Alice Varina Aycock was born 1886 in Goldsboro, Wayne Co, NC, the youngest of 3 known surviving children born to NC Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock and his (1st) wife, Alice Varina Davis Woodard.
She was the paternal grandchild of Benjamin Aycock & Serena Hooks, and gr-grandchild of James Aycock & Charity Wilkinson, all of Wayne Co, NC. She is a direct descendant of William Aycock (1705-1765) who left Virginia ca. 1734 and married Rebecca Poythress Pace of Halifax Co, and later settled in Orange County, NC. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Elder William Woodard Jr. and Delphia Rountree of Wilson, NC.
Alice was less than 3 years old when her mother died in 1889 at age 28 after 8 years of marriage. Her father then married her aunt, Cora Lily Woodard, the younger sister of her mother. Aunt Cora became her loving stepmother, and would have 7 more children with her father.
Alice was raised in Goldsboro until she was 15 when the family moved to Raleigh where her father took office as Governor of NC from 1901-1905. Her father, who had been elected into office on a platform of white supremacy and the promise of an improved educational, would go down in history as the well-loved and long-remembered "Education Governor".
On February 29, 1912, 26-year old Alice wed 31-year old Clarence Hamilton Poe, a talented writer and publisher in Raleigh. Barely out of her honeymoon, the young bride received the distressing news that her beloved father died suddenly of a heart attack on April 4, 1912 at age 53 while delivering a speech in Birmingham, AL while addressing the Alabama Educational Association on Universal Education.
Alice and Clarence would settle into married life in the City of Raleigh, where they became parents to 3 known children: Charles Aycock Poe (1913-1994), William D. Poe (c. 1915-1958), and Jean Shepperd Poe (c. 1917-1994).
Alice's husband would become as successful and respected editor & publisher of Progressive Farmer magazine and author of half-a-dozen books racking up numerous accolades and awards throughout his lifetime.
In 1925 the couple began construction of their 5,000 square foot "country estate" off New Bern Avenue in Raleigh located near today's Wake Med Hospital was designed by architect John Salter. The 12-room Georgian Revival residence is constructed of greystone quarried from the property, which during Dr. Poe's lifetime encompassed some 800 acres of landscaped grounds and farmland.
In the 1940's and 50's a new subdivision, Longview Gardens, was developed on these 800 acres. Poe pitched it as Raleigh's "best-planned suburb" and "most beautiful subdivision," and initially it attracted such socialites as the Aycocks, the Bensons and the Eures, as in Secretary of State Thad Eure. But an enclave intended by Poe for upscale whites (or, more specifically, upscale white Christians) never really worked in East Raleigh, traditionally the "black" side of town. And when whites-only covenants were declared illegal, it opened the door to a very different Longview -- a neighborhood of graceful hills and ponds, big houses and small, on generous lots of at least half an acre each and usually more, that was by far at the time, one of the most affordable neighborhood in town.
Today, Longview is home to Enloe, and to the Raleigh Country Club. It counts WakeMed and the Wake County Department of Social Services, both of which are considered good things in Raleigh, as its neighbors. There's a Longview Lake, and the gracious Longview House--the Poe's homeplace. -- which is available for your social functions and often rented for weddings.
Alice Aycock Poe died on September 26, 1963 at age 76. Her husband of 51 years survived her a little over a year, passing in October 1964 at age 82.
Today, the non-profit organization, The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, founded in 1991 bears her name and is dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina youth through health education.
She was the paternal grandchild of Benjamin Aycock & Serena Hooks, and gr-grandchild of James Aycock & Charity Wilkinson, all of Wayne Co, NC. She is a direct descendant of William Aycock (1705-1765) who left Virginia ca. 1734 and married Rebecca Poythress Pace of Halifax Co, and later settled in Orange County, NC. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Elder William Woodard Jr. and Delphia Rountree of Wilson, NC.
Alice was less than 3 years old when her mother died in 1889 at age 28 after 8 years of marriage. Her father then married her aunt, Cora Lily Woodard, the younger sister of her mother. Aunt Cora became her loving stepmother, and would have 7 more children with her father.
Alice was raised in Goldsboro until she was 15 when the family moved to Raleigh where her father took office as Governor of NC from 1901-1905. Her father, who had been elected into office on a platform of white supremacy and the promise of an improved educational, would go down in history as the well-loved and long-remembered "Education Governor".
