Sep 16, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
AUTHOR: Gary Neil Carden When I was a child, I often went with my grandfather, Samuel Arthur Carden, to visit his mother “Aunt Nancy” Gibson Carden, who lived in Cowee, which is ten or twelve miles beyond Franklin, NC. Aunt Nancy (who was nicknamed...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
AUTHOR: James Franklin Macon County resident Daniel J. Nichols was only 18 years old when he joined the Confederate army. He was enlisted on March 25, 1862 in Company I of the 39th NC Infantry. Family legend has it that Daniel was captured around the battle of...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
AUTHOR: James Franklin James Thaddeus Nichols, the son of Daniel Nichols and Martha Griggs of Macon County, NC, was twenty-three years old when he joined the Confederate Army on March 25, 1862. He was enlisted as a Private in Company I, 39th NC Infantry, CSA. His...
Feb 14, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
A Woman’s Perspective: While the Men Were Fighting (Source: Contributed by Ms. Julia Moody Britt) Mary Susan Morrow and David Vanhook died of typhoid fever within a week of each other, leaving four small children to be reared by the maternal grandparents,...
Mar 31, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
My Family: A Story of Heroes, Tears, Love, and War The Kuykendall family came into the United States in 1741 at New Albany [Fort Orange], New York. My 5th great-grandfather on my mother’s side was Abraham Kuykendall. A Revolutionary War captain, he is buried at...
