George Shuford Ramseur

…of the William R. Laurie University Archives & Special Collections, The University of the South. Ramseur married Ruth Tate Anderson on 6 June 1953, and together they had three children….

Josiah Hale

…http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304. Small (1898) Studies in the botany of the southeastern United States XV. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25(12):…

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…

Velma Dare Matthews

…of 1935 the writer [Dr. Velma Dare Matthews] found a most unusual fungus growing on a small dead fly in a pool in a depression of a large rock on…

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…

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…

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…

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

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:…