Sixth Generation  

Sarah married Elija Bryant Pate , son of Lewis Pate and Elizabeth (Betsy, Bettie) Pope , on 28 Mar 1852 in Wayne County, North Carolina. Elija was born in 1828 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on 7 Jul 1862 in Malvern Hill, VA, at age 34.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 47 F    i. Louvenia Pate was born in 1854 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 1889 (?) in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 35.

+ 48 F    ii. Henrietta Pate was born in 1856 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died 1879 (?) in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 23.

+ 49 M    iii. Louis Bryant Pate was born on 15 Aug 1858 in Wayne County, North Carolina.

+ 50 F    iv. Eliza Ann Elizabeth Pate was born on 9 Jul 1862 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on 18 Jun 1937, at age 74.

Alice married Hyman (Heyman) Pate , son of Shadrack (Shade) II Pate and Penelope Howell , on 8 Dec 1859 in Wayne County, North Carolina. Hyman was born on 30 Aug 1834 in Wayne County, North Carolina, died after 1906 in Wayne County, North Carolina, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 51 F    i. Bethania (Betsy) L. Pate was born in Nov 1860 in Wayne County, North Carolina, died in 1939 in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 79, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 52 M    ii. Dewitt Starling Pate was born on 11 Feb 1863 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on 22 Jul 1898 in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 35.

   53 M    iii. William B. Pate was born about 1865 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died before 1880 in Wayne County, North Carolina.

+ 54 M    iv. John (Johnny) Spicer Pate was born on 13 Apr 1869 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on 5 Feb 1945 in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 75.

+ 55 F    v. Penelope (Nellie) Pate was born in Nov 1872 in Wayne County, North Carolina, died in 1938 in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 66, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 56 M    vi. Stephen Hyman Pate was born on 6 Nov 1875 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on 19 Aug 1952 in Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 76.

   57 F    vii. Mary Alice Pate was born about 1879 in Wayne County, North Carolina.

General Notes: Volunteered to join the Confederate Army at age 23 on October 11, 1861. He
was a sergeant in Company I, Regiment 35 of North Carolina. On October
22, 1862, he died at home due to wounds received in the battle of Malvern
Hill.

Needham married Barsheba Peacock on 13 Aug 1859.

William married Millie Sasser , daughter of Unknown and Unknown , on 17 Oct 1866. Millie was born on 13 Mar 1850, died on 13 Apr 1929, at age 79, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 58 M    i. William Thomas Forehand was born on 25 Feb 1882, died on 20 May 1949 in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, at age 67, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

   59 M    ii. James Forehand .

   60 F    iii. Sally Forehand .

   61 M    iv. Reddin Forehand .

   62 M    v. Frank Forehand .

   63 F    vi. Arlesey Forehand .

   64 F    vii. Julia Forehand .

   65 F    viii. Nancie Forehand was born on 13 Feb 1885, died on 24 Jun 1899, at age 14, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 66 M    ix. Lewis Jackson Forehand was born on 27 Jun 1878, died on 15 Jan 1940, at age 61, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

Elizabeth married Shade (Martin) Pate .

General Notes: Settled in Patetown.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 67 M    i. Shade Pate .

   68 M    ii. C. Z. Pate .

General Notes: Taught school, even though he had only attended public school about three
months. He had a thirst for knowledge and was an avid reader. He was
also an excellent speller and good in math. The main book used in school
was the Blue Back Speller and the school session was only 3 or 4 months
long in farming areas. It is also reported that John Henry was a very
jovial and outgoing person who was quite talented with a fiddle.

John Henry was a Mason. All I could find was John Henry Forehand paid his dues ($2.00) in December 1891. He paid his dues every year until 1900. He was excluded for nonpayment of dues on Feb 7, 1901. I wish I had better news, but this was all I could find. (Elliott Futrell)

John married Evangeline Elizabeth (Angeline) Worrell , daughter of Robert W. Worrell and Rachel Strickland , on 18 Nov 1876 in Wayne County, North Carolina. Evangeline was born on 6 Sep 1860, died on 27 Jun 1943 in Pikeville, North Carolina, at age 82, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

Marriage Notes: It is believed they first met at a church picnic. They made their first
home in a section of Wayne County, North Carolina, known as Little
Belgium. They continued to live on the home place where he was born and
reared. This section of the farm was inherited from his parents. (See
note in Bryant Forehand and Elizabeth "Betsy" Peacock marriage regarding
farm.)

