- Title
- Morehead family of North Carolina and Virginia
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- Date
- 1600 - 1915
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- Creator
- ["Morehead, John Motley, 1870-1965."]
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- Place
- ["Virginia, United States","North Carolina, United States"]
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Morehead family of North Carolina and Virginia
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THE MOHEHEADS OF NORTH CAROLINA
War lie aelcd as Government Appeal Agent, connected with the
Local Board for Durham County, and applied for enlistment in
the Naval Aviation Branch of the service, but was rejected upon
examination, on account of a knee which had been injured in
childhood. In February, 1917, he was married to Miss Caroline
Douglas Dill and of this union there is one daughter, Lucy
Lathrop. Mrs. Morehead is the only daughter of Isham Faison Hill
and Kate Fuller Hill. She was born at Faison, North Carolina,
December 22, 1890, where her father was engaged in business; but
later moved to Durham, where Mrs. Morehead received her early
education in the city schools. Later she went to Hollins College,
Roanoke, Virginia, where she graduated, after which she took a
special course in journalism and short-story writing at Columbia
University. Mrs. Morehead took a prominent part in the literary
side of her college, writing several plays which were produced at the
time, and since leaving college has written several short stories
which have been published. On her paternal side she is the grand¬
daughter of William Edward Hill and Frances Diana Faison of
Duplin County, while on he)- maternal side she is the grand¬
daughter of Thomas C. Fuller and Caroline Douglas Whitehead.
Mr. Fuller was a man of prominence in the life of the State, and
especially in the history of its bar.
Of the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lindsay Morehead,
Margaret Warren, born December 8, 1874, at Savannah, was mar¬
ried to Rufus Lenoir Patterson on November 27, 1895. Mr. Patter¬
son is a native of Salem, North Carolina, born July 11, 1872, but has
spent most of his life in New York City in business, where he is
now president of the American Machine and Foundry Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have two children: Eugene Morehead (who
now omits the first name) and Lucy Lathrop. Morehead Patter¬
son, born October 9, 1897, at Durham, North Carolina, has lived in
New York City for twenty-one years. He entered Yale from the
Groton (Massachusetts) School. He played on the Freshman Foot-
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