Orange County Indexed
The McKissick surname
The McKissick name in Orange County Indexed: 5 historical records, 2 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the records
- 1799 to 1817
most named in the 1790s
- Deeds 1799–1817
- Wills 1805
- In the chronology
- 1949 to 1988 2 people in 19 entries, most in the 1960s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1922
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Flat River (1)
- People with a page here
- Floyd B. McKissick
- Spellings to try
- McKissack, McKisick, McKisack
- Search beyond these records
- McKissick 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 McKissick there)
- McKissick 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 2 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.
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McKissick, Floyd 13 entries, 1958–1988
Show the 13 entries
- 1958–1961: White Cross School: merger votes, Black families' transfers and the closing, 1958–1961
- March 3, 1961: Floyd McKissick represents the White Cross children at a school board hearing
- June 19, 1961: A white Duke student is charged with trespass for refusing to leave the Black section of the bus station grill
- September 4, 1962: Chapel Hill school board denies the reassignment appeals of Black pupils represented by Floyd McKissick
- April 19, 1963: Floyd McKissick and Malcolm X appear together at UNC's Memorial Hall
- by February 14, 1963: Seven Black pupils refused transfers in 1962 are moved to mostly white Chapel Hill schools
- December 13, 1965: Congressman Charles Weltner speaks against the Klan in Memorial Hall
- March 8, 1969: Floyd McKissick visits the strikers' headquarters in Manning Hall
- 1970–1993: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–1993
- 1984–1989: Founding the Black Cultural Center, 1984–1989
- January 12, 1986: Floyd McKissick speaks at Alpha Phi Alpha's King celebration in Great Hall
- January 19, 1987: Floyd McKissick gives the King lecture during UNC's sixth annual King celebration
- November 20, 1988: The Black Cultural Center honors Pauli Murray at the Chapel of the Cross
- McKissick, Floyd B. 10 entries, 1949–1969
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.
In the historical records 5 records
3 deeds, 1 court minutes and 1 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. Search the name in every collection
1790s
1800s
- 1805WillsWill of Thomas Rountree
