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January 12- 501 Business Network, Bahama Ruritan, 8:30 AM January 13- Rougemont Ruritan Pancake & Sausage Breakfast, 7 -501 11 AM January 23- RECA, 4:30 PM February 6- Rougemont Ruritan, 7 PM February 9- 501 Business Network, Bahama Ruritan, 8:30 AM February 10- Rougemont Ruritan Brunswick Stew, 1 - 4 PM February 27- RECA, 4:30 PM

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Rougemont Ruritan Club President’s Letter Welcome to all of our friends

and neighbors in the Rougemont community. As the year draws to a close, and we slow our pace just a little, remember to spend time with family and friends during this holiday season. A phone call, visit, card, or letter will brighten someone’s day. Please remember the reason for the season. It has been an exciting year for the Rougemont Ruritan club. We currently have 48 members of the Rougemont Ruritan club. Over the past year, through hard work and dedication, these members worked over 2,375 volunteer hours and returned almost $32,423 back into the Rougemont community. That is what Ruritan is all about, “Good people having a good time doing good things” for their com-munity. Please read about annual Ruritan Education Assistance Program (REAP) Tournament that occurred at the Lake Winds Golf Course on Saturday September 16th. The proceeds go toward the scholarships we award to de-serving high school seniors each spring. If you are a high school senior that lives in the 27572 or 27583 zip code area, please contact your school counselor in late winter for the form to complete to be consideration for one of

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these scholarships. Thank you for taking a few minutes to read through the Rougemont Reporter to see all that has happened and the exciting events coming up this winter (see the calendar). We have several activities over the next couple of months, from the Rougemont Children’s Christmas party to Pan-cake & Sausage breakfast and Brunswick stew. Please remember to support the advertisers as they help support this publication. We could do a lot more for our community if you would like to join us. Attend a fund raiser or visit our monthly meeting to learn more about what we do and enjoy a great meal. We meet the first Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm. If you would like to learn more about Ruritan, please feel free to come as my guest. You may also contact me (919-886-0722, [email protected]) or any Ruritan neighbor for more information. I look forward to meeting YOU at one of our meet-ings or events.

Wishing everyone a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! David Dohr 2018 RRC President Fellowship, Good Will & Community Service. Good people having a good time doing good things.

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By the time you get this edition of the Reporter our Christmas Angels will be lighting up Rougemont to celebrate the Christmas Season until New Years. On average it costs about $20 apiece for them to be lit during the Christmas Holiday Season to keep them burn-ing as a beacon to all of the spirit of Christmas and what it is we really celebrate … We acknowledge those who donate in the Spring edition of the Rougemont Reporter each year. Please consider sponsoring one or more of the angels … Thank you kindly. You can send checks made out to the Rougemont Ruritan Club to P O Box 63, Rougemont, NC 27572. Mark them for the Angel Fund. Thank you very much!

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Rougemont Children’s Christmas Party, Tree Lighting, and Caroling Santa Claus will visit Rougemont Sat-urday evening, December 2nd at 6 PM,

Rougemont Ruritan Club, 212 Bacon Road. All of Rougemont is invited! The party is FREE! Please bring children accompa-nied by an adult. The annual Christ-mas Party is spon-sored by Rougemont ECA with help from Rougemont Ruritan Club. There will be delicious refreshments for every-one! Parents will have an opportunity to take their child's picture sitting on Santa's lap. Children should bring their Christmas wish lists to whis-per in Santa's ear. Santa will be checking his Naughty and Nice List, so be good all you chil-dren! The Rougemont ECA is making Christmas crafts and a gift for each child. Children will have a chance to swat and break a Christmas Pinata filled with candy. After the party children can ride a hay wagon to the Rougemont United Methodist Church to light the community Christmas tree and sing carols.

Rougemont Extension and Community As-sociation (RECA) RECA is working hard after three straight months of pre-paring dinner for the Rougemont Ruritan Club meeting. We are getting ready for the Children’s Community Christ-mas Party on December 02 at the Rougemont Ruritan Club cabin. As usual, we have prepared hand-made gifts for each child to choose one from, a fruit bag for each child, a visit with Santa, and (jointly with the Ruritans) refresh-ments for all to enjoy. To close the party again this year, our own Lydia Thomas is preparing another original and unrepeated piñata for the children to break. This will end our part of the party, and those children (and families) who wish, may join the hayride the tenth of a mile to the Rougemont Methodist Church (at the Rougemont stop light crossroads) for the Community Tree Lighting cere-mony and Christmas carols ending with yet more refresh-ments so welcome on a chill evening outside! We are looking forward to a lively, bright-eyed group of young-sters again this year. Parents are welcome to take pictures of their youngsters visiting with Santa. No reservations! No fees! Just fill your vehicle and drive over and joint us at 6:00 p.m. Saturday, December 02, 2017. See you soon!

