tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21265023070111549712024-03-21T21:28:04.115-07:00My Journey: Breaking down the wallsNique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-35096841569291363822018-03-08T11:39:00.000-08:002018-04-02T15:48:39.029-07:00The Story of James McCloud, the mysterious phantom dog, smoking man and photo<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Me narrating the story like I was Granddad James my maternal grandfather.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My name is James McCloud and as you have read from the previous two stories of the McLeod men<i> "Story of Ross and Jacob" Jacob my father and Ross my grandfather</i>." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The McLeod men had a special gift and people knew, they talked, not just the family members but people, friends, community, church folks. It was and is the gift of "seeing" this gift is still being passed down in the family. A </span><b>seer</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> not a profit or psychic but a seer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Maybe that's why the McLeod men have so many Reverends and Pastors in the family. They have a generational gift from GOD</span> , spiritual insight, wisdom. I was never a pastor but I was a member of the Church of God Evening Light.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was born to Jacob Mccloud and Caroline Singleton Sept 10, 1909 in Summerton, South Carolina. I was one of six children. Lottie, Powell Timothy(PT), Victor, Moses, James and John all born in South Carolina and we moved to Polk county Florida when I was a teen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 1900 South Carolina census with Jacob McCloud living next to his wife Caroline Charlotte Singletons parents. Oldest daughter Lottie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was another time when I was walking home from work there was shadows of darkness, just twilight sky, there weren't any street lights at that time in that little town. I was walking on the little back road of Summerton, South Carolina, it was just a landscape of woods and grass. Ahead there seemed to be a man walking and smoking a cigarette so I called out to him, but he didn't answer or turn around so I called out again, again no answer. The town was so small I thought it was someone I knew and I was trying to catch up. I tried walking faster and faster. The faster I walked the further away the smoking man became and I never caught up to him. This person or apparition?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't know why but it seemed like an unusual amount of mysteriously odd things happened to me and my family or did this come with the territory of having the gift? When I was young I thought it was just people trying to scare us because they were afraid of my father Jacob but I concluded it just came with the gift. On this occasion, it took place during the day. It was a nice day out and I was walking and the shortcut to town was to cut across the cemetery. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It looked something like the can above, I was young and thought it was condensed milk. Anyway I grabbed the can off the shelf and started to drink it and my lips started feeling funny and when I looked at my face "my lips looked like they turned inside out, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my mother caught it in time she used a remedy that stopped the lye from eating my skin and I turned out just fine, no long term effects, just</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> looked like I was smiling for a week".</span><br />
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-61328190268223364452018-02-14T10:11:00.000-08:002018-04-18T21:47:15.311-07:00Dollie's story - A widows Civil war pension <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jasper Thompson my great great grandfather born in Harper's Ferry West Virginia the year 1847.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jasper's description at age 20 in 1864 his complexion was brown and he was about 5ft 3in just a young kid not even what we consider grown at least not for another year when he would turn 21 but his actions were brave and very responsible and adult like. He volunteered for war, the "Civil war". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On March 29th, 1864 Jasper became a private in Co "F" of the 23rd Regiment of the U.S.C.T. and before the war was over he would become Corporal then First Sergeant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to reports from the pension file "While in the line of duty marching from Brazos Island Texas to Brownsville Texas a little under 25 miles and about 7-8 hrs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the fatigue of marching affected the nerves like rheumatism cau</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sing numbness and jerking with pains any attempt of exertion threatens paralysis. This is only one glimpse of the conditions he had to endure. I'm sure there were plenty of unbearable conditions for Jasper like shoes that didn't fit, that hurt his feet, hunger from not enough rations given to black soldiers not to mention the treatment from their white counterparts. I could go on and on and still couldn't give a complete picture of the misery. Jasper was strong and endured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jasper made it through the war and came back home to marry and start a family. He was also very active in the community and church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On October 28th 1869 just 4 years after emancipation and the civil war he married Dollie Irving Barr Thompson. (Barr was Dollie's fathers surname, she was officially given her mothers surname of Irving).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dollie and Jasper had 17 children over a period of thirty plus years. Most of their children would become successful in their own right. Their kids would attend Storer College. Solomon and Jasper Jr would attend medical school. Solomon at Fordham University and Howard University Medical School and Jasper Jr would attend MeHarry Medical School becoming doctors. Solomon being a co-founder of the first black hospital in Kansas and later him and Jasper"Jack" would go into business together. Marie would become a nurse in Chicago. Franklin became a Red Cap in California for Amtrak. Sadie's daughter became an owner of a funeral parlor with her husband. Louise married a man who owned his own barbershop in Philadelphia. William became a sexton of a church in Philadelphia. My great grandmother Frances started out a maid and went to school and became a professional baker who was hired by a lot of rich white families to bake for their functions and events. Margaret the youngest lived at home and became involved in the community. The children that I did not mention I either have no information or they died at young age. Dolly had to be such an amazingly strong woman to have lost young children and a husband and still raise successful children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September 6 1906 would be the last day that Jasper would be with his family. After everything he endured during the civil war and I'm sure all of the close calls he had its ironic that he would end up being shot by his neighbor. When I was young, I didn't know the neighbor shot him. The story I heard was that he was shot and killed and his horse brought him home but they didn't know who did it. I wonder why it was passed down that they didn't know unless Dollie just didn't tell the younger children what happened. That seems possible. Today we have access to a lot of information and as soon as they find out about the story, the picture is posted on television and spread but that wasn't the case in 1906. So I guess I understand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second story also seemed to favor Marion so needless to say I'm really pissed off about the way this was reported. From the pension reports it seems like Jasper had a hard time getting around because of his disabilities..kidney problems, rheumatism and more. The army doctors said if he over exerted himself that it could cause paralysis. I also understand that I would just assume my great great grandfather is innocent and I will continue to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a period of grieving, Dollie had to apply for Jasper's pension. She tried to take care of things but it was hard with the loss of her husband and 2 young children still at home. One being my great grandmother. Dollie did keep it up because that house stayed in the family until the loss of the last Thompson child Margaret in 1974 when my grandmother Marie's brother, Uncle Maurice sold the family home. All of the family had moved away and he would go down there often and take care of things but he was getting older and could no longer keep up with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looks like Dolly affectionately called her husband, my great great grandfather Jasper "Soldier"....I found that out by reading her testimony below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Testimony of my great great grandmother Dolly Irvin Thompson so that she could receive his pension from the Civil War when he passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Margaret Virginia Thompson was born Sept 8 1894, (my great grandmother Frances Thompson youngest sister,) she calls herself Virginia. It was September 6, 1906 and she was 12 years old while her father lay a corpse in our house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> None of our children has been baptized and christened and I know of no public record of their births. The midwife who attended me when Margaret and Frances was born is dead I had no physician on either occasion I have a bible record in our family bible of the birth of each of our children written in by "Soldier" soon after the birth of each child occurrence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I show you this record. "Soldier" carried a small life insurance in the Metropolitan Life Insurance company of New York, paying 10 cents per week as premium and I received $72 in full of his policy. This was the only life insurance he carried. He had made no will before his death at his death he owned 3 acres of land on which was a 2 story framed house</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of br___, situated about 1/2 mile from the city as a ___ cash value held of house, soldier paid $95 per acre for the land and the house cost $300. The land is clear and all set out in fruits apples and pears chiefly. I have had $16.00 from sales of fruit last year, its not been a good year for fruit. This year the cold weather we are having makes the prospect of a crop very doubtful. I have had to borrow $250, two years ago this coming June to keep up the place and pay taxes etc. I carry in insurance on the house that cost me $5 per every three years. the policy on the house has a year to run yet. The $200 cabin is from the building association, costs me $3.95 per month to carry it. I have had no other revenue from this land aside from fruit save corn and fodder enough to supply my cow and horse. Soldier owned a horse worth $60 a cow worth $30.. I sold the cow for the same this last year and bought another cow for $25. My son traded the horse away a spay nothing for"......<i>(the handwriting in some of the report was illegible). </i></span><br />
