Hidden History of the Toe River Valley
Title | Hidden History of the Toe River Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Hardy |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467153826 |
Our Young Family
Title | Our Young Family PDF eBook |
Author | Perry Deane Young |
Publisher | The Overmountain Press |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781570722745 |
Thomas Young was born in about 1747 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Naomi Hyatt, daughter of Seth Hyatt and Priscilla, in about 1768. They had four children. Thomas died in 1829 in North Carolina. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Our Living Heritage
Title | Our Living Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Joslin |
Publisher | The Overmountain Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781570720796 |
Presents an inside look at the vitality of the Southern Appalachian culture that has persisted throughout the turbulent twentieth century.
The Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops
Title | The Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Hardy |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786458259 |
North Carolina contributed more than 70 regiments to Confederate service during the Civil War, but only four of those regiments were permanently assigned to service in the Army of Tennessee. The Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops, hailing primarily from western North Carolina, fought in battles such as Chickamauga, Resaca and Bentonville. This account follows the soldiers from antebellum life, to conscription, to battlefield, to post-war life.
A Tree Accurst
Title | A Tree Accurst PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel W. Patterson |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2003-06-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807860913 |
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was cursed--that anyone who climbed into it would be unable to get out. Daniel Patterson uses this "accurst" tree as a metaphor for the grip the story of the murder has had on the imaginations of the local community, the wider world, and the noted Appalachian traditional singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon. For nearly 170 years, the memory of Frankie Silver has been kept alive by a ballad and local legends and by the news accounts, fiction, plays, and other works they inspired. Weaving Bobby McMillon's personal story--how and why he became a taleteller and what this story means to him--into an investigation of the Silver murder, Patterson explores the genesis and uses of folklore and the interplay between folklore, social and personal history, law, and narrative as people and communities try to understand human character and fate. Bobby McMillon is a furniture and hospital worker in Lenoir, North Carolina, with deep roots in Appalachia and a lifelong passion for learning and performing traditional songs and tales. He has received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award from the state's Arts Council and also the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.
Altapass
Title | Altapass PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Carson |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738517711 |
The region that is now Altapass was settled in the last third of the 18th century by restless and brave souls of Scot-Irish descent. The most colorful and prolific of these was Charlie McKinney, a man set upon making a life for himself, his 4 wives, and his 48 children in the Appalachian wilderness. His children intermarried with many families, including the Davenports, Biddixes, Halls, and Wisemans, to establish a community that has survived and thrived in this rugged paradise. Change has often come to the community in sudden bursts, including the arrival of the railroad a century ago, which gave the community its life, name, and most enduring institution, the Orchard at Altapass.
The Untold Story of Frankie Silver
Title | The Untold Story of Frankie Silver PDF eBook |
Author | Perry Deane Young |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 9781475917475 |
Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in self defense. The laws of that time would not allow her to take the stand and explain what happened. She was unjustly hanged in July of 1833. Young proves the real crime is the way this poor woman has been misrepresented by balladeers and historians all these years. Perry Deane Young provides important historical background to this fascinating story Young is able to build suspense, even for a story many of his readers may already knowBy personalizing both Frankie Silvers story and his own search for it, Young has given readers an interesting and well-written book about history and the way it is created. --Lynn Moss Sanders in Appalachian Journal Most of my life Ive heard stories about a pretty mountain lady who was hanged for nothing more serious than murdering her husband. Here, and I can say at last after one and a half centuries, is the true account, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented. Its a highroad journey into this Appalachian mystery. --John Ehle, author of The Land Breakers, The Road, The Journey of August King