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Dr. James Ridley
Dr. James Ridley was of a once very prominent family of Oxford and Granville County. Ridley Park, a development of houses along Kingsbury St. was named for his family. General Beverly Sampson Royster Born near Henderson, NC in Granville County January 17, 1865, Beverly Sampson Royster entered service of the State January 17, 1886, enlisted in Company E., 3rd Infantry. Promoted to rank of Corporal, Sergeant, 1st Sergeant, 1886, 1887, 1888; 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 3rd Infantry, January 21, 1889; Captain, Company E, January 19, 1891; Major, 3rd Infantry, January 25, 1894; Major and Assistant Inspector-General, December 12, 1894; Colonel and Inspector-General, February 19, 1897; Brigadier General and Adjutant General, December 1, 1898; Brigadier General and Adjutant General, January 15, 1901. Enlisted in Company E, 3rd Infantry, January 12, 1905; Brigadier General, commanding 1st Brigade, April 1, 1909. Placed on retired list with rank of Major General, June 1, 1916. Appointed Acting Adjutant General, June 27, 1916; resigned September 1, 1917. Appointed Adjutant General August 3, 1918. Beverly Sampson Royster, Jr. Captain Battery A, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division. Born February 10, 1895. Son of Beverly S. Royster (General). Entered service May 12, 1917 at Camp Oglethorpe, GA. Promoted to rank of 2nd Lieutenant July 20, 1917; 1st Lieutenant October 9, 1917; Captain February 4, 1919. Overseas May 8, 1918, returned March 19, 1919. Engagements: Toul Sector, St. Mihiel Offensive, Argonne Forest Offensive, Woerve Sector, Woerve Offensive. Honorable discharged April 15, 1919. Royall H. Royster Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Born September 8, 1896. Son of General B. S. Royster. Pilot in Air Service and instructor in advanced flying and aeronautics. At camp eighteen months. Entered service July 25, 1917. Honorably discharged January 8, 1919. Stephen Sneed Stephen Sneed was the clerk of the old county court from 1798-1819. He was succeeded in office by his son, Stephen Kutusoff Sneed (1819-1833), the latter having served as treasurer of Oxford Academy. The elder Sneed once owned and lived on the Oxford Masonic Home campus. This property went from Sneed to Lewis to Britton to Hicks to the Masons. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) William Morgan Sneed William Morgan Sneed was the son of Stephen and brother to Stephen K. Sneed. He lived at the Jamieson place where there was a post office called Merrittsville of which he was postmaster. This post office was discontinued when Oxford was incorporated and made a post office in 1816. He owned half interest in the hotel lot on the corner of Main and Hillsboro St. which he sold to his partner Rhodes Nash Herndon for $1,025.00. Sneed was clerk of Superior Court from 1807-1822, Justice of the Peace, a member of Oxford's first board of commissioners in 1816, a state senator for many terms from 1822-1831 and one of the managers of the lottery to raise money for the Oxford Academy. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) Parker F. Stone Parker F. Stone was a hotelist and a jailor, likely found it economical to feed his patrons and the prisoners from the same kitchen. He bought and sold many valuable lots on Main and Hillsboro St. Stone migrated to Tennessee. (from Hays, Oxford Men and Women, Vol. 16, pages 143-145) |