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Edgar D. Rader
Born Jul 29, 1880 Burke Co. NC
Died Dec 12, 1947 Caldwell Co. NC
SPOUSE CHILDREN
Grace Alma Crisp

m. 1907
NC
b. Apr 6, 1892
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Aug 23, 1962
Collettsville, Caldwell Co. NC
infant

b. Jun 3, 1908
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Jun 14, 1908
Caldwell Co. NC
Alma Keely

b. May 13, 1909
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Feb 3, 1910
Caldwell Co. NC
Mattie Eva

b. Jan 2, 1911
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Sep 2, 1999
Burke Co. NC
Lucy Irene

b. Mar 1, 1916
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Nov 12, 1982
Caldwell Co. NC
Ervin Dennis

b. Aug 30, 1918
Caldwell Co. NC
d. Sep 17, 1986
Lenoir, Caldwell Co. NC
John Crisp

b. Jul 29, 1924
Collettsville, Caldwell Co. NC
d. Dec 12, 1986
Collettsville, Caldwell Co. NC
Julius Lenn

b. Oct 26 1927
Caldwell Co. NC
d. May 24, 2008
Winter Park, Orange Co. FL
North Carolina Counties at beginning of 1840 and at beginning of 1850 showing the creation of Caldwell Co. from Burke Co. in 1841.
Map of Burke County NC from 1777 to 1799 showing where the McDowell, White, Holloway and Rader families settled.
Collettsville, in the late 18th century, was known as White's, home of William White who served as Justice of the Peace in Burke Co. from 1782 to 1790. In the 1790's, William was called "the grand patriarch of this settlement" according to Bishop Francis Asbury. His plantation, called Mulberry Grove, was located where the Mulberry Creek flowed into the Johns River.
View of Grandfather Mountain from the present end of Holloway Mountain Road, The crooked unpaved road may have originally extended all the way to Little Mulberry Creek in the vicinity of Collettsville and Holloway Mountain. Detailed Guidemap to the Blue Ridge Parkway [Lenoir region] shows the location of the towns of Collettsville and Olivette and of Holloway Mountain along Route 90 west of Lenoir NC.
In 1907 Ed married Grace Crisp, daughter of Julius Theodore Crisp (1863-1943) and Nancy Gragg.
In the 1940 Census, on line 33 of page 8, for street "High Way 90" in Caldwell Co. NC, lists the household of "Ed Rader" as:
Ed age 60,
Grace, wife, age 48,
Eva, daughter, age 29,
Dennis, son, age 21,
John, son, age 15,
Lenn, son, age 12,
"Crisp, J. Theodore, father-in-law" age 76.
Son John C. Rader was the postmaster for Collettsville NC and lived across from the post office at 4355 Collettsville Rd.
In Sep 1978, son John C. Rader encountered at the Lenoir NC Library George Holloway and wife Lisabeth, who were looking for the location of Holloway Mountain and burial sites of Holloway ancestors. Lisabeth's Notes.
Ed Rader bought the land on Holloway Mountain sometime after 1915 from Columbus "Lum" Holloway (1872-1929), the son of George W. Holloway (son of Robert Holloway) and Mary Collett. His son John told Lisabeth Holloway in 1978 that Lum Holloway owned a sawmill and was killed in an accident there [Dec 1929]. Edgar lost the land the same year in the 1929 crash. John described the land as "twenty-five acres either side of the river [Little Mulberry Creek] that’s good for cultivation, and about fifty for pasturage; the rest was mountain land” [Holloway, Lisabeth M., her journal].
Peggy McDowell, daughter of Col. Charles McDowell, married Col. William Dickson (1775-1855). Their large two story frame house was built for them in 1833 and is one of the historical sites in Caldwell Co. NC. [Lenoir Service League]. They are buried in the Dickson Cemetery in the Globe. A photo of the cemetery taken about 1979 [findagrave website].
Sources:
Census 1940, Caldwell Co. NC, ancestry.com website.
Clarke, Elmer T., Manning Potts, T., Payton, Jacob S., Eds., The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury, Vols. 1-3, Nashville TN, Abington Press, and London, Epworth Press, 1958.
Dickson Cemetery, or Glass Family Cemetery, Lenoir, Caldwell Co NC., findagrave website.
Dickson Family Bible.
Holloway, Lisabeth M., meeting with John Rader, Postmaster, Collettsville NC, notes from visit, Sep 14, 1978 [year of 1987 written at top is a mistake].
Huggins, Edith Warren, comp., Burke County, North Carolina Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records, vol. II, Southern Historical Press, Easley SC, p. 125.
Lenoir Service League, Remembrances in Caldwell County N.C., 1976, keyed map.
North Carolina Land Grants, vol. 2, at Morganton NC Library, p. 6, #1476, transcribed by Lisabeth M. Holloway Oct 9, 1987.
Scott, W. W., Annals of Caldwell Co., Lenoir NC, 1930, pp. 64-65, 118.
Vineyard, M.L. & E.M.Wiseman, Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2, Franklin NC, 1997, pp. 96, 233-234, 315-317.
White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982.