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AAHGS News The Bi-Monthly Newsletter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. July/August 2015
ISSN#1947-475X
ATTEND THE 2015 AAHGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AAHGS will hold its 36th National Conference, October 15-17, 2015, at the Richmond Marriott Hotel in Richmond, Virginia. The
Conference theme is “Virginia, Where African-American Roots Run Deep: Family History and the National Narrative.” For more
information, email [email protected].
FAMILY PROSPECTS
HORACE WAYMON BIVINS—A SOLDIER’S SOLDIER (PART II of II)
By Robert Bivins
Both the 10th Cavalry and the Rough
Riders were part of the force that won
a decisive battle of the war, fought on
July 1st at San Juan Hill. Battle
conditions were intense. "It was a hot
day and we had no water. Some of us
had canteens but they had been
pierced by bullets. All of this time we
were under a terrific fire," Bivins
recalled.6 As Bivins fired a Hotchkiss
gun, a Spanish bullet bounced from
the cannon's wheel and glanced off his
temple. "It stunned me for about two
minutes," he said. "I recovered,
resighted my gun, pulled the lanyard,
then watched with my glasses the
result of the shot."7 When the gun was no longer operable, he picked
up a carbine and joined the Rough Riders until the battle was over.
With the victory at San Juan Hill, the United States
penetrated the outer defense of the city of Santiago de Cuba.
American losses were high, however, especially among the black
units. One-fifth of the black soldiers who fought at San Juan Hill and
more than half of the 10th Cavalry's white officers were killed. One
unsung hero of San Juan Hill was Bivins's dog, Booth. Ellen
Baumler’s8 favorite Bivins story, recounted in Under Fire, which he
co-authored, involves his dog, Booth. Bivins trained the Irish water
spaniel at Fort Custer to retrieve and carry messages. Booth
accompanied the men to Cuba and the Philippines. ‘‘He displayed
more intelligence than is common in the animal by guarding the
remains of Private Slaughter who was killed in the charge up San Juan
Hill on July 1, 1898,'' Under Fire says. ‘‘ The dog was found lying
across the dead soldier's breast.'' At San Juan Hill, Booth guarded the
body of a fallen soldier until it could be recovered. The dog served
with distinction in the Philippines but was not allowed back into the
country for fear of contagion. He disappeared.
Bivins had no doubt that he and his fellow soldiers were
doing the right thing in Cuba. In a letter he wrote from there to a
friend, Bivins said, ‘‘ Tyranny, tyranny is what Spain (cont. on p. 5)
Ho
race Waym
on
Bivin
s and
his d
og
, Bo
oth
The theme for the issue is “Solving Genealogical
and Historical Puzzles.” The current AAHGS News
is dedicated in memory of two leaders, Dr. Agnes Kane Callum (1925-2015) and Archie Lee Moore,
Jr. (1960-2015). Please let us take a moment of
silence. When years ago I asked Dr. Callum about
the creation of her Mullac Publishing, she laughed and said, “Mullac is Callum spelled backwards.” So
Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo did not have anything up on
Agnes Kane Callum. Long before Dr. Benjamin
Carson’s message of “Dream Big”, she practiced leadership and self-sufficiency. She was trying to clean up a faltering
community, when she was told by city officials that Baltimore could not
make her neighbors keep their neighborhood clean. “If she wanted to
have a say so; she needed to purchase property.” So she did. “Yes I can” was embodied by her long before President Barack Obama popularized
the message. She was telling her daughter what to do at college when
her daughter told her if she knew so much about the matter, she then
should go to college. So Dr. Callum went to school and excelled. She became a beloved master researcher, historian and genealogist. She was
a founding member of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical
Society Baltimore Chapter. In 2007, members of the AAHGS Baltimore
honored her by renaming it “the AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Chapter.” Archie Lee Moore, Jr. established the Archie Moore Jr.
Collection of Black Americana, a manuscript collection. He was
serving as Historian for the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical
Society (AAHGS) Arkansas Chapter. He had one of the largest one-of-a kind collections of African American memorabilia in the state of
Arkansas and often exhibited and lectured on his collection of artifacts
at various genealogical, religious, and historical conferences and
institutions across the country. This issue also focuses upon military leadership and research in the Mid-Atlantic. See you in Richmond!
Rev. Roland Barksdale-Hall
AAHGS Director of Publications
Agnes Kane Callum
BREAKING NEWS
AAHGS Family Search Partnership Receives Recognition…....2
Philadelphia African American Birth Authentications…....10-14
Virginia Seminary Catalogue for 1892-1893……….….…16-21
REGULAR FEATURES
President’s Page…………………………………………….....3
Chapter News……………………………….………….…2,7,15
Book Notes………………………………….……………8,9,22
Family Prospects…………………………..…………1,5,7-8,24
In Memory………………………………………….…1,3,21,22
Chapter Directory………………………………..……………..6
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AAHGS FamilySearch Partnership
Receives National Recognition
Compiled by Sherri Camp
Dallas http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150619-historic-freedmens-bureau-records-online.ece Apex, North Carolina http://www.righthereinapex.com/2015/06/23/historic-freedmens-bureau-records-released/ Delaware http://www.delawareliberal.net/2015/06/20/the-freedmans-bureau-project/ Los Angeles http://lasentinel.net/faith-community-salutes-digital-release-of-freedmens-bureau-records.html Oakland http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2015/06/freedmens-bureau-records-events-at.html
INTERVIEWS
* http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/freedmens-bureau-slave-records-released/55896d64fe34444c0000002a * http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/19/freedmens-bureau-records-of-4-million-former-slaves-released-today/
oid=14591110
Baltimore County, Prince Georges County, Central Maryland, Montgomery County and Washington, DC http://wdcfhc.org/wordpress/2015/06/the-freedmens-bureau-project/
Prince George County MD https://afasacrl.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/slave-records.pdf
Utah http://aahgsutah.org/aahgs-events/
BLOGS
PGCM Member Bernice Bennett with the Washington Family History Center. http://wdcfhc.org/wordpress/2015/06/the-freedmens-bureau-project/
Central Maryland Member Melvin Collier http://rootsrevealed.blogspot.com/2015/06/striking-gold-with-freedmens-bureau.html
Board Member Angela Walton-Raji http://africanrootspodcast.com/page/2/
Metro Atlanta http://aahgsatl.org/pdf/Freedmen%27s%20Bureau%20Indexing%20-%20What%20it%27s%20Like%20%28AAHGS%20Metro%20Atlanta%20Chapter%29.pdf
Sherri Camp is AAHGS Vice President of Genealogy. Submitted on August 11, 2015.