Granny Betsy (Nannie), John Henry's mother, lived with John Henry and
Angeline on the farm. They lived there for approximately 38 years and
raised their 12 children there.

Men and women, boys and girls worked side by side in the fields of the
Forehand farms. They not only planted their farm, but rented additional
land and farmed it. The main crops were corn and cotton, but each family
raised vegetables and fruits of various kinds, and also pigs, chickens,
and cows. Angeline was very industrious and sold from this bounty of
their farm. Each Friday, she loaded a spring wagon pulled by a horse and
went on regular rounds to Goldsboro. She always sold butter and eggs and
in season had vegetables and fruit and sometimes smoke-cured sausage or
hams. She always kept her poultry and dairy money separate so that she
knew what was paying off. John Henry often said that if it were not for
Angeline's thrift, they would have had nothing. So frugal was she that if
she were leaving home to stay overnight, she would stop the clock to save
wear and tear. (This old clock is still working and is in the possession
of Norwood Forehand.)

As was the custom in those days, Angeline saved her feathers when she
killed chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys to make pillows and feather
mattresses. She continued to use these after most folks had changed to
innersprings and the grandchildren looked forward to spending the night in
these soft beds. The girls in the family made pillows which would be
theirs when they married. It was also the custom for each girl to make
her own quilts (by hand). The family had a treadle sewing machine, and
Angeline sewed for all the children. Not only did she make dresses for
the girls, but also shirts and pants for the boys. The boys often
complained that their pants legs were too tight, and they called them
gun-barrel pants. Underwear was mostly homemade too.

Angeline always took pride in saying that she never bought a piece of ice,
even though it was available in her later life. She continued the old
method of cooling milk and butter in the well. This was done by putting
them in jars tightly closed and lowering them into the open well in a
bucket with a rope. Of course, Angeline made her own bread daily, which
was usually big, fluffy biscuits. They were served hot at breakfast with
sausages or ham and gravy. Her homemade pear, peach, or apple preserves
were always favorites. Apples were also sun-dried to be kept year-round.
Extra vegetables, such as corn, tomatoes, and green beans, were canned in
big jars, while peas and beans were kept by drying. Other favorites
cooked on Angeline's big wood stove were baked sweet potatoes, collards,
cabbage, chicken and pastry, and hoe-cakes cooked on a griddle. A long
bench on the back side of the table accommodated the younger children. The
bench had a knot-hole at one end, and Isaac, the baby of the family,
always wanted to sit on it.

John Henry also taught school, even though he had attended public school
only about three months. He had a thirst for knowledge and was an avid
reader. He was also an excellent speller and good in math. The main book
used in school was the Blue Back Speller and the school session was only 3
or 4 months long in farming areas. It is also reported that John Henry
was a very jovial and outgoing person who was quite talented with a
fiddle.

The Forehand Children attended Mt. Carmel school which was 2-3 miles away.
The school was comprised of a single room and was ungraded for the 35 to
40 children enrolled. There was but one teacher and school lasted four
months, November through February. A pupil progressed from first reader
to second reader, etc., up to fifth reader. History and geography were
studied after completion of work in the "readers". After completion of
studies offered at Mt. Carmel, children could progress to the school at
Pikeville if they chose to do so. Sarah did not, stating that she thought
that she could contribute more by staying at home. Typically, boys, but
no girls, of families continued their education. She stated that her
older brother, George, attended "pay school" at Stony Creek for a few
days. The Forehand children through Molly did not go to Pikeville School.
Beginning with Lester, the younger children finished Mt. Carmel School and
attended Pikeville School. Lester rode a bicycle to Pikeville and Rosa
boarded with Ann Worrell. Isaac and Dewitt took additional training by
mail.

