The Personal and Family History of Charles Hooks and Margaret Monk HarrisJ.C. Harris, 1911 - 116 pàgines |
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Abram Heard Alabama Albemarle Albermarle county ancestors Ann Hunter battle Bern Bertie County born August born December born in Montgomery born January born July born March brother Catherine Cedartown Charles and Ann Charles H Charles Hooks Harris child of William Cousin daughter of Charles died October Duplin county Eliza Elizabeth Ellen Ezekiel Slocumb father February Forrest George Georgia grandson Hancock county Harris family Henry Hooks died husband Ireland Isaac Hunter J. C. Harris James Coffee James Coffee Harris Jesse Slocumb John Harris Joshua Julia Kate Kenansville Kitty Magnolia marriage married Mary Maxwell miles Montgomery county mother moved named Narcissa Ann Hooks North Carolina Peter Charles Harris Peter Coffee Harris Pickett plantation residence Robert Robeson Sallie Sarah Coffee Seale Harris settled sister slaves Smith Tarleton Thomas Hooks Thomas Molton Tuskegee Union Springs Virginia Ward wife of J. C. William Harris William Julius Harris Willis Wood
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Pàgina 19 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Pàgina 92 - It was night again before our excitement had at all subsided. Many prisoners were brought in, and among them some very obnoxious ; but the worst of the tories were not taken prisoners. They were, for the most part, left in the woods and swamps wherever they were overtaken. I begged for some of the poor prisoners, and Caswell readily told me none should be hurt but such as had been guilty of murder and house-burning.
Pàgina 90 - ... twas warm; and an unknown voice begged for water. A small camp-kettle was lying near, and a stream of water was close by. I brought it ; poured some in his mouth ; washed his face ; and behold — it was Frank Cogdell. He soon revived and could speak. I was washing the wound in his head. Said he, ' It is not that ; it is that hole in my leg that is killing me.
Pàgina 92 - In the middle of the night I again mounted my mare and started for home. Caswell and my husband wanted me to stay till next morning and they would send a party with me ; but no ! I wanted to see my child, and I told them they could send no party who could keep up with me. What a happy ride I had back ! and with what joy did I embrace my child as he ran to meet me...
Pàgina 89 - ... at the bare insinuation that our troops were about. " Well, they got off in high spirits, every man stepping high and light. And I slept soundly and quietly that night, and worked hard all the next day; but I kept thinking where they had got to — how far ; where and how many of the regulars and tories they would meet; and I could not keep myself from the study. I went to bed at the usual time, but still continued to study. As I lay — whether waking or sleeping I know not — I had a dream...
Pàgina 33 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Pàgina 86 - Tarleton — to tell where her husband, when absent on duty, was likely to be found ; but after her repeated and peremptory refusals, had escaped further molestation on the subject. She feared now that he had returned unexpectedly, and might fall into the enemy's hands before he was aware of their presence. Her sole hope was in a precaution she had adopted soon after the coming of her unwelcome guests. Having heard Tarleton give the order to the tory captain as...
Pàgina 87 - ... been sent to reconnoitre the country, and some of his routed troop. These were first discerned in the open grounds east and northeast of the plantation, closely pursued by a body of American mounted militia ; while a running fight was kept up with different weapons, in which four or five broad swords gleamed conspicuous.
Pàgina 83 - Rangers, scouring the country for many miles around, watching the movements of the enemy, and punishing the loyalists when detected in their vocation of pillage and murder. These excursions had been frequent for two or three years, and were often of several weeks' duration. At the present time Slocumb had returned to the vicinity, and had been sent with twelve or fifteen recruits to act as scouts in the neighborhood of the British General. The morning of the day on which Tarleton took possession...
Pàgina 90 - I could hear shouting. I spoke to my mare and dashed on in the direction of the firing and the shouts, now louder than ever. The blind path I had been following brought me into the Wilmington road leading to Moore's Creek Bridge, a few hundred yards below the bridge. A few yards from the road, under a cluster of trees were lying perhaps twenty men e They were the wounded.