Benjamin Franklin Shelton was born on October 26, 1856, in North Carolina. Shelton was a member of the State Prison Board during the administration of Gov. Thomas W. Bickett and later served as a state senator. He died in Edgecombe County, North… Read More
Eric Oswald Shelton was born on May 24, 1886, in Stokes County, North Carolina. Shelton was sheriff of Stokes County from at least 1915 up to 1921. As a member of law enforcement, Shelton assisted in the enforcement of prohibition, busting… Read More
Fowler Shelton was born in White Rock (Madison County), North Carolina on April 9, 1867. Fowler was the proprietor of a Ford dealership in Madison County, North Carolina. He additionally served as a road commissioner for the county around 1916.… Read More
Baxter Shemwell was born in Tyro (Davidson County), North Carolina on March 12, 1858. For much of his life, Shemwell was a criminal menace, engaging in several shoot outs that resulted in injury or death and passing bad checks at various banks in… Read More
Charles Haddon Shepard was born on November 21, 1878 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Shepard was a prominent Black physician in Durham, North Carolina, where he served as superintendent of Lincoln Hospital from 1901 to 1935. Shepard died in Durham on… Read More
Frederick J. Shepard was a resident of Raleigh. After enrolling at the University of North Carolina during the 1850 school year, he took partial coursework for several more years. In 1854 he became a delegate for the Democratic Party of Wake… Read More
James Edward Shepard was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 3, 1875. A leading advocate for Black education in North Carolina, Shepard is best known for the founding of North Carolina Central… Read More
John Eaton Shepardson was born May 21, 1875, in Floyd County, Iowa. About the time of World War I, Shepardson was a resident of Beaufort County, North Carolina, where he was a farm manager and, later, a civil engineer. He died on February 12,… Read More
Abraham Sheppard (died 1790) was a soldier and legislator who served as colonial-era sheriff of the now-defunct Dobbs County. During the American Revolution, he served as a colonel in the Dobbs County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia and… Read More
William Shergold was a militia officer and representative of Currituck County in the colonial Assembly in 1746 and from 1754 to 1760. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade… Read More
John Sheridan was born in New Jersey in February 1870. Sheridan moved to Black Mountain (Buncombe County) sometime in 1915, where he worked at the town's saw mill. He moved away sometime after 1920.
Thomas Sherlock (1678 - 1761) was a politically influential ministerial figure who served as Bishop of London from 1748 until his death on July 18, 1761.
William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Ohio on February 8, 1820. Sherman was a West Point graduate and career army officer who led tens of thousands of U.S. troops through the Carolinas in 1865. He died in New York City on February 14, 1891.
James Sherrard was a resident of Martin County. A large landholder, in 1774 he became the inspector of merchantable commodities for the county. In 1777 he became a ringleader in the Gourd Patch Conspiracy, with several members later making… Read More
John Sherrard was a resident of Tyrrell County. According to John Collins,… Read More
William Shields was a resident of Martin County. In 1777 Daniel Leggett testified… Read More
John Shile was a resident of Bertie 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.
John Rohde Shillady was born on November 1, 1875, in Ireland. Shillady served as Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1918 to 1920. He died in 1943.
James Shipman was born in Bladen County, North Carolina on June 13, 1751. He served as a captain in the Bladen County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia under the command of Colonel Thomas Brown. He later made an affidavit in support of Lucy… Read More
Mitchell Lee Shipman was born on December 31, 1866, at Bowman's Bluff, North Carolina. Shipman was an editor and educator who served as Commissioner of Labor and Printing 1909-1920. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 18, 1944.
