Sep 5, 2018 | Stanly, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Tony L. Crumbley Benjamin and Jane Pinion had eight children, all born between 1839 and 1867. The Pinion family resided in Stanly County, North Carolina. On August 8, 1862, two of their sons, Thomas W. and Joe Darling Pinion, joined Company B of the 5th N.C....
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Vance
AUTHOR: Greg Dickie My great-great-great-uncle was John B. Evans. He fought in the Confederate Army. After the war he returned to his home near Williamsboro in Granville County (now Vance County). A group of Union soldiers rode up to his home one day. The captain...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rutherford
AUTHOR: Linda Carter Turman In what was at the time Rutherford County, North Carolina, in the year 1831, William Jackson Carter, Sr. married Amey Alice Hastings. Their marriage produced five known children, 4 boys and 1 girl: John Wesley Carter, b. 1837 James C...
Sep 2, 2018 | Craven, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Kenneth Whitehurst (originally posted 9/2/2018; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter 7/22/20) My great-great-grandfather, Toney Boyd, was enslaved by Frederick Boyd at a place called Long Acre, near Bath, in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Around 1850, with...
