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Giles sisters
Mary, Theresa, and Persis Giles were schoolteachers and pioneers in women's education. They were from rural North Carolina and were the first female graduates of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (later Duke University) in 1878, well before the school formally admitted women. In 1885 they founded the Greenwood Female College in Greenwood, South Carolina.
== Early life and family ==
The Giles sisters were born in Jones County, North Carolina to E.S.F. and Nancy White Giles. E.S.F. had been a minister of the Church of Christ, and a farmer.〔Gwynn, Zae Hargett. ''Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779-1868''. Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1963. P. 478.〕 A brother, James, was killed during the Civil War, and their father, E.S.F., Sr. died in 1868. The sisters also had a surviving brother, E.S.F., Jr., and a younger sister called Sue.〔Deutsch, Lucille Snyder. ''The Giles Sisters' Contributions Toward the Higher Education of Women in the South, 1874-1904''. 1978.〕
In 1874, Nancy Giles moved the family from Richlands, North Carolina to Trinity, North Carolina in Randolph County. The move was prompted by the loss of land and slave holdings at the end of the Civil War,〔Gwynn, Zae Hargett. ''Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1860''. Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1961.〕 but the primary purpose for the move was that Nancy Giles was determined to have her surviving son get an education.〔 Theresa, Persis, and Mary were all schoolteachers by occupation,〔Giles, Mary Zilpha. Mary Zilpha Giles papers, 1846-1942. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.〕 and were working in Onslow County, when the rest of the family moved to Trinity. They joined the family in Trinity when their contracts expired.〔
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