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...
Jul 19, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Submitted by Ted Warren; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On September 1, 1861, twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Butler of Sampson County, NC, enlisted in the Confederate army as a private. About a month later, Butler left his wife, Isabella, and...
Jul 18, 2024 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Steve Bailey; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter The following is a transcription from an article entitled “War Time Letters,” which was published in The Messenger and Intelligencer on Thursday, May 19, 1898. “We are pleased to offer to our readers,...
