Etowah NC Heritage
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  • HIST. I
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    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
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      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
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      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
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  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
    • "The Follies" & "Matilda's Folly"
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Stories & Recollections of Etowah . . .

as told by  ~  Lois Adcock Bayne

b. 1928, Etowah Native

Picture
​Lois Adcock Bayne (b. 1928)
& Everette T. Bayne, Jr (1925-2012)

Bane Rd, off Brickyard near Boylston Hwy,
​is named after the Bayne family.   Everette and Lois married in 1948 and ran a farm on Bane Road.  The road name is misspelled.

Lois' parents, Ceivalle Adcock and Bessie Goodwin Adcock, pictured below, were married in 1921 and moved to WNC 1922 for TB treatment at Oteen VA Hospital, Asheville, NC.  They bought 28 acres on Brickyard Road and built a home and farm in 1923-24.
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Lois was a Special Guest for a presentation to Etowah Heritage
at the Library, April 3, 2017.
 

​Lois Adcock Bayne & daughter Karen-Eve Bayne,
​shared stories of Lois's life growing up in Etowah.

​Family photos and most of the text material for this page, courtesy of ​Lois Adcock Bayne and Karen-Eve Bayne.
​
Picture
Ceivalle Adcock (1897 - 1995)
& Bessie Goodwin Adcock (1899 - 1987)
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Ceivalle & Bessie Adcock
​with some of their children on the family farm.

Life on the Adcock Farm 

​​Ceivalle - Medic in WW1, nurse at Moore General Hospital - Swannanoa/Black Mountain (predecessor of Oteen VA), received vaccines to give locals, e.g. typhoid) 

​Self-sufficient, working farm for food for family, dairy sales, molasses mill, field work, dedicated to education, self taught, progressive minded, first pure bred Guernsey, corn per acre award and demonstration farmer.

Bessie -  hardworking in house and field, excellent homemaker, cared for community sick (Mr Andy), field worker, molasses skimmer.

Community minded parents and active members of Boylston Baptist Church.

​Dental needs done at home; or Dentist in Mills River
Doctoring done at home by parents 
Babies by midwife Miss Laughter ( paid in beans)
Doctor in Mills River 6 miles by wagon Dr Corpening / Dr Lydia)


​​Frame house with drill well; had no bathroom until 1952 


3 bedrooms, 12 people ( age spread of 21 years of children); Sleeping porch for TB; Dad preached nutrition & exercise 

Washing clothes by hand, scrub board, wringer & clothes line

Food preservation methods: canning, drying, smoking only pressure cooker and tin can sealer in area 

Foods in winter and summer; Thanksgiving possum, 
vegetable garden, animals, hunting, yeast-in-mail, celery soup, 

Traveling threshing machine

​Clothes homemade, Durham 2nd hand, shoes, sewing, 
Hair cuts at home; shoe cobbling at home

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Names of students - to be added. Dressed for the Senior Play. Lois, front row - last on right, is dressed for a man's character, since there were no boys who graduated with this graduating class. Some were in the service during WWII, and some dropped out.

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Lois attended Etowah High School from 1941 - 1945.
She was the Class President and Salutatorian
in the Class of 1945.  Lois missed giving the graduation speech
due to appendectomy.


The Class of 1945 started with about 20 students.
Graduated with 10 girls.  Boys dropped out or went to WWII.
​Other girls got married or dropped out.
No boys at 1945 graduation.

Photo above:
Senior Play- Lois played a man, Rolo Pettijohn.
(front row, right end)

Photo below:
Mr. Sitton, principal and Mrs. Medford with the graduating class.

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Names of students - to be added. Lois is front row, second from left.
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A table of Lois' precious memorabilia and her hand stitched quilt.

  • Home
  • SPECIAL
    • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
    • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
    • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
  • PEOPLE & PLACES
    • Maps
    • Memorabilia
    • Places, Early Homes, Other
    • French Broad River & Valley Views
    • People - early times
    • People - later times
    • People - Gash Family descendants
    • Veterans
  • HIST. I
    • Timeline
    • Formation of Henderson County, est 1838
    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
      • EHS Memorabilia
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
    • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries >
      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
      • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
    • "The Follies" & "Matilda's Folly"
  • About