Sep 21, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Submitted by Graham Kent Strickland Summary written by Mario Benavente; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter The November 1986 issue of The State magazine included the story of Graham Kent Strickland’s thirty-plus-year search for information about his great-great-grandfather,...
Sep 21, 2018 | Caldwell, Confederate affiliation, Guilford, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Marsha Head Goodwin My 3X-Great-Grandfather was Captain Wilson Austin White. He was born Jun 30, 1826 in Greensboro, Guilford Co., North Carolina. He was the son of William Austin White and Rebecca White (surnames were the same, no genealogical connection)....
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
AUTHOR: Unknown Edward Gray Southard (Edwin G.) was born in 1831 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was married to Pamela Billingsly on 23 November 1860. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment called the Madison Greys. He resided...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
AUTHOR: Unknown William “Billy” Pinkney Southard, my great-great-great grandfather, was born in 1826 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was married to Bertha Ruth Thomas on December 26, 1848. He was the father of 8 children, 5 sons...
Sep 17, 2018 | Beaufort, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Unknown William Augustus Parvin arrives in Little Washington on New Year’s Day, 1861, just 21 years old. By birth, he is a Pennsylvanian, but he chooses to settle in a state that is bound for secession in a few months. In March he ships out on the schooner...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
AUTHOR: Unknown Private Green D. Smith was born in 1829 in Union County and there he was conscripted on August 23, 1862 to Company E of the 48th NCST. He had barely joined the company when he became ill with smallpox in the Winter of ’62/’63 and Spring of...
