Names

Secretary of the Wiscassett Mill in Albemarle, North Carolina. He also served as the town's mayor for a time.

Resident of Goldsboro NC in July 1919

Rev. in the AME Zion Church

Commissioner in Wake County in Nov 1918

Passenger agent for railroad co in Dec 1918

President of the Fayetteville branch of the NAACP in July 1919

Born May 7, 1862, in Sampson County, North Carolina. Alderman was a Baptist minister who served as the superintendent of Chowan County schools for twelve years.

He was an owner of the vessel Sloop Industry.

Born circa 1866 in Petersburg, Virginia. Bonner was a minister in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Born August 23, 1872, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Ray was one of a group of citizens who attempted to assault the jail in Alamance County on the night of July 19, 1920, with the intention of lynching an African American man suspected of sexual assault. Emerging from a cornfield surrounding the jail and failing to heed the repeated warnings of "stop", Ray was killed and several others were wounded when members of the Durham Machine Gun Company opened fire.

During the Seven Years War, he was deputy auditor general for plantations and an agent for the Royal American Regiment. He was the cousin of a British general with the same name. (His surname could be spelled Abercromby or Abercrombie).

Born August 21, 1889, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Gray was treasurer and later vice president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company before joining the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1919 where he was vice president and later president. He served as state senator representing the twenty-sixth district and was made chairman of the senate finance committee in 1919.

Born March 2, 1880, in North Carolina. Clarke was a minister and for a time was pastor of the First Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina.

Born July 5, 1897, in North Carolina. During World War I, Cole served overseas from September 1918 to July 1919 with the Quartermaster Corps. He was honorably discharged on July 28, 1919, with the rank of sergeant. That fall, he joined a militia unit, the Durham Machine Gun Company, for which organization he served as lieutenant. In July 1920, he and his unit successfully protected the lives of three African American prisoners from an angry lynch mob in Alamance County, North Carolina.

He was born November 11, 1703 and died July 30, 1760. He served as Lieutenant Governor of colonial New York.

He served as a captain in the North Carolina militia for Orange County. He left the county and Alexander Mebane petitioned Arthur Dobbs for Dickey's replacement.

James Edward Cooper, born on May 8, 1874, in Williamston, North Carolina. Cooper was a tinner for the W. C. Mallison & Son, a hardware and tinner company in Washington, North Carolina.

Born February 3, 1865, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Carrigan was a traveling salesman who resided in Greensboro, Durham, and Burlington. In July 1920, he was accused of having been the leader of a lynch mob that was violently turned away from the Alamance County jail by members of the state's national guard. While his close friends took to the papers to exonerate him of the allegation, several members of the national guard testified that Carrigan was on-site throughout much of the ordeal and had been identified by the county jailer and chief of police as the mob's leader.

Born January 24, 1873, in Baltimore County, Maryland. Stokes was a physician who served on the Committee of American Physicians and guided the state's mobilization of medical resources during World War I.

Born January 15, 1882, in Madison County, North Carolina. Barrett was a newspaper editor and labor organizer, serving for many years as the president of the state's chapter of the American Federation of Labor and later served as public relations director for the AFL's southeastern department. He was known by all his friends as "Uncle Jim."

He was born February 12, 1715 and died September 14, 1783. He served on the Board of Trade from 1746-1755. He had two brothers, George and Richard Grenville who were also involved in British politics. In 1756, James was appointed to the Treasury Board.