Yesterday was a day filled with anticipation and excitement as we eagerly made our way to the Anson County Historical Society.

I knew how to search the newspaper. I used Newspaper Titles · DigitalNC. I looked up: Negro, Negroes, Fayetteville in Cumberland County.

My long and arduous journey to find Annabella’s children began about twenty years ago in year 2003. This was a pivotal year that...

We found my second great grandmother, Jane Smith Johnson McCoy, but not her daughter, Mahalia Williams. Fairview Cemetery was mentioned...

Within the will of Presley Nelms Jr. who died in 1841, I learned that he had enslaved David (1806 - ), Lucy (1805 - ), his wife, Charlotte..

I actually found two of them at the same time by accident. I guess! The two people were my great-grandfather and his father my great-great-g