Everett, Sallie Baker, 1888-1975 - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)

Sallie Spruill Baker Everett (b.1888-), daughter of La Fayette John and Pattie Norman Baker, was born in Palmyra, N.C. She attended Louisburg Junior College and Meredith College, 1905-1909. On February 25, 1914 she married Benjamin Bryan Everett and became a partner with her husband in extensive farming and merchant business at "Woodstock" in Palmyra.

Mrs. Everett was involved in women's garden, library, and other civic clubs; and, while her husband served in the N.C. General Assembly, she was president of the Sir Walter Cabinet for legislators' wives. Mrs. Everett was active in the 1940's and 1950's in the Associated Women of the N.C. Farm Bureau, serving as chairman 1942-1952, and was recipient of the Farm Bureau Distinguished Service Award in 1947 and the Progressive Farmer's Woman of the Year Award in 1946.

Governor J. Melville Broughton appointed Mrs. Everett Vice-Chairman of the N.C. Democratic Executive Committee to succeed Mrs. P. P. McCain in 1942 and she served in this capacity, 1942-1948 and 1950; she was manager of the women's campaign for William B. Umstead (1952); and she was a member of the N.C. delegation to the Democratic National Convention (1952-1960) and Democratic National Committee Woman from N.C. (1952-1960). Everett died April, 1975.

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