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. After returning from Paris, she accepted a job teaching Latin in Halifax County, Virginia. There she met Richard Coles Edmunds whom she married in 1929. They settled in Halifax, Virginia.

In addition to writing many books, 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 direct descendant of Pocahontas. She knew and wrote about the composer and eugenicist John Powell. She married Richard Cole Edmunds. 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) The Pocahontas-John Smith Story (1956) Tar Heels Track the Century (1966) Virginians Out Front Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson (1972) History of Halifax: Documentation (1977)