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-22327266790331057322018-01-25T09:50:00.000-08:002018-04-02T11:57:08.321-07:00Finding William: The update on William Henry Preston my mysterious paternal great grandfather. Journey of my Preston Family of Warrenton Fauquier county Virginia<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="P14_AUX_220_256" src="https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/1093/media/548b2166-5ad7-43b3-b720-ba036f4bebf3.jpg?client=Trees&imageQuality=hq&maxWidth=1349&maxHeight=613" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's been an emotional long tedious tortuous exuberant exciting exhausting endless laborious tiresome intriguing thrilling journey. How many adjectives and antonyms can I use to express the ups and downs of our journey and trying to find our connection? I could keep going on. If you are a genealogist hot on a trail then you understand the struggle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let me start at the beginning and bring you up to date. This journey began some time ago, I've been searching for my paternal great grandfather William Henry Preston. My grandmother's maiden name was Marie E Preston her father disappeared when she was young leaving behind my great grandmother Frances Thompson Preston and my grandmother Marie and her 2 younger sisters Bernice and Theresa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last but not least, I did find that my William H Preston was in the service. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #36322d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 23.2px;">M</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">y search now is to find a document that shows me his service record and maybe some type of pension application.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #36322d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;">Finally I took an ancestry dna test and lo and behold, one of my very first and highest matches was someone researching the last name Preston...my my my, I thought that I was finally going to hit the jackpot with information on my William. I reached out and t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his was the message that I first sent, I still had this copy in ancestry...I really need to delete some of my emails (lol!) but I'm glad I kept this because it came in handy for this blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Anyway, I received a response that very first day and I was so excited</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;">Hello, cousin! :-) </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 23.2px;" /><span style="color: #36322d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;">(some words.......)</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 23.2px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;">Anywho, I would LOVE to talk. Prolly not today but here is my number, leave your number as well. Let's try for tomorrow.......</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was the beginning of our journey which we are still on today. I did find a great cousin, we talk on the phone often and we research together.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lisa's father is a 3rd cousin match to me, I know a lot of my 3rd cousins so that is a close match, We believe our connection is through Hamilton Hampton Preston. We are 99.999 percent sure that it is through our Preston line because Lisa has had several family members test and me and my brother and daughter match only the Prestons.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.2px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2px;">Lisa is very knowledgeable about her Preston Line and knows that her great grandfather is Hamilton Hampton Preston and her Preston family is from Warrenton, Fauquier county Virginia the very same place the draft card says my William Henry Preston was born. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #36322d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.2px;">The next step in my research I found a social security document for William Henry Preston and it has his fathers name close to Hamilton or Hampton, his mother is unknown to Lisa and my belief from the beginning was that William may have been Hamilton's outside child or from a previous marriage because William is older than Hamilton's children in Lisa's line. There are a number of scenarios and theories of how we connect.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a long time I thought this was transcribed incorrectly because she said her great grandfathers name was Hamilton Hampton Preston and the transcription said Halmpampto, so I wrote ancestry quite a few times about the incorrect</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After months and months, maybe a year or so of researching, sending for documents and files, I finally believe I have found Williams parents...I'm almost positive except this document says born in Cleveland OH? and lives in Syracuse NY? I still have a few more trips to DC to do some research but I'm 99 percent sure that these are my William and his parents. Oh and update me and Lisa finally met in person and even went on a trip to Virginia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One last update that may really help my research. Bernice Preston, my grandmothers sister, has a daughter still alive and well in her 80's she just tested with an ancestry dna site and we are awaiting her results. She is a generation closer than me. I am Williams great granddaughter but she is Williams granddaughter...so another update is coming. Stay tuned!</span><br />
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Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-16377392747334067972014-12-18T22:08:00.003-08:002016-09-19T21:19:54.622-07:00Journey through my Thompson Family History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm starting out with Original Jasper Thompson(born about 1770) because he is as far back as I can go with the Thompson's right now but as you will see from my family documents he is not as far back as I can go in the family. You will notice in the handwritten account that I acutally have names of my direct descendants from Africa on my 4x's great grandmothers side Haney Richardson that married Fortune Thompson, Jasper's son. </span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Side note: I call him Orignial Jasper because there is more than one Jasper and also there is more than one Solomon.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Great grandparents: William Preston - Frances Thompson</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Great great grandparents: Jasper Thompson - Dolly Irving</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4x's great grandparents: Fortune Thompson- Haney Richardson</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5x's great grandparents: Boson Richardson - Hannah</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My 3x's great grandmother: Eliza Gray's parents are</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4x's great grandparents: Harry Gray and Fanny</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5x's great grandparents: Mingo - Jenny/Janney </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First let me tell you how I discovered this amazing documented handwritten account of my family tree. I have been researching my family for a while but just lately I connected with a "Joyceann Gray". We didn't know, but we were related by marriage, during the course of our research we found 3 of her distant cousins married to my great aunt, my great uncle and great grandmother<i>(I was shocked about my great grandmother because this person was my ggrandmothers 3rd husband and I didn't even know she was married 3 times.) </i>One day I happened to mention that <i>(Solomon H Thompson my great grandma Frances brother)</i> has some family papers at the University and I had a quote from the University for quite some time but I hadn't ordered it yet, so she responded "Send me the email." I sent her the email and she responded once again and said "I went on and ordered it I hope that was ok." I was suprised and excited!!! I didn't know what to expect and Joyceann was hoping to find something, as a researcher we want to check every source. I never expected to find what was contained in the documents when they came back, my ENTIRE family history from the Thompson side was written out on just a few pieces of paper. It looked like the pages were from a Family Bible. My direct line of descendants were written out from one of my Great grand aunts or uncles who more than likely received the information straight from my Great great grandparents Jasper Thompson or Dolly Irvin. (My Great great grandfather Jasper Thompson husband of Dolly Irvin born 1847 was the last of the Thompson's on the Washington plantation)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Original Jasper Thompson Born about 1770 freed in 1813 by the will of Elizabeth Ariss. If you look at the document right below you will see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it says Fortune Thompson was on the Eric Estates, but I believe he meant the Ariss Estates something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was lost in translation probably with the accent but this all checks out.