Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

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Notes Abbreviations Used in the Notes LCA Livingstone College Archives, Salisbury, North Carolina. NAACP Papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Microfilm collection. Indiana University, Bloomington. NCC North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. NCSA North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. RCPL Rowan County Public Library, Salisbury, North Carolina. SHC Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chapter 1: Bygones 1. One newspaper account states that Ferrand appeared to be surrendering before shooting Webb. Another reported that Webb shot first, before being wounded. Tom McIntyre, “Rowan County’s Last Public Execution,” Gastonia Gazette, August 28, 1966, 8–9; “Tragedy in Rowan,” Charlotte Observer, February 21, 1895, 1; and “Salisbury’s Double Hanging,” Charlotte Observer, July 26, 1895, 1. There is a William Ferran listed in the 1880 census for Mt. Ulla Township, which is immediately adjacent to Cleveland. If he and Whit Ferrand were one and the same, then he would have been forty-three years old in 1895. 1880 Rowan County Census, 250. 2. The description of Ferrand from the Salisbury Daily Herald is quoted from McIntyre, “Rowan County’s Last Public Execution,” 8–9; “Tragedy in Rowan,” 1. 3. “Ferron’s Whereabouts Unknown,” Daily Charlotte Observer, February 22, 1895, 1; McIntyre, “Rowan County’s Last Public Execution,” 8–9. 4. Salisbury was the headquarters of the Commissary of Subsistence of the Fifth North Carolina District, indicative of its strategic significance to the Confederacy. Raynor, Rebels and Yankees in Rowan County; Sifford, Towns of Rowan County, 56; McKaughan, “Few were the hearts”; and “Negroes Wanted,” Carolina Watchman, January 10, 1865, 1. i-xx_1-228_Cleg.indd 189 9/15/10 11:36:49 AM 190 Notes to Chapter 1 5. The population figures are for 1860. In that year, there were 10,523 whites, 3,930 slaves, and 136 free blacks in Rowan County. Population of the United States in 1860. For discussions of North Carolina and slavery, see Kay and Green, Slavery in North Carolina; Crow, Escott, and Hatley, History of African Americans in North Carolina; and Berlin, Many Thousands Gone. 6. Stanley J. Folmsbee, “Archibald Henderson,” in Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 3: 98; Ellis Puryear receipt, Isaac Jetton receipt, Benjamin Tores (?) receipt, and Samuel Cocke receipt, in John Steele Henderson Papers, series 1.1, folder 3, SHC; “Division of Negroes of William C. Love,” January 1, 1829, William C. Love Papers, SHC; “Administrator’s Sale of Negroes, &c,” Rowan Whig and Western Advocate, October 28, 1853, 3; “Administrator’s Sale,” Salisbury Banner, June 30, 1858, 4; Linn, Abstracts of Wills and Estate Records of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753–1805, and Tax Lists of 1759 and 1778, 32; and “Negroes Wanted,” Rowan Whig and Western Advocate, February 11, 1853, 4. 7. Letter of H. H. Giles et al., undated; State v. Negro man slave Tony, September 12, 1812; State v. Negro man slave Jacob, September 5, 1812; and Commitment of Francis, in Slaves and Persons of Color folder (1802–18), box C. R. 085.928.4, Miscellaneous Records (Rowan County), NCSA; Warrant for jailing slaves Jacob and Anthony, 1812, Miscellaneous Records, box C.R.X.291, NCSA; Bills drawn, Presentments, and State v. Wilson Sides, in Slaves and Persons of Color (1842–58) folder, box C.R.085.928.4, Miscellaneous Records (Rowan County), 1740–1940, NCSA; and Byrd and Smith, North Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color, 137–39, 145, 150–52, 215, and 229–30. 8. “To the Jailor of Rowan County,” September 1, 1818; letter to Jailor of Rowan County, September 8, 1818, in Slaves and Persons of Color folder (1802–18), box C.R. 085.928.4, Miscellaneous Records (Rowan County), 1740–1940, NCSA; “$25 Reward!” Rowan Whig and Western Advocate, September 26, 1855, 3; “$25 Reward,” Republican Banner, August 9, 1855, 3; “$50 REWARD!!” Republican Banner, September 4, 1855, 4; and Parker, Running for Freedom. For a useful compilation of the various laws and statutes passed to regulate the lives of North Carolina slaves and free blacks, see Byrd, Against the Peace and Dignity of the State. 9. Browning, “The North Carolina Black Code”; Wilson, The Black Codes of the South, 105–7; and “North Carolina,” New York Times, October 11, 1866, 2. 10. Escott, Many Excellent People; Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction; and Brawley, The Rowan Story, 209, 326–27. 11. Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890, part 1, 389, 473; Twelfth Census of the...