Benjamin Kinsey Hays was born on July 7, 1870, in Oxford, North Carolina. Hays was a physician who served on the Committee of American Physicians and guided the state's mobilization of medical resources during World War I. He was drawn into… Read More

James Hays was a resident of Martin County. In 1777 he became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy and spoke openly among other members about how he would resist the county militia draft if called up. He likely had some form of leadership role… Read More

William Blaine Hays was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, on April 24, 1891. Hays spent most of his career as a farmer, working on his family’s farm in Reddies River. He later worked as a salesman for Red Top, the local Coca-Cola bottling… Read More

Thomas Hayter (1702 - 1762) served as Bishop of London and on the Privy Council from September 1761 until his death on January 2, 1762.

David Haywood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on August 4, 1873. From 1894 until his death in 1947, Haywood worked at the Executive Mansion, serving as butler and then chief butler to fourteen different… Read More

Edward Graham Haywood was born in North Carolina in 1830. His father was a U.S. Senator and practiced law in Raleigh. After attending school in Maryland, Haywood became a lawyer in Raleigh. In 1853, Haywood married Margaret Henry, and is… Read More

Edward Graham Haywood, Jr was born in Raleigh (Wake County), North Carolina, in 1854. In his youth, his baptism was recorded by his mother's cousin and close friend Margaret Eliza Cotten. In adulthood, Haywood was an attorney who served as chief… Read More

Eleanor Howard Hawkins Haywood was born in Virginia on June 23, 1776. The daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, she married Sherwood Haywood, the clerk of the North Carolina Senate and an owner of three plantations in the Raleigh area. The… Read More

Eliza Eagles Haywood was born in Raleigh on December 8, 1798. The daughter of a state treasurer, Eliza often went by "Betsy John" to distinguish her from another Elizabeth Haywood. A prominent socialite, she was a distant relation of the Cotten… Read More

Harvey J. Haywood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4, 1893. Haywood was the son of David Haywood, longtime chief butler at the Executive Mansion. He joined Company E of the 24th Infantry on… Read More

Henry W. Haywood Jr. was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 23, 1801. A lawyer, he represented Wake County in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1831 and from 1834 to 1836. He then served as a U.S. Senator from 1843 to 1846. He died… Read More

Margaret Haywood (née Henry) was born in 1833 in North Carolina to a wealthy family. She and her siblings were close friends with her cousin, Margaret Eliza Cotten, and they often called on one another in Raleigh. She married in Edward Graham… Read More

Maria Toole Haywood was born on February 24, 1815 in North Carolina. The daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and clerk of the state senate, she resided in Raleigh, where she ran in the same social circles as many members of the Cotten family.… Read More

Martha Helen Haywood was born on September 27, 1872, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Haywood was a prominent Wake County suffragist who was appointed by Gov. Thomas W. Bickett to the board of directors for the state's Confederate soldiers' home in… Read More

Martha Helen (née Whitaker) Haywood was born in North Carolina in 1811 to a prominent planter family. She is mentioned in her cousin, Margaret Eliza Cotten's, diary, which now resides in the North Carolina State Archives. She married physician… Read More

Mary Jane Haywood (née White) was born in Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina on July 25, 1826. A resident of Raleigh, she was a distant cousin of Margaret Eliza Cotten, who mentioned her in her journal. She died in Raleigh on August 18,… Read More

Peter Haywood was born around 1794. Haywood was formerly enslaved by John G. Marshall and William H. Haywood, Jr. A bricklayer by trade, Haywood worked on the construction of the new state capitol in Raleigh in the 1830s. No further information… Read More

Richard Bennehan Haywood was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina on November 5, 1819. The son of a wealthy plantation owner and state senate clerk, Haywood became a medical doctor. In 1851 he married Julia Ogden Hicks, and the couple had… Read More

William Haywood (1730-1779) was a planter and politician from Edgecombe County. Starting as a justice of the peace, he later represented Edgecombe in the… Read More

William Henry Haywood, III was born in Raleigh (Wake County), North Carolina on October 23, 1801. Haywood was an attorney and politician who served as a state legislator and United States Senator. He was also an enslaver and "hired" out the labor… Read More

Clinton Decatur Hazel was born circa 1863 in New Bern, North Carolina. Hazel was a minister in the A.M.E. Zion Church for more than forty years. He was a graduate of Brown University (1899) and of the divinity school at Yale University. Brown… Read More

Thomas Hazelwood was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.

James Ewell Heath was born in Virginia on July 8, 1792. He served as the State Auditor for Virginia from 1819 to 1849. In 1850 he became the Commissioner of Pensions, a role he served in until 1853. He died in Richmond, Virginia on June 28, 1862… Read More

John Hecklefield was born in England and arrived in colonial North Carolina by 1701. Hecklefield soon established himself as a planter and militia officer in the vicinity of Little River in Perquimans Precinct. His home served as the meeting… Read More

Christian Heidelberg was born in Germany and arrived in North Carolina by 1721. He settled in Chowan Precinct, where he served as a deputy marshal. In 1730 he moved to Onslow Precinct, where he served as a justice of the peace and operated a… Read More

In December 1754, Robert Murden, a militia colonel, recommended David Davis to replace Samuel Heith, who had recently died, as a captain in the regiment of militia in Pasquotank County.

Wade Melton Hemric was born in Yadkin County, North Carolina, on August 7, 1876. Hemric was a farmer in Surry County who lost his entire crop in the July 1916 flood. He died in Elkin (Surry County) on April 15, 1944.

Alger Ross Henderson was born on September 11, 1888, in North Carolina. In 1920, Henderson provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County. He was employed by the Graham Water Company as a bookkeeper and later… Read More

David Henderson was a planter on the south side of the Moratuck (now Roanoke) River in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1721 he was part of the grand jury that indicted John Cope, an American Indian man, with burglary and trespassing. He died… Read More

Elijah Lee Henderson was born on May 16, 1876, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Henderson was superintendent of the Piedmont E & R Co. power station and later general manager of the Graham Water Co., both in Graham, North Carolina. In 1920… Read More

George Henderson was born in New Bern (Craven County), North Carolina, on April 12, 1878. Henderson was a bookkeeper by occupation. He died in New Bern on February 18, 1938.

James Henderson was a loyalist who refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the state of North Carolina, opting to leave the state instead. In July 1777, his name along with the names of six other loyalists appeared in a … Read More

John Jay Henderson was born on January 12, 1884, in Ohio. Henderson was a lawyer and resided for many years in Graham, North Carolina. Though often referred to as "Major Henderson," he never served in the military in any official capacity.… Read More

Richard Henderson was a resident of colonial Salisbury. Around 1763, William Strother and Oliver Wallace were accused of horse stealing, found guilty, and sentenced to death. In an undated petition, Henderson joined others from the Salisbury… Read More

William Henderson 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.

Frank Bynum Hendren was born on February 24, 1860, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Hendren was a lawyer in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, who served as chairman of the Wilkes County Exemption Board during World War I. He died in Wilkesboro on May… Read More

Joseph Flanner Hendren was born on November 9, 1868, in Durham County, North Carolina. Hendren was a lawyer in Elkin, North Carolina. He died in Fletcher (Henderson County) on January 6, 1940.

Melver Jackson Hendricks was born in Davie County, North Carolina, on January 27, 1866. Hendricks was an influential farmer and public servant in Farmington (Davie County) who served in the legislature in 1923. He died in Winston-Salem (Forsyth… Read More