Aug 5, 2020 | Caswell, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Teresa Leake (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The Civil War was a tragic time in our history, no matter what side you were on: Families were uprooted, children were orphaned, and stability—both family stability and economic stability—was lost. My...
Aug 5, 2020 | Union affiliation, Wilson
SUBMITTED BY: Hinson Peed Willie Daniel (click image to enlarge) Mr. Daniel’s obituary, clipped from The Wilson Advance (Wilson, North Carolina, Sept. 30, 1897) is at this link >> 1596122787-In_Memorium_to_Willie_Daniel ...
Aug 5, 2020 | Ashe, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Shannon Burton (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My great-great-great-great-grandfather, George Lee Phillips, born on June 17, 1805, was swept off his horse while attempting to cross the Yadkin River while it was flooding. Phillips was the Sheriff of...
Jun 9, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Wilkes
RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY: K. Jeffery Torgler and Cheri Todd Molter Elias E. Day was born in 1831 in Surry County, North Carolina, and his parents were William and Nancy (Triplett) Day. Before 1850, William and Nancy had relocated their family to Wilkes County, North...
May 6, 2020 | Caldwell, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: K. Jeffery Torgler (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) This is an outline of research results—census records, military records, etc.—that tell the story of the life of Nathan Bradshaw. We were compiling this information to track down the grave...
May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Craven, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Robert Taylor (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The burial place of Lewis Addison Armistead was a mystery to most people until 1939 when a Gettysburg Park official told people to look for his memorial at the Old St. Paul’s Cemetery in Baltimore,...