James Heathman Horton

9 January 1931- 5 May 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 300 vascular plant specimens collected by James Heathman Horton. As we…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. 2. Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Virginia Department…

Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

Ralph Page Ashworth, Jr.

…States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168716088/ralph-page-ashworth: accessed 07 November 2022), memorial page for Ralph Page Ashworth…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Judy Ann Tate Morgan

…SOURCES: 1. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048….

William Willard Ashe

…ward, Hannah Emerson Willard, daughter of William H. Willard, a Massachusetts manufacturer who had settled in North Carolina before the Civil War. The widowed Willard had placed his daughter in…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Virginia’s political culture with the large number of university graduates in the state assembly, elites schooled in eugenics had a distinct advantage in affecting social policy. Thus, Virginia and its…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…environment because he had seen much devastation during World War II and because he grew up in the mountains of Northeast Georgia. He was a pioneer in using the Georgia…

Land Acknowledgement

…action to advocate for and support the agendas of Native communities. The Garden and Foundation aspire to understand and share a complete history of the land we steward. Indigenous Land…