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"STEPHEN BINYARD AND HIS DESCENDANTS: A BLACK AMERICAN STORY" WITH RESEARCHERS KIMBERLY MORGAN AND AKOSUA MOORE

Posted by Fallon Green on February 16, 2015 at 5:30am

"STEPHEN BINYARD AND HIS DESCENDANTS: A BLACK AMERICAN STORY" WITH RESEARCHERS KIMBERLY MORGAN AND AKOSUA MOORE

Location: St. Helena Branch Library
Date & Time: Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 1:00pm – 3:00pm

A small gravestone on the USMC-Air Station Beaufort was the beginning of a decade long research project for Kimberley Morgan. Eventually Morgan's research led her to the research of Asouka Moore, a descendant of Stephen Binyard. Together these women have woven a presentation to show the true

African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

Posted by Fallon Green on May 21, 2012 at 12:47pm

African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

We have now started to book a series of workshops in rural areas in order to do our best to collect and then preserve the remarkable family stories of older African Americans living in the most remote regions of the United States.

African American Genealogy with Fallon Green will kick off this series with its Lowcountry Genealogy Series - with special emphasis on the Gullahs - at the Lobeco Branch Library in Beaufort County, SC. African America

Juneteenth- Ona Judge Staines, A Slave Runs away to New Hampshire

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on June 21, 2010 at 12:05pm

A story to celebrate the 145th Juneteenth

How did a runaway slave from Philadelphia come to New Hampshire? And why was she instantly recognized? Well, she belonged to George Washington, and he had served the last part of his presidency in Philadelphia. Elizabeth, daughter of Senator John Langdon, had seen this slave woman when visiting the First Lady. The Chief Secretary to Washington was Tobias Lear, a Portsmouth native, who also knew the runaway by sight.

Ona Judge Staines was the daughter of a

African Ancestored Genealogy - Mr. James Jeter

Posted by George Geder on July 15, 2009 at 9:06pm

Bradford Argus; Thursday, January 5, 1882Photo copy from the Bradford County Historical Society, 1997.-James Jeder (colored) having the last few days exibited signs of insanity - by telling everybody how much money he had made, and singing in the streets, &c., - was on Monday taken to the insane department of the poor-house, where the pure air of the country may restore him.~~~Bradford Reporter; March 23, 1882Photo copy from the Bradford County Historical Society, 1997.-James Jeeder, a colored m

African Ancestored Genealogy Research - Mrs. Emeline Jeter

Posted by George Geder on July 13, 2009 at 6:20pm

This is my 2nd Great Grandmother.I'm blessed to have inherited this Tintype from my Dad.Also, I'm thankful to the Bradford County Historical Society of Pennsylvania for sending me the obituary a number of years ago. It reads:-Mrs. John (Emma)Jeter, a colored woman aged 81 years, died in this borough last week and was buried from the colored church, the service being conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith.She was a slave at Charleston, SC, from infancy until the emancipation proclamation, and was mother of

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"STEPHEN BINYARD AND HIS DESCENDANTS: A BLACK AMERICAN STORY" WITH RESEARCHERS KIMBERLY MORGAN AND AKOSUA MOORE

African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

Juneteenth- Ona Judge Staines, A Slave Runs away to New Hampshire

African Ancestored Genealogy - Mr. James Jeter

African Ancestored Genealogy Research - Mrs. Emeline Jeter

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