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The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
United States senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849, and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. There was a Dry Pond Post Office beginning right before the Civil War, although it moved across the line to Catawba County near what is now Kiestler's Store Road in December 1868.
A soldier from a graves registration unit attempts identification of a skull during World War II. Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel.
Anna Speas (1869–1898), Park County woman whose tragic life was examined Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past (unmarked grave) Robert W. Speer (1855–1918), Denver Mayor; Edward G. Stoiber (1854–1906), mining engineer and owner of the Silver Lakes Mines; George Gifford Symes (1840–1893), US Representative from Colorado
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
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Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,810, [ 1 ] making it the most populous "Lincoln County" in the United States. Its county seat is Lincolnton . [ 2 ]
A Denver traffic engineer, asserting that the chapel could not be moved, said "We have enough trouble with chicken coops." [ 45 ] Instead, the chapel was disassembled, pieces marked, and transported once fully dismantled to the university's campus at a cost of $80,000 (equivalent to $823,937 in 2023). [ 48 ]