Person County, North Carolina, Bibliography

Person County, North Carolina, Bibliography

Resources: Books & Family Collections

Authors, Various. Durham & Person Counties, North Carolina: Complied from Historical Writings

Blaylock, John Burch. Wheely's or Upper South Hico Primitive Baptist Church in Person County, North Carolina. Manuscript, 1944. Housed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Boatwright, Phyliss. Person County Past: Tales from the Central Piedmont. Charleston: History Press, 2006.

Bryant, Lawrence C. A Historical and Genealogical Record of Lee, Clay, and Related Families of Person County, North Carolina. Orangeburg (South Carolina): L. C. Bryant, 1972.

Bumpus, Shirley Anne and Townsend, James Richard. The Bumpass Family from Person County, North Carolina. 1972.

Clark, Jim. Person County Folklore: The Rock and the Nail. Raleigh: North Carolina State University Humanities Extension/Publications, 1994.

Daniel, Lucille. The Sharecropper's Wife: A Memoir. Morrisville (North Carolina), 2015.

Dunaway, Stewart. Caswell and Person County, N.C. - Mill Records. Morrisville (North Carolina): Lulu Press, 2014.

Dunaway, Stewart. Person County, N.C. Road and Bridge Records 1797-1888. Morrisville (North Carolina): Lulu Press, 2014.

Dunaway, Stewart. Person County, N.C. Miscellaneous Land Records Vol. 1 (1775-1940). Morrisville (North Carolina): Lulu Press, 2017.

Dunaway, Stewart. Person County, N.C. Miscellaneous Land Records Vol. 2 (1775-1940). Morrisville (North Carolina): Lulu Press, 2017.

Dunaway, Stewart. Person County, N.C. County Soil Map Atlas. Morrisville (North Carolina): Lulu Press, 2018.

Eaker, Madeline Hall, Editor. The Heritage of Person County 1981. Winston-Salem: Hunter Publishing Company, 1981.

Eaker, Madeline Hall, Editor. The Heritage of Person County Volume II 1983. Winston-Salem: Hunter Publishing Company, 1983.

Mikat, Eileen M., Ph.D., Chair Book Committee. The Heritage of Person County Volume III 2001. Winston-Salem: Jostens Publishing Company, 2001. [placed here out of alphabetical order to be with the first two volumes]







Foushee, Alexander R. Reminiscences: A Sketch and Letters Descriptive of Life in Person County in Former Days. Durham: The Seeman Printery, 1921.

Franklin, Leallah. Garrett Tingen Descendants: Early Settler of Person County, North Carolina. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1989.

Franks, Jary Nell Hollis, and Hillis, Shirley Ann. William (Flat River) Clayton and Benjamin Crews: Familes of Person County, NC, to Lawrence County, TN. Leoma (TN): Family Tree Press, 2003.

Hester, James Earl; Hester, Randolph T., Editor. More Wisdom than I Possess: Life at Hester's Store. Roxboro (North Carolina): Person County Museum of History, 2014.















Hollis, Shirley Ann. William (Flat River) Clayton and Benjamin Crews: Families of Person County, NC to Lawrence County, TN. Leoma (Tennessee): Family Tree Press, 2003.

Ingmire, Frances T. Person County North Carolina Marriage Records 1792-1869. Athens (Georgia): Iberian Publishing Company, 1984.

Johnston, Francis Claiborne and Johnston, Carolyn Satterfield. Satterfield and Allied Families of Person County, North Carolina and Surrounding Counties: Yarbrough, Carter, Bigger, Cary, Winstead, Cozart, Bumpass, Sargent, Gold, Carney, Walker and Davey Families. Richmond: F. C. Johnston, 1992.

Justice of the Peace, Person County, NC. Tax Lists (Person County, North Carolina), 1792-1886, 1915, 1925. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2009.

Keister, Bernice Hubbard. The Van Hook and Allied Families. New York: The American Historical Company, Inc., 1957.

Kendall, Katharine Kerr and Donaldson, Mary Frances Kerr, Compilers. Person County North Carolina Compilations: Land Grants, 1794, 1805, 1823 Tax Lists, Record Books Abstracts 1792-1820, Letters of Attorney. Raleigh: Kendall and Donaldson, 1978.

