Oct 16, 2018 | Ashe, Avery, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Vickie Kutscher My Great-Grandfather is Barnabas (“Barney” or “BB”) Calhoun. Barnabas Calhoun was probably born in Ashe County, North Carolina. He is buried in the Fork Mountain Cemetery just outside of Newland, North Carolina. Here...
Oct 16, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Onslow, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Gary White; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter The words of David Franklin Aman: “Many years ago, after a great storm on the coast, beachcombers found a little boy among the wreckage washed ashore. One exclaimed ‘It’s a man!’ He was cared for and...
Oct 12, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Scotland
SUBMITTED BY: Alan M. Stubbs: “This is an article published in a Wilmington, NC newspaper around 1900 by my great grandmother’s cousin.” [History Center cannot locate the newspaper name or date. Her remembrance can be found as a historical essay on the...
Oct 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell, Union affiliation
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter At the age of twenty-five, Alfred J. Stroup was conscripted into the Confederate States Army at McDowell County, N.C.. Serving as a private, Stroup was mustered into Company K of the...
Oct 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Written and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Alfred A. Stroup (1842-?), the son of Joseph P. Stroup, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina but moved by 1860 to the Stroup homelands in what was then Gaston County. Alfred...
Oct 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston
AUTHORS: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe Research conducted in 2010 and 2011 reveals that at least 75 males carrying the Stroup surname — all direct descendants of Jacob Stroup—served with the Confederate Army, representing five southern states: North and South...
