Private, 1st Class, Tank Corps, Co. B, 305th Bn. Regt.; of Richmond County; son of L. E. and Mrs. Dottie Edwards. Entered service Aug. 27, 1918, at Baltimore, Md. Sent to Camp Meade, Md. Transferred to Camp Colt, Pa., to Camp Mills, L. I. Sailed for Liverpool, Eng., Oct. 20, 1918. Promoted to rank of 1st Class Private Oct. 17, 1918. Mustered out at Camp Meade, Md. May 16, 1919.
Charles Oliver Emerson, treasurer of the Emerson Shoe Company, of Rockland, Mass., one who has been prominently identified with the shoe manufacturing industry for a number of years, is a native of what at the time of his birth, July 14, 1856, was known as the town of North Bridgewater, now the city of Brockton, Mass., where he resides. He is a son of the late John Oliver Emerson and his wife, Caroline Augusta Packard, and is descended from historic old New England ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides.
Interviewer: Mary A. Hicks Person Interviewed: John Beckwith Location: Cary, North Carolina Age: 83 When The Yankees Came An Interview with John Beckwith 83, of Cary. I reckon dat I wuz ’bout nine years old at de surrender, but we warn’t happy an’ we stayed on dar till my parents died. My pappy wuz named Green an’ my mammy wuz named Molly, an’ we belonged ter Mr. Joe Edwards, Mr. Marion Gully, an’ Mr. Hilliard Beckwith, as de missus married all of ’em. Dar wuz twenty-one other slaves, an’ we got beat ever’ onct in a while. When dey told … Read more