Author Of History of Murfreesboro Negro School

George Thomas Rouson, son of Mack and Maria Rouson was born in Columbia, NC, January 15, 1892. He married Luvenia Baker in 1923, and there are seven children, among them twins, Katie Amaza and Amphia Mae, 6 years old.

He has been teaching in the Hertford County schools since 1922, and is principal of the Murfreesboro school, as well as pastor of The First Baptist church there.

He also has pastorates at Nebo Chapel Baptist Church, and the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church.

He received his education the hard way: fried 300 herrings and cooked three times as many biscuits" at Waters Training School, where he graduated at the head of the class of '18; "spaded gardens and cleaned woodwork for wealthy white people in Ginter Park, Richmond, Va.," while attending Union University; and later attending State Teachers College, Elizabeth City, NC and State College for Negroes at Petersburg, Va.

Between his high school and college days, he was inducted into military service and served eight months as company clerk during the World War.

He is secretary of the Great Lott Carey Foreign Mission Conference, comprising Bertie, Northampton and Hertford counties; member of the Roanoke-Chowan Credit Union; secretary of the West Roanoke Baptist Association; member of the Endowment Board of the United Order of Love and Charity, headquarters Rich Square, NC.

He is one of many of his race who owe their education to the Late Dr. C. S Brown, of Waters Training School.

He says of him; "had it not been for the late Dr. C. S. Brown, I could not have finished high school. He allowed me to work out my bills. I did not go to school until I was 9 years old, stopped school at 13 and worked in the lumber woods until I was 19."
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Rev Rouson also assisted in raising funds to build a Rosenwald school in Hertford County. He was called upon by the school improvement leagues in North Carolina organized by Charles H. Moore, Nathan Newbold's first African American assistant. George T. Rouson, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, and the principal of its Black school, handed out slips to participants of a local campaign that solicited donations to help build a teacherage.
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Chowan University created a, Rev. George and Mrs. Luvenia Rouson Memorial Lecture series featuring different speakers. This program was established by the Town of Murfreesboro, Chowan University, and local historian Alice Eley Jones to honor the contributions the Rousons made in Hertford County.