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This handwritten account is from the collection of My Great grand uncles Family papers they were donated by Solomon H Thompson Jr and his wife to a University.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to this handwritten account from "one of my ancestors, our family were enslaved by the Washington family for several generations. Jasper was freed from the Ariss Estates in 1813 <i>document above</i> Fortune was born on the Claymont Court Plantation. Solomon was born at Blakely right across from Claymont. Jenny was Jane Charlotte Washington's slave. Harry was a slave to someone named LT Davenport and was sold to Jeff Davis(I'm assuming Jefferson Davis) who ripped him from his family and traded him for a coachman and then later he was sent to Georgia where he died.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/casper.html">http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/casper.html</a> (This is the site where I found the table of slaves from the Washington family) Please check out this site when you get a chance.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">Washington generation #1: Bushrod’s parents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JAW 1 = John Augustine Washington: father of Bushrod Washington; brother of George Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">HBW = Hannah Bushrod Washington: wife of John Augustine Washington (I)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">Washington generation #2: Bushrod’s generation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BW = Bushrod Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JABW = Julia Ann Blackburn Washington: wife of Bushrod Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">WAW = William Augustine Washington: brother-in-law of Bushrod Washington; husband of Jane (Jenny) Washington, Bushrod’s sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JAW 2 = John Augustine Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; inherited historic part of Mount Vernon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BCW = Bushrod Corbin Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; younger brother of JAW 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">RHLW = Richard Henry Lee Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; elder brother of JAW 2; died 1817</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BWJ = Bushrod Washington “Junior”: actually Bushrod Washington’s nephew; son of Jane (Jenny) Washington and William Augustine Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">GCW = George Corbin Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Jane (Jenny) Washington and William Augustine Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">B&NH = Bushrod and Noblet Herbert: great-nephews of Bushrod Washington; sons of Bushrod’s deceased niece, Mary Lee Washington Herbert</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My 5 x's great grandparents Mingo and Jenny/Janney the parents of Fanny my 4x's great grandmother (Harry Gray's wife)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Harry and Fanny were the parents of Eliza Gray...Solomon Thompson's wife</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jenny was Jane Charlotte Washington's slave it says it in the handwritten account and in the book clip below</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It gave me a really quick glance of my 5x's great grandparents and grand aunts and uncles</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Boson and Hannah my 5x's great grandparents..the child Hannah they called "Haney"(wife of Fortune Thompson)...not to get mixed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">up with her sister Henrietta they call "Henny"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know they called her Haney because her name is on her son' Solomon's death register Doc #1 Line 41 Sol Thompson Doc #2 line 41 parents "Fortune and Haney " and son Jasper Thompson gave the information.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just a little detail on some of the historical figure names that you see </span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>John and Elizabeth Ariss</b></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Architect">Architect</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">John Ariss</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (sometimes spelled Ayres) (1725–1799) were born in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_County,_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Westmoreland County, Virginia">Westmoreland County, Virginia</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> to a family long settled in the Old Dominion.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ariss#cite_note-1" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ariss#cite_note-2" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Two of his works have been classified as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmarks</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. A rare surviving, documented example of his work is </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller%27s_Rest_(Kearneysville,_West_Virginia)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Traveller's Rest (Kearneysville, West Virginia)">Traveller's Rest</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearneysville,_West_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kearneysville, West Virginia">Kearneysville, West Virginia</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, which he designed as a farmstead home for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="General">General</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Gates" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Horatio Gates">Horatio Gates</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. He is also believed to have designed the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Palladianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="North American Palladianism">Neo-Palladian</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_(house)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Estate (house)">estate</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Airy,_Richmond_County,_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia">Mount Airy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, located in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_County,_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Richmond County, Virginia">Richmond County, Virginia</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> on Virginia's </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Neck" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Northern Neck">Northern Neck</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jane Charlotte Washington (Blackburn)</span></i></h2>
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<tr><td class="quiet nowrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 5px 2px 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></td><td itemprop="death" itemscope="" itemtype="http://historical-data.org/Event" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 5px 2px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Died <time datetime="1855-09-06" itemprop="startDate">September 6, 1855</time> in <span itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name">Blakeley, Jefferson, Virginia</span><span itemprop="address" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span content="" itemprop="addressLocality"></span><span content="" itemprop="addressRegion"></span><span content="" itemprop="addressCountry"></span></span><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"><span content="" itemprop="latitude"></span><span content="" itemprop="longitude"></span></span></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Daughter of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649974725" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85069035}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Blackburn/6000000002649974725" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Richard Scott Blackburn</a> and <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649974730" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85069037}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Judith-Blackburn/6000000002649974730" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Judith Blackburn</a><br />Wife of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649950531" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85068221}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/John-Washington/6000000002649950531" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">John Augustine Washington, II</a><br />Mother of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000004047819480" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:103172126}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/George-Washington/6000000004047819480" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">George Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000004047814761" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:103171907}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Maria-Thomasina-Blackburn-Washington/6000000004047814761" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649950562" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85068228}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Christian-Washington/6000000002649950562" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Christian