he bought land on nearby Town Fork Creek and lived separately from the other Southerns. He could be interpreted as one of the young men in William's household in the mid-1780s state census. In addition, if Magdalen Southern was indeed born Magdalen Ford, the unusual name Boaz could be seen as given in honor of an uncle, Boaz Ford, of Buckingham County, Virginia. Boaz left North Carolina in 1807 and lived in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ford: Ford Southern (ca. 1765-ca. 1845) is positively identified as William and Magdalen's son in a 1790 deed of gift of the southern half of William's farm.(22) He sold this land in 1803 but would apparently remain in the area until the end of his life. A few of Ford's descendants remain in North Carolina.
Judith: Judith Southern (1774-1848) is positively identified as William's daughter in William's 1794 will. She married John Burch in 1802 and in 1819 moved with him to Monroe County, Indiana, where they raised their nine children, all of whom were born in North Carolina before the move.(23)
John: John Southern (ca. 1775-18--) is positively identified as a son of William in William's 1794 will and a deed of gift made at the same time.(24) He inherited his father's property and lived there until 1817 when he sold out and apparently moved to Giles County, Virginia, where he raised a family of fifteen children with his wife Elizabeth Duncan.(25) (Link to The Bible Record of John and Elizabeth Duncan Southern).
Other daughter?: The state census of the mid-1780s and the 1790 federal census appear to show a third female (in addition to Magdalen and Judith) in William's household. This may have been a second daughter who has not been identified, or it may have been some other relative, in-law, or friend.
Location of the Family in Surry/Stokes County
The Southerns settled in what is now southeastern Stokes County, north of present day Pine Hall, along a creek known at the time as Hewins or Hewings Creek. (Link to map of Southern family farms on Hewins Creek). The creek is not generally known by the name Hewins or any other name today, though it is positively identified in land grant plats of the 1770s and early 1780s.(26) William settled on about 315 acres in the fork of the creek on the western half of a 640 acre tract that was granted by the State of North Carolina to Joshua Tillery in 1780.
William Southern's connection to Joshua Tillery is not known. Though Tillery was the recipient of two state land grants, he does not appear ever to have lived in North Carolina, and it is not clear why he received the grants. He was a veteran of the Revolution, which may have had a bearing on the grants, but the grants were entered in 1778 and 1780, well before the end of the war.
Tillery was the son of Henry Tillery and Catherine Proctor of Orange Co., Virginia. He married Susannah Zeigler about 1770 in Culpepper County, Virginia. He eventually setttled in north Georgia in Oglethorpe, Wilkes, and Morgan counties. The Tillery and Southern families may have had a connection through the Zimmerman family, a family of German origins in Culpepper, Virginia. Tillery's mother Catherine Proctor had a Zimmerman association, and in 1794 in Stokes County, Ford Southern, son of William and Magdalen Southern, married Catherine Zimmerman of Culpepper County. Other than that, nothing is known. (27)
It is certain that William occupied the land before he actually purchased the 315 acres from Tillery in 1782 as the deed includes "William Southern's improvements." (28) The purchase price was 150 pounds "current money of the State of Virginia."
Reuben Southern bought 457 acres adjacent and east of his father in 1789, also from Joshua and Susanna Tillery.(29) Reuben's purchase included one-fourth of the 640 acre grant to Tillery (of which William had purchased half in 1782) plus an adjoining 300 acre grant that had been made to Tillery on the north. Again, Reuben had probably farmed the land for some time prior to the purchase. Reuben's oldest son was named Joshua, which might suggest more than just a business relationship to Tillery.
A study of Surry County tax lists (Stokes County after 1789), which survive for the years 1775, 1780, and from 1782 onward, suggest the evolution of land occupation and purchase by William Southern and his sons as they reached manhood. William II acquired land in the 1780s on Snow Creek north of William and Reuben. By 1790 Boaz acquired a small state grant on Town Creek to the southwest. Ford and John received deeds of gift from William out of the original 315 acre tract before William's death in 1794.(30) Later sales and purchases of land by the Southerns became rather complex.
Life in the Late Eighteenth Century
Only broad generalizations can be made about the quality of the family's life in the late eighteenth century or the character of its individual members. Of the few documents that provide descriptive information about the Southerns and their surroundings, most are written in conventional legal language of the period and don't reveal much specific to the family and its circumstances. They were farmers of modest but average wealth that lived within the laws and mores of their community. None held positions of authority, but all participated in community life, bought and sold land and witnessed the deeds of their neighbors' land sales, attended sessions of the county court of pleas and quarter sessions, served on court-appointed road committees, and apparently attended worship services such as they were at the time and place. Most of the family appear to have been literate, or at least could write their names, though illiteracy would be widespread in later generations.
Only one Southern in North Carolina ever owned a slave. William II, a veteran of the Revolution, acquired a young slave under eight years of age by 1783. Most tax lists and censuses thereafter show him with one slave until the end of his life in the mid-1830s. Though William II appears to have married, his census records are inconsistent, and it is unclear whether he had any children to survive to maturity. The 1830 census, his last, shows him as an old man living alone with a female slave age 36-54 and two slave boys 10-23. If the woman was the same slave William II owned in 1783, she would probably be in her early 50s by 1830. William II is generally something of an enigma. While it seems that other family members could at least sign their names, all documents pertaining to this William indicate he was illiterate. He lived apart from the others, though various records show that he and his neighbors interacted with the other Southerns.
The tax lists and occasional other documents show that the Southerns and their neighbors raised a few head of cattle and kept horses or mules. They also raised hogs and grew crops -- probably including a little tobacco and a good deal of corn and grains -- planted and tended fruit trees, and hunted and trapped game.
The deed for William's 1782 purchase of 315 acres from Joshua Tillery, "including the said William Southern's improvements," gives an enticing description of the property "and all the buildings, gardens, orchards, lands, meadows, commons, pastures, trees, woods, underwoods, ways, paths, waters, water courses, profits, advantages, ... to the above mentioned and described premises.." The description is more of an idealized convention common to early deeds than a depiction of what the farm was actually like, but the document does reflect the importance of land and land ownership to eighteenth century agricultural people.
Two documents place the family group on a specific day -- December 21, 1779 -- at specific places -- the neighboring houses of William Hill and Jonathan Vernon -- in attendance at a wedding and dinner near Christmas. Affidavits signed in 1839 by Ford Southern and John Terry describe the marriage of Rachel Vernon and John Ward (the affidavits were made on behalf of the widow Rachel Ward's petition for a survivor's pension following the death of John, a veteran of the Revolution .(31) Ford, who was about 14 in 1779, states that he "accompanied John Ward and his cousin Rachel Varnon from his uncle John Varnons ... to the Rev'd Wm. Hill in said County and the said Minister Hill [did] marry the said John Ward & Rachel together as man & wife a few days before Christmas in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine & that he heard the said minister publish the Bans of marriage Several times previous to the Marriage, and that said Wm Hill was a Minister of the Babtist Church ..."
