The participial women line down the Thorne Family
Over 150 years
X-slave Eliza Thorne who has many hundreds of Descendants
Five Generation later, Eliza Lucinda Blue Brown
my Grand Mother
My Mother Wearing Glasses
My Daughter's
Amanda Ann Williams III and
Future Stephanie Ann Williams Tulloch
Introduction starting with the Blue's
On March 16,
1976, my Great Uncle Joe and my Great Aunt Neil wrote my x-wife Ann and me a
letter that started this blog, documenting my ancestry. As my friends and
political activists were calling on us Natives, Africans, and other people of
color to embrace something that they can mold and control into a policy that they can call Black or African American society, we found out that people of color do have a
history in this nation.
It is not all
about slavery. We have families and we tried to make a living just like
everyone else. Some had better luck than
others. Some did better than others. Never the less, we were born, went from
babies to adults, and died leaving memories and a history.
The Blues said
in a letter to future generations;
Dear Darnell and Ann;
Forgive our waiting so long to write you. Do hope this finds you both in good
health. Also your mother and the rest of
the family. We think of you quite often.
Well, we finally got around to putting
some of the family record on paper. Lots of names we don't know -- so please add
or correct where ever necessary. Hope you enjoy reading it. Tell Jean (my mother Jean Williams), I have a
copy for her and will get it off later.
Give everyone our love -- Be sweet
Albemarle
Uncle
Joe and Aunt Neil
The Political Atmosphere at the End
of the War Between the States
The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views
For
Some Slaves, Path to Freedom Was Far From Clear-Cut
This was the
politics back in the 1860s in Virginia. When I met Uncle Joe in the 1970s, he showed
me pictures that he had of his ancestors and the house across the street once owned
by the late Eliza Thorne. Eliza was not like most slaves leaving slavery. She
had a skill. She made furniture. I had a chance to see some of it still being
used in Uncle Joe's house made with wooden nails.
When the
Thorne women became refugees from Culpeper, they accumulated a Conestoga Wagon,
a team of horses, cattle, and purchased 11 Acres of property in Free Union.
Free Union was an x-slave settlement created by the Commonwealth of Virginia to
protect x-slaves from being recaptured and sold back into slavery. Today, Free
Union is called "Stoney Point."
Family Record January 1976
The Blue's
family history on the Paternal side, According to available reference, goes
back to Allen and Clara Blue of Albemarle County. They were parents of seven
children;
1. Willie
Blue who married Fannue Franklin. They raised one daughter, Sadie Blue.
2. Allen Blue; he had no offspring.
3. Dabney Blue;
he had no offspring.
4. Sarah
Blue; She had no offspring.
5. Sarah
Blue; She had no offspring.
6. Clara
Blue; She had no offspring.
7. George W.
Blue; who married Eliza Walker. They were parents of six sons and one daughter.
To the best
of available information, the ancestors on the Maternal side go back to Eliza
Thorne. She was part Indian and was a
slave on the Plantation of Russel Brown
or Colonel Slaughter in the vicinity of Culpeper, Va. She was the mother of
four daughters:
Maria,
Violet, Jane, and Eliza Thorne II.
After the
"Emancipation" Eliza Thorne and Eliza Thorne II "refugeed" to
Albemarle where they spent the rest of their lives. She (Eliza Thorne II) was
married three times.
The first to
James Graves, there were three children;
1. Warren
Graves who married Laura (last name unknown). They had one daughter, Mary Ellen
and one son, Montgomery.
2. Nancy
Graves who married Allen Jackson. They
had 4 children: James, Susie, Silas, and Eliza.
3. Emily Graves who married Thomas Brown. They
were parents of 8 children; Robert Alfred, Abraham, Willie, Warren, Walter,
Annie, and Lucy.
Eliza
Thorne's second husband was Robert West. Of this union were born three
children:
Mary Etta
West (Aunt et as the younger generations including my mother called her), who
married William Tyree. They were parents of 9 children: Robert, Arthur (who I met), James, Gilbert,
Albert, Joshua Lee, Nellie (my great Aunt), Annie , and Allie.
Eliza
Thorne's third husband was Reuben Walker. Of this union was born one daughter.
Eliza J. Walker who married George W. Blue. The ceremony was performed in 1895;
by Rev. Daniel Brown, pastor of the Free Union Baptist Church. They were
parents of 7 children; James R., George
W., Eliza Lucinda, Dabney, Daniel, Roy
L., and Joseph E.
Free Union
Baptist Church still stands and is still part of my families religious
practices!
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