The Stackhouses of Appalachia


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Amos Stackhouse was born 31 March 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married Rebecca Snow (d. 1846) in 1843. They had one son, Ellison Stackhouse (1845-1925). Amos married Anna Williamson in 1849. They had six children. He married Anna Myers (1851-1916) in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida. They had four children. He died in 1909 in Stackhouse, North Carolina.




North Carolina Reports


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Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.










Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918


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In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.










Western North Carolina


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Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers such as William Bartram, Daniel Boone, Bishops Spangenberg and Asbury, and Zeb Vance.




Families Remembered


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A genealogy of the ancestors of John Albert Burnett born 1 Nov 1961 in Waycross, Georgia. He is the son of John Allen Burnett (1935-1986) and Jamie Kay Walker (1941-1978).