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     Thomas Jefferson, Jr. Locke was born on 29 January 1878 at MS. He died on 19 September 1936 at Columbus Lowndes Co. MS at age 58.

     Callie W. Locke was born on 6 August 1880 at MS. She died on 11 October 1881 at Artesia Lowndes Co. MS at age 1.

     Juanita Locke died on 15 August 1881. She was born on 15 August 1881.

     Lee Moore Locke was born on 4 June 1883 at MS. He died on 26 October 1910 at Columbus Lowndes Co. MS at age 27.

     Oscar Brothers Locke was born on 11 November 1885. He died on 3 November 1944 at Columbus Lowndes Co. MS at age 58.

     Walter Echols, Sr. Locke was born on 15 August 1888 at MS. He died on 5 November 1974 at Hope, Ark., at age 86.

     John L. McCorkle was born on 25 August 1828. He married Rebecca Locke, daughter of Stephen Locke and Nancy Hines, on 29 December 1859. John L. McCorkle died on 18 November 1903 at York, SC, at age 75.

     Thomas Henry Melton Sr was born on 29 August 1856 at Chester, SC. He married Mary Jane Locke, daughter of Josiah Henry Locke and Dorothy White, after 1880. Thomas Henry Melton Sr died on 1 March 1936 at SC at age 79; Buried Union ARP Cemetary

other notes show the date as 2 Mar 1936.

     Her married name was Locke. Malinda (Linda) Shurley was born on 22 August 1813 at Catawba, South Carolina. She married Levi Locke, son of Stephen Locke and Nancy Hines, in 1849. Malinda (Linda) Shurley died on 19 September 1909 at Catawba Baptist in Lesslie, SC, at age 96.

     John Calhoun Locke Member of Woodman of World. He was born on 28 March 1854 at Catawba, South Carolina. He married Nancy Ira Frances 'Fannie' Ferguson, daughter of J.L. Ferguson and Rhoda Hyatt, in 1873. John Calhoun Locke died on 6 March 1917 at Catawba Baptist in Lesslie, SC, at age 62.

     Her married name was Locke. Nancy Ira Frances 'Fannie' Ferguson was born on 3 December 1854 at Chester, South Carolina. She married John Calhoun Locke, son of Levi Locke and Malinda (Linda) Shurley, in 1873. Nancy Ira Frances 'Fannie' Ferguson died on 7 May 1939 at Catawba, South Carolina, at age 84; or d.5 Jul 1939.

     James A. Locke was born on 22 November 1850 at York, SC. He died on 4 December 1869 at York, SC, at age 19.

     Martha A Locke was born on 5 August 1852 at York, SC. She died on 8 March 1881 at York, SC, at age 28.

     Washington Daniel Philemon Pickney Locke married unknown (?) Washington Daniel Philemon Pickney Locke was born on 22 May 1857 at York, South Carolina. He married Margaret Alice West-Mellon on 19 July 1893. Washington Daniel Philemon Pickney Locke died on 16 June 1946 at York, SC, at age 89; Buried Catawba Bapt. Cemetery.

     Absalom Lewis Locke was born on 14 June 1859 at York, SC. He married Sarah Elizabeth, 'Lizzie' Campbell, daughter of ? Lemmons and Martha Ann Campbell, on 13 December 1881 at Lesslie, SC, York. Absalom Lewis Locke died on 9 January 1924 at Buried at Waxhaw City Cemetery, NC, at age 64; Another record had the death of 1/9/1924.

     Her married name was Locke. Sarah Elizabeth, 'Lizzie' Campbell was born on 9 June 1857; Confirmed her last name. Others refer to Sarah as Sarah Elizabeth Lemmons Campbell - her mother was Martha Ann Campbell. A page fromthe family Bible has her as Sarah Elizebeth Thompson (Campbell) of Chester County. She married Absalom Lewis Locke, son of Levi Locke and Malinda (Linda) Shurley, on 13 December 1881 at Lesslie, SC, York. Sarah Elizabeth, 'Lizzie' Campbell died on 9 October 1942 at age 85. She From Locke Newsletter:

