Dec 16, 2019 | Cleveland, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Jim Dugan (vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) (Click on images to enlarge) Anonymous William Quinn, LDS ID LC32-RXV, #8845442, (family tradition states he was named Aaron at birth, but he didn’t like the name and changed it to Anonymous; another reference...
Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Stephen Pope (transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is a transcription of the document in the attached photograph (click to enlarge): Office Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands … for Robeson County Lumberton Sept 2nd 1865 This...
Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Stephen Pope (transcribed by Cheri Told Molter) The following is an excerpt from the church history, as written on their web site [The full story can be read here: https://www.firstbaptistfairmontnorth.org/weve_come_this_far_by_faith]: “Pleasant...
Dec 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Lee Keyes VETTED BY: Cheri Todd Molter Solomon Keyes (also spelled Kees and Keys) (b. 8/31/1836 on Stony Fork, Wilkes County, d. 1/02/1929 in Caldwell County) enlisted on 9/15/1862 at Camp Holmes, near Raleigh, NC. He became part of Company C 26th North...
Dec 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
SUBMITTED AND WRITTEN BY: Earl Ijames, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources In July 2014 I had been invited to give the keynote program to commemorate the 150th year since the Battle of Atlanta. The Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum in Georgia wanted...