Description: North Carolina State magazine, May 20, 1939, Volume VI Number 51 The State a weekly survey of North Carolina combine with my many other listings for vintage NC State magazines from the 1930s and 1940s this issue contains many very interesting and historical articles & stories from all parts of North Carolina. Cities, towns, county, famous people, etc... Judge Henry Grady Gladiator of Sampson County. Retired Superior Court Judge. Now Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Klan.Out Where the West Begins, North Carolina beyond Asheville , eight counties past Asheville in far Western parts of North Carolina , story.Women to hold meeting, Democratic National Committee conference held in Winston SalemPicture of Miss Leona Moore of Robersonville , completed 50 years of service as a Teacher , grade school.The Bar of Craven - Law / lawyers------------------------------------information below taken from the internet:In 1922, Grady was elected a judge of the superior court and took office on 1 Jan. 1923. A popular judge, he easily won reelection in 1930 but declined to seek a third term in 1938, probably due in part to the death of his wife in 1935. After his retirement, he served as emergency judge for life. In 1952 and 1953, then over eighty years old, he held more sessions of superior court than any other judge in North Carolina.About 1923, Judge Grady was elected Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, an organization then promoting law and order. A moderate, he endeavored to steer the organization away from extreme actions. He supported legislation banning the wearing of masks, both as a way to keep the Klan from getting into trouble and to keep it from being blamed for the acts of others. Following a split with the national leadership, primarily because it was felt that he was too restraining an influence, he resigned as Grand Dragon in 1927.On and off the bench, Grady was a tireless worker. His favorite pastimes included carpentry and cabinetmaking, and he enjoyed building grandfather clocks. A fiddler of no mean accomplishment, he took pleasure in entertaining his friends and guests. His love of literature remained with him all his life, and his favorite authors were Tennyson and Burns. Grady was a poet himself, penning "Chocolate," "The Land of Never Come Back" (describing death to the young son of a friend), and "Immortality." He also enjoyed history and genealogy, and was an authority on several North Carolina families. He gathered and catalogued genealogical data from every available source. His exhaustive research is nowhere more evident than in his "Charge to the Grand Jury" in Duplin County in 1933; this work is a masterpiece of family and legal history and jurisprudence.A noted storyteller, Grady often kept listeners entranced for hours. He was much in demand as a public speaker at bar meetings and at historical and other public gatherings. His numerous speeches, spiced with anecdotes, incidents, history, and philosophy, have been described as uplifting and thought provoking. Among them were "The Two Spaights of New Bern" (7 June 1923), "The Battle of Moore's Creek" (13 Apr. 1925), the address at the first Grady-Outlaw reunion (29 Aug. 1930), the address upon the presentation of a portrait of Superior Court Judge Chatham C. Lyon to Bladen County (29 Apr. 1935), and the address upon the presentation of a portrait of Albert T. Outlaw, former register of deeds, to Duplin County, in which Grady recited his inspirational poem, "Tell Him Now" (10 Apr. 1953)—all of which are preserved in the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Judge Grady has been described by those who knew him as having the wisdom of Solomon. He is said to have had the "common touch," with a keen understanding of human nature and of the problems and lives of those with whom he came into contact. Always helpful to those who were sincere and earnest, he was capable of ascertaining falsehood and pretense and hated a lie. In the courtroom, he knew no fear, on occasion wielding a firearm to maintain order. He demanded justice and fairness, for which he had a passion, and is said to have managed the business of the court with firmness and expedition and to have presided with dignity and discretion.On 23 Oct. 1901, Grady married Anne Elizabeth Graham, the only daughter of Dr. Daniel McLean and Elizabeth Ann Murphey Graham of Wallace. She was the cousin of Frank Porter Graham, president of The University of North Carolina and later a U.S. senator from North Carolina and United Nations ambassador. After their marriage, the Gradys lived in Clinton and became the parents of three daughters, all of whom died, and three sons, Henry A., Jr., an attorney in Clinton and New Bern; Franklin McLean, a physician in New Bern; and Graham Montrose, a career army officer.Grady died at the age of eighty-six. After a funeral service in the Clinton Presbyterian Church, he was buried in the Clinton Cemetery.
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