Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Friday, June 7, 2024

Andrew Jackson Ellison, Company C 88th US Colored Troops

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Andrew Jackson Ellison was born in Ohio March 4, 1835. He was one of 12 children of John and Sarah Ellison who were both born in Virginia. S...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Pleasants Family of Mansfield, Ohio

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James Pleasants The nearby photographs are of James Pleasants (born 1851) and of James with brothers Thomas and Jasper. They are just...
Friday, February 3, 2012

Freedom's Pull Was Stronger than Ohio's Black Laws

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Sarah Ellen Curtis Granddaughter of Thomas Vincent Curtis Sandusky County Ohio The state of Ohio is often recognized as the first state fo...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Lest We Forget: Remembering Sandusky County, Ohio's Veterans

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CBS Sunday Morning On Memorial Day 2010, CBS Sunday Morning featured the efforts of Wayne Van Doren and his family to place American flags...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Coming North: Martha Laughinghouse Weiker

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My search for photos of African American Civil War soldiers led to a conversation with Charles Weiker of Fremont, Ohio. He not only provided...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sarah Ellen Drew, 1838 - 1940

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Documenting the lives of African Americans of Sandusky County, Ohio is not an easy task! In depth research by Charles Weiker of Fremont, Ohi...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion

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While working to compile the names and service records of Sandusky County, Ohio Civil War soldiers, I uncovered nearly two dozen African Am...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Madame Marie Selika: First African American to Perform at the White House

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Madame Marie Selika Williams When President Teddy Roosevelt invited the Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington to the White House in 1901, t...
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