Confederate
Pensioners of Color: Union County,
North Carolina |
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Last Name |
First |
Where born |
State served |
Regiment |
Death Date & Burial site if known |
Date of Pension |
Obit? Y/N |
Ashcraft* |
Wilson |
Union County, NC |
NC |
53rd, Co I |
12/3/1937, Union Co., NC |
7/4/1932 |
Y |
Byrd |
Ned [1] |
Chesterfield Co., SC |
SC |
22nd? |
2/6/1942, Watts Grove (Union Co., NC) |
8/13/1929 |
Y |
Clyburn |
Weary/Wary [2] |
Lancaster Co., SC |
SC |
12th, Co E |
3/30/1930, Hillcrest (orig.
grounds) |
2/1/1926 |
Y |
Cunningham |
Wyatt |
Liberty Hill, SC |
SC |
Waggoner |
11/10/1933, Ebenezer (Waxhaw, NC) |
7/23/1931 |
N** |
Cureton |
George |
Liberty Hill, SC |
SC |
4th & 7th CAV |
9/5/1934, Bethel (Gospel Way in Waxhaw, NC) |
2/4/1929 |
Y |
Cuthbertson |
Hamp |
Union County, NC |
NC |
Fort Fisher |
C/F in Union Co. but died b/t Jun - Dec 1932 per pension list |
7/11/1927 |
|
Fraser/Frasier |
Mose |
Lancaster Co., SC |
SC |
12th, Co E |
12/19/1934***, Rose Hill (SC) |
7/19/1933 |
Y |
McGill |
Lewis |
Lancaster Co., SC |
SC |
22nd |
12/14/1933, Clarksville (Union Co., NC) |
7/23/1931 |
N** |
Perry |
Aaron [3] |
Union County, NC |
NC |
37th, Co D |
3/14/1930, Philadelphia Baptist, (Union Co., NC) |
2/4/1929 |
Y |
Sanders |
Jeff |
Lynch's River, SC |
SC |
26th, Co B, Free
negro |
11/4/1932, Nicey
Grove, (Wingate, NC) |
9/23/1931 |
N |
C/F = Can't find; Y=Yes there was
a death notice in newspaper; N=No published death notice |
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*Wilson's name does not appear on
the list published 12-15-1932 (Monroe Enquirer), Wilson's name is included in
"North Carolina Troops: 1861-1865,
Vol. XIII, page 150; **deaths mentioned in Dec. 14,
1933 Pension list in Monroe Enquirer.
Copies of all above pensions are in the library files as well as more
information on each pensioner. ***Mose
Fraser's name appears as receiving a pension check on the 6-17-1935 list in
the Monroe Enquirer; both Fraser and Ashcraft's names appear as having died
in the past year on the 12-16-1935 list.
Revised June 2010 |
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Submitted by: Patricia Poland Union County Public Library, 316 E. Windsor St., Monroe,
NC 28112 704-283-8184 ext 224 www.union.lib.nc.us |
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This page created
June 18, 2010 by Julie Hampton Ganis |
[1] - Monroe Journal April 1, 1930 (Tuesday)
“Old Colored Man Is Buried In The Uniform Of Gray”
After Notable Career Uncle Weary Clyburn Follows Aaron Perry to the Long Home; Stalwart Old Boys Who Reached Ninety
Uncle Weary Clyburn, long a figure here and at Confederate reunions, was buried yesterday wrapped in the Confederate uniform of gray. But he was entitled to the honor by reason both of having been in the Confederate ranks and as life-time faithfulness to the men and their descendants who made up the Confederate armies.
For several years Uncle Weary has been a conspicuous figure
around reunions. He was a fiddle player
and by reason of his picturesque appearance and his fiddling around the hotels
he always brought back some cash from the reunions. He was a member of
Had Uncle Weary been a white man he would have been a Confederate hotspur. Being dark of skin and born a slave, he could approach his ideal by being as near like the fighting(?) white folks that he grew up among as his skin and lack of education would allow. All his life he was a white man’s darkey, and his principle did not change when he came back from the war. He went with his white folks after the war and became a Democrat.
Uncle Aaron Perry,
who died on March 14th, was another landmark in these parts. He too had a distinguished record and was
also around ninety. Both these old men had been men of powerful physique, or
strong muscle and high courage. Both of these old men had been men of powerful
physique, or strong muscle and high courage.
Weary came from
Aaron was reared in
Uncle Aaron had been on the Confederate pension roll for two years. Weary had been a pensioner since the bill was gotten through the legislature by Maj. Heath. Weary was the second colored man in the State [,] other colored men now left on the rolls [.] Aaron did not get on as soon because records were lacking. There are three other colored men now left on the rolls in this county. These are George Cureton, Hamp Cuthbertson and Ned Bird. Uncle Aaron was an honorable and truthful man. He was solid, sober, and would have made a good New England Puritan had time and circumstance fitted. Weary was the opposite. He played the fiddle, tended bar, cussed some, and took the prodigal view of life, just like the real white folks of his slavery days.
Uncle Weary’s funeral was held at
a colored church in North Monroe and he was buried in the colored
Transcribed by Patricia Poland 6/12/10
Union
http://history.union.lib.nc.us 704-283-8184 x224
Notes:
Transcriptions that focus
solely on each man have also been done for benefit of Clyburn and Perry
researchers.
The library does not own any
Monroe Journals for 1929-1939 at this time.
The Monroe Enquirer has been double-checked for a similar article
without success. Dates checked: 3/31,
4/3, 4/7, 4/10.
Clyburn’s grave is on what we
now call the “original grounds” of Hillcrest
Cold Harbor Reference (4th
paragraph): Thomas F. Clyburn’s military
service record indicates that Thomas was wounded just after the Battle of the
Wilderness, injury date was May 23, 1864 and was noted as a gunshot wound in
left thigh when he was at the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA on May 25, 1864.
Maj. Heath is William
Crow Heath, born November 24, 1866 in
Aaron Perry: Lt.
Col. J. B. Ashcraft’s service record indicates differently as to where he and
Aaron would have been during the war.
Most likely Aaron was sent to
Ned Bird: Byrd, probably born in
More information can be found
on these and the other men (Cureton, Cuthbertson, and more) in the library’s files.
Monroe Journal article
(digital image) sent from the N. C. State Archives 6/12/10
[2] -See above death notice.
[3] -See above death notice.