Robert Robinson was born in January 1870 in Georgia. Robinson was the proprietor of a boarding house in Albemarle, North Carolina. In 1919, he provided testimony during an investigation into the alleged abuse of Tallassee Power Company employees… Read More

Sarah Ray was born in Orange County, North Carolina on March 2, 1778. In 1797 she married Joseph Robinson and the couple had at least four children together. She died in Marshall County, Tennessee on June 20, 1852.

Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, was born in Grantham, England, in 1695. Robinson held several public offices, including Secretary of State for the southern department in 1754 and 1755. He died in London in 1770. 

Mary English was born in Pennsylvania in about 1763. A resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, she married Thomas Robison in about 1781. His second wife, Mary helped care for the Robison children from his previous marriage while Thomas was… Read More

Michael Robison was born in Caswell County, North Carolina in about 1779. His mother died just after his birth, so as a baby, his older sister Agnes cared for him while their step mother Mary English Robison was visiting their father, a soldier… Read More

Thomas Robison was born in about 1744. A resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, he may have served as a sergeant in the 5th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line using the name of Thomas Roberts from 1777 to 1779. He then… Read More

William Robson was a local office holder in Pitt County. A member of the Pitt County Committee of Safety in 1774, he also served in the Provincial Congress (1775-1776) and in the… Read More

Emmanuel M. Roderick, Jr., was born in Wilmington (New Hanover County), North Carolina, on December 25, 1891 (or 1893). Roderick was a watchman for the Clyde Steamship Company in Wilmington when he murdered his wife in July 1917. A subsequent… Read More

John Rodet (d. 1804) 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.

Richard Roe is a legal term of a male party to a legal proceeding whose name is either unknown or being withheld, similar to John Doe.

James Rogers was a resident of Edenton District. Thomas Best made a deposition stating that… Read More

Jane Frances "Jink" Haywood Rogers was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina in 1833. The daughter of a prominent politician and lawyer, she married Sion Hart Rogers in 1853. The couple had at least five known children. She died in Raleigh… Read More

Jane Haywood Rogers was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina in about March 1854. The first child of Sion Hart Rogers and Jane Frances Rogers (née Haywood), she died on June 18, 1854, aged three months, and was buried in Raleigh. Several… Read More

John Rogers was born in Virginia in 1717. A farmer with an orchard, his land was on the Virginia-North Carolina boundary in the vicinity of Halifax, Virginia and present-day Person County, North Carolina. His daughter Rachel married a… Read More

John Rogers was a North Carolina soldier in the British army who served in the Seven Years' War. As a sergeant under the command of Major Hugh Waddell in the expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758, Rogers voluntarily undertook a mission to… Read More

Joseph Johnson Rogers was born in Apex (Wake County), North Carolina, on August 20, 1859. Rogers was a hotel proprietor in North Wilkesboro (Wilkes County) in the mid-1910s. He died in Burlington (Alamance County), North Carolina, on September 7… Read More

Peleg S. Rogers was born in North Carolina on April 13, 1807. He worked as a justice of the peace and merchant in Wake County, North Carolina. He died in Wake County on April 7, 1866.

Robert Rogers (1731-1794) was a Massachusetts-born British army officer who led a company of scouting rangers on several expeditions into present-day New York and Canada during the French and Indian War. 

Ruby Rogers (née Freeman) was born on July 3, 1896, in North Carolina. Rogers was the wife of Leonidas S. Rogers, of Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina. On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, 1918, she was assaulted by an unknown… Read More

Samuel Lyle Rogers was born in Waynesville (Haywood County), North Carolina, on December 31, 1859. Rogers was a banker and lifelong public official who held several offices over the course of his life, including clerk of the Macon County Superior… Read More

Sion Hart Rogers was born in Wake County on September 30, 1825. A lawyer and former Confederate officer, Rogers was the Attorney General of North Carolina from 1863-1868.  Sion would eventually become Attorney General of North Carolina in 1863… Read More

Thomas Rogers (d. 1790) was a resident of Tyrrell County. In 1777 he swore two secret oaths and became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy.… Read More

Edward Franklin Rollins was born on March 6, 1876, in Holly Springs, North Carolina. Rollins was widely known throughout A. M. E. Zion circles as "the Blind Preacher;" when he was just five years old, Rollins… Read More

