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Apple Surname
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North Carolina
This very old log
dwelling sits at the corner of High Rock Road
and Old NC Highway 61, not far from APPLE'S CHAPEL.
By North Carolina Standards, the area is still quite rural
and is mostly farm land.
Photo by Anita,
c. June 2000
| THE NORTH CAROLINA APPLES This site is devoted to the Apple families that settled primarily in the counties of Guilford & Alamance, in North Carolina. They settled first in Pennsylvania, and then migrated to North Carolina in about 1760. These are the ancestors of my mother, Esther Apple. * * * * * * * * * I have only recently started researching my Apple genealogy. Much of this information is gleaned from several different family sources (and visits to the APPLE'S CHAPEL Cemetery) and has been pieced together in an effort to start to tie the NC APPLES together. Hopefully, this will provide other APPLES a 'frame of reference' to assist in their searches. While much of this information on these pages is accurate, it should not necessarily be considered "gospel", and each person should individually document your research by primary sources. * * * * * * * * * If there are errors on these pages, and you have primary documentation to support this, please let me know and I will be happy to make the change. If there are questions, I will answer email as I have time - while working my full-time job, and maintaining the DEAN FAMILY HOMEPAGE ! |
My Grandmother
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| Granddaddy
Apple Grover Cleveland Apple |
Grandmother Apple Sue Myrtle Edwards Apple |
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| Grover Cleveland Apple Sue Myrtle Edwards Apple Photo abt. 1914 |
Grover
Cleveland Apple was my mother's father...a
grandfather that his Apple
grandchildren could never know. My mom was only about 4 years old
in 1923, when
her dad died of "Lou Gehrig's" Disease, or
Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), the
same
disease that took the life of the Baseball Great, Lou Gehrig. My
grandfather
was just 36 years of age when he died.
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Grover,
abt 16 yrs (1903)
With The Motor He Built
According
to family history and documents, Grover was a man with an
exceptionally
promising future - bright and precocious, and "into
machines" of any variety. He
built his first small motor when only about 16 years of age, in
about 1903.
Only a few short years later, he owned an Indian motorcycle. He
took his love
of machines and found work with the railroad in Spencer NC,
becoming foreman.
Later, he joined Neuman's machine shop in Greensboro, NC, where
he eventually
became a foreman as well.
While
working at Neuman's, he invented a radiator cap for the
"newfangled"
automobile and had it patented. Apple Cousin Fred, has a copy of
the patent.
Shortly after, by all family accounts, his attorney illegally
took the patent for
his own - and no one in the family knows what happened after
that. Sadly,
he was cut down in the prime of his life. He would never live out
his promise.
His wife Sue Myrtle, my grandmother, then raised 4 small children
(including
my mom) alone - through the depression.
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Inscription on Grover C. Apple's Tombstone
This page is dedicated to my
grandparents
Grover & Sue Myrtle Apple.
Grandmother
Sue M. Edwards Apple
1964
1. (Johan)
Adam Apple Sr. b. 1737 7. Grover Cleveland Apple b.
1/11/1887 |
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Grover
Cleveland Apple's Children
At Apple's
Chapel 1981
Lf to Rt
Arthur, Esther
(my mom), Homer, Ruth
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APPLE'S CHAPEL
CHURCH
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