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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Eddye Taylor Fennell and Johnnye Taylor Thompson,Henry Taylor's daughters	Abbeville, South Carolina	This is documented in the archives of Abbeville, SC	1870s	Abbeville County, South Carolina	The Founding of Taylortown , South Carolina, a freed Black Community
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Cousin docummented story in a letter to my grandmother.	Natchez, Adams County, Kingston Precinct, Mississippi	I heard the story growing up and it was documented in a letter.	1880s	These ancestors, are from Kingston, Mississippi, via "Malagasy"	Stories of adversity and challenge
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Legal records & a cousin who was one of 1st black Texas legislators (1972)	Tennessee, Texas (Cherokee County)		1776	Texas	Documented Family History
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mother, cousins and at family reunion	Rockfarm Estate, Dinwiddie County, Virginia	documented story passed down over generations with gaps	1840s	Family's origin is Dinwiddie County, Virginia	unsanctioned interracial love
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My grandmother,my mother, my aunts, & also published in a newspaper.	In Augustus, Georgia and later retold in The LaFayette Sun Times 1951	oral history and documented material	1859	Augustus Georgia, Appling County and LaFayette, Alabama, Chambers County	Its a story about honoring who you are, and whose you are.
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My great great grand father James G. Horton	Chatatanooga, TN; Huntsville, Alabama, South St. Louis MO	The story was documented in a letter to President William H. Taft	1863	Franklin County near Salem Tennessee	A soldiers story and a case unpaid repairations and compensation
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