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Annie Sutton Cameron

Annie Sutton Cameron had taught first grade at the Hillsboro elementary school since 1916 when The News of Orange County profiled her in 1944, also noting her work as publicity chairman of the local Red Cross chapter. She had studied at St. Mary's School in Raleigh and held an A.B. from the University of North Carolina.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 2, 1944, p. 1

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  1. Annie Sutton Cameron begins teaching first grade at the Hillsboro school By The News of Orange County's account in 1944, Annie Sutton Cameron became the first-grade teacher at the Hillsboro elementary school in 1916 and was still in that post.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 2, 1944, p. 1 (This Week's Orange Woman)
  2. The county war record lists 23 Orange County servicemen who died in the war Annie Sutton Cameron's record for the Council of Defense lists 23 Orange County soldiers killed in action or dead of wounds or disease, four of them Black. The list includes men from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Blackwood and Rougemont. People: Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 106
  3. Orange County welfare board takes up the county home's condition At its September meeting in Hillsboro the county board of public welfare discussed the dilapidated county home and recommended a study of whether a hospital would serve better than an ordinary home, possibly built jointly with neighboring counties. The board also reviewed plans submitted by the new county welfare superintendent and set its meetings for the second Thursday of each month. People: George H. Lawrence, Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1928, p. 6
  4. Marinda McPherson starts a library for Black readers in Hillsborough When the Negro Community Library dedicated its building in May 1951, the News said the library had been begun in 1942 by Mrs. Marinda McPherson at the suggestion of Miss Annie Cameron, that the late Miss Annie Wall gave its first book, and that it had grown from temporary quarters to more than 3,000 volumes. People: Annie Sutton CameronThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 31, 1951, p. 1
  5. The Orange County Red Cross chapter meets its $1,000 war fund quota The Orange County chapter of the Red Cross, separate from Chapel Hill's chapter, reported that its $1,000 war fund quota had already been met with more in prospect, according to its publicity chairman, Miss Annie S. Cameron of Hillsboro. Chapel Hill's chapter was still well short of its own $3,000. People: Annie Sutton CameronThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 6, 1942, p. 2
  6. A Negro library committee was already running library service for Black readers in Orange County The committee met in September 1945 under chairman Mrs. M. D. McPherson, reported over a hundred new books received and 800 books circulated during the summer, and was assembling book kits for rural areas. Miss Annie Cameron was named as one of the people who started the library for Black residents of the county. People: Marinda D. McPherson, Annie Sutton CameronThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 13, 1945, p. 7
  7. The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools Meeting at Eno Presbyterian Church in Cedar Grove on June 10, the Orange County Council of Churches elected the Rev. J. S. Cook president and announced that Miss Florence Root, a missionary from Korea, would teach the Bible in the county schools for another year. Seventeen congregations had paid for the program in its first year, which began in December 1944, and churches were to be asked for sixty cents a member for the next. People: Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 14, 1945, p. 1
  8. Hillsboro's Business and Professional Women's Club honors Annie Cameron During National Business Women's Week the Hillsboro club honored Annie Cameron, first-grade teacher at the Hillsboro school for more than two generations of pupils, as Mayor Ben Johnston signed the week's proclamation. The club later counted her as its Woman of the Year for that year.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 14, 1954, p. 1
  9. Annie Cameron receives the Hillsboro Exchange Club's first Book of Golden Deeds award At the annual homecoming at St. Mary's Chapel, A. H. Graham presented Miss Annie Cameron with the Hillsboro Exchange Club's Book of Golden Deeds award for her years of service to the community. She was the first to receive the award, begun that year, and the book was to be shown in the Hillsboro Public Library. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1955, p. 1
  10. Hillsboro's business and professional women name telephone operator Mamie Gordon Woman of the Year The Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club honored Mrs. Mamie Gordon, described as the town's one-woman telephone service for many years, as its Woman of the Year at a dinner during the club week proclaimed by Mayor Ben Johnston. Earlier honorees were Sue Hayes and Annie Cameron. People: Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 27, 1956, p. 1
  11. Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club names Maude McCauley its Woman of the Year By vote of its members the Hillsboro BPW Club named Miss Maude McCauley, a Cameron Park School teacher of about 37 years and the club's past president, its Woman of the Year, announcing it at a dinner at the Colonial Inn during BPW Club Week. The club, then in its fifth year, had earlier honored Miss Sue Hayes and Miss Annie Cameron. People: Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1957, p. 1
  12. The Orange County Historical Museum publishes Annie Sutton Cameron's Hillsborough and the Regulators By December 3, 1964 the Orange County Historical Museum had Annie Sutton Cameron's illustrated booklet on sale, at 75 cents at the museum or $1.00 by mail. The 35-page booklet, written for seventh-grade students of North Carolina history, included a chapter on Hillsborough as it looked in 1768. A 1967 review called it an informative, readable and documented account of the colonial town. People: Annie Sutton CameronSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 42 (1965), p. 124 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 3, 1964, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 3, 1964, p. 10

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A record of the war activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919

Cameron, Annie Sutton · 2002 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Annie Sutton Cameron compiled this account of Orange County's part in the First World War in 1919 as historian for the county's Council of Defense, at the request of its chairman J.S. Webb. It covers the Council and the Home Guard, drives for war bonds and overseas relief, Red Cross work, patriotic observances, the influenza epidemic and women's war work, with registers of the county's soldiers. Published online in 2002 by the UNC library in Documenting the American South's North Carolinians and the Great War.

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Orange County (N.C.) World War I activities, 1917-1920.

1917

Records of Orange County war work from 1917 to 1920, one hundred items filling a linear foot in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 566. The records concern World War I work in North Carolina, the influenza epidemic of those years and Annie Sutton Cameron. The material is the county's own paperwork from the home front.

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  • Foundational · NC 975.656 CAM Hillsborough and the Regulators Cameron, Annie Sutton · 1964

    Annie Sutton Cameron's short account of Hillsborough during the Regulator uprising of 1766 to 1771, when backcountry farmers protested colonial officials and courts and Hillsborough, as the seat of Orange County, stood at the center of the conflict. Published by the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough in 1964, 36 pages with illustrations.

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