Apr 29, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln, This Month's Featured Story
Submitted by Michael Stroupe; Written, vetted, and transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter On Sept. 11, 1861, Emanuel Houser was a 20-year-old farmer of Lincoln County, NC, when he volunteered to serve in the Confederate army for a term of one year. He was mustered into...
Apr 23, 2024 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Surry
Researched and written by Kobe M. Brown and Cheri Todd Molter Orlean Hawks Puckett was an Appalachian midwife known for assisting with the safe deliveries of over 1,000 babies and for never losing a mother or child while in her care. However, determining the “real”...
Apr 9, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, Reconstruction
Written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On October 22, 1898, Edward Joseph Hale described an event that took place in Fayetteville, NC, in an article he entitled “White Man’s Day,” which he published in his newspaper, The Observer. He estimated that “eight to...
Mar 29, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell
Written & transcribed by Charles E. Rich; edited by Cheri Todd Molter On October 2, 1863, Francis Marion Poteet was conscripted into the Confederate army for “three years or the duration of the war.” At that time, he and his wife, Martha Henley Poteet, had nine...
Mar 8, 2024 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Washington
Edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown The following information was derived from the NC Historical Site marker entitled “Freedom Seekers of Somerset Place: Rebecca Hathaway Drew” at Washington County: During the antebellum years, many enslaved people in North...