Scott Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000012601239669" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:173281377}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Lt-Col-John-Augustine-Washington-lll/6000000012601239669" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Lt. Col. John Augustine Washington, lll</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649925982" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85066890}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Washington/6000000002649925982" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Richard Scott Blackburn Washington</a><span id="tr8n_other_link_f784bd57027b5bb5f"> and <a href="http://www.geni.com/people/Jane-Charlotte-Blackburn/6000000002649950539#" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">1 other</a></span><br />Sister of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000008779373260" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:137490375}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Blackburn/6000000008779373260" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've accumulated so much information on my Thompson family. All of the information tells me they were right smack dab in the middle of history and historical events that most people only read about. Like Dolly Irving my Great great grandmother who was there to witness the hanging of John Brown after his Raid on Harpers Ferry, that story was passed down to us orally from Grandma Marie Crippen who received it first hand because she lived in West Virginia with Grandma Dolly. The association with the Washington siblings that they had to see and work for everyday, Jefferson Davis who tore apart my 5x's ggrandfather from his family. I never heard of some of the names in the family documents before now but in the course of my research found that some of those names were historical figures. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In conclusion, I have to say that with everything that was done to this family they were strong and perserved and some even went on to make history themselves.</span>Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-82499416322974410922014-12-18T22:08:00.002-08:002016-09-19T20:54:21.205-07:00Journey through my Thompson Family History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm starting out with Original Jasper Thompson(born about 1770) because he is as far back as I can go with the Thompson's right now but as you will see from my family documents he is not as far back as I can go in the family. You will notice in the handwritten account that I acutally have names of my direct descendants from Africa on my 4x's great grandmothers side Haney Richardson that married Fortune Thompson, Jasper's son. </span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Side note: I call him Orignial Jasper because there is more than one Jasper and also there is more than one Solomon.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Grandparents: Herbert Crippen - Marie Preston</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Great grandparents: William Preston - Frances Thompson</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Great great grandparents: Jasper Thompson - Dolly Irving</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Great great great grandparents: Solomon Thompson - Eliza Gray</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4x's great grandparents: Fortune Thompson- Haney Richardson</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5x's great grandfather: Jasper Thompson - unknown grandmother</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my 4x's great grandmother: Haney Richardson's side goes back to africa </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5x's great grandparents: Boson Richardson - Hannah</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6x's great grandparents: Furrow - Penny (direct descendants from Africa)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My 3x's great grandmother: Eliza Gray's parents are</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4x's great grandparents: Harry Gray and Fanny</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5x's great grandparents: Mingo - Jenny/Janney </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(view visiual chart below - it starts from my Great great grandparents generation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">First let me tell you how I discovered this amazing documented handwritten account of my family tree. I have been researching my family for a while but just lately I connected with a cousin "Joyceann Gray". We didn't know we were related, but during the course of our research we found several names that matched up through marriages. One day I happened to mention that (Solomon H Thompson the grandson born in 1870: Grandma Frances brother) has some family papers at the University and I had a quote from the University but I hadn't ordered it yet, so she responded send me the email, well I sent Joyceann the email and she responded once again and said I went on and ordered it I hope that was ok. I was suprised and excited!!! We were both excited because since we've been finding connections we both figured we might find some family information that would help. I never expected to find what we found when the documents came back. I'll let Joyceann tell you her side and what she found but my ENTIRE family history from the Thompson side was written out on just a few pieces of paper. It looked like the pages were from a Family Bible. My direct line of descendants were written out from one of my Great grand aunts or uncles who more than likely received the information straight from my Great great grandparents Jasper Thompson or Dolly Irvin. (My Great great grandfather Jasper Thompson husband of Dolly Irvin born 1847 was the last of the Thompson's on the Washington plantation)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Original Jasper Thompson Born about 1770 freed in 1813 by the will of Elizabeth Ariss. If you look at the document right below you will see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">it says Fortune Thompson was on the Eric Estates, but I believe he meant the Ariss Estates something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was lost in translation probably with the accent but this all checks out.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This handwritten account is from the collection of My Great grand uncles Family papers they were donated by Solomon H Thompson Jr and his wife to a University.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to this handwritten account from "one of my ancestors, our family were enslaved by the Washington family for several generations. Jasper was freed from the Ariss Estates in 1813 <i>document above</i> Fortune was born on the Claymont Court Plantation. Solomon was born at Blakely right across from Claymont. Jenny was Jane Charlotte Washington's slave. Harry was a slave to someone named LT Davenport and was sold to Jeff Davis(I'm assuming Jefferson Davis) who ripped him from his family and traded him for a coachman and then later he was sent to Georgia where he died.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/casper.html">http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/casper.html</a> (This is the site where I found the table of slaves from the Washington family) Please check out this site when you get a chance.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">Washington generation #1: Bushrod’s parents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JAW 1 = John Augustine Washington: father of Bushrod Washington; brother of George Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">HBW = Hannah Bushrod Washington: wife of John Augustine Washington (I)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">Washington generation #2: Bushrod’s generation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BW = Bushrod Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JABW = Julia Ann Blackburn Washington: wife of Bushrod Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">WAW = William Augustine Washington: brother-in-law of Bushrod Washington; husband of Jane (Jenny) Washington, Bushrod’s sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">JAW 2 = John Augustine Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; inherited historic part of Mount Vernon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BCW = Bushrod Corbin Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; younger brother of JAW 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">RHLW = Richard Henry Lee Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Corbin and Hannah Lee Washington; elder brother of JAW 2; died 1817</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">BWJ = Bushrod Washington “Junior”: actually Bushrod Washington’s nephew; son of Jane (Jenny) Washington and William Augustine Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">GCW = George Corbin Washington: nephew of Bushrod Washington; son of Jane (Jenny) Washington and William Augustine Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;">B&NH = Bushrod and Noblet Herbert: great-nephews of Bushrod Washington; sons of Bushrod’s deceased niece, Mary Lee Washington Herbert</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fanny (wife of Harry Gray) my 4x's great grandmother , daughter Eliza Gray my 3x's great grandmother (wife of Solomon Thompson)and Eliza's sisters my 3rd great grand aunts...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Son of Mingo and Jenny, he is my 4th great grand uncle</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My 5 x's great grandparents Mingo and Jenny/Janney the parents of Fanny my 4x's great grandmother (Harry Gray's wife)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Harry and Fanny were the parents of Eliza Gray...Solomon Thompson's wife</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jenny was Jane Charlotte Washington's slave it says it in the handwritten account and in the book clip below</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It gave me a really quick glance of my 5x's great grandparents and grand aunts and uncles</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Boson and Hannah my 5x's great grandparents..the child Hannah they called "Haney"(wife of Fortune Thompson)...not to get mixed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">up with her sister Henrietta they call "Henny"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know they called her Haney because her name is on her son' Solomon's death register Doc #1 Line 41 Sol Thompson Doc #2 line 41 parents "Fortune and Haney " and son Jasper Thompson gave the information.