Sep 3, 2024 | Montgomery, Reconstruction
Written by Jim Tucker; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Martha Jane Morgan Tucker was married to James “Jim” M. Tucker, and lived at Eldorado, in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Born in 1833, her parents were Matthew Morgan and Sarah Harris Morgan. In May of...
Jul 26, 2024 | Northampton, Reconstruction
Written by Mary E. C. Drew; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown In 1831, just over three decades before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in America, an enslaved Virginian named Nat Turner, along with a group of armed enslaved...
Jul 16, 2024 | Gaston, Reconstruction
Submitted by Ken Winston; edited by Kobe M. Brown and Cheri Todd Molter An Oral History My grandmother, Nancy Effie Stroup, was a daughter of Jasper Stoe Stroup, a North Carolina native and Civil War veteran, who grew up in the community of Cuba, Kentucky. I remember...
Jul 12, 2024 | Reconstruction, Robeson
Submitted by Amy Sinclair Dahm; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On January 29, 1866, less than a year after the war ended, Rev. James Sinclair spoke before a Congressional committee. Rev. Sinclair was a Scottish minister who had been living in...
Apr 23, 2024 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Surry
Researched and written by Kobe M. Brown and Cheri Todd Molter Orlean Hawks Puckett was an Appalachian midwife known for assisting with the safe deliveries of over 1,000 babies and for never losing a mother or child while in her care. However, determining the “real”...
Apr 9, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, Reconstruction
Written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On October 22, 1898, Edward Joseph Hale described an event that took place in Fayetteville, NC, in an article he entitled “White Man’s Day,” which he published in his newspaper, The Observer. He estimated that “eight to...
