Nov 27, 2023 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation, This Month's Featured Story, Wake
Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown George W. Walters was a farmer who lived in Chatham County, North Carolina, when the war started. In 1862, thirty-three-year-old Walters was conscripted into the Confederate army as a private. He was...
Dec 28, 2020 | Chatham, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Farming was so bad in North Carolina in 1889 that many farmers considered leaving their farms to seek their livelihoods elsewhere. The Chatham County Alliance, a local organization of the Farmers’ Alliance,...
Jan 24, 2020 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Along with many other “firsts” to its credit, North Carolina can claim to be the state that the first woman Master Mason in the history of the craft—from King Solomon’s Temple to the present...
Sep 22, 2018 | Alamance, Antebellum era, Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Lenoir, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Thomas Perrett PDFS of parts 1, 2, and 3 are below. Thomas Perrett part 1 Thomas Perrett part 2 Thomas Perrett part 3
Jan 6, 2016 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation
He Didn’t Have to Go, but This story was told to me as a youngster in the 1950s by my great-aunt, Kate Dixon Murdock. When I was older I verified it through these soldiers’ individual Confederate Army records and other research. Aunt Kate said that when...
Oct 7, 2015 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Guilford
Submitted by Nancy Pittman; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter Born on November 13, 1837, Levi Branson Williams was the son of Ezekiel Randolph and Agnes Williams of Guilford County. At an early age, he was orphaned and left in the care of his grandfather, Nathan...
