The Roberson surname

In the chronology 12 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.

• Roberson, A. B. 2 entries, 1941
  • 1941–1942: The new Carolina Theatre, 1941–1942
  • by July 18, 1941: A theatre chain buys a Franklin Street lot for a new 1,200-seat movie house
• Roberson, Abner Benton 13 entries, 1869–1912
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• Roberson, Mrs. C. A. 1 entry, 1934
  • March 6, 1934: Chapel Hill women organize a current events club
• Roberson, Charles 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897-1899: Dr. Charles Roberson practises medicine at Chapel Hill
• Roberson, Foy 3 entries, 1933–1953
  • by September 15, 1933: Dr. W. Reece Berryhill becomes University physician
  • January 1933: Dr. Eric A. Abernethy resigns as university physician
  • by January 8, 1953: Chapel Hill buys 25 acres for a new town cemetery
• Roberson, Foy, Jr. 1 entry, 1939
  • April 11, 1939: A portrait of former mayor William S. Roberson is unveiled in the new Town Hall courtroom
• Roberson, Nellie 4 entries, 1918–1935
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  • November 21, 1918: The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting
  • 1929–1933: The Carrboro school as a community center: night school and clinics, 1929–1933
  • 1933: A community library begins at the Carrboro school
  • October 1935: The Bull's Head Bookshop moves into the University Library basement
• Roberson, W. S. 77 entries, 1889–1939
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• Roberson, W. S. 3 entries, 1922–1936
  • 1922–1944: The Chapel Hill school's money and leaders: budgets, tuition, bonds and debt, 1922–1944
  • 1927–1930: The failure of the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company, 1927–1930
  • May 11, 1936: Chapel Hill lays the cornerstone of its new high school
• Roberson, William 2 entries, 1899–1935
  • May 4, 1899: Chapel Hill re-elects Algernon S. Barbee mayor under its new charter
  • June 1935: Attorney and three-time mayor William Roberson is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Roberson, William R., Jr. 2 entries, 1983–1984
  • 1983–1984: The joint Chapel Hill-Carrboro thoroughfare plan, 1983–1984
  • week of August 20, 1984: State transportation officials endorse Chapel Hill's separate thoroughfare plan
• Roberson, William S. 1 entry, 1938
  • 1938–1989: Chapel Hill's 1938 town hall and its later uses, 1938–1989

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.

• Roberson Family family, 1 work

In the historical records 134 records

52 deeds, 5 records of enslaved people, 45 marriages, 20 court minutes, 7 tax list entries and 5 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. Roberson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection