The Official Newsletter of the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.)

Volume 24 Issue 3 July-September 2016

Inside This Issue

2016 Officers, Founders, Mission & Calendar ……...2

National Museum of African American History and Culture

to Open Sept. 24

…...3-6,

18-19

Missouri Revised Statues: Emancipation Day established ……...7

Godspeed Ernestine Collins ……...8

Connect Through Queries ……...9

The African American Experience in Missouri Lecture Series ……..17

MAGIC Website Makes a Splash ……..20

Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records COMPLETED ……..21

Generations

Mark Your Calendar and Attend

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2016 OFFICERS

President

Preston Washington

Vice President

Wayne Reed

Recording Secretary

David W. Jackson

Assistant Recording Secretary

Deborah Jones

Corresponding Secretary

Virginia Flowers

Treasurer

Camille Lester-Young

Assistant Treasurer

Bobbie J. Stevenson

Historian

Robert Stevenson

Publications

Algy Mason

Gloria Johnson

Jackie Dewberry

Generations Editor

David W. Jackson

david.jackson@orderlypackrat.com

OUR MISSION

The purpose of M.A.G.I.C. is to pro-

mote genealogy and family history

through the presentation of structured

classes, exhibition of genealogies,

guest lecturers and tours of agencies

that are considered sources of genea-

logical interest.

FOUNDING MEMBERS

Collins Fairfax Anderson, Jr., D.D.S.

Jacqueline Briggs

Audreay McKinnie-Hunter

Bertha Johnson

Kimberly Tucker-Paige

Gwendolyn Richards

Dorothy Witherspoon

Aug 6

Sep 3

Oct 1 *

Nov 5

Dec 3 *

Unless noted with an asterisk (*), all monthly

meetings/programs are held from Noon-2 p.m. at the

Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center, 3700 Blue

Pkwy, Kansas City, Mo. 64130.

CONTACT US:

magickc.org

facebook.com/MAGICKansasCity

info@magickc.org

PO Box 300972

Kansas City, MO 64130

National Museum of

African American History and Culture to Open Sept. 24

The Smithsonian today announced that the National Museum of African American

History and Culture will open to the public Saturday, Sept. 24.

The opening will be the focus of a week-long celebration that begins with a dedication

ceremony. The celebration continues with extended visiting hours and a three-day

festival showcasing popular music, literature, dance and film. Also planned are events

co-hosted by other museums around the country and in Africa.

“After 13 years of hard work and dedication on the part of so many, I am thrilled that

we now have this good news to share with the nation and the world,” said Lonnie

Bunch, the museum’s founding director. “In a few short months visitors will walk

through the doors of the museum and see that it is a place for all people. We are

prepared to offer exhibitions and programs to unite and capture the attention of millions

of people worldwide.

It will be a place for healing and reconciliation, a place where everyone can explore the

story of America through the lens of the African American experience.”

“We look forward to the opening of this enormously important new museum,” said

David Skorton, Smithsonian Secretary. “The National Museum of African American

History and Culture furthers the Smithsonian’s commitment to telling America’s story in

all its dimensions.”

President George W. Bush signed the legislation establishing the museum in 2003. In

2009, the museum’s architectural team of Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroupJJR was

selected, and in 2011 Clarke/Smoot/Russell was chosen as the construction firm.

David Adjaye is the lead designer, and Phil Freelon is the lead architect. The

landscape design is by the team of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol.

The Smithsonian broke ground for the museum Feb. 22, 2012 on its five-acre site on

Constitution Avenue between 14th and 15th streets N.W. The 400,000-square-foot

building has five levels above ground and four below. The museum will have exhibition

galleries, an education center, a theater, café and store, as well as staff offices. Among

the building’s signature spaces are the Contemplative Court, a water- and light-filled

memorial area that offers visitors a quiet space for reflection; the Central Hall, the

primary public space in the museum and the point of orientation to building; and a

reflecting pool at the south entry of the museum, with calm waters meant to invite all to

approach.

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According to Wikipedia: The National Museum of African American History and Culture(NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in 2003. The museum's building, designed by David Adjaye, is currently under construction on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. Early efforts to establish a federally owned museum featuring African American history and culture can be traced to 1915, although the modern push for such an organization did not begin until the 1970s. After years of little success, a much more serious legislative push began in 1988 that led to authorization of the museum in 2003. A site was selected in 2006, and a museum design approved in 2009. President Barack Obama helped break ground for the building on February 22, 2012. First concrete was poured in November 2012, and construction was to be complete in April 2016. Smithsonian

officials have announced that the museum will open on September 24, 2016.

