Slyvania Vance Upchurch was born in Raleigh on December 19, 1872. A travelling salesman, Upchurch lived in multiple cities and states over his career, often for no more than a few years at a time. In 1915, he was living in Morganton (Burke County… Read More

John Upton was a resident of Pasquotank Precinct, North Carolina. In 1698 he served on a jury that acquitted… Read More

John Urmston was born in England in about 1662. A chaplain, he accepted a mission to North Carolina in 1709. Responsible for Chowan and Perquimans Precincts, Urmston found that there were few resources or strong adherents to the Church of England… Read More

Alexander Urquhart (d. 1804) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.… Read More

John William Usher was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, on December 17, 1876. Usher lived in Charlotte (Mecklenburg County) for most of his life where he worked as a corn merchant and real estate broker. He briefly lived in North… Read More

Ada Lee Utley (née Timberlake) was born on August 25, 1883, in Wake County, North Carolina. She married Philemon M. Utley in November 1917. She died in Wake Forest (Wake County) on July 25, 1949.

Philemon McGee Utley was born on October 23rd, 1889, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Utley was a clerk for the Virginian Railway Company in Norfolk, Virginia, when he applied for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He died in Los Angeles on June 15… Read More