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...
Jul 26, 2024 | Columbus, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Rebecca Allen Bruce, Tonya C. Tyler and Judge James Floyd Ammons, Jr. (Great-Great-Grandchildren of Elisha Jackson Tyler); Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Elisha Jackson Tyler was born on March 14, 1841, in Columbus County,...
Jul 26, 2024 | Northampton, Reconstruction
Written by Mary E. C. Drew; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown In 1831, just over three decades before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in America, an enslaved Virginian named Nat Turner, along with a group of armed enslaved...
Jul 24, 2024 | Columbus, Confederate affiliation
Written by Carolyn Ann Tyler; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown During the Civil War, my Great-great-grandfather, John Jackson “J. J.” Tyler, Sr. served in the Confederate army, along with his sons, including Elisha Jackson Tyler (Here is the...