The museum also features a series of openings—“lenses”—throughout the exhibition

spaces that frame views of the Washington Monument, the White House and other

Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. These framed perspectives remind

visitors that the museum presents a view of American through the lens of the African

American experience.

The museum will open with 11 inaugural exhibitions that will focus on broad themes of

history, culture and community. The exhibitions have been designed by museum

historians in collaboration with Ralph Appelbaum Associates.

These exhibitions will feature some of the more that 34,000 artifacts the museum has

collected since the legislation establishing it was signed in 2003. The museum’s

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collections are designed to illustrate the major periods of African American history.

Highlights include: a segregation-era Southern Railway car (c. 1920), Nat Turner’s

Bible (c. 1830s), Michael Jackson’s fedora (c. 1992), a slave cabin from Edisto Island,

S.C. plantation (c. early 1800s), Harriet Tubman’s hymnal (c. 1876)

and works of art by Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and Henry O.

Tanner.

While under construction, the museum has had a gallery at the Smithsonian’s National

Museum of American History. Since 2009, the museum has opened seven exhibitions

in the space including “Through the African American Lens: Selections from the

Permanent Collection” (on view now), “The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington:

Picturing the Promise” and “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

and The March on Washington, 1963.”

The museum’s first exhibition, “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American

Photographs,” opened in 2007 at the International Center for Photography in New York

and toured 15 cities.

In addition to exhibitions, the museum has also launched several education and

research programs. “Save Our African American Treasures” was launched in Chicago

in January 2008 and is one of the museum’s signature programs. Participants work

with conservation specialists and historians to learn how to identify and preserve items

of historical value, including photographs, jewelry, military uniforms and textiles.

Museum officials said all artifacts and displays will be moved into the new museum in the summer of 2016, along with the museum's 175 full-time employees. Wikipedia reports that, “As of January 2016, the more notable items in the collection included:

Items owned by Harriet Tubman, including eating utensils, a hymnal, and a linen and silk shawl given to her by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Related items include a photographic portrait of Tubman (one of only a few known to exist), and three postcards with images of Tubman's 1913 funeral.

The glass-topped casket originally used to display and bury the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till, the victim of racially motivated torture and murder in Mississippi. Till's death sparked the modern African American civil rights movement.

The dress which Rosa Parks was sewing the day she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus inMontgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the first incidents of mass civil disobedience in the modern African American civil rights movement.

A Selmer trumpet owned by jazz musician Louis Armstrong.

A dress owned by actress and singer Pearl Bailey.

A cape and jumpsuit owned by American soul singer James Brown.

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The "Mothership", a 1,200-pound (540 kg) aluminum and acrylic glass prop created by funk music singer George Clinton and used during performances of his and Parliament and Funkadelic. Clinton's original "Mothership" was scrapped in 1983; this replica was crafted by Clinton in the mid-1990s and used for about five years.

A collection of costumes designed by director and costume designer Geoffrey Holder for his 1976 musical, The Wiz (an adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). The costumes won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, the play won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and Holder won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.

A cherry red Cadillac convertible owned by rock and roll singer Chuck Berry.

An amplifier, speakers, and turntables used by Tony Crush a.k.a. DJ Tony Tone of the Cold Crush Brothers.

A railroad car from Chattanooga, Tennessee, used by African American passengers during the Jim Crow era. Pete Claussen and Gulf & Ohio Railways (the company he founded in 1985) donated more than $222,000 to restore the car, which was built by the Pullman Company in 1922.

A sign from a bus in Nashville, Tennessee, from the Jim Crow era which indicates which seating is for blacks only.

A segregated drinking fountain from the Jim Crow era with the sign "colored" (indicating it was for use by blacks only).

A badge from 1850, worn by an African American in Charleston, South Carolina, indicating the wearer was a slave.

Feet and wrist manacles from the American Deep South used prior to 1860.

Garments worn by African American slaves.

An 1874 home from Poolesville, Maryland. The dwelling was constructed by the Jones family, who were freed slaves. The Joneses later founded an all-black community nearby.

Boxing headgear worn by Cassius Clay (later to be known as Muhammad Ali).

Gymnastic equipment used by artistic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Douglas was the first African American, and first non-Caucasian of any nationality, to win the women's artistic individual all-around gold medal. She was also the first American gymnast ever to win both the team and individual all-around gold at the same Olympics.

