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Reimert Family History
Robert FERGUSON Sr. was born about 1700 in Scotland. He immigrated in 1750. He died in Dec 1794 in Lincoln Co., North Carolina.

Notes from Harold Quinn:

“Col. Ferguson went to Northern Ireland in 1724. County Tyrone, Ulster Providence. He came to America in 1750. He was a grown man, head of a family when he came to this New World. He had with him his wife and at least two sons; Robert and Andrew, Sr., born in Scotland in 1724. They settled first near Ft. Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and remained there in Washington County for about ten years.

But, before too long, partly because of Indian troubles in western Pennsylvania and partly on account of their close kindred already in the Carolina’s, these Fergusons in 1762 packed up and moved to Camden District, South Carolina, (York County) where they lived for another ten years or more.

However, some time before the American Revolutionary War, they, family by family, moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina, and settled in the extreme western mountainous section of this County, after 1846 known as Gaston County. Robert, Jr moved in 1777 and bought land and settled on the headwaters of Long Creek and Little Long Creek. Col. Ferguson followed in 1779 and bought or secured by grants some 500 acres on the headwaters of the middle fork of Crowders Creek and settled at the foot of the south slope of Kings Mountain, “the nearest farm to the Kings Mountain Battlefield”, which farm became known as the “Old Ferguson Home Place”, and Andrew Sr. in 1783 bought 200 acres of adjoining that of the “Old Home Place” up on Crowders Creek.

Here these three Fergusons families lived the rest of their lives. Colonel Robert Ferguson was likely in his kilts when he came to America, and remained a typical Scots Highlander the rest of his days. When he died in 1794 in his will of that date he bequeathed to three of his sons his green coat, corduroy britches and velvet tucket and all his books and to each of his daughters her individual pony, saddle and bridle, bed and bed clothes, and spinning wheel.

To his wife Sarah (his second wife) the “Plantation” and arrange for the bringing up and schooling of his two youngest sons: Thomas (born 1780) and Andrew, Jr. half-brothers of Robert Jr. and Andrew, Sr.”

In notes from Todd Robinson’s Ferguson tree submitted to the World Family Tree (WFT) Project from Family Tree Maker CD #5, Tree #1055: Robert Ferguson and his family came to America in 1750, and settled first near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1762 they moved to Camden District, South Carolina. Before 1776 they moved again to Lincoln County, North Carolina, and in 1779 bought land at Crowders Creek, North Carolina.

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Robert FERGUSON Sr. was born about 1700 in Scotland. He immigrated in 1750. He died in Dec 1794 in Lincoln Co., North Carolina.

Spouse: Mary FITZPATRICK. Robert FERGUSON Sr. and Mary FITZPATRICK were married about 1721 in Scotland. Children were: Robert FERGUSON Jr, Andrew FERGUSON, William FERGUSON.

Spouse: Sarah SIMS. Robert FERGUSON Sr. and Sarah SIMS were married about 1760 in Pennsylvania. Children were: John FERGUSON, Robert FERGUSON, Sarah FERGUSON, Elizabeth FERGUSON, Esther FERGUSON, James FERGUSON, Mary J. FERGUSON, Andrew FERGUSON, Thomas FERGUSON.

Reimert Family History
Robert FERGUSON was born in 1764. He died on 18 Feb 1826 in Crabtree Baptist Cemetery, Haywood County, North Carolina.

“The Ferguson Family: The Story of James Wiley Ferguson and Mary Elizabeth Jones” states:

“But the boy, Robin, had now become a man and met and married Frances Love, who had come from her native land, Ireland, a few years after Robin had played the part of the Good Samaritan at the Battle of Kings Mountain.

There is a legend about Frances Love that will perhaps add interest to the story . Frances Love was twelve years old when she left Ireland with her parents bound for America. On the way over, a terrible storm arose and their ship was driven southward to the Island of Jamaica. It was so hot there that the pitch with which the boat was put together began to melt. The wind soon changed and the light craft was driven north and landed, after a time, in South Carolina.

Robin Ferguson and his wife, Frances Love Ferguson, left South Carolina in the latter part of the 18th century and located in what is now known as Spring Creek in Madison County, North Carolina. There they remained for some years, and later moved into what is now Haywood County a few years prior to 1800, and located on Rush Fork creek.

