. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ss in life. In preparing the life of , Rev. Dr. Palmer has asserted a truth which maybe classed as a proverb: The pages of history w7ill be searchedin vain for a great man who had a fool for his mother. Inwriting of her, the Hon. David Schenck, who married SallieWilfong, her second daughter, says: As a young lady shewas said to have been beautiful and attractive. I knewher intimately from 1849 to her death. She was awoman of great force of character. To a judgment clear andfirm she united gentleness, tenderness and sympathy. Hermanners w
. Lives of distinguished North Carolinians . ss in life. In preparing the life of , Rev. Dr. Palmer has asserted a truth which maybe classed as a proverb: The pages of history w7ill be searchedin vain for a great man who had a fool for his mother. Inwriting of her, the Hon. David Schenck, who married SallieWilfong, her second daughter, says: As a young lady shewas said to have been beautiful and attractive. I knewher intimately from 1849 to her death. She was awoman of great force of character. To a judgment clear andfirm she united gentleness, tenderness and sympathy. Hermanners were easy and courteous and fascinating. She wasan active and devoted member of the Presbyterian Church,and brought up her children in the teachings of the shortercatechism from their early youth. It was to her that Gen-eral Ramseur owed the mental and moral foundations of hi^character. He received his preparatory training in theschools of Lincolnton and Milton; thence he matriculated atDavidson College, entered the freshman class and passed. STEPHEN D. RAMSEUR. STEPHEN I). 457 eighteen months at this institution. Tic curly displayed tlufdecision of character and force of will which distinguishedhim in after life. He had an ardent longing for a militarycareer, and though disappointed in his efforts to secure anappointment as a cadet at the United States Military Acad-emy, he wras not cast down. Through the aid of General Hill, then a professor at Davidson, his second applicationwas successful. He was given his appointment to the Acad-emy by that sturdy old Roman, Hon. Burton Craige, whobefore the days of rotation in office was long an able and dis-tinguished member of Congress from our State. Ramseurspent the usual term of five years at the Academy and wasgraduated with distinction in the class of 1860. Among hisclassmates of national reputation were General James H. Wil-son and General Merritt, Colonel Wilson, Commandant atUnited States Military Academy, and Col
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