Thomas Scott Rollins was born on June 24, 1872, in Marshall, North Carolina. Rollins was an attorney in Asheville, North Carolina. During World War I, he was selected by the governor to serve on the state's western district exemption board… Read More

William W. Rollins was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, in 1839. Rollins was veteran of both the Confederate and Union armies and an officer on the Western North Carolina Railroad. He died in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on March 24,… Read More

Francis Rollinson (d. 1805) was a resident of Currituck County, near present-day Cape Hatteras. In late July 1777… Read More

John Rombough (d. 1778) was a resident of Chowan County and a member of the Edenton Committee of Safety. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that… Read More

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, holding the office from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. During World War I, he served as the… Read More

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City, New York. Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). He died in Cove Neck, New York, on January 6, 1919.

Daniel Calhoun Roper was born on April 1, 1867, in Marlboro County, South Carolina. Roper served as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service from 1917 to 1920. He died on April 11, 1943.

William Bryham Roper was born on June 7, 1870, in Norfolk, Virginia. Roper was the son of John Lonsdale Roper, prominent businessman and proprietor of the John L. Roper Lumber Company. He worked for his father's lumber company for a while and… Read More

William B. Rose was born in Warren County, North Carolina, around 1873. Rose was supervisor of the Rocky Mount Road District convict camp in Rocky Mount (Nash County) in the 1910s. He died in Rocky Mount on July 2, 1917.

Anthony W. Ross was born in North Carolina in about 1787. A resident of Anderson, South Carolina, he served as a reverend for the Old Stone Presbyterian Church in present-day Oconee County, South Carolina from 1837-1851. He died in Anderson… Read More

Arthur Ross was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on March 17, 1871. Ross was a textile manufacturer and good roads advocate who served as president of the Davidson-Randolph Highway Association. He died in Asheboro (Randolph County) on… Read More

Charles Ellis Ross was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on June 30, 1862. Ross was a prominent physician who served on the medical staff of the State Hospital at Morganton (now Broughton Hospital) for fifteen years. He died in… Read More

Otho Settle Ross was born on June 26, 1897, in Durham, North Carolina. Ross was drafted into military service during World War I on September 6, 1918. Because he was drafted relatively late in the conflict, he was honorably discharged on December… Read More

Jessie Roth was born November 16, 1901, in North Carolina. The daughter of a Russian immigrant (Gustave Roth), Jessie was shot and seriously wounded in Henderson (Vance County) by Austin Green on September 5, 1917. She died from the effects of… Read More

Charles Roundtree (d. 1816) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he was in charge of a tax district in Chowan County and collected oaths of allegiance to the State of North Carolina from the white adult males living there.

Francis Rountree was a resident of Nansemond County, Virginia in 1686 and moved to North Carolina by 1702. There, he and several other residents of Chowan Precinct submitted a petition to the North Carolina Council regarding a land boundary… Read More

George H. Rountree was born in Kinston (Lenoir County), North Carolina on July 7, 1855. Rountree was an attorney who served as legislator, president of the North Carolina Bar Association, and superior court judge (1913-1916). In 1898, Rountree… Read More

Robert Rountree was a resident of Nansemond County, Virginia in 1685 and moved to North Carolina by 1700. There, he purchased land from Nicholas Stallings on Bennett's Creek. In 1702 he and several other residents of Chowan Precinct submitted a… Read More

Thomas Rountree (d. 1781) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates 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… Read More

Noah James Rouse was born in Lenoir County, North Carolina, on April 13, 1861. Rouse was an attorney who served as mayor of Kinston twice. He was a brother-in-law of James Y. Joyner. Rouse died in… Read More

James Rogan Rousseau was born in Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), North Carolina, on October 1, 1887. For most of his career, Rousseau worked in government. In 1917, he was working as a deputy U.S. Marshal. He later worked as a tax agent for both the… Read More

William Archie Rousseau was born in Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), North Carolina, on November 29, 1891. As a young man, Rosseau worked as a grocery store clerk and later as a postal clerk in the local post office. In June 1918, he was commissioned… Read More

Matthew Rowan (died 1760) was a merchant, shipbuilder, colonial administrator, and politician who served as acting governor of North Carolina from January 1753 until Arthur Dobbs's arrival in October 1754. He was a member of the colonial Assembly… Read More