Kendall, Katharine Kerr. Person County North Carolina Marriage Records 1792-1868. Raleigh: Kendall, 1983.

Kendall, Katharine Kerr. Person County North Carolina Deed Books 1792-1825. Raleigh: Kendall, 1993.

LeGrand, Harry E., Jr. An Inventory of the Significant Natural Areas of Person County, North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 2007.

Long, Curtis E. My Story. Winston-Salem: West Summit Publishing, 2013.

Lyle, Virginia Reavis. Person County, N.C., Patchwork. Nashville: Vee El Ancestral Studies, 1971.

McCullough, Amaryllis. Sociolinguistic Interview Collection from Person County, NC (16 Individual Interviews). 1996.

Neuman, Sue Moore and Moore, Ruth Walker, Compilers. Penelope's Papers: Letters and Papers of the William and Penelope Moore Family Covering the Years 1803-1874. Glen Mills (Pennsylvania)/Cedar Grove (North Carolina): Neuman and Moore, 2000.

Neuman, Sue Moore. The Abraham Moore Family Before and After Person County. Glen Mills (Pennsylvania): S. M. Neuman, 1988.

New Mt. Zion Church, Compiler. Upon this Rock: Historical Sketches of African-American Churches in Person County, North Carolina. Roxboro (North Carolina): New Mt. Zion Church, 2000.

Rose, Ben Lacy. Alexander Rose of Person County North Carolina and His Descendants. Richmond: Carter Composition Corporation, 1979.

Rose, Ben L. Rose-Steel Anthology. Richmond: Carter Composition Corporation, 1982.

Rose, Ben Lacy and Satterfield, Preston III. Chapel on South Hyco: The story of Lea's Chapel United Methodist Church, Person County, North Carolina: 1750-2000 AD. Richmond: B. L. Rose, 2000.

School Committee, Person County, NC. School Records (Person County, North Carolina), 1832-1868. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2009.

Shamp, Dawn. On Account of Conspicuous Women. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.

Sheriff, Person County, NC. List of Insolvents (Person County, North Carolina), 1892-1898. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2009.

Sink, Larry T. Soil Survey of Person County, North Carolina. Washington, DC: National Government Publication, 1995.

Slaughter, Enos B., Reid, Kevin, Contributor. Country Hardball: The Autobiography of Enos "Country" Slaughter. Greensboro (NC): Tudor Publishers, 1991.

Stone, Martha Jane. The Genealogy and History of the Stewart Family of Halifax County, Virginia, Caswell, and Person Counties, North Carolina, Trigg County, Kentucky. Lexington (KY): M. J. Stone, 1987.

[James Stewart (1718-1773) emigrated from Ireland to Virginia about 1740. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes Index (listing Stuart and Stuard as variant spellings). Includes Aldridge (Allridge), Blakeley, Burgess, Fuller, Goode, Guthrie, Overby, Turner, Warren and related families.]

Stout, G. P. Person County, N.C. 1971 Roads. Greensboro (NC): G. P. Stout, 1971.

Superior Court, Person County, NC. Person County, North Carolina, Divorce Records, ca. 1821-1939. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2003.

Superior Court, Person County, NC. List of Jurors, Person County, North Carolina, 1893-1915. Salk Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2004.

Talbert, Eddie and Grey, Edith. Picturing Historic Person County. Charleston: History Press, 2007.

Tomlinson, Gail Shepard, and Burch, Devore O. The Descendants of Richard & Janey Burch of King & Queen County, Virginia & Person County, North Carolina: A Collaborated Genealogy. Senatobia (MS): G. S. Tomlinson, 1994.

Unknown. The 125th Anniversary of the Lawson Chapel Baptist Church. Greensboro (North Carolina): Johnson Print. & Pub. Co., 1997.

Vogt, John. "Person County, North Carolina Marriage Abstracts, 1792-1869." Athens (GA): Iberian Publishing, 2012.

Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert. Wiley Buck and Other Stories of the Concord Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953.

Williams, Kent. The Williams Families of Person County, North Carolina. Timberlake (North Carolina): Righter Books, 2011.

Wright, Stuart Thurman. Historical Sketch of Person County. Danville (Virginia): The Womack Press, 1974.
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