Sallie Walker Stockard Explained

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• Daughter of the Piedmont: Chapel Hill’s First Co-Ed Graduate, unpublished^[3]

Notes and References

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