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Isaac Britt “AKA” Isaac Pridgen

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Their Story Information Isaac and his siblings were born on Tom Wooten Plantation to their mother Jennie Wooten. Isaac was given as a child to Nancy Wooten Britt, probably a dowry. When he enlisted they enrolled him…
Aaron “Bess” Best

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Their Story Information Aaron Best’s pension story was mostly centered around proving his knee injury while in service to collect his pension. It was noted that he had a knee injury due to being hit by cannon…
Henry Bright AKA John Henry Bright

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Their Story Information Henry’s pension file focuses on his 3 marriages to brief slave marriage, Sally Alderige and Eliza Bess (Bass) and proving Eliza as the legitimate wife as well as the death of his first wife,…
Ransom Pridgen aka Ransom Woods

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Slave Owner: None listed in Pension File Their Story Information Most of the Pension information is of Edna Swinson Pridgen. Here is some of the information found in other records. In the 1870 census, Ednah and…
Orrin Ellis – Lane

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Their Story Information “As a slave I was known as Orrin Lane” but after the war he went by Orrin Ellis; his father’s surname. Orrin came back from the war Dec 11, 1865 and only stayed for…
Diggs Pridgen aka Richard Wilson

Greene County, NC Civil War Pension Files Military Information Pension File Information Personal Information Family Information Enslavement Information Their Story Information “How did they get Richard Wilson from Diggs Pridgen” Diggs ran away from Joshua Mewborn plantation and subsequently joined the union army. Tom Wilson and him enlisted together. The enlisting agent enrolled Tom first…