On February 29, 1912, 26-year old Alice wed 31-year old Clarence Hamilton Poe, a talented writer and publisher in Raleigh. Barely out of her honeymoon, the young bride received the distressing news that her beloved father died suddenly of a heart attack on April 4, 1912 at age 53 while delivering a speech in Birmingham, AL while addressing the Alabama Educational Association on Universal Education.
Alice and Clarence would settle into married life in the City of Raleigh, where they became parents to 3 known children: Charles Aycock Poe (1913-1994), William D. Poe (c. 1915-1958), and Jean Shepperd Poe (c. 1917-1994).
Alice's husband would become as successful and respected editor & publisher of Progressive Farmer magazine and author of half-a-dozen books racking up numerous accolades and awards throughout his lifetime.
In 1925 the couple began construction of their 5,000 square foot "country estate" off New Bern Avenue in Raleigh located near today's Wake Med Hospital was designed by architect John Salter. The 12-room Georgian Revival residence is constructed of greystone quarried from the property, which during Dr. Poe's lifetime encompassed some 800 acres of landscaped grounds and farmland.
In the 1940's and 50's a new subdivision, Longview Gardens, was developed on these 800 acres. Poe pitched it as Raleigh's "best-planned suburb" and "most beautiful subdivision," and initially it attracted such socialites as the Aycocks, the Bensons and the Eures, as in Secretary of State Thad Eure. But an enclave intended by Poe for upscale whites (or, more specifically, upscale white Christians) never really worked in East Raleigh, traditionally the "black" side of town. And when whites-only covenants were declared illegal, it opened the door to a very different Longview -- a neighborhood of graceful hills and ponds, big houses and small, on generous lots of at least half an acre each and usually more, that was by far at the time, one of the most affordable neighborhood in town.
Today, Longview is home to Enloe, and to the Raleigh Country Club. It counts WakeMed and the Wake County Department of Social Services, both of which are considered good things in Raleigh, as its neighbors. There's a Longview Lake, and the gracious Longview House--the Poe's homeplace. -- which is available for your social functions and often rented for weddings.
Alice Aycock Poe died on September 26, 1963 at age 76. Her husband of 51 years survived her a little over a year, passing in October 1964 at age 82.
Today, the non-profit organization, The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, founded in 1991 bears her name and is dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina youth through health education.
Alice Varina Aycock was born 1886 in Goldsboro, Wayne Co, NC, the youngest of 3 known surviving children born to NC Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock and his (1st) wife, Alice Varina Davis Woodard.
She was the paternal grandchild of Benjamin Aycock & Serena Hooks, and gr-grandchild of James Aycock & Charity Wilkinson, all of Wayne Co, NC. She is a direct descendant of William Aycock (1705-1765) who left Virginia ca. 1734 and married Rebecca Poythress Pace of Halifax Co, and later settled in Orange County, NC. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Elder William Woodard Jr. and Delphia Rountree of Wilson, NC.
Alice was less than 3 years old when her mother died in 1889 at age 28 after 8 years of marriage. Her father then married her aunt, Cora Lily Woodard, the younger sister of her mother. Aunt Cora became her loving stepmother, and would have 7 more children with her father.
Alice was raised in Goldsboro until she was 15 when the family moved to Raleigh where her father took office as Governor of NC from 1901-1905. Her father, who had been elected into office on a platform of white supremacy and the promise of an improved educational, would go down in history as the well-loved and long-remembered "Education Governor".
On February 29, 1912, 26-year old Alice wed 31-year old Clarence Hamilton Poe, a talented writer and publisher in Raleigh. Barely out of her honeymoon, the young bride received the distressing news that her beloved father died suddenly of a heart attack on April 4, 1912 at age 53 while delivering a speech in Birmingham, AL while addressing the Alabama Educational Association on Universal Education.
Alice and Clarence would settle into married life in the City of Raleigh, where they became parents to 3 known children: Charles Aycock Poe (1913-1994), William D. Poe (c. 1915-1958), and Jean Shepperd Poe (c. 1917-1994).
Alice's husband would become as successful and respected editor & publisher of Progressive Farmer magazine and author of half-a-dozen books racking up numerous accolades and awards throughout his lifetime.
In 1925 the couple began construction of their 5,000 square foot "country estate" off New Bern Avenue in Raleigh located near today's Wake Med Hospital was designed by architect John Salter. The 12-room Georgian Revival residence is constructed of greystone quarried from the property, which during Dr. Poe's lifetime encompassed some 800 acres of landscaped grounds and farmland.
