Whitemarsh Road, Suffolk, Virginia 1921/1922 - Pictured from top row (left to right)

Jack, Wray, Grover P, Garland, Russell, Olin, Louis, Quinby, William, Floyd, Angus

Elizabeth, Annie, Margaret, Eunice, Blanche, Angus H, Anna C, Ruth, Louise, Lois

Mildred, Katherine, Clarence, J.B., Garland, Elizabeth, Horace

Angus was the second child of four of James Thomas (1833) and Angeline Hines was born July 2, 1857 in Northampton County North Carolina.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncnortha/

Angus was three years old when the American Civil War broke out. His father James served from late February 1862 until April 1865 (see James Thomas Hines on first page of this website).

The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the U.S. federal government (the "Union"), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

In January of 1876 his parents bought 10,000 acres of land in Murfreesboro North Carolina.

Located in the old Albemarle region of North Carolina, between the Roanoke and Chowan Rivers, Murfreesboro and the surrounding Hertford County area was first visited by John White of Roanoke Island in the 16th century and by an expedition from Jamestown, Virginia in the 17th century. During this era, the principal inhabitants were several Indian tribes such as the Nottoways, Meherrins, and the Chowanokes.

Colonial riverport villages like Murfreesboro and Winton were linked by the Chowan Rivers and its tributaries with the Albemarle Sound. Local trade routes were established between the other river and sound communities of the coastal regions of NC, the southeastern interior of the Virginia colony, and New England.

http://www.albemarle-nc.com/murfreesboro/

He married August 18, 1880 to Anna Catherine Eads at the home of Turner S. Taylor by the Reverend W. E. Allen.

In December 1888 Angus bought over 400 acres of land outside of Boykins, Virginia.

At the turn of the 20th Century the Hines Buggy Company of Murfreesboro, North Carolina in Boykins in a four story building in a lot next to the railroad. Before the end of 1911 it was turning out buggies at a rate of 120 per year.

Horse and buggy

A horse and buggy (in American English) or horse and carriage (in British English) refers to a light, simple, two-person carriage of the 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn usually by one or sometimes by two horses. Also called a roadster, it was made with two wheels in England and the United States, and with four wheels in the United States as well. It had a folding or falling top.

The bodies of buggies were sometimes suspended on a pair of longitudinal elastic wooden bars called sidebars. A buggy whip had a small, usually tasseled tip called a snapper.

In countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, it was the primary mode of short-distance personal transportation, especially between 1865 and 1915. At that time, horseback riding was less common and required more specific skills than driving a buggy.

Therefore, until mass production of the automobile brought its price within the reach of the working class, horses and horse-drawn conveyances such as the buggy were the most common means of transport in towns and the surrounding countryside. Buggies cost as little as $25 to $50, and could easily be hitched and driven by untrained women or children. In the United States, hundreds of small companies produced buggies, and their wide use helped to encouraged the grading and paving of main roads in order to provide all-weather passage between towns. By the early 1910s, however, the number of automobiles had passed the number of buggies. However, the buggy is still used by the Amish, Mennonite and other groups within various Anabaptist faith traditions as a religiously compliant, non-motorized form of basic transportation.

By the 1930's the Boykins Buggy Company was replaced by a meat packing plant.

In the 1940's Floyd Hines operated the Hines Peanut Company in the same building.

Elizabeth "Bettie" Taylor Hines

(1888-1936)

Elizabeth "Bettie" Taylor Hines and Albert

Lee Urbach were married 23 November 1921.

Her husband, my grandfather, was a very prominent

businessman here in Weston and ran a Woodman Insurance Company office

here (his building is still an insurance office). He was killed in a

rabbit hunting accident on December 18, 1944 - he was hunting in the

Goosepen area of sourthern Lewis County with a friend. He'd come to a

fence, laid his shotgun on it to cross and it fell as he was stepping

over and caught the full blast in the jugular. There was a huge write

up in both Weston and Clarksburg papers. I'd imagine that was a very,

very sad Christmas. Bettie died from a brain tumor on 28 December 1936.