Dec 10, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Durant Gallup Vick; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Laurie Jones; transcribed by Laurie Jones Joshua Washington Vick became a doctor in Selma, North Carolina, after the war. He owned a drugstore, which he later sold to Lundsford Richardson....
Aug 5, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
SUBMITTED BY: Cara Barker Hadfield (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 3rd great-grandfather was William Nicholas Rose Jr. His great-grandmother was Ms. Lucy Harper and his great-grandfather was Benjamin Rose, of Virginia: They moved to the Falling Creek area...
Jul 8, 2019 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Johnston
SUBMITTED BY: Pam Barry Here is a story written by my great-grandmother, Julia Telfair Small. Julia was the daughter of Alexander Freeland Telfair and the great niece of Edward Telfair, the governor of Georgia. Julia’s father was a doctor in Smithfield and her...
Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
AUTHOR: Michael Williams My family still resides on the farm that has been in our family since the 1700s. Near the end of the Civil War, family lore has it that Sherman’s cavalry camped on the farm and in anticipation of its arrival, g-g-grandfather had ledges...
Dec 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
AUTHOR: Gail Sasser Hopkins Emily Thornton-Rhodes was born in 1862. Her father Samuel I Thornton joined in the Southern cause while Ava Hestor Raynor his wife took care of 6 of the 10 children born before and during the war. They lived in Sampson County before and...
Nov 7, 2018 | Johnston, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes From Mr. Grimes: “I’ve attached a page from Centenary United Methodist Church’s 1865 Sabbath School Journal where a Union soldier wrote in it while Sherman’s army was in Smithfield after the Battle of Bentonville....