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>John and Elizabeth Ariss</b></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Architect">Architect</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">John Ariss</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (sometimes spelled Ayres) (1725–1799) were born in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_County,_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Westmoreland County, Virginia">Westmoreland County, Virginia</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> to a family long settled in the Old Dominion.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ariss#cite_note-1" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ariss#cite_note-2" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> Two of his works have been classified as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmarks</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. A rare surviving, documented example of his work is </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller%27s_Rest_(Kearneysville,_West_Virginia)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Traveller's Rest (Kearneysville, West Virginia)">Traveller's Rest</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearneysville,_West_Virginia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kearneysville, West Virginia">Kearneysville, West Virginia</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, which he designed as a farmstead home for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="General">General</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Gates" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Horatio Gates">Horatio Gates</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. 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<tr><td class="quiet nowrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 5px 2px 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></td><td itemprop="death" itemscope="" itemtype="http://historical-data.org/Event" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 5px 2px 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Died <time datetime="1855-09-06" itemprop="startDate">September 6, 1855</time> in <span itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name">Blakeley, Jefferson, Virginia</span><span itemprop="address" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span content="" itemprop="addressLocality"></span><span content="" itemprop="addressRegion"></span><span content="" itemprop="addressCountry"></span></span><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"><span content="" itemprop="latitude"></span><span content="" itemprop="longitude"></span></span></span></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Daughter of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649974725" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85069035}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Blackburn/6000000002649974725" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Richard Scott Blackburn</a> and <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649974730" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85069037}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Judith-Blackburn/6000000002649974730" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Judith Blackburn</a><br />Wife of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649950531" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85068221}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/John-Washington/6000000002649950531" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">John Augustine Washington, II</a><br />Mother of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000004047819480" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:103172126}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/George-Washington/6000000004047819480" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">George Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000004047814761" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:103171907}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Maria-Thomasina-Blackburn-Washington/6000000004047814761" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649950562" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85068228}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Christian-Washington/6000000002649950562" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Christian Scott Washington</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000012601239669" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:173281377}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Lt-Col-John-Augustine-Washington-lll/6000000012601239669" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Lt. Col. John Augustine Washington, lll</a>; <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000002649925982" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:85066890}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Washington/6000000002649925982" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Richard Scott Blackburn Washington</a><span id="tr8n_other_link_f784bd57027b5bb5f"> and <a href="http://www.geni.com/people/Jane-Charlotte-Blackburn/6000000002649950539#" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">1 other</a></span><br />Sister of <a bypass_newsfeed_helper="true" class="tipped-tip " data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-position="topleft" data-profile-id="6000000008779373260" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-remote-params="{public_id:137490375}" data-show-delay="800" data-skin="hovercard" data-template="hover.profile" href="http://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Blackburn/6000000008779373260" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've accumulated so much information on my Thompson family. All of the information tells me they were right smack dab in the middle of history and historical events that most people only read about. Like Dolly Irving my Great great grandmother who was there to witness the hanging of John Brown after his Raid on Harpers Ferry, that story was passed down to us orally from Grandma Marie Crippen who received it first hand because she lived in West Virginia with Grandma Dolly. The association with the Washington siblings that they had to see and work for everyday, Jefferson Davis who tore apart my 5x's ggrandfather from his family. I never heard of some of the names in the family documents before now but in the course of my research found that some of those names were historical figures. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In conclusion, I have to say that with everything that was done to this family they were strong and perserved and some even went on to make history themselves.</span>Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-60463138866806008902014-09-30T20:49:00.000-07:002018-04-18T21:47:15.267-07:00Solomon Thompson's parents another generation found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Solomon Thompson my 3x's great grandfather born about 1822 he lived in Jefferson County, West Virginia. I say "born about" because there are some conflicting dates, but anyone that has worked on African american research knows that our information is a real struggle to find and to find it accurate is almost impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My research on the Thompson Family has taken me back to another generation of grandparents my 4x's great grands!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, if you follow my blog you all know the story of Jasper in the Civil War, Jasper and Dolly's children and then Jasper's murder mystery and how Jim Surkamp helped me solve the family mystery of over 100 plus years, well now I have met someone new, Sarah Brown, who reached out to me because of one of my blogs where I mentioned Jim Surkamp and she led me to a whole new wealth of information. I won't go into details at this time but they are very exciting and I will blog about it all at a later date so stay tuned!!! Thank you so much Sarah Brown!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, back to the story of my Thompson family and the research which led me back. I had slacked up on the search for a while, you know how you get frustrated because you hit a brick wall and you don't know where to go from there, but after Sarah contacted me she gave me leads and then Jim gave me leads, I started digging again and that took me to another generation of grandparents.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It mentions Thompson and Henry..we believe this is Solomon Thompson<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solomon is on here hired out to a family member last name Alexander</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solomon is right here under Henry 1854 inventory list</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">enlarged view of Solomon hired out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1854 inventory with Solomon listed.