Oct 9, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
SUBMITTED BY: George E. Vick, Jr. AUTHOR: Eliza Jackson Casteen These are stories told to me by my Aunt Cattie Parrott as she remembered the Civil War Days at the Jackson house when she was Susan Catherine Jackson, our father’s older sister. There were many more....
Sep 22, 2018 | Alamance, Antebellum era, Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Lenoir, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Thomas Perrett PDFS of parts 1, 2, and 3 are below. Thomas Perrett part 1 Thomas Perrett part 2 Thomas Perrett part 3
Sep 1, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Featured, Lenoir
Brothers Bill and Daniel Cole, Confederate soldiers William Richard “Bill” Cole and Daniel Francis Cole were uncles of my grandmother, Gertrude Elizabeth Thompson Croom (Mrs. William Cyrus Croom), of Sandy Bottom in Lenoir County. Both Bill and Daniel...
Sep 1, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
William Allen Croom and wife Ann Maria Jackson Croom During the Civil War, Ann Maria (pronounced Mariah) and her husband lived at “the Margaret Croom Place” at Moss Hill in Lenoir County. Once, when the Yankees came through the area, Ann Maria was fixing...
Aug 2, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
Six Sons Served and Six Survived Blackledge Harper, my great-great-grandfather, was born on April 20, 1813. He was a farmer from Deep Run, North Carolina. His farm, in excess of a thousand acres, was worked primarily by family members, but when additional help was...
Sep 12, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
Killing Yankees in the Hog Pen My great-great-grandfather, James B. Vause, served with the “Lenoir Braves.” He was captured at Hatteras Island and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, until his release in a prisoner exchange in 1862....