* http://time.com/3981770/african-american-black-history-slavery-smithsonian-freedmens-bureau/
CHAPTERS
Houston http://www.examiner.com/article/freedmen-bureau-freed-slave-records-indexing-kicks-off-at-mormon-genealogical-ce
Kansas http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-19/topekan-helps-make-announcement-about-freedmens-bureau-project-which-helps-african
Indiana (reprint) https://ina.workforce3one.org/view/American_Indian_Center_of_Indiana_Newsletter__July
Prince George County https://afasacrl.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/train-to-help-index-the-freedmens-bureau-documents/
Metro Atlanta * http://www.henryherald.com/news/2015/jun/19/advocates-kick-off-freedmen8217s-bureau-digital/?iframe=true&width=90%&height=90%<http://www.henryherald.com/news/2015/jun/19/advocates-kick-off-freedmen8217s-bureau-digital/?iframe=true&width=90%25&height=90%25> * http://clatl.com/atlanta/freedmens-bureau-project-indexing-kickoff-watch-party/Event?
AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
1977-2015
CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
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The Afro-American Historical and
Genealogical Society, Inc., (AAHGS), is a non-profit membership organization
committed to the preservation of the
history, genealogy and culture of the
African-ancestored populations of the local, national and international
community.
AAHGS stresses the importance of our history and genealogy by encouraging
active participation in recording
research and personal family histories.
President, Tamela Tenpenny-Lewis
Vice President-Genealogy, Sherri Camp
Vice President-History, Gene Stephenson, II
Correspondence Secretary, Toni Byrd Vann
Treasurer Carolyn Corpening, Rowe
Financial Secretary, (vacant)
Recording Secretary Victoria Betsill
Past President, Charles Howard
Membership Chair, Tamika Strong
Chapter Committee, Nathania Branch Miles
Chapter Committee, Gene R. Stephenson, II
Awards Committee, Jane Taylor Thomas
Awards Committee, Alice F. Harris
FGS Delegate Shelley Murphy
President Emeritus Barbara Walker
Editor, AAHGS Journal, Rev. Roland
Barksdale-Hall
Communications Specialist, (vacant)
Parliamentarian, Nelvia Brady-Hampton.
Editor, AAHGS News, Rev. Roland Barksdale
-Hall
Asst. Editor, AAHGS News, Marsha Bembry
Asst. Editor, AAHGS News, Elyse Hill
Book Notes Editor, Debra Newman Ham
Submissions are welcomed. Articles will be printed at the editor’s discretion and may
be edited without advance notice to the
author. Articles and other submissions
must be received on or before the fifth day
of each odd-numbered month. Articles
and queries may be mailed to: AAHGS
News, c/o Roland Barksdale-Hall, 939
Baldwin Ave., Suite 1, Sharon, PA 16146, email: <[email protected]> .
Permission to reproduce this issue or
portions thereof must be secured in writing
from the publisher.
Copyright © 2015 by the Afro-American
Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK...
IN LOVING MEMORY
Members, I personally wish to extend my condolence in the passing
of our beloved Agnes Emma Kane Callum. Researcher, writer and
lecturer, Ms. Agnes has transitioned into the AAHGS Ancestral
Chapter at the beautiful age of 90 and her passing has crippled the
genealogical and historical community. Ms. Agnes, when I reflect
on the many occasions that I was blessed to be in your presence,
to witness your intelligence, wit and sassiness the words of Winston Churchill in my
opinion fit you perfectly: "“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is
prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter". You will be missed and
forever in my heart!
Tamela
Dear Members,
Do you ever wonder how AAHGS as a non-profit manages the day-to-day operations of
the organization financially? If you guessed through memberships you are correct!
However, membership alone does not allow us to put icing on the cake. So I am appealing
to all of you to assist us in the continuous growth and increased development of this
wonderful soon to be "known-worldwide" organization. Why come to you? Because our
membership sets the tone of our success, without you there would be no AAHGS and with
you we have the potential of becoming larger and greater!
But like everything success comes at a price. Now that I have expressed the need for
financial support, let me tell you a little bit about AmazonSmile! AmazonSmile is a
website operated by Amazon that will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases that
you enjoy on Amazon.com to AAHGS. From this point on, when you purchase books,
tablets, tapes, genealogical & historical materials, or any other product provided by
Amazon that is eligible, you will aid in the success of AAHGS. All you have to do is go
to your web browser and type in smile.amazon.com, set up your account, select AAHGS
Washington, DC as your charity and begin shopping! It is that simple!
Also, I wish to remind everyone to visit www.discoverfreedmen.org and if you haven't
already signed up to index a bundle or two of the Freedmen's Bureau Records now is the
time! I hope you all were able to catch the press conference and sincerely hope you will
share pictures and stories of your watch parties around the country.