The Nahunta Tressel, where the railroad crosses the Contentnea Creek near
Pikeville, was a great attraction to the children. Angeline had gone out
to deliver eggs and butter one day, and told the children not to leave the
yard while she was gone. When she left, Lester and Dewitt waded the creek
to Pikeville and Lester, who was older, told Dewitt not to tell anyone
where they had been. As soon as they got back into the yard, however,
Dewitt exclaimed with great excitement, "We've been to the 'Honey Tress'!"
(Dewitt was very young and was wearing a little apron type dress.) Lester
got a whipping for disobeying Angeline.

On another occasion, when Rosa was possibly less than 3 years of age,
Angeline had gone to Goldsboro to sell eggs, butter, produce, etc., as was
her custom every Friday. Late in the afternoon when she had not returned
home, Lester, who was about 4 or 5 years old, became upset and began to
cry. Rosa is supposed to have tried to comfort him by saying, "Don't cry
little Lester, Mother will be home soon." Some of the older children
heard this and would tease them--Rosa and Lester--by quoting what Rosa had
said.

Another time when Rosa was a small child, she along with the other
children, possible Lester and Dewitt, went to the fish pond and went in
swimming. They did not have bathing suits but merely pulled off their
clothes and went in. Jim, who would have been a teenager at the time,
slipped down to the place where the children had left their clothes and
hid them. Later, after they could not find their clothes where they had
left them, he showed them where he had hidden them.

When Dewitt and Isaac were boys, they would set steel traps at Slough Run
Creek to catch muskrats to sell their skins. Each morning they set the
traps before school. Later they skinned their catch and stretched them
out to dry in the sun. They became so proficient at this skill that they
could skin a muskrat in less than a minute. They sold these skins in
Goldsboro for 75 cents each. This was much easier money than chopping
cotton for a neighbor for 50 cents a day.

A visit from the traveling salesman, often called a peddler or drummer,
was a welcomed and exiting even before every family had a car, a
television, or even a radio. He would open his suitcase and spread his
wares to the delight of the lady of the house and the wonder of the
children. The Watkins man and the Raleigh man were favorites in Wayne
County. They carried flavoring, medicine, combs, fans, mirrors, shawls,
pudding mixes, salves, ointments, lace curtains, and pillow shams. Some
grandchildren recall their first taste of tapioca pudding was some that
Angeline had bought from a traveling salesman. It is also believed that
the family stereoscope was bought from such a salesman. (The stereoscope
is now in the Dewitt Forehand family.)

The Edison, a cylinder-wind-up record player, was used only on special
occasions, and then only operated by an adult. They had about 50 records
and some favorites were: "The Bonnie Blue Flag", "Rainbow", "Red Wing",
"I'm the Guy", and "Uncle Josh", comedy records. (The Edison and records
are still playing and belong to Gordon Forehand.) Other entertainment,
reserved for after all work was done, were checkers, nine-penny, and
dominoes.

Holidays and birthdays were made very little over in the hardworking
Forehand family; however, it was the custom for the small children to hand
one of his high-top stockings up at Christmas time. Santa Claus filled
them with stick-candy, fire-crackers, sparklers, an orange, an apple,
Brazil nuts, English walnuts, and raisin clusters. The boys might get a
small, cast-iron horse and cart or wagon. Girls might have gotten a small
china doll. The only tree at Christmas was at a community school or
church and was decorated with real candles.

The Forehand family did not attend church every week as a family. Angeline
was a member of a Primitive Baptist Church, which was adult oriented and
she seldom took any of the children with her.

About 1913, John Henry and Angeline decided to build and move to the
nearby town of Pikeville. They cut timber from their farm and moved into
their new house in 1914. Only the youngest three children were still
living with them at that time, Dewitt, John, and Isaac. The family went
back and forth to the farm and continued to do some farming for a few
years. Isaac opened a bicycle repair shop in an old building close to the
depot in Pikeville about 1918. Bicycles were very popular in those days,
too, as they were easier to keep than a horse and cars were still rather
rare. Edward Albritton later became Isaac's business partner. Later,
about 1921, John ran a store in Pikeville which was mostly a grocery
store. We understand that John Henry helped some in the store.

