Director:
Wingate Lassiter
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Physical Address:
Heritage Center
241 E. Market Street
Smithfield, NC 27577
 
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 2709
Smithfield, NC 27577
 
Phone: 919-934-2836
Help the Heritage Center

CEMETERY PROJECT NEEDS YOUR HELP!

The Cemetery Records of Johnston County
were compiled in 1982 and published as a seven-volume set of books. Despite that effort, many cemeteries were missed in this first attempt of documenting the gravesites of our ancestors. The North Carolina State Archives is now encouraging every county in the state to complete and update records and to keep this as an ongoing project. The Johnston County Heritage Center and the Johnston County Genealogical and Historical Society are directing the local effort. Numerous church, family, and community cemeteries need to be surveyed for the first time. Others need to be re-visited for changes made since the 1982 survey. If you can help with this project, call the Johnston County Heritage Center at (919) 934-2836 or e-mail heritagecenter@johnstonnc.com and provide your name and contact information. Either Rebecca Owens, Pat Godwin, or Ann Sasser will get in touch to give you instructions on how to survey and document this genealogical information, including how to identify unmarked graves and read tombstones. Participants will be given credit for their work in the new compilation.


HERE ARE SOME OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP US

The Johnston County Heritage Center operates as a department of County Government, funded by the taxpayers of Johnston County. Even so, we still call on individual citizens to help us with donations of historical materials, their time as volunteers, and their money as memorial donors and annual contributors. Here's a menu of choices showing how you can help us:

OUR CONTRIBUTING PATRONS have made cash donations to the Johnston County Heritage Center totaling $20,100 for 2009. Here's the list of those donors, by amount given: 

DIAMOND ($1,000)

Dr. & Mrs. John M. Booker

Elizabeth J. Lassiter

 

PLATINUM ($500)

Kay & Terry Carroll

Steve & Suzanne Cook

Jerry & Mary Nell Ferguson

Denton & Jane Lee

Jack & Claudia O’Hale

Betty & Steve Ramos

Annie V’s Flower Shop (in-kind)

 

GOLD ($250)

Rudolph & Belle Allen

Art & Rosa Andrews

Atkinson Milling Co.

Diane B. & Jack Austin, Jr.

Charles & Carmen Creech

Four Oaks Bank

Wanda Godwin

Deacon & Faye Jones

Carl & Marjorie Lamm

Margaret & Joseph Maron

Dr. Grover C. & Judy Miller

Joyce & Cliff Mitchell

Jenelle G. Moore

Herb & Louise Simmons

Elmer J. Wellons, Jr.

Susan Kilgore Wiley

Henry & Joyce Wright

 

SILVER ($100)

Georgia Perry Adam

David & Carol Arnn

Wallace & Jean Ashley

Gail & Joe Austin

Bob & Bet Barber

Tam & Keith Beamon

Pearl Blackmon

Angeline J. Bryant

Gwen & Steve Canady

James & Ramona Cash

Gene & Mary Ellen Causby

Jack & Judy Coats

Lee & Alice Colbert

Grover & Ruby Creech

Max & Lynda Creech

Will R. & Rita Crocker

Mr. & Mrs. E.P. Cunningham, Jr. 

Neal & Lorine Davis

Grover T. Dees

Matthew G. & Lola Stephenson

   Delbridge

Ron & Gayle Dellinger

Claud & JoAnne Dunn

Virgil & Sylvia Early

Sybil M. Edwards

Helen & Jim Ellerbe

Ossie & Jean Fields

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Flye

Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Godwin

Dr. & Mrs. Norman B. Grantham

Jeff & Denise Hall

Sam & Joan Hardy

Perry & Jean Harris

John & Frankie Hobart

Ray & Joyce Hodge

Tom & Kathleen Hinnant

Ann & Rich Huckenbeck

Eugene & Stella Jackson

Bill G. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Marshall H. Johnson

Myrtis E. Johnson

Dr. & Mrs. Oliver C. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Todd Johnson

Eva Joan Jones

Frank & Betsy Knott

Janet & John Lampe

Ross Lampe

J.H. Langdon, Jr.

John C. Lassiter

Joyce & David Lee

Dr. & Mrs. David Marshall

Stanton & Pam Massengill

Julia & Earl McCullers

Harold Medlin

John G. Medlin, Jr.

Graham & Angela Neville 

Rebecca S. Owens

Hernando & Phyllis Palmer

Melvin & Margie Parker

Dr. & Mrs. Dicky E. Parrish

Carlton & Suzanne Pernell

David & Betty Pope

Dorothy P. Pounds

Dr. & Mrs. Morgan G. Reed

Ellen Rogers

John L. Sanders

John & Meg Scovil

Lib Holland Sheppard

Charles & Jean Simmons

Smith-Bryan Chapter, NSDAR

Ray & Helen Smith

Festus & Edna Snead

Mokie & Betsy Stancil

David & Mary Stephens

Shelby & Linda Stephenson

David & Margie Stubbs

Mike & Annie Sutton

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Temple, Sr.

Harold & Carolyn Tharrington

Ralph & Gaye Vann

Quinton K. & Thelma W. Wall

Bob & Frances Warren

Jim & Vicki White

Sue Lassiter Wood

Leonard S. Woodall

Bruce & Annie Woodard

Lanie & Jim Woodard

 

BRONZE ($50)

Ernie & Margo Allsbrook

Ruth Andrews

Fred Bartholomew

Mary Frances Bingham

Sarah O. Blalock

Grethel M. Boyette

Sybil T. Champion

Judge Andy Corbett

Bertha Crabtree

Eleanor N. Creech

Freddie H. Creech

Barbara T. Ennis

Dr. Carolyn G. Ennis

Mary Ann S. Farrior

Dennie Harris 

Bill & Kay Kennedy

Judy Coats Kolcum

Deidre Wood Kraft

Jeanette Massengill

Georgianna McLean

George R. Murphy 

Lela R. Ogburn

Craig Olive

Cheryl L. Oliver

W.R. (Bill) O’Neal IV

Martin L. Pfinsgraff

Walter & Jill Rasor

Michael & Mary Reece

Don & Mary Best Reichard

Sarah Ann Butts Sasser

Sidney E. Sauls

Elizabeth Sawrey

Jesse Lee Sellers 

Bettie L. Smith

Patricia C. Taylor

Pathenia Vinson

Caroline Watson

Dr. & Mrs. Stan Watson

Tresa Wheeler

Hortense Wilkins

Mary S. Windley

Zelda Braswell Wood

Genevieve Medlin Woodall

Noela Auman Woodall

Carlyle Woodard