Sep 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Catherine Bowers Southworth This document is an excerpt from “Letters Home to Baughn’s Mountain” transcribed in 1979 by Ellen Flythe Frontis Cross, great-granddaughter of John Henry and Martha Ann Baughn Stone. Some of these letters are heart-wrenching;...
Sep 9, 2018 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Katrina Anne Herman Avery Two brothers of my great-grandmother, Susan Young, died while fighting in the Civil War. One was John Young, born in 1843 to Henry and Lavenia Martin Young in Catawba County, NC. At 19 years old, John enlisted in the...
Sep 9, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Leisa Greathouse Needham Brown was one of twelve siblings. All six sons enlisted in the Confederacy. He enlisted in Wayne County, NC in 1863. He epitomized an average North Carolinian. He was in Company D and Company L, 66th Regiment. He survived the...
Sep 9, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Henderson
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Travis The Laughter family of Henderson County, NC provided the Confederacy with nine men, two brothers and seven cousins, to fight for Southern independence. They were all farmers. Many of the cousins were in their teens and enlisted together in...
Sep 8, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Billy Parker was the first born son of John A. Parker, and his second wife, Nancy Phillips.(1) John married Nancy on 18 November 1844(2) in (what was then, still) Haywood county. Billy followed less than 3 months later being born on 18...
Sep 8, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Genealogical research often reveals some interesting, even contradictory characters and such is the case with “Granny Beck” Aiken. Nothing is known about her childhood or youth. Although the census taker for Jackson co. in 1880...
