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1822 - 1893 (70 years)
1773 - 1836 (62 years)
Birth |
21 Nov 1773 |
Lunenburg, Virginia [Later Halifax] |
Died |
25 Apr 1836 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
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Father |
PATRIOT Theodorick4 dna Carter, Jr., b. Abt 1747, Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Judith 'Judy' Cunningham, b. 15 Apr 1764, St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co., Colonial Virginia |
Married |
16 Apr 1764 |
Prince Edward County, Virginia |
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Family 1 |
Elizabeth Holcomb Neal, b. Abt 1790, Amellia County, Virginia |
Married |
8 Sep 1812 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Virginia Susannah Bibb Carter, b. 2 May 1814, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 2. John Halifax Carter, b. 18 Jan 1816, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 3. Elizabeth Cunningham Carter, b. 23 Dec 1817, Halifax County, Virginia |
| 4. America Bedford Carter, b. 14 Feb 1820, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 5. Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
| 6. Missouri Ann Carter, b. 8 Sep 1824, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 7. Samuel H. Carter, b. 19 Mar 1827, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 8. Philemon Bibb Carter, b. 3 Jul 1829, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 9. Martha Mary Carter, b. 10 Jul 1831, Halifax County, Virginia |
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Family 2 |
Elizabeth 'Betsy' Michaux Cocke, b. 6 Feb 1784, Prince Edward Co., Virginia |
Married |
5 Jun 1834 |
Campbell County, Virginia |
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Abt 1790 - Aft 1831 (~ 42 years)
Birth |
Abt 1790 |
Amellia County, Virginia |
Died |
Aft 1831 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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Father |
William Neal, Jr., b. Est 1755, Halifax County, Virginia |
Mother |
Martha 'Patsy' Fuqua, b. Abt 1777, Charlotte County, Virginia |
Married |
18 Feb 1811 |
Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
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Family 1 |
Mister Bibb, b. Est 1770 |
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Family 2 |
'Sam' Robert Samuel 'Tavern Keeper' Carter, b. 21 Nov 1773, Lunenburg, Virginia [Later Halifax] |
Married |
8 Sep 1812 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Virginia Susannah Bibb Carter, b. 2 May 1814, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 2. John Halifax Carter, b. 18 Jan 1816, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 3. Elizabeth Cunningham Carter, b. 23 Dec 1817, Halifax County, Virginia |
| 4. America Bedford Carter, b. 14 Feb 1820, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 5. Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
| 6. Missouri Ann Carter, b. 8 Sep 1824, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 7. Samuel H. Carter, b. 19 Mar 1827, Halifax Co., Virginia |
+ | 8. Philemon Bibb Carter, b. 3 Jul 1829, Halifax Co., Virginia |
| 9. Martha Mary Carter, b. 10 Jul 1831, Halifax County, Virginia |
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1812 - 1884 (71 years)
Birth |
29 Oct 1812 |
Halifax Co., Virginia |
Died |
21 Jun 1884 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas H. Neal, b. 23 Aug 1789, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Mother |
Wilmouth Mastin Williams, b. 21 Feb 1794, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Married |
18 Feb 1811 |
Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
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Family |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia [5, 6, 7] |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
Children |
| 1. Pvt. Robert Samuel Neal, b. 13 Mar 1839, Danville, Virginia |
| 2. Elizabeth Wilmouth 'Betty' Neal, b. 15 May 1841, Virginia |
+ | 3. Louisa (Lucy) Carter Neal, b. 19 Feb 1843, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 4. James Mastin Neal, b. 1845, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 5. Thomas David Neal, Jr, b. 12 Oct 1848, Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
+ | 6. John Carter Neal, b. 31 Dec 1846, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 7. Mary Wills Neal, b. 12 Sep 1855, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 8. Charles Taliaferro/Taliferro Neal, b. 5 Aug 1853, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 9. Whitmel P. T. Neal, b. 1 Jul 1857, Halifax County, Virginia |
+ | 10. Susan, Susannah F. [Franklin] Neal, b. 1 Sep 1859, Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 11. Carter Bibb Neal, b. 19 Jan 1862, Halifax County, Virginia |
