Feb 17, 2025 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Submitted by Matthew Howell; Vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter In Fayetteville, known as Cross Creek until 1778, there are many old cemeteries.[1] The oldest is the first Cross Creek Cemetery, which was established in 1785.[2]...
Feb 13, 2025 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
Submitted by Don Thomas Simmons; Vetted & edited by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown In the Spring of 1862, the soldiers of the 45th North Carolina Infantry were recruited from several different counties in the state. Among those who enlisted was a...
Jan 8, 2025 | Antebellum era, Ashe, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
Submitted by Nancy Finney Cornish; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown Based on Oral Tradition and Genealogical Research This story is about my third great-grandmother, Phoebe Graybeal Eastridge. Phoebe Graybeal was born and raised in Ashe...
Oct 14, 2024 | Antebellum era, Washington
Submitted by Somerset Place State Historic Site; edited by Cheri Todd Molter In 1859, Josiah Collins III wrote a letter to Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman who had escaped bondage in Edenton by hiding in her grandmother’s crawlspace for seven years. Harriet...
Sep 3, 2024 | Montgomery, Reconstruction
Written by Jim Tucker; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Martha Jane Morgan Tucker was married to James “Jim” M. Tucker, and lived at Eldorado, in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Born in 1833, her parents were Matthew Morgan and Sarah Harris Morgan. In May of...
