David Schenck (1835 - 1902)

Born 24 Mar 1835 in Lincolnton, Lincoln, North Carolina, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Sallie Wilfong (Ramseur) Schenck — married 25 Aug 1859 (to about 26 Aug 1902) in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1902 at age 67 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA

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Biography

"David Schenck, lawyer, judge, public servant, and author, was born to David Warlick and Susan Bevins Schenck in Lincolnton. His father, a surgeon, was the son of the founder of the earliest cotton mill in the South. David Schenck was educated in local schools, including Chief Justice Richmond Pearson's famous "Richmond Hill" law school. He began a practice in Dallas, Gaston County, in 1857. Shortly after moving to Dallas he was appointed county solicitor. Also while living there he met and married Sallie Wilfong Ramseur."^[1]

"A mid-level Confederate official and lawyer in secessionist North Carolina, David Schenck (1835–1902) penned extensive diaries that have long been a wellspring of information for historians. He helped found the revolutionary States’ Rights Party and relentlessly pursued his vision of an idealized Southern society even after the collapse of the Confederacy...After secession, Schenck remained on the home front as a receiver under the Act of Sequestration, enriching himself on the confiscated property of those he accused of disloyalty. After the war, his position as a leader in the Ku Klux Klan and his resistance to Radical Reconstruction policies won him a seat on the superior court bench, but scathing newspaper articles^[2] about his past upended a bid for chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a compelling fall from grace that reveals much about the shifting currents in North Carolina society and politics in the years after Reconstruction. During the last twenty years of his life, spent in Greensboro, Schenck created the Guilford Battleground Company in an effort to redeem the honor of the Tar Heels who fought there and his own honor as well."^[3]

David was born in 1835. David Schenck ... He passed away in 1902. ^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ [Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.
2. ↑ The Weekly Era (Raleigh), "A Ku Klux for Judge" (June 4, 1874).
3. ↑ Rodney Steward, David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity (2012)).
4. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFSW-ZYT : 20 November 2015), David Schenck, 1902; citing Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,022,183.
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2M-PNNW : 13 December 2015), David Schenck, 1902; Burial, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States of America, Green Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 57761822, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BZ-546 : 9 November 2014), David Schenck in household of D W Schenck, Lincoln county, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States; citing family 73, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD68-WHV : 30 December 2015), David Schenck in entry for Jacob F Pegram, 1860.

Acknowledgements

Helen L, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Helen and others.