Sep 1, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Featured, Lenoir
Brothers Bill and Daniel Cole, Confederate soldiers William Richard “Bill” Cole and Daniel Francis Cole were uncles of my grandmother, Gertrude Elizabeth Thompson Croom (Mrs. William Cyrus Croom), of Sandy Bottom in Lenoir County. Both Bill and Daniel...
Sep 1, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
William Allen Croom and wife Ann Maria Jackson Croom During the Civil War, Ann Maria (pronounced Mariah) and her husband lived at “the Margaret Croom Place” at Moss Hill in Lenoir County. Once, when the Yankees came through the area, Ann Maria was fixing...