Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson
Submitted by Phyllis Bryant Lowry; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Here is a story about my Native American ancestor Jacob Bryant, based on the contents of an article that was published in The Robesonian on May 29, 2009: In Red Springs, Cannon fire echoed...
Sep 6, 2018 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Shannon Walters Jacobson This is my 4th great uncle who wrote letters to his sisters and wife, Nancy. He also mentions my 3x great grandfather, Paris Guyton, and my 4th great Uncle Joseph Guyton. All lived in Bladen County. His last letter was December...
Sep 6, 2018 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Tyrrell
Submitted by Barbara Krebs; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter [This is in response to a] post of June 13 on the Tyrrell County Genealogy page [on Facebook] asking for Civil War era stories. The following is from a story that my grandmother used to tell me when I...
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rutherford
AUTHOR: W. Edgar Flack (sent by LuVerne Haydock) This appears in Ivarea Flack’s “Flack Family Heritage” and was written by W. Edgar Flack.
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
AUTHOR: Dorothy Killian My Grandmother b: 1877 told me this story: Some Union soldiers came to her Aunt Mary Watson Triplett’s house in Wilkes County, N. C.They made her cook a meal for them. One Union soldier sat in the kitchen while she cooked with his gun...