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Christmas Worship: Christmas Cantata - December 3rd, 6pm At New Bethel United Methodist (9022 New Bethel Rd. Rougemont NC 27572) Christmas Eve Morning Service - December 24th, 11am At New Bethel United Methodist (9022 New Bethel Rd. Rougemont NC 27572) Christmas Candle Service - December 24th, 5pm At Rougemont United Methodist Praise God for the Gift of Jesus. Rev. Ian Bailey

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Little River High School On National Historic Register On Saturday, November 4th 2016, Little River Community Complex celebrated the recognition of the old Little River High School which is now included in the National Historic Register !! Congressman G. K Butterfield attended an spoke proudly of the efforts of LRCC to achieve this designation. Congress-man Butterfield also presented LRCC with a flag flown over the United States Capitol. The Boy Scouts then raised the flag on the Little River flagpole. Also speaking were several folks including former Little River teacher Omega Parker, and Toleda Crews, LRCC Execu-tive Director. After the outside ceremony the group of 80 plus attendees moved to the cafeteria where Heather Slane of hmwPreser-vation spoke about the Historic Register application process and gave a brief history of Little River along with photos of the original school and subsequent additions.

Hallie Mangum Bass, current LRCC Chair gave several certificates of recogni-tion to Edgar Johnson, Travis Parker, Joe Haenn (posthumously) and John Mininger who were on the original LRCC Board. Refreshments were followed by a tour of the LRCC facility.

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Last issue you read about Senator Willie P. Mangum. Now read about his teacher and friend:

John Chavis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Chavis (c. 1763–June 15, 1838[1]) was a free black educator and Presbyterian minister in the American South during the early 19th century. Born in Virginia, he fought for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He studied with John Witherspoon at

the College of New Jersey and finished his studies at Liberty Hall Academyin Virginia, where he was ordained as a minister. Later while working in Raleigh, North Carolina, he established a private school that was highly regarded and attended by both white and black students (although on differing sched-ules.) Early Life The exact date of Chavis' birth is not known. It is believed that he was born in either 1762 or 1763 in Virginia. One source claims he was born on October 18, 1763, but with no evidence given. Military Service Chavis served as a soldier during the American Revolutionary War. He enlisted in December 1778 and served in the 5th Virginia Regiment for three years. Captain Mayo Carrington of the regiment wrote in a dated March 1783 that Chavis had "faithfully fulfilled [his duties] and is thereby entitled to all immunities granted to three year soldiers." A 1789 tax list of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, shows that he was listed as a free black man owning one horse. He had married a woman named Sarah Frances Anderson, and they had one son, Anderson Chavis. In 1789, he was employed by Robert Greenwood's estate as tutor to Greenwood's orphans. Education In the 1790s, Chavis lived in Princeton, New Jersey, where he took private classes under John Witherspoon to prepare for entering the Presbyterian ministry. The recorded minutes of the meeting of the trustees of the Col-lege of New Jersey (later to become Princeton University) dated September 26, 1792, includes a recommenda-tion by Reverend John Blair that "Mr. Todd Henry, a Virginian, and John Chavis, a free black man of that state, ... be received" on the school's Leslie Fund. After Witherspoon's death in 1794, Chavis transferred to Liberty Hall Academy in Virginia. Chavis arrived at the Liberty Hall Academy in Lexington, Virginia in 1795. The following year, George Washing-ton donated 100 shares of James River Company Stock to the school. It changed its name to Washington Academy to commemorate Washington's gift. (Washington Academy later developed as Washington and Lee University, long after Chavis' time there.) Ministry On November 19, 1800 Chavis completed with high honors a rigorous theological examination that began on June 11, 1800 in Virginia. On this date, he was also granted a license to preach by the Presbytery of Lexington, Virginia. Six months later, with high character recommendations from the Presbytery of Lexing-ton, Chavis was transferred to work under the Hanover Presbytery. In April 1802, Chavis had applied for freeman's papers and received them from Rockbridge County Court. It was recorded that "said [John] Chavis has been known to the Court for several years ... and that he has al-ways ... been considered as a freeman, and they believe him to be such, and that he has always while in the county conducted himself in a decent orderly and respectable manner, and also that he has been a student at Washington Academy where they believe he went through a regular course of academical studies." Between 1801 and 1807, Chavis served as a circuit riding missionary for the General Assembly of the Presby-terian Church to slaves and free blacks in the states of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. He also convert-ed whites. Chavis went to Raleigh, North Carolina sometime between 1807 and 1809, where he was licensed to preach the Christian gospel by the Orange Presbytery. Although not called by a parish, he continued to preach to Black and White congregations in Granville, Orange, and Wake counties. Some of the white congregations included slaveholders. (Continued on page 14)



