Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
Pocahontas Wight Edmunds (November 8, 1904-1999) was an author and civic leader in the United States. She wrote a two volume history of Halifax County, Virginia.[1][2] She wrote about E. H. Harriman and another on Rutherford B. Hayes with H. J. Eckenrode.[3][1]
She was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1904. She graduated from St. Catherine’s School and Agnes Scott College. She also studied in Paris where she was roommates with Angela Gregory.[4] After returning from Paris, she accepted a job teaching Latin in Halifax County, Virginia. There she met Richard Coles Edmunds whom she married in 1929. They settled in Halifax, Virginia.
In addition to writing many books, she founded the Halifax County Garden Club and served as its president. She led home tours. In 2015, the Halifax County Historical Society republished two of her books.[5]
She was a direct descendant of Pocahontas.[6][7] She knew and wrote about the composer and eugenicist John Powell.[6] She married Richard Cole Edmunds.[8][5] They had three children, Richard Coles Edmunds, Jr., Anne Edmunds Brown, and Elizabeth Edmunds Grinnan. She died in 1999, in Richmond, Virginia.
Writings
[edit]- Rutherford B. Hayes; Statesman of Reunion (1930), with H. J. Eckenrode[9]
- E. H. Harriman: The Little Giant on Wall Street, with H. J. Eckenrode (1933)[10][11]
- Land of sand; legends of the North Carolina coast Garrett and Massie Incorporated (1941)[3]
- Land of Sand - Tales of the Virginia Coast (1950)[12]
- The Pocahontas-John Smith Story (1956)[13][14][15]
- Tar Heels Track the Century (1966)[16]
- Virginians Out Front Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson (1972)[17]
- History of Halifax: Documentation (1977)[18]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Farrar, Emmie Ferguson (July 7, 1941). "Flower Arrangements in Virginia". Dietz Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Bracey, Susan L. (1979). "Reviewed work: History of Halifax, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 87 (3): 365–367. JSTOR 4248324.
- ^ a b "Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ Morton, Richard Lee (July 7, 1964). "Virginia Lives: The Old Dominion Who's who". Historical Record Association – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Halifax County Historical Society has republished two of Pocahontas Wight Edmunds’ books: “The Pocahontas — John Smith Story” and “Land of Sand — Legends of the North Carolina Coast.
- ^ a b Leidholdt, Alexander S. (May 1, 2002). Editor for Justice: The Life of Louis I. Jaffé. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2751-3 – via Google Books.
- ^ Gregory, Angela; Penrose, Nancy L. (February 26, 2019). A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925–1928. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-978-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ Meriwether, Nelson Heath (July 7, 1991). "The Meriwethers and Their Connections". Meriwether Society – via Google Books.
- ^ Taylor, Welford Dunaway (July 7, 1972). "Virginia Authors, Past and Present". Virginia Association of Teachers of English – via Google Books.
- ^ E. H. Harriman, the Little Giant of Wall Street. Greenberg. 1933.
- ^ E. H. Harriman: The Little Giant on Wall Street. Literary Licensing, LLC. October 2013. ISBN 978-1-258-85584-0.
- ^ "Publications". Halifax County Historical Society.
- ^ Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight (January 1, 1956). The Pocahontas-John Smith Story. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-0697-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Pocahontas-John Smith Story : Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive".
- ^ Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight (July 7, 1956). "The Pocahontas-John Smith Story". Dietz Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (July 7, 1969). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1966: July-December". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.
- ^ "Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL". Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL.
- ^ History of Halifax: Documentation. Edmunds. 1977.