Aug 3, 2021 | Antebellum era, Mecklenburg
SUBMITTED BY: Cornelia Fenenga Moore; transcribed by Cornelia Fenenga Moore & Cheri Todd Molter Transcribed Will of Ezekiel Black of Mecklenburg County N.C. State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County I Ezekiel Black of the county of Mecklenburg, Do make the...
Apr 21, 2021 | Antebellum era, New Hanover
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Nancy “Nance” Adams Martin, the daughter of businessman and ship owner Silas Martin and his wife, Margaret Crawford Martin, took ill and died while at sea with her father. In 1857, Silas took...
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,...
Dec 2, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Sampson
AUTHOR: Durin Naylor The Year was 1840 when Ransom Naylor was born to Washington and Amy Naylor in the Mingo Township district of Sampson County, North Carolina. Ransom had 9 siblings, 4 brothers and 5 sisters. As a young boy Ransom worked the family farm. By 1850...
Nov 24, 2020 | Antebellum era, Duplin, Harnett, Not categorized, Reconstruction, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Gerri R. Lugs; written by Elizabeth Catherine Draughon Godwin (transcribed and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is a transcription of the original submission (click on this link: Incidents in the Life of John Robert Draughon) Incidents in the...
Nov 24, 2020 | Antebellum era, Madison, Not categorized
AUTHOR: Gloria Lackey Stokely (edited & vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) On May 5, 1813, Elizabeth “Betsy” Massey & Thomas Revis had a daughter named Hester “Hettie” Massey who was born without any limbs (no arms or legs). She was Betsy’s second...
