The WikiTree Challenge 2023 Challenge 4

Date: 16 Feb 2023 to 23 Feb 2023
Surnames/tags: challenges wikitree_challenge black_heritage

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Contents 1 WikiTree Challenge 4 1.1 Starting Profiles 1.2 Locations 1.3 Needs Work 1.4 Photographs 1.5 FamilySearch Image Look-ups 2 Tell Us What You Found!! 2.1 Interesting Finds 2.2 Free Space Pages 2.3 One Place Studies (OPS) 2.4 Military Profiles 2.5 New Categories 3 Media Outreach 4 Media Outreach 4.1 WikiTree Posts: 4.2 Participant Posts: 5 Ancestors 5.1 Brick Walls 5.1.1 Brick Wall Ancestors 6 Resources 6.1 General WT Resources 6.2 Specific Topic Resources 6.2.1 General Black Heritage Resources 6.2.2 Slavery Resources

WikiTree Challenge 4

Organization: Freedmen Bureau Friday

"Reclaiming the narrative and honoring our ancestors."

The Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA will serve as the collective voice of all descendants of enslaved and free Black communities who labored at the University of Virginia through research, education, and preservation.

Starting Profiles

1. Ellen Barrett managed by descendant Oyatunde Amakisi
2. Miles C. Haney managed by descendant L Gibson
3. Dolly (Epps) Burn managed by descendant David Anthony Taylor
4. Alice Moorman managed by descendant Adrian Wells
5. Ned Mason managed by descendant Dana Lee
6. Turner Robert Malone managed by descendant M (Malone) Mahler
7. Louis McGill managed by descendant Vicki McGill

Locations

1. United States
   • Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Michigan

Needs Work

Please delete them from this list once you've fulfilled the request. Thanks!

Tip: To find children in a biography with a lot of inline citations, hold Ctl and F on your keyboard, then type

If you would prefer I research a few and just put the sources at the bottom, please let me know! Mindy

1. Needs Research: Moses McGill has uncertain parentage.
2. Needs Profiles: George Burnett Mudd (1884-1965) needs a marriage record found (Kentucky) and needs spouse and two children added (a third was stillborn). (5th degree profile)
3. Needs profiles: Henrietta (Burch) Fuller (1894-) needs spouse and 7 children added. (5th degree profile)
4. Needs profiles: McKinley Burch (1901-1979) needs spouse and four of his children added (I couldn't find deaths for the other four). (5th degree profile)
5. Needs Profiles: Laura (McClary) Scott (abt.1888-1970) Children listed in the census can be created (check for death dates, the younger kids may still be alive.
6. Needs Profiles:Weary McGill has some children who are listed in census records and do not yet have profiles (because there are no sources yet except childhood census records). Census records also list some grandchildren whose parents have yet to be identified.
7. Needs Research: Children of Moseses and Martha Smith need more sources for their profiles.
8. Needs profiles: Epps CC6: Stephen Alexander Burns (1845-1906) has children that can be added https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/family-tree/person/tree/43025590/person/12781837662/facts

Photographs

Note: Please check with your captain, Elaine Martzen, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.

• add image link here

• [1], marriage record for Willie Mae Wells vs Webb Hooks.

