Aug 4, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Wash Zachary’s Late Night Visit to the Home of Alfred and Jane Zachary According to the family of Cashiers’ resident Mary Baumgarner Bryson, great-granddaughter of Alfred and Jane Zachary, the following story was passed down through the generations: On a...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
A Mother Takes a Stand against Col. George Washington Kirk In the 1920s, Annie Zachary Gazaway spoke at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in South Carolina. Gazaway described an event that took place involving her mother, Anne Eliza Jones Zachary, who was...
Aug 3, 2016 | Jackson, Union affiliation
Francis Marion Moody: A Union Army Recruiter from Jackson County Francis Marion Moody, born in 1840, was the son of Martin Liggett Moody and Lucinda Nicholson Moody. He had three brothers: Daniel Van Buren Moody [1838-1910], Bennett Jasper Moody [1846-1922] and...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
“Don’t Kill Him! He was My Commander in the Mexican War.” In 1814, John Haywood Alley, Jr. was born in Rutherford County. In 1837, as a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Cavalry, Alley was sent to Whiteside Cove, North Carolina, to enforce the government-ordered...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Don’t Allow Any Republicans to Be Buried in My Burying Ground The two oldest cemeteries in Cashiers are called the Lower Zachary Cemetery and the Upper Zachary Cemetery. They are located on the same road, not very far apart. The oldest cemetery is the Lower Zachary...
Aug 3, 2016 | Jackson, Union affiliation
A Teenager Guided Union Officers through the Mountains of Western North Carolina Union Capt. Mark M. Bassett, a member of Company E, 53rd Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, had been captured by the Confederates during the siege of Vicksburg in the summer of 1863....
