Jesse Hargrave

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1. 1822 Dr. Charles R. Yancey builds a house and farm buildings on Franklin Street Dr. Yancey bought most of Lot #8 from William McCauley and put up a large house with a barn, carriage house, smokehouse, separate kitchen and quarters for enslaved people. Jesse Hargrave bought the place in 1840; the house burned in 1866. People: Jesse Hargrave Place: Yancey house (later Hargrave house), Lot #8, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles R. Yancey, William McCauleySearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 51
2. by 1840 Jesse Hargrave opens a general store whose upstairs room serves the Methodists Jesse Hargrave, in Chapel Hill since 1835, had a general store on Franklin Street by 1840, and bought the Yancey house the same year. In the 1840s (from about 1843) the Methodists, who had first met in Miles Davis's house, used the store's upstairs room, a former Masonic hall that Charles Deems named Bethesda. People: Jesse Hargrave Place: Hargrave's store, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 75
3. 1840s Charles F. Deems preaches to Chapel Hill Methodists in the hall he names Bethesda While a professor, Deems preached to the village Methodists, at their invitation, in the upper story of Jesse Hargrave's store, a former Masonic lodge room he named Bethesda. After he left the university in 1848, ministers were regularly appointed to the Chapel Hill charge. People: Charles F. Deems, Jesse Hargrave Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume I
4. January 29, 1851 The General Assembly passes an act incorporating Chapel Hill under five commissioners Chapter 330 of the 1850-51 session laws, ratified January 29, 1851, made Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell and Jones Watson the commissioners of Chapel Hill, with five commissioners to be elected each February after. They were to choose a magistrate of police, treasurer, constable and clerk and fix the town's bounds. People: Elisha Mitchell, Jones Watson, Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Laws of the State of North Carolina, session of 1850-51 (1851), chapter 330, pp. 730-731 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 18
5. 1854 David McCauley and Thomas A. Long take over Jesse Hargrave's store After Hargrave's death, his business was sold to the two young clerks he had hired in 1850. McCauley and Long's general store appears on the maps through 1868. People: Jesse Hargrave, David McCauley Place: McCauley & Long store, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. LongSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 99
6. 1866 Fire destroys the Hargrave house on Franklin Street The large house Dr. Charles Yancey built in 1822, owned by the Hargraves since 1840, burned. Jesse Hargrave's children Molly and Fred stayed on the lot in a much smaller building facing the street. People: Jesse Hargrave Place: Hargrave house (old Yancey house), East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 115
7. June 22, 1879 Chapel Hill merchant Thomas A. Long dies Thomas A. Long, who came to Chapel Hill as a boy to clerk for Jesse Hargrave, later kept store with David McCauley and then with Norwood, died at forty-five and was buried after services at the Methodist church on June 23. He had been a Methodist class leader, Sunday school worker and steward. People: David McCauley, Jesse Hargrave Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. LongSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, June 28, 1879, p. 3