John Terry's affidavit is more descriptive of the gathering: "... [John Terry] was present at his Grandfather Varnons on the day that the said John Ward and his Aunt Rachel aforesaid started to the Reverend William Hills to get married with a company of their neighbors & he was present at his Grandfathers when they returned & partook of a wedding dinner which happened on 21.st of Decem. 1779 as appears on the family records."
While the statements have a strictly legal purpose, they conjure up an image of family and friends at a private moment of celebration, gathered at a festive time during the American Revolution, shortly before Cornwallis brought the war to North Carolina. John Ward and the younger William Southern would be leaving soon thereafter to serve in the war.
Religious Practices
The affidavits also show that to at least some degree, organized religion was part of the lives of the Southerns and their neighbors, and may in fact have contributed to their move to North Carolina from Virginia. In Virginia the Southerns appear on the Buckingham County "tithables" lists of 1773 and 1774, showing that at least nominally they were members of, or forced to be members of, the Anglican church while in Virginia. Ford's reference to the services of the Reverend William Hill, a minister of the "Babtist" church, in Surry (later Stokes) County in 1779 places the Southerns and their neighbors within the context of religious developments in the Carolina backcountry.
The Baptist denomination, which had its origins in England as a dissenting voice against the Anglican Church, made great headway in North Carolina as elsewhere in the second half of the 18th century, filling the vacuum among isolated settlers of English origin that the established Church of England was unable or unwilling to fill. Other ethnic groups had come to the state with their own traditional religious practices. The Germans were largely either Lutheran, German Reformed, or Moravian; the Scotch Irish and Highland Scots were Presbyterian, and some of the earliest English settlers in the Albemarle region and the central piedmont were Quakers, another dissenting sect born in England. The democratic and evangelical appeal of the Baptist faith found deep soil among abandoned or disaffected English settlers. In time Baptist ministers would would draw new adherents from other ethnic groups as well, especially during the religious fervor of the Great Revival of the early 19th century, as did preachers of Methodism, another English-born reform movement with origins in the Anglican church that also became firmly rooted in the state during the late 18th and early 19th century.
William Hill was a well known figure in the region in the late 18th century, and was a patriot and well as a religious leader. The Moravian Records make several references to him. He attended the Provincial Congress in Hillsborough in 1775, and served as a chaplain among the American forces at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781.(32) A Baptist congregation was established by the late 18th century at Belews Creek in Stokes County, near the Southern farms. Whether the Southerns and their neighbors were members of that congregation is not known. In the early nineteenth century, Reuben Southern appears to have had a "meeting house" erected on his property reserved for "the intire use of preaching.(33) This was probably a Baptist meeting house. It's exact location has not been determined, but it was to the east of his original purchase of property from Joshua Tillery.
The Revolutionary War Service of William II and Gibson
Two of the younger Southern men served in the Revolution -- the younger William (William II) and Gibson. Their veteran's pension applications of the 1830s provide detailed accounts of their service (Link to Revolutionary War Service of William Southern II). William II served as a private for three months in 1780 during Horatio Gates' South Carolina campaign ending with defeat at Camden. He served again in March 1781 under General Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, only 20 miles from the Hewins Creek farms (William was a guard of the "Baggage & Military stores"). He was again serving in southeastern North Carolina when the war ended the following autumn. Gibson first enlisted in Buckingham County, Virginia, in November 1776. He was taken prisoner at Ft. Morris during the fall of Savannah in 1778, then escaped. He was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse as a substitute.(34)
The Deaths of William and Magdalen Southern; Subsequent Family Expansion and Relocations
The elder William Southern died in the spring of 1794, when he was probably in his early 70s. William Southern's will, dated May 13, 1794, is the only will in the public record of any Southern until after the Civil War. The will names his daughter Judith and son John, though the chief beneficiary was his widow Magdalen. Ford witnessed the will.
John and Judith remained for several years on the homeplace with their mother. Ford lived adjacent to them on the southern half of the original homeplace, and Reuben remained a neighbor on the east. It is uncertain when Magdalen died. The 1800 census suggests that she was still living then with John and Judith, both still unmarried that year, in what by then was considered John's household.
Judith married John Burch in 1802, and John married Elizabeth Duncan about 1804. Ford sold his share of the homeplace to Joseph Burch in 1803. While Magdalen may have lived on in the household of any of her children for several more years, the flurry of marriages and land sales from 1802 to 1804 suggests she may have died about that time. Whatever, there is no further record of her and she probably died sometime in the first decade of the nineteenth century. William and Magdalen are probably buried together somewhere on Hewins Creek in now unmarked and long forgotten graves.
After selling his portion of the homeplace in 1803, Ford was involved in several land purchases and sales, but ended up on a 200 acre farm on Blackies Branch, a few miles to the north, which he in turn sold in 1823. He was still living in 1839, but it isn't clear where. He may have been in the household of an unidentified son-in-law elsewhere in the area, or possibly even Virginia. His son William, who married Fanny (Frances) Banks in 1815, remained on Blackies Branch on the 25 acres Ford had given him in 1820 until his death in 1846.
John remained on his share of the homeplace until 1817, when he sold out to John Terry and moved to Giles County, Virginia. John's deed to Terry states that the property was "part of the said John Southerns fathers land whereon ... the said William Southern ... lived and died."(35) (Link to The Bible Record of John and Elizabeth Duncan Southern). Judith moved with the Burch family to Indiana about the same time.
Reuben apparently remained on part of his original farm until near the end of his life in the 1830s, though he sold off sections of his property to each of his four sons, and over the years they in turn sold out and moved elsewhere. By the 1830s most of the original Southern lands were absorbed into the vast 19,000 acre Sauratown plantation of Peter Hairston, one of the richest men in North Carolina.
Boaz sold his place on Town Fork Creek in 1807 and appears to have moved first to Kentucky, then to Tennessee. William II lived at his place on Snow Creek until his death in the 1830s.
Since Boaz, John, and Gibson all moved out of North Carolina, and William II appears to have had no sons to survive, most Southerns living in North Carolina today descend from either Reuben and his four sons or Ford and his two or more sons, not all of whom have been identified. The various branches of the family moved into several North Carolina counties, and their fortunes varied widely through the nineteenth century. Some enjoyed modest prosperity and became relatively well educated; others ended up as landless and illiterate laborers. Within a few generations, families sharing the same name no longer remembered how they might be related.
