Oct 27, 2023 | Antebellum era, Cumberland, Sampson
Article submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter This newspaper clipping from Sept. 29, 1859, includes several advertisements that show that there was a demand for more enslaved Black people in Sampson County. All four men—Charles T. Stevens,...
Oct 27, 2023 | Antebellum era, Cumberland
Article submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter According to John Guimarin of Augusta Georgia, Jemima Armwood, a free, mixed-race woman, bound three of her daughters to him as indentured servants for the sum of $200. Jemima’s daughters were...
Sep 26, 2023 | Antebellum era, Cumberland
Article submitted by Nicholle Young; Summary written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe Brown from The North-Carolinian of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Dec. 7, 1850, Page 3 On Nov. 30, 1850, the Mechanics of Fayetteville met to take measures against the “growing evil of...
Aug 15, 2023 | Anson, Antebellum era, Cumberland, Reconstruction, Rowan
Submitted by James E. Buxton Jr.; Researched & written by Leisa Greathouse; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Research to this point has uncovered a few primary documents about Daniel “Dan” Buxton. Census records for the years 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 lists...
Aug 2, 2023 | Cumberland, Reconstruction
Submitted by Edwina Clarkson; written by Ruth Gillis; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown Copies of photographs courtesy of Edwina Clarkson and taken by Dorien Caldwell Edward and Sallie Evans are remembered in Fayetteville, N.C. as educators,...
Apr 25, 2023 | Cumberland, Reconstruction
Submitted by Nicholle Young “Ezekiel Ezra Smith: Minister Resident and Consul-General, Monrovia,” published on the front page of the Scranton Weekly Republican on Wed., May 2,...
