2019 Meeting Programs

March 7th Program Details
Featured Speaker: Laura P. Peace
"Civil War Letters of Six North Carolina Brothers"

The program for the March 7, 2019 meeting of the Granville County Genealogical Society will be presented by Mrs. Laura P. Peace.

Laura P. Peace is the editor of a recently published book entitled To Tranquillity 1861-1865: Civil War Letters of Six North Carolina Brothers, which is based on more than thirty-five years of research and several hundred letters. The book is a glimpse into the daily lives of six brothers during one of the most challenging periods of our history and chronicles the effects of war on a community of friends, neighbors, and relatives living in Tranquillity, North Carolina. Tranquility NC was located near present-day Creedmoor. A post office was opened there in 1839.

As you read the letters, you become a visitor in a long-forgotten neighborhood, learn a little history of North Carolina during the Civil War, and perhaps form an emotional connection with the letter writers. The book is currently available on the Amazon website.

Please join members of the Granville County Genealogical Society in attending this meeting, to be held at 6:30 P.M. on March 7, 2019 in the conference room at the Richard H. Thornton Library in Oxford, N.C. All GCGS meetings are open to the public, and visitors and guests are always cordially invited to attend.

 

 

 

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