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Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Pilgrim Reformed Church, founded about 1757 By a man of the name Valentine Leonhardt. It contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781.
Frances Ruth Coker Burks (born March 19, 1959), [1] also known as the Cemetery Angel, is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis patients and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. [2] During the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a real estate agent to care for AIDS patients whose families and communities had abandoned them.
Charles Westfield Coker (May 10, 1933 – June 27, 2024) was an American businessman who was the president and CEO of Sonoco Products Company of Hartsville, South Carolina.
Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery (also known as Becks United Church of Christ Cemetery) is a historic church cemetery located in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1771. It is associated with the Beck's Lutheran and Reformed Church, founded in 1787.
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
A Lexington woman died after being involved in a single-vehicle collision on Interstate 75 in Northern Kentucky Friday. Ashley Wyatt, 36, was driving north in a 2002 Toyota 4Runner when she lost ...
In November of 2022 Paxton Media Group acquired The Dispatch and five other North Carolina newspapers from Gannett Co., Inc. [11] Estimated average circulation of The Dispatch in 2013 was 6,892. [12] The Dispatch is a member of the North Carolina Press Association. [1]
James L Coker. Major James Lide Coker (January 3, 1837, in Society Hill, South Carolina – June 25, 1918, in Hartsville, South Carolina) was a businessman, merchant, industrialist, Christian philanthropist, [1] [2] [3] and Civil War veteran, and the founder of Sonoco Products Company and Coker University.