Carawan Family Photos

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These pictures were taken on a trip my wife Jeannette and I took to North Carolina in mid-January 2001.

This is Doc and Alma's house at Wilkinson Station, as photographed in January of 2001. It has fallen into much disrepair, like so much of the area, and may not be there much longer. Doc didn't stay there much after Alma died in 1983. He dated a woman by the name of Hattie and spent most of his remaining days at her home. After Doc's death in

1989, my father sold the house, after about a year or so had passed, to a man who lived nearby and was about to marry. The marriage never occurred, and he never occupied the home, and so the house has really been unlived in, more or less, since 1983.
As you can see clearly, Doc's full name "A.W. Carawan" is still on the mailbox.

Upper right: the old White Building of Pantego High School aka "Ye Olde Academie". My grandmother graduated from there, when, I am told, there were only 11 grades. It's now on the register of state historic sites, and that's why it's still there and in decent shape.
To the left, right and lower left is the new Pantego High School. It's condition is abominable. The school was opened shortly after my grandmother graduated

c. 1938. I may be wrong, but I believe
that it operated through desegregation in the 50s and 60s and at least until 1976.
Beaufort County schools moved towards consolidation around 1988 or so, when new structures were built, but I'm not sure what the last class to graduate in this building was. I remember it as being in good shape in the 70s, but now it is

amazing it's still standing.
To the right, left, and upper right is the John A. Wilkinson house, from who's family the area gets it's name. Mr. Wilkinson, a prominent attorney and Republican who died in 2001, redid the entire home from the ground up in the 70s, but it too is only a shadow of its former self. For more on this house and the Wilkinsons, please see the next page.

To the left and right is the Wilkinson Church of Christ. It's where my mother and father got married, my aunt Kitty, and countless relatives before them. This church is probably the only thing in the area not falling apart. I think the new facade was added sometime in the early '90s.

NOTE: The Pantego High School Building was finally torn down in 2004.

The following pictures are courtesy of Lloyd Fentress.

A real estate photo of Ersula Waters Ange's home. Ersula died in 1993, and the home was sold in the mid '90s. The year 1961 was carved into the sidestep to the left (the one nearest the railing), made to be read the same way if you read it upside down. Not sure why...the house was there long before 1961....maybe just the concrete for the steps was poured that year.
The surviving Ange sisters: Sidney Ange Whitley, Arnie Ange Levy, and Ernestine "Teenie" Ange Fentress. Taken at the funeral of Viola "Odie" Waters in July of 1994.
Another picture from Odie's funeral, July 1994. Lloyd Augustus Fentress, Sidney Ange Whitley, Arnie Ange Levy, Lloyd's sisters Phyllis and Doris Faye, and Teenie Ange Fentress.

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	This is Doc and Alma's house at Wilkinson Station, as photographed in January of 2001. It has fallen into much disrepair, like so much of the area, and may not be there much longer. Doc didn't stay there much after Alma died in 1983. He dated a woman by the name of Hattie and spent most of his remaining days at her home. After Doc's death in
	1989, my father sold the house, after about a year or so had passed, to a man who lived nearby and was about to marry. The marriage never occurred, and he never occupied the home, and so the house has really been unlived in, more or less, since 1983. As you can see clearly, Doc's full name "A.W. Carawan" is still on the mailbox.
	Upper right: the old White Building of Pantego High School aka "Ye Olde Academie". My grandmother graduated from there, when, I am told, there were only 11 grades. It's now on the register of state historic sites, and that's why it's still there and in decent shape. To the left, right and lower left is the new Pantego High School. It's condition is abominable. The school was opened shortly after my grandmother graduated
	c. 1938. I may be wrong, but I believe that it operated through desegregation in the 50s and 60s and at least until 1976. Beaufort County schools moved towards consolidation around 1988 or so, when new structures were built, but I'm not sure what the last class to graduate in this building was. I remember it as being in good shape in the 70s, but now it is
	amazing it's still standing. To the right, left, and upper right is the John A. Wilkinson house, from who's family the area gets it's name. Mr. Wilkinson, a prominent attorney and Republican who died in 2001, redid the entire home from the ground up in the 70s, but it too is only a shadow of its former self. For more on this house and the Wilkinsons, please see the next page.
	To the left and right is the Wilkinson Church of Christ. It's where my mother and father got married, my aunt Kitty, and countless relatives before them. This church is probably the only thing in the area not falling apart. I think the new facade was added sometime in the early '90s.