by CCW | Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Henderson, McDowell, Union County, Yancey
AUTHOR: Amelia R. Phillips (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I am happy to share these stories and appreciate your willingness to help ensure that they aren’t lost to time and poor memory. I am not accustomed to writing these stories down: They have...
by CCW | Nov 24, 2020 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union County
STORY AND SUBMITTED TRANSCRIPTIONS BY: April Price Havens (edited by Cheri Todd Molter; modern transcriptions written by Cheri Todd Molter) Andrew Joseph “Joe” Price, my great-great-grandfather, was born August 1, 1837 in Union County, North Carolina. In 1862, Price...
by CCW | May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra Haywood Nivens (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) My great-great-grandfather was Josiah Haywood. We didn’t know much about him until a few years ago. Josiah and his two brothers, John Franklin Haywood and James Madison Haywood, all...
by CCW | 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...
by CCW | Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Lakeysha Medlin (vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter) (Click images to enlarge) My name is Lakeysha Medlin, and this story is about my 3rd Great Grandfather Jefferson “Jeff” Sanders. Jefferson “Jeff” Sanders was my 3rd Great Grandfather....
by CCW | Sep 6, 2019 | Hertford, Union County
AUTHOR: Marvin T. Jones (Reprinted from the Fall 2011 newsletter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.) “Seventeen members of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in my family, our own stores, a fairground and our own airstrips–that is...
