Slave Days
C is for Cleage Bricks – About 1820
Article of Agreement Between Sam Cleage and Overseer – 1834
Bill of Sale for Bob, age 13 and Jim age 11 – 1843
Jerry Cleage “…and a slave for life.” – 1841
Elijah Hurst’s Will-1848
Death of Sam Cleage – July 20, 1850 Athens, TN
The Death of Sam Cleage – part 2 – 1850
Cleages In Black and White
Bill of Sale for Joe, Jane, Lynd, Frank, Phillip, Lewis, Sam, Jeff, Martha, Lea, Julian and Patsy Cleage – 1852
Timelines – Frank and Juda Cleage: 1816 – 1870
Alexander Cleage’s Last Will & Testament – 1860
Frank & Juda Cleage – From Slavery to Freedom
Prelude to Freedom
Six Degrees of Separation from Slavery
Susan Rice Ragan
Guided by the Ancestors
TIMELINE: Susan Rice Ragan
NELSON Ragan
QUITE a Surprise
ON this the 29th day of March…
PHILLIP Born Dec. 21, 1857
VALVULAR Heart Disease
UNDERTAKER: Susan Rice Ragan’s burial
SHOT By Robbers
WILLIAM Roger Sherman
What Did Louis Cleage Look Like?
Louis Cleage & Family – 1880
Louis Cleage – Spelling His Name In Various Records
Louis Cleage – Work Day Wednesday
Louis/Lewis Cleage’s burial spot – Tombstone Tuesday
The Day Louis Cleage Died
Louis/Lewis Cleage’s Death Certificate 1852 – 1918
The Rev. John Brice Officiating
Tennessee Cleage
Eight Generations of L3b MtDNA from Celia Rice Cleage
Celia Rice Cleage Sherman – Her Life 1855 – 1930
Celia’s Death Certificate
On the way to bury their mother… June 1930
John Wesley Cobb 1883 – 1958
Grandmother Pearl Reed Cleage – Happy Birthday, bio and photos 1886-1982
My Aunts & Uncles
Labor Day – Jobs Held By Cleages and Reeds
Ice scraper – Cleage Market Detroit, Michigan
Athens Tennessee Academy Henry William Cleage – 1901
Dr. Albert B. Cleage -Captain of Knoxville College football team – 1904
An Ancestral Home – 910 Fayette Indianapolis, Indiana
Two Newspaper Articles Pearl Reed Cleage – 1908 & 1960
Congregational Photograph – Witherspoon United Presbyterian Church Indianapolis Indiana – 1909
The Indianapolis Star – 20 March 1911 – Dr. Cleage on a case of suicide
Pearl Reed Cleage With Son Albert B. Cleage Jr – 1911
Albert B. Cleage Sr and Jr – 1912
Big Brother Albert B. Cleage Jr & Younger Brother Louis J. Cleage – 1913
Tennessee Cleage – About 1867 – 1914
My Grandmother Pearl Cleage’s Doppelganger 1915 – 1922
Jerome Cleage, the Doppleganger’s Second Husband – Was He Related?
Edward Cleage’s Daughters Athens Tennessee – 1917
Baby Henry Wadsworth Cleage – 1916 – Photograph
The Day Louis Cleage Died – News Items 1918
C – CLEAGES in the 1920 Census
S – SCOTTEN Avenue – Cleage home 1920
Detroit School Boys Albert Jr and Louis Cleage about 1920
R – Rice, Celia in the 1920 Census
Three Generations and an Airplane – 1921
Not a bridge, a ferry – On The Way to Athens, Tennessee – 1920s
Albert and Pearl (Reed) Cleage –1922
The Whole Bunch – Cleage Family At Belle Isle – 1922
K – KEROSENE & Dr. Cleage – 1923
Photos, Photos Everywhere
More Information About Yesterday’s Photo and a Discovery
Easter Memories – 1920s & 1950s
Eighth Grade Class Photo – Albert B. Cleage Jr -1924
THE CLEAGES 100 YEARS AGO – 1925
Memories to Memoirs Chapter Two “Early Years of Life” 1926
Tombstone Tuesday – Edward and Mattie Cleage – Athens Tennessee
Mattie (Dotson) Cleage and daughters – Athens Tennessee
The Cleages in the 1930 Census
Scotten, Detroit – Paternal grandparents 1919 – 1948
Dr. Cleage Made City Physician – 1930 Detroit, MI
Uncle Hugh with friends George and Paul Payne
Celia’s Death Certificate – 1930
On the way to bury their mother… June 1930
Northwestern High School & Cleage Graduates – 1931-1939
Trying for shadows in this also? 1930s
Albert and Pearl Cleage late 1930s
Uncle Louis With a Fern – Photograph – late 1930s
James Cleage 1870 – 1933
Henry’s Journal 1936
Henry’s Diary Part 2 – 1936
Follow up on Henry’s Diary 1936
4 Men In Hats On Ice – 1936
The Cleage Sisters at Home about 1937
Looking Over the Fence 1937
Trying for shadows in this also? – Anna Cleage and Paul Payne
Three Sisters – Barbara, Gladys & Anna Cleage
Albert B. Cleage Jr – Album Page – 1938
Grandmother Pearl Reed Cleage
