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m. 29 Dec 1836
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| Born |
13 Mar 1839 |
Danville, Virginia  |
| Died |
14 Mar 1862 |
Danville, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Grove Street Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
| Born |
15 May 1841 |
Virginia |
| Died |
14 Jan 1927 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Spouse |
James Baker Pace | F5794 |
| Married |
12 Oct 1858 |
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| Born |
19 Feb 1843 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
15 Oct 1899 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
| Buried |
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Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Peter Wilson Ferrell | F5795 |
| Married |
27 Mar 1862 |
Danville, Virginia |
| Born |
1845 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
17 Jul 1907 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
| Buried |
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Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Rose Allen | F6092 |
| Married |
1 Nov 1866 |
Danville, Virginia |
| Born |
12 Oct 1848 |
Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
17 Sep 1917 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Frances Moore 'Fannie' Mills | F5809 |
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| Born |
31 Dec 1846 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
18 Feb 1900 |
Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
| Buried |
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Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Jeanette Pritchett Mills | F6093 |
| Married |
13 Nov 1867 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
| Born |
12 Sep 1855 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
9 Jun 1939 |
Norfolk, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Born |
5 Aug 1853 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
17 Feb 1874 |
Statesville, North Carolina |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Born |
1 Jul 1857 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
| Died |
6 Jul 1880 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Born |
1 Sep 1859 |
Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia |
| Died |
24 Sep 1920 |
Washington, DC |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Spouse |
Judge Samuel Jordan Graham | F9035 |
| Married |
30 Oct 1889 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| Born |
19 Jan 1862 |
Halifax County, Virginia |
| Died |
4 Feb 1906 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Born |
14 Oct 1851 |
Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
| Died |
28 Oct 1921 |
Henderson, Kentucky |
| Buried |
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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia |
| Spouse |
George Lane Marshall | F8147 |
| Married |
Bef 1880 |
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| Spouse |
Carl O. Rutsch | F8146 |
| Married |
21 Feb 1900 |
Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Notes |
Married:
- 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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| Sources |
- [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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