In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery
In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475.
In his will, she is described simply as the “negro girl Melvinia.” After his death, she was torn away from the people and places she knew and shipped to Georgia. While she was still a teenager, a white man would father her first-born son under circumstances lost in the passage of time. Read More
My Family's Journey Through Time
Researching Bynum and Brown surnames. The Bynum Family finds its early roots near Lake City, Columbia County, Florida although there is some evidence that the family migrated to Florida from South Carolina probably not long after the end of the civil war in 1865. Our family line later moved to the St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida area where many family members still reside today. The Brown family has seemingly always been a part of the fabric of Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee although some of the earliest ancestors, George and Alice (D’King) Kimbro migrated from Texas.
Shoal Creek Baptist Church, Oconee County, South Carolina membership list, Page 2
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Shole [sic] Creek (or Chauga) Church Shoal Creek Baptist Church Oconee County, South Carolina |
Shoal Creek Baptist Church, Oconee County, South Carolina membership list, Page 1
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Shole [sic] Creek (or Shoal Creek Baptist Church Oconee County, South Carolina |
Pickens, South Carolina First Baptist Church Minutes
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Miscellaneous Virginia & South Carolina Information
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