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Evelina (Dorgens) Morgan (1857)

Evelina Morgan formerly Dorgens
Born in Wedgeboro, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Profile last modified | Created 5 Oct 2022
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
Evelina (Dorgens) Morgan is a part of US Black heritage.

Evelina Morgan was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas about 1938 about her life and her time as an enslaved person. The typescript is stamp dated ___ 11, 1938.

"I was born in Wedgeboro, North Carolina, on the plantation of -- let me see what that man's name was. He was an old lawyer. I done forgot that old white man's name. Old Tom Ash! Senator Ash -- that's his name."

"My father's name was Alphonso Dorgens and my mother's name was Lizzie Dorgens. Both of them dead. I don't know what her name was before she married. My pa belonged to the Dorgens' and he married my ma. That is how she come to be a Dorgen. Old man Ash never did buy him. He just visited my mother. They was all in the same neighborhood. Big plantations."

"My husband's been dead about seven years. I goes to the Methodist church on Ninth and Broadway. I ain't able to do no work now. I gets a little pension, and the Lord takes care of me."

Slave Owners

  1. Senator Tom Ash

Interview: Evelina Morgan was interviewed in Little Rock, Arkansas by Samuel S. Taylor as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. [1]

Note: No town named Wedgeboro has been located in North Carolina. Possibly it was Wadesboro, where the names of the enslavers were located.


Sources

  1. [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Evelina Morgan - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 5; pages 136-140, images 141-145 of 373.
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCX8-2QT : 14 January 2022), Evelena Dargen in household of Alph Dargen, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
  • "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVR-FRC : accessed 5 October 2022), Evelina Morgan in household of Wade Morgan, Little Rock Ward 3, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 114, sheet 12B, family 296, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 62; FHL microfilm 1,374,075.
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMGH-FYG : accessed 5 October 2022), Evelina Morgan, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 7B, line 93, family 187, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 91; FHL microfilm 2,339,826.
  • "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQK1-RRX : 8 January 2021), Evelena Morgan, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60-32B, sheet 1A, line 19, family 7, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 167.


Possible Enslaver

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDDL-T44 : 18 February 2021), Thomas S Ashe, 1860.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVW-8N3Q : 26 July 2019), Thomas Samuel Ashe, 1887; Burial, Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States of America, Eastview Cemetery; citing record ID 7091363, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.





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