Entries Containing All of the Phrases «jones county» AND «north carolina»

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Abner Nash

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1 ► North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern — Abner Nash —

A resident of New Bern for fifteen years; born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, about 1740, but came to North Carolina in 1763; member of Colonial Assembly from Halifax Town in 1764 and 1765; from the County of Halifax in 1769, 1770 and 1771; . . . — — Map (db m23831) HM

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2 ► Mississippi, Jones County, Laurel — 41 — Benjamin Murph — Mississippi Freedom Trail —

Benjamin Ellery Murph, a dentist and civil rights leader, was the charter vice president of the Laurel-Jones County NAACP in 1947 before becoming president four years later. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Murph expanded youth councils . . . — — Map (db m312329) HM

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3 ► Mississippi, Jones County, Ellisville — Amos Deason Home —

This one-story, Greek Revival-style house was constructed ca. 1847 with a wood façade shaped to resemble stone blocks and a hexagon-shaped entrance vestibule. On October 5, 1863 Confederate Major Amos McLemore, who had been sent to the area to round . . . — — Map (db m73449) HM

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