May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Craven, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Robert Taylor (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The burial place of Lewis Addison Armistead was a mystery to most people until 1939 when a Gettysburg Park official told people to look for his memorial at the Old St. Paul’s Cemetery in Baltimore,...
May 6, 2020 | Anson, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Note: Born on Dec. 4, 1833 in Anson County, Dr. Parks Turner Beeman was a pacifist who was opposed to the Civil War. During the war years, Beeman was arrested for making a derogatory remark...
May 6, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, New Hanover
SUBMITTED BY: Frances Cullom Morgan (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Note from Frances Cullom Morgan: Cornelia Murphey Worth French was the daughter of Barzillai Gardner Worth and Mary Elizabeth Jessie Carter. (Editor’s Note: The author of the following story, Cornelia...
May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
SUBMITTED BY: Frances Cullom Morgan (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Note from Frances Cullom Morgan: This letter was published in A Goodly Heritage by Emma Woodward MacMillan, a niece of Cornelia Murphey Worth and my great-aunt. Although many of Emma’s...
Apr 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Henderson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sonny P. Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My Great-Grandmother was Emily Jones Morrison, and she was the daughter of Hiram King and Lucretia Jones of Henderson County, North Carolina. She was born in 1853 and died when I was in the 11th...
Apr 10, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Smith (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) Note from Elizabeth Smith: My great-grandfather was Dr. Francis Hamilton Conoly, and Cheri found the records that brought him and his family members to life for me. She gave me knowledge of my...