Let's salute Elizabeth Reid Murray, if not the Mother of Wake County ( Margaret Wake Tryon ), most definitely the Author of Wake County. Murray was a prolific writer and contributor to the historic writings of Wake and North Carolina at large. Her obituary provides an extensive list of her writings and awards.  From the obituary: " Her major published works are WAKE: Capital County of NC, vol. 1 (1983); WAKE: Capital County of NC, vol. 2 (2008), with co-author K. Todd Johnson; and From Raleigh’s Past (1965).  Other published works include: editor and compiler, North Carolina’s Older Population: Opportunities and Challenges (1960); contributor, Windows of the Way (1964);  editor, Wake County Historical Society newsletter, 1965-1969;  editor/photographer, Wake County history filmstrip; guest editor, “Wake County Bicentennial” edition, Raleigh Magazine (1971);  contributor to a history of the Raleigh Fire Department; contributor, Dictionary of North Carolina Biogr...