May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose; Written by Stephen Lee; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Written By E.M. Bullard (1880-1959)Early in March of 1865 one division of Sherman’s Army, composed largely of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio troops, broke camp at Blockersville (now Stedman) and began their march through Sampson County. A troop...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose According to The Family of Confederate Soldier Joseph Boon Herring, written by Ronald A Herring, “Joseph Boon Herring went by the name Boon Herring most of his life and it is believed that he was named for his Great Grandmother, Esther...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Penny Alderman was a young farm wife in antebellum North Carolina. Her husband, Reverend Amariah B. Alderman, was a Baptist minister who served many churches from the south end of Sampson county. Written in 1854, her diary records Penny’s...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Wayne
AUTHOR: Wanda Morrison Tillotson; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Basically, this is my story: I grew up just down the road alongside all my maternal relatives. Several ancestors in my Jackson line, including my 3rd-Great-Grandfather, Lewis/Louis Jackson, and...
Sep 12, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY ALAN ELDRIDGE III Audio file 3 minutes 55 seconds
