May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Warren
Submitted by Jean Finch Inscoe: Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter; Transcription by Cheri Todd Molter and Carolina Echeverri John Lindsey Shearin was born in 1842 in Warren County, North Carolina. He worked as farmer in Warren County and enlisted in the...
Apr 10, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Smith (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) Note from Elizabeth Smith: My great-grandfather was Dr. Francis Hamilton Conoly, and Cheri found the records that brought him and his family members to life for me. She gave me knowledge of my...
Feb 26, 2020 | Antebellum era, Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is an excerpt from The Secession Movement in North Carolina, which was written by Dr. Joseph Carlyle Sitterson and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1939: “The...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Willis Richardson, an African American playwright, was born to Willis Wilder and Agnes Ann Harper Richardson on November 5, 1889. He and his parents lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. When he was...
Jan 3, 2020 | Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Written by Marvin Tupper Jones; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter The Winton Triangle is a community of land-owning people of color in the Winton-Cofield-Ahoskie area of Hertford County, North Carolina. Originally inhabited by the Chowanoke people, the first...
Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston, Lincoln, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY Mike Stroupe; Written by Cheri Todd Molter Samuel Spake was born June 23, 1821 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He married Harriet R. Dellinger, daughter of Peter Dellinger and Margaret Haines Dellinger, around 1842. According to the 1850 Census, Samuel...