During the reunion last October, Marie Locke Herres, daughter of Walston Levi Locke, presented the
bible that had belonged to her grandmother, Sarah Elizebeth Locke. We hear so often about family
bibles and the wealth of information they contain. This one was no exception. It had no hard or soft
cover. That was lost years ago. Stored between the pages were newspaper articles, religious flyers, and
small pieces of paper torn or cut from newspapers and magazines. Throughout the pages, passages were
highlighted or underlined. Notes were made in the margins. Pages were dog-eared. Some pages had even
been removed and re-inserted. This was obviously a book that had been cherished and used regularly.
Those family history pages that were sandwiched between the Old and the New Testaments were full of
information. Marriages, births, and deaths, were recorded over the years in different handwriting, and in
different color inks. This was obviously a group effort. Having no previous sample of Grandma Locke’s
handwriting, it was moving to see her cursive script carefully filling the allotted spaces. On the first
page, she recorded her marriage to Absalom Lewis Locke in 1881. Her original entry had his name as
“Lewis Absalom Locke”, which is telling unto itself. We have never been able to learn how Grandpa
Locke was addressed by her or his friends. By her reversal of the first and middle names, it’s clear that
she knew him as “Lewis”. Sometime later, either by her own hand or by the hand of another, the original
name was crossed out and corrected. Many in our family have taken their middle names for daily use.
She refers to herself as “Sarah Elizebeth Thompson (Campbell)”, on the main page. She spelled her
name with an “e” and not an “a”. Our research has proven that her mother, born Martha Campbell,
gave birth to Sarah Elizebeth in 1857, and gave the baby’s last name as Lemmons. That same year,
Martha married John Thompson. Our research shows that John Thompson died shortly afterward, and
Martha remarried three more times, having three more children. When Sarah, who was called “Lizzie”,
was counted in the 1880 census, she was listed as Elizabeth Campbell, which was also the name used
in her wedding announcement in 1881. All evidence points to the fact that she was raised in the home of
her grandmother, Jane Campbell, in Chester County, South Carolina. The fact that her birth year was
erased and rewritten in the bible shows the confusion that she must have felt about her origins. Even
Grandpa Locke’s birth year was erased and changed. Her gravestone reads, 1859. The social stigma of
being born out of wedlock was very powerful. This is something that she never knew.
It seems that many of the entries were made by her children. In more than one place, the distinctive
handwriting of her oldest daughter, Mattie Locke Helms, is clearly visible. The entry about her death
was made by one of her children. in February 2010.

     Her married name was Helms. Martha 'Mattie', Hope Locke was born on 28 September 1882 at SC. She married Lonnie Wilson Helms, son of Josiah Helms and Saphronia Baucom, before 1902. Martha 'Mattie', Hope Locke was Martha (Mattie) Hope Locke Helms, daughter of Absalom Locke, bought a house and cottage near
Kure’s Fishing Pier (pronounced Cure-ee), on the North Carolina coast in 1945. She had seen an ad in
the Charlotte Observer, and saw an opportunity to change her life. At that time, she owned a rooming
house in uptown Charlotte, and wanted a place to which she and her husband, Lon, could eventually
retire. The price was very low, and she bought it right away! Buying a house just a quarter-mile south
was her younger brother, Furman Master Locke, and his wife Sue Winchester. For years, Mattie
made seasonal moves between the “Beach” and the Charlotte house on Eleventh Street. Finally, she
sold the Charlotte house, and moved to the beach fulltime around 1955. She kept a one room garage
apartment in Charlotte behind the home of her daughter, Margaret McCauley until 1960, when she
bought a small bungalow on Commonwealth Avenue for her Charlotte visits. Until her death in 1965,
she welcomed thousands of visitors to the two story frame house, and three cottages that would fill the
beach property. Her brother did the same at his compound just down the road. Among those “tourists”
were many of their family members. Chances are, you, or one of your parents, was among that lucky
group.
Although the Beach offered the usual coastal forms of escape such as fishing, boating, swimming and
sightseeing, it also had its darker side. Hovering less than a half mile north of the beach house was a
strange, foreboding place known only as “The Intake” to the residents and visitors to the sleepy
coastal village. It was a large brick building surrounded by a high barbed wire fence. It sat on the land
just above the sand, and faced the ocean. Stretching into the surf was a series of rusting iron and steel
walls anchored in the sand, making for unusual hiding places when playing along the beach. Directly
between the building and the steel walls, behind the high fence, was a pond of black water. Signs
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featuring a “Scull and Crossbones” were attached to the fence. Small skeletons of rats and birds were
visible on the dark sand around the pond. No one ever climbed that fence! No one ever seemed to
know why the plant was built or why it had closed. After sixty years the truth has finally been
uncovered!
In the 1920’s, scientists were searching for an additive to gasoline that would eliminate knocking and
pre-firing of spark plugs. Finally, in 1930, an employee for Dow Corporation discovered that adding a
certain kind of lead derivative stopped the knocking. That additive was called ETHYL, and Dow
Chemical, who had previously been involved with extracting salt from large domes deep under
Michigan, was obliged to form a new division, called ETHYL-DOW, for the sole purpose of
producing this gasoline additive. What they needed most was BROMINE, and they developed a
process which extracted it from common seawater. In 1933, they built the largest chemical plant ever
to attempt such a bold undertaking. They chose the Fort Fisher Sea Beach area of North Carolina, just
south of Wilmington, because it was a desolate area, with only a fishing pier operated by the Kure
family as any sign of civilization. The coastline was considered the most ideal for the type of
extraction that was needed. Many small cottages and garage apartments were constructed north of the
pier, and south of the plant to house the workers who maintained its 24 hour operation schedule for
over twelve years!
The plant featured a large holding pond, and an intricate network of iron and steel “INTAKES” to
supply the enormous flow of seawater necessary for the job. It used the rising tide to capture the water
in the steel “locks”, and pumped millions of gallons per day through its extraction pipelines in a
technology very similar to today’s desalinization process. In the beginning, it produced over ten
million pounds of Bromine per year for the petroleum industry, and that quota was raised to over 20
million within a few years. During the Second World War, an additional ten million pounds per year
was ordered, bringing the total to over 30 million pounds, and to accommodate that large volume, an
additional building was constructed.
Because this facility was so important to our war effort, the Germans brought submarines within sight
of the facility many times, and on a dark night in late 1943, are believed to have fired five large shells
from their deck mounted cannon. Although the shells went long, and landed in the nearby Cape Fear
River, this attack is still believed to be the only actual surface attack against the American mainland in
all of World War II. How about that?
During this time, many workers in the Dow plants where the bromine was combined with lead suffered
from lead exposure, and many died horrible deaths. Pressure on politicians to keep these tragedies
secret allowed the continuation of the process, and it wasn’t until the 1960’s that lead additives in
gasoline were finally eliminated. in 1945.¹ She died on 15 November 1965 at Charlotte, North Carolina, at age 83.

