Mar 12, 2019 | Alleghany, Ashe, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Barbara Taylor; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter **About the Picture (click to enlarge): William Cicero Taylor and Rebecca Miller Taylor’s family, taken about 1910/1911 in Peak Creek, North Carolina before they moved to Virginia. The family members...
Sep 11, 2018 | Alleghany, Confederate affiliation, Surry, Wilkes
Submitted by Ruth Dutton Hill; edited by Cheri Todd Molter David Black was a farmer who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. The following is the transcription of a letter he wrote to his brother, Alex Black, on Christmas evening, 1864. Transcription:...
Apr 12, 2015 | Alleghany, Confederate affiliation
Wartime Letter Raises Question My family left North Carolina for Alberta, Canada, in 1904, so little is known about my great-great-grandfather William Cheek’s Confederate service. Born in Ashe County Apr. 14, 1844, he enlisted in Co. I, 61st North Carolina...
