The John Hampton Giles family is pictured outside their home in Glen Alpine, circa 1921. John Hampton “Hamp” Giles (1867–1942) married Ida Elizabeth Pitts (1877–1970) in 1893, and they had 12 children. Giles was a prominent businessman, working in the lumber business with his brother-in-law, N.O. Pitts, and serving in leadership positions for several other county businesses. He once served as the Burke County Register of Deeds and was the county’s representative in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1927. Pictured (from left) are Yates, Robert, Annie, John Reid, Catherine, Ned, Carl, Fred LaFevers (grandson), Ralph “Buddy,” John Hampton Giles, Irene, Ida Pitts Giles, Ernest, Ada Conley Giles (daughter-in-law), and Bessie Giles LaFevers. This historic image was preserved and scanned for Picture Burke from an 8-by-10 glass negative from John T. Oxford Jr.’s Walt Greene Collection of the History Museum of Burke County.
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