Nineteenth century records are in many ways less complete than those of the late eighteenth century reviewed here, and it is difficult to reconstruct the complexities of the family structure after the 1820s. At any rate, that remains for another time and another author.
1. Albemarle County, Virginia, Deed Book 1, page 128, dated November 14, 1749. Abstracted in Bailey Fulton Davis, Compiler, Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Books 1-3.
2. Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Book 2, pp. 59-60, dated January 1, 1755, contains three successive deeds of gift from John Southern to sons James ("second son"), Samuel ("third son"), and William ("eldest son"). Abstracted in Bailey Fulton Davis, Compiler, Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Books 1-3. Verification with photocopies from microfilm provided to this author by Margaret Killgore Reed of Houston, Texas.
3. Abstracted in The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 6, Number 1, January-March 1962, p. 9 and p. 13.
4. Southern family marriages, births, and deaths are recorded in The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia, From 1653 to 1812. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, 1975 (Reprint of DAR 1897 publication). Link to Southern Families of Christ Church, Middlesex
5. Various published immigration lists (not properly cited here) show a number of Southerns in Virginia and Maryland in the 17th century. The earliest appear to have been Thomas Southern, who sailed on the George to "James Cittie" in 1620, and John Southern, who came about the same time. Apparently the same "John Southerne, Gent." was granted 24 acres on the "Island of James City" in 1627, in partial payment of the 50 acres due him for having transported William Soane over on the "Georg" in 1621. At least thirteen other Southern men and six Southern women came to Virginia and Maryland before 1680. Most, but apparently not all, were transported to Virginia from England by another party, perhaps indicating they were obligated to work for a period as indentured servants.
6. The lists are published in Edythe Rucker Whitley, editor, Genealogical Records of Buckingham County, Virginia. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1984.
7. Margaret Reed letter to Michael T. Southern, February 14, 1982. Mrs. Reed cites "Act of Oct 1748 VA" which decreed that "All males 16 and upwards" were subject to the tax.
8. First United States Census, 1790, Greenville County, South Carolina.
9. Jack Barron e-mail message to Michael T. Southern February 4, 2002, describing the information in Mecklenburg County VA tax lists.
10. Ford Southern's sworn and signed affidavit, dated 16 January 1839, is included in the Revolutionary War pension papers of John Ward and Rachel Ward (#W9872), National Archives Trust Fund, Washington, D.C. Photocopies from microfilm in possession of author. The affidavit states that Rachel Ward is indeed the widow of veteran John Ward and that she has not remarried since John Ward's death on 15 September 1838, thus retaining eligibility for a survivor's pension. A similar statement on Rachel Ward's behalf made by John Terry on the same day is quite explicit about Terry's relationship to Rachel Ward: Rachel was "this deposants own Aunt being his Mothers Sister whose maiden name was Varnon;..." Ford's statement says only that Rachel Ward was "his cousin" and does not elaborate on the exact nature of the relationship.
11. Will of William Southern, Stokes County, N.C., May 13, 1794. N.C. State Archives CR 090.801.S. For Vernon family history, see article on Jonathan Vernon, Sr. by Alfred Tuttle (#992) in Stokes County Heritage. Also Vernon Vignettes (Quarterly Newsletter of the Vernon Family Association) for September and December 1973.
12. W. Mac. Jones, transcriber and editor, The Douglas Register. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, 1977 (reprint). Pages 380-385 contain birth records from about 1720 to 1750 of the French Huguenots of Manakin Town, King William Parish.
13. The more numerous Huguenot family names at Manakin included Amonet, Benin, Bilbo, Bernard, Bondurant, Chastain, David, Dupuy, Faure, Farsi, Guerrant, Lesueur, Martain, Malet, Salle, Sassain, Soblet, and Trabue, and there are several other French and non-French names. Most of these names, and other possible French names such as Maxey and Agee, also appear in later Buckingham County lists of tithables, indicating a general migration upriver.
14. Letter dated July 25, 1895, from W.F. Maxey (Walter Ford Maxey) of Paris, Monroe County, Missouri, to his niece, Mrs. Lucy B. Aldrich of Cascade Rock, Oregon. Transcribed and printed in Nellie F. Ayers, Ayers Kin and Kin to Kin, Memphis, TN, 1961. Published previously in The Huguenot, the Journal of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia. In the letter, Mr. Maxey (born 1819) responds to an inquiry from his niece to describe what he knows of his Maxey and Ford ancestors. He names his source for the Ford family list as Jacob Ford, "who died in this county [Monroe Co., Mo.] many years ago." The letter indicates Jacob was a grandson of James Ford through James' son Peter, and was Maxey's great uncle on his mother's side of the family. "Maglin" would have been Jacob Ford's aunt. It should be noted here that some contributors to The Huguenot have objected to the notion that "Faure" became "Ford," though without any particular evidence to the contrary.
15. Albemarle County, VA Deed Book ___, page ___. 28 February 1761. James Ford to Anne Chastain.
16. Edythe Rucker Whitley, Buckingham County, pp. 6, 15.
17. Stokes County Deed Book 2, Page 144. The power of attorney was dated August 11, 1784, but not recorded until a decade later. It was witnessed by Reuben Southern, Peter Ford, and a mysterious Polly Southern, whose name appears in no other record. (Another researcher suggests this Polly may have been Reuben's wife, and that her maiden name was Polly Davis). Sallee had acquired the 133 acre tract through a state land grant in 1783, but there is no evidence he lived very long, if at all, in North Carolina. The William Southern named in the power might actually refer to William Southern II.
18. The Douglas Register, p. 384.
19. Transcription of the 1775 Surry County, N.C. Tax List by the late William Perry Johnson. This author has examined the original list in the State Archives and finds it so faded as to be illegible. Johnson was a widely respected professional genealogist, and may have used some technical aids to decode the document. For now there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of his transcription. Link to Southerns in Surry and Stokes County Tax Lists, 1775-1801
20. N.C. State Land Grant, Surry County # 196, to Joshua Tillery, 630 acres. Entered 5 Oct. 1778; issued 3 Apr. 1780. Charles McAnally conducted the survey in 1779, with Southern and Mark Hardin identified as chain bearers. The elder William Southern later purchased the western half of this tract from Tillery in 1782, after he had already been living on the property for some time.