A Bible owned by Nat Turner, who led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.

A letter by Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution slave revolt in 1791.

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Chapter 9

Public Holidays

Section 9.161.1 August 28, 2015

9.161. 1. June nineteenth, known as Juneteenth, of each year shall be known and is designated as

"Emancipation Day" to provide an opportunity for the people of Missouri to reflect upon the United

States of America's passion for freedom as exemplified in the Constitution of the United States, the

Bill of Rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation, and to reflect upon the significance and particu-

larity of the Emancipation Proclamation and its role in ending slavery in the United States. To cele-

brate that Juneteenth commemorates the spirit and quest of African-American freedom emphasiz-

ing education, art, and intellectual achievement, through reflection, rejoicing, and manifestation of a

more substantive economic and just citizenry, the people of the state, offices of government, and all

educational, commercial, political, civic, religious, and fraternal organizations in the state are re-

quested to devote some part of the day to remember the proclamation that began the full realiza-

tion for all people in the United States of the self-evident truth, as stated in the Declaration of Inde-

pendence of the United States, that all men are created equal, by:

(1) Celebrating the abolishment of slavery, accomplished by ratification of the thirteenth

amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as the former slaves celebrated on June 19,

1865, upon learning the message of freedom from Major General Gordon Granger of the Union

Army in Galveston, Texas, which celebration, known as "Juneteenth", is the oldest known celebra-

tion of the ending of slavery; and

(2) Reaffirming their commitment to achieving equal justice and opportunity for all citizens.

2. There is hereby established the "Missouri Juneteenth Heritage and Jazz Festival and Me-

morial". Any funds appropriated by the general assembly for this event shall be used to establish a

statewide festival and monument to commemorate the struggles and hardships endured by those

who had been enslaved.

(L. 2003 H.B. 640)

Emancipation Day established.

Hazel Ernestine Collins, 86, and

longtime MAGIC member, passed away on May 9, 2016.

She was born on December 6, 1929, and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Hazel completed her Undergraduate

Degree in Biology from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, where she was a

charter member of the Delta Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She began her teaching career in Fort

Smith and after marrying Titus N. Collins, Jr., moved to Kansas City and

taught in the Parochial and Public School Systems and in many Charter Programs focusing on Math, Reading, and

Computer Education. She completed her Teaching Certification at the University

of Missouri-Kansas City, and earned her Master’s Degree from Webster

University. She was active in her church, serving in a number of capacities including: the Altar Guild,

Lector, Eucharist Minister, and as a Pastoral Council Member.

Although retired from the Board of Education, Hazel was actively involved in the community, including the Clymer

Center, where she was instrumental in the instruction of immigrants pursuing

citizenship. She was a member of the Book Lover’s Club of Kansas City, the Midwest African American Genealogical

Interest Coalition, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the Bruce Watkins Hall of

Fame Committee. She was selected as an Honoree by the Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City in 2007.

Hazel Ernestine Collins is survived by, her husband of sixty-two years, Titus N.

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Collins, Jr.; daughters: Theresa Collins,

Alesia Collins-Jones (Darrell), and Dr. Gretchen Collins; grandchildren: Erica

Ginn, Alesia Ginn, and Sherlene Jones; and a host of other relatives and friends. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests

Memorial Contributions to the Hazel Ernestine Rowell Collins Scholarship at

the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Funeral Services for Hazel Ernestine Collins were be held Saturday, May 14,

11:00 at St. James Catholic Church, 3909 Harrison.

Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at the Church. Interment, Mt. Moriah Cemetery.

Godspeed Ernestine Collins!

AFRICAN AMERICAN

SURNAMES & LOCATIONS Footnote number refers to

contact/submitter on page 13

Adkins—LA49

Adkins—GA49 Adkins—SC49 Adkins—VA49 Aitch—Franklin & St. Louis Co., MO25 Aitch—Mecklenberg Co., VA

25

Akers—Chariton Co., MO25 Allan—LA10

Allen—MS20

Anderson—TN44 Anderson—AR44 Bailey—AR3 Bailey—Cherryvale, Montgomery Co., KS34 Banks—OK6 Berry—Pine Bluff, AR14 Bethpage—TN4 Blair—AR18, 41 Bonds—Hennings, Lauderdale Co., TN29 Bonds—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO29 Brookings—Jackson Co., MO

3

Brooks—AR45

Brooks—NC45 Brooks—GA45 Brooks—LA45 Brown—TX3 Brown—VA22 Brown—Washington, D.C.22 Bullock—NC47