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week

1. Rebecca Delbridge, who is 5 degrees from Ned Mason, died in 1936 from pellagra. Pellagra was so pervasive in the Southern United States that the U.S. Congress asked the Surgeon General to investigate the disease. In 1914 Joseph Goldberger discovered pellagra was caused by malnutrition rather than infection, and that it was prevalent among poor people subsisting on cornbread and molasses. Indigenous American peoples traditionally process corn with limewater when making tortillas, hominy or posole, and other foods. This essential step was omitted by European- and African-Americans. While many grains contain niacin (Vitamin B3), the niacin in corn is "bound" in a form that is hard to absorb. This missing nutrient was discovered by Conrad Elvehjem in 1937, the year after Rebecca's death. By the mid-century, bread and cereals were routinely fortified with niacin. Lowe-866 22:41, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
2. Bertha Scott Hooks, great-granddaughter of Louis McGill died suddenly in 1961 of cerebral hemorrhage during labor. She was in the Georgetown County, South Carolina Memorial Hospital. Margaret (Tull) Meredith
3. A grandson of Louis McGill, Samuel McGill (abt.1912-1944), was shot and killed by a policeman in 1944. On the following day, a Coroner's Jury reported "That we the jury decided the said Sam McGill came to his death by pistol shot fired from policeman Daniel Coutu in self defense while in line of duty." No newspaper articles or other supporting records relating to this incident have yet been located. It would be interesting to find more information about what led to this tragic death. Suzanne (Nix) Dyck
4. Julia Mattie Hooks Hampton and her husband had 22 children. Eight preceded her in death.
5. John Turner Tisdale, a relative of Louis McGill, was born Bubber Turner Tisdale (1917-1953). Liza (Macklem) Gervais
6. William Buggs was killed in an elevator accident in 1944, suffering a fractured skull.
7. The 1880 Census of Agriculture shows that Louis McGill (abt.1832-abt.1913) was farming 17 acres of rented land and had one mule, a good bit less than the "40 acres and a mule" promised to freedmen by Union General Sherman during the final months of the Civil War. Smith-62120 02:53, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
8. Turner "Buck" Malone's pension file had this awesome family story that was written by one of his daughters: Image 174: "Mary Jones was an Indian baby found in the woods of Alexandria City VA by a white man by the name of Mr. Tom Lynch. She grew up in Mr. Lynch's home. She had one daughter Eliza who also was given to his sister (Mrs. Rowell) she grew up and married a free Negro John Wiliams. They had three sons, namely John, Augmon and Turner. Grandmother Eliza was sold with her three sons for debt to Bill Malone in Fayette County Georgia. My father Turner was six weeks old. They grew up as slaves of Bill Malone ran away and joined Sherman in his march to the sea....Augmon got killed. John stopped in Scriven County and did not try to find his mother and brothers until just before he died in 1899." Lisa C
9. Ned Mason (1903-1967) is a member of The Great Migration,https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Great_Migration_%28African-American%29. His journey took him from Henrico, North Carolina to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Proctor-1924.
10. 7 degrees from Alice (Moorman) Wells (abt.1865-aft.1910), apparently, the only African American Automaker, Founder Charles Richard Patterson (1833-1910) was born into slavery in Virginia in 1833. Family legend has it that C.R., his parents, and his 3 brothers swam across the Ohio River in 1840. Tucker-11084
11. Henry Moorman (abt.1840-1871), the father of Alice (Moorman) Wells (abt.1865-aft.1910) was identified from his will. It also mentions several of Alice's siblings. Henry left Alice her mother's chest, a spinning wheel, a kitchen table, a slab, a bedstead and bed, and the household furniture. Melick-229
12. 5 degrees from Ned Mason (1903-1967) is Ernest Anderson (1917-1928) a 10 year old school boy who died following a hit from an auto mobile in 1928
13. The Freedmen's Bureau documented a contract of employment between Ellen (Barrett) Cornett (1842-1915) and John H Cornett (abt.1810-1887) in 1866 in Calhoun County, Arkansas. The terms were $40/year and board for Ellen's four year old son Jeff Barrett. The contract was renewed in 1867; but the names were crossed out as if the contract was not finalized. Ellen, at least, had apparently moved about 125 miles to Faulkner County in 1867, because she had a child (Robert) born to a resident there in 1868. Another child was born in 1869, father unknown. Meanwhile, John Cornett also moved to Faulkner County between 1867-1868. He married the widow of a neighbor there in 1869 (Mary). In the 1870 census, John, his new wife Mary, Ellen, and her three children were living under one roof in Faulkner County, Arkansas. Ellen later had at least two children with John before 1880. She does not appear in the 1880 Census in John and Mary's home, nor are she and her children found anywhere else in that census.

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

• USCT Pension Notes for Turner Buck Malone
• Slaves of Thomas Satterwhite Jr, Arkansas
• Will of Henry Moorman, 1871
• Kill Burns Disambiguation

One Place Studies (OPS)

Place Study	Sticker markup	Profiles
This profile is part of the Gaston, North Carolina One Place Study.	{{One Place Study|place=Gaston, North Carolina|category=Gaston, North Carolina One Place Study}}
This profile is part of the Kingstree, South Carolina One Place Study.	{{One Place Study|place=Kingstree, South Carolina|category=Kingstree, South Carolina One Place Study}}
This profile is part of the Turkey, South Carolina One Place Study.	{{One Place Study|place=Turkey, South Carolina|category=Turkey, South Carolina One Place Study}}
This profile is part of the Taylor, Nevada, Arkansas One Place Study.	{{One Place Study|place=Taylor, Nevada, Arkansas|category=Taylor, Nevada, Arkansas One Place Study}}

Military Profiles

• Sidney Wells (abt.1891-1964), son of Alice (Moorman) Wells (abt.1865-aft.1910), served in the US Army during World War I
• Sergeant John Henry Malone (1868-1942), son of Turner Robert Malone I (abt.1844-1910) (1 degree), was a life-long member of the famed Buffalo Soldiers. He began his service prior to the Spanish-American War and served until after the close of World War I, at least.
• Samuel Malone (1895-1918) (2 degrees) was a private in the US Army during World War I. He was killed in France 1 October 1918. He was the grandson of Turner "Buck" Malone. He was also the nephew of SGT John Henry Malone.
• Wesley Hooks, (1914-1988), 4 degrees from Louis McGill, served in the US Army during WWII.
• Steve Hooks (1918-1988) served in the US Army (1942-1946), during WWII.
• Norman McGill (1942-2018) served in the US army in the Vietnam war.
• Nelson Dexter (abt.1896-1974)
• Jackson Monroe (1896-1956) - WWI

