Wayne County, NC - Biography of Barnes Aycock

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Barnes Aycock of the County Board of Education 

There is no member more devoted to the cause of the people, or more 
faithful in attendance or more conscientious in the discharge of duty 
than Barnes Aycock, and to his ever vigilant observation and wise counsel 
is largely due the big measure of success this board has accomplished for 
education in Wayne.

Born in 1844 August 10th Mr. Aycock was just of volunteer age when the
War of the Southern Confederacy broke over the country and he promptly
offered his young manhood to the cause of the south, and on many a hard
fought field where brave men faced death and heroes died, he laid his life
a fresh sacrifice again and again upon the altar of his country and when
at length the great tragedy closed at Appomatox, he turned his face to the
future with the same undaunted courage that sustained him in the ordeal of 
war, and through which he has accomplished success in his chosen vocation, 
and today he is one of our county's most solvent farmers, and a citizen 
holding the highest esteem of his people who are proud to honor him in any 
capacity in which he will accept public service. 

But he is content to serve without compensation, the children of the county
in providing for their education, whereby they shall be fitted for life's 
duties and possiblities. All honor, therefore to Barnes Aycock, soldier, 
citizen, farmer and friend of popular education.

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