Oct 27, 2023 | Antebellum era, Cumberland
Article submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter According to John Guimarin of Augusta Georgia, Jemima Armwood, a free, mixed-race woman, bound three of her daughters to him as indentured servants for the sum of $200. Jemima’s daughters were...
Sep 26, 2023 | Antebellum era, Cumberland
Article submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe Brown from The North-Carolinian of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Dec. 7, 1850, Page 3 On Nov. 30, 1850, the Mechanics of Fayetteville met to take measures against the “growing evil of...
Aug 15, 2023 | Anson, Antebellum era, Cumberland, Reconstruction, Rowan
Submitted by James E. Buxton Jr.; Researched & written by Leisa Greathouse; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Research to this point has uncovered a few primary documents about Daniel “Dan” Buxton. Census records for the years 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 lists...
Aug 2, 2023 | Cumberland, Reconstruction, This Month's Featured Story
Submitted by Edwina Clarkson; written by Ruth Gillis; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown Copies of photographs courtesy of Edwina Clarkson and taken by Dorien Caldwell Edward and Sallie Evans are remembered in Fayetteville, N.C. as educators,...
Apr 25, 2023 | Cumberland, Reconstruction
Submitted by Nicholle Young “Ezekiel Ezra Smith: Minister Resident and Consul-General, Monrovia,” published on the front page of the Scranton Weekly Republican on Wed., May 2,...
Jan 28, 2023 | Cumberland, Uncategorized
Submitted by J. Michael Ruff DDS The following is a story that was told to me by Mrs.Phillips around 1982 or 1983, and it had been shared with Mrs. Phillips by her grandmother. She said her grandmother was nine years old when General Sherman and his Army came to...
