May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Robin Oldham (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) This is a picture of Dr. Edward Buncombe Haughton of Washington County. (Click image to enlarge.) He never married and was a surgeon during the Civil War. My cousin is an auctioneer, and once when I...
May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
AUTHOR: Glenn Land (edited by Linda Barnette and Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 3x-removed-1st-cousin, John Land, was born about 1846 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He was the third child and oldest son of James Land, Jr. and Jane Murphy. He...
Apr 21, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Orange
SUBMITTED BY: Scott Dickson; written by Holly Dickson Hollingsworth (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) By: Holly Dickson Hollingsworth My grandfather, John W. Dickson, was born in the Dickson House in 1912 and lived there until 1925. His stories were shared...
Apr 21, 2021 | Antebellum era, New Hanover
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Nancy “Nance” Adams Martin, the daughter of businessman and ship owner Silas Martin and his wife, Margaret Crawford Martin, took ill and died while at sea with her father. In 1857, Silas took...
Apr 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I had heard from my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, that her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the early to mid-1800s, so you can imagine my...
