Oct 6, 2021 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Denisa C. Martin; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Wallace Alexander Propst, my great-great-great-grandfather, was born June 18, 1829, in Hickory, Catawba (then Lincoln) County, North Carolina. (Click on photo at left to enlarge.) On March 15, 1848,...
Nov 24, 2020 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union County
STORY AND SUBMITTED TRANSCRIPTIONS BY: April Price Havens (edited by Cheri Todd Molter; modern transcriptions written by Cheri Todd Molter) Andrew Joseph “Joe” Price, my great-great-grandfather, was born August 1, 1837 in Union County, North Carolina. In 1862, Price...
Sep 29, 2020 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elmon Dale (article transcribed by Carolina Echeverri; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter) [This article and Mrs. Dale’s obituary, both from the Hickory Daily Record, are attached below. Click on image to enlarge.] “Mrs. Louisa Dale, ninety-seven,...
Oct 27, 2019 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Louis Stewart; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter These letters were written by my Great-Great-Grandfather, Jacob Laban Hartsoe, who served in the Catawba Braves, Company K of the 46th Infantry, NC. Jacob was born on July 29, 1833 and was a native of...
May 17, 2019 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Katy F. Sigmon My name is Katy Louise Frye Sigmon. I am almost 93 years old. I was born and raised on this farm. The log house stood until December 1918 but burned to the ground then. As a child I knew where the brick oven stood, where the foundation of...
Sep 17, 2018 | Burke, Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
AUTHOR: Unknown Abel Reid Pitts was born to John Henry and Sarah Lolly Rogers Pitts on 30 August, 1826 in Lincoln Co., NC. Abel later lived in Burke Co and enlisted in Catawba Co into Co K, NC 35th Infantry Regiment as a private, age 36, on 15 October, 1861 for the...
