Oct 4, 2019 | Cumberland, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Andrew Bryant, Jr. RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY: Cheri Molter Delilah G. Hughes Bryant was born on October 24, 1888 in Cumberland County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Sallie McMillan Hughes and James Hughes. She had two siblings: Armetta and...
Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Roland Franklin Vause (Click picture to enlarge) Antebellum The future looked promising to Robert Bond Vause in March of 1861. He was living on a prosperous farm in the Wyse Fork community of Lenoir County with his wife Susan Adaline Jackson. The Vause...
Sep 6, 2019 | Antebellum era, Hertford, Reconstruction, Union County
Submitted by Marvin T. Jones; vetted by Cheri Todd Molter (Reprinted from the Fall 2011 newsletter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.) “Seventeen members of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in my family, our own stores, a fairground and...
Sep 6, 2019 | Antebellum era, Franklin, Reconstruction
Submitted by Sherry Jackson; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Based on Oral History My father, James Powell, was a little boy when his grandmother told him the stories, but he remembers bits and pieces. This is what he recalls: His grandmother, Amanda B. Powell, was born...
Aug 28, 2019 | Northampton, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Penny Beasley; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have a love of history and have retraced some of my great-great-grandfather’s, James Tom Baggett’s, steps across the battlefield (See story titled “Tom Baggett and the Grey Patch!”). His post war life is...
Jul 23, 2019 | Dare, Reconstruction
Submitted by: JC Knowles; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter Born in Canada in 1866, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a premiere radio pioneer and considered by many to be the “Father of Voice Radio.” During his life, he unleashed the potential of several concepts...
