George Trice

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. between 1874 and 1878 George Trice turns Tom Moore's former house into a restaurant and shoe shop George Trice made the East Franklin Street house where Tom Moore had lived into a restaurant and ice cream parlor with a shoe shop. He gave up the restaurant after his wife died in 1899, and by 1903 a tailor and a shoe shop were in its place. People: George Trice Place: Former Tom Moore house, Lot 16, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom Moore · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 133
2. January 5, 1880 Chapel Hill's AME congregation issues a public appeal for money to finish its house of worship Rev. G. W. Offley, preacher in charge of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, signed a circular dated January 5, 1880 asking the public to help the congregation complete its house of worship and naming Brother George Trice to solicit subscriptions. The Chapel Hill Ledger printed it in full on January 10, 1880. People: George Trice Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: G. W. OffleyThe Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 3
3. by February 14, 1880 James B. Mason moves the old Barbee drugstore building to Franklin Street James B. Mason bought the frame building lately used as Barbee's drugstore and had it moved to the Kirkland lot near the Baptist church on Franklin Street, to be fitted up inside; George Trice directed the move. People: James B. Mason, George Trice Place: Kirkland lot near the Baptist church, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 14, 1880, p. 3
4. October 1894 George Trice advertises his oyster restaurant and shoe shop opposite the Chapel Hill Hotel George Trice's advertisement in The Tar Heel offered fresh oysters three times a week, fries, stews, steaks and eggs, board at $10 a month, and neat shoe repairing at low cost, all at his place opposite the Chapel Hill Hotel. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill HotelSearch the index · The Tar Heel, October 11, 1894, p. 3 (advertisement)
5. fall 1907 The university football team's training table is set up at George Trice's restaurant The athletic association's advisory committee decided to set up a training table for as many as eighteen football players at George Trice's restaurant, under Dr. R. B. Lawson. Each player paid eleven dollars a month, about what the players had been paying for board, and the team manager paid the other seven. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: R. B. LawsonSearch the index · The Tar Heel, October 3, 1907, p. 3 (Advisory Committee Meets)
6. January 13, 1915 George Trice, who ran an oyster restaurant and shoe shop on Franklin Street, is buried with Masonic honors in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery George Trice (1838-1915), an African American businessman who kept an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street, died at his home on Monday, January 11, 1915, after an illness of a week or more. The News called him one of the best known Black citizens of Chapel Hill and a shoe mender nearly all his life, and reported that he was buried two days later in the cemetery's Black section with Masonic honors. People: George Trice Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, South Road (NC 54) and Country Club Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1915, p. 4; The News (Chapel Hill), March 11, 1915, p. 2