Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
AUTHOR: Phyllis Jacobs Charles Rothrock was a citizen of Forsyth County in the Friedberg community and a member of the Moravian Church there. When the war came he entered the service of the Confederacy, being a member of Company I, 33rd Regiment. Charles was severely...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Vance
AUTHOR: Greg Dickie My great-great-great-uncle was John B. Evans. He fought in the Confederate Army. After the war he returned to his home near Williamsboro in Granville County (now Vance County). A group of Union soldiers rode up to his home one day. The captain...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rutherford
AUTHOR: Linda Carter Turman In what was at the time Rutherford County, North Carolina, in the year 1831, William Jackson Carter, Sr. married Amey Alice Hastings. Their marriage produced five known children, 4 boys and 1 girl: John Wesley Carter, b. 1837 James C...
Sep 23, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Wilson
Sherrod Family Celebrates Home of Patriarch, a Former Slave (Source: The Wilson Times, July 16,2017, written by Drew Wilson, contributed by Morgan Dickerman) STANTONSBURG — The house that Jack Sherrod built is a hidden history. Built as a wood structure in 1886, the...
Sep 15, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Edgecombe, Featured on The About Page
Grey Little Brown (1831-1907) (Source: Contributed by Paula F. Kermon) Before he enlisted in the Civil War, Grey Little Brown was a farmer and teacher in Edgecombe County. After the war, he returned to farming and teaching. He became a “certified teacher”...
Sep 15, 2017 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
Robert Andrews Sellers (1847-1905) (Source: Contributed by Paula F. Kermon) Robert Sellers’ childhood is very sketchy, but according to his widow, his father died when Robert was a young child. When his mother remarried, his stepfather bonded him to a farmer....
