Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble In June 1861, Alson Gordon of Haywood county left his wife and three children behind to join Company F of the 25th NC Infantry Regiment: a company that enlisted three of my other ancestors on the same day. Gordon’s time in the 25th...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble The story of Haywood County’s Inman family has reached far beyond the Carolinas, thanks to the star-studded cast of 2003’s Cold Mountain. While the film was inspired by the true story of William Pinkney Inman and two of his brothers...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble The Inman family of Haywood County, NC possesses strong ties to the American Civil War having committed all six sons to the Haywood Highlanders Company in 1861 as a part of the Confederate Army. Most famously, William Pinkney...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Surry, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Shirley Corn Reagan My husband’s great grandmother was a daughter of Confederacy. She was a Franklin from Elkin, NC. My husband passed this past May 15, 2018. I have to research her story. Her name could have Ann or Elizabeth Franklin. I’m...
Sep 7, 2018 | Madison, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Stokely Caldwell There is an interesting Civil War story regarding a young man from New Hampshire named Timothy McKean who, after many adventures, ended up in North Carolina and changed his name to Charles Hawkins. Timothy R. McKean was born in 1839 in...
