Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina

Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina
Author: Larry J. Griffin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439661251

Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.

The Practical Playbook

The Practical Playbook
Author: J. Lloyd Michener
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019022214X

For the first time, The Practical Playbook offers professionals in primary care and public health a roadmap to integrating their work with the larger goals of population health. Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of public health and primary care professionals from across the US, The Practical Playbook is the new benchmark for primary care and public health practitioners working to improve population health.

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868

Wilkes County, NC, P&Q Minutes, 1860-1868
Author: John A. McGeachy
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017
Genre: Court records
ISBN: 1794774750

These volumes contains a verbatim transcription of the Wilkes County Court minutes. Two individuals have abstracted the earliest Wilkes County court minutes, those for the period 1778 to 1797. First, in 1974-1975 by Mrs. W.O. Absher, and in 2014 as 2nd edition by James Alan Williams.

The Phillips Family

The Phillips Family
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1210
Release: 1988
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

John Phillips (ca. 1735-1801) and his family moved from Loudon County, Virginia to Rowan (now Davie) County, North Carolina during or before 1790. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some Phillips genealogical data (where no connection can be traced as yet) in New England, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Otto Wood, the Bandit

Otto Wood, the Bandit
Author: Trevor McKenzie
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469664720

Legions of bluegrass fans know the name Otto Wood (1893–1930) from a ballad made popular by Doc Watson, telling the story of Wood's crimes and violent death. However, few know the history of this Appalachian figure beyond the larger-than-life version heard in song. Trevor McKenzie reconstructs Wood's life, tracing how a Wilkes County juvenile delinquent became a celebrated folk hero. Throughout his short life, Wood was jailed for numerous offenses, stole countless automobiles, lost his left hand, and made eleven escapes from five state penitentiaries, including four from the North Carolina State Prison after a 1923 murder conviction. An early master of controlling his own narrative in the media, Wood appealed to the North Carolina public as a misunderstood, clever antihero. In 1930, after a final jailbreak, police killed Wood in a shootout. The ballad bearing his name first appeared less than a year later. Using reports of Wood's exploits from contemporary newspapers, his self-published autobiography, prison records, and other primary sources, Trevor McKenzie uses this colorful story to offer a new way to understand North Carolina—and arguably the South as a whole—during this era of American history.

Just an Old Made up Mess

Just an Old Made up Mess
Author: A. M. Wadkins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1524568120

At the tender age of fifteen, author A. M. Wadkins embarked on a journey that would last her a lifetime. A promise is simple enough on the surface, but in this case, that promise was the driving force that would see a young girl through lifes trials and tribulations. Each day, whether met with happiness or tears, diligence was always the key. It this book, meet the author and learn about the promise she made on a mountaintop in Virginia so long ago. Then travel back through the grains of time with the author asthrough her researchshe meets the people that helped shape the United States. Witness their struggles in defining not only who they would become, but who this country would become. Be there as men are sent off to war to fight for either the North or South. Then continue on through the turning of century, when life seemed golden. Take a walk through history with the people who lived it and get to know the faces that made it possible.