For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading T – The Twenty-Third of April
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading J – Jones Tabernacle hosts Music Festival
For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is … Continue reading F – Forgive this writing
My maternal grandfather, Mershell Cunningham Graham was born about 1887 in Coosada Station, Elmore County, Alabama. He was the fourth of six children. His parents farmed. His maternal grandmother lived in Elmore county, but she doesn’t appear in any records after the 1880 census so she was possibly dead before he was born. His maternal … Continue reading Three of my Grandparent’s Grandparents
Some have wondered if the women associated with the Edelweiss Club who left Montgomery and moved to Detroit kept in touch with each other. Of course without interviewing them, I can only assemble the clues I have found and say that at least some did. There were other of their friends who moved from Montgomery … Continue reading Keeping in Touch in Detroit
In 1918 and 1919 thirty-seven young women, friends and neighbors of my grandmother Fannie Mae Turner were members and guests of the Edelweiss Club in Montgomery, Alabama. These are snapshots from their lives, place and times. Click on any image to enlarge! I did not realize that the Freedmen’s Bureau founded many schools. In this … Continue reading S- SWAYNE SCHOOL
I published part I of Amanda Cleag’s Deposition during 2019 at this link – Amanda Cleage. While going through blog posts I never published, I found this one and decided to publish it today. Part II of Amanda Cleag’s Deposition Question: What persons or person are in or about Athens, Tenn. now who knew you … Continue reading “Had the soldier been married before his marriage to you?”
A Video Case Study By Paul Lee, DirectorBest Efforts, Inc. Twelve years ago, I wrote the following essay on how most of the Western broadcast news media consciously, willfully and, in my view, maliciously used selective editing to make the brilliant, exceptionally sincere African American freedom fighter Malcolm X look like a monster, as he … Continue reading How the ‘White’ News Media Distorted Malcolm X and His Message
The 1930 Census Dated April 2, 1930 In 1930 the Cleage family lived on the Old West Side in Detroit, Michigan. In this neighborhood everybody was identified as Neg(ro) in the 1930 Census. “The trickle of Black people living outside of Black Bottom would grow exponentially in the decade following the Sweet trials. By the … Continue reading The Cleages in the 1930s
Recently while looking through my tree for the Jackson Family of Autauga County, Alabama, which I have long suspected of being the slave holders for my maternal grandfather Mershell Graham’s family, I found the will and estate file for Crawford Motley Jackson who died in 1860. In the file I found my grandfather’s mother Mary … Continue reading Appraisement of the Negroes Belonging to the Estate of C. M. Jackson
