by Cheri D. Molter | Dec 8, 2022 | Antebellum era, Cherokee, Haywood
Written by B. Lynne Harlan; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter William Holland Thomas was born in 1805 in Haywood County, North Carolina. Around the age of 10, Thomas moved to Jackson to work with a merchant at a trading post along the Tuckaseegee River. By 1822, Thomas had...
by Cheri D. Molter | Dec 6, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Submitted by Demetrius Haddock; Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter The letter pictured was written by Mrs. Josephine Bryan Worth, who, according to her obituary (Josephine_Bryan_Worth_s_Obituary_1917), was the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Hodges Bryan of Fayetteville,...
by Cheri D. Molter | Nov 17, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Submitted by Sandra White Hinton: Letter Transcribed by Sandra White Hinton, Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown; Content notes written and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Note from Sandra: Here are my ancestors’ letters. Please do upload them. All the...
by Cheri D. Molter | Nov 14, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Hoke, Robeson
Author: William S. McLean; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Leisa Greathouse Before and during the Civil War, Alexander Graham (1800-1865) and Elizabeth Purcell Graham (1806-1888) lived in a Greek Revival cottage on the east side of the Cheraw to...
by Cheri D. Molter | Nov 10, 2022 | Antebellum era, Cherokee, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by: Willis Whichard, Jerry Padgett, James Padgett, Obie Whichard, & Bud Padgett; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and B. Lynne Harlan Robert, William, and John Rogers grew up in a part of Cherokee County known as Tomotla with their parents, John...
by Cheri D. Molter | Aug 29, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Swain
Written by Leisa Greathouse; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Part of the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee is in Swain County, North Carolina. The reservation was formally established in 1876. In the 1840s and 1850s, after the Trail of Tears, a white man...
