Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Davidson, Reconstruction
Written by Jeffrey W. Long (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Charles Wesley Cecil (1827-1911), my great-great-great grandfather, lived out a mostly ordinary life as a farmer and laborer in Davidson County, North Carolina. He was descended from a long line of...
Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Granville
SUBMITTED BY: Joseph Beasley (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Henry W. Jones was my four-times-great-grandfather, and he worked as a farmer, a magistrate, and a distiller at Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. A record of his correspondence and other official...
Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Henderson, McDowell, Union County, Yancey
AUTHOR: Amelia R. Phillips (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I am happy to share these stories and appreciate your willingness to help ensure that they aren’t lost to time and poor memory. I am not accustomed to writing these stories down: They have...
Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: James C. Riddle (submission edited by Cheri Todd Molter) According to his compiled military record, Rockingham County native James Hamilton Thomas was eighteen years old when he enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 31, 1864 at Camp Holmes, Raleigh,...
Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell
AUTHOR: Amelia R. Phillips (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) My great-great-great-grandfather was William “Wesley” Wakester [also spelled Wacaster in records]. I was a small child when the following story was recited to me: Wesley was musically inclined, so...
Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
SUBMITTED BY: Terri Correll (edited and transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter) My great-grandfather, John Edwin Fultz, fought during the Civil War. After the war, he married Mary Laura Lee “Laura Lee” Dalton. Attached is a picture of them. (Click on image to enlarge.) I...
