Johnson Jay Anderson

• Year Inducted: 2023
• Highly regarded Wilkes County historian, Jay Anderson, was born May 31, 1915 to Annie McNeil Anderson in North Wilkesboro.

Dr. Alexander Erwin

• Year Inducted: 2023
• Dr. Alexander Erwin is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. He has resided in Wilkes County for 59 years.

David Johnson

• Year Inducted: 2023
• Talented multi-instrumentalist David Ray Johnson was born in Wilkes County on February 11, 1954 to Billie Ray and Elizabeth Caudill Johnson.

Pete Mullis Mann

• Year Inducted: 2023
• Pete Mullis Mann’s life was filled with a deep love for family, church, education and Wilkes County.

Rebecca “Beckie” Lynn Mathis

• Year Inducted: 2023
• Beckie Mathis was born in Wilkes County, parents Archie and Patsy Marie Mathis, one sister Deborah (Debbie) Summers.

David Shelton

• Year Inducted: 2023

• David Shelton was born in Patrick County, Virginia and grew up as the sixth of thirteen children on a tobacco farm in rural Stokes County.

Ray Spencer Triplett

• Year Inducted: 2023

• Ray Spencer Triplett was born in Wilkes County on November 4, 1930, to Arlon and Edith Foster Triplett.

Nancy Susan Whittington

• Year Inducted: 2023

• Susan grew up in Wilkes County surrounded by a loving extended family, which included her parents Odell and Grace Whittington and brother Dick Whittington.