Orange County Indexed
The Helms surname
The Helms name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record and 1 person in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1755
most named in the 1750s
- Tax lists 1755
- In the chronology
- 1966 to 1990 1 person in 22 entries, most in the 1980s
- Spellings to try
- Holms
- Search beyond these records
- Helms 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 Helms there)
- Helms in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 1 person
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.
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Helms, Jesse 22 entries, 1966–1990
Show the 22 entries
- 1966: The “To His Coy Mistress” affair, 1966
- November 10, 1966: Chancellor Sitterson returns instructor Michael Paull to his English class
- November 7, 1972: Orange County votes for McGovern and for Democrats down the ballot
- July 23, 1978: Orange County Young Democrats rally for John Ingram at the Mad Hatter
- early March 1981: UNC students form the American Conservative Coalition
- by February 23, 1981: Students organize a UNC chapter of Americans for Common Sense
- March 31, 1982: Former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson speaks at the Carolina Symposium
- 1982–1994: The South Africa divestment campaign at UNC and Chapel Hill's sanctions, 1982–1994
- February 15, 1984: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce disavows the U.S. Chamber's endorsement of Jesse Helms
- October 23, 1984: Former president Jimmy Carter gives the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
- October 29, 1984: John Anderson speaks in the Pit and endorses Jim Hunt for the Senate
- by April 10, 1984: Hillsborough Democrat Lucius Cheshire chairs Jesse Helms's re-election campaign in Orange County
- September 15, 1984: NOW president Judy Goldsmith urges Jesse Helms's defeat at a NOW convention near Chapel Hill
- November 1984: The Orange County Rainbow Coalition of Conscience forms a Committee on Southern Africa
- September 8, 1985: About 120 people hold a candlelight vigil against apartheid at the Chapel Hill post office
- November 6, 1990: UNC's four campus precincts give Harvey Gantt 84 percent of their Senate vote
- November 28, 1990: College Republicans hang signs on The Student Body statues opposing their removal
- September 16, 1990: A Harvey Gantt campaign poster in Mangum dormitory is defaced with racial slurs
- October 15, 1990: Harvey Gantt rallies more than 3,500 students in the Pit
- 1990: Hate incidents and the Rally Against Hate at UNC, fall 1990
- March 26, 1990: James Meredith calls affirmative action a white liberal tool at the Carolina Symposium
- 1990: Orange County in the 1990 election
In the historical records 1 record
1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: William Helms
