The Civil War – A Series of Three Stories

The Civil War – A Series of Three Stories

Off To War, 1861 A series of three Civil War Stories published in the Mitchell News-Journal in 2011 By Pat Turner Mitchell Most of us have heard of an ancestor who fought in the War Between the States. Farther south people call it the War of Great Unpleasantness. Most...
Charles A. Murphy – In Memoriam

Charles A. Murphy – In Memoriam

Charles Augustus Murphy was born in Mitchell County on 5 April 1924.  His parents were Joseph Ellis Murphy (1888-1964) and Hester Pendley (1887-1984). Charles graduated from Harris High School in Spruce Pine in 1941 and registered for the draft in 1942, when he was...
Mitchell County’s Reverend Stephen Morgan Greene

Mitchell County’s Reverend Stephen Morgan Greene

Stephen Morgan Greene was born March 22, 1838, to Joseph S. and Mary “Polly” Collis Greene in the Greene Cove area on Cane Creek, Yancey County at the time and now Mitchell. He was named Stephen Morgan after his uncle Rev. Stephen Morgan Collis, his mother’s brother....
Mitchell County and the May Fresh of 1901

Mitchell County and the May Fresh of 1901

David Crockett described the flood of the Nolichucky in 1791 as “the second epistle to Noah’s fresh.” Most likely, since the Toe River feeds the Nolichucky and Cane Creek feeds the Toe River, the folks in what’s now Mitchell County also had to deal with high water....