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AAHGS News The Bi-Monthly Newsletter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. July/August 2015

ISSN#1947-475X

ATTEND THE 2015 AAHGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE

AAHGS will hold its 36th National Conference, October 15-17, 2015, at the Richmond Marriott Hotel in Richmond, Virginia. The

Conference theme is “Virginia, Where African-American Roots Run Deep: Family History and the National Narrative.” For more

information, email [email protected].

FAMILY PROSPECTS

HORACE WAYMON BIVINS—A SOLDIER’S SOLDIER (PART II of II)

By Robert Bivins

Both the 10th Cavalry and the Rough

Riders were part of the force that won

a decisive battle of the war, fought on

July 1st at San Juan Hill. Battle

conditions were intense. "It was a hot

day and we had no water. Some of us

had canteens but they had been

pierced by bullets. All of this time we

were under a terrific fire," Bivins

recalled.6 As Bivins fired a Hotchkiss

gun, a Spanish bullet bounced from

the cannon's wheel and glanced off his

temple. "It stunned me for about two

minutes," he said. "I recovered,

resighted my gun, pulled the lanyard,

then watched with my glasses the

result of the shot."7 When the gun was no longer operable, he picked

up a carbine and joined the Rough Riders until the battle was over.

With the victory at San Juan Hill, the United States

penetrated the outer defense of the city of Santiago de Cuba.

American losses were high, however, especially among the black

units. One-fifth of the black soldiers who fought at San Juan Hill and

more than half of the 10th Cavalry's white officers were killed. One

unsung hero of San Juan Hill was Bivins's dog, Booth. Ellen

Baumler’s8 favorite Bivins story, recounted in Under Fire, which he

co-authored, involves his dog, Booth. Bivins trained the Irish water

spaniel at Fort Custer to retrieve and carry messages. Booth

accompanied the men to Cuba and the Philippines. ‘‘He displayed

more intelligence than is common in the animal by guarding the

remains of Private Slaughter who was killed in the charge up San Juan

Hill on July 1, 1898,'' Under Fire says. ‘‘ The dog was found lying

across the dead soldier's breast.'' At San Juan Hill, Booth guarded the

body of a fallen soldier until it could be recovered. The dog served

with distinction in the Philippines but was not allowed back into the

country for fear of contagion. He disappeared.

Bivins had no doubt that he and his fellow soldiers were

doing the right thing in Cuba. In a letter he wrote from there to a

friend, Bivins said, ‘‘ Tyranny, tyranny is what Spain (cont. on p. 5)

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The theme for the issue is “Solving Genealogical

and Historical Puzzles.” The current AAHGS News

is dedicated in memory of two leaders, Dr. Agnes Kane Callum (1925-2015) and Archie Lee Moore,

Jr. (1960-2015). Please let us take a moment of

silence. When years ago I asked Dr. Callum about

the creation of her Mullac Publishing, she laughed and said, “Mullac is Callum spelled backwards.” So

Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo did not have anything up on

Agnes Kane Callum. Long before Dr. Benjamin

Carson’s message of “Dream Big”, she practiced leadership and self-sufficiency. She was trying to clean up a faltering

community, when she was told by city officials that Baltimore could not

make her neighbors keep their neighborhood clean. “If she wanted to

have a say so; she needed to purchase property.” So she did. “Yes I can” was embodied by her long before President Barack Obama popularized

the message. She was telling her daughter what to do at college when

her daughter told her if she knew so much about the matter, she then

should go to college. So Dr. Callum went to school and excelled. She became a beloved master researcher, historian and genealogist. She was

a founding member of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical

Society Baltimore Chapter. In 2007, members of the AAHGS Baltimore

honored her by renaming it “the AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Chapter.” Archie Lee Moore, Jr. established the Archie Moore Jr.

Collection of Black Americana, a manuscript collection. He was

serving as Historian for the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical

Society (AAHGS) Arkansas Chapter. He had one of the largest one-of-a kind collections of African American memorabilia in the state of

Arkansas and often exhibited and lectured on his collection of artifacts

at various genealogical, religious, and historical conferences and

institutions across the country. This issue also focuses upon military leadership and research in the Mid-Atlantic. See you in Richmond!

