Garry E Moore
Retired military intelligence analyst, family genealogist, and fly fisherman. Writing about Iredell County, North Carolina local history and the occasional zen moment on a trout stream in Minnesota.
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The Faith of the Hunting Creek Pioneers (opens the original)
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Like almost all of my aunts and uncles and cousins, I grew up in the Baptist Church. I knew that the family had deep Baptist roots, but it was not until I began exploring my early ancestors living in the 18th century along Hunting Creek, North Carolina that I discovered that the Baptist tradition was over two hundred years old. This article explores how these early Baptist congregations came into being around the time of the American Revolution and follows their growth through the early part of
Recognition by the North Carolina Genealogical Society (opens the original)
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Tracing Revolutionary Era Pioneers Along the Streams and Backroads of North Carolina (opens the original)
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A Family Heirloom—The Story of Rebecca Campbell’s Rose (opens the original)
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Pioneers of Hunting Creek—Unraveling the Mitchell Family Legacy (opens the original)
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Many of the families that have lived in the area of Hunting Creek in what is now Iredell, Wilkes, Yadkin, and Davie Counties have remained in the same area since their families first settled in North Carolina around the time of the American Revolution. Large family reunions have been held in this area since at least 1925 when the first recorded Campbell Family Reunion was held on the grounds of the Union Grove Methodist Church. By the time of the 100th anniversary of this Campbell family reunion
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