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second photo shows a death certificate for a Richard R Thompson and you will notice the name of the father is "Fortune Thompson" yaaaay this is Solomon's brother Richard. Jim asked me did I know Matilda Thompson? I knew the name because she is in my Thompson family bible. I noticed the name of the informant on Richard's death certificate "Mary Lee Johnson" and I noticed that Mary Lee Johnson was affiliated with Matilda Thompson and Matilda was the sister of Richard....wow!!!! (I have to say that Richard definitely does have a sister Matilda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1900 Richard is living with his sister Matilda Thompson, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1910 he is living with his niece and nephew-in-law and their daughter Mary L Johnson, Matilda's daughter and son in-law and granddaughter and in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1920 with great niece Mary Lee Johnson in Kabletown West Virginia but I don't know if this is the Matilda Thompson that was owned by slave owner BWH</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The information I received on Matilda Thompson from Jim Surkamp: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">B</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">WH lived at Claymont, WV in 1850 and 1860. BWH was about 45 in 1860, Matilda was enslaved and lived at Claymont she had a child born who died after six months in about 1856 she was listed as being owned by bwh in 1888 in his will bwh left the house prospect hill to "her daughter" Eliza on the condition that Ellen could live there also and a house was left to her brother Richard.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My family history comes alive to me when I can put a face to a name so this is the order in which I'm related to <b>Fortune Thompson</b> and I have put a face with the name, of course there are more descendants some are close family and others I am still searching for but for now this is my direct line..... today is a good day... :-)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me - Monique Crippen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(My dad) James Crippen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(My grandmom) Marie Preston-Crippen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(My great-grandmom) Frances Thompson-Preston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(My great great grandfather) Jasper Thompson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(My 3x's great-grandfather) Solomon Thompson<br />
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-47517024879419444892014-07-21T22:02:00.000-07:002018-04-18T21:47:15.223-07:00The murder of my great great grandfather Jasper Thompson<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;">OMG!!! There has been a break in the case, after 108 years a family mystery has finally been solved!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"> It all started when I was going back over the research for my gggrandfather Jasper Thompson. He was in the civil war </span><strong class="_36" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_356" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=129442587128980&extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/23rd-Regiment-United-States-Colored-Troops/129442587128980" id="js_357" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer;">23rd Regiment United States Colored Troops</a></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">, so I figured I'll check to see what else I could find on him and started to </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Google</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> his name. Well, I found a site that I previously hadn't seen, if I did, I don't remember checking it out before. It was called </span><a href="http://civilwarscholars.com/2013/12/154-african-sons-of-jefferson-county-in-blue-coats/" style="line-height: 20px;">130 African Sons of Jefferson County . . . in Blue Coats by .Jim Surkamp</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 20px;"> I found my great great grandfather Jasper Thompson's <i>(paternal side)</i> name on the page and I was excited to see it, so I wrote to Mr Jim Surkamp to thank him. Well, what happened next I never expected, after I wrote he replied and then he wrote and attached 2 newspaper clips.... what I saw written in those newspaper clips left me speechless!! </span></span><br />
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Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-86709073206300360002014-03-07T19:58:00.001-08:002016-04-10T15:19:54.744-07:00The story of my Great Uncle Solomon H Thompson Sr<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My great grandma Frances Thompson Preston, my grandmom Marie Preston Crippen's mother. I remember her so well, I was somewhere around the age of 9 yrs old at the time of her passing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grandma Frances brother Solomon H Thompson Sr was a co-founder of the Douglass Hospital in Kansas city Kansas, one of the first black hospitals in Kansas. <i>Side note: I did a blog on Jasper Thompson, below are 3 of Jasper and Dolly's children. They were born in Charles Town, West Virginia, I believe they both attended Storer College. </i></span></div>
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Thompson Family Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS 510, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries</div>
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Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-42480036583417593352014-02-10T19:05:00.000-08:002014-02-10T19:25:34.045-08:00PART ONE: The obituary collection that my mother has kept.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mother since she was a little girl has always been the family historian. She knows the family history on both sides of my family because she was only 13 when her and my dad started "courting" as she says it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Everything that I learned about my family history has been from her or documents I have found and study and research. A lot of older people don't really like to talk, but my mother loves too, she has what you call "the gift of gab". </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She calls and keeps in contact with the older cousins and they just volunteer everything to her, but when I ask.....(I hear crickets. lol!!!) I get my mom to make all the phone calls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> My mom realized along time ago that obituaries have tons of family history and important information, I only just realized that lately when I started doing the research and family history. I feel like the torch is being passed because now I want to know and learn everything I can and how everyone is related in my family. But anyway, I really just wanted to share these with you all in case you have some family here.</span></div>
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Side note: Some of the women's maiden names are not included on the cover of the obituary.</div>
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-76235407615618026532014-01-24T23:26:00.001-08:002014-02-25T23:41:35.555-08:00While rooting through my family photos I found a Negro League Treasure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a family history buff and I love old photos especially old family photos. I was looking through my grandparents photo album that was passed down to me because, pretty much nobody else was interested but me. I came across these Negro league photos. I can only assume that one of my grandmothers aunts or uncles attended a practice or a game or knew someone on the team to get these photos. After talking it over with my mom, brothers and husband, I finally decided to sell them at an auction, I figured I scanned them and have them in folders on my pc and on backup harddrives so it would be ok to auction them and that's what I did, but I just wanted to share my Negro League photos with you all. Hope you enjoy!! </span></div>
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-35437284818561256942014-01-24T16:57:00.000-08:002014-11-20T13:46:49.295-08:00My gggrandfather Jasper Thompson the civil war veteran<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jasper Thompson was born in 1847 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia right near Charles Town. Jasper was born to Solomon Thompson 27 yrs old at the time and Eliza Grey who was 22. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At 20 he enlisted March 29, 1864 and was soon appointed corporal in December and made First Sergeant the next February. He was honorably discharged at Brazos Santiago, Texas in November 1865 from the 23rd USCT. Four years later he would marry my gggrandmother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Jan 3, 1869 he married Dolly Ann Irvin where they had 12 surviving children during their marriage. My grandma Dolly was there to witness first hand the hanging of John Brown. I don't know if my grandpa Jasper was present or not I assume he was, he was born and raised in Harpers Ferry and would have been a teenager at the time. I wonder if that is what inspired my grandfather to join the service or not. I imagine that would be a huge factor. (Pictured below 10 of the 12 surviving children of Jasper and Dolly </span><br />
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Grandma Dolly said that her real last name was Barr<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louise Thompson Sanders owned a beauty shop in Phila PA</td></tr>
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Thompson, Jasper<br />
NAME: 23rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry<br />
SIDE: Union:<br />
COMPANY: F<br />
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private<br />
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: First Sergeant<br />
FILM NUMBER: M589 roll 86<br />
NOTES:<br />
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL:<br />
DISPLAYED AS: Jasper Thompson<br />
PLAQUE NUMBER: B-40
Regiment Details<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS 23rd Regiment, </span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">United States Colored Infantry OVERVIEW: </span></i></i></div>
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</i><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Organized at Camp Casey, Va., November 23, 1863, to June 30, 1864. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac, April to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps, to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps, December, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps, and Dept. of Texas, to November, 1865.
