Author: Johnston County Genealogical & Historical Society
Description: Johnston County cemetery records in Microsoft Word format. (NOTE: Also available in 7 printed volumes for $125 plus sales tax and shipping charges. Contact the Heritage Center by e-mail or phone to place an order.)
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB178
Price: $30.00
Title:1784-1840 Census, Johnston County
Author: Johnston County Genealogical & Historical Society
Description: Census data, including combined index
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB174
Price: $25.00
Title:1850 Census, Johnston County
Author: Johnston County Genealogical & Historical Society
Description: Complete schedules for the 1850 Census of Johnston County
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB175
Price: $20.00
Title:Every Name Index: 1870 Census, Johnston County, NC
Author: Joan Howell Waddell
Description: Genealogical reference book
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB179
Price: $25.00
Title:Family Bible Records, Vols. I & II
Author: Johnston County Genealogical & Historical Society
Description: Family Bible records collected by the Genealogical & Historical Society
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB176
Price: $30.00
Title:Family Bible Records, Vol. III
Author: Johnston County Genealogical & Historical Society
Description: Family Bible records collected by the Genealogical & Historical Society
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB177
Price: $20.00
Title:Heritage of Johnston County
Author: Description: Stories of the families and communities of Johnston County. Published in 1985.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB111
Price: $25.00
Title:Kinfolks of Johnston County, Vol. I
Author: Ross and Wood
Description: Abstracts of early deed records, 1759-1825.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB127
Price: $37.00
Title:Kinfolks of Johnston County, Vol. II
Author: Ross and Wood
Description: Abstracts of early deed records, 1826-1865.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB128
Price: $37.00
Title:The Barbour Clan of Memory Lane
Author: Todd Johnson
Description: Chronicle of the Barbour and related families (Austin, Byrd, Wallace, Price, Barnes, Massengill, Hinnant, Newsom, Woodall, and Tomlinson).
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB115
Price: $30.00
Title:A Genealogical Study of the Larkin George Boyette - Chloe Ann Bagley Family and Descendants
Author: Ray K. Hodge
Description: Genealogy book produced for 100th Boyette Family Reunion, 2008
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB200
Price: $20.00
Title:The William Crocker Family
Author: Ray K. Hodge
Description: A genealogical study of the Crocker familes of Johnston County.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB114
Price: $15.00
Title:Smithfield Herald Index, Volume I, 1883-1889
Author: Jeffrey P. Begeal
Description: Index to personal names mentioned in the newspaper.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB101
Price: $40.00
Title:Smithfield Herald Index, Volume II, 1890-1894
Author: Jeffrey P. Begeal
Description: Index to personal names mentioned in the newspaper.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB102
Price: $40.00
Title:Smithfield Herald Index, Volume III, 1895-1897
Author: Jeffrey P. Begeal
Description: Index to personal names mentioned in the newspaper.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB103
Price: $40.00
Title:Smithfield Herald Index, Volume IV, 1898-1900
Author: Jeffrey P. Begeal
Description: Index to personal names mentioned in the newspaper.
Category: Genealogy
Item Number: HCB165
Price: $40.00
Author: Thomas J. Lassiter & T. Wingate Lassiter
Description: Narrative history of Johnston County by two former newspaper editors, updated 2004.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB121
Price: $15.00
Title:Images of America: Clayton
Author: Pamela Lipscomb Baumgartner & K. Todd Johnson
Description: Old pictures of people and places in Clayton, North Carolina
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB204
Price: $19.99
Title:A New Voyage to Carolina
Author: John Lawson
Description: Written in 1709, this is the earliest published account of the Carolina frontier, including territory that became Johnston County. This is the Lefler edition of 1967.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB122
Price: $25.00
Title:North Carolina Tobacco: A History
Author: Billy Yeargin
Description: Narrative history with photos of tobacco farming and marketing in North Carolina, including Johnston County
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB198
Price: $21.99
Title:Remembering North Carolina Tobacco
Author: Billy Yeargin
Description: Personal reminiscences of tobacco farming in the Tar Heel State, including Johnston County
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB199
Price: $19.99
Title:This Gentle Land
Author: Ruth Stewart
Description: Memoirs of a Johnston County farm family in the 1930s and 1940s - written in poetic prose.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB197
Price: $12.00
Title:The Spring of '31 : A Kid's View of the Great Depression
Author: James E. Munden, Sr.
