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Cary Dale Allred (February 7, 1947 – December 10, 2011) was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-fourth House district, including constituents in Alamance County. A business owner from Burlington, North Carolina, Allred was elected to eight terms in the
Robert Walter "Bob" Scott (June 13, 1929 – January 23, 2009) was an American politician who served as the 67th Governor of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973. He was born and died in Haw River, North Carolina.
Blanche Taylor Moore (née Kiser; born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer and a possible serial killer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She is awaiting execution in North Carolina for the fatal poisoning of her boyfriend in 1986. She is also suspected of the death of her father, mother-in-law, and first husband, and the ...
He also published numerous monographs on the history and genealogy of Guilford County and Alamance County, churches in North Carolina, and the genealogy of early North Carolina families. He served as official historian for both Guilford and Alamance counties. [1] He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Lenoir-Rhyne College in 1933. He ...
This list of cemeteries in the U.S. state of North Carolina includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Bertha Merrill "B" Holt (August 16, 1916 – June 18, 2010) was an American politician who represented Alamance and Rockingham counties in the North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993, where she championed North Carolina's failed attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and led the successful effort to remove the exemption of husbands from the state's rape laws.
Alamance County (/ ˈ æ l ə m æ n s / ⓘ) [1] is a county in North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 171,415. [2] Its county seat is Graham. [3] Formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east, Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events, textile manufacturing, and agriculture.
Hughes was born in Melville Township, Alamance County, North Carolina near the city of Mebane, North Carolina, [1] the sixth of eight children of John and Mary (Moore) Hughes. [ 2 ] She was educated in local schools, and attended Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina (later Barber-Scotia College ) from where she graduated in 1893.