Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Granville
AUTHOR: Unknown James Spence Frazier was the youngest child of eight children born to Ephraim and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Granville County, North Carolina. He was the first of his brothers to volunteer for Company I, 23rd Regiment of the North Carolina...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown My great-great-great grandfather, Michael Nathaniel Beaver, was born in Rowan County in 1842, a 4th generation American whose great-great grandfather had come from Germany in the 1730’s. Following in the tradition of his great-grandfather,...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell
AUTHOR: Unknown Private George M. Crawford was born on his family’s Iredell County farm in 1828. Never marrying, George spent his life helping his large family run their farm and after losing both parents in his teens, he helped raised his younger siblings. In...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Granville
AUTHOR: Unknown The fourth of five sons of Ephraim and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Sassafras Fork, Granville County, North Carolina. Thomas B. Frazier enlisted in Company I, North Carolina 23rd Infantry Regiment at age 27 on July 8, 1862 or for the war. He...
Sep 17, 2018 | Cabarrus, Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown Charles Dry was born 1832 in Cabarrus County, NC. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Dry. He resided in Rowan County when he enlisted in the 42nd North Carolina Regiment, Company 2nd B on the 5 February 1862. He was present and accounted for...
