Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Submitted by Sandra White Hinton; transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter Note from Sandra: “Here are Lal’s letters. Please do upload them. His handwriting is so neat! All the Whites were educated, and they were all Masons, as well.” Lallister M. White,...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Abstracted from the February 2020 Issue of the Marshville N.C. Museum & Cultural Center Newsletter: “[In July 1864], the army of the Union and the army of the Confederacy were locked in vicious...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Here is a picture of Ann Eliza Brown White (1838-1927). She was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, on Aug. 8, 1838. Ann married Murdock White and was Lt. Lal White’s sister-in-law (some...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter and Caitlin Crenshaw) August_20_1863 Lal and James White and August_20_1863_backside (click on links at left to view PDFs of letter) (Note from Sandra White: “Here are Lal’s letters....
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Glenn Land (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) (click photo to enlarge) A family connected to my ancestors in Wilkes County, N.C., by marriage, was that of William Proffit (Proffitt, Prophet) and Mary Walsh Proffit. Their daughter, Rhoda, was...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Mecklenburg, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited by Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Daniel Whiting and Cheri Todd Molter) In 1873, a sixteen-year-old lad entered Davidson College, a Presbyterian liberal arts college in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. At Davidson he was known as Thomas...
