Mar 24, 2021 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Melba Cooper Finley (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) An Oral Tradition, told to my mother, Mary Sue Carswell Cooper, by her grandmother, Julia Adeline Butler Carswell, who was born in 1861 or there about (See note below). Julia’s father, Erwin...
Sep 17, 2018 | Burke, Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
AUTHOR: Unknown Abel Reid Pitts was born to John Henry and Sarah Lolly Rogers Pitts on 30 August, 1826 in Lincoln Co., NC. Abel later lived in Burke Co and enlisted in Catawba Co into Co K, NC 35th Infantry Regiment as a private, age 36, on 15 October, 1861 for the...
Sep 7, 2018 | Burke, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Edward S. Alexander, Emerging Civil War SUBMITTED BY: Deborah England I found this story about my GG grandfather on the blog, Emerging Civil War. It was written by Edward S. Alexander. As a descendant of the original settlers of Western NC, on both sides of...
Sep 5, 2018 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: James Franklin According to the 1860 US Census, Lewis Franklin lived in Burke County, NC, with his wife “Fanny” Perlina and their children: Sidney S. (5), Julia A. (2), and Alfred N. (9 months old). On September 22, 1862, at the age of 33, he...
Feb 22, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Blood and Water and Mercy Levi Herman, my great-grandfather, appears in the Civil War Roster books as Levi Harmon. He also appears on the Federal census with the same name. But when you look at the locations in Catawba County, North Carolina, where he lived, his...
Feb 3, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
William Brown Avery enlisted after younger brother killed at Yorktown William Brown Avery, born Nov. 25, 1828, was one of nine children of James and Elizabeth Hollingsworth Brown Avery. He was a farmer by trade and very faithful to his church and family. William Brown...
