Sep 8, 2018 | Antebellum era, Henderson, Jackson, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson; edited by Cheri Todd Molter JOHN H. AlKEN, son of THOMAS (1825-ca 1900) and REBECCA (HOXIT) AlKEN (1831-1912), was born January 8, 1855 in Cherryfield, Henderson Co., NC, the fifth of eight children. His father left the family sometime between...
Sep 6, 2018 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Tyrrell
Submitted by Barbara Krebs; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter [This is in response to a] post of June 13 on the Tyrrell County Genealogy page [on Facebook] asking for Civil War era stories. The following is from a story that my grandmother used to tell me when I...
Feb 8, 2017 | Antebellum era, Clay, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by: Willis Whichard, Jerry Padgett, Bud Padgett, Obie Whichard, and James Padgett; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter James and Julia Coleman moved to Cherokee County, North Carolina before 1850 along with seven children: William, Frances, Joe, Hugh,...
Jul 27, 2016 | Antebellum era, Cumberland, Randolph
William Stout, born in 1825, was the son of Joseph and Naomi Stout. His father built four-horse wagons, and his mother made the covers for the wagons. The Stouts sold the wagons in Fayetteville for one hundred dollars each. The profits from those sales paid for...
Jul 17, 2016 | Antebellum era, News
Old myths frustrate modern hopes If you grew up white, Southern and embedded in the successor class to the Antebellum gentry, you’ve likely heard it — more than once: “I was always told that they treated them like family.” “Them”...
Jan 27, 2016 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Reconstruction
Written by Robert Maffitt; edited by Cheri Todd Molter John N. Maffitt was born at sea on February 22, 1819. His parents, Rev. Maffitt and Ann Carnicke Maffitt, were traveling across the Atlantic from Ireland to New York at that time. They eventually settled in...
