Charles E. Godwin was born on Johnston County, North Carolina, on December 9, 1857. Godwin was a businessman and accountant in the Thomasville community of Davidson County. In 1906, he was elected to serve as clerk of the Davidson County superior… Read More

Edmond Godwin was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to appoint another justice to serve their section of the county.

Hannibal Lafayette Godwin was born in Dunn (Harnett County), North Carolina, on November 3, 1873. Godwin was an attorney and farmer who served as mayor of Dunn (1897-1898), state legislator (1903), and as a member of the U.S. House of… Read More

Thomas Godwin was born in about 1656 in Virginia. A resident of Nansemond, Virginia, he served as a captain in the local militia. After… Read More

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Abraham Goldstein was born on January 2, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Goldstein was a lifelong Wilmington resident and merchant who led a movement to combat profiteering and overinflation in food… Read More

William Rankin Goley was born on April 5, 1853, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Rankin was a physician in the town of Graham, North Carolina. In August 1920, he provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance… Read More

Bernard "Bernie" Leon Gomo was born on December 20, 1879, in Washington County, Vermont. He was, for a time, superintendent of Tallassee Power Company's power house in Badin, North Carolina. He died in Vermont on November 6, 1967.

Samuel Gompers was born on January 27, 1850 in London, England. Gompers served as president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924 (with the exception of one year, 1895). During World War I, he served on the Council… Read More

William Gooch (1681-1751) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749.

Axem Goodwin (d. 1830) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 after initially refusing, he ultimately signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten… Read More

Joseph Goodwin was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Thomas Goodwin was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Robert Goodwin was born in Virginia in about 1739. A resident of Camden District, South Carolina, he served as a captain in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment from 1775 to about 1778. He later became a lt. col. in the Camden District Regiment of the… Read More

Henrietta A. Gordon was born in Alabama on September 28, 1837. In 1858 she was named as a heir in her great aunt Mary R. Wheaton's will. She died in Caswell County, North Carolina on February 13, 1920.

James Gordon was born in Scotland on May 13, 1780. A resident of Anson County, North Carolina, he served as a justice of the peace. He died in Anson County on July 13, 1856.

John Gordon was an early resident of colonial Orange County where he had served as a militia captain. He seems to have left the county within ten years after the county's founding.

Lavina A. Gordon was born in Orange County, North Carolina on November 16, 1835. By 1850 she had moved to Morgan County, Alabama, where she died in June 10, 1882.

Claude Gore was born on July 19, 1878, in North Carolina. Gore was a man of some political influence, having held the presidency of various cotton mills in Richmond County. He additionally served as president of the Bank of Rockingham and… Read More

Daniel Lenox Gore was born on January 7, 1847 in Columbus County, North Carolina. Gore was a prominent citizen of Wilmington, North Carolina, where he owned and operated a successful wholesale grocery business… Read More

William Crawford Gorgas was born on October 3, 1854, in Toulminville, Alabama. Gorgas was a career military medical officer who served as the Surgeon General of the Army from 1914 to 1918. He died in London (England) on July 3, 1920.

Thomas Marmaduke Gorman was born on October 4, 1858, in Kinston, North Carolina. A longtime resident of Durham, North Carolina, Gorman was a bookkeeper and trust officer for the First National Bank of Durham. He died in Durham on January 28, 1941… Read More

Robert Wilson Gorrell was born on October 30, 1871 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Gorrell was a tobacconist who served as mayor of Winston-Salem from 1917 to 1921, a period encompassing World War I. He died on July 25, 1931 in Winston-Salem.… Read More

James Arthur "Aught" Gouge was born on May 11, 1888, in Little Rock Creek (Mitchell County), North Carolina. Gouge was a farmer in Glen Ayre, North Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was subsequently… Read More

Frank Gough was born on October 11, 1864, in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Gough moved to Robeson County around age eighteen, becoming one of Lumberton's most promising and prominent businessmen. He served as state senator representing Robeson… Read More

During Arthur Dobbs' tenure as colonial governor of North Carolina, the British government… Read More

Ethel Gowans was born around 1885 in New York. She worked as a field demonstration agent for the U. S. Department of Education. During World War I, Gowans visited various parts of the state to teach North Carolinians how to best build home and… Read More

William Earle Grady was born on September 9, 1871, in Greenville, South Carolina. He was a physician who served on the Polk County Draft Board during World War I. Grady died on December 9, 1941, in Tryon, North Carolina.

