Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Stephen Pope (transcribed by Cheri Told Molter) The following is an excerpt from the church history, as written on their web site [The full story can be read here: https://www.firstbaptistfairmontnorth.org/weve_come_this_far_by_faith]: “Pleasant...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Written by John Marshall; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I was born John Warren Calhoun. When I was a child, I was adopted at the age on ten by Woodrow L. Marshall and Pocahontas Bachelor Marshall of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This is how my last name became...
Oct 3, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Richmond, Robeson
AUTHOR: James Utley My great-grandmother, Almena McCormick Jernigan, had three brothers–John, Murphy, and Duncan McCormick–who fought in the Civil War. John McCormick, the eldest brother, enlisted in Uvalde, Texas where he was a school teacher (according...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
AUTHOR: Tim A. Sellers, Lumberton, NC [Editor’s Note: This is an expanded version of “Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield,” by Billy Sellers.] Neill Stephen Kinlaw, my great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side, was 38 when he was captured at...
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Robeson
Submitted by Phyllis Bryant Lowry; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Here is a story about my Native American ancestor Jacob Bryant, based on the contents of an article that was published in The Robesonian on May 29, 2009: In Red Springs, Cannon fire echoed...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore, Robeson
AUTHOR: Britt Pridgen I found information about my great-great-grandfather, Bryant Pridgen (spelled Pridgeon in his military records) on a website. He was born in Moore County, but lived in Robeson County as an adult, working as a laborer prior to joining the...
