Jan 9, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
AUTHOR: Joshua N. James; edited by Cheri Todd Molter My great-great-grandfather Abner Lee Snow was born to Richard Snow and Sally Tucker Snow in 1843 in Surry County, North Carolina. Surry County was then and is still very rural. The landscape is dominated by the...
Sep 11, 2018 | Alleghany, Confederate affiliation, Surry, Wilkes
Submitted by Ruth Dutton Hill; edited by Cheri Todd Molter David Black was a farmer who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. The following is the transcription of a letter he wrote to his brother, Alex Black, on Christmas evening, 1864. Transcription:...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Surry, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Shirley Corn Reagan My husband’s great grandmother was a daughter of Confederacy. She was a Franklin from Elkin, NC. My husband passed this past May 15, 2018. I have to research her story. Her name could have Ann or Elizabeth Franklin. I’m...
Jan 30, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
Rockford Inn and Aaron Burr In my research I found a story. As a boy, my great-great-great-grandfather, Watson Holyfield of Surry County, hung out at the store and inn. It was written and handed down that Aaron Burr, while traveling to Asheville, stopped at the inn to...
Sep 23, 2014 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
Sacrifice Hardin Holyfield of Surry sent four sons to war. Hardin, the last of the four to join, was 14 years old. He served with the 28th N.C. infantry. He lived until 1930. My great-great grandfather, Hardin Sr., was a...
