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Subject: Re: [OBANNON-L] Sensitive Topic / Salvery
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:03:33 -0500 (CDT)


KSmith, Flager and Regeana,

I found your information on www.progenealogy.com. I was wondering if you have any information on the O'Bannon's that were slaves. My records so Turner O'Bannon being the father of Tobe O'Bannon whose mother Sarah was a slave.

Anything you can share would be helpful.

>From:
>Date: Tue May 24 12:03:35 CDT 2005
>To: Paul O'Bannon <>,
>Subject: [OBANNON-L] Sensitive Topic / Salvery

> O'Bannon Web-Group....
>
>I know this can be a sensitive topic, as an African American O'Bannon, I will proceed with that in mind.
>
>There's not secret that the surname O'Bannon is an Irish name and that our ancestors arrived from Ireland. And, this should not be a surprise that the O'Bannon family (along with many others) owned slaves.
>
>For many African Americans, tracing our lineage is a huge challenge because of slavery. These individuals were sold and traded into families and taking on their slave owners name.
>
>Turner O'Bannon (son of Bryant Pickney O'Bannon and Nancy Nolan) had a relationship with a house slaved named Sarah. She had a son name Tobe O'Bannon. Tobe married a lady named Roberta, the family members that I know are only from this bloodline. We haven't scratched the surface of the O'Bannon lineage. However, the roots are starting to grow.
>
>I asked all of you, as you research the O'Bannon family. You will probably run across information regarding slaves. Please know that this information is very important to many searching for their ancestors. Add this information to your family tree as it may become important to you one day.
>
>
>>From: Paul O'Bannon <>
>>Date: Mon May 23 23:28:58 CDT 2005
>>To:
>>Subject: Re: Re: [OBANNON-L] Roberta and Tobe O'Bannon
>
>>At 07:35 PM 5/23/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>Bryant O'Bannon (born 9/19/1816), married Nancy Nolan (they had 10 slaves:
>>>7 male and 3 female). They had a son named Turner O'Bannon, I don't have
>>>a list of his siblings. Turner had a child with a slave girl named:
>>>Sarah. Anyway, Sarah and Turner had a son named Tobe O'Bannon.
>>
>>OK, now I get the picture. I do have all the children of Bryant Pinkney
>>O'Bannon and wife Nancy Nolan, including Turner William O'Bannon
>>(1844-1898). I have two wives for Turner William:
>> Mary Elizabeth Henderson (1847-1893). She married Turner 15 Dec
>>1868 in Claiborne Parish, LA and by him had 3 boys and 4 girls.
>> Bettie Brown (no dates). She had a son by Turner named Maurice
>>O'Bannon. Maurice appears in the Social Security Death Index as born 2 Sep
>>1896 in Louisiana, died April 1970 in Tampa, FL. I have no marriage date
>>for Turner and Bettie, so had entered 1895 in the
>>box. Note that Maurice was born three years after Betty Henderson
>>died. Whether Brown was black or Caucasian, I have no notation.
>>
>>It appears that slavery was supposedly abolished by 1865, so whenever it
>>was Turner had his affair with Sarah it would have had to have been between
>>1862 (when Turner was 18) and 1868 (when Turner, then aged 24, married Mary
>>Henderson). So Tobe would have had to have been born between 1862 and
>>1865, right?
>>
>>Yours is the second request I've had this month to help with the lineage of
>>O'Bannons color. Until now no one has brought up the subject of
>>Caucasian O'Bannons impregnating their slave girls and until now I have not
>>had any names to enter into my O'Bannon database. Additionally, of course,
>>there are cases where slaves, upon obtaining their freedom, adopted the
>>surnames of their previous owners--so throughout Louisiana there are
>>numerous black Bannons, O'Bannons, Banners and O'Banners.
>>
>>So, go ahead and find what records you have and pass them on to me. They
>>should be interesting.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Paul O'Bannon
>>Vallejo, CA

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