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Brinson moved back to North Carolina in the late 1970s and worked as a reporter, editorial page writer, and feature writer for The Sentinel, an afternoon newspaper in Winston-Salem. After the paper folded in 1985, she began writing book reviews and feature stories for the Winston-Salem Journal. She was later appointed the first woman editorial ...
Anne Cannon Forsyth (August 23, 1930 – May 11, 2003) was a Cannon textiles and R.J. Reynolds tobacco families heiress, and education activist who created the Anne C. Stouffer Foundation in 1967, which was the first foundation to offer full scholarships for young African-American students to attend elite southern preparatory boarding schools.
Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina [27] Richard Burr, United States Senator; Irving E. Carlyle, North Carolina lawyer and state leader; R. Thurmond Chatham, U.S. House of ...
Bowman Gray was born in what was then Winston, North Carolina, to Wachovia co-founder James Alexander Gray and the former Aurelia Bowman. After receiving his primary and secondary education in his hometown, Gray matriculated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1890-91 academic year and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
At around 2:08 p.m. on April 14, officers came to an apartment on 1300 block of North Main Street in Winston-Salem after getting a report […] Man charged in murder of 59-year-old Winston-Salem ...
Cornelia Deaderick Glenn (1854–1926), First Lady of North Carolina; Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854–1920), Governor of North Carolina; Margaret Nowell Graham (1867–1942), artist; Gordon Gray (1909–1982), American politician, U.S National Security Advisor [1] John Wesley Hanes (1850–1903), businessman
God's Acre Cemetery (also known as Salem Moravian God's Acre and Salem Moravian Graveyard) is a cemetery for the Moravian congregation in Old Salem, North Carolina.It is located around 100 yards (91 m) north of the town's Home Moravian Church and also serves the thirteen member churches of Salem's congregation: Ardmore, Bethesda, Calvary, Christ, Fairview, Fires, Home, Immanuel New Eden ...
Katharine Smith was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina. [1] Katharine was the oldest of six children of a prosperous local businessman, Zachary T. Smith and his wife, Mary Susan Jackson. Katharine was well educated and attended the State Normal and Industrial School, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in the fall of ...