The response to the national conference is wonderful...make sure to get registered before
September 10th as the registration price will increase.
Until next time.................be safe and enjoy your summer! Tamela
Ag
nes K
ane C
allum
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EDITOR’S PAGE
WHAT OUR READERS ARE SAYING….
The AAHGS News looks great, as usual. You have a special talent for getting good articles and arranging them beautifully in the AAHGS News. Carolyn C. Rowe, AAHGS Prince George’s County MD
A GENEALOGIST’S SEARCH NEVER ENDS
By Donna Tyler Hollie
On a whim, I decided to search the online chancery records for
the State of Virginia. I entered all of my Virginian surnames and finally
got a hit on the name Marshall. I learned that my second Great-
Grandfather Lansy Marshall, had an enslaved wife and daughter who
were separated from him around 1845. (Later he married my second
Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Holladay.) Following is a summary of
the chancery record:
On 13 July 1877, Jane Murry deeded property to her daughter,
Katie Harris of Louisa Co. VA. The property, a house on 1/4 acre of
land in the town of Gordonsville, VA was situated in the rear of The
Exchange Hotel and had been owned by Benjamin Murry, son of Jane.
Benjamin died intestate and without issue and the property passed to
Jane. She subsequently deeded it to her daughter and son-in-law, James
and Katie Harris; in exchange they agreed to provide her with a house,
board and clothes for life.
On 1 October 1890, Katie filed suit in the Orange County court
saying that Benjamin Murry died on 26 November 1876. Katie further
testified that she was formerly the slave of Captain William Wood of
Louisa County Virginia. Wood died about 1844. His estate was settled
in 1845 and his property was distributed among his heirs. All of Katie's
brothers and sisters, except Benjamin, were taken to Kentucky and
Missouri. Those taken away were William, Andrew, Thomas, Pleasant,
Phyllis and Ann Wood. According to Katie, Lansy Marshall
cohabited with Ann Wood and fathered a daughter. Ann and her child
were taken away. Katie had tried since 1865, unsuccessfully, to find her
siblings. She testified that Lansy was not entitled to any interest in the
Gordonsville property since he and Ann were never legally married and
were not cohabiting in 1865 when Virginia passed a law legalizing all
slave marriages.
Jane Murry died in 1888. Katie was required to advertise in
local newspapers for four consecutive weeks and if her siblings did not
respond, the court would consider them dead. Lansy failed to appear in
court. The court ruled that he had no interest in the house and lot and
directed that the property be sold at auction, with all proceeds going to
Katie Harris. The property was purchased by J.C. Ross and after court
costs and lawyer's fees, Katie received $183.33 1/3. Katie gained
financially. I gained another surname and area of the country to
research.
Source: Orange County Virginia Chancery Record #1893-011.
Available at http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?
CFN=137-1893-011.
__________________________ Donna T. Hollie ([email protected] ) is a charter member of the
AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Chapter. Submitted July 20, 2015.
GILES BEECHER JACKSON: MY RESEARCH PROCESS
By Patricia Carter Sluby
One ancestor particularly merits attention.
This is my maternal Great-Grandfather,
Giles Beecher Jackson, Esq., a former slave.
When seeking information on him at one
point, I found his slave record at the most
unexpected place. It so happened that his
owner’s personal papers were given to the
University of Virginia, which papers I found
by accident when looking through its library
catalog. These papers listed all of his
enslaved persons. Earlier I had discovered
Jackson’s birth record. The year he was born, 1853, was the year
the State of Virginia began recording the births of slaves along with
free persons and Jackson’s birth record was on file at the Virginia
State Archives. His mother’s name was given, which I knew
previously from my Great-Grandmother Sarah who died in her
house near my home when I was entering my teens, and from the
family Bible. Thus, his owner’s information was confirmed.
Additionally, I found Sarah’s birth certificate for the year 1856.
Jackson and his wife, Sarah, had ten children. The youngest two
died in childhood whose names no one knew. I found them listed
on the rear face of an insurance policy folded between the pages of
his niece’s Bible. Several of Jackson’s children plus other close
relatives were alive when I began to research his family history,
thus I was able to get first hand knowledge of his life. Jackson also
supplied much information of his early life in testimony he gave at
several Congressional Hearings on a Bill he had pending before
Congress in the 1920s. I verified virtually all of this history. Some
of it was published in the early 1900s in the New York World, and
in other newspapers in Richmond, Virginia, and other locales.
Jackson was employed by the federal government in 1918, and the
Civilian Personnel Records at the National Personnel Records
Center enlightened me about his formative education and physical
disabilities in addition to his employer, service date, salary and job
title. His listed date of birth did not coincide with his vital statistics
record nonetheless.
Jackson was the first African American to be admitted to
practice before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on
November 30, 1887. This historic event was equivalent to “passing
the bar” in Virginia. Several days earlier his mother had passed
away. In June 1979, I published a full genealogy of Colonel
Jackson in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, beginning
with his parents, James and Hulda Jackson.
Patricia Carter Sluby ([email protected]) is a member of the
AAHGS Prince George’s County MD. Submitted July 25, 2015
Giles B
eech
er Jackson
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(cont. from p. 1 Horace Waymon Bivins) has kept
imposing upon the Cubans for the last
century. Spain will lose. Spanish tyranny
can no longer be tolerated by the civilized
world …. Oh, God! At last we have taken
up the sword to enforce the divine rights
of a people who have long been unjustly
treated.'' 9
Horace W. Bivins' military
career was so varied and full of adventure
that an early newspaper account wasn't
exaggerating much when it said an
account of his life ‘‘reads like fiction
from the imagination of a pulp magazine
writer.''10 He was also said to have been
the only man ever to win three Army
marksmanship gold medals in one year,
earning that distinction in 1894 while
serving at Fort Keogh in Miles City. The
Billings Gazette reported in 1935 that,
when Teddy Roosevelt made his final
visit to Billings during World War I, ‘‘he
made particular inquiries'' about Captain
Bivins.