Bumpus—TX3 Burton—NC47 Bussey—LA30 Bussey—OK30 Butler—St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO32 Byers—NC40 Byers—SC40 Byers—AR40 Byers—KS40 Byers—MO40

Caldwell—AR45 Caldwell—AR45 Caldwell—AR45 Caldwell—AR45 Campbell—MS6 Carroll—Camp Co., TX8 Carter—AR18

Carter46

Carter—Hennings, Lauderdale Co., TN29 Carter—Jackson Co., MO29 Chaney—Calgary, Alberta, Canada3 Chaney—Edmonton, Alberta, Canada3 Chaney—TX3 Cherry—Houston/Jefferson Co., TX29 Clowers—GA26 Clowers—AL

26

Clowers—MS26

Clowers—LA26

Coley—NC47 Collins—AL41

Collins—TX41

Cradock—Camp Co., TX8 Craig—KY38 Craig—AR38 Craig—TX38 Crawford—GA26

Crawford—AL26 Crawford—MS26 Crawford—LA26 Daniels —AL

5

Davis—NC40 Davis—SC40 Davis—AR40 Davis—KS40 Davis—MO40 Dorsey—LA35 Duffel—Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS37 Duffel—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO37

CONNECT

THROUGH

QUERIES Search by surname below,

or location, separately on page 14

July-September 2016 GENERATIONS 9

Durham—MS39 Durham—AR39 Durham—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Edwards—TX3 Ellington—Chariton Co., MO1

Ellington—LA30 Ellis—AL26

Ellis—SW, AR & Pine Bluff, AR49 Ellis—GA26

Ellis—KS49 Ellis—MS26 Ellis—LA26 Epps—MS39

Epps—TN44 Epps—AR39 Epps—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Evans—AR45 Evans—NC45 Evans—GA45 Evans—LA45 Felts—GA48 Ferguson—AR18 Ferguson—SC18 Field—MS17 Frazier—Calgary, Alberta, Canada3 Frazier—TX3

Gaaunt/Gantt—AL24 Gaaunt/Gantt—PA24 Gants—Pleasant Hill, Clay Co., MO14

Gibson—SW, AR *& Prairie Co., AR49 Giles—Richmond, Ray Co., MO19

Gilmore—AL49 Gilmore—AR49 Gilmore—GA49 Gilmore—LA49 Glover—AL5

Goodrem—NC43 Gore—MS6 Graham—MS

27

Grant—Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS30 Grayson—OK6 Gumby—Westmoreland Co., VA8

Hall—AR45 Hall—NC45 Hall—GA45 Hall—LA45 Hank—MS17

Hardin—NC40 Hardin—SC40 Hardin—AR40 Hardin—KS40 Hardin—MO40 Harris—NC47 Harris—AL26 Harris—GA26 Harris—MS26 Harris—LA15 & 26 Hayes—AL5 Hendricks—LA7 Hendricks—TX7

Hicks—GA48 Hill—Lee Co., AL4 Hodge—Camp Co., TX8 Hooker—MS39 Hooker—AR39 Hooker—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Houston—Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS32 Houston—AR32 Huddleston—TN44 Humphreys—TX43 Jackson—St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO31 Jackson—Doniphan Co., KS2

Jackson—Franklin Co., MO2

Jackson—Holt Co., MO2

Jackson—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO2

Jackson—Kanawha Co., W/VA2

Jackson—Charles Co., MD2

Jackson—Spotsylvania Co., VA2

Jackson—Westmoreland Co., VA2

Johnson—MS4 Johnson—VA22 Johnson—Washington, D.C.22 Jones—AR18, 45 Jones—NC45 Jones—GA45 Jones—LA

45

Jones—Bunceton, Cooper Co., MO28 Jones—Calgary, Alberta, Canada3 Jones—Edmonton, Alberta, Canada3 Jones—VA17

Jones—MS17

Jones—Sardis, MS18 Kidd—Jackson Parish, LA5

Keller—KY38

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Keller—AR38 Keller—TX38 Land—Houston/Jefferson Co., TX29 Leach—MO3 Lee—AR41 Lester—AR18 Lester—Sardis, MS18 Levison—MS24 Levison—NE24 Lewis—AL11 Lewis—AR11 Lyles—MO3 Madison—St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO31 Malone—TX13 Marzett/Morissette —AL5 Mason—SC9 Mason—Fulton/Portland, Callaway Co, MO19 Mason—OK36 Mason—TX36 McClain—GA24 McClain—SC24 McDaniel—Blackwell, Conway Co., AR23 McDonald—MO3

