Sallie Walker Stockard (October 4, 1869 - August 6, 1963) was a professor of history and an author. She was the first woman to receive a degree from the University of North Carolina.

She was born in Saxapahaw in Alamance County, North Carolina. She was the eldest of John Williamson Stockard and Margaret Ann Albright Stockard's six children. Her graduate thesis was a history of Alamance County. She graduated from Guilford College and University of North Carolina.

Sallie Walker Stockard

She married Perry Green Magness. They had a son and daughter. The couple separated and she generally used her maiden name.

Sallie Walker Stockard

Carole Watterson Troxler's book about Stockard was published in 2021.

Sallie Walker Stockard

Writings

History of Alamance County

The Lily of the Valley, a five act dramatization of the Song of Solomon

History of Guilford County (1902) The History of Lawrence, Jackson, Independence, and Stone Counties of the Third Judicial District of Arkansas (1904) Daughter of the Piedmont: Chapel Hill’s First Co-Ed Graduate, unpublished

References

1869 births

1963 deaths

American historians

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni