Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Stokely Caldwell Amos Snyder Ross was born in 1837 in Union County North Carolina, the son of Thomas Griffin Ross (1806-1873) and Ola Maness (1809-1865). Amos married Mary A. Kiser, daughter of Marcus Kiser and Mary Howell Kiser with a Cabarrus County,...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
AUTHOR: Durin Naylor The Year was 1840 when Ransom Naylor was born to Washington and Amy Naylor in the Mingo Township district of Sampson County, North Carolina. Ransom had 9 siblings, 4 brothers and 5 sisters. As a young boy Ransom worked the family farm. By 1850...
Sep 7, 2018 | Chowan, Union affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Francis Howcutt From the website “Howcutt and Howcott Family History,” copyright 2018. Miles Howcott was a soldier and farmer. He is an ancestor of a large proportion of the present-day Howcotts in America. Miles and his son William Henry...
Sep 7, 2018 | Burke, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Edward S. Alexander, Emerging Civil War SUBMITTED BY: Deborah England I found this story about my GG grandfather on the blog, Emerging Civil War. It was written by Edward S. Alexander. As a descendant of the original settlers of Western NC, on both sides of...
Sep 7, 2018 | Cleveland, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Lisa Jillani My aunt, Esta Davis Serber, was born in 1900 and alive when her grandfather, Simon D. Davis,talked to her about his time in the Sandy Run Yellow Jackets out of Cleveland Co. She passed the statement on to me that Simon told her. He said,...
