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| A.M. Stack 1863-1937 |
Amos Morehead Stack was the son of Union County farmer Amos
M. Stack who died December 27, 1862, six weeks before son Amos was born on February
12, 1863. Stack graduated from Trinity College in 1884, received his law
license in 1885 and moved to Winston-Salem where he helped found the Sentinel
newspaper. He then formed a law partnership with Hon. R.B. Glenn in Stokes
County. For several years he was superintendent
of public schools and county attorney.
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| Stack-Bickett Law Office - Danbury |
By 1888, Stack was in partnership in Danbury, Stokes County,
with Thomas Walter Bickett. Historical marker erected on the Stack-Bickett Law
Office reads, “Erected in 1888, this building served as the law office of
attorney Amos M. Stack, who was elected Superior Court Judge in 1922, and his
partner, attorney Thomas W. Bickett, who was governor of North Carolina
1917-1921; for attorney John D. Humphreys, who was elected Superior Court Judge
in 1930, but who died before serving; and for attorney Ralph J. Scott, who was
elected District Solicitor in 1938, and in 1956 was elected United States
Congressman.”
In 1893 Stack represented Stokes and Surry Counties in the
State Senate. In July 1899, after his Danbury house burned, Stack returned to
Union County and January 1, 1900 became a partner of R.B. Redwine,
Esq.
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| A.M. Stack House - 1902 Sketches of Monroe & Union County Stack family home from 1899 until he built the 1910 house. |
In Sketches of Monroe and Union County, Amos M. Stack was
described, probably by George Beasley (since they co-authored the book), “Mr.
Stack is a fine advocate, and is at his best in the court house and before a
jury. He is quick to see the salient points of a case and pushes them. During
the spring and summer of 1901 Mr. Stack took an extensive trip abroad, visiting
Egypt and the Holy Land as well as England and several European countries.
While on the trip he wrote a series of articles for the Monroe Journal and
attracted wide attention. Since returning his services as a lecturer are
eagerly sought after.”
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| Detail of A.M. Stack House - 1902 photograph |
The son of Amos M. Stack (1818-1862) and Sarah A. Hilton
(1830-1870), Amos M. married Charity Rebecca Prather (1868-1922) in Mt. Airy,
NC in 1892. They had the following children: Lee Prather (1893-1968), Mabel
Rebecca (1895-1976), Lillian (1897-1988), Amos Morehead (1899-1985), Guerard
(1900-1980), William Redwine ((1902-1973), Robert Glenn (1904-1908), Chattie
Prather (1908-1947), Rachel Banner (1910-1911) and Lorraine Gilmer (1913-1998).
After wife Charity Prather Stack died in 1922, in 1925 Amos married Mary Belle Craven in
Forsyth County. Amos M. Stack died 2 Sept 1937 in the Ellen Fitzgerald
Hospital.
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| 316 East Windsor St. - Later the public library |
This house was built about 1910. Judge Amos M.
Stack and Charity Prather Stack moved to this site in Monroe in 1899 with their
first 4 children. About 10 years later they moved that house down the hill next
door and built this home. The old house was moved in two parts to get around a
big walnut tree. (Information provided by Virginia Bjorlin.)
Sources:
-Amos M. Stack and George
Beasley, Sketches of Monroe and Union County, 1902.
-Gene Stowe and Carl A.
Sergio, Inherit the Land
-Historical Marker
Database:HMdb.org
-Ancestry.com