Rev. Roland Barksdale-Hall

AAHGS Director of Publications

Agnes Kane Callum

BREAKING NEWS

AAHGS Family Search Partnership Receives Recognition…....2

Philadelphia African American Birth Authentications…....10-14

Virginia Seminary Catalogue for 1892-1893……….….…16-21

REGULAR FEATURES

President’s Page…………………………………………….....3

Chapter News……………………………….………….…2,7,15

Book Notes………………………………….……………8,9,22

Family Prospects…………………………..…………1,5,7-8,24

In Memory………………………………………….…1,3,21,22

Chapter Directory………………………………..……………..6

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AAHGS News Check out the most recent news at the News blog: www.aahgsnews.wordpress.com! July/August 2015

AAHGS FamilySearch Partnership

Receives National Recognition

Compiled by Sherri Camp

Dallas http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150619-historic-freedmens-bureau-records-online.ece Apex, North Carolina http://www.righthereinapex.com/2015/06/23/historic-freedmens-bureau-records-released/ Delaware http://www.delawareliberal.net/2015/06/20/the-freedmans-bureau-project/ Los Angeles http://lasentinel.net/faith-community-salutes-digital-release-of-freedmens-bureau-records.html Oakland http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/2015/06/freedmens-bureau-records-events-at.html

INTERVIEWS

* http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/freedmens-bureau-slave-records-released/55896d64fe34444c0000002a * http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/19/freedmens-bureau-records-of-4-million-former-slaves-released-today/

oid=14591110

Baltimore County, Prince Georges County, Central Maryland, Montgomery County and Washington, DC http://wdcfhc.org/wordpress/2015/06/the-freedmens-bureau-project/

Prince George County MD https://afasacrl.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/slave-records.pdf

Utah http://aahgsutah.org/aahgs-events/

BLOGS

PGCM Member Bernice Bennett with the Washington Family History Center. http://wdcfhc.org/wordpress/2015/06/the-freedmens-bureau-project/

Central Maryland Member Melvin Collier http://rootsrevealed.blogspot.com/2015/06/striking-gold-with-freedmens-bureau.html

Board Member Angela Walton-Raji http://africanrootspodcast.com/page/2/

Metro Atlanta http://aahgsatl.org/pdf/Freedmen%27s%20Bureau%20Indexing%20-%20What%20it%27s%20Like%20%28AAHGS%20Metro%20Atlanta%20Chapter%29.pdf

Sherri Camp is AAHGS Vice President of Genealogy. Submitted on August 11, 2015.

* http://time.com/3981770/african-american-black-history-slavery-smithsonian-freedmens-bureau/

CHAPTERS

Houston http://www.examiner.com/article/freedmen-bureau-freed-slave-records-indexing-kicks-off-at-mormon-genealogical-ce

Kansas http://cjonline.com/news/2015-06-19/topekan-helps-make-announcement-about-freedmens-bureau-project-which-helps-african

Indiana (reprint) https://ina.workforce3one.org/view/American_Indian_Center_of_Indiana_Newsletter__July

Prince George County https://afasacrl.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/train-to-help-index-the-freedmens-bureau-documents/

Metro Atlanta * http://www.henryherald.com/news/2015/jun/19/advocates-kick-off-freedmen8217s-bureau-digital/?iframe=true&width=90%&height=90%<http://www.henryherald.com/news/2015/jun/19/advocates-kick-off-freedmen8217s-bureau-digital/?iframe=true&width=90%25&height=90%25> * http://clatl.com/atlanta/freedmens-bureau-project-indexing-kickoff-watch-party/Event?

AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.

1977-2015

CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

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The Afro-American Historical and

Genealogical Society, Inc., (AAHGS), is a non-profit membership organization

committed to the preservation of the

history, genealogy and culture of the

African-ancestored populations of the local, national and international

community.

AAHGS stresses the importance of our history and genealogy by encouraging

active participation in recording

research and personal family histories.

President, Tamela Tenpenny-Lewis

Vice President-Genealogy, Sherri Camp

Vice President-History, Gene Stephenson, II

Correspondence Secretary, Toni Byrd Vann

Treasurer Carolyn Corpening, Rowe

Financial Secretary, (vacant)

Recording Secretary Victoria Betsill

Past President, Charles Howard

Membership Chair, Tamika Strong

Chapter Committee, Nathania Branch Miles

Chapter Committee, Gene R. Stephenson, II

Awards Committee, Jane Taylor Thomas

Awards Committee, Alice F. Harris

FGS Delegate Shelley Murphy

President Emeritus Barbara Walker

Editor, AAHGS Journal, Rev. Roland

Barksdale-Hall

Communications Specialist, (vacant)

Parliamentarian, Nelvia Brady-Hampton.