SERVICE:-Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va., May and June, 1864. Guarding wagon trains Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness. Before Petersburg June 15-18. Siege of Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864. Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Fort Sedgwick September 28. Poplar Grove Church September 29-30. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Bermuda Hundred December 13. Duty on the Bermuda Hundred front till March, 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Hatcher's Run March 29-31. Fall ofPetersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty in Dept of Virginia till May. Moved to Texas May-June. Duty at Brownsville and along the Rio Grande, Texas, till November. Mustered out November 30, 1865. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 82 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 165 Enlisted men by disease. Total 252.RIN: MH:N2. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He died in 1906 in his hometown, at the age of 59. It was said that Jasper was stern you could even say he was mean according to the neighbors and townfolk. I don't know if he was that way towards his family, I've never heard that he was but anyway, he went into town one day and later that night his body was brought home by his horse. Someone in town shot him and the family never knew what happened to him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jasper was buried in Fairview-Gibsontown Cemetery in Charles Town. My question about his death, did they shoot him in the back while he was getting on his horse, or did they shoot him and then lay his body on the horse for it to carry him home? </span><br />
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Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-35617876706656279342014-01-19T00:30:00.000-08:002016-09-10T07:28:35.525-07:00Laura Corbin Crippen and sons get arrested<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whenever the Crippen family had a gathering at my grandparents house I could feel the excitement, at ten years old walking up the front steps to my grandparents house ringing the bell, walking through the vestibule then through the second door entering their home. Once you entered you could walk straight into the living room or through a little small hallway between the living room and dining room. I used to imagine it was a secret passage way. Herbert (grandpop) in his chair in the corner closest to the opening between the living and dining room and of course near the television and Marie (grandmom) in her chair in the corner nearest to the front window so she could look out, some cousins in the dining room playing pinochle and some in the kitchen making plates.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ann Rhodes-McBride wife of Melvin McBride and Melvin's sister Helen McBride their mother was Harriet Corbin-McBride first cousins to Laura, Carl, etc. Helen sitting in <b> my grandfathers chair</b> in the corner near the opening of the living room and dining room</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We all have memories of our families some good, some bad, this one is more comical than anything. These are the stories that bring our family history to life. My grandpop Herbert , grandmom Marie and my grandfather's siblings were all so funny, always telling stories and jokes or busting someone's chops just to make you laugh. We would gather all the time for Pinochle or Pokeno, drinks and laughter.... The Crippen/Corbin family was such a happy family, people would always want to come over to my grandparents house just to hang out, old and young alike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This story begins in the 1950-60s in West Philadelphia around the Fairmount area. My grandfather's two brother affectionately called Uncle Fats and Uncle Snags not sure if Uncle Snags used to run numbers but Uncle Fats did, they were young still living at home at my great-grandmother Laura's house. Uncle Fats and Uncle Snags were Laura's two youngest sons so when all of this was going on she was in her 70s' or 80's, she even started smoking in her 80's. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyway, the cops had raided the house a couple of times, but this one time in particular they came in and raided the place, people scattered everywhere like bugs. The police tried to get Fats and Snags and that was Laura's que to start fighting the cops. Laura wasn't going to let nobody mess with her sons, she was like a Lioness protecting her cubs. Laura's daughter-in-law (my grandma Marie) said she learned her lesson, don't nobody mess with Laura's children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> They were all taken out of the house and put into the patty wagon even Laura my great grandmother. Laura and Snags were in the patty wagon but Somehow Fats broke out of the patty wagon, jumped over the fence and took off down the alley leaving his brother and mom still sitting in there. Well when they arrived at the station and Laura and her son Snags appeared in front of the Judge, The cop told the judge that Laura had bit him in the midst of all of the chaos and the Judge asked "Mam did you bite the officer?" and she said, "Your honor, No sir I didn't bite him, I don't even have any teeth" she showed the judge and all you could see was gums. The judge let her go and my Uncle Snags. The police never did catch up to my Uncle Fats. That is my funny moment in Crippen history.</span>Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-40239837230341666722014-01-05T18:38:00.000-08:002014-01-05T18:52:51.955-08:00Remembering the unknown<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was sitting here thinking about who to write about next and I'm looking around the room and I see all the photos that I have from my paternal grandparents. In these albums are photos of some family friends and even some photos with no names. So I decided to share some of their photos...1. Just to honor them and...2. In the hopes that maybe someone may recognize them and they can find their way home.. I also do it, because I have ancestors that I have no photos of and would like to someday be able to view their photos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of these photos could be from the West Virginia or Philadelphia area. The news clips are from a West Virginia paper around the late 1920's early 1930's. (More photos to come in a future blog!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry was my <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grandpop Herbert's</span> brother. </span></span></span></span></span>Henry O. Crippen was born on Jan <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">11</span>, 1914 in Princess Anne, Maryland<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to George <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Laura(Corbin) Crippen. He was the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fifth</span> of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eight<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> children.</span></span></span></span> Henry wasn't<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the type of person that stood out from a crowd, not physically anyway<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span>he was average h<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eight, weight and complexion. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">L</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ooking at <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Uncle Henry</span> you wouldn't think he was an inventor, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and a great one at that.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span> You would</span> think he was the average person except he wore sunglasses all the time (I think he had <i>Photophobia</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">:</span> his eyes <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may have been</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sensitive</span> to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">light, not really sure). </span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nry always dressed with suit, a tie and a hat but that wasn't unusual. My grandfather and all of his brothers dressed that way most of the time.</span> </span></span></span></span>Henry may <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have looked average but his mind and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">entrepreneurial</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">skills</span></span> w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ere</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anything but</span> average. </span>Henry O. Crippen should be entered into the <i>Enc<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yclopedia of </span>Black History</i> for his most successful invention <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry Crippen completed the invention and start<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ed</span> his own business. His business beg<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an</span> to boom even though he ha<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">d</span> to endure some racial barriers<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry</span></span> was the only <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">African-American</span> in that industry at that time. The story below basically explains how successful his business had become<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,</span> </span>at one point he went from 6 employees to 31. He gained clients like Exxon, GE, Dupont, Amoco, Mobil and the list goes on. Even though his invention proved successful, he had to bid on the low end of jobs because "It is almost impossible to crack the large profitable jobs for which the plant is designed." Most often <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry</span> was asked to bid on the low-volume, low profit jobs that other firms could not or would not do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't even know all of this legal mumbo jumbo, but basically Uncle Henry told us that they copied his invention process but he wasn't rich enough to fight back. Henry said "they would rather pay more money than to pay a black man<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span> in that industry to do the job." In the end my uncle was comfortable but not rich. He ended up bankrupt dealing with these large firms in an industry where at the time I reiterate he was the only <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">African-A</span>merican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Henry Crippen was an inventor<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, innovator</span> and visionary and way ahead of his time <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but I'm sure he has opened doors for other African <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Americans</span> in that field and if I don't tell <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his story they will never know who <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">actually</span> came before them and on who<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">se sho<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ulders they stand.</span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<br />Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-65293822628139799202013-12-02T18:07:00.000-08:002016-08-18T22:25:16.531-07:00The Secrets behind our family name<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This story isn't one of a distant relative. This story is about my grandfather. Herbert Thomas Crippen (Sterling). