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Elijah Graves

Elijah Graves, a Presbyterian minister who taught at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope Church as stated supply from November 1818 to April 1820 and again from November 1825 to May 1831. A temperance reformer, he persuaded many of his hearers to sign a pledge.

Source: NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), pp. 27-28

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StorylineNew Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–18401740–1840 · 35 events · When Orange Presbytery called in 1820 for long-vacant churches to be reorganized, New Hope Presbyterian Church had no roll of members, and it reorganized with four elders and ten members. Elijah Graves, then teaching at Hillsborough, had preached there from 1818 as stated supply, a minister serving without being installed as pastor, and he returned from 1825 to 1831 after Shepherd K. Kollock ended his connection. A revival in 1831 and 1832 added at least seventy communicants. George W. Ferrill was pastor from 1833 until 1836, and that August James Phillips, a university mathematics professor, began preaching at New Hope, which he served until 1865, longer than any other minister. Four more elders were ordained in 1840.

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  1. Elijah Graves preaches at New Hope as stated supply Graves, who was teaching at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope from November 1818 until April 1820. A temperance reformer, he persuaded many hearers to sign a pledge. People: Elijah Graves Place: New HopeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  2. Elijah Graves announces Mrs. Graves' Female School at Long Meadows In 1819 the Rev. Elijah Graves announced Mrs. Graves' Female School at Long Meadows, six miles northwest of Hillsborough. People: Elijah Graves Place: Long MeadowsLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 135
  3. Bethlehem Presbyterian Church is organized Elisha Mitchell, Elijah Graves and Samuel Child led the organization of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, which built its first church the next year. People: Elisha Mitchell, John Knox Witherspoon, Elijah Graves, Samuel Child Place: Bethlehem Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  4. Shepherd K. Kollock's connection with New Hope is dissolved Kollock, who had preached at New Hope with the Hillsborough church since 1820, ended his connection in May 1825. Elijah Graves came back as stated supply that November and stayed until May 1831. People: Elijah Graves Place: New Hope · Also named: Shepherd K. KollockSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 28
  5. Fire destroys the Rev. Elijah Graves's house on Cane Creek The Rev. Elijah Graves's dwelling house on Cane Creek burned on the night of Friday, June 6, and his family narrowly escaped. The paper understood that an enslaved man in the household, unwilling to stay at the place Graves had just moved to, set the fire to force a return to the old one; he was jailed the next day to await trial. People: Elijah Graves Place: Elijah Graves's house, Cane Creek, Orange CountyHillsborough Recorder, June 11, 1828, p. 3
  6. Elijah Graves opens a female school at Walnut Grove In 1829 Elijah Graves advertised a school for girls that he would run at Walnut Grove, near the Pittsboro road and twelve miles from Hillsborough. People: Elijah Graves Place: Walnut GroveLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 135-136

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Dr. Calvin Elijah Graves , 1852-1854

1852

Photocopied medical diary of Dr. Calvin Elijah Graves (about 1823 to 1868), begun on 1 April 1852 and running into 1854. Graves lived at Old Trinity in Randolph County; his tie to Orange County is his marriage to Caroline M. Foust of Orange about 1845. Four images.

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