Augustin Gattinger

…botany initiated me into the science. Moreover, I had from earlier school years been a botanical collector, and had given a great deal of time to these studies. After the…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Range: L – Z. Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. 7. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185209830/walter-lane-barksdale: accessed 06…

Following in Botanical Footsteps at Rocky Face Mountain

…<https://www.co.iredell.nc.us/629/Statesville> [accessed on 25 July 2020] Wikipedia contributors, ‘Western North Carolina Railroad’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 3 March 2019, 19:44 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_North_Carolina_Railroad&oldid=886013521> [accessed 25 July 2020] ‘Statesville, North Carolina’ Encyclopedia…

Walking with Walter and William

…strange locality, “Hanging over the tomb of Thomas Walter, St. John’s Parish.” The specimen had been collected on 29 August, 1909 by the founder of the Herbarium and first chair…

Margaret Campbell Campbell

…signed her collections as “Margaret C. Campbell”. Most are undated and have scant locality data, noting simply “Hendersonville, N.C.”. A few specimens are dated 1894. She seems to have had

Emma Lewis Lipps

…tract of land located in Floyd County, Georgia that had never been cleared for cultivation. Dr. Lipps used the forest as a natural lab for teaching biology and a great…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Family Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65538811 Piedmont Springs: https://www.livingplaces.com/NC/Stokes_County/Danbury_Town/Danbury_Historic_District.html Piedmont Springs Hotel:…

Frances Katherine Foust Lombard

…allomycis Foust which had been found in soil collected from “Battle Grove, across the road from Coker Arboretum, Chapel Hill, N.C. [North Carolina], October 5, 1936… This organism is not…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…classify flowering plants. By 1885 he had in his herbarium a specimen of every phanerogam [flowering plant] growing in that part of the state. As head of a rapidly enlarging…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/1733590/Mary-Stipe-Eyles accessed on 29 March 2021. 2. Powell, Kay. 2005. Mary Eyles, 88, left imprint on students. Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sep. 4, 2005. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=mary-eyles&pid=15014034 Accessed on 29 March 2021.  …