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Finding Eliza

Family history blog

  • A to Z Challenge 2013 – Random Family Stuff
  • A to Z Challenge 2014 – My Grandfather’s Letters
  • A to Z Challenge 2015 – Formerly Enslaved Cleages
  • A to Z Challenge 2016 – Telling Their Stories
  • A to Z Challenge 2017 – Thomas (Ray) Allen
  • A to Z Challenge 2018 – Items From The Emancipator
  • A to Z Challenge 2019 – Pension Files
  • A to Z Challenge 2020 – My Family in the 1920s
  • A to Z Challenge 2022 – My Family in the 1950s
  • A to Z Challenge 2023 – Family Snippets
  • A to Z Challenge 2024 – The Edelweiss Club
  • A to Z Challenge 2025 – April Family Happenings
  • About
  • Abram and Amanda Cleag
  • Albert B. Cleage Jr
  • CLEAGES
  • Doris Juanita Graham Cleage
  • Eliza’s Story
  • GRAHAMS
  • Henry Wadsworth Cleage
  • Katie Cleage Civil War Pension File
  • Pearl Reed Cleage’s Letters 1903-1905
  • REEDS
  • Streets In My Life: 1946 – 2014
  • Susan Rice Ragan: 1835-1911
  • Susan Richardson Abbott 1829-1909
  • The Great Migration
  • The Turners – Lowndes County, Alabama
  • Christmas Memories

The Great Migration

Stolen from Africa

The Great Migration
Winter In St. Antoine

Graham

The Migration – From Montgomery to Detroit
Eliza’s Children Move North

Mershell C. Graham on the Porch

The Great Migration in Poetry

Rev. E.E. Scott
Founding Plymouth
Founders
Edward M. Dale – Scott’s letter 1917
Edward A. & Alixe Harris – Directory Detroit 1919
Joseph Shannon – Detroit Directory 1919
Thomas Benjamin – 1911 436 Clinton, Detroit Directory. Col’d porter
Thelma Benjamin – 1919 Detroit directory
Moses L. Thompson & Carrie L. Thompson – Scott’s letter 1917
Louis C Farley – directory 1919 384 Orleans, laborer

Blakley – Beckwith Marriage
The Proposal
The Proposal accepted
Announcement of Marriage
Mershell Graham and Fannie Mae Turner Marriage License
Graham-Turner Wedding – 1919 Montgomery Alabama
A Mouse Machine & Mrs. Topp
Chickens in Detroit 1919

Grahams in the 1920 Census

Letters from home – Montgomery to Detroit 1918
Those Left Behind
Lewis Gilmer
Rufus Taylor
Nan Taylor
3 Men in Hats
Ula Mae’s Uncle Lowndes Adams
Lowndes Adams
Lowndes Adams Found in 1965 – Migration Story Part 5

Clifton Graham
Mattie Graham
Alixe Harris
Jennie Turner

Cleage

Presbyterian Church Connections

Witherspoon United Presbyterian Church 1909, Indianapolis Indiana




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