+ | 12. William Greaner Neal, b. 5 Jan 1864, Danville, Virginia |
| 13. 'Sallie' Sarah Martha Neal, b. 14 Oct 1851, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
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1839 - 1862 (23 years)
Birth |
13 Mar 1839 |
Danville, Virginia |
Died |
14 Mar 1862 |
Danville, Virginia |
Buried |
Grove Street Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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1841 - 1927 (85 years)
Nickname |
Bettie |
Birth |
15 May 1841 |
Virginia |
Died |
14 Jan 1927 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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Family |
James Baker Pace, b. 3 May 1837, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
Married |
12 Oct 1858 |
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1843 - 1899 (56 years)
Birth |
19 Feb 1843 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
15 Oct 1899 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
Buried |
Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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Family |
Peter Wilson Ferrell, b. 31 May 1832, Halifax, Virginia |
Married |
27 Mar 1862 |
Danville, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Thomas Neal Ferrell, b. 21 Feb 1866, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 2. Lena Ferrell, b. 4 Sep 1863, Danville, Virginia |
| 3. Rose Allen Ferrell, b. 11 Nov 1867, Virginia |
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1845 - 1907 (62 years)
Birth |
1845 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
17 Jul 1907 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
Buried |
Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
|
Family |
Rose Allen, b. 12 Sep 1847, Culpeper County, Virginia |
Married |
1 Nov 1866 |
Danville, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Percie Stokes Neal, b. 18 May 1866, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| 2. Orin Allen Neal, b. 30 Jul 1867 |
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1848 - 1917 (68 years)
Birth |
12 Oct 1848 |
Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
17 Sep 1917 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
|
Family |
Frances Moore 'Fannie' Mills, b. 13 Jul 1862, Richmond, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Thomas David Neal, III, b. 17 Oct 1890, Richmond, Virginia |
| 2. Grace Mills Neal, b. 10 Apr 1888, Richmond, Virginia |
| 3. Carrie Pate Neal, b. 30 Aug 1886, Richmond, Virginia |
| 4. Mills Ferrell Neal, b. 29 Aug 1892, Richmond, Virginia |
| 5. Robert Stuart Neal, b. 27 Oct 1895, Richmond, Virginia |
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1846 - 1900 (53 years)
Birth |
31 Dec 1846 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
18 Feb 1900 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
Buried |
Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
|
Family |
Jeanette Pritchett Mills, b. 29 Dec 1848, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
13 Nov 1867 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Birdie Amanda Neal, b. 19 Oct 1868, Danville, Virginia |
+ | 2. Louisa 'Loulie' Franklin Neal, b. Abt 1870 |
| 3. Robert Mills Neal, b. 1873, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
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1855 - 1939 (83 years)
Birth |
12 Sep 1855 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
9 Jun 1939 |
Norfolk, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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1853 - 1874 (20 years)
Birth |
5 Aug 1853 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
17 Feb 1874 |
Statesville, North Carolina |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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1857 - 1880 (23 years)
Birth |
1 Jul 1857 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Died |
6 Jul 1880 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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1859 - 1920 (61 years)
Birth |
1 Sep 1859 |
Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
Died |
24 Sep 1920 |
Washington, DC |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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Family |
Judge Samuel Jordan Graham, b. 22 Jun 1857, Lexington, Virginia |
Married |
30 Oct 1889 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Children |
+ | 1. Mary Carter Graham, b. Nov 1898, Pennsylvania |
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1862 - 1906 (44 years)
Birth |
19 Jan 1862 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Died |
4 Feb 1906 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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1864 - 1929 (65 years)
