Jun 3, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davidson
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette My great-great-grandfather, Hiram Hamilton Hartley, was a plantation owner in Davidson County, North Carolina, at the beginning of the Civil War. Obviously, he felt strongly about the Confederate cause and enlisted in Wake County on July 15,...
May 17, 2019 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Katy F. Sigmon My name is Katy Louise Frye Sigmon. I am almost 93 years old. I was born and raised on this farm. The log house stood until December 1918 but burned to the ground then. As a child I knew where the brick oven stood, where the foundation of...
May 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Yvonne Spell Williams; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Mixture of Both Our Family’s Oral Traditions and Documented Information I was born and raised in Sampson County, North Carolina. We lived in Cumberland until we moved to Utah to be...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose; Written by Stephen Lee; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Written By E.M. Bullard (1880-1959)Early in March of 1865 one division of Sherman’s Army, composed largely of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio troops, broke camp at Blockersville (now Stedman) and began their march through Sampson County. A troop...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose According to The Family of Confederate Soldier Joseph Boon Herring, written by Ronald A Herring, “Joseph Boon Herring went by the name Boon Herring most of his life and it is believed that he was named for his Great Grandmother, Esther...