21. In the early twentieth century Annie Southerne Tardy of Birmingham, Alabama, Gibson's great-granddaughter, was admitted into the National Society of Daughters of Founders on the claim she descended from John Southerne (an early settler in Jamestown, Virginia, and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses) through Gibson and his wife Mary Peters. Tardy's lineage chart names William (b. 1722) and Mary Gibson (b. 1732) as Gibson's parents. This is an interesting claim, because it could be the William discussed here with a first wife. Her source for her claims beyond Gibson seems to be the Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex (see footnote 4). This researcher has examined the register and other records of early Virginia marriages and has been unable to find any reference to a marriage between a William Southern and Mary Gibson, so the source for the claim of Gibson's parentage is a mystery. Tardy's relation to Gibson is not disputed, but her claims of Gibson's parentage and his earlier line are open to question without further evidence. Photocopies of Annie Southerne Tardy's entry in the lineage book of the National Society of the Daughters of Founders (Vol. 10) provided to this author by Margaret Killgore Reed, July 8, 1982.
22. Stokes County Deeds, Book 1, page 53.
23. Judith's gravestone in Monroe County, Indiana, gives her dates as August 1774-December 1848. In the 1880 census three of Judith's children gave their mother's birthplace as North Carolina, suggesting that August, 1774 was the latest possible date for the family's move from Buckingham County, Virginia, to North Carolina. It is possible that Judith was born in Virginia and that her children, knowing their mother was raised in North Carolina, were not aware she was brought to North Carolina as an infant. But for the time being their is no reason to doubt either Judith's gravestone or the testimony of her children. Information on Judith (Southern) Burch provided to the author by Margaret Killgore Reed of Houston, Texas, February 24, 1982.
24. Stokes County Deeds, Book 2, page 112.
25. Information on John Southern and his family provided to the author by Margaret Killgore Reed of Houston, Texas, February 24, 1982. Mrs. Reed was provided a transcription of a family Bible record written by a son of John Southern by Verda (Southern) Cornutt, which had been copied by Mrs. Cornutt's cousin. The record gives the birth date of John Southern as "August 25, 1774 (or 1776)." The August 1774 date matches the birthdate on the gravestone of Judith (Southern) Burch and suggests John and Judith were twins. It isn't clear if the "or 1776" note was in the original record or if the transcriber was unable to decipher the original document confidently and provided two dates.
26. North Carolina State Land Grants Records. Several surveys made by surveyor Charles McAnally between 1778 and 1780 along Hewins Creek include plat drawings that show the flow of the creek through each parcel. Drawn to USGS map scale and superimposed on the Belews Lake, N.C., USGS Quadrangle Map (1971), there is no doubt that Hewins is the creek north of Pine Hall identified on that map as "Eurins Creek," which appears to be an unfortunate corruption of the earlier name. Modern tax maps in the Stokes County Tax Office identify the creek both as Hewings and Eurins. Several variant spellings are seen in early deeds, including "Uins," which appears to be a phonetic transition between the original "Hewins" and modern "Eurins."
27. Information no Joshua Tillery provided to the author in email message dated October 23, 2003 from John Davis of Herndon, Virginia.
28. Surry County, N.C. Deed Book B, page 181, 13 July 1782.
29. Stokes County Deed Book 1, Page 14. March 8, 1789.
30. Stokes County Deeds, Book 1, Page 53, and Book 2, Page 112. Ford's deed dated 8/16/1790 for 155 acres, which was the southern half of William's tract, reads that "... the said William Southern and Magdalin his Wife, for and in consideration of the love and good will which they do bear to their son, Ford Southern, Doth hereby Give, Grant, and Confirm..." John's deed is dated the same day as William's will (5/13/1794). It does not mention Magdalen, but states that John is "son of sd. William Southern" and that the gift is made "for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which he ... beareth to the said John Southern." Magdalen inherited the remainder of the tract, which was also to go to John after her death. but tax lists from 1795 show John with both his and his mother's shares.
31. See footnote 9 concerning these affidavits.
32. William S. Powell, Editor, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 3 (H-K), UNC Press, 1988. Article on William Hill II by Maury York.
33. Stokes County Deed Book 5, page 462, 8 Sept. 1812. Reuben Southern Sr. to Reuben Southern Jr. "Containing by survey 50 acres of land including a meeting house on said [land] Which said meeting house with two acres of land around said meeting house, and so as to include the spring belonging to the said meeting house is hereby exempted out of the said 50 acres of land for the intire use of preaching." The parcel in question was not part of Reuben's original purchase from Joshua Tillery, but part of a purchase from John Bostick in 1808 of neighboring land (Book 5, Page 211). That purchase does not mention a meeting house on the parcel, suggesting that Reuben had it built between 1808 and 1812. The exact location of the meeting house has not been determined.
34. Margaret Killgore Reed, letter to Michael Southern 7/8/1982. Mrs. Reed cites pension S39084 for Gibson.
35. Stokes County Deed Book 6, Page 27, 4 January 1817. Terry sold the same lands the same year (for the same amount -- $333 1/3) to Peter Hairston, the richest landowner in the area.


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David Ways | Updated:
February 27th 2018
| Nepal travel guides
With views of the Himalayas that can match Nagarkot and a classic old Newari town Dhulikhel is a great place to spend a night or two. The hilltop town has a history dating back over five hundred years when it was an important trading route with Tibet. Best of all, it's off the tourist trail.
Many people make a full day trip out to Dhulikhel from Kathmandu but for those looking for more an overnight stay it also means getting a nice hill walk in the next day for sunrise. For the more adventurous there's even a walk leading all the way to Panauti.
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Dhulikhel has had two names in the past. The first was "Dhavalasrotapura". The Newari meaning is the "place where tigers play". There is however another name for Dhulikhel "Dhalikhyel" meaning "Dahi (curd) selling place'.
While Dhulikhel could be visited on a day trip it's well worth spending at least one night here for the great sunrise hike which includes none of the crowds found elsewhere.
You can easily visit Dhulikhel from Kathmandu on an independent day trip which can encompass both a walk around
the old town temples and a hill walk. .For sunrises and mountain views you are better off staying overnight and doing the sunrise view walk at dawn.
It's very easy to take a bus to Dhulikhel. All buses
to Dhulikhel terminate at the main stop along the Araniko Highway which is also where they leave to Kathmandu
There's a turn off to the main square just past the bus stop. This is great if you have luggage and are staying nearby.However, for day trippers, I recommend you turn back from the Dhulikhel bus stop and take the first left. Follow the road down to Bhagwati temple. Full details and maps are available in my Nepal guidebooks.
