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...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Abstracted from the February 2020 Issue of the Marshville N.C. Museum & Cultural Center Newsletter: “[In July 1864], the army of the Union and the army of the Confederacy were locked in vicious...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Here is a picture of Ann Eliza Brown White (1838-1927). She was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, on Aug. 8, 1838. Ann married Murdock White and was Lt. Lal White’s sister-in-law (some...
Feb 10, 2020 | Cumberland, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Dr. Algeania W. Freeman (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) The Woodard story is also told in “Black River” (a historical fiction novella written by Algeania W. Freeman, PhD). Much of this story is based on the oral history passed down through...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Mecklenburg, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited by Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Daniel Whiting and Cheri Todd Molter) In 1873, a sixteen-year-old lad entered Davidson College, a Presbyterian liberal arts college in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. At Davidson he was known as Thomas...
Jan 24, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Carroll White (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 2x great grandfather, Robert H. Jordan, was born in Hertford County, North Carolina. His parents, Robert and Lavenia Jordan, died young, and he moved to Tennessee afterward. When he arrived in...
