Jan 28, 2023 | Cumberland, Uncategorized
Submitted by J. Michael Ruff DDS The following is a story that was told to me by Mrs.Phillips around 1982 or 1983, and it had been shared with Mrs. Phillips by her grandmother. She said her grandmother was nine years old when General Sherman and his Army came to...
Dec 8, 2022 | Antebellum era, Cherokee, Haywood
Written by B. Lynne Harlan; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter William Holland Thomas was born in 1805 in Haywood County, North Carolina. Around the age of 10, Thomas moved to Jackson to work with a merchant at a trading post along the Tuckaseegee River. By 1822, Thomas had...
Dec 6, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Submitted by Demetrius Haddock; Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter The letter pictured was written by Mrs. Josephine Bryan Worth, who, according to her obituary (Josephine_Bryan_Worth_s_Obituary_1917), was the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Hodges Bryan of Fayetteville,...
Dec 5, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Stanly, This Month's Featured Story
According to an article written by Elizabeth Cook in 2011, Emma Green[e] of East Spencer had shared a letter that was written in March 1865 by a Stanly County man named Joseph Huneycutt, who was anticipating his execution for desertion with the Salisbury Post. In that...
Nov 30, 2022 | Montgomery, Reconstruction
Author: David Hastedt; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown My great-great-uncle, Reverend William Harmon Ellis was born in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1852. He graduated from Williams College in 1874 and, in 1881, was posted by the...