Birth |
5 Jan 1864 |
Danville, Virginia |
Died |
19 Dec 1929 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
|
Family |
'Maggie', Margaret Belle Nelson, b. 25 Jul 1873 |
Children |
| 1. Lucile Nelson Neal, b. 8 Jan 1896 |
| 2. Edward Felgner Neal, b. 1 Jan 1898, Richmond, Virginia |
| 3. Mary Elizabeth Neal, b. 1 May 1906 |
| 4. Franklin Carter Neal, b. 12 May 1908 |
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1851 - 1921 (70 years)
Birth |
14 Oct 1851 |
Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
Died |
28 Oct 1921 |
Henderson, Kentucky |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Father |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia |
Mother |
Louisiana Franklin Carter, b. 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
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Family 1 |
George Lane Marshall, b. 24 Feb 1848, Oxford, Georgia |
Married |
Bef 1880 |
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Family 2 |
Carl O. Rutsch, b. 10 Sep 1865, Russia |
Married |
21 Feb 1900 |
Louisville, Kentucky |
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Name |
Louisiana Franklin Carter [4] |
Born |
26 Jun 1822 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
Gender |
Female |
Died |
24 Mar 1893 |
Richmond, Virginia |
Buried |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
Person ID |
I547450783 |
My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Giles Carter of Henrico |
Last Modified |
19 Dec 2018 |
Father |
'Sam' Robert Samuel 'Tavern Keeper' Carter, b. 21 Nov 1773, Lunenburg, Virginia [Later Halifax] , d. 25 Apr 1836, Halifax Co., Virginia (Age 62 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth Holcomb Neal, b. Abt 1790, Amellia County, Virginia , d. Aft 1831, Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Age ~ 42 years) |
Married |
8 Sep 1812 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
- Elizabeth was first married to Mr. Bibb
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Family ID |
F5619 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Thomas David Neal, Sr., b. 29 Oct 1812, Halifax Co., Virginia , d. 21 Jun 1884, Richmond, Virginia (Age 71 years) |
Married |
29 Dec 1836 |
- Children of Thomas D. and Louisana Carter Neal
4 Louisiana Franklin CARTER b: 26 Jun 1822
+ Thomas D NEAL b: Abt. 1820
5 Infant Son NEAL b: 25 Dec 1837 d: 25 Dec 1837
5 Robert S NEAL b: 13 Mar 1839
5 Elizabeth Wilmouth NEAL b: 13 May 1841
5 Lucie Carter NEAL b: 17 Feb 1843
5 James Martin NEAL b: 3 Jan 1845
5 Tho S NEAL b: 12 Oct 1848
5 Sarah Martha NEAL b: 4 Oct 1851
5 Charles Taliaferro NEAL b: 3 Aug 1853
5 Mary W NEAL b: 12 Sep 1855
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Children |
| 1. Pvt. Robert Samuel Neal, b. 13 Mar 1839, Danville, Virginia , d. 14 Mar 1862, Danville, Virginia (Age 23 years) |
| 2. Elizabeth Wilmouth 'Betty' Neal, b. 15 May 1841, Virginia , d. 14 Jan 1927, Richmond, Virginia (Age 85 years) |
+ | 3. Louisa (Lucy) Carter Neal, b. 19 Feb 1843, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 15 Oct 1899, Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (Age 56 years) |
+ | 4. James Mastin Neal, b. 1845, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 17 Jul 1907, Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (Age 62 years) |
+ | 5. Thomas David Neal, Jr, b. 12 Oct 1848, Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 17 Sep 1917, Richmond, Virginia (Age 68 years) |
+ | 6. John Carter Neal, b. 31 Dec 1846, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 18 Feb 1900, Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (Age 53 years) |
| 7. Mary Wills Neal, b. 12 Sep 1855, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 9 Jun 1939, Norfolk, Virginia (Age 83 years) |
| 8. Charles Taliaferro/Taliferro Neal, b. 5 Aug 1853, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 17 Feb 1874, Statesville, North Carolina (Age 20 years) |
| 9. Whitmel P. T. Neal, b. 1 Jul 1857, Halifax County, Virginia , d. 6 Jul 1880, Richmond, Virginia (Age 23 years) |
+ | 10. Susan, Susannah F. [Franklin] Neal, b. 1 Sep 1859, Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. 24 Sep 1920, Washington, DC (Age 61 years) |
| 11. Carter Bibb Neal, b. 19 Jan 1862, Halifax County, Virginia , d. 4 Feb 1906, Richmond, Virginia (Age 44 years) |
+ | 12. William Greaner Neal, b. 5 Jan 1864, Danville, Virginia , d. 19 Dec 1929, Richmond, Virginia (Age 65 years) |
| 13. 'Sallie' Sarah Martha Neal, b. 14 Oct 1851, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia , d. 28 Oct 1921, Henderson, Kentucky (Age 70 years) |
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Last Modified |
16 Jul 2022 |
Family ID |
F5792 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S107] Family Histories.