New Categories

New Cemeteries

1. Category:Sinai Cemetery, Faulkner County, Arkansas
2. Category:Linder_Cemetery,_East_Dublin,_Georgia
3. Category:Homer_Knight's_Cemetery,_Laurens_County,_Georgia
4. Category:New Bethel AME Church Cemetery, Laurens County, Georgia
5. Category:Old_Eastview_Cemetery,_Rome,_Georgia
6. Category:Baker Cemetery, Treutlen County, Georgia
7. Category:Pine Hill Cemetery, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
8. Category:Daniels Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Enfield, North Carolina .
9. Category:New Jerusalem Holiness Church Cemetery, Garysburg, North Carolina
10. Category:Cool Spring Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Gaston, North Carolina
11. Category:Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Henrico, North Carolina
12. Category:Gaston Baptist Church Cemetery, Northampton_County, North_Carolina
13. Category:Huff Family Cemetery, Northampton County, North Carolina
14. Category:Hines - Bulluck Cemetery, Pinetops, North Carolina
15. Category:Hicks Family Cemetery, Thelma, North Carolina
16. Category:Oak Ridge Cemetery, South Weldon, North Carolina
17. Category:Mount Rona Baptist Church Cemetery, Effingham, South Carolina
18. Category:Mount Rowell Baptist Church Cemetery, Kelton, South Carolina
19. Category:Kingstree Cemetery, Kingstree, South Carolina
20. Category:Saint Michael UMC Cemetery Kingstree South Carolina
21. Category:Providence AME Cemetery, Little Mountain, South Carolina
22. Category: Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Emporia, Virginia
23. Category:Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church, Richmond, Virginia
24. Category: Mount Sinai Cemetery, Goat Town, Georgia
25. Category:Old Mount Sinai Cemetery Goat Town Georgia
26. Category:Morning Glory Cemetery Georgetown South Carolina
27. Category:Burrows Cemetery, Nesmith, South Carolina
28. Category:Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Salters, South Carolina
29. Category:Rocky Ford Cemetery, Salters, South Carolina
30. Category:Center Point Cemetery No.2, Center Point, Arkansas

New Cemetery County Categories

1. Category:Faulkner County, Arkansas, African-American Cemeteries
2. Category: Laurens County, Georgia, African-American Cemeteries
3. Category: Treutlen County, Georgia, African-American Cemeteries
4. Category: Williamsburg County, South Carolina, African-American Cemeteries
5. Category: Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, African-American Cemeteries
6. Category: Howard County, Arkansas, African-American Cemeteries

New Great Migration Categories

1. Category: Great Migration (African-American), South Carolina to Pennsylvania
2. Category: Great Migration (African-American), Arkansas to California

New Military Categories

1. Category:329th_Service_Battalion,_United_States_Army,_World_War_I
2. Category:345th_Service_Battalion,_United_States_Army,_World_War_I

Media Outreach

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Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and Elaine Martzen. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Brick Wall Ancestors

1. Ellen (Barrett) Cornett (1842-1915) Georgia
2. Miles C. Haney (abt.1830-aft.1880) Tennessee (prove that John Anthony Ellis (abt.1843-abt.1917) is his son)
3. Janie (Spence) Brown (abt.1881-1973) Arkansas
4. Lilla Burch (abt.1864-aft.1940) Georgia
5. Annie Marie (Watson) Henley (1873-1964) Virginia
6. Sherman Fielder (abt.1879-) Georgia Solved!!
7. Francis White (1882-1923) South Carolina

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from eachother!

General WT Resources

• Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
• Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
• WikiTree AGC This addon is to clean up gedcom 'clutter' once we've connected to existing profiles. It is awesome at cleaning up the gedcoms and putting the source information together.
• WikiTree Browser Extension This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the "auto-bio" button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to. It is also great for adding stickers and cleaning up GEDCOM clutter. Let your team captain know if you need help learning one of these features!
• The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.

Specific Topic Resources

• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal provides guidelines on creating pre-1865 profiles
• 2 videos on how to use WT, hosted by USBH

General Black Heritage Resources

• US Black Heritage Resources by State
• US Black Heritage Project Page Directory
• These resources will generally be the usual American sources... censuses, birth/marriage/death, obituaries, etc. Note: North Carolina generally names the parents of the bride & groom.
• For ancestors born before 1865 please add this category:
  • [[Category: USBH Heritage Exchange]]
• Add this sticker please! {{African-American Sticker}}
  

  ... ... ... is a part of US Black heritage.

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Slavery Resources

• Tips on finding enslaved ancestors - Family Tree Magazine
• Tips on finding enslaved ancestors - Wikitree Page
• Navigating Slavery Topics and Locations in Wikitree
• Videos on Heritage Exchange process (if you wish to know more beyond putting the Category:USBH Heritage Exchange on the slave or slave owner profile
• Freedmen's Bureau on FamilySearch
• Freedmen's Bureau on Ancestry, same as FS data, possibly with better search - free with free login
• Virginia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872
  • Roll 51, Register of complaints, Jan 1867-Dec 1868
• Slavery, United States of America, Resources
• Index of Plantations
• Index of Slave Ship Manifests in USA
• Index to Confederate Slave Payrolls on WikiTree
• US Black Heritage: Free Persons of Color
• Freedmen's Bureau maps and research guides