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Wood was born and raised in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. [1] She is the daughter of Dennis Blair Harrold, a doctor, and was raised in the Presbyterian faith. [1] [2] She had an older brother, Adam Russell Harrold, who died from cancer when he was nineteen.
James Cathcart Johnston was known as a bachelor. Recent research published in 2013 reveals that although Johnston never married, he was the father of four daughters by his manumitted mistress, Edith "Edy" Wood, of nearby Hertford, N.C. [3] Two of his girls died at the age of eight and nine in 1836, and his eldest daughter, Mary Virginia Wood Forten (daughter-in-law of wealthy African American ...
Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, [6] on Albemarle Sound. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census. [7] Edenton is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. In recent years Edenton has become a popular retirement location and a destination for heritage tourism.
Josiah Collins III (1807 – June 17, 1863) was a North Carolina lawyer and politician. He was the son of Josiah Collins II, a wealthy planter of Edenton, North Carolina, was born at that place in 1807. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. After leaving college, he entered the Litchfield Law School and qualified himself for the profession of ...
Golden Asro Frinks (August 15, 1920 – July 19, 2004) was an American civil rights activist and a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) field secretary who represented the New Bern, North Carolina SCLC chapter. [1] He is best known as a principal civil rights organizer in North Carolina during the 1960s.
Thomas Courtland Manning (September 14, 1825 Edenton, North Carolina – October 11, 1887, New York City) [1] was an American jurist and diplomat. Manning's ancestors came from England to Virginia in the 17th century. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina, admitted to the bar
John Jacobs was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1815. His mother was Delilah Horniblow, a slave of the Horniblow family who owned a local tavern. [b] The father of John and his sister Harriet (born 1813) was Elijah Knox. [6] Elijah Knox, although enslaved, was in some ways privileged because he was an expert carpenter. He died in 1826. [7]
Samuel Johnston (December 15, 1733 – August 17, 1816) was an American planter, lawyer, Grand Master of Freemasons, slave holder, [1] and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate, and he was the sixth Governor of North Carolina.