- - From the Nslchman ef the South
HopeSveII. N. C.. ana she Secretary 90


she COiaxel1tIom IN lY7S. s
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:. "Times are gFeatly altered Andy" said Old


Mr.. ,Alexanderto the Rev. Dr.. Flinns Of Charlest
ton, South CaroiinA, who bed eomeia Miscarriage


with his wife and servant aezvisit bis: fenerated
EbensaetoFs-" lires are greatly alteIed eince YOU


went To- college r. said the old man with n wei
come of gadness mingled with fear, lestthe sim.


plcity Of his early youth had been lost or peryer


ted ia that rich and fouffshing city. -.


,. Andsimes bad greatly altered, with RoIh since.
they were youths when one went 70 oeoiiege yah


hisstoWaeloth paptal0ousS and The other came 70


Meeklenbufg when. cut Of his apPFe ehttceship-


Both commenced ife in, tonorabIe Poverty--both


were entsrpEising IN a young country rY-and both


were eminenly successful in that course of life in


which choice and Providential circumstances had


led them to put forth their energies . . -.


y. Mr.. Alexander descended from Scotch Irish em-
igrants was borhin Pepusqf near the Mary:
land hne, in 1888. HaEing served put his time


as apprentiee to the 4ailofs trade, he fohowedlhe


tide Of his rmig rating lrinsnen and ceantryznen,


who were then seeking their homes between the


Yadkin and Catawba Rivers, .allufed by the wide


fields Of prairie grass and .canebrakes, and the


friendly disposition of the Catawba Indians. The


beautiful farms of Rowan, Davie, Iredell, Meek:


lenburg and Cabarrus, were then roafned oyer'by


herds Of deer, and pastlred by droves Of Buffalo,


The grass nnhpea vine: fed them fuxuriousty in


summer, and the eaFsebFake in winter. Forest
trees pow wave where the first settlers saw not
sapiing OF shrub. - =


The emigration which commenced. about 175e


was rapid. and in few wears to the congregation
ofSdgar Greek were added Hopewell, Steel Creek
Poplar Tent, Rocky River, Centre, apd Thyatiro,


The emigrants, a church loving aud church 60


ing people in>the q green iise," carried to their


new home all those habits and manners Of their
mother kend, the wild and strshge residence in


Carolina permitted. A. church, going people are
'adress loving people The sanctity and decerum
Of the house of God are inseparably associated
with decent exterior; and The spiritual heavenly
exercises Of the inner man are incompatible with
defIed and tateted exterior AGt regular christ


IAN assemblies cultivate taste for dress, and none
more than the hardy pioneer settlers of upper Car
oiaa and valley and mountains Of Virginia. In
their approach to the king Of kings in company
with their Heighbofs, the resting from their
toiI washed their hands and shaved their faces,
and put on their costly and carefully preserved
dress. Their wives and daughters adorned to the
best of their ability rendered themselves more love
ly in the sight of their friends as they assembled
at the place of worship. The tolls and labors OF
a new settlement were for the timelaid aside and
the. greetings at the place Of assemblage, from
Sabbath to Sa bbath as they met to hear 10 pray
spake the comuiingled feelings Of friendship and
religion. -. ..., = =. =


The young tailor knew the spirit of his eoun-
tFytaen, and came to seek his fortune with this
poor but spirited and enterpfising people They
had Ittle or no money; and in paying for their
lands, the skins Of the deer and Buffalo that had
fed them. were taken on pack horses to Charles
ton or Philadelphia as the most ready means of
obtaining the necessary funds Years necessarily
passed before the few cattle and horses taken along
with them were multiplied sufficiently for home
and for traffic.


The young man brought his ready made clothes
and his cloths to be made to ORDER and trafficked
with the settlers, and transported his peltEy on
horseback 10 the city, and thus working and traf
ficking journeynan and merchant tailor, till the
settlers became able BY their droyes Of horses and
caufe, to traffic foF themselves adTantageously,
and bring back from market gold and silver.


In about FIVE years, or about the year 1859, he
married Jane Bane from Pennsylvania, ofthe same
race with himself, settled in HopeweH eongrega-
tion which was ORGANIZED sometime after Sugar
Creek, and lies along the <Catawba, and became
an extensive IandholdeE, and wealthy with increa.
sing prosperity Of that foufishmg country In !
due time he became magistrate of the county, |
md an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, then
the only church known between the i've rivers.


Enterprisingi shrewd, successful IN his personal
concerns, man Of principle, respected and conf
ded IN by his neighbots, In less than twenty years
rom his nrSt crossing the adk1n ne was aglta-
ling With his <felloW-chizens their rights Of per-
sons, property and eonscience;5 against the en-
croachments ofthe King, through his -unprinci-
pied and tyranRcaI officers that oppressed without
fear and without restraint, the inhabitants of the
upper country Of Mouth. Carolina


In'less than quarter ola century, after the first !
permanent settlement of neighborhood was form
I'd on the Gata wba, in North Carolina, the emf
grafton flowing like the waves Of the ocean, had I
filled the country with men prepared to defend /
heir rights at all hazards, and the CoNvESTIoNt
was called to meet IN Charlotte, May 20th, I775,
odeliberate upon the crisis Of their af airs.. Of
he persons who were chosen to meet 10 that AS
'embly, nine were Elders in the Presbyterian
Church. Ofthese the names Of the following are |
known, AbrahanAlexander,o of Sugar |
Creek, Mecklenbnrg County; John McKnitt Al |
sxander and Hezekiah Alexander, of ~Hopewelt, |
County David Reese Poplar
Tent: Cabarras Couniy Robert Query, Rocky
River, same County; Rebea IrFins Steel Creek, /
County Adam Alexander. Sugar
Creek, Meckleuburg County. The names Of the
'ther two It is thought, were Ephraim. Brevard /
md John PhifeT One member was the preacher
1t Poplar Tent, Hezekish /, Baleh Thus ten |
.f the members out of twenty seven, were office
bearers Of the Presbyterians. And all the resi-
were members Of the church or congregation.


Abraham Alexander who was Ruling Elder,
and whose grave is near Sugar Creek, was chosen
Chairman OF President Of the; Convention; and