Sometime after John Henry and Angeline moved to Pikeville, John Henry
joined the Masons. Angeline, knowing that he would need an apron for
meetings, etc., made one for him. She was very surprised when he returned
home after he was made a Master Mason to learn that an apron had been
presented to him as part of the initiation ceremony.

Isaac became a mail carrier and continued in this occupation for 38 years.
Dewitt became a mail clerk for the railroads and while working in Conway,
South Carolina, he met and married Nina Moore. Rosa married Frank Bedford
(1914) as soon as she finished school. John and Isaac married sisters,
Mildred and Lena Anderson of Swansboro. Isaac and Lena lived in Dudley
throughout his career as a mail carrier. John and Mildred lived in
Goldsboro several years and then moved to Swansboro. Lester married Eula
Howell (1912) and worked as a substitute mail carrier before working as a
farmer, painter, and finally a house builder. Jim lived for awhile in
Johnston County before he married Effie Bowden in 1905. He then bought a
farm near Mt. Carmel and lived there for a number of years. Alice, at age
20, moved away from home to work as a "helper" for $1.00/week. Within
less than a year she married Matthew Taylor of Wilson County. They then
bought part of the same farm (Summerlin Place) as Jim, her brother. After
a number of yers, they sold this farm and bought the Hyman Pate farm.
Molly got married at age 20 (1908) to Jack Forehand and moved to the house
across from the Forehand Cemetery (Tony and Rena Lane homeplace now).
George married Nettie Pate and moved to the Pope Place (now Ogden Parker
farm). George then bought the Sykes Place (joins the Forehand homeplace)
from his father and lived there until it was sold to Sarah when George
moved to Pikeville.

Both John Henry and Angeline died in the Pikeville house; he in April
1923, and she 20 years later, June 27, 1943.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 69 M    i. George Levi Forehand was born on 15 Aug 1878, died on 15 Jan 1951, at age 72, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 70 F    ii. Alice Bethany Forehand was born on 10 Dec 1879, died on 26 Jul 1961, at age 81, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 71 M    iii. James Bryant Forehand was born on 15 Jan 1882, died on 8 May 1965, at age 83, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

   72 M    iv. Stephen Robert Forehand was born on 5 May 1883, died on 14 Jul 1883, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 73 F    v. Sarah Jane Forehand was born on 15 Mar 1886, died on 29 Apr 1975, at age 89, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

   74 F    vi. Mary Frances "Molly" Forehand was born on 3 Jan 1888, died on 26 May 1917, at age 29, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

General Notes: See note in John Henry Forehand and Angeline Elizabeth Worrell family

Mary married Lewis Jackson Forehand , son of William Jackson Forehand and Millie Sasser , on 23 Apr 1908. Lewis was born on 27 Jun 1878, died on 15 Jan 1940, at age 61, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

+ 75 M    vii. Lester Gore Forehand was born on 3 Feb 1891 and died on 29 Mar 1969, at age 78.

+ 76 F    viii. Rosa Elizabeth Forehand was born on 2 Aug 1893, died on 4 Sep 1974, at age 81, and was buried in Bedford Cemetery, Pikeville, NC.

+ 77 M    ix. Dewitt Needham Forehand was born on 19 May 1896 and died on 13 Oct 1960, at age 64.

+ 78 M    x. John William Forehand was born on 7 Mar 1898, died on 19 Jul 1973, at age 75, and was buried in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC.

+ 79 M    xi. Isaac Jones Forehand was born on 8 May 1900, died on 28 Feb 1978 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, at age 77, and was buried on 2 Mar 1978 in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC.

   80 M    xii. Charlie Granger Forehand was born on 2 Mar 1903, died on 2 Aug 1904, at age 1, and was buried in Forehand Family Cemetery, Wayne County, NC.

James married Nancy Bedford .

Sarah married Unknown Irwin .

Harriett married Mark Pate , son of Willoughby Pate and Nancy Peacock . Mark was born on 12 Mar 1845 and died on 26 Apr 1905, at age 60.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 81 F    i. Bessie Pate .

+ 82 F    ii. Nan Pate .

+ 83 M    iii. Swift Galloway Pate was born on 16 Apr 1877 and died on 9 Sep 1917, at age 40.