I’ve found relatives so far in the yearbooks, maybe you’ll find some too! To see the list of students explicitly identified as coming from Washington County, go here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Surnames include Ayers, Blount, Brinkley, Chesson, Latham, \u00c2\u00a0Norman, Spurill, Swain, Walker and more.<\/p>\n For example, here is the entry for Alice Walker Phelps<\/a>, \u00c2\u00a0daughter of former Washington County sheriff John L. Phelps and granddaughter of Augustus Gambol Walker<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0She graduated from UNC-Greensboro in 1913 \u00c2\u00a0(then known as the North Carolina College for Women). \u00c2\u00a0She was a member of several organizations including the YWCA, Chorus, the Athletic Association, and was active in student government. \u00c2\u00a0Her description reads<\/p>\n Here is a normal girl who knows how to dress. \u00c2\u00a0And thereby hangs a tale: she has numerous suitors and is always generous with candy. \u00c2\u00a0A member in good standing of all clubs musical, for Alice sings as well as she plays. \u00c2\u00a0 In addition she has charming manners, and quite a distinguished air. \u00c2\u00a0We predict for her a matrimonial career with a title attached.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What a great treasure for her current family & descendants to have! \u00c2\u00a0The NC Yearbook Index will grow over time. \u00c2\u00a0A link has been added to the Education page<\/a> that will always reflect the most updated listings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new resource for the NCGenWeb project is an index of students from North Carolina colleges & universities. \u00c2\u00a0Yearbooks are wonderful sources for learning more about your ancestors and their Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/phelpsyearbook.png\" "\\"phelpsyearbook\\"")
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