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Painter Elliott Daingerfield was raised in Fayetteville. His work is featured in some of leading museums of the South and the nation, including the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Smithsonian American Museum Art in Washington, D.C.
On October 22, 1780, General George Washington ordered Major General Nathanael Greene to assume command of the southern army.
On October 22, 1931, Charles Ashby Penn, developer of Lucky Strike cigarettes, died.
Penn was born in Virginia in 1868, but moved with his family to Reidsville in 1874. In Rockingham County, his father established the F. R. Penn Tobacco Company, processing chewing and smoking tobacco. Charles joined the company after graduating from high school.
On October 21, 1866, Tom Dula was convicted of the murder of Laura Foster. Dula was hanged for the crime in May 1868.
On October 20, 1898, John Merrick and six fellow investors met in the office of Dr. Aaron Moore to organize the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association.
Maj. Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in 1837 in Lincolnton, led his division in the Shenandoah Campaign during the Civil War. On October 19, 1864, he was mortally wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia.
On October 20, 1862, Annie Carter Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee, died in Warren County. She had been ill with typhoid fever while visiting the Jones Springs resort there.
Lee sent both Annie and her sister Agnes to North Carolina in June 1862 when Union troops occupied their home in Arlington, Va. When Annie died it was not possible to take her body back to Arlington, which was then behind enemy lines. The owner of Jones Springs offered to have her body buried in his family cemetery and the Lees accepted.