The Graves surname

In the chronology 21 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.

• Graves, Calvin 1 entry, 1849
  • 1849–1856: The North Carolina Railroad is chartered and built
• Graves, Calvin 3 entries, 1851–1854
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• Graves, Charles M. 1 entry, 1955
  • July 1955: Chapel Hill Jaycees petition for a Chapel Hill-Carrboro recreation district
• Graves, Elijah 7 entries, 1740–1829
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• Graves, Ernest 4 entries, 1888–1939
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• Graves, Julia 2 entries, 1902–1966
  • 1902: Walter Dallam Toy builds a new house on West Franklin Street
  • by October 21, 1966: Phillips Russell gives the University library a map of Chapel Hill's 1892 business district
• Graves, Julia Charlotte Hooper 1 entry, 1937
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• Graves, Louis 17 entries, 1888–1972
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  • October 16, 1888: Fred Smith begins about fifty years as conductor on the Chapel Hill branch train
  • By November 24, 1904: Edward Vernon Howell owns Chapel Hill's first automobile
  • 1922–1927: Rebuilding Franklin Street's business block, 1922–1927
  • August 1924: G. H. Paulsen's apartment house opens at the west end of Vance Street
  • 1926–1941: West Franklin Street paving and its Black homeowners, 1926–1941
  • October 4, 1927: Health officer Nathan orders drinking glasses out of use at Chapel Hill soda fountains
  • by August 5, 1927: A flashing traffic beacon is set up at Franklin Street and the Raleigh road
  • November 14, 1929: The United States Marine Band plays in Kenan Stadium and the Tin Can
  • by February 12, 1937: Work begins on the University's dormitory for graduate women
  • August 22, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen suspend the town's milk ordinance for 45 days
  • September 29, 1942: Chapel Hill holds its own blackout when the state signal fails
  • 1942–1945: Chapel Hill's milk supply in wartime, 1942–1945
  • by February 12, 1943: Junior Service League runs well-baby clinics in Carrboro and at the Training School
  • 1943–1958: Veterans' organizations in Orange County, 1943–1958
  • January 16, 1943: Women's Curb Market in the old Holiness church reports $17,000 in 1942 sales
  • by October 21, 1966: Phillips Russell gives the University library a map of Chapel Hill's 1892 business district
  • September 5, 1972: The Chapel Hill Weekly becomes a daily, the Chapel Hill Newspaper
• Graves, Louis 41 entries, 1896–1965
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• Graves, Mary de Berniere 1 entry, 1929
  • by October 25, 1929: Kenan Stadium seats Black spectators in a separate stand by the field house
• Graves, Mary deB. 2 entries, 1931–1934
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• Graves, R. H., Jr. 1 entry, 1874
  • 1874: R. H. Graves Jr. begins teaching engineering and drawing at Horner & Graves's School
• Graves, R. H., Sr. 1 entry, 1874
  • January 1874: Horner and Graves move their boys' school from Oxford to the old Military Academy buildings at Hillsborough
• Graves, R. J. 3 entries, 1862–1863
  • December 1862: Confederate authorities arrest the Rev. R. J. Graves of Bethlehem Church and remove him from the state
  • February 4, 1863: Justice Manly binds the Rev. R. J. Graves over for trial on a treason charge
  • by June 24, 1863: A Confederate grand jury refuses to indict the Rev. R. J. Graves of the Oaks
• Graves, Ralph 2 entries, 1854–1886
  • 1854: Ralph Graves sells the West King Street lot later the Parks-Richmond House to John J. Freeland
  • about 1886: Wilson Caldwell is elected to the Chapel Hill board of commissioners
• Graves, Ralph H. 6 entries, 1876–1889
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  • by February 16, 1876: James H. Horner withdraws from the Hillsborough Military Academy
  • May 16, 1876: Ralph H. Graves, principal of the Hillsborough Military Academy, dies
  • 1881–1889: The University's state money, 1881–1889
  • June 1882: James Lee Love wins the Phillips Mathematical Prize
  • winter of 1888-89: James Lee Love takes over the mathematics courses during Ralph Graves's last illness
  • 1889: William Cain is elected to head mathematics and engineering
• Graves, Ralph H. 2 entries, 1897–1939
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• Graves, Ralph Henry 2 entries, 1851–1876
  • January 1851 to 1858: Hillsborough Academy is revived under Benjamin Huske and Ralph Graves
  • May 16, 1876: Ralph H. Graves, principal of the Hillsborough Military Academy, dies
• Graves, Ralph Henry 9 entries, 1875–1892
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• Graves, William 3 entries, 1982–1985
  • August 23, 1982: UNC's new General College curriculum takes effect with the class of 1986
  • November 1983: UNC starts its IBM-backed Courseware Development Project
  • September 30, 1985: UNC lets seniors substitute courses for scarce junior-senior perspectives
• Graves, William H. 2 entries, 1977–1983
  • 1977–1983: Black admissions at UNC: Bakke, Dean Renwick and the university affairs office, 1977–1983
  • January 1, 1983: UNC forms a student-faculty-alumni advisory subcommittee on undergraduate admissions

In books and archives 8 headings

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.

• Graves, Julia Charlotte Hooper, 1856-1944 2 works
• Graves, Louis, 1883-1965 2 works
• Graves, Ralph H., 1878-1939 2 works
• Graves, Calvin 1 work
• Graves, Ernest, 1880-1953 1 work
• Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950 1 work
• Graves, Mildred Moses, 1892-1976 1 work
• Graves, Ralph Henry, 1851-1889 1 work

In the historical records 219 records

89 deeds, 6 records of enslaved people, 31 marriages, 71 court minutes, 9 tax list entries and 13 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Graves marriages in full · Search the name in every collection