Orange County Indexed
The Burnette surname
The Burnette name in Orange County Indexed: 3 people in the chronology.
- In the chronology
- 1855 to 1994 3 people in 21 entries, most in the 1990s
- Spellings to try
- Burnett, Barnett, Burnet, Burkett, Burchette
- Search beyond these records
- Burnette in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Burnette there)
- Burnette in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 3 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
- Burnette, Abner 1 entry, 1855
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Burnette, LaVonda 18 entries, 1993–1994
Show the 18 entries
- 1993–1994: LaVonda Burnette and the school board recall, 1993–1994
- December 8, 1993: School board member LaVonda Burnette acknowledges she was not enrolled at UNC
- December 27, 1993: Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board unanimously asks LaVonda Burnette to resign
- November 2, 1993: Chapel Hill-Carrboro voters elect Mark Royster, Mary Bushnell and LaVonda Burnette to the school board
- 1993: The 1993 town elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
- by October 27, 1993: Younger Voters of Chapel Hill forms to endorse town and school candidates
- November 3, 1994: Bea Hughes-Werner joins the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education
- August 17, 1994: Recall petition against school board member LaVonda Burnette is filed with 7,257 signatures
- early July 1994: General Assembly lets Chapel Hill-Carrboro voters recall school board members
- October 14, 1994: LaVonda Burnette resigns from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education
- January 8, 1994: Local NAACP and the South Orange Black Caucus defend LaVonda Burnette
- September 18, 1994: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP asks legislators to review the petitions to recall LaVonda Burnette
- August 30, 1994: Orange County Board of Elections certifies petitions for a recall vote on school board member LaVonda Burnette
- July 7, 1994: Two residents sue to force the school board to hold a hearing on LaVonda Burnette
- by October 24, 1994: Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board accepts LaVonda Burnette's resignation and orders new ballots
- June 6, 1994: School board formally charges LaVonda Burnette and sets a removal hearing
- May 16, 1994: NAACP leads opposition at the school board's hearing on a recall bill
- January 10, 1994: Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board asks legislators for a way to recall its members
- Burnette, Margaret 2 entries, 1898–1935
