Feb 27, 2025 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt, This Month's Featured Story
Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter Original Transcription: Camp of Starr’s Light Battery Greenville NC Apr 21st 1862 Hon J. Davis Pres C.S. I see by a...
Dec 28, 2020 | Antebellum era, Pitt, Wilson
SUBMITTED BY: Lisa Y. Henderson (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) On February 28, 1863, Edmund Moore of Wilson advertised in the Tarborough Southerner for the return of Jerry, a thirty-year-old man who was formerly enslaved by Howell G. Whitehead of eastern Pitt County,...
Sep 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt
SUBMITTED BY: Anne Russell (written by Cheri Todd Molter; transcriptions of a Photograph’s Contents by Caitlyn Keplinger and Cheri Todd Molter) One of the attached photographs depicts an artistic portrait of the canteen that belonged to Edward Wooten/Wootten during...
Jun 8, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt
AUTHOR: Linda Branch (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Caleb Smith was my great-great-grandfather. He married Elizabeth Braxton (the daughter of Jesse Braxton), and she was the mother of my great-grandfather, Caleb Putnell Smith (called “Put”). Caleb Putnell...
Jul 11, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Barwick Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly PCGQ February 9, 2001 “Recites Heroic Incidents of the Civil War Days Daily Reflector, Jan. 4, 1941 An incident of the Civil war in which a Pitt county woman played the part of a heroine in an...
Feb 7, 2019 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Pitt, Reconstruction
Submitted by Joel Stegall; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Benjamin Franklin Ringgold is the earliest Ringgold I can positively identify as an ancestor. Most of what I know about him is from his biography written by his daughter-in-law, my grandmother, Jemima...
