The Chavis surname

In the chronology 13 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.

• Chavis, Ben 5 entries, 1974–1993
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  • November 1974: Angela Davis speaks in Memorial Hall
  • by September 15, 1977: Black Ink publishes its tenth-anniversary issue
  • February 6-8, 1981: Ben Chavis gives the keynote at the BSM's Discovery conference for Black History Month
  • January 12, 1990: A letter signed "The Knights" threatens three Black local officials and Ben Chavis
  • April 21, 1993: The Rev. Leon White anoints the Wilson Library site for a Black Cultural Center
• Chavis, Eliza 2 entries, 1854–1865
  • May Term 1854: The court weighs undoing Fanny Chavis's binding to Dr. Thomas H. Turner and confirms it
  • November Term 1865: The court rescinds the 1861 binding of John Chavis, a free child of color, to George Laws
• Chavis, Fanny 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court weighs undoing Fanny Chavis's binding to Dr. Thomas H. Turner and confirms it
• Chavis, George 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Henderson 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Hinton 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, John 1 entry, 1865
  • November Term 1865: The court rescinds the 1861 binding of John Chavis, a free child of color, to George Laws
• Chavis, Juddie M. 1 entry, 1956
  • February 13, 1956: Black women at Mars Hill organize a home demonstration club
• Chavis, Laura 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Susan M. 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Theophilus 1 entry, 1868
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
• Chavis, William 1 entry, 1768
  • August 27, 1768: William Chavis of Granville County sells 320 acres on the Haw River
• Chavis, William H. 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard

In books and archives 1 heading

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Chavis, John, 1763-1838 1 work

In the historical records 18 records

5 deeds, 8 marriages and 5 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Chavis marriages in full · Search the name in every collection