Martha (Jones) Organ (1875 - 1945)

Born Sep 1875 in North Carolina, United States

Wife of Willis Organ — married 15 Mar 1920 in Township 2 Jonesboro, Lee, North Carolina, United States

Died 21 Feb 1945 at age 69 in Cary, Wake, North Carolina, United States

Biography

Martha (Jones) Organ is a part of US Black heritage.

Martha was born in 1876. She passed away after 1936.

Martha Organ was interviewed May 18, 1937 in Cary, North Carolina about her life and her time as an enslaved person. She was too young to have been enslaved, but tells stories she heard from her parents.

"I doan know nothin' 'bout slavery 'cept what I hyard my mother tell, an' dat ain't so much. I know dat my pappy's name wuz Handy Jones an' my mammy's name wuz Melisa. She belong to a Mr. Whitaker but atter she married my pappa she belonged ter Mr. Rufus Jones, Mr. Rufus wuz Mr. Wesley Jones' brother at de ole Fanning Jones place; an' he owned a sizable plantation."

Interview: Martha Organ was interviewed in Cary, North Carolina by Mary A. Hicks 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]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Martha Organ - Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 2; pages 151-154, images 155-158 of 440.

• "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCXT-Y5B : Sun Mar 10 23:28:16 UTC 2024), Entry for Handy Jones and Lissa A. Jones, 1880.

• "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS19-SDH : Thu Apr 11 20:17:47 UTC 2024), Entry for Handy Jones and Harriett Jones, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLSS-KFC : Sun Mar 10 03:41:37 UTC 2024), Entry for Handy Jones and Martha Jones, 1910.

• "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZJX-8V9 : Thu Mar 07 13:41:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Handy Jones and Martha Jones, 1920.

• "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8W5-HX3 : 14 February 2020), Martha Jones in entry for Willis Organ, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X376-G2S : Sat Mar 09 17:29:57 UTC 2024), Entry for Will Organ and Martha Organ, 1930.

• "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQR-2P8 : Sun Mar 10 22:19:54 UTC 2024), Entry for Will Organ and Martha Organ, 1940.

• "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP5V-CF4 : 29 September 2022), Martha Jones Ovgan, 1945.