Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Created by the Staff of the Olivia Raney Library

Nash County

Name

County of Birth

County of Residence

Life Span

Arrington, Archibald Hunter

Nash Co., Nashville

Nash Co., Nashville

1809 - 1872

Battle, Jacob

Nash Co.

Granville Co.

1852 - 1916

Battle, Joel

Nash Co.

Orange Co., Chapel Hill

1779 - 1829

Battle, Kemp Davis

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Orange Co., Chapel Hill

1888 - 1973

Battle, Samuel Westray

Nash Co.

Buncombe Co., Asheville

1854 - 1927

Battle, Turner Westray

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Onslow Co., Camp Lejeune

1899 - 1944

Bunn, Benjamin Hickman

Nash Co.

Nash Co.

1844 - 1907

Bunn, Henry Gaston

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Nash Co.

1838 - 1908

Cooley, Harold Dunbar

Nash Co., Nashville

Nash Co., Nashville

1897 - 1974

Creech, Oscar, Jr.

Nash Co., Nashville

Nash Co.

1916 - 1967

Doak, Frances Blount Renfrow

Nash Co., Spring Hope

Nash Co.

1887 - 1974

Dortch, William Theophilus

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Nash Co., Nashville

1824 - 1889

Griffin, Hardy

Nash Co.

Nash Co.

ca. 1735 - 1794

Horne, Joshua Lawrence

Nash Co.

Nash Co.

1887 - 1974

Kyser, James Kern (Kay)

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Orange Co., Chapel Hill

1906 - 1985

Lawrence, Joseph Joshua

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Wilson Co., Wilson

1836 - 1909

Mann, Thomas Nicholson

Nash Co.

Nash Co.

1797 - 1824

Monk, Thelonious Sphere

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

moved to New York

1917 - 1982

Morris, Naomi Elizabeth

Nash Co., Spring Hope

Wilson Co., Wilson

1921 - 1986

Murray, William David

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Nash Co.

1908 - 1986

Pearsall, Thomas Jenkins

Nash Co., Rocky Mount

Nash Co.

1903 - 1981

Ricks, Robert Henry

Nash Co.

Nash Co.

1839 - 1920

Sorsby, Nicholas Turner

Nash Co.

moved to Alabama

1818 - 1868