{"id":313,"date":"2010-04-05T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:58:26","slug":"those-kitchin-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/those-kitchin-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Kitchin Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yearbook photos are a great way to capture details of your ancestors. \u00a0I’ve been going through a number of the North Carolina yearbooks that have been added to the Internet Archive and sometimes I am particularly struck by a photo.<\/p>\n

This weekend, while going through the yearbooks for Meredith College , I noticed that there were three girls, all from Halifax County, by the name of Kitchin. \u00a0I was struck by the photo of one in particular before I even looked at the name – that of Musette Kitchin. \u00a0Then, in the next couple of volumes for the college I found two more Kitchin girls. \u00a0I wondered who they were?<\/p>\n

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These photos of the ladies are from the 1928, 1929, and 1930 yearbooks for Meredith College<\/a> (then called Baptist Female University). \u00a0Musette was a daughter of former Governor William Walton Kitchin<\/a>. \u00a0Hesta & Pauline were sisters, her first cousins; their father was William Walton’s brother, Claude Kitchin Sr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the process of researching them to reconstruct the tree and see how they were related, I learned that Hesta & Pauline’s mother is related to one of my family’s slaveowners – Kemp Plummer Battle<\/a> (former president of UNC-Chapel Hill). \u00a0Their mother Kate Mills Kitchin is a great- granddaughter of Catherine Ann Battle Wesley who was a sister to Kemp’s father, William Horn Battle. \u00a0 These types of connections are interesting to come across.<\/p>\n

Yearbooks can help add great detail to your family tree. \u00a0I wonder if Pauline’s family knows about her garnering the superlative for “Most Poised” ? \u00a0You’ll find these yearbooks linked from the Education page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1930 Superlatives - Baptist Female College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yearbook photos are a great way to capture details of your ancestors. \u00a0I’ve been going through a number of the North Carolina yearbooks that have been added to the Internet Archive and sometimes I am particularly struck by a photo. This weekend, while going through the yearbooks for Meredith College , I noticed that there … Continue reading “Those Kitchin Girls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3704,5884,1,27],"tags":[6222,6164,33147,33174],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-resources","category-uncategorized","category-yearbooks","tag-allen","tag-crawford","tag-dunn","tag-kitchin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}