Matthew Fay Shipp was born on December 17, 1900 in Durham, North Carolina. Following World War I, Shipp was a private in the Durham Machine Gun Company, a national guard unit. In July 1920, he deployed with his unit to Alamance County on… Read More
Thomas Roerty Shipp was born in Lisbon, Iowa, on August 4, 1875. Shipp was an influential businessman, newspaperman, and public relations executive based in Washington, D.C., who became an advocate of conservation efforts during the… Read More
Thomas Shippen Jr. [last name unclear] 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… Read More
William Shirley (1694-1771) was a British colonial administrator, lawyer, and army officer who served as royal governor of Massachusetts Bay (1741-1749 & 1753-1756) and as governor of the Bahamas (1761-1768). Following Edward Braddock's death… Read More
Francis Edwin Shober was born on March 12, 1831 in Salem (Forsyth County), North Carolina. Shober was a lawyer, politician, and director of the… Read More
Tetman M. Schoffner was born in Orange County, North Carolina, on September 10, 1835. A senator from Alamance County from 1868-1870, he passed the famous Shoffner Act, which allows the governor had the power to suspend habeas corpus… Read More
William Luton Shoffner was born on April 26, 1889, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Shoffner was engaged in sawmilling when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He served with the 161st Depot Brigade until April 1918 and… Read More
Benjamin Sholar (d. 1803) was a resident of Bertie 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.
James Sholar was a resident of Bertie 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.
Ephraim Sholders was a resident of Bertie 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. Later in… Read More
Thomas Sholders was a resident of Bertie 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.
J. Wiley Shook was born in North Carolina on April 14, 1857. A native of Haywood County, Shook was a minister-turned-attorney and Republican operative in Asheville who served for a time as a deputy collector in the Internal Revenue Service. He… Read More
James Wilson Shook was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, on October 27, 1865. In 1909, Shook founded Wilkes Hardware and Furniture Company in North Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), which he owned and operated until his death on August 18, 1939… Read More
Clarence Albert Shore was born on November 26, 1873, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Shore was a physician who served as director of the North Carolina Laboratory of Hygiene in Raleigh from 1908 to 1933. He died in Raleigh on February 10, 1933… Read More
John Wade Shore was born in North Carolina on March 20, 1879. Shore was cashier at the Commercial and Saving Bank in Boonville (Yadkin County). He died on May 25, 1963.
William Shore lived along the Yadkin River in Marsh Township (Surry County), North Carolina in 1916. That July, a devastating flood pushed the Yadkin beyond its banks, washing everything but Shore's household goods. He had a wife and four… Read More
Jefferson B. Short was born in Tennessee in about 1805. He served as a justice of the peace for Smith County, Tennessee in 1845 and later served as the clerk of the Macon County Court, also in Tennessee. He died in Macon County in 1858.
William Harrison Short was born December 4, 1868, near College Springs, Iowa. Short was a minister who served as secretary of the League to Enforce Peace during the World War I era. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 10, 1935.
Eddie Lee Shue was born on March 11, 1881, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Shue was a lifelong laborer in the textile industry. In 1920, he provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County. Shue died… Read More
George Archibald Shuford was born in Hominy Township (Buncombe County), North Carolina on August 1, 1855. Shuford was an attorney in Waynesville and later Asheville who served as judge for the Buncombe County court and later the superior court.… Read More
Martin Shuford was born around 1850 in North Carolina. Shuford worked as a field hand and resided in Caldwell (Catawba County), North Carolina, with his wife Concelia "Lelia" Shuford. Shuford was charged with larceny on September 3, 1873, and… Read More
Gyles Shute was born in England sometime before 1683 and was a resident of Beaufort Precinct, North Carolina. A local justice of the peace, in 1723 he issued bonds for Chistopher Dudley to appear in court after Dudley was accused to attacking a… Read More
Joseph Sikes was a resident of Northampton County, North Carolina. Sikes represented Northampton in the North Carolina Colonial Assembly from 1761-1762 and from 1764-1765. A local justice of the peace, in 1768 he heard a case involving three… Read More
William Sikes was a resident of Northampton County, North Carolina. An owner of enslaved people, Sikes was a member of the local freeholders court which heard cases involving enslaved people. He died in Northampton in about September 1785.
Walter Davis Siler was born on November 25, 1878, in Chatham County, North Carolina. Siler was an attorney who served as solicitor for the Fourth Judicial District (1912-1922), Superior Court judge (1925-1926), and Assistant Attorney General (… Read More
Benjamin Simmonds was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined other members of the Johnston County militia in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to commission new captains for their unit.
Richard Simmonds was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined other members of the Johnston County militia in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to commission new captains for their unit.
Furnifold McLendel Simmons was born on January 20, 1854, near Pollocksville, North Carolina. Simmons was a United States Senator representing North Carolina from 1901 to 1931. He died in New Bern, North Carolina on April 30, 1940.