Feb 22, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Excerpts from the diary of Ellie Carus Beckwith Stringfield (1856-1950) “This is Ellie Beckwith Stringfield writing. I was born May 2, 1856, in Western part of Wake County, NC. My parents were also born in the same County and State. “My father was Calvin...
Feb 3, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
William Brown Avery enlisted after younger brother killed at Yorktown William Brown Avery, born Nov. 25, 1828, was one of nine children of James and Elizabeth Hollingsworth Brown Avery. He was a farmer by trade and very faithful to his church and family. William Brown...
Feb 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
Isaac Deal, Confederate soldier Isaac Deal, the son of William Deal and Malinda (Linda) Pickett, was born on June 12, 1840 in Duplin County, where he resided as a farmer. Isaac married Hannah Susan Henderson in New Hanover County on Sept. 16, 1860. On July 8, 1862, at...
Feb 3, 2016 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation
Kinsman died in a D.C. prison My first cousin, five generations removed, was a man by the name of Granville Simpson Holt. He enlisted as a private in Company K of the 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment on June 21, 1861, at age 35. Like many others in the regiment,...
Jan 30, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Stanly
“Going home to die no more…” My great-great-great-grandfather Joseph “Joe” Huneycutt (also spelled Honeycutt) was born about 1823 in Stanly County’s Almond Township. He was a family man, farmer and cobbler who, owing to his ability to make...
Jan 30, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
Rockford Inn and Aaron Burr In my research I found a story. As a boy, my great-great-great-grandfather, Watson Holyfield of Surry County, hung out at the store and inn. It was written and handed down that Aaron Burr, while traveling to Asheville, stopped at the inn to...