The court house lawn job about finished is from the designs of Francis Deaton, raised over near the Farm Life School, and an engineer as well known in this section that he is rated as about the best to be found in his line. He is an encyclopedia when it comes to the boundaries and corners of Moore county lands, and one of the most accurate surveyors that ever set a transit on a line in this part of the state. He is of such a painstaking disposition that hewn he has done a piece of work, no one has to follow him to see if it is right, and his surveys in court are looked on as positive evidence as to land lines and location.
Mr. Deaton has done a large proportion of the intricate work in this section as well as other places, and is always in such demand that he cannot fill the calls that are made for him. He is engaged in so much work at Pinehurst that an office is maintained there for him, and a great deal of the more complicated work in his line in the whole neighborhood is his. For most of the difficult or important jobs, Francis Deaton is called if he can give up the time. If not then someone else is considered.
A man once buying a piece of ground remarked that if he had Jim Johnson, Aberdeen, to investigate the title and Frances Deaton to make a survey and plot of the tract, he would demand no further credentials. And another man one remarked about Deaton that “he has one fault. So many others are after him that when you want him, so many are ahead, you have to wait until you can get him.”
From the front page of The Southern Pines Pilot, “a paper devoted to the upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory,” Friday, December 5, 1924. To see a photo of Francis Deaton, go to:
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073968/1924-12-05/ed-1/seq-1/
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