Panthea Massenburg Twitty (September 7, 1912 – October 21, 1977) was an American photographer, ceramist, and historian. Born in Warrenton,

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, Twitty was the daughter of Nancy B. White and John B. Massenburg. She was educated locally and at Saint Mary's Junior College in Raleigh before studying art in White Plains,

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; she also attended

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, and the Georgiana Studio of Design. She was active in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, chairing its committee on monuments and markers, compiling historical records, and writing for some of its programs. In 1957 she produced a ''Confederate History of Warren County''; she also supplied research and photographs for other writers. She was certified by the National Ceramics Association, and taught ceramics at the Halifax Technical Institute and Vance-Granville Community College. She lived in a house called Reedy Hill in Warren County, where she operated a ceramics shop. Twitty, an

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, married Henry Fitts Twitty II in 1941; with him she had two children, Panthea Anne (Crawford) and William Henry. She is buried in Warrenton.

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1912 births 1977 deaths American women ceramists American ceramists American women historians 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Historians of the American Civil War Columbia University alumni Cooper Union alumni People from Warrenton, North Carolina Artists from North Carolina Writers from North Carolina 20th-century ceramists 20th-century American women photographers {{US-historian-stub