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...
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
AUTHOR: Dorothy Killian My Grandmother b: 1877 told me this story: Some Union soldiers came to her Aunt Mary Watson Triplett’s house in Wilkes County, N. C.They made her cook a meal for them. One Union soldier sat in the kitchen while she cooked with his gun...
Apr 14, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
Great-Great-Grandfather Found About 1990, I visited my great-aunt, Elsie Foster. Since she was the oldest living relative, I asked her about our family. She told me that her grandfather died in the Civil War, and that she and a sister (Sylvania, who had moved to...
