Oct 4, 2019 | Cumberland, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Andrew Bryant, Jr. RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY: Cheri Molter Delilah G. Hughes Bryant was born on October 24, 1888 in Cumberland County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Sallie McMillan Hughes and James Hughes. She had two siblings: Armetta and...
Oct 4, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
SUBMITTED BY: Caitlin Crenshaw William J. Nott enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 9, 1862 when he was 21 years old. William lived in Cumberland County, North Carolina and served as a Private in Company I of the 51st Infantry (North Carolina). William was wounded...
Oct 4, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
SUBMITTED BY: Caitlin Crenshaw Elizabeth Gaylord, the daughter of Samuel Gaylord and Azubah Atkins, was born in Middletown, Connecticut on January 6, 1791 (Middletown Upper Houses Genealogical Book). In April 1809, Elizabeth married William Nott; William Nott was...
Jul 11, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
SUBMITTED BY: Jadaea Mills During the 1820s, Elizabeth G. Nott and her family lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Elizabeth was the daughter of Elizabeth Nott and William Nott, Sr. and born in 1810. She also had a younger sister named Margaret A. Nott. Elizabeth...
May 15, 2019 | Cumberland, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Alfred Ferguson The following is an excerpt from a book that includes the letters written by my great-grandfather Lt. Franklin Murphy. He helped demolish the Fayetteville Arsenal. An excerpt from Bernard A. Olsen’s (2000) A Billy Yank Governor, the Life...
Sep 21, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Submitted by Graham Kent Strickland Summary written by Mario Benavente; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter The November 1986 issue of The State magazine included the story of Graham Kent Strickland’s thirty-plus-year search for information about his great-great-grandfather,...