Charles "Charlie" Graham was born in North Carolina in 1833. In 1854 he graduated from the University of North Carolina. He and other members of his class were in the same social circles as Margaret Eliza Cotten. He died in Pearces Mill Township… Read More

Dennis Wilson Graham was born in Proctorville, North Carolina, on June 14, 1896. At the time he registered for the draft—on June 5, 1918—he was playing semi-pro with the Havana Red Sox. He entered the Student… Read More

Edward Kidder Graham was born in Charlotte (Mecklenburg County), North Carolina, on October 11, 1876. Graham was an educator who served as president of the University of North Carolina from 1914 until his death from influenza during the influenza… Read More

Joseph Graham was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on October 13, 1759. A resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he became a captain in that county's regiment of the North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution. He helped… Read More

William Alexander Graham was born in Lincoln County on September 5, 1804. The son of a prominent plantation owner, Graham was a iron entrepreneur and lawyer. He later became a successful politician and served as North Carolina's governor from… Read More

William Alexander Graham, Jr. was born on December 26, 1839, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. A Confederate veteran, Graham was a prominent farmer and state legislator (elected in 1874, 1878, and 1905) who served as the state's commissioner of… Read More

William Archibald Graham was born on August 27, 1882, in Inez, North Carolina. Graham served as a major in the 120th Infantry during World War I and saw combat in the Ypres-Lys campaign. Following the war, he served as superintendent of the New… Read More

Caleb Grainger, Sr., was a planter, militia officer, and politician in colonial Wilmington. He served as representative of Wilmington in the Assembly in 1746 and sheriff of New Hanover County in 1749. In 1754, he was a lieutenant in a regiment of… Read More

Josiah Granbury was a resident of Chowan County. In 1777 and 1778 he signed a series of oaths swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Thomas Granbury was a resident of Chowan County who served as a Captain in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment in the Continental Army until 1777 when he was court martialed. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North… Read More

William James Grandin was born Tidioute, Pennsylvania, on October 16, 1871. Grandin was a businessman who served as the president of the Watauga and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company and as president of the Grandin Lumber Company. He died in… Read More

John Grange was a resident of colonial Bladen County. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions.

Eliza North Grant (née Mitchell) was born in Chapel Hill (Orange County), North Carolina, on May 26, 1833. Grant ran the Statesville Female College with her sister Margaret Eliot Mitchell from 1875 until her death in Statesville (Iredell County)… Read More

James Grant (1722-1806) was a Scotland-born British army officer who commanded troops in engagements against the Cherokee during the Cherokee War of 1760-1761.

James Grant was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. Grant had an accomplished military career, serving in the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War, where he rose to the rank of three-star General. Grant was the the… Read More

Reuben Graves was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia on May 23, 1760. A resident of Halifax County, Virginia at the time of the American Revolution he lived near Rachel Rogers at the time of her marriage to Frederick Debow. Graves served as a… Read More

Robert K. Graves was a resident of Morgan County, Kentucky who witnessed Thomas Yarborough's pension application in 1852.

Thomas Graves (died circa 1766) was an Episcopal churchwarden and militia captain who served as a representative of Craven County in the colonial-era Assembly from 1760 to 1762.

William Sidney Graves was born on March 27, 1865, in Mount Calm, Texas. Graves was a career army officer who served as an assistant to the acting chief of staff of the army in early 1918 before being handed command of the 8th Infantry Division… Read More