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Time-lining the family of Henry Melton, Jr. of Granville.
From land records in early Granville County, we see Henry Melton, Jr. first appearing as a taxable poll, along with his brother James in 1764. Prior to that, Henry, Senior was counted as a single...
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Henry Melton Jr. of Granville County, NC Progenitor of the Stanly County Meltons
Henry Melton Jr. was born in  Louisa County, Virginia, around 1739, to Henry Melton, Sr. and wife Mary, who may have been Mary Whicker. He married Agnes Sears, daughter of John Sears and Violette...
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Sunday Black Sheep: Charles B Howell
When researching the document that led to my post "An Interesting Find In Salisbury", I discovered that the Howell family that was involved with a Soloman family was the widow and children of Monroe B...
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The Quick and Unfortunate Life of Chester Melton
The Greensboro article states, " A fourth pardon goes to Chester Melton, convicted in Stanly County of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to eight months on the roads. Melton is 15 and was...
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Juice
In the new, National Geographical Channel series TV show "Diggers", it features two men, "King George" Wyant and Tim "Ringy" Saylor, who have fun with metal detectors and get crazy excited when they...
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The August 2013 of the Stanly County Geneological Society
On Monday, August 26, 2013, The Stanly County Genealogical Society of North Carolina conducted their August meeting. The presentation at this meeting was in two parts and both extremely informative and...
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Gold Hill
The North Carolina Gold Rush took place decades prior to the 1849 rush on California. Much of the growth in Montgomery County around 1820 was due to this draw, the hunger for gold. The area around...
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Gold and Melton's
There were some families and some areas that the Stanly/Montgomery/Rowan County Melton's clung to. The families were Kirk, Boysworth, Forrest, Christian and Solomon. The areas were Swift Island,...
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The Oakboro Centenial
In the form of Facebook, I'm just sharing a link on this one. Anyone in Stanly, Anson, Union, Cabarras and surrounding counties come check out and help celebrate one of Stanly Counties 'younger'...
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Melton Marriages: Stanly and Rowan
I looked into the marriages of the Melton family in both Stanly and Rowan, as some of them relocated to Rowan County, after the death of John Sr.There was only one Melton marriage to be found in...
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Ledgers and Meltons and related families
In Stanly County, we are fortunate that we have had several store ledgers and even a physcians records from prior to the Civil War digitized and available online. Our local museum is not just a...
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Thorn bushes and Golden Ceilings
I have not been posting lately. That does not mean I have not been researching. I try to concentrate on one family at a time....or that family and it's related branches, find as much information as...
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On the ancestorial trail.
Some days, instead of researching in books, I like to just locate and see the areas where relatives of olde lived and traveled. Last year, we followed the Yadkin river northwest to its origins....
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Finding Frank
It's always a good idea, and saves time and trips, when searching for one bit of information, or a surname, to also glance back for some of the other surnames one has been seeking out of their family...
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Nathaniel Irwin/Erwin, the Immigrant
Nathaniel Irwin is the first ancestor in this line of which we can be fairly certain as far as records go. Other descendants and researchers of this family have them traced far back beyond the Dark...
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The Marriage of Leah Julian Erwin and James Crow
In my last post, I summarized the life of ancestor Nathaniel Erwin/Irwin, a man of Scottish heritage, born in Ireland, whose family immigrated to America in the mid 1700's. He was a planter, a patriot,...
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The Letters of Henry Melton
Henry Harrison Melton was born around 1820 in what is now Stanly County, North Carolina. He was the son of John Melton, Sr., originally of Granville, NC and Margaret "Peggy" Wilkerson Melton. He died...
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Early Identity Thieves
Ever hit that brick wall, to wonder if an ancestor was really who they were supposed to be, because they seemed to have appeared out of nowhere? I get that way at times with this blog's namesake...
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The Suit of Alexander Henderson
Alexander Henderson must have had a rude awakening that day when he was served papers from the Sheriff of Onslow County, North Carolina, stating that he and his known family, brother Solomon Henderson,...
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Quote Thomas Henderson Unquote, Early and Later
While digging through the old records of Onslow County, I was able to locate the earliest mentions of Thomas Henderson aka Jonas Solomon. I was also able to "fast-forward" and find some of the ending...
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