Record details

• ISBN: 0692323023
• ISBN: 9780692323021
• Physical Description: 208 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Morganton, NC : Hollow Tree Press, [2013]
• Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208).

Formatted Contents Note:

The Walton family. The life of a planter: Thomas George Walton ; The building of a plantation: Creekside -- Tales from the Civil War years. Escape from Appomattox ; The Union occupation ; "Aunt" Harriet ; Civil War letters and documents ; Food in the Old South ; The ice house ; A bone and a button -- Civil War ghosts. A ghostly Confderate soldier ; A tormented spirit ; The unexplained -- Life after the war. The next generation ; The horse trough ; Glen Alpine Springs Hotel ; The flood of 1916 ; The burning of Brookwood, 1920 -- Appendix A. Descendants of Edward Walton and Elizabeth Booth -- App. B. Descendants of William Walton and Susannah Rice Cobb -- App. C. Descendants of William Walton (II) and Elizabeth Tilghman -- App. D. Descendants of Thomas Walton and Martha Matilda -- App. E. Descendants of T. George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton.

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Subject:

Walton family.
Plantation life > North Carolina > Morganton.
Morganton (N.C.) > Genealogy.
North Carolina > Genealogy.
Morganton (N.C.) > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865.
Burke County (N.C.) > History, Local.

Genre:

Family histories.