In addition to all those official
exploits, Bivins was widely known in his
adopted town for his gardening skills and
for amassing a natural-history collection
that included rare birds, lizards, snakes
and artifacts from the Philippines,
shipped home and dispatched to Fort
Missoula.
Bivins made frequent trips to
Billings, The Gazette later reported,
because he was fond of the climate and
of a certain Claudia Browning, whom he
had met during his years at Fort Custer.
Browning was a native of Deadwood,
South Dakota, whose parents had come
to Billings in 1883. Bivins married
Claudia in March 1904, and they set up
home at Fort Missoula, where they
remained until he was ordered back to
the Philippines in the summer of 1906.
Horace and Claudia Bivins had two sons
and a daughter and lived for many years
on South 25th Street. Claudia was an
active member of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, vice president of the
Montana Federation of Negro Women, a
member of the Society of Eastern
Montana Pioneers and secretary of the
Billings Federation of Women's Clubs.
Things were even quieter during
his second stay in the Philippines, so
Bivins spent most of the next 19 months
searching for and collecting Philippine
birds, shells, fossils and other curios and
artifacts. His collection eventually
included two monkey-eating eagles,
which he later donated to museums in
Minneapolis and San Francisco. ‘‘So
excellent was the collection that Mr.
Bivins brought back to America with
him, that Mr. I.D. O'Donnell of this city
purchased the greater part of it for the
Parmly Billings Memorial Library,'' The
Gazette reported in 1935.
Bivins returned to the United
States for a four-month furlough late in
1907, and he returned to the Philippines
early in 1908, expecting to stay there
until he was eligible to retire. But War
Department paper shufflers somehow got
him transferred to the Presidio near San
Francisco later that year, and Bivins
ended up being transferred from fort to
fort all over the country. He was an
ordnance sergeant by then and was sent
to various posts ‘‘to straighten up the
affairs of that department.''11 He retired
from active service on July (cont. on p. 7)
donating many mounted specimens to the
Billings Library, Hampton Institute and
several government museums.
Down on the farm
It was a long way to such acclaim
from his beginnings in Pungoteague,
Accomack County, Virginia, on May 8,
1866. Some sources, even a book to which
Bivins contributed several chapters, say he
was born in 1862, but all later newspaper
accounts, written from interviews with
Bivins, say the year was 1866. It doesn't
help much that the Accomack County
Census said Bivins was 5 years old in
1870, the eighth of nine children born to
Severn and Elizabeth Bivins. That same
Census gives their last name as Bevans,
one of several variant spellings of the
family name.
Off to the Philippines
After some more service stateside
and then a brief return to Cuba, Bivins's
regiment was sent to the Philippines in
April 1901 to ‘‘pacify'' insurrectionist
natives in the wild, swampy northeastern
part of the main island. The regiment was
busier clearing trails than in fighting
natives, and after about a year they were
WELCOME NEW AAHGS MEMBERS!
Browning, David Brooks, Houston,
Texas, AAHGS—Willie Lee Gay-H-
Town; Canaday, Beverley, Johns Creek,
Georgia; Mann Hausa San Diego,
California; Smith, Kelly, Mission Hills,
California; Johnson, Hope, Little Rock,
Arkansas; Douglas-Anderson, Valerie,
Rochester, New York; Smith, Willie D.,
Cordova, Tennessee; Finch, Chonna,
Yonkers, New York; Castro, Jasmyn,
Dallas, Georgia; Camper, Kenyon,
Wilmington, Delaware, AAHGS—
Delaware; Alequin-Sosa, Mary, Los
Angeles, California; Gwyn, James,
Fredericksburg, Virginia; Collins-Hardy,
Florence, Wilmington, Delaware,
AAHGS—Delaware; Atkins, Eric A.,
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Bowman,
Shana R., Alexandria, Virginia; Burwell,
John, Summerfield, North Carolina;
Ferrell, Andre, Baltimore, Maryland;
Gilbert, Evita, East Lansing, Michigan;
Goins, Robert, San Francisco, California;
Hale, Michael-Lynn, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Harmon, Karen, Rockville,
Maryland; Hicks, Sandi, New Castle,
Delaware, AAHGS—Delaware; Jenkins,
Evelyn, Cedar Creek, Texas; Nelson,
Annette Wadiyah, Seattle, Washington;
Nichols, Brenda Dabney, Richmond,
Virginia; Parker, Patrice Owens, Virginia
Beach, Virginia; Thornton, Bettye P.,
Henrico, Virginia.
Submitted by Tamika Strong, AAHGS
National Membership Coordinator
( [email protected] ), on August
28, 2015.
AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
1977-2015
CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
Arkansas
Arkansas Chapter Michelle Hood, President
P.O. Box 4294
Little Rock, AR 72214 www.rootsweb.com/
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California
Central California Chapter Denise Lancaster-Young, President
P.O. Box 9161
Fresno, CA 93790-9161
www.aahgscc.googlepages.com
Delaware
Delaware Chapter Jim Jones, President
1305 Foulk Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
Florida
Central Florida Chapter Kenneth Mitchell, President
P.O. Box 1347
Orlando, FL 32802-1347 www.rootsweb.com/
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Tampa, Florida Chapter Robert L. Wimberly, President
27418 Sugar Loaf Dr.
Wesley Chapel, FL 33544-8639
www.aahgstampa.homestead.com
Georgia
Metro Atlanta Chapter Emma Davis Hamilton, President
P.O. Box 54131
Atlanta, GA 30308-9998
www.aahgsatl.org
Illinois
Little Egypt Chapter Lori Crenshaw Bryant, President
308 Birchlane Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
Northern Illinois Southern Wisconsin
Chapter (NISW) Joyce Higgins, President
P.O. Box 1732
Rockford, IL 61110-1732
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Patricia Liddell Researchers Chapter Carrie McMorris, President
P.O. Box 438652
Chicago, IL 60643
Kansas
Kansas Chapter Sherri Camp, President
2601 SW Westport Dr.
Topeka, KS 66614
Maryland
Agnes Kane Callum Chapter Roland N. Mills, President
P.O. Box 9366
Baltimore, MD 21228
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Central Maryland Chapter Alice F. Harris, President
6352 Windharp Way
Columbia, MD 21045
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Montgomery County, Maryland Chapter Patricia Hallman, President
P.O. Box 10063
Rockville, MD 20859
Prince George’s County Chapter Jane T. Thomas, President
P.O. Box 44252
Ft. Washington, MD 20744-4252
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Massachusetts
New England Chapter Stella M. Pierce, President
5 Old Planters Road
Beverly, MA 01915
<www.aahgs-ne.org>
Minnesota
Minnesota Chapter Callie Flournoy-Riser
P.O. Box 6289
Minneapolis, MN 55406
New Jersey
New Jersey Chapter Muriel D. Roberts, President
P.O. Box 83
Middletown, NJ 07748
<www.aahgsnj.org>
New York
Jean Sampson Scott Greater New York
Chapter Sharon Wilkins, President
P.O. Box 1050
New York, NY 10116-1050
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North Carolina
NC/Piedmont Triad Chapter Lamar E. DeLoatch, President
P.O. Box 36254
Greensboro, NC 27416
<www.ncaahgs.org >
NC Triangle Wanda Cox-Bailey, President
P.O. Box 907
Durham, NC 27702
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Family Quest Society Chapter Laura Booth, President
P.O. Box 34620
Philadelphia, PA 19101
Pittsburgh Chapter Marlene Garrett Bransom, President
P.O. Box 99893
Pittsburgh, PA 15233-4893
www.aahgspgh.org
South Carolina Greenville-Upstate SC Chapter
Truman Humbert
109 Theresa Drive
Greenville, SC 29605
[h] (864) 299-0644
Tennessee
Nashville Chapter Chajuan Fitzgerald, President
3415 West End Avenue, #511
Nashville, TN 37203
Memphis Chapter Alison Barnes, President
P.O. Box 771731
Memphis, TN 38177
http://www.aahgsmemphis.org.
https://www.facebook.com/
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Texas
Willie Lee Gay-H-Town Chapter Jesse Williams, President
6670 Radley Drive
Spring, TX 77329
Utah
Utah Chapter Charlotte Starks, President
1193 Sienna Way
Taylorsville, UT 84123
Virginia
Burke, Brown and Steppe Chapter Caruso Brown, President
P.O. Box 7492
Charlottesville, VA 22906-7492
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Central Virginia Chapter Shelley Murphy, President
265 Turkeysag Trail, Suite 102, #140
Palmyra, VA 22963
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Greater Richmond Chapter Marilyn Campbell, President
PO Box 27833, Richmond, VA 23261
www.richmondva.com
Hampton Roads Chapter Selma Steward, President
P.O. Box 2448
Newport News, VA 23609-2448
Washington, D.C.
James Dent Walker Chapter Sybil Templeman Williams, President
P.O. Box 60632
Washington, D.C. 20039-0632
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(cont. from p. 5 Horace Waymon Bivins) 13,
1913. With double-time credit for foreign
service in Cuba and the Philippines, he
was given credit for 30 years in the
regular Army.
“Things just grew”
After his retirement,
he settled in Billings,
where he was known
mainly for his
flourishing gardens.
Helen Adams,
writing a sketch of
Bivins that is preserved in the Parmly
Billings Library Montana Room, said,
‘‘Things just grew for him. The most
notable of his garden produce was the
successful raising of sweet potatoes.''
In 1917, Bivins proposed
organizing a unit of volunteers in
Virginia for the United States Army as it
prepared to embark for France to fight in
World War I. The U.S. Army turned
down his proposal but it did make the 55-
year-old former soldier a Captain in the
Infantry. For six months he served on
active duty at Camp Dix, New Jersey
before retiring again and returning to
Billings, Montana.
In 1918, after the United States
had entered World War I, Bivins was
recalled by the War Department and
assigned to the ordnance department in
Newport News, Virginia. In June of that
year, the African Republic of Liberia,
founded in 1821 as a settlement for freed
United States slaves, offered Bivins a
commission to train 115,000 men who
were going to fight against the Germans in
West Africa. He declined and in
September was made a captain of infantry,
serving first as a supply officer at a
detention camp at Fort Dix, N.J., then as
head of a labor battalion in the same camp.
He retired from the Army for good in
1919. He had by then 32 years of credit
with the Army and, coincidentally, had
won 32 Army medals. He studied
taxidermy after the war and followed that
trade for many years. A 1935 article
described him as ‘‘industrious, sober and
studious.'' It also described him as being 6
feet tall, with broad, square-set shoulders.12
In the book, On the Trail of the
Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African
Americans in the U.S. Army, 1886-1917,
which was based largely on government
and military records, Bivins was said to
have stood 5-foot-9. That book also quotes
a 10th Cavalry history that said Bivins had
an excellent character and a story in the
Indianapolis Freeman, a newspaper, that
described Bivins as ‘‘a sober, sensible,
industrious Negro.''
