Greene County, NC - Greene County North Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions
                    1750 - 1970

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Mary Virginia Kilpatrick

Researched and Compiled by Mary Virginia Kilpatrick

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The copyright laws still remain in effect. This file is placed here by 
permission of the Greene County Museum.

The Greene County Museum
P.0. Box 266
Snow Hill, N.C. 28580
252-747-1999


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Chairman and Board Members of the Snow Hill Library for permission to print
this work of Miss Mary Virginia Kilpatrick.

Mr. Larry Pate, Director of the Greene County Education Center for his support 
and encouragement in the preservation of this part of Greene County's history.

The students in the Greene County Education Center genealogy class for their 
assistance in indexing the book. Vera Parker Kirkman for her help in proof 
reading the book and correcting the index.

Last, but far from least, Delia Rose Taylor Price for her many, many hours 
spent in putting all the handwritten material into the computer. Additionally 
she spent many more hours in correcting the disc after each session of proof
reading.

Carolina Abstractors
P. O. Box 14264
Raleigh, North Carolina 27620


DEDICATION

While we realize that it is unusual to dedicate a book to it's author we feel 
in this case that it is warranted. Mary Virginia Kilpatrick was born in 
Hookerton, Greene County, North Carolina, on 21 Nov 1906 and died in Snow 
Hill, Greene County, North Carolina, 7 Jul 1984. She was a life long mmber of
Rainbow Methodist Church where she taught a Sunday School Class and is buried.

After her graduation from Snow Hill High School she went to East Carolina 
Teachers College (now East Carolina University). Following the completion of 
her work at ECTC she taught school in Arba, Hookerton and Maury. This was 
the beginning of her life long devotion to education and children. After 
teaching at Maury she started working with the Greene County Library where 
she spent the rest of her working years. Adults, as well as children, will 
remember seeing her driving through the county in the Book Mobile.

The daughter of Arnold Harper Kilpatrick and Emma Virginia Sugg she was a 
descendent of the Kilpatrick, Harper, Sugg, Dixon, and Churchill families 
of Dobbs-Greene County.

She was devoted to family and extended her help to anyone researching Greene 
County families. Mary Virginia was indeed a true daughter of the Old South.

Miss Mary Virginia transcribed the 1790-1880 censuses of Greene County, North
Carolina (of which 1790-1850 has been published with the 1860-1880 to be 
published shortly), the marriages of the county and this volume of cemetery
records of the county.

Transcribed over a period of years she gave directions to each cemetery, date
copied, and named anyone who assisted her or provided her with copies of 
cemetery records.

At her death, by her will, she left her genealogical materials to the Greene 
County Library. We are indebted to her nephew, Russell Worthington, for the 
orderly transfer of the material to the library.

The book follows her format carefully and we earnestly hope it will be her 
finest memorial.