by Cheri D. Molter | Mar 25, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Wilson
Submitted by Lisa Y. Henderson; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter On 2 September 1950, in the column “Looking Backward,” the Wilson Daily Times published Hugh B. Johnston’s transcriptions of war-time letters written by George W. Woodard, including the one below:...
by Cheri D. Molter | Mar 25, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Northampton, This Month's Featured Story
Written by Leisa Greathouse; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter An enslaved African American man named Kinchen resided on the Thornbury plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina. That plantation owner’s son, Henry Burgwyn, Jr., graduated from UNC and the...
by Cheri D. Molter | Dec 28, 2020 | Antebellum era, Pitt, Wilson
SUBMITTED BY: Lisa Y. Henderson (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) On February 28, 1863, Edmund Moore of Wilson advertised in the Tarborough Southerner for the return of Jerry, a thirty-year-old man who was formerly enslaved by Howell G. Whitehead of eastern Pitt County,...
by Cheri D. Molter | Apr 10, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Smith (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) Note from Elizabeth Smith: My great-grandfather was Dr. Francis Hamilton Conoly, and Cheri found the records that brought him and his family members to life for me. She gave me knowledge of my...
by Cheri D. Molter | Feb 8, 2017 | Clay, Confederate affiliation
The Story of the Colemans: “I Can’t Think of You All but What I Am Most Ready to Cry” Submitted by: Willis Whichard, Jerry Padgett, Bud Padgett, Obie Whichard, and James Padg James and Julia Coleman moved to Cherokee County, North Carolina before 1850 along with...
