Jan 26, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Soldier wanted clean water for all 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 places he lived in Catawba County, his family’s names, etc....
Jan 26, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Ancestor’s story ends at a POW camp after the war’s close Daniel J. Herman, my great-great-grandfather, married Sarah (Sally) Tritt on Jan. 14, 1830 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. They had three children, one of these being my great-grandfather Levi...
Jan 26, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Written by Joe W. Avery; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Twenty-one-year-old Henry Harrison Avery, son of James and Elizabeth Hollingsworth Brown Avery of Morganton, North Carolina, enlisted on April 25, 1861, as a private in Company G of the North Carolina 1st...
Jan 22, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Wilkes County native fought, then made it home My paternal great-grandmother, Eliza Jane Lail, had a brother named Liler Monroe Lail. Monroe was born about 1843 in Wilkes County, North Carolina to Cynthia and Daniel Lail. At age 18, Monroe was working as a farmer in...
Jan 21, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Benjamin Franklin as a “Doc” On March 1, 1863, at age 36, my great-great-great-uncle, Benjamin Franklin Earney (Arney) enlisted in Burke County, North Carolina as a private in Company K, N.C. 35th Infantry Regiment. This company was known as the “Burke...
Jan 21, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Gettysburg claims a brother Two brothers of my great-grandmother, Susan Young, died while fighting in the Civil War. One was Peter E. Young, who was born in 1834 to Henry and Lavenia Martin Young in Catawba County, North Carolina. Peter enlisted in Burke County on May...