Editor, AAHGS News, Rev. Roland Barksdale

-Hall

Asst. Editor, AAHGS News, Marsha Bembry

Asst. Editor, AAHGS News, Elyse Hill

Book Notes Editor, Debra Newman Ham

Submissions are welcomed. Articles will be printed at the editor’s discretion and may

be edited without advance notice to the

author. Articles and other submissions

must be received on or before the fifth day

of each odd-numbered month. Articles

and queries may be mailed to: AAHGS

News, c/o Roland Barksdale-Hall, 939

Baldwin Ave., Suite 1, Sharon, PA 16146, email: <[email protected]> .

Permission to reproduce this issue or

portions thereof must be secured in writing

from the publisher.

Copyright © 2015 by the Afro-American

Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. All rights reserved.

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK...

IN LOVING MEMORY

Members, I personally wish to extend my condolence in the passing

of our beloved Agnes Emma Kane Callum. Researcher, writer and

lecturer, Ms. Agnes has transitioned into the AAHGS Ancestral

Chapter at the beautiful age of 90 and her passing has crippled the

genealogical and historical community. Ms. Agnes, when I reflect

on the many occasions that I was blessed to be in your presence,

to witness your intelligence, wit and sassiness the words of Winston Churchill in my

opinion fit you perfectly: "“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is

prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter". You will be missed and

forever in my heart!

Tamela

Dear Members,

Do you ever wonder how AAHGS as a non-profit manages the day-to-day operations of

the organization financially? If you guessed through memberships you are correct!

However, membership alone does not allow us to put icing on the cake. So I am appealing

to all of you to assist us in the continuous growth and increased development of this

wonderful soon to be "known-worldwide" organization. Why come to you? Because our

membership sets the tone of our success, without you there would be no AAHGS and with

you we have the potential of becoming larger and greater!

But like everything success comes at a price. Now that I have expressed the need for

financial support, let me tell you a little bit about AmazonSmile! AmazonSmile is a

website operated by Amazon that will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases that

you enjoy on Amazon.com to AAHGS. From this point on, when you purchase books,

tablets, tapes, genealogical & historical materials, or any other product provided by

Amazon that is eligible, you will aid in the success of AAHGS. All you have to do is go

to your web browser and type in smile.amazon.com, set up your account, select AAHGS

Washington, DC as your charity and begin shopping! It is that simple!

Also, I wish to remind everyone to visit www.discoverfreedmen.org and if you haven't

already signed up to index a bundle or two of the Freedmen's Bureau Records now is the

time! I hope you all were able to catch the press conference and sincerely hope you will

share pictures and stories of your watch parties around the country.

The response to the national conference is wonderful...make sure to get registered before

September 10th as the registration price will increase.

Until next time.................be safe and enjoy your summer! Tamela

Ag

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Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. www.aahgs.org Founded 1977 July/August 2015

EDITOR’S PAGE

WHAT OUR READERS ARE SAYING….

The AAHGS News looks great, as usual. You have a special talent for getting good articles and arranging them beautifully in the AAHGS News. Carolyn C. Rowe, AAHGS Prince George’s County MD

A GENEALOGIST’S SEARCH NEVER ENDS

By Donna Tyler Hollie

On a whim, I decided to search the online chancery records for

the State of Virginia. I entered all of my Virginian surnames and finally

got a hit on the name Marshall. I learned that my second Great-

Grandfather Lansy Marshall, had an enslaved wife and daughter who

were separated from him around 1845. (Later he married my second

Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Holladay.) Following is a summary of

the chancery record:

On 13 July 1877, Jane Murry deeded property to her daughter,

Katie Harris of Louisa Co. VA. The property, a house on 1/4 acre of

land in the town of Gordonsville, VA was situated in the rear of The

Exchange Hotel and had been owned by Benjamin Murry, son of Jane.

Benjamin died intestate and without issue and the property passed to

Jane. She subsequently deeded it to her daughter and son-in-law, James

and Katie Harris; in exchange they agreed to provide her with a house,

board and clothes for life.

