Final changes in...
Changes came in from Cousin Kenya Tolbert Tucker for the Tolbert Family, just in time for posting in June. Thank you to everyone who provided updates.
posted by Eric J Williams at 4:23 PM
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
WebMaster: Eric J. Williams
Previous Posts
- Site update coming in early June 2005
- Reply from the Short Austin Family Tree
- Making contact with distant cousins
- Getting this thing up and running
MANDI WILLIAMS She was born free in Africa some time around 1805, near what is now Ghana, and abducted into slavery at 16 years old, in 1821. She was a member of the West African Mende tribe. In 1827, at 22 years of age, she gave birth to a half-white baby, a child she named Harriett. At the time of the Emancipation, in 1863, She was 58 years old. She moved to Haywood County, Tenessee, to a section called the "Watkins Quarter." Her family put down roots there, eventually becoming successful farmers and landowners. She would live there for the next 36 years. She died in 1899, in Haywood County near Brownsville Tennessee. She was 94 years old. No known pictures of her survive. But we survive. We are her children.
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