The Bhagwati
Temple was
reconstructed in 1647
CE by King Jagat Malla
of Bhaktapur but there is no record of its original consctuction date. The temple is one of the tallest in Kathmandu further helped, visually, by
the fact it's built on the
highest point of the town and on some platforms.
The lower roof is decorated with corner curves and
small birds standing on them. The upper roof is similar in decoration but is made from gilt copper
and the birds are extremely small.
The temple itself is dedicated
to the goddess
Bhagwati, a
of Durga or Parvati,the latter being Shiva's partner.
Across the courtyard you can see a huge trident.
On the stone column next to it is Durga's mount in
the form of a small brass lion also with a trident.
Battered by the 2015 earthquake but surviving better than the nearby houses the golden three tiers of the Narayan temple dominates this courtyard.
In front of the 17th
century temple is
one small Vishnu
shrine and two
columns with the
winged Garuda
kneeling before
Narayan as Krishna.
The temple is ofen locked and surrounded by a
fenced to prevent thef of the shrine inside. Gilded
birds adorn the roof corners
The courtyard here is often surrouded by locals sitting out in resthouses or tending to small stalls.
Located behind the Narayanthan Temple this small three-tiered
temple can be entered by
the little painted archway around the wall.
It is dedicated to the
goddess Harisiddhi.
The origin of Harisiddhi is in India.
Indian emperor Bikramaditya, founder of
"Bikram Sambat", came to Nepal and brought his
beloved goddess Harisiddhi with him.
From the Harisiddhi temple there are several smaller temples along the route to Dhulikhel Bazzar which strangely is devoid of any monuments of note. Today the square is a mix of new and old businesses.
In the 1960s efforts were made to make Dhulikhel a dedicated tourist destination however Nagarkot one and the main bazaar never took off as a possible souvenior and workshop area.
At the end of the bazaar is Sarasoti Pokhari where there is a statue to the goddess of art and knowledge.
Further on from the bazaar along the main street is the route up 1000 steps to the Dhulikhel hill walk.
There are two main hillwalks and hikes from Dhulikehel. The first departs from the bazaar and leads all the way up to a Kali shirine at the top with stunning views of the Himalayas. The second leads from the shrine all the way to Panauti and is known as the Namaobuddha circuit.
Leaving the main bazaar/Saraswoti pond continue on the main road. Keep walking until you
get to a large junction
with a grassy fenced-in area nearby along with a
large tree.Take the path leading to the upper right
(not the smaller one further to the right). You'll
soon come to a red-brick archway leading to many
Whether there are 1000 steps or not is questionable (feel free to email
me if you counted). There are however a lot of steps to the top. At the mid-pint there are gates to Shanti Ban, a large golden Buddha damaged in the 2015 earthquake.
Continue all the way to the
top of the steps where a
series of dirt trails appear.
Continue walking straight
ahead just a few steps past
the junction and look out on
the lef for another series of
steps just past a small blue hut. There's a signpost
here pointing the
way up the steps to
the Kali Shrine or
on straight for the
Namobuddha trail.
The Kali shrine is dedicated to the goddess of time,
change, power and creation. A manifestation of
Durga. Shiva
is her consort
and you can
see his trident
in front of the
To the rear of
the compound
you will see the viewing platform. From here views
of the Himalayas can be seen on a clear day over
the valley below
There is no entrance fee to visit Dhulikhel or any of the temples. In 2017 a 100 rupee charge was being added for going up hillwalk (it's a bit random though). It is possible to hire a guide in Dhulikel and it is best done through your hotel.
There are several transportation methods to Dhulikhel depending on your budget and schedule.
If you are stuck for time or are looking for a private vehicle plus guide to show you around then taking a private tour is a good option.
Because there are more hotels and accommodation in Nagarkot who pay them commissions! It's a simple as that.
A few big hotel companies started up in Nagargot about 10 years ago and it's been that way every since. You can read more about the differences between Nagarkot and Dhulikhel here.
Full directions to Dhulikhel with maps, guide, hotel and restaurant reviews are available in my guidebook below.
There are not many restaurants outside of guesthouse and hotel restaurants. By Sarasoti pond there are group of ever changing local restaurants of various types and standards.
Pizza Hub Restaurant looks about the best there but pizzas are very Nepali but thankfully there is a menu with local items as well. Opposite there are several typical tourist type restaurants like Love Bird and Newari Kitchen.
Stick with the basics and keep expectations low. Hotel restaurants are open to everyone and worth a look.
There is a broad range of accommodation available in Dhulikhel. The majority of hotel are located near the main road where the bus stop is located and out towards the Kali Shrine. Along here many refer to themselves as "resorts". Some genuine are while others are stretching the truth.
In the old city hotel pickings are very limited and much more along the lines of guest houses. If Dhulikhel ever picks up popularity similarly to Nagarkot this area is sure to become full of boutique style guesthouses.
One thing to be careful of when booking online is that "some" hotels often say they are in Dhulikhel whereas they are actually no where near the town itself.
Dwarika's Resort is one of the more genuine resorts offering some of the best
services & facilities in all Nepal you will be pampered & catered to here.
Nawaranga Restaurant & Guest House is a long running guest house and the best in the budget range. Run by friendly Purna & his wife they also have a mini art gallery on show. It's located shortly after the Saraswoti Pond.
Panorama View Lodge Resort is located near the Kali Shrine with stunning views of the Himalayan mountains. While the rooms are nothing special (dated) the views on a clear day are. Due to this alone it's worth checking out.
More accommodation and maps showing their location can be found in my guidebook to Nepal.
If you are going all the way to Nepal then you'd be wise to get the best guidebook to Nepal and make the most of your trip.
When I first came to Nepal 10+ years ago I was very disappointed with the big brand guidebooks on offer. So, I set about writing my own. It's is far better! Check out the details below and you'll see why, I promise.
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Only four months ago, father-of-two Dominic Byrne decided to make his family life public through his and his wife Louise's blog.
And the decision wasn't meant for publicity, but rather, his wife's triple negative breast cancer that she was diagnosed with over a year ago.
It was since that moment, that the lives of the couple took a dramatic turn. On an average day, Dominic would be seen riding his dirt bike in the hopes to get his heart racing, but now, he spends that time trying to find a cure to keep "the mother of my adorable little tin-lids alive and happy."
The blog features over 30 blog posts – each written from the heart. When they laugh, we laugh, when they cry, we cry. But it was Dominic's video entry that really grabbed everyone's attention.
"Lou went back into hospital this afternoon. She didn't want to go back in …", he said as the exhaustion was visible on his face.
"I'm not sure where this puts us for her chemo round on Monday. We'll see what the doctors say come Sunday … I mean they might as well put her in a torture chamber. It's pretty much the same, same but different."