On 1 October 1890, Katie filed suit in the Orange County court

saying that Benjamin Murry died on 26 November 1876. Katie further

testified that she was formerly the slave of Captain William Wood of

Louisa County Virginia. Wood died about 1844. His estate was settled

in 1845 and his property was distributed among his heirs. All of Katie's

brothers and sisters, except Benjamin, were taken to Kentucky and

Missouri. Those taken away were William, Andrew, Thomas, Pleasant,

Phyllis and Ann Wood. According to Katie, Lansy Marshall

cohabited with Ann Wood and fathered a daughter. Ann and her child

were taken away. Katie had tried since 1865, unsuccessfully, to find her

siblings. She testified that Lansy was not entitled to any interest in the

Gordonsville property since he and Ann were never legally married and

were not cohabiting in 1865 when Virginia passed a law legalizing all

slave marriages.

Jane Murry died in 1888. Katie was required to advertise in

local newspapers for four consecutive weeks and if her siblings did not

respond, the court would consider them dead. Lansy failed to appear in

court. The court ruled that he had no interest in the house and lot and

directed that the property be sold at auction, with all proceeds going to

Katie Harris. The property was purchased by J.C. Ross and after court

costs and lawyer's fees, Katie received $183.33 1/3. Katie gained

financially. I gained another surname and area of the country to

research.

Source: Orange County Virginia Chancery Record #1893-011.

Available at http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?

CFN=137-1893-011.

__________________________ Donna T. Hollie ([email protected] ) is a charter member of the

AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Chapter. Submitted July 20, 2015.

GILES BEECHER JACKSON: MY RESEARCH PROCESS

By Patricia Carter Sluby

One ancestor particularly merits attention.

This is my maternal Great-Grandfather,

Giles Beecher Jackson, Esq., a former slave.

When seeking information on him at one

point, I found his slave record at the most

unexpected place. It so happened that his

owner’s personal papers were given to the

University of Virginia, which papers I found

by accident when looking through its library

catalog. These papers listed all of his

enslaved persons. Earlier I had discovered

Jackson’s birth record. The year he was born, 1853, was the year

the State of Virginia began recording the births of slaves along with

free persons and Jackson’s birth record was on file at the Virginia

State Archives. His mother’s name was given, which I knew

previously from my Great-Grandmother Sarah who died in her

house near my home when I was entering my teens, and from the

family Bible. Thus, his owner’s information was confirmed.

Additionally, I found Sarah’s birth certificate for the year 1856.

Jackson and his wife, Sarah, had ten children. The youngest two

died in childhood whose names no one knew. I found them listed

on the rear face of an insurance policy folded between the pages of

his niece’s Bible. Several of Jackson’s children plus other close

relatives were alive when I began to research his family history,

thus I was able to get first hand knowledge of his life. Jackson also

supplied much information of his early life in testimony he gave at

several Congressional Hearings on a Bill he had pending before

Congress in the 1920s. I verified virtually all of this history. Some

of it was published in the early 1900s in the New York World, and

in other newspapers in Richmond, Virginia, and other locales.

Jackson was employed by the federal government in 1918, and the

Civilian Personnel Records at the National Personnel Records

Center enlightened me about his formative education and physical

disabilities in addition to his employer, service date, salary and job

title. His listed date of birth did not coincide with his vital statistics

record nonetheless.

Jackson was the first African American to be admitted to

practice before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on

November 30, 1887. This historic event was equivalent to “passing

the bar” in Virginia. Several days earlier his mother had passed

away. In June 1979, I published a full genealogy of Colonel

Jackson in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, beginning

with his parents, James and Hulda Jackson.

Patricia Carter Sluby ([email protected]) is a member of the

AAHGS Prince George’s County MD. Submitted July 25, 2015

Giles B

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er Jackson

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=137-1893-011

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=137-1893-011

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(cont. from p. 1 Horace Waymon Bivins) has kept

imposing upon the Cubans for the last

century. Spain will lose. Spanish tyranny

can no longer be tolerated by the civilized

world …. Oh, God! At last we have taken

up the sword to enforce the divine rights

of a people who have long been unjustly

treated.'' 9

Horace W. Bivins' military

career was so varied and full of adventure

that an early newspaper account wasn't

exaggerating much when it said an

account of his life ‘‘reads like fiction

from the imagination of a pulp magazine

writer.''10 He was also said to have been

the only man ever to win three Army

marksmanship gold medals in one year,

earning that distinction in 1894 while

serving at Fort Keogh in Miles City. The

Billings Gazette reported in 1935 that,

when Teddy Roosevelt made his final

visit to Billings during World War I, ‘‘he

made particular inquiries'' about Captain

Bivins.