In the 1940's and 50's a new subdivision, Longview Gardens, was developed on these 800 acres. Poe pitched it as Raleigh's "best-planned suburb" and "most beautiful subdivision," and initially it attracted such socialites as the Aycocks, the Bensons and the Eures, as in Secretary of State Thad Eure. But an enclave intended by Poe for upscale whites (or, more specifically, upscale white Christians) never really worked in East Raleigh, traditionally the "black" side of town. And when whites-only covenants were declared illegal, it opened the door to a very different Longview -- a neighborhood of graceful hills and ponds, big houses and small, on generous lots of at least half an acre each and usually more, that was by far at the time, one of the most affordable neighborhood in town.
Today, Longview is home to Enloe, and to the Raleigh Country Club. It counts WakeMed and the Wake County Department of Social Services, both of which are considered good things in Raleigh, as its neighbors. There's a Longview Lake, and the gracious Longview House--the Poe's homeplace. -- which is available for your social functions and often rented for weddings.
Alice Aycock Poe died on September 26, 1963 at age 76. Her husband of 51 years survived her a little over a year, passing in October 1964 at age 82.
Today, the non-profit organization, The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, founded in 1991 bears her name and is dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina youth through health education.
She was the paternal grandchild of Benjamin Aycock & Serena Hooks, and gr-grandchild of James Aycock & Charity Wilkinson, all of Wayne Co, NC. She is a direct descendant of William Aycock (1705-1765) who left Virginia ca. 1734 and married Rebecca Poythress Pace of Halifax Co, and later settled in Orange County, NC. On her mother's side, she was the maternal grandchild of Elder William Woodard Jr. and Delphia Rountree of Wilson, NC.
Alice was less than 3 years old when her mother died in 1889 at age 28 after 8 years of marriage. Her father then married her aunt, Cora Lily Woodard, the younger sister of her mother. Aunt Cora became her loving stepmother, and would have 7 more children with her father.
Alice was raised in Goldsboro until she was 15 when the family moved to Raleigh where her father took office as Governor of NC from 1901-1905. Her father, who had been elected into office on a platform of white supremacy and the promise of an improved educational, would go down in history as the well-loved and long-remembered "Education Governor".
On February 29, 1912, 26-year old Alice wed 31-year old Clarence Hamilton Poe, a talented writer and publisher in Raleigh. Barely out of her honeymoon, the young bride received the distressing news that her beloved father died suddenly of a heart attack on April 4, 1912 at age 53 while delivering a speech in Birmingham, AL while addressing the Alabama Educational Association on Universal Education.
Alice and Clarence would settle into married life in the City of Raleigh, where they became parents to 3 known children: Charles Aycock Poe (1913-1994), William D. Poe (c. 1915-1958), and Jean Shepperd Poe (c. 1917-1994).
Alice's husband would become as successful and respected editor & publisher of Progressive Farmer magazine and author of half-a-dozen books racking up numerous accolades and awards throughout his lifetime.
In 1925 the couple began construction of their 5,000 square foot "country estate" off New Bern Avenue in Raleigh located near today's Wake Med Hospital was designed by architect John Salter. The 12-room Georgian Revival residence is constructed of greystone quarried from the property, which during Dr. Poe's lifetime encompassed some 800 acres of landscaped grounds and farmland.
In the 1940's and 50's a new subdivision, Longview Gardens, was developed on these 800 acres. Poe pitched it as Raleigh's "best-planned suburb" and "most beautiful subdivision," and initially it attracted such socialites as the Aycocks, the Bensons and the Eures, as in Secretary of State Thad Eure. But an enclave intended by Poe for upscale whites (or, more specifically, upscale white Christians) never really worked in East Raleigh, traditionally the "black" side of town. And when whites-only covenants were declared illegal, it opened the door to a very different Longview -- a neighborhood of graceful hills and ponds, big houses and small, on generous lots of at least half an acre each and usually more, that was by far at the time, one of the most affordable neighborhood in town.
Today, Longview is home to Enloe, and to the Raleigh Country Club. It counts WakeMed and the Wake County Department of Social Services, both of which are considered good things in Raleigh, as its neighbors. There's a Longview Lake, and the gracious Longview House--the Poe's homeplace. -- which is available for your social functions and often rented for weddings.
Alice Aycock Poe died on September 26, 1963 at age 76. Her husband of 51 years survived her a little over a year, passing in October 1964 at age 82.
Today, the non-profit organization, The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, founded in 1991 bears her name and is dedicated to positively impacting the lives of North Carolina youth through health education.
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