Nov 1, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Rowan
Written by Robin D. Holt; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter James Archibald Holt, Company G, North Carolina 6th Infantry Regiment, enlisted in the service of the Confederate States of America on May 29, 1861 at Charlotte, NC. He was discharged on September 8,...
Oct 17, 2018 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Mecklenburg, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
AUTHORS: Phoebe Pollitt and Camille Reese Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes: North Carolina Nurse Pioneer Citation: Pollitt, PA & Reese, CN (Spring, 1999). Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes: North Carolina Nurse Pioneer. American Association for the History of Nursing...
Oct 17, 2018 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Nash, Reconstruction
Written by Randy Vester; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have my Great-Great-Grandfather’s—George Washington Joyner’s—picture (attached). He was the youngest son of Nathan Thomas Joyner and Amy Land Joyner of Nash County, N.C. There were seven boys—Little...
Oct 16, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Onslow, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Gary White; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter The words of David Franklin Aman: “Many years ago, after a great storm on the coast, beachcombers found a little boy among the wreckage washed ashore. One exclaimed ‘It’s a man!’ He was cared for and...
Oct 16, 2018 | Edgecombe, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Patrika Cos My grandfather, Joe Cosby, was born into enslavement in 1852 in North Carolina. He was born to Joe Cosby. [The name of his mother is unknown.] Joe Cosby was only 13 years old when the Civil War was over. He was eventually appointed as one of...
Oct 8, 2018 | Bertie, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Richard S. White, Great-Great-Grandson of Van Buren White; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter Van Buren White, son of John “Jackey” White and Frances Hoggard White, was born in 1840 in White’s District on Pine Ridge Road in Bertie County, North...