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Educator In 1808, Chavis opened a school in his home, where he taught both white and black children. He placed ads in the Raleigh Register to encourage enrollment. At first he taught both races together. After some white parents ob-jected, he taught white children during the day and black children in the evenings. He charged white students $2.50 per quarter, and black students $1.75 per quarter. As an educator, Chavis taught full time and instructed his col-lege-bound white students in Latin and Greek, which were required classical subjects in the colleges and universi-ties of that time. His school was described as one of the best in the state. Students from some of the most prominent white families in the South studied at Chavis' school. His students included Senator Willie P. Mangum, Priestly H. Mangum, brother of Senator Mangum; Archibald E. Henderson and John L. Henderson, sons of Chief Justice Henderson; Governor Charles Manly; The Reverend William Harris; Dr. James L. Wortham; the Edwardses, Enlows (Enloes), Hargroves, and Horners; and Abraham Rencher, Minister of Portugal and Territorial Governor of New Mexico. Personal Life Chavis maintained a long friendship with one of his white students, Willie P. Mangum, who was elected as a US Senator from North Carolina. For many years, they conducted a correspondence where Chavis often criticized the senator's political positions. Chavis reportedly privately supported the abolition of slavery, greatly disliked President Andrew Jackson, and opposed Mangum's advocacy of states' rights. Chavis did not publicly support abolition, and publicly condemned Nat Turner's slave rebellion, positions he likely took out of concern for his own safety and to maintain his status as a freeman and position as an educator as southerners expelled free blacks and violently suppressed Turner's rebellion. John Chavis's Letter Upon the Doctrine of the Extent of the Atonement of Christ was found by Helen Chavis Othow, who published his biography, John Chavis: African American Patriot, Preacher, Teacher, and Mentor 1763 - 1838 (McFarland Publishers, 2001). She found the letter in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chap-el Hill. A copy of Chavis's sermon is included in the study with an Introduction by Dr. Othow. Rev. Chavis had ap-pealed to the Orange Presbytery to assist with the publication of his sermon, but they refused, stating that it was a subject that had been adequately discussed and would be of no interest to the public. He went ahead and pub-lished his sermon in 1837 through J. Gales and Son in Raleigh. After Turner's 1831 rebellion resulted in the murder of dozens of white men, women and children, slave-holding states quickly passed laws that forbade all blacks to preach. Although Chavis was forced to give up preaching and teaching school, the presbytery continued to pay Chavis $50 a year until his death to support him and his wife. Be-fore his death, Rev. Chavis left the Orange Presbytery and joined the Roanoke Presbytery. The presbytery contin-ued payments to his widow after his death until 1842. At that time, Chavis's widow told the presbytery that her fami-ly could take care of her and her children. Death Chavis died in June 1838 in circumstances that remain unclear. According to his biographer, Helen Chavis Othow, the oral tradition suggests that Chavis was killed by whites who did not want him educating blacks. Local legend says that Chavis was beaten to death in his home. In 1986 Othow founded the John Chavis Historical Society. One of its goals as to locate Chavis' gravesite. Dr. George Clayton Shaw wrote the first biography about Chavis, published in 1931. He wrote that Chavis was buried on the plantation of Senator Willie P. Mangum, Chavis' former student. After numerous searches for the gravesite, in 1988 members of the John Chavis Historical Society found the old cemetery. The group appealed to the state archaeologist to investigate the site, but this has not oc-curred as of 2013. The Old Cemetery was added to the map of Hill Forest (the former Mangum plantation) by Mi-chael Hill, historian of the North Carolina Archives. Legacy Chavis is the subject of historical markers in both North Carolina and Virginia. Both Chavis Heights apartments and Chavis Park in Ra-leigh, North Carolina, are named after him, as are a resi-dential house and board room at Washington and Lee Uni-versity. Several schools are, as well, including John Chavis Middle School in Cherryville, North Carolina.


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In the 1950s, we always went out in a field, along a fence row, or the edge of an area that had re-cently been logged to find a Christmas tree. I don’t recall ever seeing a white pine, or fir, or even a scrub Virginia pine cut by anyone I knew for a Christmas tree. It was always a cedar. It dried out quickly, and pricked little fingers trying to decorate it, but we youngun’s always thought it was worth it. Some trees were tall and skinny, some were so bushy they filled up the front room, others had empty spots, but we all thought they were beautiful with electric lights and all the other decorations on them.

