The Wells surname

In the chronology 17 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.

• Wells, Arthur 8 entries, 1949–1968
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• Wells, Bill 1 entry, 1990
  • 1990: UNC creates a Pauli Murray scholarship from a cross-cultural program's proposal
• Wells, Charles 1 entry, 1914
  • about 1914: White Oak Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Wells, Elizabeth 6 entries, 1784–1803
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  • 1784–1818: Naming the father: bastardy bonds and support awards in the county court, 1784–1818
  • March 1799: The Cane Creek women's meeting disowns Elizabeth Wells
  • 1799–1828: Friends meetings and children born outside marriage, 1799–1828
  • May Term 1801: The court binds Margaret Crayton, Elizabeth Wells's daughter, to Levi Gifford
  • February Term 1801: Elizabeth Wells gets a writ to arrest Thomas Crayton in Chatham County
  • April 1803: The Cane Creek women's meeting accepts Elizabeth Wells's acknowledgment
• Wells, James 1 entry, 1822
  • August 28, 1822: Reuben Day advertises his apprentice James Wells, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Wells, Katharine 2 entries, 1894–1930
  • 1894–1978: Admitting women to the University, 1894–1978
  • April 1930: The Philanthropic Society votes to admit women
• Wells, Lightnin' 1 entry, 2007
  • March 24, 2007: Lightnin' Wells and John Dee Holeman play the Hillsborough Arts Council's Traditional Music Series
• Wells, Prudence 1 entry, 1822
  • August 28, 1822: Reuben Day advertises his apprentice James Wells, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Wells, R. J. 2 entries, 1968–1972
  • 1968–1990: From campus buses to Chapel Hill Transit, 1968–1990
  • November 14, 1972: Carrboro aldermen refuse a second time to put the area bus system to a referendum
• Wells, Robert 19 entries, 1965–1976
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  • 1965–1977: Chapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–1977
  • 1970–1977: Selling the University’s utilities, 1970–1977
  • by November 12, 1971: Carrboro aldermen repeal the town's ban on Sunday beer and wine sales
  • May 4, 1971: Carrboro elects Robert Wells mayor and four newcomers to its Board of Aldermen
  • 1971–1992: Carrboro's town government, 1971–1992
  • October 1971: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University proclaim Community Chest Month
  • late July or early August 1972: Court of Appeals upholds the University in its water rate suit against Carrboro
  • July 29, 1972: State study commission recommends that UNC sell its water, electric and telephone systems
  • November 6, 1973: Carrboro voters return Braxton Foushee at the head of the aldermen's race and elect UNC student George Beswick
  • November 26, 1973: Mayor Howard Lee names aldermen to a Chapel Hill-Carrboro energy conservation task force
  • 1974: The 1974 apartment foreclosures in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • February 12, 1974: Carrboro aldermen ask the governor for odd-even gasoline rationing
  • December 12 to 27, 1974: Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells resigns, then withdraws his resignation
  • October 8, 1974: Carrboro threatens to foreclose on the Old Well Apartments for unpaid taxes
  • by November 11, 1974: Superior court dismisses convenience-store owners' suit against Carrboro's Sunday beer and wine ban
  • by October 11, 1974: Back taxes on Carrboro's Old Well apartments are paid after the town threatens suit
  • January 20, 1975: Carrboro aldermen hire Jesse L. Greeson as town manager
  • October 6, 1975: Carrboro and Chapel Hill officials agree to study running Chapel Hill buses into Carrboro
  • by April 3, 1976: Rival groups form to campaign over Carrboro's bus tax referendum
• Wells, Robert J. 6 entries, 1971–1975
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  • 1971–1986: Carrboro and the Chapel Hill buses, 1971–1986
  • September 12, 1972: Carrboro aldermen name Frank H. Chamberlain town manager
  • February 13, 1973: Carrboro's mayor breaks a tie to call a referendum on the town bus system
  • January 21, 1974: Carrboro aldermen create a public transportation commission to weigh a third bus referendum
  • September 27, 1974: State study commission votes to sell the University's telephone system to Southern Bell and its electric and water systems to Duke Power
  • February 23, 1975: Carrboro residents organize the group that became the Carrboro Community Coalition
• Wells, Robert J., Jr. 5 entries, 1973–1975
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  • August 31, 1973: Carrboro Mayor Robert J. Wells Jr. announces for re-election
  • by July 9, 1973: A developer sues Carrboro for blocking the Tar Heel Manor apartments
  • September 13, 1973: State utilities study commission delays approving the terms for selling the University utilities
  • December 12 to 27, 1974: Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells resigns, then withdraws his resignation
  • January 20, 1975: Carrboro aldermen hire Jesse L. Greeson as town manager
• Wells, Robert, Jr. 2 entries, 1971–1972
  • 1971: Robert Wells Jr. is mayor of Carrboro and Bill B. Britt its town manager
  • November 30, 1972: Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
• Wells, Roger 1 entry, 1968
  • by February 8, 1968: Faculty draft counselors organize a dial-a-counselor service
• Wells, Samuel F. 1 entry, 1970
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Wells, Warner 3 entries, 1952–1961
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• Wells, William S. 1 entry, 1966
  • January 6, 1966: President Friday names a faculty committee to help choose a new chancellor

In books and archives 3 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.

• Wells, Bertram Whittier, 1884-1978 1 work
• Wells, Warner, 1913-1991 1 work
• Wells, William, 1908- 1 work

In the historical records 250 records

86 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 56 marriages, 88 court minutes, 10 tax list entries and 9 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. Wells marriages in full · Search the name in every collection