Oct 9, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Emancipation, Lenoir
SUBMITTED BY: George E. Vick, Jr. THE LENOIR COUNTY NEWS, Wednesday, March 22, 1950 Old Retainer Lives on Memories of the Past: Born in Slavery, Ike Davis Now Served By Those He Helped Rear By Fred Whitaker In the white-painted, oldest little house on the Simon...
Sep 2, 2018 | Craven, Emancipation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Kenneth Whitehurst (originally posted 9/2/2018; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter 7/22/20) My great-great-grandfather, Toney Boyd, was enslaved by Frederick Boyd at a place called Long Acre, near Bath, in Beaufort County, North Carolina. Around 1850, with...
Dec 2, 2014 | Beaufort, Emancipation, Union affiliation
Big Bob, The Slave Martyr As a little African American girl, I grew up hearing stories about Big Bob, the slave martyr who gave his life for the U.S. Army and Captain Charles Lyons on a Union vessel off Rodman’s Point near Washington, N.C., March 31, 1863. It...
