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The Estate of Joseph Jordan
Sources state that Joseph Jordan was born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, around about 1756 to 1761. He died in Anson County, North Carolina, where he had a 100 acre farm.In the 1800 census of...
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A Soldiers Letter: Joseph Honeycutt
I was scrolling through The Monroe Journal, when I found this article concerning a Civil War Soldier from Stanly County. He had been caught attempting to go home to see his family and was sentenced to...
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Mark Jones
While researching Lawrenceville, and the early days  of Stanly County, around the time the two counties were separated, I came across the name of Mark Jones again.I first 'met' Mr. Jones while doing...
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A Stanly County Christmas
I've not been posting much lately, as the Christmas Season leaves little free time for me. I did want to share a few mentions of Christmas traditions in my little part of the world, Stanly County,...
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Mark Jones
While researching Lawrenceville, and the early days  of Stanly County, around the time the two counties were separated, I came across the name of Mark Jones again.I first 'met' Mr. Jones while doing...
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The End of Another Hampton: The Remarkable Hampton Rhodes West
Today, I begin with the end, the obituary of Hampton Rhodes West. He was not a descendant of Job Davis, nor even one of my own ancestors, but the ancestor of my youngest child. As she is soon to...
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A Needle in a Haystack: In Search of Mary Davis
You would think that the more recent to the present the generation, the easier it would be to discover and find records of. But not necessarily.Job Davis has understandably been hard to trace prior to...
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The search for Alcey West Boggan
I recently posted the very complementary obituary composed by "A. J. G.", and published in the April 25, 1865 edition of The Fayetteville Observer, out of Cumberland County, North Carolina, for Hampton...
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Where was Silver?
Where was Silver? That is a question I have been asking for quite some time now. I found the name of the place mentioned in marriage licenses of some of my ancestors, and also in old newspapers,...
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Find Me!
She stood in a dusty yard looking down a rutted road. Her long dress fit tight to the waist and then blossomed out filled with petticoats. The hem of her gray garment was tattered from wear, her dark...
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The Early Roads of Albemarle
I have a fascination for old maps. Something intrigues me. I love to look at them and try to determine where exactly the roads and areas led pertaining to the modern landscape.In 1841, when the county...
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Where John Fletcher Capron Rests his Traveling Bones
I thought I had discovered everything there was to know about John F. Capron. I was wrong.I had not covered every resource in the hunt for this interesting and well-traveled gentleman.In Stanly County,...
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Just Like Us
The Civil War is the first that we really have actual images of that have survived and can give an actual visual impression of. Â Most of us have a very limited opinion and imagery of this time, but the...
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The Nurse
When you think of nurses during the Civil War, you probably imagine a scene like this:But when it comes to my 3rd Great-Grandfather, Thomas Alexander Mauldin, I am fairly certain the scene did not look...
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The Complimentary Obituary of Sarah Elizabeth Winfield Howell Davis
My Fourth Great-Grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Winfield Howell Davis, known affectionately as Sallie, was born on Feb 7, 1773 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. She arrived in what was then Anson County,...
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Searching for Lawrenceville
I have been fascinated with the lost and ancient civilization of Lawrenceville ever since discovering that several of my direct ancestors lived, visited and did business there.Lawrenceville was at one...
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The Joining of Mrs. Martha B.
Oftentimes, a bit of our heritage can be found in short blurbs in old books. Church histories make excellent references to our ancestors and offer invaluable insight into their way of life.Rocky River...
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Sickness on the Edge of Town
The following clip from The Carolina Watchman, a ancient and invaluable publication from Salisbury, NC, was included in a column entitled, "Albemarle and Stanly County".It informs of an illness that...
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The Mystery of the Mischievous Daisy Starnes
My Great, Great Great Aunt, Daisy Starnes, left a bit of a mystery. For certain, she appears in one census record as a child.Name:Dasie L. Starns[Dasie L. Starnes]Â Age:2Birth Year:abt...
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I'm An American, and that is a Wonderful Thing to be.
This post is not going to deal with the past, but the present.It breaks my heart when I see individuals in the media and public eye, who try to divide our very unique population by ethnicity or who use...
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