by CCW | Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell
AUTHOR: Amelia R. Phillips (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) My great-great-great-grandfather was William “Wesley” Wakester [also spelled Wacaster in records]. I was a small child when the following story was recited to me: Wesley was musically inclined, so...
by CCW | Jul 9, 2020 | Carteret, Confederate affiliation, McDowell
AUTHOR: Melanie Forbes Cook (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is an excerpt from a blog entry, which was originally published at https://familyhistory4u.blogspot.com/2013/02/alexander-lowery-1831-1862.html?m=1: My Family History: Alexander Lowery...
by CCW | Feb 18, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Written and vetted by: Cheri Todd Molter On June 5, 1861, Moses S. Stroup was a twenty-one-year-old farmer living in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina, who decided to enlist in the same county he was living in. He...
by CCW | Oct 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell, Union affiliation
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter At the age of twenty-five, Alfred J. Stroup was conscripted into the Confederate States Army at McDowell County, N.C.. Serving as a private, Stroup was mustered into Company K of the...
