Mar 30, 2022 | Cherokee, Clay, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Melessia Croker; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have written everything I know about my ancestors on a webpage on my family site. These stories are pretty well known locally, so someone else may have already sent in the story about David Ledford...
Mar 25, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Wilson
Submitted by Lisa Y. Henderson; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter On 2 September 1950, in the column “Looking Backward,” the Wilson Daily Times published Hugh B. Johnston’s transcriptions of war-time letters written by George W. Woodard, including the one below:...
Mar 25, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Northampton
Written by Leisa Greathouse; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter An enslaved African American man named Kinchen resided on the Thornbury plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina. That plantation owner’s son, Henry Burgwyn, Jr., graduated from UNC and the...
Jan 15, 2022 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Harold Clark Davis; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Towards the end of the war, according to a story I read on the internet, my great-great-grandfather, Henderson Davis, had a childhood friend, Alexander Griffin, who fought for the Union and rode...
Dec 10, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Durant Gallup Vick; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Laurie Jones; transcribed by Laurie Jones Joshua Washington Vick became a doctor in Selma, North Carolina, after the war. He owned a drugstore, which he later sold to Lundsford Richardson....
Nov 15, 2021 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (transcribed by Laurie Jones; edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Notes: The following is a transcription of an article published on page 3 of the Anson Times on Thursday, July 30, 1885. I’ve taken the liberty of providing some...