A History of the Carter Family"
Compiled and edited by the
American Genealogical Research Institute
Washington DC 20001
Copyright 1972
Library of Congress Card Catalog #: 75-187586
Elizabeth Cunningham Carter b 14 Feb 1820 Twin of America Bedford Carter married Charles B. Talieferro.
Louisiana Franklin Carter b 26 Jun 1822 married Thomas D. Neal
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=neal&GSiman=1&GScid=50668&GRid=27824511&.
Louisiana Franklin Carter Neal
Birth 26 Jun 1822, Halifax County, Virginia
Death 24 Mar 1893 (aged 70)
Burial: Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond City, Virginia
- [S61] United States Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=15434518.
Thomas D Neal
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1812
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Gender: Male
Family Number: 90
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas D Neal 38
Louisanna F Neal 27
Robert S Neal 11
Elizabeth W Neal 9
Lucy Neal 7
James M Neal 5
Jo?? H Neal 3
Thomas Neal 1
John Atkinson 55
E Atkinson 50
O Staples 15
Drucilla Coatly 15
Th H Holcombe 18
- [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
Louisana Carter and her twin sister America Bedford Carter were born 26 June 1822. Louisana's Father, Samuel Carter mentions her husband Charles B. Taliferro as his son-in-law in his will dated 6 Feb 1826. 3 sons and 6 daughters are thought to comprise this family. America's Husband, Thomas M. Neale is shown as Witness to the Will of Samuel Carter, along with H. W. White, and Alexander Carter
- [S100] Internet Source, https://ncccha.blogspot.com/2010/07/tobacco-brought-danville-virginia-fame.html.
Tobacco: Brought Danville, Virginia, Fame and Fortune
Danville Register, 4 July 1976 (Page 1)
By Steve Gilliam (Bee Staff Writer)
Tobacco: Golden Leaf Brought City Fame and Fortune
If there ever was a city that was born and raised on tobacco, then that city is Danville. Leaf tobacco has brought the city as much of its fame -- and a good bit of its fortune as well -- as any of its other business or industrial enterprises. People around the globe smoke cigarettes made with tobacco that was purchased on Danville warehouse floors. The city enjoys a reputation as one of the world's major markets of fine smoking leaf. It is known as the birthplace of "Bright Leaf Tobacco," which is not the backbone of the nation's tobacco industry. The city is known as the "World's Best Tobacco Market," and the name is not without justification. During the 107 years since the Danville Tobacco Association was founded, growers have sold 84,744,445,404 pounds of tobacco. They have taken home approximately $1,626,898,841 for their offerings.
The market also is known widely for its innovative sales practices, which have served to make the Danville warehouses models for other tobacco centers across the country. Major innovations included the "Danville System" of tobacco auctions and the more recent "Danville Plan" -- a method of allotting sales time on a poundage basis rather than by sales days to individual markets.
Official records of the city's tobacco sales were kept for the first time in 1869, the year of the Danville Tobacco Association's founding. Although all records for the local market date from that year, the city was known as a leading center of tobacco production since the turn of the 18th century. The city's location by the Dan River played a major role in establishing it as the major tobacco market of the fledgling United States. Founded in 1793, the city was to be the site of the state's first tobacco warehouse. The Dan River served as transportation to the east, where the leaf was loaded onto ships ready for sail or processed into the products of the day -- snuff, chewing or pipe tobacco. The first warehouse gave rise to four others by 1830 -- all owned by the state. Three years passed and 10 tobacco factories for processing had arisen in Danville.
The Panic of 1837 appeared to be a terminal blow to the Danville market. The state warehouses were forced to close and farmers were left without locations for marketing their leaf. But the failure of the government system threw the marketing into the hand of free enterprise and local buyers were quick to take matters into their own hands.
Bright Leaf. There is nothing as dear to a tobacco farmer's heart as a magnificent leaf of "Bright Tobacco." As the tobacco is harvested up the stalk, the middle leaves often get to be as much as a yard long. When a farmer takes one of those leaves and lets it absorb enough moisture to open it fully, the leaf looks like a golden kite. But Bright Tobacco is not a particular brand; rather it is the way the tobacco is cured that produces the gold color in the mid-stalk leaves and the finer, yellower cure toward the top leaves.
