Pre-1914 Washington County Cemetery Transcriptions
In the 1930′s and 1940′s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state. These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC. The survey includes listings for the following cemeteries. Do [...]
St. Luke’s/St. Anne’s Episcopal Church Quartoseptcentennial
Do you have plans October 15th & 16th, 2011? If you can make it, the members of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and St. Anne’s Episcopal Church are celebrating their 175 year anniversary.
Facebook/Twitter Anyone?
I’d love to hear from any Washington County researchers that are on Facebook! FamilySearch has a new NC Genealogy Research page and if you’re on FB, please consider “liking” the page. You can find it at http://goo.gl/OAIYU. You can stay connected to the page and help answer any questions that arise from other researchers, share pictures [...]
Plymouth to get an African-American History Museum
Thanks to a Washington County genealogy researcher, I’ve learned that Plymouth will be getting an African-American history museum – great news! An article from April in the Washington Daily Times provides further details. Essentially, an Alabama family who owned the Picot-Armistead-Pettiford House, has donated it for use as a museum. The house [...]
2011 Reynolds Family Reunion
44th REYNOLDS FAMILY REUNION 10:00 AM on Sunday May 15th, 2011 Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Tyrrell County NC This is a reunion of the descendants of William Reynolds Jr. and his sister Matilda Jane Reynolds Spencer, both originally from Chelsea, England. William Reynolds Jr. lived in Tyrrell County and became a Primitive Baptist Preacher, [...]
Washington County Government Gets Fancy
In case you haven’t visited in awhile, the Washington County government website has a redesign. Perhaps I’m the last one to find out, but I was quite pleased with the new look. The site is well structured and the header area features rotating graphics of scenes from the area – very nice. Hmm……..although I hope [...]
Roanoke Beacon Abstracts Update
Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon. I extracted articles from the March – June 1890 issues to the NC People in the Papers database. As usual, I focused on articles of genealogical interest such as obituaries, marriage notices, births, and mentions of specific family relationships. With this [...]
1881 Fire
A marker near the Washington County Courthouse mentions three fires that burned it – 1860, 1862, and 1881. While indexing old issues of the Alamance Gleaner (paper of Alamance County, NC), I found a reference to the 1881 fire. The loss is described as $127, 000, of which there was little insurance.
Deaths from the Roanoke Beacon
Newspaper indexing is one of my favorite pasttimes. For the past several years I’ve been working through older issues of the Roanoke Beacon paper teasing out information about Washington County residents. My first database is here and while searchable, I’ve never been completely happy with it. So, earlier in the year I started to redesign how [...]
Concord Primitive Baptist Church Homecoming
On Saturday, September 18th 2010 Plymouth’s only known remaining Primitive Baptist Meeting House, the Concord Primitive Baptist Church, will have their homecoming celebration! Featured speaker for the day is Rev. Dr. Bobby R. Taylor. More details in the flyer below.
