If you have the surnames - Alford, Liles, and High - in your family lines, you will want to check out Eureka: Proving an Ancestor in Wake County, N.C . by Lodwick Houston Alford describing his efforts to discover and prove the parents of Green Alford , b.1787 near Wakefield, Wake County ( Wake Treasures , vol.10, nbr. 2, p. 17). I read his account hoping for a workflow strategy or inspiration to solve my own elusive ancestor. His efforts included: disambiguating between two similarly named men  proving/disproving the various family stories passed down for generations working with several local history librarians in the area using the Bastardy Bond abstracted records * published in the Wake Treasures   calling in another set of eyes when it seemed all possible lines of research had been exhausted The sum of all these efforts led to his success. This was a compelling report, one I could not stop reading even though it was NMF (not my family). He has given me some ideas to appr...

Thanks to Heather Leah at WRAL for bringing this spooky story from Cary to our attention.  Her story recounts the legend of High House (as in High House Road in Cary) and the buried treasure of Fanning Jones. it is a great read. https://www.wral.com/buried-treasure-in-cary-the-ghostly-legend-of-the-abandoned-high-house/19933263 As I read this riveting story, near the end of it I was directed to another article written for the Friends of Page-Walker Hotel in Cary. This one is equally interesting and a bit broader in scope. It is fascinating if you live in Wake County. Even more so if you have Jones, Alford, Liles, Williams and other associated Cary area families in your tree. Grab a coffee or hot tea and check it out.  https://friendsofpagewalker.wildapricot.org/Cary-Me-Back/9342448 High House in Cary and likely members of the Williams family in the late 1800s.   Read more about hauntings in Wake County here!  Visit the Wake County Genealogical Society  -  ...