It is not clear what happened to
Bivins' collection of animals and
artifacts. When the Parmly Library
moved out of what is now the Western
Heritage Center in 1969, part of the
collection was transferred to Eastern
Montana College, but officials there
don' t know what eventually became of
it. Kevin Kooistra-Manning, deputy
director of the Western Heritage Center,
said there apparently are no remnants of
the collection still at the center. ‘‘I have
never seen a Philippine lizard in this
place,'' he said. ‘‘Never. We have a
squirrel, but I'm pretty sure it's not from
the Philippines.''13 The Peter Yegen Jr.
Yellowstone County Museum does have
three spears that Bivins brought back
from the Philippines. The museum's card
catalog said they were once given to the
Western Heritage Center by the library,
and then somehow transferred to the
museum.
A second family?
One intriguing thread of
Bivins's life story suggests that he may
have done more in the (cont. on p. 8)
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(cont. from p. 7 Horace Waymon Bivins) Philippines
than collect artifacts. Jess and Daniel
Bevien, of the San Francisco Bay area, think
Bivins had a Filipina “wife” during his
years in that country and that he was their
grandfather. Daniel Bevien said their father
Julian, was born in the Philippines and
changed his name from Beban to Bevien
sometime in the late 1940s. ‘‘Pops did that
out of the blue,'' Daniel said. Although there
was no way of proving it, he said, ‘‘We're
pretty sure he (Bivins) is our grandfather ….
My father didn't really know.'' It wouldn't be
very surprising if it were true, he said: ‘‘The
buffalo soldiers came through the
Philippines and left a lot of American kids
there.''14 Daniel said he did enough research
to convince him that Bivins was in the
Philippines at the right time to have fathered
Julian, but for him the best evidence came
when he was touring a museum at the
Presidio some years ago and saw a
photograph of Horace Bivins. ‘‘I looked at
it, and I said, ‘Oh, that looks like Pops,”15
he said. Jess Bevien, Julian's oldest son,
said that his father never saw his father,
‘‘only heard stories told to him by some of
his father's compadres. My dad talked to us
extensively about his life as a young man,
boxer, soldier in the Philippines.''
Back home
However that may be, Bivins's
American family continued to live in
Billings until after World War II, and
Bivins was sought out now and again by
reporters eager to retell his exciting story.
Toward the end of the war, in a January 21,
1945, article in The Gazette, Bivins told a
reporter how pleased he was to have re-
entered the Army during World War I.
‘‘And I wish I was young enough for this
one,'' he added. The same article said
Bivins' wife, Claudia, had died in 1943,
and one of his sons, Paul, was then
stationed in the Pacific.
On Sept. 25, 1949, The Gazette
wrote about Bivins again, this time to say
he had recently left to live in Philadelphia,
where he planned to work on a new,
revised edition of ‘‘Under Fire With the
Tenth U.S. Cavalry.'' Four days later, The
Billings Herald reported that another
reason for the move was that Bivins was
‘‘considering matrimony.'' ‘‘With a sly
grin,'' the story continued, ‘‘Captain
Bivins revealed shortly before leaving for
Philadelphia that he might marry his
daughter-in-law's mother.'' The story said
Bivins's son, Paul, was still living in
Billings but was leaving shortly to join his
father in Philadelphia.
Capt. Horace W. Bivins, Retired,
died after a brief illness December, 1960
in Baltimore, Maryland where he had
(Cont. on p. 24)
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BOOK NOTES BY DEBRA NEWMAN HAM
AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
1977-2015
CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY YEARS
As the eagerly awaited
opening of the
Smithsonian National
African American
Museum on the National
Mall approaches, Tyson
D. King-Meadows’
work African
American Leadership:
A Concise Reference Guide (Mission Bell
Media 2015, index, glossary, illustrations,
511 pp.) is timely. The work is comprised
of entries from 33 scholars and a glossary
with leadership terms. The editor addresses
the format: “The articles in this wide-
ranging encyclopedia examine African
American leadership across a variety of
sectors, periods of time, locations and issue
area… These entries therefore provide a
brief synopsis of the personalities, processes,
competing priorities, and sociohistorical
contexts that have shaped and continue to be
shaped by African American cultural
paradigms, behaviors, opinions, and
institutions” (xvii). The reviewer, Roland
Barksdale-Hall, has an entry, “Inventions
and Patents,” appearing in the work As the publisher notes in a letter,
“This title does not include biographies of
specific leaders, rather it offers a collection
of important and overarching themes that a
researcher would need to understand
leadership in the field as a whole. Many
leaders are included in the body of the
articles placing them within those
overarching themes.” For example, the
entry on Dunbar High School includes the
names of the school founders, the
illustrious faculty and distinguished
graduates. The Reader’s Guide divides the
book into eight categories: Academic
Leadership, Artistic Leadership, Aspects of
Leadership, Business leadership,
Leadership in Faith Communities,
Organizations and Institutions, Politics and
Social Leadership, and Scientific and
Technological Leadership.
There are minor shortcomings.
The entry for the National Council of
Negro Women (NCNW), for example,
focuses on Mary McLeod Bethune, the
founder and her contributions. The “see
also” at the end of the entry does not
direct the reader to the entry for the
Dorothy I. Height Leadership Institute,
where there is more current information
on the NCNW. As far as editorial
oversight, the names of Marc H. Morial
and suffragist Mary Church Terrell
appear incorrectly in the entry for
Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership in.
Overall this is an engaging and thought-
provoking work and recommended for
academic, public and special libraries.
The merit of a work that examines
leadership and followership stands on its
own. (cont. on p. 9)
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African American Genealogy Research In Virginia
Caution: The websites listed below (except ancestry.com) are free,
but access to some links within them may requirement payment.