Dr. & Mrs. Cleage Speak on Preventing Juvenile Delinquency – 1938
Thanksgiving 1939 – speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church
“The Meadows” 1939 – Mystery Couple
A Dance, half Henry & A Box From Louis Cleage’s Residency in St. Louis 1939
Louis Plays The Lute – about 1939
Where is Gladys? – 1939
Hugh Fishing At the Meadows 1939
‘Rocco, Smitty – Getting a ticket for fishing! – 1939
Thanksgiving 1939
1940 Census – The Albert B. and Pearl (Reed) Cleages
1940 Census – Jacob and Gertrude (Brunt) Cleage
1940 Census – James and Minnie (Reed) Mullins
1940 Census – Where We Lived in Detroit
Purebreds and Conscientious Objectors
Mother’s Day Telegram -1940
Skating Champions – Hugh, Gladys and Anna Cleage – 1940s
X is for X-Ray – Story of Louis Cleage’s Puffy Finger – early 1940s
Jacob Cleage 1874-1942
Positive Proof – A Short Story by Henry Cleage 1942
Just Tell The Men – A short story by Henry W. Cleage
Building Louis’ Cottages – Idlewild 1943 to 1945
Memories of Chickens 1929-1958
Y Is For Louis Cleage’s Yacht – late 1940s
Snowy Winter – Springfield, Mass – 1949
A to Z Challenge 2022 – My Family in the 1950s – index
The Cleages in the 1950 Census
C – Cleages in the 1950 Census
1950 Census – 2270 Atkinson Price of the House
Evans’ in the 1950 Census
Pearl With a Tin Cup – 1950
The Cleage Photographers – Albert B. Cleage Sr and Jr, Henry, Hugh & Louis Cleage
Doris Graham Cleage Photograph- 1952
Gathering at my Cleage grandparent’s – 1955
Uncle Louis Plays the Organ – 1956
Louis Cleage – W8AFM
Cookout In The Cleage’s Yard – August 1958
Cleage Printers 1956 – 1968
“Anthropoid, anthropoid, don’t kill me yet!” Louis, Henry and Pearl Being Scary 1955, 1961, 1980s
Henry Cleage and the press – Cleage Printers 1960s
Elections Past – The “3 & 1” Campaign – 1960s
Kennedy Refuses to Support Civil Rights – Demand Federal Intervention in Alabama – The Illustrated News May 13, 1963
I – IN the Kitchen
Walk to Freedom – The Illustrated News June 24, 1963
The Freedom Fight – The Illustrated News July 8, 1963
The Freedom Now Party – Illustrated News September 8, 1963
Gladys remembers Christmas – Louis Made It Magical 1963 & 1991
“Cleage for Council” – 1965
Drawing of Me by Gladys Cleage Evans – 1968
Loudin’s Jubilee Singers and a Clock – Solving Mysteries – Where Did Louis’ Clock Come From?
The Top of the Clock – Where Was It?
People
H is for Henry William Cleage
Josephine “Josie” Cleage
Celia Rice Cleage Sherman 1855-1930
Kristin Cleage
Memories of Grandmother Turner
Celebrating Barbara Cleage Martin’s 90th Birthday 2010
Advent Calendar – The Xmas Tree was always real
Advent Calendar December 3 – Hand Painting Christmas Ornaments
Advent Calendar – December 4 – Christmas Cards
Advent Calendar – December 5 – We never had outdoor lights
Advent Calendar – December 11 – Kwanzaa
Advent Calendar – December 15 – Happy Birthday to all!!
I really enjoy all of the history that you have found. Margaret McCall Thomas Ward is my mother. How are we related and what is Warren Evans relationship to the McCall’s. Are we also related familialy to Cliff Graham?
Hello Edward. Margaret’s grandmother, Mary Allen McCall was my great grandmother Jennie Virginia Allen Turner’s sister. They were both the children of Eliza Allen. They had different father’s. Mary’s father was Milton Saffold, who at one time enslaved Eliza. Jennie’s father was Dock Allen, Eliza’s husband after she was freed.
Your grandfather, James Edward McCall was my grandmother Fannie Turner Graham’s first cousin. Margaret and my mother Doris Graham Cleage were second cousins. We are third cousins.
Warren Cleage Evans is not related to the McCalls. His mother was Gladys Cleage, she and my father Rev. Albert B. Cleage, Jr. were siblings. He and I are first cousins on the Cleage side. I am related to you on my mother’s side.
My mother’s father, Mershell C. Graham, was not blood related to Cliff Graham. Mershell C. Graham was not related to you as we are related through my mother’s mother, Fannie. You can email me at kcleage@gmail.com if you want to talk more.
Good to hear from you. I really miss your mother.