North Caroline searches

Note about searching these North Carolina pages

The records below are more or less chronological, but due to the volume of data and number of sources, many records following a citation span a wide range of years. The best way to use this page is probably to use "find" and search for particular people and last names. The names in BOLD type are among ones that appear in other connections. Not all repeating names are bolded.

Search within the page for every variant of a name you can think of since I have tried to stay with the spelling from the source material. Look for Richerson or Richardson; Poe or Powe; Straughn or Straughan, for example. By no means did I exhaust the records for any last name other than Poe. However, I have included all records including the name Poe from whatever source is cited.

It has been difficult to decide which records to include here. When I have seen close family ties, I have included significant records, even if the Poe name is not mentioned. I am of course biased to my own family research. Names such as Holiman and Reynolds in my own line are also here in North Carolina, then Fayette County, Alabama and on to Saline (Grant) County, Arkansas where my grandparents were born. Other families found here in North Carolina migrated together with the Poes along the route to Alabama and then Arkansas, including Melton, Wright, Moore, Ashcraft and others. They Reynolds (Rennolds) family goes all the way to Essex County, VA but I am not sure this is the same Reynolds that includes my great-great grandmother, Sarah Reynolds and her sister Mariam Rosty Reynolds (Reynolds married Holimans - my great grandmother was Sarah Holiman).