the 1850 Davie County Census as head of the household with the following
children still in the household: Ann, 31, Joseph, 28. Also, in the previous
household 364, Henry D. Snider, born circa 1821, with wife Mary, 24, son,
Maximillian, 3, daughter, Nancy, 2, son Henry 5/12 months old, and a William
Sheets, 8 years old. I, Danny McBee, believe this to be the mother and
brother of Elizabeth A. Snider and Mary Snider as the dates/locations match.
[Danny A. McBee, April 19, 1998].
There is a possibility that Adam Snider could be the father of Betsy Snider. Adam
Snider is listed in the 1810 Rowan County, North Carolina Census. [Danny A.
McBee, April 19, 1998]. Children were:
i.
Jesse Franklin Click(1) was born on
6 Dec 1847 in Mocksville, North Carolina, Davie County. He died on 27 Feb 1938
in Hickory, North Carolina. He was buried in Oakwood Cem., Hickory, North Carolina.
He was a Newspaperman. Jesse Franklin Click and Mary Amana Maxwell had eight
children; six of which
died in infancy.
The Davie Record, Mocksville, North Carolina March 9, 1938
Aged Journalist Passes
Funeral services for Jesse Franklin Click, ninety year old former Hickory
journalist, and one of the oldest newspapermen in North Carolina, who died
February 27, were held at the First Baptist Church, Hickory, at 11 a.m., last
Tuesday. The body lay in state at the church from 10 a.m., until the funeral
hour. Dr. R.K. Redwine, pastor, officiated, assisted by Rev. J.C. Cornett,
pastor of the First Methodist Church in Hickory, and Rev. W.R. Bradshaw,
pastor of Brown Memorial Church, Hickory. Burial was in Oakwood cemetery at
Hickory. Active pall-bearers were members of the board of Deacons of the
First Baptist Church. Remaining members of the board of deacons served as
honorary escort. The floral tributes were beautiful.
Mr. Click was born in Davie county, near Jerusalem, December 6, 1847, a
son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Click, who were the parents of three children. He
lived on the farm and taught school for several years. He moved to Penelope,
3 miles west of Hickory, in 1884, where he purchased and operated a farm until
1891, when he moved to Hickory and began editing The Hickory Mercury. He
served as clerk of the state legislature in 1897, writing the minutes in long
hand.
Mr. Click had been a member of the Baptist church for 74 years. He was
clerk of the South Fork association for 20 years. He helped organize the
Jerusalem Baptist church in this county, and was a charter member of the
Mocksville Baptist church and the Penelope Baptist church near Hickory. Only
two members of the First Baptist church, Hickory, are living today who were
affiliated with that church at the time Mr. Click joined their congregation.
Mr. Click was secretary-treasurer of the City of Hickory for six years.
He was educated in the rural schools of Davie county and attended Wake Forest
College. He won a scholarship at Wake Forest for perfect attendance at Sunday
school, church services and classes, but was unable to avail himself of its
full advantages.
He retired from his active journalistic career a number of years ago, but
until a short time ago he continued to contribute articles to various
newspapers, including The Davie Record. He never lost his love for the fourth
estate. His contributions to current journals were written on the old desk
that served him during his editorship of The Hickory Mercury and the Times-
Mercury. The old clock that kept the time when he was born was heard ticking
when he passed away.
Mr. Click was first married to Miss Mary Maxwell, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tate Maxwell, of Jerusalem township. Of the eight children
born to this union, only two survive. They are Mrs. C.F. Stroud, of
Mocksville, and F.A. Click, of Washington. Mr. Click married Mrs. L.B. Stroud
of Hickory, in 1903. Mrs. Click survives, along with one daughter, Mrs. A.J.
Hardin, with whom Mr. and Mrs. Click made their home. Eight grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren also survive. A half-brother, H.M. Deadmon, of R. 4,
is the only other immediate survivor.
The editor of The Davie Record went to work for Mr. Click on the Hickory
Mercury, February 17, 1893, and was associated with him for 14 years. Joe
Caldwell, late editor of The Charlotte Observor, wrote an article many years
ago stating that Mr. Click was one of the best, if not the best editorial
writer in the state. We owe much to this aged man who has passed over the
river. Our boyhood and young manhood days were spent in his employ. He
treated us as a father, and we shall always revere his memory. He was a
God-fearing Christian gentleman of the old school. We have lost one of our
best friends, but heaven has been enriched by one who spent nearly his entire
life walking in the steps of the lowly Nazarene. (This obituary was copied
in its entirety from The Davie Record, Mocksville, N.C. March 9, 1938 by
Danny A. McBee, great grand nephew of Jesse F. Click. Danny A. McBee lives
at 4131 Grissom Street, Gastonia, North Carolina, 28056. He has other
obituaries of Jesse Franklin Click, a brother to Danny McBee's great
grandmother, Martha Ann Click Dedmond.)
Jesse Click, age 22, is listed in the household of his step-father, Haley Deadman, age 49,
in the 1870 Davie County, North Carolina Census. Jesse is listed as a student attending school. [Danny A. McBee, March 11, 1999].
The following article was written by Jesse Franklin (J. F.) Click entitled "A Joyful Home Greeting":
In Davie County, my half brother, Mack Deadmon, owns the farm my father, H. H. Click owned, and lives in the house father built on it one hundred years ago. He sawed all the lumber in it with an old-time hack saw. There was not a piece of sap lumber put on it, nor in it. A few years ago, Mack painted it, the first it ever had. Now it looks like only a six year old house. In it, 18 of us children were born, nine sons and nine daughters. Six by father's first wife, and nine by mother and her second husband, Haley Deadmon. Nine Click and nine Deadmon children. Fifteen of us lived to be grown, and nine of us married and had families. Only two of the 18 children are still living. They are Mack and myself, mother's first and last son, the 7th and the 18th one of that triplet family of children. Mack and his good wife, (Drusilla Berrier Deadmon), have raised nine children in that house, seven daughters and two sons. Six of the daughters are married and have families. There has not been a death in their family, for which they are exceedingly thankful. Only a few families of that size and age can say that, if any. Mack and his wife decided to prepare and have a homecoming dinner on Sunday, October 21, and invited all their children and their families, me and my family and J. E. Alexander of Salisbury, "to come and have a big time together." The dinner was spread on a table in the yard and I never saw a better one in variety, quality and quantity. And we all enjoyed it to our fullness and had to leave half, or at least one-third of it on the table. We brought all of it home with us in our minds and are still using it to Mack's and Drusie's glory. Mr. J. E. Alexander came prepared and took three pictures of that home gathering. One of Mack's family, on of us all around the dinner table and then one of Mack and myself, and the house, and they were all good. It was a joyous occasion to me. To me there is no place on earth more sacred that "the home of childhood and mother." It was a treat to me to go into the house and into the room (where) all 18 of us were born, and to see the same clock on the same mantle piece and hear it clicking like it did when we were all born. I hope they can have more homecomings and all will be as good as this one. J. F. Click. [NOTE: This article was copied by Anne Reynolds from notes provided by Kenny and Kris Howell of Mocksville]. [Danny A. McBee, Copied from the Heritage of Davie Count;y, North Carolina, May 18, 2000].
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Martha Ann Click.
iii.
Frances Adams Click(1) was born on
26 Jan 1851 in Mocksville, North Carolina, Davie County.
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