Jul 16, 2024 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Davie, Orange
Submitted by Linda Barnette; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter; Transcriptions copied by Alisone Warlick Carr and Kobe M. Brown William H. Call was born in Davie County in 1842. His parents were Henry R. Call and Martha Frost Call. In 1861, William was a student...
Jul 19, 2021 | Davie, Not categorized
SUBMITTED BY: Stacey Holman Pollio; written by Flossie Martin (1962); edited by Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Hallie Smith Isaac Holman, born June 16, 1800, died May 28, 1868, was considered to be the founder of a small settlement about five miles northwest of...
Apr 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I had heard from my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, that her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the early to mid-1800s, so you can imagine my...
Apr 6, 2021 | Davie, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) As people came from Europe to America, traveling down South in the 1700s, they found a vast network of rivers and streams. They discovered places where the water was shallow enough to cross, which...
Dec 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
SUBMITTED AND WRITTEN BY: Earl Ijames, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources In July 2014 I had been invited to give the keynote program to commemorate the 150th year since the Battle of Atlanta. The Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum in Georgia wanted...
Oct 27, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
SUBMITTED BY: Linda H. Barnette (vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) As both a genealogist and a member and supporter of the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center, I decided to try to find out how many of my 8 great-great-grandfathers actually fought...
