Sep 8, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Billy Parker was the first born son of John A. Parker, and his second wife, Nancy Phillips.(1) John married Nancy on 18 November 1844(2) in (what was then, still) Haywood county. Billy followed less than 3 months later being born on 18...
Sep 8, 2018 | Antebellum era, Henderson, Jackson, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson; edited by Cheri Todd Molter JOHN H. AlKEN, son of THOMAS (1825-ca 1900) and REBECCA (HOXIT) AlKEN (1831-1912), was born January 8, 1855 in Cherryfield, Henderson Co., NC, the fifth of eight children. His father left the family sometime between...
Sep 8, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Genealogical research often reveals some interesting, even contradictory characters and such is the case with “Granny Beck” Aiken. Nothing is known about her childhood or youth. Although the census taker for Jackson co. in 1880...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood, Jackson
AUTHOR: Susan Shuler My great-great-grandfather’s last name was Blanton, and he was from Jackson County. He fought with Colonel Springfield from the Haywood County unit.
Feb 8, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Captured at Deep Creek Asaph Wilson Sherrill of Jackson County was a private in Thomas’ Legion. He was captured by Union soldiers at the Battle of Deep Creek. He was taken to Knoxville, Tennessee, then to Nashville, and finally, to a prison camp in Delaware. He...
Aug 4, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Whiteside Mountain’s Civil War Soldier’s Cave Soldiers who left the Confederate Army to return home were called deserters or “Outliers” because they had to “lie out” from their homes to avoid detection. If caught by the Confederate Home Guard,...
