These probate records offer valuable insights into North Carolina’s economic and societal landscape, shedding light on its residents and their assets. The probates, including those documented and compiled here, hold particular significance as they frequently furnish information about a person’s property...
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HendersonBarnes, marriage license, Taylor 1 Comment In June 1923, my grandfather Roderick Taylor vouched for his first cousin Howard Willis Barnes when Barnes applied for a license to marry Elmer Pentecost Wright in Greensboro, North Carolina. Taylor was still spelling his first name with two D...
A regional specialty of Tidewater, Virginia, the South Carolina Lowcountry, and Georgia coast, it was first introduced to these parts by the Scottish settlers in the 1700s in the form of partan-bree, a famous seafood bisque, but it was not until the 1900s that the soup gained its ...
to be close to human populations, said Matthew Frye, a researcher and community educator with the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program at Cornell University.Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000.Robert Mecea / APFrom this research, "we...
aOnce the Hauser family farm, Horne Creek enables visitors to experience farm life in North Carolina's northwestern Piedmont circa 1900. The site features the family's original farm house, a tobacco curing barn, a corn crib, adjacent fields under cultivation, and even a heritage apple orchard....
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and reform in North Carolina1900--1935 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO Lisa Levenstein ThomasSusan WFor the first three decades of the twentieth century, dozens of predominantly black county chain gangs proliferated across North Carolina. The camps existed solely to build county roads,...
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This dissertation, The Schauss/Shouse Family in North Carolina , is a family history/genealogy in book form, tracing the family of Johann Adam Schauss of Albisheim, Pfalz. Johann Adam Schauss was born about 1704 and died in 1770. His ancestry in Germany is traced back to 1620, and his ...