Pocahontas Wight Edmunds

Pocahontas Wight Edmunds (November 8, 1904-1999) was an author and civic leader in the United States. She wrote a two volume history of Halifax County, Virginia. She wrote about E. H. Harriman and another on Rutherford B. Hayes with H. J. Eckenrode.

She was born in Richmond. She graduated from St. Catherine’s School and Agnes Scott College. She also studied in Paris.

She founded the Halifax County Garden Club and served as its president. She led home tours. In 2015, the Halifax County Historical Society republished two of her books.

She was a descendant of Pocahontas. She knew and wrote about John Powell. She married Richard Cole Edmunds. Richard Cole Edmunds Jr. was her son and she had two daughters.

Writings

 * Rutherford B. Hayes; Statesman of Reunion (1930), with H. J. Eckenrode
 * E. H. Harriman: The Little Giant on Wall Street, with H. J. Eckenrode (1933)
 * Land of sand; legends of the North Carolina coast Garrett and Massie Incorporated (1941)
 * Land of Sand - Tales of the Virginia Coast (1950)
 * The Pocahontas-John Smith Story (1956)
 * Tar Heels Track the Century (1966)
 * Virginians Out Front Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson (1972)
 * History of Halifax: Documentation (1977)