This Family History was written by Norma S. Cox & shared September 25th, 2008 The Hobart and Martha Vaughn Spainhour Family lived on Jefferson Road with a Rural Hall address at the Stokes and Forsyth County line which is now part of the city of King. Rural Hall was not a town then. Our House was torn down a few years ago and the logs were used, along with some from an Ancestor’s old log house in Stokes County, to build a log House and Kitchen in King Central Park.  This Ancestor had come to the United States from Switzerland, first to Pennsylvania, then to Stokes County in North Carolina in the seventeen hundreds. Mom, Daddy, five sons and four daughters made up our family.  The three older sons attended Old Richmond School in elementary grades. Mr. Tom Cash was superintendent of Forsyth County Schools at the time.  I assume it was his decision to do so and they were transferred to Rural Hall School. A few weeks later, maybe because we lived at the county line, they talked of transferring them to Stokes County Schools. Mom made a visit to Mr. Cash’s office and this never came to be. Four sons and four daughters graduated from Rural Hall High School.  One son graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School. After serving in World War II, Earl continued school at N. C. State, graduating with a degree in Industrial Engineering.  He was with Western Electric at times in New Jersey, North Carolina and Retiring in Richmond, Virginia.  At one time he was on loan from Western Electric to the space program. Howard graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Law.  He was a partner with a firm in Norfolk, Virginia. Henry attended UNC Chapel Hill, was called into military service, returned home and to Wake Forest University.  He was with Western Electric. Four sons and three sons-in-law served in the Armed Service of our Country. College was available through the GI bill to veterans who would otherwise maybe never have attained it. Our Mom believed in Education and to some degree I think all of us continued in that direction. Everette, who died at 40, married Almeta Merritt. Earlie married Jane Hauser (deceased) Dorothy Doerr Tremaine (Howard) married Nancy Williamson Norma married Junior Cox Daisy married George Starling, Jr. Henry married Marlene Deal Bonnie married Orlice Speas Ruth married Joe Poindexter Rayford married Shelby Marsh Our Dad farmed for years, was in Construction, building housing for service persons at the time of World War II, later was in feed and seed sales in Winston-Salem. We walked about ¾ mile to meet the school bus until Howard was old enough to drive a bus. (16 years and driver’s license) Students drove buses then. It was five miles to school so a large number of families lived on the route.  Many were cousins.  Kids were from the families of Vaughn, Spainhour, Aldridge, Moss, Kiger, Alderman, Helsabeck, Shore, Nichols, Thomas, Tuttle, Bolejack, Moore, Mowen, Mabe, Brewer and maybe others.  Just like all kids, or at least for me, one of the joys of riding the bus was when, on our way to school, we’d get stuck in the mud on the hill just before we got to Nazareth Lutheran Church.  The road was not paved so the mud routes would be deep when it rained.  We would go in to school late.  It might even be recess. Both sets of grandparents, James and Martha McGee Spainhour and George and Armitta Westmoreland Vaughn lived nearby.  Grandpa Vaughn has come to this area with his family from Caswell County. Also several Aunts and Uncles lived nearby.  So without knowing it I was into genealogy. Mom and Dad both came from a family of seven siblings. Spainhour Siblings Roy married Grace Voss Ernest married Gennie Southern Judson married Mabel Long Eunice married Jesse Browder Mabel married Allen Mabe Lester married Irene Jessup Charlie married Evelyn Southern Vaughn Siblings Lelia married Robert Browder James married Fleta Burrow Roscoe married Cleon Boles Mary married Luther Long Georgia married Moscoe Sapp Lillian married Edward Naylor Marvin married Mallie Knight We attended Antioch Methodist Church located on Antioch Church Road off of Jefferson Church Road. In earlier years Antioch Methodist Church and Rural Hall Methodist Church were on the same charge, meaning the same Pastor served both Churches. The house that served as the parsonage, at that time, was a white frame house that still sits at the curve across from St. James Methodist Church which at that time was Rural Hall Methodist Charge, which at times included Rural Hall, Antioch, Bethel and Germanton Methodist.  Rural Hall Methodist Church later became Kingswood Methodist Church.  The newer parsonage, for Rural Hall Methodist Charge, was the brick house at the intersection of Church and Bellmeade streets. I remember fire destroying buildings all around our school building.  The old gym next to Highway 65, the Baptist Church across the street from school and someone’s home next to the school opposite Highway 65. For 60 years I’ve lived in Southern Rural Hall just beyond the town limits and still think it’s the greatest place I know to be. Your Town Slogan says it’s the Garden Spot of the World. It really is! Norma S. Cox