New Hanover County, North Carolina, churches, pets, St. Francis of Assisi, services, animals, pastors, priests
Parents and children watch as Scotty Jenkins of Wilmington has her parakeet (Peter of St. Johns), in its cage, being blessed by Reverend Alfred Durrance of St. John's Episcopal Church during a blessing of the animals on the church grounds. The...
Queen Anne style house built c. 1897 for Alexander Hall (1874-1933), president of the Wilmington Grocery Company; and wife, Margaret Hargrave (1875-1961). According to family tradition, house was a wedding present from the grooms parents. Remained...
Residence built for Henry McGhee (1869-1918), cook; and wife, Elizabeth Whitehead (1873-1931). Three of their eleven children remained in the house after their parents deaths: Hettie, a seamstress; Mozelle, a Peabody School teacher; and Lisbon...
Craftsman style house built by Charles D. Morrill (1851-1910), native of Boston, MA, contractor and builder; and wife, Caroline A. Williams (1853-1939), native of Columbus County. Purchased in 1920 by Rosser Yates Lennon (1871-1963), freight...
Queen Anne style house built for William Harriss Alderman (1851-1932), bookkeeper; and wife, Alice Guess Larkins (1852-1905), on property given to them by her parents, William and Belinda Larkins. After Mrs. Aldermans death, the family retained the...
Queen Anne style cottage built for Ann E. Harriss Yarborough (1864-1913); wife of John Wesley Yarborough (1850-1924), barber. They were the parents of Americas first internationally acclaimed black opera singer, Catherine Yarborough (1898-1986),...
Dr. Robert Jackson Andrews (1921-), was born January 21, 1921 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC Chapel Hill from 1943-44 and the University of Tennesse, Memphis, in 1946. His parents were Vernon and Edna Hall Andrews and he married...
Elliot family, Physicians, hospitals, James Walker Memorial Hospital
Dr. Avon Hall Elliot, (1890-), was born in Manchester, N.C., September 29th, 1890. His parents were Johnathan Evans and Alice Hall Elliot. He married Miss Myrtle Elaine Vandegrift. His brother, George Douglas Elliot, was also a Medical Doctor...
Koseruba family, Sidbury family, physicians, medicine, Rayle family
Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Jr., son of James Buren, Sr. and Willie Daniel Sidbury, was born January 13th, 1922, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father James and sister, Rowena S. Hall Lenart, were also Physicians (Pediatrics). He married Ms....
Hooper family, Johnson family, physicians, medicine
Dr. Joseph Ward Hooper, Sr. (1887-1952) was born February 17th, 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Miss Louise Samllbones and they had a son, Joseph Ward Hooper, Jr., M.D. (Urologist). He was a practicing Physician from 1912-1952. He was on...
Dr. William Carter Mebane, Sr.? was born November 1st, 1882 to parents Benjamin Watkins and Bettie Galloway Carter Mebane. He married Miss Susan Mott and they had a son, William Carter Mebane, Jr. who also received his M.D., (General Practicioner...
Robertson family, Powell family, physicians, medicine, hospitals, Cancer hospitals
Dr. James Farish, Robertson, Jr. (1888-1975), son of James Farish Robertson, Sr., M.D. and Mary Elizabeth Grattan Robertson, was born in Culpepper, Virginia July 27th, 1888. His first wife was Juliette Howard Albright (1916); his second wife,...
Kenan, Fountain, Kenan Memorial Fountain, Fifth Street, Market Street
In 1921, Wilmington native, William Rand Kenan, Jr. (1872-1965), gave the city of Wilmington the impressive fountain in memory of his parents, William R. Kenan and Mary Hargrave Kenan. The fountain was designed by Carrere and Hastings of New York...
Bellamy Mansion, First Baptist Church are on the left. The side of the Carolina Apartments is at right.
In 1859, the impressive Bellamy Mansion was built by Dr. John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896). Rufus Bunnell of Vermont was the architect, with...
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to Wilmington ca. 1826. He became a prosperous lumber merchant and later owned the Clarendon Water Works. He married Ann Potter (1811-1872) of Connecticut and in the early 1840s, they...
Kidder, Moore, S. Third Street, Dock Street, First Presbyterian Church, Churches
Annie Green tends her charges in the side garden of the Kidder House. The side of the Owen Kenan house is at right, with the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church in the distance.
Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to...
Thomas updates his sister on his recent activities and complains that the family does not write often enough. He asks that his parents and siblings send more letters to him while he is at school.
Thomas updates his sister on his recent activities and complains that the family does not write often enough. He asks that his parents and siblings send more letters to him while he is at school.
Thomas updates his sister on his recent activities and complains that the family does not write often enough. He asks that his parents and siblings send more letters to him while he is at school.
Thomas assures his parents that he is leading a moral lifestyle in response to a letter from his mother and promises that he does not approve of drunkenness.