McIntosh—AR8 McIntosh—MO33 McKinney—NC

47

McLeod—AR18 Meggs—TX3 Mitchem—NC40 Mitchem—SC40 Mitchem—AR40 Mitchem—KS40 Mitchem—MO40 Moore—Calgary, Alberta, Canada3 Moore—Edmonton, Alberta, Canada3 Morgan—Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., KS19 Morris—Newport, Jackson Co., AR23

Morris—St. Louis, MO23 Nash—AR20 Nash—MS

20

Nelson—LA16 Parker—TX3 Patenande—LA24 Patterson—LA24 Phifer—AR3 Polk—Calgary Alberta Canada3 Polk—Edmonton Alberta Canada3

Pryor/Prior—Franklin Co., MO2

Pryor/Prior—Holt Co., MO2

Pryor/Prior—Kanawha Co., W/VA2 Ramey—MS17 Ray—MS6

Ray—AR6 Reams—LA42

Reams—AR42 Reed—TN43 Reed—TX3 Rentie/Renty—OK6 Rienzi—MS4

Riley—OK36 Riley—TX36 Ross—TX3 Rowell—AR41 Sanders—SC9 Sansing—GA49

Sansing—NC49 Sansing—SC49 Sansing—VA49 Seymore—TX3

Sharp—Anderson Co., KY2 Sharp—Buchanan Co., MO2 Sharp—Holt Co., MO2 Sherard—NC47 Sidney

46

Simpkins—AL11

Simpkins—AR11 Skinner—AR3 Slay—KY38

Slay—AR38 Slay—TX38 Smalls—AR12 Smalls—Jackson Co., MO12 Snowden—AR45 Snowden—NC45 Snowden—GA45 Snowden—LA45 Spratt—Camp Co., TX8 Stevenson—MS

21

Stewart—AR3 Stitt—AR3 Tate46

Taylor—OK6

Taylor—Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS37 Vann—OK7 Vinson—Camp Co., TX8

Walker—AR49

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Walker—DE49 Walker—GA49 Walker—LA49 Ward—AR18 Washington—Blackwell, Conway Co., AR23 Washington—Chariton Co., MO1

Washington—SC23 Webb—NC43 Webb—AR18 & 42 Webb—GA42 White—TN4

Wiggins—AL26 Wiggins—GA26

Wiggins—MS26 Wiggins—LA26 Williams—AR18, 39

Williams—MS39 Williams—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Winfield—Houston/Jefferson Co., TX29 Woody—SC23 Wright—Bunceton, Cooper Co., MO28 Wright—LA10

African American History Month

In honor of African-American History Month,

MAGIC members attended a special February

23 program hosted by the United States Depart-

ment of Housing and Urban Development,

Kansas City Regional Office, where they had 5

minutes allotted on the program for Algy Ma-

son to speak on behalf of the organization.

Jackie Dewberry and Gloria Johnson were

also in attendance. They also made available an

information table set-up to display information

about MAGIC, and displayed MAGIC’s quilt

on an easel. Thank you to MAGIC member

Benita Johnson for the invitation and hospital-

ity.

MAGIC member, David W. Jackson, debuted

his newest book, Born a Slave: Rediscovering

Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage, to

MAGIC membership, and then repeated his

presentation in February and March across the

Kansas City metro to three branches of the Mid-

Continent Library System.

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QUERY CONTACTS

Contact information provided as submitted.

We try to keep this list current. If you

encounter defunct data, contact MAGIC

(info@magickc.org) to see if further/current

information about the submitter may be

procured.

Consecutive numerals below refer to

footnote numbers in surname listing starting

on page 9.

1 prewas@gmail.com 2 david.jackson@orderlypackrat.com 3 rk5153@att.net 4 Andre.Hill@kcpd.org 5 marzgirl76@gmail.com 6 cbirdinparadise@hotmail.com 7 caw284@att.net 8 rosalindbauchum@yahoo.com 9 elewis.2@sbcglobal.net & (816) 921-1225 10 samzhvac@yahoo.com 11 JTorre6216@aol.com 12 caljr@live.com 13 kyng12@yahoo.com 14 wlkpaulette@gmail.com 15 mykohlthegr8@gmail.com 16 vja626@sbcglobal.net 17 djones20@swbell.net 18 legra17@att.net &

