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Subject: Re: Russell County Heritage Bk
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:09:25 EDT
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> Hello list
> I too received my Russell County Heritage Book after a more than 2 year
> wait. I'm pleased to see my ancestors names in print, however, I was grief
> stricken to see the under-representation of Afro Americans. I glanced the book
> over, but only saw 2 pictures of Afro Americans. And my article was changed.
> My Gr Grandmother's picture was sent in, but not included. My Gr Gr Gr
> Grandmother's birth date was shown as 1870 when it was 1815. (I know because of
> several documents I have, including the 1870 Census in Russell County, Ala.
> where she was the cook on the Sterling Boykin plantation.) My Grandmother's
> father, according to her death certificate was J. C. Drake of Drakes Cove
> Alabama. I can only assume that because Mr. Drake was white that they instead
> chose to print J. C. Duke. I guess I fail to understand why some still can't
> respect Afro Americans enough to at least let history reflect the truth in
> 2003. I understand why family members di not speak of what happene!
> d during
> their lifetimes. I'm glad that in death they recorded the truth. "And the
> truth shall set you free!"
> P. Kyle
Hi Pamela,
I know how frustrated you are with the misrepresentation of your facts. The
truth will come out.
Please share with me the info on J C Drake. I am looking for a Mary Drake bn
1824 who married a James W Moon bn about 1819, Married in Muscogee Co, Ga
and lived in Russell Co,Al later. He was a shoemaker.
Thanks
Betty Rackley Taylor
Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!
Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
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