Nov 15, 2021 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (transcribed by Laurie Jones; edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Notes: The following is a transcription of an article published on page 3 of the Anson Times on Thursday, July 30, 1885. I’ve taken the liberty of providing some...
Nov 4, 2021 | Reconstruction, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: Dr. Peter Murray (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The call for the convention came from New Bern, N.C., and the assembly included delegations from New Bern, Beaufort, Wilmington, and other parts of the state. The African Americans who lived in...
Nov 4, 2021 | Hyde, Reconstruction
Submitted by JD Mayo; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Megan Maxwell According to the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands from New Bern, N.C., in October and December of 1869, John Mayo identified and vouched for the service of...
Nov 4, 2021 | Anson, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) This article is about an engraved watch that had been taken from its original owner by one of Sherman’s men. It was published on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1893, in Wadesboro’s newspaper, the Messenger-Intelligencer....
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,...
