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Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was the youngest of 13 children and the first death to occur among his siblings. He was killed in action on Ie Shima Island. Writer Ernie Pyle died here last month.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in an accident while his ship was being loaded. Memorial service on Aug 15, 1945 at First Presbyterian Church. Funeral services on Aug 10, 1945 at Harry and Bryant Chapel with burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
Age at Death: 34
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had flown cover during the D-Day invasion. He was previously listed as missing and was later declared dead. His son was born while he was overseas, and his wife never remarried.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Wounded in action in Germany on January 15th, and died in France the next day. Burial and memorial marker at the Army Cemetery in Luxembourg.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He as listed as a former Y. M. C. A. dormitory boy. The committee working on obtaining information noted that they sent his parents 2 letters and questionnaries, since his brother, Leo, died. Nothing else was found in his file.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action. The plane, which he was co-piloting, was hit by a shell, when it was leaving its target. He was buried on Carlos Island of the Kewajalein atoll. Memorial marker at Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, HI.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was sent to the European area on February 15, 1945. He had been previously reported as missing in action and was later determined to have been killed in action. He died from shell fragment wounds received in battle near Wissen, Germany.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: This pilot from South Somerset, MA, was killed at 3 pm., while on a routine training flight. His A-20 went down near the Piedmont & Northern Railroad Co. tracks about 10 miles west of Morris Field.
Waightstill Avery (May 10, 1741-March 13, 1821), the first attorney general of North Carolina, was born in Groton, Connecticut. He attended Princeton College and later taught at the college. He then studied law. After completing his training, he moved to North Carolina.
H.E.C. Red Buck Bryant (January 3, 1873 - November 3, 1967), the son of Julia Parks and Henry Bryant, was a native of Mecklenburg's Providence Township. Though Red Buck Bryant wrote several small books, among them a biography of Charlotte Observer editor, J.P.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was born during the era of slavery to parents who were free Blacks. He was the best known North Carolina author of African-American descent in his era. As a young man, he worked in his father's Fayetteville grocery store.
James Buchanan Buck Duke (1856-1925) was member of North Carolina's powerful Duke tobacco family. He was born near Durham,NC and was educated near his home and in New York.
This educator, author and soldier was part of a prominent South Carolina family that owned land, sawmills, and iron works near in the York area. Daniel Harvey Hill (c.1821-1899) graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1838.
Ivey's parents believed their young son's vision problems would prevent him from being able to learn in a classroom, so they arranged for him to study carpentry instead.
James Jack (1731-1822) moved with his parents from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in the 1760s, fleeing the dangers of the French and Indian war. His father, Patrick Jack, ran a tavern on West Trade Street.
Duncan Ochiltree was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence.
The eleventh president of the U.S., James Knox Polk (1795-1849), was the oldest of 10 children. He was a descendant of a Scottish religious reformer named John Knox.
Jane Smedberg Wilkes (1827-1913) is remembered as the Godmother of Charlotte Hospitals. A native of New York City. Jane Smedberg married Navy Captain John Wilkes in 1854. Captain Wilkes ran Mecklenburg Iron Works. Captain and Mrs.
Captain John Wilkes (1827-1908) was a native of New York City. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy where he graduated first in his class in 1847. His naval travels took him from the Gulf of Mexico to China.
At age 18, Samuel Wittkowsky (1835-1911) came to New York from his native country of Prussia (now part of Poland). He traveled to Charleston, S.C., before settling in Charlotte.