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06/16/2026

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FROM THE PELICAN POST - APRIL 1997
06/15/2026

FROM THE PELICAN POST - APRIL 1997

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06/14/2026

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06/11/2026

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From the Chronology of Southport (Smithville), Volume II (1888 - 1920) 1917 - (April 2) - Due to the national emerge...
06/10/2026

From the Chronology of Southport (Smithville), Volume II (1888 - 1920)

1917 - (April 2) - Due to the national emergency, a chapter of the American Red Cross was organized in Southport. Mrs. J. Arthur Dosher was elected financial secretary, and Miss May Phelps was a commissary sergeant. New members were added at each meeting held. Among the first were Mesdames J.W. Thompson, J.W.Ruark, Alexander Lind, Richard Thompson, Simmons, Davis, James Perdue, and Misses Christine Johnson and Bessie Burriss.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Formation May 21, 1881; 145 years ago
Founder Clara Barton
Type Charitable organization
Tax ID no. 53-0196605
Website www.redcross.org

The American National Red Cross, sometimes referred to as ANRC, is an American nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. Clara Barton founded the organization in 1881 after initially learning of the Red Cross, founded 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the designated American affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

The organization has provided services after many notable disasters, including the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, World War II, Hurricane Katrina, and the Maui wildfires of 2023. It also provides blood banking services.[5]

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06/09/2026

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COMMENTS ON SOME OF THE PEOPLE BURIED IN THE OLD SMITHVILLE BURYING GROUNDS ...From the October 1986 Whittlers Bench New...
06/08/2026

COMMENTS ON SOME OF THE PEOPLE BURIED IN THE OLD SMITHVILLE BURYING GROUNDS ...From the October 1986 Whittlers Bench Newsletter.

1) John WoodLock: Commissary Sgt. U.S.Army, Ft Johnston. Committed su***de after the deaths of his three young daughters from diphtheria during the epidemic in Smittiville in the fall of 1876. The daughters, ESTHER SARAH, EMMA, JOSEPHINE, and MARION, are buried near him in the corner of the cemetery formed by Rhett and Moore Streets.
2) Henry Gilbert: A seaman from the United States Revenue Cutter "Colfax", who was drowned June 26, 1895. His shipmates erected the monument at his grave in his memory.
3) Ann Dudley: Born June 17, 1783, died April 8, 1852. Before her health failed, Mrs. Dudley ran a famous boarding house on Bay Street known as the Carolina House. This house was torn down fairly recently.
4) Antonio Cassaletta: Now known locally as "Tony the Ghost". Tony was an Italian
musician, about 21 years old, and a member of a band of harpers engaged by the Hotel Brunswick to entertain the guests. He drowned in a sailing accident when the boat capsized and sank immediately. Two days later, his body was recovered and was interred in the Old Smithville Burying Ground. He left a wife and a young child in Wilmington. Local "ghost stories" say that his spirit still roams in the old Hotel Brunswick on the corner of Bay Street and Atlantic Avenue.

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