Download or read book Descendants of a Foot Warmer written by Costello L Brown, PhD and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Brown family of Caswell County, NC, and their journey over four generations, captured in short stories, vignettes and whimsical narrative glimpses. The Brown family's journey began two generations earlier with my grandmother's grandmother, Queen Evans, who was kidnapped in Africa and brought to North Carolina as a slave on a plantation of a White slave owner. One of the many duties of Queen, the seven-year-old enslaved girl, was to serve as a "Foot-Warmer." The stories, in no particular sequence, are centered around the descendants of Queen. In the cover photo, I am the little boy standing on the front row, and Queen's son, Sam Evans, is seated and holding a cane.These stories have a strong overall focus on education and educational achievements, financial ingenuity and the Brown family's service to society, all in the context of the rural South and the accompanying Jim Crow laws and systemic racism from slavery to the present time.At the same time, the reader will have the opportunity to view Christmas Eve through the eyes of children who don't know they are poor or Black and share in the culinary delights and humor of Christmas dinner at Granny's house. After reading these stories, the reader is asked to answer the question, "Considering the constraints and challenges, how well did the Brown family do?"
Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French 1639 1785 v 2 1785 1913 written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas French (1639-1699), a Quaker, married twice and immigrated from England to Burlington County, New Jersey in 1677. He held various political offices in the colony, including Deputy Governor and then Governor of New Jersey. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey, New England, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and elsewhere. Includes some family history and genealogy of ancestors in England to about 1066 A.D.
Download or read book Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier written by Bettye B. Burkhalter and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Romance, & Destiny... Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier is an exquisite saga of Dr. Jean (John) Baptiste Elzar Burels lifelong desire to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the beckoning new America. With his naval surgeon license in one hand and his medical chest in the other, he followed Marquis de Lafayette to Colonial America during the Revolutionary War. During the war he fell passionately in love and married a beautiful Acadian French woman in Philadelphia. After the war they made plans to return to his home at Ollioules, France. Homeward bound, the bourgeois doctor boarded the ship in Philadelphia with his new bride and their few belongings. There on deck he was unexpectedly forced to choose between his beloved homeland and family in France and his wife with child. Disembarking the ship with grave disappointment, John knowingly forfeited his inheritance as sole heir. Struggling to survive in Philadelphia, oftentimes John sat quietly admiring the beautiful woman who owned his heart as he secretly yearned for his prominent family and lifestyle on the Mediterranean Coast of France. Standing on the threshold of the newly independent America, the young doctor decided to take his wife and infant son and pioneer down the Great Wagon Road into the raw frontier of South Carolina. Believing he would build a new and prosperous life, he settled at Goshen Hill between the Tyger and Enoree Rivers within the lawless backcountry of South Carolina. Fighting the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and the recurring restlessness to return to France, John and his family carved out a simple life. Although disappointed at times, within the walls of his log home the enduring love and warmth of his wife and six children transcended adversity and hardships of the outside world. The heartwarming story is filled with humanity as John faced his inevitable destiny. The first novel in the trilogy closes with Dr. Burels widow standing helplessly in her front yard watching the wagon train take her spirited children and grandchildren west in search of richer land and prosperity. It was dj vu!
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Download or read book The Descendants of Hezekiah Stout Denham 1802 1886 and His Wife Winney Littell 1803 1863 1802 to 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isami s House written by Gail Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.
Download or read book Some Descendants of James Pike of Charlestown and Reading Massachusetts and the Times in which They Lived written by Ruth Gottemoller Pike and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hugh Smithwick Descendants written by Paul Hassell Peel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Smithwick was an early resident of North Carolina. He died before 1694. He was probably born in England and was married to Elizabeth. They were the parents of six children. Information on the descendants of four of them are included in this volume. He became a large land owner near the Albemarle Bay. Some of his descendants have become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Descendants now live throughout the United States, especially in the southern and western states.
Download or read book The Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Konkol and Augustina Stolz written by Adeline Marie Sopa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
