Daisy Mabel Hendley Gold (October 26, 1893 ? April 7, 1975) was an American writer, poet, and journalist. She worked for the Statesville Record & Landmark and The Greenville Piedmont before becoming the managing editor of the Wilson Times in 1920. She later married John Daniel Gold, the editor and publisher of the Wilson Times . Gold authored a book of poetry, Tides of Life , in 1927 and a novel, It Was Forever , in 1940. She also wrote a history book titled A Town Named Wilson that was never published.

Early life and education [ edit ]

Gold was born on October 26, 1893, in Iredell County, North Carolina . ^[1] She was the daughter of Alvis Francis Hendley and his second wife, Celeste Rimmer Norris. ^{[2] [1]} She was of Scotch-Irish , French, and English descent. ^[1] Gold attended local schools before studying at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro . ^[1] She was enrolled at the Normal and Industrial College for three years, but did not graduate. ^[1]

Career [ edit ]

Gold began her journalism career working at the Statesville Record & Landmark and later worked for the Greenville Piedmont . ^[1] She was invited to work as a foreign correspondent in Europe during World War I , but her parents dissuaded her from taking the post. ^[1] In 1920 she became the managing editor of the Wilson Times . ^{[1] [3]} Gold worked at Wilson Times until 1947, writing feature stories about coastal and eastern North Carolina. ^[1]

Gold authored a book of lyric poems called Tides of Life in 1927. ^{[1] [4]} In 1940 she published the book It Was Forever , a novel about a young married woman from coastal North Carolina who falls in love with a British sea captain. ^{[1] [5] [6]} Prior to her death she was writing a history book on Wilson County titled A Town Named Wilson . ^[1] The original typewritten manuscript of the unpublished history book is owned by the Wilson County Public Library. ^{[7] [8]} A Town Named Wilson has no mention of African-American citizens of the town except for a reference to slavery . ^[7]

Personal life [ edit ]

She married John Daniel Gold, editor and publisher of the Wilson Times and son of Pleasant Daniel Gold , on February 7, 1924. ^{[1] [3]} She was Gold's second wife, and became the stepmother of his three daughters. ^[1] She and Gold had two children together, Celeste Gold and John Daniel Gold, Jr. ^[1] Her husband was one of the wealthiest men in Wilson, and they lived in a Georgian Revival mansion on West Nash Street in Wilson . ^{[9] [10]} Her daughter married Robert Bain Broughton, the son of North Carolina Governor J. Melville Broughton and Alice Willson Broughton , and lived in the Broughton House in Raleigh . ^{[11] [12]}

Gold and her husband also owned a summer home in Morehead City , which they built in 1935. ^[1] She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was a registered Democrat . ^[1] After her husband's death in 1954, Gold sold their house and built a Neo-Classical two-story home on West Nash Street. ^{[9] [10]}

She died on April 7, 1975, at a nursing home in Lillington . ^[1] A prayer service was held by her family at the Mitchell Funeral Home in Raleigh. ^[3] She was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Wilson.

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