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...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Granville
AUTHOR: Unknown James Spence Frazier was the youngest child of eight children born to Ephraim and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Granville County, North Carolina. He was the first of his brothers to volunteer for Company I, 23rd Regiment of the North Carolina...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown My great-great-great grandfather, Michael Nathaniel Beaver, was born in Rowan County in 1842, a 4th generation American whose great-great grandfather had come from Germany in the 1730’s. Following in the tradition of his great-grandfather,...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell
AUTHOR: Unknown Private George M. Crawford was born on his family’s Iredell County farm in 1828. Never marrying, George spent his life helping his large family run their farm and after losing both parents in his teens, he helped raised his younger siblings. In...