If the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was the cradle of civilization, then the area southeast of Danville and the Dan River was the cradle of Bright Tobacco. It had its origin as a mistake -- a freak accident that changed the tobacco industry. The account of how the leaf came to be in 1839 on the Caswell County, N.C. farm of Abisha Slade runs thus:
A young slave, Stephen, on Slade's farm was tending the tobacco barns one rainy night when he drowsed off, an occurrence not uncommon around old-time curing barns. He awoke and agonized momentarily over the dying fire and the soaked firewood. Rushing to a charcoal pit, he returned and heaved several hunks of the hot-burning stuff onto the fire. As the fire began to blaze up, the heat grew much hotter than the normal curing fire which had been wood-fed. The sudden surge of intense heat after the sap had been dried out gradually produced a barn full -- 600 pounds -- of the brightest leaf ever seen to a manufacturer in those days.
An accident -- yes indeed -- but the price the bright yellow leaf fetched was even more of an accident. The prevailing average for tobacco in 1839 was $10 a hundredweight. When the bright leaf -- even more fragrant than other offerings as well -- went to bids, it drew $40 a hundredweight, a figure four times greater than the prevailing price.
Slade came from a tobacco-producing family. Although no official accounts exist of the Slade family from 1839 to 1856, it is believed that the family went about perfecting the curing method which came about by accident. Slade emerged as a tobacco professor of sorts that year and began instructing his fellow growers in the process of "curing yellow tobacco."
Historic accounts indicate that growers in the area had produced Bright Leaf earlier than 1839. Their efforts are believed to be hit-or-miss ventures which produced the golden tobacco but never reproduced it. Slade is acclaimed as the first man to make a semi-science of tobacco curing and who set down the guidelines for yellowing tobacco which were modified into current curing practices.
Warehouse System Forerunner. The first "street sales" of loose leaf tobacco began to take place. Previously, the government warehouses had taken in growers' offerings in hogsheads, weighed and sampled the leaf and then sold the tobacco. The on-street auctions did away with the hogshead-bound tobacco and allowed buyers to check the leaf as it came into town in wagons. The arrival of a grower was announced through the market areas and the buyers moved around the loads gathering their samples. When a sale price was agreed upon, the buyer took the tobacco to have it weighed. This early system was a primitive sales method at best. Once the grower lost sight of his tobacco when it was carried to be weighed, he felt he could easily be cheated. The buyer often claimed that the samples had been planted, and the result of weighing and checking often proved the tobacco of lesser quality than the samples. As the complaints continued on both sides, the idea for the warehouse system of tobacco sales began to form itself in Danville.
The Warehouse System. Thomas D. Neal was the first to build a privately owned sales warehouse anywhere, with assistance from William Pinckney Graves, T. R. McDearman and others. The warehouse went up in 1858 and a Neal's Warehouse still stands in Danville. Neal was a businessman and he knew an opportunity when he saw one. Tobacco growers from North Carolina would load their wagons and head to Lynchburg. As the drove through Danville, Neal was quick to see that the closer to home the grower could find a market, the more easily he would stop. If the warehouseman could establish a system where both buyer and grower could drop all complaints, then both would go home satisfied.
The system allowed the leaf to be displayed on the floor where growers and buyers could keep an eye on each other. The buyer would lose nothing because he could take his own samples. The grower could watch the samples to make sure they went back on the pile. A third person, impartial and employed by the warehouse, did the weighing while both buyer and seller looked on. Everything was honest and the only complaints heard were over demanded prices that were too high or bid prices that were too low -- complaints that are heard today on most tobacco markets.
The buyers who had previously passed through Danville began to stop here. Neal and his associates had ridden through the countryside, personally asking farmers to sell in the city. Neal sought to gain the right of inspection for his warehouse system and the Virgina Assembly granted that right on February 6, 1860. The Assembly also granted him the right to charge for inspection of tobacco three weeks later in an amendment. The act of legislation was no small feat -- Neal had secured the right of inspection for the first time since 1837, when the governmental warehouses had shut their doors. The warehouse was to operate under legislative sanction for little more than a year. The Civil War was brewing and the tobacco industry was to be dealt another blow. Although many felt the blow might be fatal, the Civil War only delayed the permanent establishment of the "Danville System."
- [S251] Various Books.
Thomas D. Neal
1885 Sketch Book of Danville Virginia
Its Manufactures and Commerce
By Edward Pollock
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