Louise, who at the time was a 39-year-old mother to her two children, Noah and Evie, was diagnosed with the killer disease in June 2017. Then one month later, her chemotherapy sessions began, as everyone around her prayed that she would get better.
While the initial three rounds of chemotherapy reduced the size of the tumour in her left breast, it ended up fighting back as it grew in the next three rounds.
The Louise today has endured countless surprise trips to the hospital, a mastectomy, 24 sessions of radiotherapy and six sessions of oral chemotherapy, only for her to hear that none of the treatments proved to be effective.
It didn't take long for her stage one cancer to grow to a stage four, and according to doctors, the cancer had spread throughout her body and to her bones.
Speaking to nine.com.au, Louise spoke about the moment she realised the treatment was failing her: "(It was) completely gut wrenchingly terrifying.
"Every time one fails, we get closer to the unimaginable. Plus, you know how much you have suffered through the treatments so that's hard to get your hand around."
But despite still undergoing chemotherapy, husband Dominic and Louise's sister are currently on the hunt for answers overseas. Their first choice is US cancer expert Steven Rosenberg, alongside researching their options in Germany.
"I've never seen fighting as an option, it's always just been a given that I need to do this and keep doing it until I am well," said Louise.
"I am a genuinely positive person with a huge amount of energy, so that also helps both mentally and physically. I've found my ability to bounce backs is far greater than many. But as the disease progresses that gets harder. There is also somewhere deep inside me that knows that it's not my time for cancer to take me yet."
Now, Louise wants to pass over her inspiring attitude to other women who are dealing with cancer by starting a wellness movement called iCan which acts like an online community to help support women who are in the same situation as her.
"From diagnosis and beyond I want to share simple advice for living your best life after cancer," she said.
"That begins with access to fitness, eating and getting their glow back. No bikini bodies and no depressing pamphlets and chat rooms. I want to create a new dialogue that your life is not over when you are living with cancer."
But while it's important to remain positive in such hard times, it isn't enough, as now Louise and Dominic require financial assistance to help Louise live longer.
The couple have decided to run a fundraising night where proceeds will go directly into Louise's treatment and daily expenses for the kids and Dominic. They also currently have a crowdfunding page going if you're wanting to donate.
"Asking for money is something we'd never thought we would have to do but when friends realised the severity of our situation the decision was practically made for us," Dominic said.
"Overseas treatment is our next move to keep Lou alive, the cost of this is upwards of $16,000 a week, let alone travel, relocation or living expenses. I'll sell all our belongings and homeschool the kids if it means they'll have their mother for another day."
Visit Louise and Dominic's blog here.


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A group of artists shipping Moleskines through the mail, creating and on-line community and sharing in the creative process.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Ellen's Moleskine is on its way to Roma!
5 comments:
- roma said...
Whoa, speed of light. It was in my box today! Looks great.
- October 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- merrytait said...
SUPER! I love the pattern between the two skulls, lots of great stuff here!!!
- October 22, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Mike Kline said...
Hey! How long was it in shipping? I have Molly's book in Progress. Met great couple on a SWA flight... Noblebakerart.com gave me some great advice!
- October 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- ballookey said...
Very cool - I love that sunset and water you added to the bird!
- October 27, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Something Different said...
Nice work Mike!
Funny, I almost collaborated with that bird on the inside cover too.
- November 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM
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Using and Learning from Top Hat – a short post about our recent workshop
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 10, 2018
We recently put on a workshop 'Using and Learning from Top Hat'. We found out about the problems and pitfalls of using Top Hat, but also how it can promote engagement, improve the experience of students and help lecturers to assess learning. Most importantly, we found out how planning for engagement fundamentally changes the way […]
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The Integral Memory's 512GB micro SD Card, It packs a whooping 512GB of storage(Which is half a terabyte) in a tiny chip.
It was recorded that in Q3 of 2017, SanDisk released a 400GB micro SD Card. This made them attain a world record for largest Micro SD Card in the market. Though, This record was short-lived as barely a year after this, Integral Memory's upped their game and released a 512GB micro SD Card.
It has been rumored that the micro SD Card would run at a processing speed of about 80MB/s. Although, This is a nice speed, but when compared to SanDisk's 400GB Micro SD Card which runs at 100MB/s, The Integral Memory card is a bit slow.
The new Micro SD Card is also classified as an SDXC UHS-I U1 card (i.e, it has a minimum write speed of 10MB/s) and meets the V10 standard for video transfer rates, so it's designed to capture full HD video off cameras.
Date for the official release has not been announced yet, but it's going to be launched and available in the market by February.


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We've all noticed that some CD's are louder than others. That's because, in most cases, the louder CD has been heavily compressed and limited. Compression makes a soft sound loud and a loud sound soft, while Limiting is a severe form of compression using much higher ratios and a "brick wall" that prevents the signal from reaching digital zero. Although dynamics processing allows the entire mix to be brought up by several decibels, if not done well, the reduction in dynamic range can be quite noticeable. Still, when done well, compression/limiting should not be a problem.
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While it was already on our Homesteading Skills list, we were extra-inspired by Blue Missouri Skies Homestead's blog on rendering lard, and so my husband convinced his workplace to let him take home a bag of pork fat scraps they would have ordinarily tossed, chop it up, heat it up in the crock pot, and made it into our very own jars of cooking oil. Now it's not as clear as the pictures in other blogs but hey it was our first time and we've already started doing a bit of baking with it. As my husband would say, "Noice!"
Well, the first week of spring has meant lots of rain, random days of sun, temperatures in the mid-fifties, and ending with a dog that is fully infested with fleas. Argh!!!! Nothing like a Friday morning with buckets of hot water, castile soap, pennyroyal, citrus oil and an ACV rinse out in the back yard (we don't have a bathtub and Ruby turns into a demon if forced into a confined space so glass shower doors would be at risk…), along with garlic and brewers yeast for her insides to ward them off and a rubdown with a lavender oil mix to keep the future fuckers off her. We're going the medical route as well with flea/worm pills that she hasn't taken for about a year, just to make sure they stay away in 2017. Oy vey! So anyhow, here's what else I thought I'd share with y'all this Friday…
- I think this might be the year I finally make soap, and having no interest in working with lye, I am digging this goat milk soap recipe that can be made without it.