     Mary Malinda Locke was born on 28 December 1884 at SC. She died on 10 July 1886 at SC at age 1.

     Her married name was Winchester. Sadie Lewis Locke was born on 2 October 1887 at SC. She married Robert Oscar Winchester circa 1906. Sadie Lewis Locke died on 7 August 1967 at Waxhaw, NC, at age 79.

     Furman Master Locke was born on 3 April 1890 at SC. He married Sue Belle Winchester on 31 January 1915. Furman Master Locke died on 7 July 1985 at Charlotte, North Carolina, at age 95.

     Mamie Scenia Locke was born on 14 June 1893 at SC. As of 13 March 1913,her married name was Boyce. She married Hugh Crossette Boyce on 13 March 1913. Mamie Scenia Locke died on 15 May 1979 at Monroe, NC, at age 85.

     Walston Levi Locke was born on 24 January 1896 at SC. He married Ruth Rogers on 6 December 1920. Walston Levi Locke married Mildred van Hoy after 1971. Walston Levi Locke was (an unknown value) in 1987 at South Carolina. He died on 5 July 1993 at Charlotte, North Carolina, at age 97.

     Unnamed Locke was born on 5 May 1898. He died on 8 May 1898.

     William George Locke (an unknown value) in 1874. He was born on 16 August 1874 at Rock Hill, South Carolina. He married Mary Jane Drucilla White, daughter of Joseph William White and Margaret Louise Wherry, on 8 November 1894. William George Locke died on 11 February 1946 at SC at age 71.

     Georgia Cordelia (Cordie) Locke was born on 8 July 1876 at Rock Hill, South Carolina. As of 5 December 1894,her married name was Carter. She married Robert Hope Carter, son of William Henson Carter and Mary Ann Swet, on 5 December 1894. Georgia Cordelia (Cordie) Locke died on 4 February 1967 at Rock Hill, SC, at age 90.

     James Ira Locke was born on 1 August 1883 at SC. He married Clara Susan Rivers, daughter of Thomas F Rivers and Sara Ann Stowe Fincher, on 10 November 1908. James Ira Locke died on 25 June 1979 at SC at age 95.

     Minnie Bell Locke was also known as Minerva Isabella Locke. She after their marriage, over the next 25 years, they would have eleeven children, nine boys and two girls. She was born on 15 March 1885 at Rock Hill, SC; given name was Minerva Isabelle. As of 23 December 1903,her married name was Williams. She married Newton Whitesides Williams, son of Charles Hayes Williams and Margaret Elizabeth Whiteside, on 23 December 1903. Minnie Bell Locke died on 14 April 1975 at Rock Hill, South Carolina, at age 90; Locke Newsletter 2010.

     Virginia (Janie) Hope Locke was born on 10 December 1887 at SC. As of before 1908,her married name was Culp. She married George William Culp, son of Sumter Beauregard Culp and Frances Louise Vaughan, before 1908 at SC. Virginia (Janie) Hope Locke died on 15 December 1964 at Lancaster, SC, at age 77.

     Callie Locke was born on 10 December 1887 at SC. He died in 1890 at SC.

     John Tillman Locke Sr. married Sarah Ethel Black, daughter of Frank David Black and Martha Culp. John Tillman Locke Sr. was born on 10 March 1890 at SC. He died on 20 November 1969 at Rock Hill, SC, at age 79.