January 17: Happy Birthday! Lulu E. Parker Payne
Lulu Parker was born in Mocksville in 1860, and spent her early years in Davie County. She was married about 1880 to R. M. Payne, and moved to Winston-Salem in 1885. Her husband died in...
Lulu Parker was born in Mocksville in 1860, and spent her early years in Davie County. She was married about 1880 to R. M. Payne, and moved to Winston-Salem in 1885. Her husband died in...
Oscar F. Hege was a native of Winston-Salem. He and his brother, Ernest G. Hege, operated O. F. Hege Company on Main Street, specializing in sporting goods, bicycles, guns, flash lights, and musical instruments. They also were...
Bowman Gray Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1907. He was the son of Bowman Gray Sr. and Nathalie Lyons Gray. He moved to Winston-Salem as a boy, and attended the Reynolda School, then...
Cyrus Barksdale Watson was born in Stokes County (later became Forsyth County), near Kernersville, in 1845. His early education was at home, then he attended Kernersville High School. He left the high school to enlist...
Whitfield Brown East Jr., known as “Whit,” was born in Forsyth County in 1921. He was educated in the local schools, and at Salem College and the University of Oklahoma. He began working at...
Martin Monroe Mackie was born in Yadkin County in 1899. His parents were John Henry and Nancy Mackie, and he was next to the youngest child in a family of 10 children. Although...
Dr. William Kay McGee was born in South Carolina in 1900. He graduated from Furman University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He served churches in Burlington and Thomasville, before coming to...
Archibald Boggs Taylor, known as Archie or Arch, was born in Salem in 1892. His father was William Barrett Taylor and his mother was Elizabeth McCaw Boggs Taylor. His father, known as “Old Man...
Georgia Liipfert Pepper was born in 1864 in Clarksville, Virginia. She was educated at Sunnyside College in Buffalo Springs, Virginia. She married Thomas R. Pepper in 1890 and moved to Winston-Salem. Thomas R. Pepper...
Dr. Elizabeth Conrad was born in Washington, D. C. in 1920, to Dr. Henry B. and Hally Conrad. Her father was a native of Winston-Salem, a physician, and a veteran of World War I....