Jan 24, 2020 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Along with many other “firsts” to its credit, North Carolina can claim to be the state that the first woman Master Mason in the history of the craft—from King Solomon’s Temple to the present...
Jan 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
SUBMITTED BY: Rick Monroe (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I’ve known for quite a while that my great-great-uncles, William Johnson Monroe and Levi Deaton Monroe, were both killed during the battles for Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864 and 1865. A number...
Jan 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Richmond
SUBMITTED BY: Alan Ashworth (vetted by Cheri Molter) My Great-grandfather John Calvin McFadyen served the Confederate Army in Co E, 38th NCT—the Richmond County Boys. A copy of their unit song is in Rankin Museum in Ellerbe, NC. John’s unit was guarding the...
Jan 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Warren
SUBMITTED BY: Judy Ellington Stainback; Letters Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter, Caitlin Crenshaw, Carolina Echeverri, and Daniel Whiting A note from Judy Ellington Stainback: I grew up on a 300-plus-acre tobacco farm in Drewry, Warren County, North Carolina. Part of...
Jan 3, 2020 | Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Written by Marvin Tupper Jones; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter The Winton Triangle is a community of land-owning people of color in the Winton-Cofield-Ahoskie area of Hertford County, North Carolina. Originally inhabited by the Chowanoke people, the first...