LarryLester42@gmail.com 19 glruri@swbell.net 20 bobbienicholson@att.net 21 RStevenson9@kc.rr.com 22 bmj213@gmail.com 23 rwalker23@hotmail.com 24 rndb428927@aol.com 25 austinchummy@gmail 26 jbdewdrop@yahoo.com 27 igke@sbcglobal.net 28 florencehamilton19@yahoo.com

29 akilahcherry@gmail.com 30 msdoris1971@yahoo.com 31 (816) 924-1417 32 samawill@hotmail.com 33 br1124@aol.com 34 sheilasrx1@gmail.com 35 cdj1250@yahoo.com & scottdorsey5949@gmail.com 36 vflowers03@gmail.com 37 pld@kc.rr.com 38 wconfiaren@yahoo.com 39 peacein2thishouse@yahoo.com 40 2jdavis@comcast.net 41 hazerct@yahoo.com 42 wandre120@gail.com 43 mew66203@swbell.net 44 gahuddleston@aol.com 45 gloriajj731@gmail.com 46 williamslindaj@hotmail.com 47 audreay43@yahoo.com 48 lidavislvs@gmail.com 49 ajanigibson@sbcglobal.net 50 YOUR E-MAIL COULD BE HERE!

M.A.G.I.C. members!

Submit your genealogical queries, family

and/or local history stories.

Become a member

Deadline for Oct-Dec issue is Sep 1

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SURNAMES, BY LOCATION

Search by surname on page 9

Alabama

Clowers Collins Crawford Ellis Gaunt/Gantt Gilmore Harris Hayes Lee Co. Hill Daniels Lewis Marzett/Morissette

Simpkins Wiggins

Arkansas Anderson Bailey Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. Berry Blair Brooks Byers Caldwell Carter Craig Davis Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. Ellis Evans Ferguson Gilmore Hall Hardin Houston Jones Keller Lee Lester Blackwell, Conway Co. McDaniel McIntosh McLeod Mitchem Newport, Jackson Co. Morris Nash

Phifer Reams Rowell Simpkins Skinner Slay Smalls Snowden Stewart Stitt Walker Ward Blackwell, Conway Co. Washington Webb Williams

Calgary Alberta Canada Chaney Frazier Moore Jones Polk

Delaware Walker

Edmonton Alberta Canada Chaney Moore Jones Polk

Georgia Adkins Brooks Caldwell Clowers Crawford Ellis Evans Felts Gilmore Hall Harris Hicks Jones McClain

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Sansing Snowden Walker Webb Wiggins

Kansas Byers Davis Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Ellis Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Grant Hardin Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Houston Doniphan Co. Jackson Mitchem Fort Scott, Bourbon Co. Morgan

Kentucky Craig Keller Anderson Co. Sharp Slay

Louisiana Adkins Allan Brooks Bussey Caldwell Clowers Crawford Dorsey Ellington Ellis Evans Gilmore Glover Hall Harris Hendricks Jones Jackson Parish Kidd Nelson Patenaude Patterson Reams Snowden

Walker Wiggins Wright

Maryland Charles Co. Jackson

Mississippi Allen Campbell Clowers Crawford Ellis Field Gore Graham Hank Harris Johnson Jones Sardis, Panola Co. Jones Sardis, Panola Co. Lester Levison Nash Ramey Ray Rienzi Stevenson Wiggins Williams

Missouri Franklin Co. Aitch St. Louis Co. Aitch Chariton Co. Akers Jackson Co. Brookings St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Butler Byers Jackson Co. Carter Davis Chariton Co. Ellington Clay Co. Gants Ray Co. Giles Hardin St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Jackson Franklin Co. Jackson Holt Co. Jackson

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Grayson Mason Rentie Riley Taylor Vann

Pennsylvania Gaunt/Gantt

South Carolina Adkins Byers Davis Ferguson Hardin Mason McClain Mitchem Sanders Sansing Washington Woody

Tennessee Anderson Bethpage Hennings, Lauderdale Co Bonds Epps Huddleston Reed White

Texas Brown Bumpus Camp Co. Carroll Chaney Houston/Jefferson Co. Cherry Collins Camp Co. Cradock Craig Edwards Frazier Hendricks Camp Co. Hodge Humphreys

Kansas City, Jackson Co. Jackson Bunceton, Cooper Co. Jones Leach Lyles St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Madison Fulton, Callaway Co. Mason Portland, Callaway Co. Mason McDonald McIntosh Mitchem St. Louis Morris Franklin Co. Pryor/Prior Holt Co. Pryor/Prior Buchanan Co. Sharp Holt Co. Sharp Jackson Co. Smalls Chariton Co. Washington Jackson Co. Williams Bunceton, Cooper Co. Wright

Nebraska Levison

North Carolina Brooks Bullock Burton Byers Caldwell Coley Davis Evans Goodrem Hall Hardin Harris Jones McKinney Mitchem Sansing Sherard Snowden Webb

Oklahoma Banks Bussey

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The African American

Experience in Missouri

Lecture Series:

Lea VanderVelde

September 15

Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union, University of Missouri-Columbia

The lecture series fall lineup kicks off with Lea VanderVelde, Josephine R. Witte Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.

