Rockingham County

by Stewart, James. Neil Alexander Bailey* was the first African-American agricultural extension agent in the state of North Carolina. He was born in Harnett County, North Carolina, the son of Edward and Phillis McLean [...] (from NCSU Libraries.)

by Green, C. Sylvester. Charles Maynard Beach, educator, was born in Caldwell County, near Lenoir, the son of Joseph Lawson and Anne Shuford Beach. He attended schools in the community, including Hibriten Academy, and was [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Carter, Robert W., Jr. George Dillard Boyd, legislator, merchant, miller, and planter-enslaver, was born in Rockingham County. He was a son of Andrew Boyd, by whose will he inherited part interest in a gristmill and farm [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. Edward Travis Brodnax, physician and state legislator, was born in Brunswick County, Va., the son of William Edward Brodnax, a leading planter and horseman of Brunswick County, and Sally Jones [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. John Grammar Brodnax, physician and Confederate surgeon, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va. He was the son of Brigadier General William Henry Brodnax of Greensville County, Va., and Ann Elizabeth [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Tise, Larry E. Iveson Lewis Brookes, Baptist clergyman, planter, and Southern sectionalist, was the eldest of five sons of Jonathan and Annie Lewis Brookes and was born in Rockingham County. His father was a [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Woodard, John R., Jr. Henry Alfred Brown, Baptist minister, was born in a log house near Wentworth in Rockingham County. His father was Robert Brown, a schoolteacher and farmer; his mother was Sarah Troth Brown. His [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Johnston, Hugh B., Jr. John Fletcher Bruton, lawyer, educator, banker, civic leader, and churchman, was born at Wentworth in Rockingham County, a son of the Reverend David Rasberry Bruton and his wife, Margaret Nixon, both [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. Daniel William Courts, legislator, state treasurer, and enslaver, was born in Culpeper County, Va., and by 1806 moved with his father, George Courts, to Rockingham County. Reared in Rockingham [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. John Henry Dillard, attorney, judge, and law teacher, the son of Lucy Moorman of Campbell County, Va., and James Dillard of Albemarle County, Va., who moved to North Carolina and settled on Matrimony [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rives, Ralph Hardee. Arminius Gray Dixon, minister and official in the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, was born in Rockingham County, the son of John F. and Elizabeth Harrison Dixon. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. Robert Martin Douglas, associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, was born near Douglas, Rockingham County, the son of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, prominent U.S. senator and [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Carroll, Grady L. E., Sr. Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn by Grady L. E. Carroll, 1986 24 Aug. 1829–5 Aug. 1911 Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Methodist clergyman, editor, educator, and author, was born in Caswell County near Ruffin, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. James Gallaway, merchant and state legislator, was born probably in Scotland and moved to North Carolina before the American Revolution. His uncle, Charles Gallaway, was by 1765 living in the section [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Butler, Lindley S. John Marion Gallaway, Confederate officer and tobacco planter, was the son of Thomas Spraggins and Lucinda Chalmers Gallaway of Rockingham County. Before the American Revolution the Gallaway family [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Haskins, Ralph W. Meredith Poindexter Gentry, tennessee congressman, was born in Rockingham County, N.C., the youngest of eleven children of Watson Gentry, a prosperous farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Cotten, Alice R. Robert Brodnax Glenn, attorney, state political leader, and governor, was the son of Chalmers L. and Annie S. Dodge Glenn of Rockingham County. Chalmers Glenn, a tobacco planter and lawyer, became a [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Charles Sylvester Green, clergyman, newspaper editor, college president, and executive, was born in Greensburg, Ky., the son of Thomas Madison and Rosealthea Buck Green. The family moved to the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rives, Ralph Hardee. Hancock, Molly McCoy By Ralph Hardee Rives, 1988 28 June 1863–13 Dec. 1951 Molly McCoy Hancock, operator [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rodenbough, Charles D. Pleasant Henderson, pioneer, soldier, and merchant, was born in Granville County, possibly the youngest son of Samuel and Elizabeth Williams Henderson. In his late teens he became associated with his [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rodenbough, Charles D. Thomas Henderson, merchant and legislator, was born in Granville County, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Williams Henderson. In the early 1770s he operated a store at Guilford Court House with Thomas [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Bowers, Thomas A. Thomas Henderson, Jr., Raleigh editor, was born in Rockingham County. His father was Thomas Henderson, Sr. (1752–1821), a county clerk in Guilford and Rockingham counties; and his mother was Jane [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Dunn, Charles. Luther Hartwell Hodges, businessman, lieutenant governor, governor, secretary of commerce, and civic leader, was born at Cascade, Pittsylvania County, Va., the son of John James and Lovicia Gammon [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rodenbough, Charles D., Johnson, Elmer D. James Hunter, soldier and legislator, was born six miles above Easton, Pa., in the forks of the Delaware River, the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Hunter. His father was a native of County Antrim, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Jones, H. G. William Henry Jones, educator, was born in Caswell County, the son of Thaddeus Cornelius and Rebecca Jane Roberts Jones. He attended rural schools in Caswell and Rockingham counties and was graduated [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)