Genealogie Wylie » Winifred Aldridge (± 1836-????)

Persönliche Daten Winifred Aldridge 

• Sie ist geboren rund 1836 in Greene, North Carolina.
• ("THE ) .
• Ein Kind von Thomas Aldridge und Mary Edmundson
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 5. Juli 2003.

Familie von Winifred Aldridge

Sie ist verheiratet mit John Henry Sugg.

Sie haben geheiratet rund 1862 in North Carolina.

Notizen bei Winifred Aldridge

"I was a mere school girl when Schofield's Army came through this part of the country at the close of the war, but I was well grown and I had almost lived out of doors since my brothers went to the army. I attended to having the crops planted and gathered as long as the negroes stayed with us. We had saved about three thousand pounds of meat besides the lard and other things and when I heard that the yankees were coming, I had the negroes to help me hide it. Ou smoke house floor was of bricks and I had one of the men to remove the bricks and dig two large holes under the floor into which we lowered a barrel of lard and another of cured hams. Then we replaced the earth above the barrels and the bricks in the floor was relaid. Then we hid nearly all the meat that was left in more convenient places. An old man came by and told mother that the yankees would not steal her things if they found that she had made no attempt to hide them. Then mother told me to put all the meat and lard back into the smoke house but I did not have much faith in the old man's opinion as mother had, and I only replaced a part of the meat. I had concealed some of it so well that I knew it could not be found and I made that which I returned spread out and left as undisturbed as possible. and I did not mention the reserved to mother.

The Yankees did come in droves and proceeded to empty the smoke house and to take anything else they could use. Some who were drunk tried to hang her young brother, Dock. "I no longer knew what fear was. I seized the collar of the yankee who was drawing the child up on the gallows and shook him until he released the rope. By that time mother came and helped me to unhang the boy who was white as a sheet and shaking with ague. Mother put him to bed and those yankees left." This probably occurred in 1864 since John Thomas died in November 1863.

Their nearest neighbor was Mrs. Nancy Hardy Mewborn, wife of George Mewborn. Nancy Hardy's brother, Benjamin George Hardy, was very sick at this time. To help Nancy get past the yankee army to visit her sick brother, Winnie came up with a plan. She and another girl lead the way huming a tune followed by her mother and Nancy Mewborn. They made they way through the picket lines and their mothers were able to visit the ailing Ben Hardy.

A short time later, a yankee and a Negro rode up to their home while she was all alone. He started piling furnishings in the middle of the room so he could burn down the house. She ordered the Negro to stay out and when he put his gun on the table to make the fire himself, she grabbed it. She then made him take an oath: "I swear before Almighty God that I will go home and never fire another gun at a Southerner". She returned his gun and he left saying, "Young brave girl. No man could harm you after such a daring act and I wish for you only what is good, and he rode away."

Winnie continued to act heroicly and stories continued.

History of Greene County" by James Creech, Page 239. Winnie was a spirited young woman. She grew up during the Civil War. She drove her mother and older sister, Louisa, to the train to bring her dead brother, John Thomas home. This is her story.

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