Mar 21, 2016 | Caswell, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction
by Al Boswell; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter My great-great-grandfather was Private George W. Chandler. He was born Jan. 4, 1832, the son of Pleasant and Martha Chandler. He was married to Elizabeth Ligon Boswell on Nov. 5, 1857. They owned land, lived and...
Mar 2, 2016 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
Submitted by Nancy Werking Poling; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter On May 19, 1862, eighteen-year-old John Henry Smith of Catawba County was mustered into the Confederate army. John Henry served in Company B of the 54th North Carolina Infantry. On Nov. 7, 1863,...
Feb 28, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph
Exempt or not exempt, Miller did his service Jesse A. Miller was born on July 12, 1840 in Randolph County, the eldest son of Riley and Rachel Allred Miller. In the 1850s, Jesse’s father built the Uwharrie Cliff Grist Mill, later called Millers Mill, on the...
Feb 22, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Blood and Water and Mercy Levi Herman, my great-grandfather, appears in the Civil War Roster books as Levi Harmon. He also appears on the Federal census with the same name. But when you look at the locations in Catawba County, North Carolina, where he lived, his...
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...
