Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
AUTHOR: Billy A. Dunlap; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Our family owned slaves before the Civil War. One of them, named Sampson, went to great-great-grandpa, James Dunlap, after the war and was said to have told his former master that he did not know anything about...
Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
AUTHOR: Bill Arthur Dunlap Aunt Loudy Wright was the oldest sister of John Washington Dunlap, my grandpa’s daddy. She was born in 1822 and lived to 1920. Mr. Wright’s sister married my great-great-grandpa, thus becoming J. W. Dunlap’s mother. I.e.,...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
SUBMITTED by Norma Blake Jones; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Archibald McNeill Sr. was born March 4, 1818 in the Bensalem area of Moore County, NC. He was married to Jane Brewer, and they had eight children (born between 1842 and 1865). McNeill enlisted in...
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
AUTHOR: Lacy Garner, Jr. I have done considerable research on Moore County’s Company H, 26th NC Regiment, known as the “The Moore Independents.” I have put all that info into a website, http://www.companyh26th.com. There are several good stories...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore, Robeson
AUTHOR: Britt Pridgen I found information about my great-great-grandfather, Bryant Pridgen (spelled Pridgeon in his military records) on a website. He was born in Moore County, but lived in Robeson County as an adult, working as a laborer prior to joining the...
Jun 6, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
An Oral Tradition: The Cave Man and the Confederates Jeff Brady, my great-great-grandfather, was a farmer near High Falls in Moore County at the outbreak of the Civil War. He lived there with his wife, Mary Ann Moore Brady, and several children. Jeff Brady was a...
