In 1908, Willie Bollinger played her final song on the organ for the church she loved. The 19-year-old was stabbed and killed before she left the sanctuary.
Charley Pearson was a fugitive hiding in Hickory in 1880. While he was drinking, he stabbed a stranger in the arm. The stranger died from his injury days later, and
Two Japanese men were traveling with a circus in the United States in October of 1908. They stopped in Catawba County near Newton where they prepared for their next show.
In February, while talking to Newton Main Library’s associate librarian Alex Floyd about ways African-Americans can research their ancestry, the topic of post office history came up. After telling me