Handy, Matthias. Je. 13. Smithfield.   R. R. Je. 20. 1803 Johnston County
(Marriages and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette 1799-1825. Contributed by Barb. Z.)

Robert Harper Dead
Mr. Bob Harper, one of Clayton township’s oldest citizens, died at the Soldier’s Home in Raleigh, Wednesday night. Mr. Harper had been confined to his room at his home near her for several months with a carbuncle, but had sufficiently recovered from this to go to the Soldiers Home Monday. The remains were brought to Clayton this afternoon on the one o’clock train and taken to the old family burial ground at his home for interment. Mr. Harper was seventy-four years old and served in the Civil War. He leaves of his immediate family one son, Mr. George R. Harper, of near Clayton, and one daughter, who lives in Florida. Clayton News, 24th.
(Source: The Smithfield Herald, February 29, 1916. Submitted by Carla Townsend)

Hartline, Glenn
Glenn (Buck) Hartline, age 79 of Maggie Valley, North Carolina, formerly of Cypress, died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1991 at his home.
He was born May 16, 1912 in Tamms, the son of Charles and Gusta Gore Hartline. He married Flora Groner, who survives.
Mr. Hartline is also survived by three sons, Jerry and Harold Hartline of Whittier, North Carolina and Larry Hartline of Maggie Valley, North Carolina; six grandchildren and one step- grandson.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Eulagh Gage and Hazel James.
Mr. Hartline was former owner and operator of Hartline-Ford-Massey Ferguson dealership in Cypress. He owned and operated El-Peg Motel and Mobile Park in Largo, Florida and Adair Motel in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. He was a member of Good Samaritan Baptist Church in Waynesville, North Carolina.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 16, 1991 at 1 p.m. at Wilson Funeral Home, Karnak, with the Rev. P.L. Montgomery officiating. Burial was in Cypress Masonic Cemetery.
(Submitted by Gloria Gore)

Col. Ashely Horne, prominent in business and public life in North Carolina, died suddenly at his home, in Clayton, on Oct. 22 (1913).
Colonel Horne served with faithfulness throughout the war; and having come home from Appomattox barefooted and without a cent, he “borrowed” two horses from Sherman’s army to raise his first crop.  Since that time he was remarkably successful both as a farmer and a merchant, and in his later years he was interested in the cotton mills of Raleigh and Clayton, the North State Insurance Company, of Kinton, of which he was president, and in various other successful enterprises.
In 1908 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, and was loyally supported by the Confederate veterans.  He was a man of great energy and ability, in addition to many friendly and lovable qualities, and the great number of people that came from all parts of North Carolina to attend his funeral gave notable proof of the esteem in which he was held.
Colonel Horne was widely known for his love for the Confederate cause and for his charity to the widows and children of his old comrades.  Only last year he had given $5,000 for the erection of a monument to the memory of the Confederate women.  It will also be a monument to him.
(Source: Confederate Veteran. Pg 32, January 1914. Vol. XXII, No. 1)

Hunter, Osborne. My. 15, Johnston county.   R. R. May 24, 1810
(Marriages and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette 1799-1825. Contributed by Barb. Z.)