If you’d like to learn more about Franklin, North Carolina and the history of its inhabitants, I highly recommend these resources:
- Macon County Heritage North Carolina
- Macon County Heritage North Carolina – Vol 2
- Foxfire 5
- Foxfire 7
- NCpedia
- America’s Small Towns: Franklin, NC
- When All God’s Children Get Together by Ann Woodford
- Historical sketches of churches in the Diocese of Western North Carolina Episcopal Church” by James B. Sill (1955)
- Hope and Dignity, Older Black Women of the South by Emily Herring Wilson (1983)
- A Brief History of Western North Carolina by Reverend Canaro Drayton “C.D” Smith (1891)
- Western North Carolina: A History (1730-1913) by John Preston Arthur (1914)