In the cemetery of the Crabtree Baptist church, Crabtree township, Haywood County, there stands a monument erected August 14, 1926 by the descendants of the first family of Fergusons that came to Haywood county. Upon the monument is this inscription: Robert (or Robin) Ferguson, who was also settled here prior to 1800 was also of Scotch descent, having come from Glascard and settled first in (now ) Madison County, NC and later on Rush Fork creek. He married Frances (Fannie) Love, a native of Ireland.

An old family record gives the birth of Robin Ferguson as 1764, and his death as February 18, 1826, and Frances Love Ferguson’s birth as 1768, and her death as October 16, 1858. It also lists the children of Frances and Robin as : Robert, Andrew, Thomas, William, Samuel, Polly, Nellie.

1850 Census York Co. South Carolina

Ferguson, Ann Page 262 York Dist.

Ferguson, Benjamin Page 185 York Dist.

Ferguson, Leroy Page 257

Ferguson, William Page 200 York DIst.

1830 Census York Co. South Carolina

Ferguson, James Page 362

Ferguson, William COL. Page 38 0

1810 Census York Co. South Carolina

Ferguson, Robert Page 271

Ferguson, William Page 268

1800 [Census]
Ferguson, Robert Page 960 10010-00010-00 (one boy u nder 10, one bet 26-44, one female bet 26-44,

Ferguson, William Page 960 1 1010-10100-00 (one boy under 10, one 10-15, one26-44, one female under 10, on e 16-25)

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1. Andrew (Andy) – Iron Duff Township (b. 7/16/1800) Married Rachel Jones (sister of Mary Jones)

2. Robert, Jr. – moved to Cherokee County (bo rn about 1802). Married Rhoda Lovingood.

3. John – Haywood County (born ar ound 1804) married Elizabeth Bradshaw.

4. William (Billy) – Lower Crabtree (born April 13, 1807) married Ruth Gibson

5. Thomas (Tommy) – Rush Fork Community (b. May 15, 1808), married Mary Jones (sister of Rachel Jones).

6. Jimmy - died when young

7. Eleanor (Nellie) Crabtree Township (b May 13, 1813) (Twin) married Steven White

8. Mary (Polly) – Panther Creek (b May 13, 18 13) Twin) married Solomon Rhea

9. Samuel (Sam) – Rush Fork Community (original Ferguson home place in NC) b.June 2, 1814. Married Matilda S. Lovingood (Tilda). Parents: William FERGUSON and Eleanore WHITE.

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Robert FERGUSON was born in 1764. He died on 18 Feb 1826 in Crabtree Baptist Cemetery, Haywood County, North Carolina.

Spouse: Frances LOVE.

Children were:

Andrew Fitzpatrick FERGUSON, Robert FERGUSON, John FERGUSON, William FERGUSON, Thomas FERGUSON, James FERGUSON, Mary Polly FERGUSON, Eleanor Nellie FERGUSON, Samuel FERGUSON.

Reimert Family History
Robert Nathan FERGUSON was born on 7 Feb 1857. He died on 10 May 1931. Parents: Robert Marion FERGUSON and Louisa E. MURRAY.

Spouse: Effie A. DAVIS. Robert Nathan FERGUSON and Effie A. DAVIS were married on 28 Dec 1882. Children were: Maud Olivier FERGUSON, Nina Antoinett FERGUSON, Luota Grant FERGUSON, Lawrence Landon FERGUSON, Lilla Selanas FERGUSON, Eric Jeremiah FERGUSON.

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PC World – Big Blue Goes Green, Recycling Silicon
IBM announced Tuesday that it has created a process allowing its manufacturing facilities to repurpose otherwise scrap semiconductor wafers.

Since the silicon wafers need to be nearly flawless in order to be used in computers, mobile phones, video games and other consumer electronics, the imperfect ones are normally erased with acidic chemicals and discarded. IBM had been sandblasting theirs to remove proprietary material. Some of the pieces, called “monitors,” are reused for test purposes.

The new process cleans the silicon pieces with water and an abrasive pad leaving them in better condition for reuse. The entire process to clean an 8-inch wafer is about one minute. Eric White, the inventor of the process, said that IBM can now get five or six monitor wafers out of one that would have been crushed and discarded. The cleaned wafers can also be sold to the solar-cell industry, which has a high demand for the silicon material to use in solar panels. White said that shortage would need to be “extreme” to use the wafers in consumer electronics and that IBM does not plan to do so.