In earlier years, the lights were the same size as many outdoor lights today. Miniature lights had not come on the scene yet, though some of our relatives in town had those little “lantern” lights that were shaped like a vase with a bulb on the bottom and a more slender column above and the lights “bubbled” from the bot-

tom to the top when they were plugged in. We never had those. I do remember the first year we had the little miniature lights that we see now year round and decorating all kinds of things. The first ones around here were like their larger cousins--red, blue, green, and sometimes yellow (not often)—but it was not long before many windows showed twinkling little white stars through the front windows between Thanksgiving and Old Christ-mas (January 6, the night we children were always told that the cows would get down on their knees to honor the baby Jesus. We were never allowed to go to the barn to sit up and witness this wonder, how-ever.)

Many things were added to the trees after the lights went on. Strings of shiny gold or silver garland, or berries (we had never heard of cranberries—we picked possum holly or dogwood berries for this), or popcorn—HOLD THE SALT and BUTTER, PLEASE! Then came ornaments: many hand/home made, others store bought glass confections shaped into bells, horns, sleighs, balls, and novelty pieces with the Nativity, animals from sheep to reindeer, Santa, an-

gels, fairies, stars, and all sorts of things. To top it off, strands of aluminum foil tinsel were draped over the whole tree, top to bottom. The crowning glory was usually a family treasure. At our house, it was the tree top angel in white satin and lace which always managed to turn to “talk” to the deer head mounted over the fire place in the living room. Others had stars or other things. I don’t remember ever seeing bows the way the commercial artificial trees are frequently draped today. Later on, trees were flocked in white, red, green, or blue with spray foam that dried quickly onto the trees. We never even considered it. No matter the decorating choices, I never saw an ugly Christmas tree back then. Patricia Russell

THANK YOU ROUGEMONT Rougemont Ruritan Food Drives

It’s wonderful living in a community that cares about it’s fellowman. Rougemont has proven again that it cares. On October 21st, the Rougemont Ruritan club held it’s fourth and final food drive for 2017. A record $532 and 32 pounds of food was collected for the Rougemont Food Pantry. Thank you Rougemont for your generosity. Thank you to the Bull Market 131 and the Blalock Store for hosting the food drives. Thank you to the vol-unteers who worked the food drives. The total collected in 2017 was $1578 and 102 pounds of food. The next food drive will be March 10th,2018.

Rougemont Ruritan Receives Community Service Awards Rougemont Ruritan received 5 Community Ser-vice Awards at the Rocky Mount Durham Ruri-tan District Convention on November 11, 2017. The Club Received Gold Awards for Business and Professions, Citizenship, Environment, and Public Service. The club received a Silver Award for Social Development. From left– RMD Governor Jeff Neese, Lt Gov. Harold Rogers, Dave Dohr, Rougemont Ruritan President, who received the awards on behalf of the club, and John Min-inger, Past President,


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Somewhere along about 1960-61, two teen-aged brothers with their dad, Rougemont residents, went rabbit hunting in the woods on their farm soon after the fall leaves had hit the ground. After a pretty good morning hunting the cotton tails (mostly uphill), The boys had cut pulp-wood for sale to our own John Anderson’s woodyard throughout this stand of trees, and knew the lay of the land well. They assured their dad, who was tired enough to take a seat on a con-venient flat stump while they rested, that the rest of their hunt could be downhill, thus easier to

walk in the deep leaves that had fallen.

While giving their dad a rest to get his wind back, the boys reloaded their shotguns. RT turned away to breach his shotgun and put in fresh shells. DG stood as he was, unbreached his shotgun, and WHOA!, it went off and fired the shell remaining unfired in its cham-ber! Holy Mackerel, Catfish! Dad Pete was no longer sitting on the stump. The shot from the shell had hit him on the side of the head and knocked him clean off the stump! Fortunately, he was not killed

in this accident. The boys carried him to the truck, then to the emergency room at the nearest hospital (Roxboro), and the doctor picked out the shot near the surface, cleaned up the blood, bandaged his face, and sent him home with antibiot-ics. He picked little bits of shot out of the skin on that side of his face for several years after that as they worked their way to the surface. Thankfully, the boys were not shooting buckshot that day.

The moral of the tale: always be safe in whatever you do. Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anyone. Too many times, people get shot (often much worse than Pete) from supposedly unloaded guns. This is hunting sea-son. Don’t let this happen to you. --Maggie Sapphire

Maggie Sapphire


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