Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge.
by Lisa Y. Henderson
MARY ELIZA BALKCUM ALDRIDGE was born in 1829 in Duplin County. Her mother was probably Nancy Balkcum (ca1800-1854), a white woman, and her father was likely a black or mixed-race man. Around 1855, she married Robert Aldridge (1819-1899). They settled first in northern Sampson County, but by 1870 had a large farm near Dudley, Wayne County.
[Eliza B. Aldridge was my great-great-great-grandmother. –LYH]
Fourth Generation Inclusive 
[…] 13, Susan, 11, Montrival, 9, Jno. R., 7, Margaret, 5, Dixon, 3, and Geo. W. Simmons, 1, plus Robert Aldridge, 26, […]
[…] W. ALDRIDGE was born about 1857 in Sampson County to Robert Aldridge and Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge. He married Fannie Cora Kennedy and operated a small grocery in Goldsboro, where he died in […]
[…] W. ALDRIDGE was born about 1851, probably in Sampson County, to Robert Aldridge and Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge. He farmed near Dudley, in southern Wayne County, and, after his marriage to Dora Greene, near […]
[…] LOUVICEY ARTIS ALDRIDGE was born in 1865 near Eureka, Wayne County, to Adam Toussaint Artis (1831-1919) and Frances Seaberry Artis (1845-1878.) In 1879, she married John William Aldridge (1851-1910), son of Robert Aldridge and Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge. […]
[…] as George Randall) in 1890, and died in Washington DC in 1917. She was the daughter of Robert and Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge, and sister of, among others, Mathew W. Aldridge and George W. […]
[…] JOHN WILLIAM ALDRIDGE (1853-1910) was born in Sampson County to Robert Aldridge and Mary Eliza Balkcum Aldridge. In the 1870s, he and his brothers Mathew Aldridge and George Aldridge were among former free men […]
[…] — Eliza Aldridge received 53 acres on a run of Stoney Run […]