by mcncdmin | Dec 1, 2019 | People
Lydia Holman came to Mitchell County in 1900 to serve as a private duty nurse for a woman suffering from Typhoid. The woman got well and moved away. Holman stayed for the next 58 years serving the people of Mitchell County. Holman had graduated from the Philadelphia...
by mcncdmin | Nov 13, 2019 | People, Uncategorized
Cloyd Decatur Thomas, born 11/21/1894 in Mitchell County, was the son of William Malone Thomas (1871-1945) and Amanda (Thomas) Thomas (1875-1957). When he registered for the draft in June 1917, Cloyd listed his occupation as farmer and laborer at a clay...
by mcncdmin | Nov 13, 2019 | People
Biss Peterson was a Prisoner of War in Stalag II B, a work camp west of Hammerstein, a village in Pomerania; it is now the town of CzSarne in Poland. Germany had used the camp for Russian POWs during the First World War and as a concentration camp for German...
by mcncdmin | Oct 28, 2019 | History, Overmountain Men, People
As we conclude our series on the Battle of Kings Mountain, we thought we would take some time to note a couple of veterans of the battle that ended up in the Toe River Valley, along with ones from other battles that are buried in our area. One of the soldiers who...
by mcncdmin | Oct 28, 2019 | History
The Battle of King’s Mountain was a crucial American victory in the War for Independence. The British had taken the fighting to the South, confident the large number of Loyalists there would bring a Patriot defeat, and the fall of Charleston in May 1780 had indeed...
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