Catawba Valley Neighbors
Section V
January 4, 1995
Harvest of History
Highlights the Anthony/Sigmon farm
ABRAHAM ANTHONY
FOCUS is primarily on the property itself.  "Of particular interest to local historians, the ANTHONY family farm has a silo built inside the barn.
A copy of the article is stored in the Catawba County--Historic Houses--ANTHONY file, located in the Rhodes Room Vertical file cabinets.  It includes four pictures, including one of the Greek revival brick farmhouse built in 1877-78, and the barn with the interior silo.

Corpening, Albert N.
The Corpening family: (the Southern branch), Corpening, Copening, Copeney, Copany, Copeny
Franklin, IN: The Author, 1967
NC Ref 929.2 CORPENING
Page 148

Eaker, Lorena Shell, 1927-
German speaking people west of the Catawba River in North Carolina, 1750-1800 : and some émigrés' participation in the early settlement of southeast Missouri
Franklin, NC: Genealogy Pub. Service; Church Hill, TN: book orders to SCK Publications (L.S. Eaker, P.O. Box 2125, Church Hill 37642), c1994.
NC Ref 975.600431 EAK
Pages 64 & 65

Eaker, Lorena Shell, 1927-
The shoe cobbler's kin: genealogy of the Peter (Ecker) Eaker, Sr. family / compiler and editor, Lorena Shell Eaker (Mrs. Odis C.)
Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1976-c1985.
Vol. 2 published: Church Hill, TN: SCK Publications.
NC Ref 929.2 EAKER
Pages 810 & 811--Paulus Antoni--1741

Etters, Abbie S.
Ancestry of Henry Jacob Anthony
File copy only due to copyright restrictions.

Heritage of:

Hickerson, Thomas Felix.
Happy Valley, history and genealogy
Chapel Hill, NC: Hickerson, 1940.
NC Ref 929.3 HIC

Hickory Daily Record
October 3, 1991 (Page 3B)
Families Plan Annual Reunion
   Phillip B. and Sara Ann Martin Anthony

Hofmann, Margaret M.
Colony of North Carolina: abstracts of land patents, Volume 1
Weldon, N.C.: Roanoke News Co., c1982-c1984.
v. 1. 1735-1764
NC Ref 929.3 HOF v.1
Page 398
JOHN SHUFFORD and PAUL ANTHONY 22 December 1768--37 Tryon County (...)."
#1404

Ingmire, Frances Terry.
Abstracted wills of Catawba County, North Carolina, 1842-1870
St. Louis, MO (10166 Clairmont Dr., St. Louis 63136): F.T. Ingmire, c1984.
NC Ref 929.3756785 ING
Page 19 -- Abraham, Abel Henry, Any Mary, Cephas Paul, Elisabeth Salena, Jacob, Magdalen, Paul & Philip
Page 701 -- Julius A.

Lincoln County Deed Records
Book 1, Page 532
May 20, 1771
Paul Anthony and wife Froney give land in order that a "Christian Church Lotarin and Presbetaren" could be built.  There is a note that the land for both for the church as well as a schoolhouse.

Observer News Enterprise

First Friday Magazine
August 5 & 10, 1983
By Lois Boynton
Youngsters tour family homes
Page 5 tells the story of Abraham Anthony and his career shift from farmer to cobbler. 
Page 6--Photograph of the front of the Abraham Anthony home.
Photographs of some Anthony descendants, some interesting trivia of the times such as the photo of Minerva Sigmon and family posing with photographs of deceased relatives--reported to be a common practice of the times.

October 19, 1983
Obituary
Rosa Anthony--Lincolnton (97)

Pennsylvania German church records of births, baptisms, marriages, burials, etc.: from the Pennsylvania German Society proceedings and addresses--with an introduction by Don Yoder.
Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983.
Arch. 929.3748 PEN
New Hanover Lutheran Church, List of Baptisms.
Page 146-147--Antoni, Elizabeth born Feb 24, 1751, parents Paul & Euphronica

Philbeck, Miles S.
Lincoln County, North Carolina will abstracts, 1779-1910 / compiled by Miles S. Philbeck, Jr. and Grace Turner.
Wilson, NC: G. Turner; Chapel Hill, N.C.: M.S. Philbeck, Jr., c1986.
NC Ref 929.375678 PHI
Wills of Anderson, George, John P. Paul, Phillip, and Phillip

White, Emmett R.
Revolutionary War soldiers of western North Carolina: Burke County
Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, c1984-
NC Ref 973.3456 WHI
Pages 4 & 5--Philip Anthony--early, military, and later life summaries.

Yoder, George M.
A condensed history of early settlers in Catawba County
NC Ref 929.2 YOD
Page 22+