Sallie Walker Stockard

Sallie Walker Stockard (October 4, 1869 - August 6, 1963) was a professor of history and an author.[1] She was the first woman to receive a degree from the University of North Carolina.[2]

She was born in Saxapahaw in Alamance County, North Carolina. She was the eldest of John Williamson Stockard and Margaret Ann Albright Stockard's six children.[3] Her graduate thesis was a history of Alamance County. She graduated from Guilford College and University of North Carolina.

She married Perry Green Magness. They had a son and daughter. The couple separated and she generally used her maiden name.[4]

Carole Watterson Troxler's book about Stockard was published in 2021.[5]

Writings
  • History of Alamance County
  • The Lily of the Valley, a five act dramatization of the Song of Solomon
  • History of Guilford County (1902)
  • The History of Lawrence, Jackson, Independence, and Stone Counties of the Third Judicial District of Arkansas (1904)[4]
  • Daughter of the Piedmont: Chapel Hill’s First Co-Ed Graduate, unpublished[3]

References
  1. "Sallie Walker Stockard (1869-1963) · Women and Coeducation · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History".
  2. "Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Timeline | North Carolina Museum of History". www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.
  3. "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  4. "Stockard, Sallie Walker | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
  5. Schramm-Pate, Susan (December 29, 2022). "Sallie Stockard: Adversities Met by an Educated Woman of the New South by Carole Watterson Troxler (review)". Journal of Southern History. 88 (4): 790–792. doi:10.1353/soh.2022.0192 – via Project MUSE.
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