Description: Personal story about life during the Depression by a native Johnstonian who grew up on a farm near Smithfield.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB164
Price: $12.00
Title:Big Memories of a Little Town
Author: Ray Keith Hodge
Description: Personal recollections of Kenly & Eastern Carolina in the 1930s & 1940s
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB172
Price: $15.00
Title:Smalltown Strutters
Author: Elsie M. Collins
Description: History and anecdotes from the Johnston County community of Wilson's Mills.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB109
Price: $20.00
Title:Gentle People from a Not-So-Gentle Past
Author: Elsie M. Collins
Description: More about Wilson's Mills people and history - a sequel to Smalltown Strutters.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB150
Price: $20.00
Title:African-American Education in Johnston County
Author: Johnston County Heritage Center
Description: Booklet assembled by Heritage Commission members Elsie Collins, Carolyn Ennis, and Joan Jones for Black History observance, 2008
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB201
Price: $15.00
Title:A History of Smithfield High School, 1903-1969
Author: Julia Allen McCullers
Description: Narrative history with photos, plus a listing of all the graduates.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB196
Price: $15.00
Title:The Republican Party and Johnston County: 1746-2002
Author: E. Joan Jones
Description: Narrative history including large appendix with many names - compiled by one of the local party's first female leaders.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB169
Price: $25.00
Title:Johnston County Economic and Social
Author: Sanders and Ragsdale
Description: A comprehensive look at Johnston County by two UNC students in 1922.
Category: Local History
Item Number: HCB129
Price: $10.00
Author: E. Joan Jones
Description: Biography of local schoolteacher Cynthia DeFord Adams. Includes selections of her poetry and memories of Johnston County.
Category: Biography
Item Number: HCB151
Price: $15.00
Author: Bruce H. Woodard
Description: Anecdotes on Eastern North Carolina rural life from pre-World War II.
Category: Poetry and Essay
Item Number: HCB141
Price: $12.00
Item:Never Far from Home
Author: Julia McCullers
Description: Personal essays on Eastern North Carolina life by a Smithfield newspaper columnist.
Category: Poetry and Essay
Item Number: HCB123
Price: $12.00
Item:Family Matters: Homage to July, The Slave Girl
Author: Shelby Stephenson
Description: 2008 award-winnning poetic narrative about a Johnston County slave and life on the farm as the author has known it to be
Category: Poetry and Essay
Item Number: HCB203
Price: $14.00
Item:Leaves of Memories
Author: Mavis B. Kornegay
Description: Collection of a grandmother's poetry.
Category: Poetry and Essay
Item Number: HCB120
Price: $5.00
Artist: Margaret Maron
Description: First in the Deborah Knott mystery series set in fictional Colleton (Johnston) County and first mystery ever to receive all top four mystery awards
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB162
Price: $7.50
Title:The Bed She Was Born In (hardcover)
Artist: Jeri Fitzgerald Board
Description: Historical novel with a focus on women from the Civil War through Reconstruction into the early 20th Century - written by a native Johnstonian
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB191
Price: $24.95
Title:Seven, No More (hardcover)
Artist: Marlene Rose
Description: Autobiographical novel about a Johnston County
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB180
Price: $18.95
Title:Too Close for Comfort: A Boy's View of the Battle of Bentonville
Artist: Larry Laboda
Description: Fictional account of a young Bentonville boy and his family during the Civil War battle
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB173
Price: $6.00
Title:The Story of Alfred, A Servant Boy Turned Soldier
Artist: Larry Laboda
Description: An unusual tale of courage during the Civil War
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB145
Price: $6.00
Title:Second Fiddle
Artist: Lester Mitchell
Description: World War II fiction by a local Johnston County native.
Category: Novel
Item Number: HCB125
Price: $9.95
Author: Cree Forman
Description: Combination cookbook and memoir about Phil Forman and the widely acclaimed restaurant he operated in Selma, NC
Category: Cookbook
Item Number: HCB167
Price: $16.95
Description: Candid footage taken in Benson in 1937 - PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV134
Price: $20.00
Item:Clayton
Description: Candid footage taken in Clayton in 1937 - PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV136
Price: $20.00
Item:Smithfield and Selma
Description: Candid footage taken in Smithfield and Selma in 1937 - PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV140
Price: $20.00
Item:Black Johnstonians
Description: Candid footage from 1937 - PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV135
Price: $20.00
Item:Smithfield Football: State Champs!
Description: Smithfield High School, State AA Football Championship game film, 1959: PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV133
Price: $20.00
Item:Selma Girls Basketball
Description: High School Girls Basketball games from the mid-1960s
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV139
Price: $20.00
Item:Glendale - Kenly School
Description: A pictorial history of Glendale and Kenly schools from the 1920s: PLEASE SPECIFY AT CHECK-OUT WHETHER YOU WANT VIDEOCASSETTE OR DVD
Category: Historical Video
Item Number: HCV137
Price: $20.00