My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Winifred Louise Leggett

Served in the 55th NC Infantry in many major battles, wounded twice, POW in Elmira Prison Camp

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Robert Van Buren Ricks

Civil War Wife left at Home with an Infant

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Fannie May Williams

Farmer, Merchant, Postmaster

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married James Lang Cobb

Widowed with five orphans just prior to the Civil War, Dry goods store owner, Died of liver cancer.

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Frances Elizabeth Daniel

Son of a very wealthy planter, Fought in Civil War, Captured and Imprisoned in POW camps twice

My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Thomas Hatton Langley

Newlywed in a challenging post Civil War world, her daughter was widowed four times.

My Maternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Archann Dauge Marchant

The good life disrupted by war

My Maternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Durant Hall Tillitt

Born rich and married rich

My Maternal 2nd Great Grandfather, married Christiana Francis Carlton

Eloquent Civil War Chaplain, Lawyer, and Legislator

My Maternal 2nd Great Grandmother, married Simpson Columbus Hearne

Lost her fiancé in the Civil War, married the chaplain that delivered the bad news