Category: Dougan Family
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More Old Photos
Front row: Jess Williams (my father’s brother), Bobby Williams (my father), Whit Smith, Billy CastellawSecond row: Frank Reid, Bobby Castellaw, Joe Christmas, J. C. CastellawBack row: Lyle Reid / I received some great photos this week from one of my Haywood County cousins, Roland Reid. I love it when I get photos like this. It…
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Fight for Bell’s Mill
Photo: Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth by Dennis Malone Carter (1827-1881), 1854, Oil on Canvas With the loss of the Union Avenue Methodist Church building to CVS fresh in my mind, I have been researching another historic site that people tried to save but lost: Bell’s Mill in Randolph County, North Carolina. Bell’s…
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Solomon Norman Brantley, Sincerely Yours in Peace
Photo: My third great-grandfather, Henry Day Brantley, (1845-1918) The country is currently marking the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the The Civil War. A few nights ago, I was flipping through channels and stumbled across Ken Burns’ documentary “The Civil War” on PBS. It caught my attention because I recently discovered Solomon Norman Brantley’s…
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Mary Kerr Dougan and the Women Who Held the Line
Image inspired by “Fanning’s Atrocity: Murder of an American Planter,” an undated black-and-white lithograph from Cassell’s History of the United States, published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, c. 1900. Depicted is David Fanning’s March 1782 raid in Randolph County, North Carolina, and the shooting of Patriot officer John Bryan after Fanning ordered Bryan’s house set…
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Davy Crockett at SWSW
I had some really good times while at SXSW last week talking about Elvis.com. One of the best happened because on my way to the airport to return to Tennessee, I couldn’t resist stopping at the Texas State Capitol. I was hundreds of miles from home and did not expect to run into anyone from…