- "The term relationship implies consent—something that neither a slave nor child can impart." Seeing a spot on TV recently about how Monticello is restoring Sally Hemmings' quarters, I'm still constantly amazed how they have always acted like it was some sweet romantic "relationship" between her and Jefferson simply because she had children by him (as if reproduction automatically equals love between the biological parents), even though she was raped as a teenager by him and for many years thereafter – AND not freed upon his death. The Normalization of Slave Rape Narratives is something that everyone should read and make sure, if they are parents or educators especially, that people are correctly understanding that the majority of our "founding fathers" were slaveowners – and are not heroes. Too much horrendous behavior is excused as "just the way things were back then" when it's bullshit because there were people who knew better and did better. Along with that, the author makes a great point, reminding us that "If we can paint a young Sally Hemings as a willing bedwench without so much as flinching, what can we do—or rather, what do we do—to the young Black women among us who are subjected to similar types of sexual exploitation?"
- On a very different topic, Canada has effectively banned drones in cities. Awesome. I fucking hate drones and think they have no place in the world – I don't care what it's for. We did just fine before them, and we won't suffer without them. Every time we go to a city park and see some asshole flying one, we have pledged that if it goes anywhere near us, it WILL be destroyed. And if Amazon even dares? I DARE them to try to fly one of those fucking things on my property or anywhere near me. 🙂
- We don't have the climate here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon for it but I still loved reading Making Maple Syrup on Spring Lake Homestead's blog. So rad. And a pretty sweet blog overall to boot!
- Basing Life on What You Can Afford is a great article from the New York Times featuring multiple people on how they get by. I've always laughed when people say "Oh we have to get a bigger car because we have kids" and go into major debt to buy a brand new SUV rather than live within their means (kids do fit in regular cars, folks – I grew up the youngest of 3 and we all fit into a 2 door Buick Skylark my parents paid cash for just fine), or say "I have to go to this certain university or I won't be able to get a good job" and proceed to get themselves into tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in debt that they have no authentic plan for paying back, or my personal favorite, "I have to drive to work (even though there's public transportation near them) because I have to take my kids to school (even though there's a school bus available)" and both complain about traffic and the price of gas while snubbing the bus. The problem is not choosing these things but acting like these are requirements to live, rather than choices they've made. Many, MANY people live without cars. Many, MANY people raise families in apartments or small homes. Many, MANY people do not chauffeur their kids to school like they are celebrities that are too cool to take the bus or walk 5-10 minutes. It's a choice, and if that choice disappeared, you'd find a way, you wouldn't die. This article shows people who have been dealt all kinds of cards and how they are making things work and looking towards the future. Amen to that.
- And finally, how to get rid of fleas naturally. After doing all the stuff in the intro paragraph to this post, when I went in to see my esthetician for my "let's kick this cycle 6 into full gear" facial (I know, great excuse for a facial, right?!), she mentioned the only thing that has ever truly worked to get fleas both off her dog and out of her home is cedarwood oil. So, oh yeah, I was all over that, and made the spray this article suggested AND added some eucalyptus and lavender oils to the mix to really pepper those little flea assholes outta here. The dog is not itching so far and I'm watching her like a hawk, so let's cross our fingers. March fleas, WTF? And then I pinpointed where they came from – the ONE time I took my pup off the property was this past week to Cathedral Park where lots of little dogs were running up and around her who'd been fucking around in the floodwaters (even though it says it's polluted and not to). If that's not where they came from, I'm clueless. Heh. Anyhoo. Here's to good dog health!
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Leasing urban, mixed-use developments and higher end retail properties form Wendy's primary portfolio. Consulting with developers who are looking to optimize their retail real estate assets is one of her specialties.
Situated in lower Manhattan and across from the renovation of the Westfield World Trade Center, CRL was brought on to assist with the luxury retailers at the property. This high profile, mixed use project had inherent design/ traffic flow issues along with the significant competitor in Westfield. Regardless, the project opened in 2015 with Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Burberry, Ermenegildo Zegna, Hermès Parfumerie, Omega, Paul Smith and Ferragamo among others. The early success of the luxury fashion led to the addition of both Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Men's Store.
[Re. Brookfield Place] "In the world of retail leasing relationships are everything. Wendy Silverman is high regarded and more importantly trusted by the top retailers. Her commitment to a project is validation to many of the top luxury brands. She understands merchandising and how to bring a project to life. She draws the retailers in and gets them excited about opening a store. She understands the retailer's perspective and how they make decisions. Wendy is a deal maker who always makes sure both sides win."
Edward Hogan, Executive Vice President Retail, Vornado
One of the largest malls in the world was in the process of expanding and enhancing it's tenant mix with the addition of a luxury wing. The Ghermazian Company enlisted the services of CRL to initiate marketing of the project to the luxury retail world. The initial response has been very positive and one of the first retailers to sign on was Hermes. This early seal of approval from one of the most prestigious brands in the international marketplace set the platform for the rest of the addition. Wendy also assisted with the review of design and marketing materials. Opening of The Collections is slated for 2019.
"Wendy Silverman is a leader in the luxury leasing arena. She is professional, ethical and a pleasure to work with. Her keen eye for design and strong knowledge of tenants brings enormous value to any project."
Liz McLay, Senior Vice President, Mall of America
Macerich was in the process of redeveloping the luxury section of Scottsdale Fashion Square and hired CRL in 2016 to assist with merchandising the project, reworking marketing materials and creating a liaison between the developer and the brands they did not have relationships with. Wendy was able to provide these services within a relatively short period of time. The luxury renovation is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
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CRL/Wendy has worked for the owner/developer of the Shops at 900 for many years in various roles but most consistently as merchandising consultant and exclusive leasing agent. 900 is part of a mixed use property which includes a Four Seasons Hotel, office space, luxury condominiums and the Shops which are on seven levels (including street level) and anchored by Bloomingdale's. CRL has leased to diverse tenants who include many national names (J. Crew, Mont Blanc, Gucci, Max Mara, Michael Kors and Equinox, among others). CRL effectively maintained 900's distinct and elegant upscale panache by obtaining several local one-of-a-kind shops to enhance continued interest and freshness in 900's tenant mix. Although we are quite modest and unassuming, we were persuaded to present the following commentary from our counterpart at 900:
"Wendy Silverman took on a very challenging, iconic project as the retail leasing consultant for The 900 Shops on Michigan Avenue in Chicago 2005. Wendy has been instrumental in transforming the dynamics of 900's retail mix into a highly productive and exciting shopping venue. Her in-depth knowledge of retail, extensive relationships with a variety of retailers and dedication to achieving results, places her well above others in her field. The qualities that Wendy brings to her profession would make any project a success."