Useful Websites
African American Resources at the Library of Virginia: Scroll
down to check out the cohabitation registers. Great resource for
finding post-Civil War family units formed during slavery, along with
the former owner's name.
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/Civil-War/African-
Americans.htm
Unknown No Longer: Searchable database of Virginia slave names.
http://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org/
Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware: Links to names of free African
Americans & their families in the 1600's, 1700's & early 1800's.
Information comes from books by Paul Heinegg. http://
www.freeafricanamericans.com/
African-American Genealogy: http://
genealogy.library.virginia.edu/african-american-genealogy/
State online Resources for African American Genealogy: Virginia
http://www.examiner.com/article/state-online-resources-for-african-
american-genealogy-virginia
AAHGS Virginia Chapters: Click on individual chapter links and
explore their websites. Good resource for local genealogical and
historical information. Access chapters in other states using the
"Chapter Sites" link on the left. http://aahgs.citysoft.org/index.cfm?
fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=543
African American Historic Database: VA http://
www.aahistoricsitesva.org/
Cyndi's List: African American Locality>> Specific: Contains
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH IN VIRGINIA
links for Nelson County genealogy, African American Heritage of
Virginia (lists of cemeteries, churches, and more), and African
American resources in many other states. http://
www.cyndislist.com/african-american/locality/
Chronicling America: Searchable online resource for newspapers
published from 1836-1922, including Richmond Planet (digitized
from 1889 -1910). http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Book
The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 by John Henderson
Russell.
General Virginia Genealogy Resources
Library of Virginia: (state archive) http://www.lva.virginia.gov/
800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 804.692.3500
Enter "Virginia memory" in the search field to get links for many
searchable record collections.
All States
Search for ancestors and build your family tree at: ancestry.com
and familysearch.org.
Search for ancestors on Heritage Quest through a link on your
local library's website. http://lib.de.us (for DE)
US City Directories: Click on the state of interest to find the
physical location of individual city directories. Many are available
online through ancestry.com. Directories contained names,
addresses, & occupations of city residents. "Colored" people may be
listed in separate sections or identified by * or (c) next to the name,
if listed with whites.
Compiled for April 25, 2015 AAHGS—DE meeting by Rosalyn
Green, Research Consultant. This is her third installment in an
ongoing series. Rosalyn ([email protected])
welcomes feedback from those using her research information
and techniques. Submitted July 22, 2015.
Elvatrice Parker Belsches book entitled
Richmond Virginia was published in 2002 and
is part of the Black American Series by Arcadia
Press (bibliography, 128 pp.). This pictorial
history of African Americans in Richmond
includes copies materials relating to African
colonizationist Lott Cary and enslaved runaway
Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery and
received the nickname “Box” because with the
help of friends he mailed himself to Philadelphia
in a crate. Information relates to other famous blacks such as
entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Governor Doug Wilder.
Virginia Union University, a historically black college, is featured.
Chapters include accounts of the city’s early years, black capitalism,
worship, education, medicine, politics, civil rights entertainment and
local landmarks. (cont. on p. 22)
(cont. from p. 5 Book Notes) Freedom Road: An
American Family Saga from Jamestown to World
War by genealogist Ric Murphy (Authorhouse
2014, notes, index, illustrations, 416 pp.) is
described as an account of America’s oldest
recorded African American family and the
contributions of the family members to American
history over a four hundred year period. The
genealogical information in the book is basically
arranged in chronological order and is accompanied
by numerous photographs and copies of pertinent documents. The
last section relates to the 1963 March on Washington. The cover
information describes Freedom Road as a compilation of individual
stories that begins in Africa and spans over fifteen generations and
three continents. The book includes a timeline of “Critical Dates and
Milestones.”
PHILADELPHIA AFRICAN AMERICAN BIRTH AUTHENTICATIONS
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Marilyn C. Jones, past president of the AAHGS Philadelphia Family Quest Society,
submitted the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African American Birth Authentications.
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Read the premier journal in the field, The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and stay informed...
Roland Barksdale-Hall, Editor, Journal of the
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical
Society
This scholarly journal is "committed to documenting and preserving the African and African American experience by publishing historical and genealogical subject matter of interest to the African American family researcher, and facilitating the dissemination of historical and genealogical resources that will assist the African American family researcher" (from the journal web site). Content discusses detailed methodologies for African American ancestry research, and includes depository materials, reports of archives, and family genealogies. Primary source transcriptions, along with their data analysis, are also included. Includes brief "Book Notes." Annual indexes for most years from 1990;b22008 and a cumulative index for 1980;b290 are available online. Recommended for all public libraries.
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IN MEMORY Genealogy World Salutes the Legacy of Agnes Kane Callum
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IN MEMORY Archie Lee Moore, Jr. Ascends into
AAHGS Ancestral Chapter
ARCHIE LEE MOORE,
JR., was welcomed into
this world by his parents,
the late Archie and
Gustavia Fort Moore Sr. on
August 1, 1960. He
peacefully departed his
earthly life on Sunday,
May 10, 2015. Archie loved life, his state
and hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.
He loved traveling, history and a lover of
laughter especially for his special passion
"people".
Archie served the state of Arkansas in
many capacities. He was appointed in May
prior to his passing to serve on the board of
the Arkansas Historical Association. He
was a collector, historian, community
developer, philanthropist, church trustee and
lifelong member of Wesley Chapel United
Methodist Church. In 2009, he was
appointed to the Arkansas Civil War
Sesquicentennial Commission by Governor
Mike Beebe. He served on the Board of
Directors for the Arkansas Humanities
Council, the African American Methodist
Heritage Center, the Central Arkansas
Library System; an Advisory Board
Member for the Butler Center (genealogical
research center for CALS), and CD Voices-
The African American Experience in Little
Rock. He was a member of the United
Methodist Arkansas Conference Museum
and was serving as Historian for the Afro-
American Historical and Genealogical
Society (AAHGS) Arkansas Chapter.
