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Far Left: Margaret Olive and Glenn Newberry, Middle: Stuart Augustine, Ann Augustine, Amy Watson, Andy Augustine, Avery Cameron Top right: Margaret Olive Newberry, soon to be 100-years old. Left: Flora MacDonald nn Newberry Augustine hails from five generations of Fayetteville businessmen and preachers. Her ancestors include one of the original businessmen in Fayetteville, John Newberry, a Quaker millwright who operated Cumberland County's first gristmill. He was the first landowner and had the first known business erected on Cross Creek. The year was 1757. Ann's roots are from the distinguished Scottish Highland lineage of Flora MacDonald, who became a heroine of the Jac- obite uprising for aiding Bonnie Prince Charlie, following the Jacobite's defeat at Culloden in 1746. Flora MacDonald fled Scotland and lived in North Carolina for five years. Ann's entire family has attended Highland Presbyteri- A BY KELLY TWEDELL an since its inception in 1909. Her grandparents joined the church in 1911. One of the first Baptist churches downtown was named aſter her family, Newberry Baptist Church. Ann's father, Glenn Newberry, grew up attending Hay Street Meth- odist Church and her mother, Margaret Olive Newberry, is the daughter of Dr. P.W. Olive. In 1923 they lived at Westlawn, property that backed up to what is now Alma Easom Elementary School. That West- lawn home was later moved near Anderson Creek and sold to the First Christian Church. The Olives had seven children. Dr. Olive traveled from Fayetteville to Wade on horseback to 36 | October • 2012 From the Highlands to the Sandhills Ann Newberry Augustine's roots span five generations in Fayetteville visit his patients. In 1957 Ann's parents built their home on Devane Street, where Ann and her husband, now deceased, also chose to live. The Augustine's renovated the home nicely, to reflect their personal style, yet it remains filled with walls of family photos and mementos of her family's legacy. On January 7, 2013, Margaret Newberry will turn 100-years old. Margaret is a lifelong member of Highland Presbyterian Church and to say she is involved would be an understate- ment. Margaret was President of the Women's Church Circle, a Chairman Bible leader, and very involved in Sunday school, as was Margaret's mother before her. "They got perfection and then they stopped," joked Ann, of being an only child. When Ann was young her father, Glenn Newberry, was draſted at age 36 into the Infantry during World War II. Before the war Glenn owned Glenn Newberry Heating & Cooling in Fayetteville. When business was thriving, he had several brands and even had a store in Southern Pines, where he sold appliances and televisions. Ann recalls being eight years old watching programming on their Motorola black and white television console with her family. "Daddy was always ahead of his time," said Ann. "We had the second television set in Fayetteville. He bought it from Raleigh." CV

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