The Alamance County Genealogical Society meets the second Monday of each month except June, July and August, at 7:00 p.m., at the Western Steak House, 142 N. Graham-Hopedale Road Burlington, NC 27215, 336-227-1448
The membership year for the society is September to August and membership dues are ($15.00 per person or family). To receive the January journal on time dues should be paid before the end of December.  Journals are published in January, May and September.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Murray Family Research Weekend     William Hailey, Alex Hailey's son will be speaker

Goodbye to a dear friend!
Edwin Fearrington Sharpe
September 09, 2008

Mr. Edwin Fearrington Sharpe, age 84, (Born March 30, 1924), died at the Hospice Home in Burlington on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 5:50 a.m.

Born in Burlington, N.C., he was the son of Walter Eugene Sharpe and Sallie Fearrington Sharpe, both deceased and moved to Roanoke, Va. at about age 6. He graduated from Jefferson High School in 1943 and almost immediately went into the Army. He spent three years in the Army Air Corps and served as a Radio Operator Gunner on a B-25 in the 5th Army Air Corps during World War II in the Pacific Theater. At the war's end, he was on Ie Shima, an island just off Okinawa, South of Japan.

He returned to the states in 1946 and graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1949. Mr. Sharpe married Virginia Lee Harvey on June 21,1946. He spent most of his working life as a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Burlington; served as a treasurer of the Alamance Battleground Sons of the American Revolution; served as a president of the Alamance Genealogy Society; served as a treasurer of the 345th Bomb Group Association, a group of members of the 5th Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II; and helped as a volunteer for several local groups.

He was preceded in death by his parents and six siblings, Louise Sharpe, Norman Sharpe, Mildred Meekins, Walter Sharpe Jr., Eleanore Sharpe and Elouise England; his wife, Virginia H. Sharpe; a daughter, Elizabeth Sharpe Vassar; and two sons, Edwin Fearrington Sharpe Jr. and Lewis Harvey Sharpe.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 1 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Burlington and conducted by Dr. Ron Shive. The family will greet friends after the service. Burial will be at a later date in Evergreen Cemetery in Roanoke, Va.

Memorials may be made to your choice of charities or Hospice and Palliative Care of Alamance-Caswell, 914 Chapel Hill Road, Burlington, N.C. 27215.
  
Our next meeting is Oct. 13, 2008  All visitors will be very welcome.
Alamance County Land Grant Index
Alamance Manufacturing 1863
Bellemont United Methodist Church Cemetery Listing
Bellemont United Methodist Church Obit Listing
Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery
Bethel United Methodist Church Obits [Also linked from listing]
Books for Sale page 1      page 2
Cedar Cliff United Methodist Church Cemetery Listing
Cedar Cliff United Methodist Obit Listing
Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery Listing
Concord United Methodist Church Obit Listing
Company F National Guard Reunion
Crawford - Thompson Cemetery Listing
Cross Roads Presbyterian Church Cemetery Listing
Cross Roads Presbyterian Church Obits Page [Also linked from listing]
Cross Roads Presbyterian Church History [Also linked from listing]
Early Pictures of Alamance Co., NC
Elon Magnolia Cemetery
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Graham Memorial Park Listing
Graham Memorial Park Obits 
Haw River UMC Cemetery Listing
Haw River UMC Obit Listing
Hawfields Presbyterian Church Cemetery Listing
Hawfields Obits [Also linked from Listing]
 Holt Slave Records
Isley Book Index
Isley Census Records
Long's Chapel United Church of Christ Cemetery Listing
Long's Chapel United Church of Christ Obits
Magnolia Cemetery Listing
Magnolia Cemetery Obits
McPherson - Perry - Bivins Cemetery Listing
Member Survey
Moore's Chapel Baptist Church
Mount Hermon United Methodist Church
Mount Hermon United Methodist Church Obits [Also linked from listing]
Obits
Query
Rock Creek United Methodist Church
Rock Creek United Methodist Church Obits [Also linked from listing]
Salem UMC Cemetery Listing
Salem UMC Obits [Also linked from Listing]
Spring Friends Meeting Cemetery Listing
State Dispatch Death Records
State Dispatch Marriage Records
Stockard Cemetery Listing
Thompson Family Cemetery
West Grove Friends Meeting Cemetery Listing
West Grove Friends Meeting Obit Listing
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The 1850 and 1870 Census
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The donation of the 1850 and 1870 Alamance County, North Carolina, Census images for permanent,  free display in the USGenWeb Archives was made possible through the generosity of NOLA DUFFY and the permission of S-K Publications. 

 
 

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Sept. 08, 2008    
Oct. 13, 2008 David Vernon Heritage Apple Orchards
Nov. 10, 2008 Brandi Moon Appalachian Clogging
Dec. 08, 2008 Christmas Meeting and Sale  
Jan. 12, 2009 Tim Rackley Grave Dowsing
Feb. 09, 2009 Jimmy Campbell Early Blacksmithing
Mar. 09, 2009 Karen Powell The Importance of Family Medical Records
Apr. 13, 2009 Donna Bonds Grace A. Clapp, Artist
May 11, 2009 Election of Officers  
 
 

OFFICERS FOR 2008-2009
  President Donna Bonds  
  First Vice-President Joyce W. Harrison  
  Second Vice-President Don Stanford  
  Treasurer John C. Allen  
  Recording Secretary Nancy Johnson  
  Corresponding Secretary Denise Andrews  
  Editors of Journal Matt Beckwith  
  Telephone Committee Barbara Perry  
  Webmaster Mary W. Ellis  
  Librarian Lisa. B. Kobrin  
  Cashiers Ed and Ollie Cashwell  
  Name Tags Joyce Hayes  
  Food Coordinator Judy Braxton  
  Journal Publisher Ray Kinnin  
 

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