Archie had one of the largest one-of-a kind
collections of African American
memorabilia in the state of Arkansas and
often exhibited and lectured on his
collection of artifacts at various
genealogical, religious, and historical
conferences and institutions across the
country. He established the Archie
Moore Jr. Collection of Black
Americana, a manuscript collection. The
collection consists of African American
funeral, church and school programs as
well as fraternal organizational items and
Arkansas Teacher Association (ATA)
materials.
Besides spending time on his historical
collections, he also spent his weekends
attending antique shows and auctions.
He loved to travel and sell wares
throughout the Southwest region at
antique shows.
Archie, through your tireless work and
dedication to the preservation of our
ancestral past you have provided all of us
with a privilege that will last a life time.
The historical and genealogical
community has indeed suffered a great
loss. We will miss you! AAHGS
Arkansas Chapter
(cont. from p. 9 Book Notes) Three of the six books
for this issue’s Book
Notes are by featured
author, Veronica Alease
Davis. The historian
and librarian wrote
Here I Lay My Burdens
Down: A History of the
Black Cemeteries of
Richmond, Virginia (Dietz Press 2003,
index, illustrations, 82 pp.). A few of the
chapters in this work are entitled, “Black
Aristocrats and their Monuments,” “Going
in Style” and “Who Will Save our Black
Cemeteries.” Davis provides the founders,
locations and photos of Richmond
cemeteries, dates of their establishment,
their size and their condition. She laments
that many of the cemeteries are in poor
condition because of their lack of regular
upkeep. This is unfortunate because the
cemeteries have so much genealogical,
historical and cultural information.
In 2005, Davis
published Inspiring
African American
Women of Virginia
(iUniverse Inc., index,
tables, bibliography,
281 pp.). This
biographical
compilation includes
famous Virginia women
such as financier
Maggie Lena Walker, educator Nannie
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Helen Burroughs, entertainers Pearl Bailey
and Ella Fitzgerald, clubwoman Dorothy
Height and many others.
Hampton University, by
proud alumna Davis is a
part of The Campus
History Series and was
published by Arcadia in
2014 (illustrations, 127
pp.). This pictorial
history is divided by
subjects: Principals,
Presidents, and
Distinguished Faculty;
Campus Scenes; Education for All;
Academics; Normal School; Domestic
Science; Agricultural Science; Trade School
and Military Training, Dixie Hospital and
Hampton Training School for Nurses and
Athletics. The final chapter discusses the
work of Hampton graduates in the
community. It includes many maps and
photograph from the Library of Congress,
the HathiTrust and private collections such
as images from Byron Puryear. Davis
references other books and articles relating
to Hampton’s history.
Debra Newman Ham, Ph.D., is Professor of History, Morgan State University. She is “Book Notes” Editor and a founding member of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Submitted August 7, 2015.
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been living with his niece. He is buried in the
Baltimore National Cemetery.
Notes
1. “Horace Waymon Bivins was born to free
parents on May 8, 1866, in Pungoteague,
Accomack County Virginia…” Bivins,
Horace W. (1862-1937). http://www.blackpast.org
2. ‘‘was in line to become an ordnance officer
and preferred the army routine to circus life.''
Billings, Ed. “Much Decorated Soldier Served Many Years of Adventure.” The
Billings Gazette. April 11, 2003.
3. "distinguished himself as a national revolver
and carbine marksmanship champion, proudly wearing his many awards." Powder
Magazine at Northern Rockies Heritage
Campus.” Wikipedia.
4. The Distinguished Pistol Program began in 1884 when the U.S. Army first awarded the
Distinguished Marksmanship Badge. In 1891
the program expanded to offer a
Distinguished Rifleman Badge and a Pistol Shot Badge. These badges are the highest
honor most military and civilian pistol and
rifle shooters can aspire to earn and are
(Cont. from p. 8 Horace Waymon Bivins)
awarded in recognition of a pre-eminent
degree of achievement in target practice using a military service rifle or pistol.
5. “But for the timely aid of the 10th Cavalry,
the Rough Riders would have been
annihilated.'' Interview with Horace Bivins.
The Billings Gazette. April 11, 2003.
6. Ibid.
7. Reef, Catherine. African Americans in the
Military. 8. Baumler is an interpretive historian for the
Montana Historical Society.
9. Billings, Ed.
10. Ibid. 11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid. 15. Ibid.
References
Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight. Novato,
Calif.: Presidio Press, 1998, pp. 59–60, 70.
Buckley, Gail. American Patriots. New York:
Random House, 2001, pp. 144–146, 148–149.
Bivins, Horace W. (1862-1937). http://
www.blackpast.org/aah/bivans-
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1937#sthash.9WQzUSki.dpuf.
Retrieved Feb. 10, 2015
Bivins, Horace. “Montana Moments.”
http://
ellenbaumler.blogspot.com/2012_0
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Wikipedia. Retrieved Dec. 2, 2014
Cashin, Herschel V. Under Fire with the
Tenth U.S. Cavalry. Niwot, Colo.:
University Press of Colorado, 1993.
Kemmick, Ed. “Much Decorated Soldier
Served Many Years of Adventure.”
The Billings Gazette. April 11,
2003.
“Long, Brilliant Army Career Recalled at
Age of 89.” The Baltimore
Evening Sun. Friday,
December 30, 1955. Page 15.
“Veteran of 3 Wars Ready for Service;
Health Still Good.” Baltimore Afro
-American, p.12. May 10 1941.
Robert Bivins ( [email protected] ) is an AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter member. Submitted March 29, 2015.
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