Mar 30, 2022 | Cherokee, Clay, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Melessia Croker; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have written everything I know about my ancestors on a webpage on my family site. These stories are pretty well known locally, so someone else may have already sent in the story about David Ledford...
Jan 15, 2022 | Cumberland, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Sarah Foster (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Notes: According to the information shared during T. Pat Matthew’s interview with John C. Becton [his name was misspelled “Bectom” on that record], Mr. Becton was born on October 7, 1862, near...
Dec 10, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Durant Gallup Vick; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Laurie Jones; transcribed by Laurie Jones Joshua Washington Vick became a doctor in Selma, North Carolina, after the war. He owned a drugstore, which he later sold to Lundsford Richardson....
Nov 4, 2021 | Reconstruction, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: Dr. Peter Murray (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The call for the convention came from New Bern, N.C., and the assembly included delegations from New Bern, Beaufort, Wilmington, and other parts of the state. The African Americans who lived in...
Nov 4, 2021 | Hyde, Reconstruction
Submitted by JD Mayo; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Megan Maxwell According to the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands from New Bern, N.C., in October and December of 1869, John Mayo identified and vouched for the service of...
Nov 4, 2021 | Anson, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) This article is about an engraved watch that had been taken from its original owner by one of Sherman’s men. It was published on Thursday, Jan. 12, 1893, in Wadesboro’s newspaper, the Messenger-Intelligencer....
