How the World Works: Part 6: Coming to grips with who you are!

World War One Black Troops

We stopped with the Beasley/Brown feud. We talked about Eliza Thorn who was half Cherokee. Many of the Browns were Native people. We will turn to the Blue family and see how they entered themselves into the picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_clans

This link is about the 7 clans of the Cherokee. It looks as if Allen or Clara were captured Cherokees of the Blue Clan because they took their Clan name as their last name.

As explained to me by Uncle Joe Blue, this family is Cherokee. The Blues were native peoples. Allen and Clara Blue (Great Great Grand Parents) worked as slaves on an Albemarle Plantation outside Barbourville on Rt. 20 in VA. They had 7 children. One of these children was George W. Blue (Great Grand Parents.) George married Eliza J. Walker at Free Union Baptist Church in 1895, by Rev. Daniel Brown.

They had;

1. James R. Blue married Carrie Hazard

2. George W Blue married Ruth Smith

3. Debney A Blue married Rachel Lee

4. Daniel M. Blue married Pauline Keyes

5. Roy L Blue Married Ruth Glenn

6. Joseph E. Blue Married Nellie Beasley

7. They had Eliza Lucinda Blue (Grandmother) in July 1899 and she died Dec. 1966. They called her Lucy. She Married John Brown (Grandfather) born 1894. They were married at Free Union Baptist Church by Rev. Daniel Brown in February 1923.

His grandfather Nick Brown married an Indian Woman and lived in Standardsville, Va. for a while until they moved to Profits, Va. Mr. John Brown lived for a time in Profits as a farmer until he went to war.

In 1914, World War I started in Europe. In 1917, the United States entered the war. John Brown went into the army and to Europe. John was thrown in with other Black people from around the United States and worked with other people of color around the world.

Here is where John Brown learned that other people of color saw themselves differently than the people back home.

But John never changed his idea of who he was and passed that information down to his descendants. Uncle Joe (Joseph Blue) never did either and passed down that information to me.

Click on the link or the picture below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAfd_IulO4