| STORYTELLER |
LOCATION |
HOW YOU HEARD |
YEAR TOOK PLACE |
TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN |
WHAT IT'S ABOUT |
| Grandmother |
North Carolina |
paternal grandmother |
1700s |
North Carolina |
President John and Samuel Adams descendants |
| My grandmother told me this story |
Alabama |
Family legend |
1830s |
Native American Cherokee |
Native american story |
| mother |
East Tennessee to Somerset Kentucky |
told by my mother |
1900s |
Northeast Tennessee. |
amazing story about my grandfather. |
|
Louisiana |
family members research; oral history |
1900s |
Louisiana |
rich heritage |
|
Virgina and Ohio |
oral history and research |
1870s |
Originally from Ironton, Ohio |
It amazes me that I am only four generations from the slave era. |
| Cousins, aunts, uncles |
Sibley, Mississippi (Adams County) |
family history |
1900s |
Adams County, Mississippi |
great grandparents |
| My mother, aunts, uncles, and grandmother |
Mississippi |
passed down |
1890s |
Greenville and Greenwood Mississippi |
mothers fathers family |
| other family researchers |
French Louisiana Mobile, New Orleans, Opelousas |
louisiana archives published research |
1780s |
Louisiana |
fighting for freedom |
| My aunts |
|
Research |
|
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A black slave who became a surrogate mother |
| My father |
Laurens County, South Carolina and Little River County, Arkanass |
Oral History |
1880s |
Grandparents who were slaves |
Migration of family; name change |