No Halloween For Colorado Sex Offenders – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver
More than 500 sex offenders in the Denver metro area and another 800 across the state have been given a warning, they are– “prohibited from participating in Halloween activities.”

Every sex offender is required to check in at regular intervals with the computer system that monitors the parolees.

When parolees called in during the last few days, operators gave them a message that said, “”Reminder: All offenders involved in sex offender treatment or sex offender evaluations or who are required to register as a sex offender are prohibited from participating in Halloween activities. This includes trick-or-treating or answering the door for trick-or-treaters. Also, there are to be no decorations at the residence that would attract trick-or-treaters. Furthermore, you are directed to turn off your outside lights between the hours of 4 p.m. October 31, 2007, and 8 a.m. November 1, 2007.”

J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. to sue over Potter book | Breaking City News | Reuters.co.uk
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NC Business History – North Carolina Iron Forging
In the late 1770s, the Wilcox Iron Furnace and Forge was opened near present day Siler City. It produced cannon and shot for the North Carolina Council of Safety. The furnace and forge were abandoned by 1780.
In 1786, General Joseph Graham built the Vesuvius Iron Furnace near present-day Lowesville along Anderson’s Creek.
In 1788, the North Carolina legislature passed the “Act to Encourage the Building of Iron Works in This State” which titled 3,000 acres to anyone establishing a furnace operation — “every set of iron works, as a bounty from the state to any person or persons who will build and carry on the same.”
That same year, Peter Forney discovered the Big Ore Bank near Lincolnton. On May 18, 1789, North Carolina awarded 300 acres along Leeper’s (or Leaper’s or Leiper’s) Creek to Abraham Reinhart, Abraham Forney, Turner Abernathy, and Peter Forney.
In 1790, Turner Abernethy built the Mt. Carmel forge, located on Mountain Creek.

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Porter Wagoner, a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering cotton-candy pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton, died Sunday in Nashville. He was 80 and lived in Nashville.

Porter Wagoner at his home in Nashville, Tenn., in July.

He had been hospitalized with lung cancer, the Grand Ole Opry said in announcing his death.

Mr. Wagoner had 81 singles on the country charts, including 29 Top 10 records. His hits included “Green, Green Grass of Home,” “Skid Row Joe” and “The Cold Hard Facts of Life.” He was famous for capturing straight up the raw emotions of people living tough lives, sometimes using his speaking voice in an old-time country technique called recitation.

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By Martin Weil

The Washington Post

Singer Robert Goulet reached stardom with his performance as Sir Lancelot in “Camelot.” He died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday while awaiting a lung transplant.

Robert Goulet, the big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 73.

Mr. Goulet, who had a rare type of pulmonary fibrosis, had been waiting for a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The singer, who had fallen ill while flying home to Las Vegas after performing at a Sept. 20 concert in Syracuse, N.Y., was admitted to a Las Vegas hospital Sept. 30. He was transferred to Cedars-Sinai as a transplant patient Oct. 14.

Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
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What they haven’t done is launch yet another social network platform.

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He was addressing the governors of the Jewish Agency, which is responsible for promoting Jewish immigration to Israel.

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Salinas Californian – www.thecalifornian.com – Salinas, CA
Orange County sheriff indicted
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
The Associated Press

SANTA ANA – Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, once a rising star in California politics, was indicted on federal corruption charges after he and others allegedly accepted $350,000 in gifts and cash in exchange for political favors.

A sweeping indictment unsealed Tuesday charges the head of the nation’s fifth-largest sheriff’s department with seven counts, including conspiracy, mail fraud and witness tampering. Also charged were Carona’s wife of 27 years, Deborah, and attorney Debra Victoria Hoffman, identified in court papers as his “longtime mistress.”

Carona was expected to surrender to authorities today at the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, said U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Uruguay buys first ‘$100 laptops’
The first official order for the so-called “$100 laptop” has been placed by the government of Uruguay.

The South American country has bought 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12.

A further 300,000 may be purchased to provide a machine for every child in the country by 2009.

The order will be a boost for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation behind the project which has admitted difficulties getting concrete orders.