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Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. [1] Grabtown is located 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Smithfield. It is included in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
May 11, 2021 · Ava Lavinia Gardner was born on December 24, 1922, in a community known as Grabtown near the town of Smithfield, North Carolina. According to Doris Rollins Cannon, author of the Ava Gardner biography.
Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States.
On Christmas Eve 1922, Jonas and Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Gardner welcomed their seventh child into the world, Ava Lavinia Gardner. The large Gardner family made their home in the rural North Carolina community of Grabtown, seven miles east of Smithfield.
Dec 19, 2019 · Grabtown is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina about 9 miles southeast from the town of Smithfield. Ava Gardner was born on a farm in this community to Jonas and Mary “Mollie” Gardner. Ava’s father was a sharecropper, who farmed land owned by someone else.
Jan 25, 2016 · On January 25, 1990, Johnston County native and world-famous actress Ava Gardner died in her London apartment. Born on a Grabtown farm, Gardner moved around North Carolina as a child, graduated from high school in Wilson County and began a program in secretarial studies at what is now Barton College.
A child destined to become an international movie sensation, with a personal life that rivaled fiction, Ava Gardner, was born on December 24, 1922 in the small farm community of Grabtown, eight miles from Smithfield in Johnston County, North Carolina.