Julia Burnham, Vice President, JMB Properties/The 900 Shops
The Bravern is a mixed-use development with office space (completely leased to Microsoft), twin tower condominiums and upscale retail in an affluent community outside Seattle, WA. The concept for the project was in the preliminary planning stage in 2003 when CRL submitted a successful proposal and presentation for an initially planned unanchored retail component of 120,000 sq ft. While consulting with architects/engineers and ownership, CRL made contact with Neiman Marcus and, with ownership, made a successful presentation for Neiman's first store in the Pacific Northwest. This commitment now anchors the new mixed-use project's retail segment. With CRL's input, the Neiman lease increased the retail portion to 300,000 sq ft. On the opening of the property on September 12, 2009 and in the midst of a disastrous economy, 83 percent of the project was leased, primarily as a direct result of CRL's efforts. Once more we're obliged to follow with a short "tribute" from one of The Bravern's principals:
"Wendy has been and continues to be instrumental in our successful lease up at the Shops at the Bravern. The depth of her retail knowledge, long standing relationships with key retail decision makers, and her high integrity make her an ideal representative for our investment. Wendy also provided us several key consultants to help insure that we achieved our goals from planning, construction through grand opening. What I appreciate most is her absolute commitment to our success and her positive attitude in the face of challenges. She is the consummate retail professional."
Tom Woodworth, Senior Investment Director, SchnitzerWest/The Bravern
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Transgenderism is the topic of choice lately. Perhaps our culture has made its peace with homosexuality and same sex marriage, leaving a vacuum for the next great controversy in sexual ethics. Meanwhile, I still remember a time when American culture reeled with disapproval (at least outwardly) upon hearing that someone engaged in sex outside of opposite sex marriage. Within my 62 years of life, I've watched a breathtaking change in moral standards.
When I was 14 or 15, a neighborhood girl that I used to play with suddenly moved away from her parents' home. Her parents had tried to teach her good morals, but she'd gotten involved with the wrong crowd. After my mom caught her reading lurid novels at the neighborhood drug store, she forbade her from coming to our house, sensing (correctly) that she held some influence over me. Not many months later, she'd moved to another state, leaving her parents and younger brother behind. Reluctantly, my mom told me that the girl had been sent to a home for unwed mothers. Soon thereafter the scandal drove her dad to suicide.
And about 45 short years later, the president of the United States has overstepped his Constitutional authority by ordering public schools to let children use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their perceived gender identity. And now I sit here feeling dumbfounded by how rapidly we've gone from hiding teenage pregnancies to forcing schoolchildren to deal with the complexities of transgenderism.
Of course, sexual immorality has always polluted humanity. The Sexual Revolution that arose in the 1960s really isn't much worse than the debauchery that the apostle Paul witnessed in First Century Corinth. It's not unreasonable to suppose that the Corinthians would have embraced transsexuality if the technology had been available back then. So, although 21st Century Christians (particularly those of us who can remember girls moving away to conceal pregnancies out-of-wedlock) feel baffled by this new acceptance of "gender fluidity," we shouldn't be.
In the progression of sexual liberation that's overtaken 21st Century society, I fear that our latest obsession with whatever taboo is most recently broken will numb us to the seriousness of heterosexual sex outside of marriage. Out-of-wedlock births no longer shock, or even sadden, evangelicals. So–while we absolutely need to stand firm against the newly accepted sins of same sex marriage and transgenderism, let's awaken to the fact that heterosexual immorality still incurs God's wrath.
Sexual sin of any kind not only rebels against God's authority (as all sin does), but it causes us to desecrate ourselves. Paul explains the problem with sexual immorality so powerfully that I'll quote him rather than trying to articulate the principle myself.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. ~~1 Corinthians 6:9-20 (ESV)
If we truly belong to Christ, our bodies house His Holy Spirit. That being the case, we have an obligation to honor His purity by remaining pure ourselves. Our culture may have moved far beyond stigmatizing people who engage in premarital sex, snickering at our puritanical values, but the Lord Jesus Christ calls us to His standard of holiness regardless of what the world does. We should wince in grief over the transsexual who rejects God's choice of gender for him or her, but we should equally wince in grief over the unmarried couple who sleeps together.
These people need compassion, I agree. Please don't misunderstand me as advocating harshness toward anyone who falls into sexual immorality or gender confusion. But true compassion requires that we lovingly point them back to Christ, encouraging them to repent and surrender their sexuality to Him.


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How to help a child who's dealing with depression
Dealing with depression for an adult is hard enough, but for a child, it can be very hard because it's hard to diagnose a child. It's normal for children to experience ups and downs, but if they're experiencing more downs than ups, you may want to suspect depression and get them professional help.
The good thing about children is that they often do not try to hide their feelings. They may tell you they are sad. They may act cranky and they may cry a lot more than normal. If this type of behavior lasts longer than a couple of weeks, it's a good idea to get them evaluated.
Other signs to look for include:
* They don't enjoy normal things anymore
* They gain or lose weight
* They sleep too much
* They have insomnia
* They don't want to be with people
* They have no energy
* They get mad easy
* They feel guilty
* They feel worthless
* They demonstrate signs of low self-esteem
* They can't make choices
* Their grades drop
* They have undiagnosable aches and pains
* They think of self-harm or suicide
These are scary things that your child may be going through. The only thing you can really do is find some professional help. Get in touch with your child's school counselor so that you can get information from teachers about your child's school day. This can help you better understand your child and what they're going through.
Keep the door open to your child, even when they are angry. Instead of reacting to their anger with anger, react with love. Let them know that you are there for them. If you've experienced things in your past that relate, talk to them about it. However, don't tell them to snap out of it or pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Instead, just let them know how important they are and that you want to help them.
Find a professional that is used to dealing with children. The good thing about your child being underage is that you don't need their permission to take them to a psychiatrist. Find one that has a lot of experience dealing with children so that they can get to the root of the problem.


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Room Facilities: fan, heating, bed sheets, towels, free toiletries.
Bed size: 1 double bed & 1 double sofa bed
Common areas: dining room, central courtyard with tables.
Agrotourism services:home-made breakfast included in the price, home-made dinner on request, free WiFi in common areas, selling of home-made products, tours for small groups.
Aperanti Agrotourism is a B&B accomodation in a renovated traditional stone-built house located in the picturesque village of Pera Orinis, nestled in the foothills of the Machairas mountains. Despite its quiet location it is only a 20-minute drive (or 30-minute bus ride) from the capital Nicosia.
By staying at Aperanti you will have the possibility not only to relax and to explore our beautiful countryside, but to taste our home-made products (cheese, jams, cakes, pastries,...) and to participate in local activities (traditional halloumi cheese making, olive oil production, fruit collection, visit of nearby farms...).
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