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I know that you've noticed I added Sterling in parentheses, let me explain. My grandfather's parents were Laura Corbin of Princess Anne Maryland and George Crippen of Accomack Virginia married in 1902, 10 years later on </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 8th, 1912 in Princess Anne Maryland the 4th of 8 surviving children "Herbert Thomas Crippen" was born. The story passed down is that George was actually my grandfathers step dad. His real father is a white man that went by the last name Sterling. What was this relationship or non-relationship between Laura and the Sterling guy? </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sterling was said to be a Sheriff or hold some office in law.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> T</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here was even an incident where my grandfather had to make a delivery or something to the Sterling family's house and the mother saw him and said "What is your name?" He answered, "Herbert Crippen" and she replies "Oh yes, I know who you are." (What was that about? mmmmhhhh?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't know the situation with Laura and George Crippen. I've only see him in one census with her and that was in 1910 before my grandfather was born, she had other children after my grandfather and George is not in any other documentation with her or the younger siblings. So where is George Crippen? I have seen George Crippen's name in other documentation with other families, is this the same George Crippen? I don't know. Are my grandfather's younger siblings Crippen's since George wasn't in the picture? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Aunt Louise my grandfathers older sister, in a conversation with my mom one day while at the casino gave some interesting information. My mother was at the counter redeeming a prize and the lady behind the counter checked her license and saw the name Crippen, she also was a Crippen and was surprised because she never met any other Crippens, well that's what she told my mother. So my mother said "We'll my husband is the Crippen, but I have a true Crippen right here pointing her towards my Aunt Louise. So, the lady begins to ask my aunt questions and my aunt replied, she really didn't know too much about her dad and his family and the Crippen side. So that was pretty much the end of the conversation and she went back to her counter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Aunt Louise later said to my mother, "I didn't want to say anything but I heard that there were 3 sets of Crippen's". I suppose all stemming from George. I guess that is too embarrassing to tell a stranger as its a little awkward blogging about it. But as genealogist we all know that every family has its secrets and the only way we can ever truly know who's who is to talk about it and tell the truth. It really makes you question what other secrets there are. Now I have an idea why our ancestors don't like to give information and don't want to speak on the past. (Below are my grandfather's siblings. <i>Charles Crippen not shown</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven't started to research the Sterling name yet, because I was raised as a Crippen. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We were never raised around or known of any other Crippen's except for my grandfathers siblings and their decendants. We don't know any older family on the Crippen side except for George, but still, raised a Crippen. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I've thought about searching the Sterling's but not really sure if I want to know about them yet, even though that is my heritage, I might not like what I find. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I know of Laura Corbin and the Corbin ancestors, I will blog about the Corbin family from Princess Anne Maryland, Snowhill, Salisbury and Philadelphia PA at another time.</span>Nique Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04974434283059264972noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2126502307011154971.post-11042252706225046422013-11-21T23:00:00.000-08:002018-01-27T09:39:00.067-08:00The Story of William B. Robinson Sr my maternal great grandfather.<h4 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;">Nobody knows when he was born, where he came from, nor any members of his family. This story of William B Robinson begins and ends with him. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;">William B Robinson Sr. appeared one hot day (smile), I don't know if it was hot, but he did appear in the small town of Abbeville, Alabama one day also known as the City of Dogwoods for its groves of beautiful Dogwood trees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">I'm not exactly sure how my great-grandparents met, I can only speculate that it probably happened at a church meeting, him being a traveling Methodist minister and all. William Robinson and Fredonia Ward courted for a while and on July 16th 1904 in Union Springs Bullock County Alabama, about 60-70 miles from her hometown my maternal great grandparents were married. </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been said that it was a May-December wedding, William was a great deal older than Fredonia, he was closer to Fredonia's mother Rebecca Teague Ward Culver's (Grandma Becky) age. I haven't been able to find anything on William except the marriage document from Familysearch.org and a death index page in Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">My grandmother Willie B Robinson, the oldest daughter of William and Fredonia </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: left;">would say that she <i>never did know anything about her pappa</i>. You see, her mother passed away young, my grand mom was only 7 years old at the time of her mother's death with 3 younger siblings (Carrie Lee, William Jr and Blandon). William would travel from place to place leaving them with aunts and other members of their mother's family to care for them, separating the siblings by leaving them at different family members homes because 4 children was a great deal harder to take care of than one. My grandmom would say from time to time <i>"A motherless child sees a hard time."</i> I didn't realize what she meant when I was younger, looking back now I understand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Grandmom had a hard life, at the age of 13 William Sr gave permission for her to be married. I believe he thought she would be well taken care of while he traveled. That was her first marriage to Claudie Guilford. It was similar to the story of <i>Mister</i> and <i>Celie</i> from <i><b>"</b>The Color Purple<b>"</b></i> which should never have happened, but her aunts came and took her back with them just a few months later. (I'll blog about my grandmother's story at another time, but back to her father William Sr).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">William B Robinson Sr did settle down in later years in Wildwood Sumter County Florida where he owned a store and 30 acres of land which my uncle's children now own part. Acutally my great grandfather did divide the land between his four children, but I'm not exactly sure what happended to the land for 3 of them. William also married again while living in Florida to a woman named Sarah, to which I can find no documentation. In 1929 he fell ill and my grandmother took care of him until he passed away. After all of those years my grandmother never found out anything about him or his family history and so like I said the story begins and ends with him. For now........</span></div>
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Update: I found Information where it looks like his 2nd wife's name is Sarah Hankerson and William/W.B Robinson may have been born in 1872. He and Sarah were married Jan 18, 1917 Manatee Co Fl, he was 45 and she was 29</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So since I didn't know who to start with, I decided to start on one of my biggest brick walls. This story will be short but not so sweet. You see, I have been hearing stories over the years about my family from my mother who is the family historian and Griot, she knows the history from both sides of the family. My mom and dad had been dating since she was age 13. My mother has the gift of gab and knows just what questions to ask. The man you see below if I remember correctly is a picture of my paternal great grandfather</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, what I'm getting ready to tell you I didn't find out until just some months ago, but as I was doing my research I couldn't remember my great grandfathers name to research him so I found my grandmothers obituary and found his name...when I searched his name, I found a draft card from World War 1 1917-1918 . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I examined the draft card and found that this person was a Chauffeur with a wife and 3 children living in Washington DC, for some reason I never really knew or asked about my grandmothers dad, I guess because she never really talked about him, she mentioned other family members regularly but never him. I was young and never really paid attention, but apparently at some point she must have spoken of her father, because my mom and oldest brother knew the story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I told my mom what I found she said "yes," that my grandmom, her mother-in-law used to say her dad was a Chauffeur and they did live in DC for a time when she was a young girl. Great! I thought, this has to be him, then I found on familysearch.org some pages where there was a marriage between Frances Thompson my paternal great-grandmother and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">William Henry Preston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now I have an estimate of the year he was born. I asked my mother and oldest brother more questions, this is when I learned the rest of the story... At some point when my grandmother was a little girl, her father had left one day and no one ever knew where he went or what happened to him, they never heard anything else about him. Now I know I really need to search more intently because I would really like to get to the bottom of this mystery. The technology and access to documents and things that we have now, I thought surely, I should be able to find out something. To my surprise I think I might have found the mystery but I can't confirm anything yet and even if this is him the story is still sad. It looks like he may have been put in jail, my search led to some documents saying that there was a William Henry Preston of Washington DC put in jail, maybe sent to a penitentiary in Atlanta Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The time adds up, it was around the time that he had left, we believe that my grandmother said she was between the ages of 6-8 yrs old and she was born in 1912 making it 1918 - 1920 which would be right around the right time for the 31 year old William Preston #7850. So this is my brick wall for now. My next step is to send for these records and find out the truth. If this is him, I wish that my grandmother would have been here to know that he didn't leave them, he was taken away. But I know that he is back with his family and they are all together again, William, Frances, my grandmother Marie and her 2 sisters Bernice and Theresa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and their baby brother Maurice Dennis. His father was Roy Dennis whom I don't know anything about and that is another story for another day. </span></div>
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