She will discuss her most recent book, Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before

Dred Scott (Oxford University Press), a groundbreaking study of more than 300

freedom suits in St. Louis.

Through the careful evaluation of 12 cases, the book offers insights into the practice of slavery and the lives of those enslaved in

Missouri.

Free and open to the public, the lecture will be inStotler Lounge, Memorial Union, on the

University of Missouri campus.

A collaboration of the State Historical Society of

Missouri's Center for Missouri Studies and the

University of Missouri's Division of

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

Keller Houston/Jefferson Co. Land Malone Mason Meggs Parker Reed Riley Ross Seymore Slay Camp Co. Spratt Camp Co. Vinson Houston/Jefferson Co. Winfield

Virginia Adkins Mecklenberg Co. Aitch Brown Westmoreland Co. Gumby Spotsylvania Co. Jackson Westmoreland Co. Jackson Johnson Jones Sansing

Washington, D.C. Brown Johnson

West Virginia Kanawha Co. Jackson Kanawha Co. Pryor/Prior

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Dresses and other garments by fashion designer Ann Lowe. Lowe designed clothing for the Du Pont family, Roosevelt family, and the Rockefeller family. She also designed items for wealthy etiquette expert and socialite Emily Post and her family, and created Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding dress for her 1953 marriage to John F. Kennedy.

The Purple Heart and footlocker owned by James L. McCullin, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.

The desk of Robert Sengstacke Abbott, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper founded in 1905.

A PT-13D Stearman biplane trainer aircraft operated by the United States Army Air Corps and used in 1944 for training members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

A guard tower and cell from "Angola", the Louisiana State Penitentiary known for much of the 20th century as a cruel, violence-prone, squalid prison where African American inmates were treated worse than slaves. NMAAHC curator Paul Gardullo said the items document how attitudes about slavery were carried over into the post-slavery prison system in the Deep South. Museum Director Lonnie Bunch acknowledged scholars' worries that the items were controversial, but said the museum's mission is to tell stories through the African American experience. The 20-foot (6.1 m) high guard tower will be part of an exhibit on segregation, while the 6 by 9 feet (1.8 by 2.7 m) prison cell will be in a separate exhibit on places. Both items are from Camp A, the oldest section of the prison. The cell was constructed atop slave quarters.

The handcuffs used by police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to arrest African American Harvard University professorHenry Louis Gates Jr., in 2009.

President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign office from Falls Church, Virginia.

The Moog synthesizer and MPC beat machine used by hip-hop producer J Dilla.

Several paintings and pieces of terracotta sculpture from the Barnett-Aden Collection, donated by BET founder Robert L. Johnson.

Several items from the São José Paquete Africa, a sunken slave ship excavated off the coast

of South Africa in 2015. The wreck is owned by Iziko Museums of South Africa, and items will be

on long-term loan to the NMAAHC. (Finding a sunken slave ship, raising it, and displaying it at the

museum has long been a dream of museum director Lonnie Bunch.)”

In 2007, the NMAAHC became the first major museum to open on the Web before completing

a physical structure. The web site included the museum's first exhibit, mounted in New York

City. The site was also designed to encourage collaboration between scholars and the public.

The main feature of the web-based initiative was the Memory Book application, which allowed

individuals to contribute to the web site pictures, a story, or an audio application to spotlight

unique experiences in African-American culture. For more information about the museum, visit www.nmaahc.si.edu

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MAGIC Website Makes a Splash MAGIC’s website became outdated, and it was time to update it from its 1990s appearance. A new, re-designed website is now operational at magickc.org. The major components from its predecessor remain the same, with updated information and presentation. We are seeking digital images and/or scans of images and documents that might view well on the website to add interest and appeal. Significant upgrades and new elements, courtesy the expertise of MAGIC’s secretary, David W. Jackson, include: 1) a live, functional calendar for events and meeting dates; 2) Facebook links; 3) a “Photo Gallery;” 4) an “African American Genealogy” section; and, 5) a MAGIC bookshop where a printable booklist is available for those who want to

print it out and pay by check. E-commerce is a future option. Your feedback and ideas for future inclusion are welcome! MAGIC members and friends are encouraged to share photos by sending them to info@magickc.org for inclusion in the photo gallery. Let us know what you think, and if you have any suggestions we might implement as time marches forward. Call David at 816.714.6552, or e-mail info@magickc.org.

Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records COMPLETED! Volunteer Indexing Effort of 2 Million Freed-Slave Records

Launched on Juneteenth “Now that the names are indexed, we will focus our efforts on teaching African Americans how to search the new digital records to discover and reunite with their families,” said Thom Reed, marketing manager of FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch has announced completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, indexing the names of millions of African Americans collected directly following emancipation. The unprecedented indexing effort will allow African Americans to digitally search for their ancestors who were previously lost to history. The project was completed almost a year to the day after it was announced in a nationwide news conference at the California African American Museum on the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the celebration of Emancipation Day. Over the past year, about 19,000 volunteers participated in the project across the U.S. and Canada to extract nearly 1.8 million names of former slaves and immigrants from Civil War-era records. Key to the project’s success were the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society’s(AAHGS) nationwide chapters, the Smithsonian and local Mormon congregations who partnered in over 100 indexing events to bring the project to a successful conclusion. FamilySearch also partnered with HISTORY® in May to give the project a final push through a social media campaign to coincide with the premiere of the television series “Roots.” “In addition to our valuable partners, the project was embraced by dedicated genealogists, religious groups, universities and even was the focus of Eagle Scout projects,” added Reed. “We all sensed an urgency to bring this important chapter in history to life and shine a light on this courageous generation of African Americans.” William Durant from the AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter said, "Indexing Freedmen's Bureau records puts you 'up close and personal' with ancestors and their struggles to begin life anew after slavery. It helps prepare you for your own research and saves time because you become familiar with the records, their format and wording, and [you] already know where to look for names." The project’s completion coincides with the September 2016 opening of the SmithsonianNational Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. A symbolic handover of the records will take place later this year. At that time, all of the records will also be available to the public to search online at no cost. “The genealogical community is fully embracing these records,” said Hollis Gentry, genealogy specialist at NMAAHC. “You’ll find African American genealogists are quite excited about the Freedmen’s Bureau Project. It offers a tremendous potential for them to find their ancestors in this large group of federal records that may bridge the gap between freedom and slavery in the records.” “The Freedmen's Bureau Project will change the very fabric of genealogy for African Americans," said Sherri Camp, president of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. The Freedmen’s Bureau, organized under an 1865 Congressional order at the conclusion of the Civil War, offered assistance to freed slaves. Handwritten records of these transactions include records such as marriage registers, hospital or patient registers, educational efforts, census lists, labor contracts and indenture or apprenticeship papers and others. The records were compiled in 15 states and the District of Columbia. Although the project is completed, it will be few more months before all of the records will be available to the public because they still need to go through an arbitration process. “To ensure the accuracy of the indexed information, two volunteers index each document. Any

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differences between the entries of these two volunteers is reviewed by a third, experienced volunteer called an arbitrator,” explained Michael Judson of FamilySearch. “The arbitrator chooses the correct indexed data or adds their own information when neither appears to be correct.” Project organizers report that even more records have been discovered as a result of the original indexing project. The additional records will be available for indexing on DiscoverFreedmen.org. Once completed, they too will be added to the collection at the Smithsonian and will be available online. “One of our key beliefs is that our families can be linked forever and that knowing the sacrifices, the joys and the paths our ancestors trod helps us to know who we are and what we can accomplish,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who spoke a year ago at a news conference in Los Angeles to launch the Freedmen’s Bureau Project.

To find out more about the Bureau's records, here are some good places to start:

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/freedmens-bureau-records.html http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/brochure.pdf A document explaining the MISSOURI field office records: http://www.archives.gov/research/microfilm/m1908.pdf [Midwest Genealogy Center has microfilm of one part of that bureau's records--"Records of the Freedman's [sic] Savings and Trust Company," one branch of which was in St. Louis. (There was no Kansas City branch.)]

Learn more at discoverfreedmen.org

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Thank you for Making African American

Freedmen’s Bureau Records Searchable!

18,940 volunteers

1,760,637 records indexed