Jun 22, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
AUTHOR: Shari Holden (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Oral Tradition: The story I have been told was that when my great-great-grandfather, Wiley B. Matthews (Mathis) left with his brother to join the Confederate Army, he carried his own iron frying pan with him...
May 27, 2021 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: David Lennon (edited by Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Hallie Smith) In 1862, Capt. Daniel Patterson, my great-grandfather, raised a company of troops from his native Bladen County and its surrounding counties after he served for a year in the militia. They...
May 27, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited by Cheri Todd Molter, vetted by Hallie Smith) The first state hospital was established at the old State Fairgrounds off of New Bern Avenue and was headed by Raleigh surgeon E. Burke Haywood. It was called the Fairground Hospital until...
May 21, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
SUBMITTED BY: Wilma Jarrell Hiatt (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Ellis Franklin Jarrell (1836-1923) was of English descent. He was the son of Fountain and Fanny (Francis) Jarrell, grandson of William P. Jarrell, great-grandson of Alexander Jarrell, Sr., and...
May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Robin Oldham (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) This is a picture of Dr. Edward Buncombe Haughton of Washington County. (Click image to enlarge.) He never married and was a surgeon during the Civil War. My cousin is an auctioneer, and once when I...
May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
AUTHOR: Glenn Land (edited by Linda Barnette and Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 3x-removed-1st-cousin, John Land, was born about 1846 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He was the third child and oldest son of James Land, Jr. and Jane Murphy. He...
