Dec 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
AUTHOR: Dean Rathbone Note: This story is by no means filthy or obscene, but it is a boisterous story that was shared by soldiers around the campfire during the Civil War. Granny’s cousin, Jim Kirkpatrick, told me this story about my great great grandpa, Jasper...
Dec 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
AUTHOR: Dean Rathbone I always wondered why everyone lowered their voices when they spoke of Will Rathbone, and whispered about what he did during that “bad ole war.” I’d try to get closer so that I could hear, but Granny would gently push me away...
Dec 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
AUTHOR: Glenn Land In 1850, Thomas Bethune Tyson of Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina purchased a combination, wagon/wheelwright repair shop, from Isaac Sewell. In 1856, Thomas B. Tyson, and landowner Alexander Kelly, formed a partnership to run the wheelwright...
Dec 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Israel Rufus Stroup, the son of John D. Stroup, enlisted on the 4th of July 1862 in Lincoln County, NC. At the time, he and his wife, Elizabeth Rudisill Stroup, lived in Stanley Creek...
Nov 25, 2018 | Cherokee, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Joe Franklin Grandfather Hayes was originally in the Union Army & escorted the Cherokee tribe on the journey to Oklahoma (the Trail Of Tears) I read some of his letters & accounts which he said was a horrible experience. When the war began he served...
Nov 25, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Stanly
AUTHOR: John Stevens Evin Smith was born in Smith’s District, Stanly County, North Carolina about 1836. In the 1860 Census, he was living with his father working on the family farm with personal property valued at $140. In March 1861, Evin married Lucy Page from...
