Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825 (ePub)

Frank Womble is a retired Army officer and a native of Northampton County, North Carolina. His life has crossed paths with Lafayette's Farewell Tour numerous times. Lafayette stopped briefly at Zion Meeting House near present-day Conway, North Carolina, the home of Frank's maternal ancestors. He visited Northampton Courthouse (present-day Jackson, North Carolina), the county seat of Northampton County, where he was met by the official North Carolina state delegation and ate at the Calvert Tavern. He was welcomed by the governor of North Carolina and attended a public dinner and ball in Raleigh, North Carolina where Frank graduated from North Carolina State University. He was fêted in his namesake town of Fayetteville, North Carolina where Frank trained at Fort Bragg. Lafayette was en route to Alabama when he crossed the Chattahoochee River near Fort Benning, Georgia where Frank was stationed for four years. Lafayette attended a reception, banquet and ball in Petersburg, Virginia, where Frank lived for a year while stationed at Fort Lee. Lafayette was welcomed by the governor of Alabama in Montgomery, where Frank met his wife Gloria. He visited Alexandria, Virginia where Frank and Gloria lived together twice after they were married. Lafayette visited the District of Columbia, where Frank was assigned at Bolling Air Force Base. He visited Fort Monroe, Virginia where Frank was employed as a defense contractor. He dined and stayed overnight in Suffolk, Virginia, where Frank and Gloria currently make their home.