Hairston, Samuel, b. 1865.

Samuel Hairston (born 1865) was a dairy farmer; director of the Danville and Western Railway, the Bank of Stokes County, Walnut Cove, N.C., and the Piedmont Trust Bank, Martinsville, Va.; and member of the Virginia Board of Agriculture. He also had business interests in Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills and the Martinsville Land and Improvement Company. Hairston was born at Oak Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va., to George Hairston and Anne Elizabeth Lash. He married May Jopling, daughter of James Rufus and Mollie P. Jopling of Danville, Va., in 1898. They had seven children: James Joplin, Samuel Junior, May, Anne Lash, Ruth Perkins, George, and Rufus.

From the guide to the Samuel Hairston Papers, ., 1877-1957, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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