Dr. George Mask was born in September of 1926 in Beaufort NC & when he was two years old, his parents moved to Hamlet NC where his mother was the Principal of the elementary school. The Mask Family were cousins of the Tillman Family of Wadesboro.
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West Wade Street in uptown Wadesboro in the 1930's.
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Highway 145 running from Lilesville to Morven & onto into Chesterfield County SC was originally known as Highway 85
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"Decorating a Christmas Tree" at Polkton Baptist Church. Photo shot about 1899. The individuals to the right were members of the Polkton String Band.
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Mr. Kenneth Crawford was born in 1990 in Chicago. He later moved to Wadesboro where he attended Anson High School. He joined WWE in April 2015. Crawford adopted the ring name “Montez Ford” & formed a tag team with Angelo Dawkins known as The Street Profits.
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Mrs. Marjorie Terry Gainey was the First African American Female "Chief Magistrate" of Anson County. The Honorable Marjorie T. Gainey officially retired in October, 2013 after having served over 30 years in Law Enforcement.
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Joseph "Joe" Edward Clarkson, Jr, of Cherry Grove, SC and Wadesboro, NC was born in Cheraw, SC on June 24, 1959 to Mary Fredericka Wilkins Clarkson and the late Joseph Edward Clarkson.
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Mr. Frank Dennis Dunlap, Jr., a long-time and well-respected employee of the Wadesboro Post Office in Wadesboro
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Remember Mr. Joe Litaker & his beautiful wife, Ms. Jessie Honeycutt Litaker. They must have fell in love when they were both teachers at Wadesboro High School.
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Remembering Mrs. Fannie Pecolia Dixon Leak of the Pee Dee Community
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Remembering Mr. Billy Britt, my 10th grade social studies teacher at Bowman High School
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Mr. Harvey Hamilton Leavitt, III graduated from Bowman High School in 1977, the University of North Carolina in 1981 with a degree in Business Administration, and Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Services in Atlanta in 1982.
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Mr. Riston Marshall, Jr. was born on November 3, 1938 in McFarlan NC. Mr. Marshall was a 1957 graduate of Morven Colored High School, which would be renamed McRae High School about 1961
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Mrs. Ruby Wilson Huntley, a retired schoolteacher and wife of the late William Henry Huntley, Jr. died January 24, 2024, at 99 years of age.
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My Tribute to Mr. Arthur W. Newkirk, Jr.
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Remembering one of our hometown heroes – Lieutenant Jesse Lee Pratt had been a member of the Anson County Sheriff's Department for six years (since 1995). On September 15, 2001 he was driving on Highway 145 near Morven when his cruiser collided head-on with another vehicle.
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Mrs. Gloria Patricia Teal Truman graduated from Morven High School in 1940
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Jailhouse in McFarlan Township
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Photo of Lilesville School building on Camden Street in Lilesville NC built in the 1920's & demolished in the early 1990's
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Mr. Henry Little "Buck" Kitchin was born February 7, 1939. He graduated from Wadesboro High School in 1957.
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Dr. Robert Ross Huntley was born in Wadesboro on September 16, 1926 to George Washington Huntley & Julia Louise Ross Huntley. His grandfathers were Dr. Abel Braxton Huntley & Dr. Robert Dickey Ross. He graduated from Wadesboro High School in 1944.
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I had been seeing Mr. Yusuf Gatewood on television all these years but I could never figure out his connection to Anson County until March of 2017.
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Photo of Anson Community Hospital on Morven Road in Wadesboro
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Did you know that a citizen of Anson County was instrumental in developing the townships of Southern Pines & Pinebluff in Moore County NC? Patrick Township in Chesterfield County SC was also named in his honor
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Bud's Burgers of Wadesboro NC
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