About the Book
Over Three Hundred Years of Black People in Blounts Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina
I was born on February 23, 1943, and was reared in Blounts Creek. I graduate from S. W. Snowden High School in 1961 and joined the United States Air Force. While stationed near Shreveport, Louisiana, I married the former Dorothy Florence in 1965. Dorothy and I returned to Blounts Creek in June 1989. When I was a boy, my grandfather Orlando Keys, (picture on the front cover of Book 1; 1886-1968), would tell me stories about our family history. These.....
Over 225 years of Keys/ Keyes
Over 225 years of Keys/Keyes in Eastern North Carolina by Bunyon Keys, a native son of Blounts Creek offers the readers an insight of the Keys Families that originated in Blounts Creek, Beaufort County and spread not only to Eastern North Carolina, but throughout many parts of the United States and several other areas of the world. Listed in many documents, I have seen the name spelled as Keys, Kee, Key, Keyes, Kees, Keais, Keen and many other variations. Taken.....
