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Adelaide "Addie" Williams Totten, born in Stedman in 1890, lived in Chapel Hill from her 1923 marriage to botanist Henry Roland Totten and organized the Chapel Hill Garden Club. She was president of the Garden Club of North Carolina from 1935 to 1937 and a certified flower show judge, and died in 1974.
Source: UNC Libraries: Adelaide Totten Papers, 1918-1973
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Gardening is the focus of this 1974 interview with Addie Totten, wife of H. R. Totten. An oral history cassette from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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