Blalock was examined before the Provost Marshall at Morganton, and he sent the case to Judge Mitchell at Statesville, but Governor Holden pardoned him before trial.
Post Bellum Echoes--From "Correspondence of Jonathan Worth" published by Edwards
& Broughton Printing Co., Raleigh, N.C. 1909.
Major Frank Walcott, one of the military commissioners sent to investigate alleged persecutions of Union men in Watauga County, wrote, "Union men were persued
with malicious persecutions", that Austin Coffey was murdered by Home Guard and
that no steps were taken to prosecute his slayers.
War, in which he had been a soldier under Washington, having fought from the first to last battle of the war.
Their Children were: John, born Sept. 7,1781 in Virginia, William, Obediah, Robert, James, Benjamin, Susan and Elizabeth. Of these, John married, first Elizabeth Majors, and second
Susannah Barrier. The children by his first marraige were, Tilmon, John, Tipton, Major, Elisha, Nelson and Hamilton. Those by the second marraige were, Harvey, Empsey, Alexander and William Waightstill, and one daughter by the first marraige, Nicie, and six by the second, Irene, Elvira,
Margaret, Eliza and twins, Adeline and Carolina.
William married Celia Boone, a grandniece of Daniel Boone; Obediah married Elizabeth Webb;
Robert married Rhoda Humphrey; James married Nancy Humphrey; Benjamin married Nancy Dyer; Susan married Isaac Green; Elizabeth married Alfred Pritchett.
** I also have from the Ollis family that James Gragg married Elizabeth Ollis.
Tilmon married, first, Hila Layell, and second, Jane McNeely; John married a Miss Morris od Georgia; Tipton married Rachel Green; Major married Celia Wilson, first then (Mary)Polly Ollis;
Elisha married Selina Piercey; Nelson married Violet Greene; Hamilton married, first, a Cobb,
then House, and third Martha Strickland; and Harvey married Melinda NcLeard; Empsey married Serena Ford, first then Susan Barrier; Alexander married Carolina Munday; William W. married Martha McGhinnis, first then a lady of the state of Washington.
Nicie married James Calloway; Irene married Samuel Barrier; Elvira married Wiley Holtsclaw;
Adeline married W.W. Pressly; Carolina married Madison Gragg; Margaret married Archibald
Qualls; Eliza died young and unmarried.
General Stoneman reached Boone in the forenoon of March 28, 1865. The day was fair. Some men in the house which stood where J.D. Councill's residence now stands, among whom was William Waightstill Gragg, fired on the head of the column as it came down the road from Hodges Gap. This was enough:Warren Green was killed, so were Jacob M. Councill and Ephriam Norris. The following were wounded, Calvin Green, son of Alexander Green, Sheriff A.J. McBride, Thomas Holder, son of Elisha, John Brown son of Joseph Brown, of Gap Creek, and W. W. Gragg, of the first North Carolina Cavalry, who was then at home on a furlough. The house from which the shooting had been done, now J.D. Councill's, was converted into a hospital and the Federal surgeon did his best for the wounded. Calvin Green was taken to the old Jordan Councill house, he had been badly wounded, but recovered. McBride had been shot in the breast, but the ball followed a rib and lodged near his spine, from which the surgeon removed it., while McBride lay on his stomach on the floor, without anesthetics of any kind.Holder's wound was in the hip and groin, Brown had his ankle broken and Gragg's wound was not very severe.
After the firing from the Councill house, Stoneman's men charged and all who were in the house ran through the fields toward the foot of Howards Knob. Hence all were wounded in the rear, except McBride.