In addition to all those official

exploits, Bivins was widely known in his

adopted town for his gardening skills and

for amassing a natural-history collection

that included rare birds, lizards, snakes

and artifacts from the Philippines,

shipped home and dispatched to Fort

Missoula.

Bivins made frequent trips to

Billings, The Gazette later reported,

because he was fond of the climate and

of a certain Claudia Browning, whom he

had met during his years at Fort Custer.

Browning was a native of Deadwood,

South Dakota, whose parents had come

to Billings in 1883. Bivins married

Claudia in March 1904, and they set up

home at Fort Missoula, where they

remained until he was ordered back to

the Philippines in the summer of 1906.

Horace and Claudia Bivins had two sons

and a daughter and lived for many years

on South 25th Street. Claudia was an

active member of the African Methodist

Episcopal Church, vice president of the

Montana Federation of Negro Women, a

member of the Society of Eastern

Montana Pioneers and secretary of the

Billings Federation of Women's Clubs.

Things were even quieter during

his second stay in the Philippines, so

Bivins spent most of the next 19 months

searching for and collecting Philippine

birds, shells, fossils and other curios and

artifacts. His collection eventually

included two monkey-eating eagles,

which he later donated to museums in

Minneapolis and San Francisco. ‘‘So

excellent was the collection that Mr.

Bivins brought back to America with

him, that Mr. I.D. O'Donnell of this city

purchased the greater part of it for the

Parmly Billings Memorial Library,'' The

Gazette reported in 1935.

Bivins returned to the United

States for a four-month furlough late in

1907, and he returned to the Philippines

early in 1908, expecting to stay there

until he was eligible to retire. But War

Department paper shufflers somehow got

him transferred to the Presidio near San

Francisco later that year, and Bivins

ended up being transferred from fort to

fort all over the country. He was an

ordnance sergeant by then and was sent

to various posts ‘‘to straighten up the

affairs of that department.''11 He retired

from active service on July (cont. on p. 7)

donating many mounted specimens to the

Billings Library, Hampton Institute and

several government museums.

Down on the farm

It was a long way to such acclaim

from his beginnings in Pungoteague,

Accomack County, Virginia, on May 8,

1866. Some sources, even a book to which

Bivins contributed several chapters, say he

was born in 1862, but all later newspaper

accounts, written from interviews with

Bivins, say the year was 1866. It doesn't

help much that the Accomack County

Census said Bivins was 5 years old in

1870, the eighth of nine children born to

Severn and Elizabeth Bivins. That same

Census gives their last name as Bevans,

one of several variant spellings of the

family name.

Off to the Philippines

After some more service stateside

and then a brief return to Cuba, Bivins's

regiment was sent to the Philippines in

April 1901 to ‘‘pacify'' insurrectionist

natives in the wild, swampy northeastern

part of the main island. The regiment was

busier clearing trails than in fighting

natives, and after about a year they were

WELCOME NEW AAHGS MEMBERS!

Browning, David Brooks, Houston,

Texas, AAHGS—Willie Lee Gay-H-

Town; Canaday, Beverley, Johns Creek,

Georgia; Mann Hausa San Diego,

California; Smith, Kelly, Mission Hills,

California; Johnson, Hope, Little Rock,

Arkansas; Douglas-Anderson, Valerie,

Rochester, New York; Smith, Willie D.,

Cordova, Tennessee; Finch, Chonna,

Yonkers, New York; Castro, Jasmyn,

Dallas, Georgia; Camper, Kenyon,

Wilmington, Delaware, AAHGS—

Delaware; Alequin-Sosa, Mary, Los

Angeles, California; Gwyn, James,

Fredericksburg, Virginia; Collins-Hardy,

Florence, Wilmington, Delaware,

AAHGS—Delaware; Atkins, Eric A.,

Chattanooga, Tennessee; Bowman,

Shana R., Alexandria, Virginia; Burwell,

John, Summerfield, North Carolina;

Ferrell, Andre, Baltimore, Maryland;

Gilbert, Evita, East Lansing, Michigan;

Goins, Robert, San Francisco, California;

Hale, Michael-Lynn, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, Harmon, Karen, Rockville,

Maryland; Hicks, Sandi, New Castle,

Delaware, AAHGS—Delaware; Jenkins,

Evelyn, Cedar Creek, Texas; Nelson,

Annette Wadiyah, Seattle, Washington;

Nichols, Brenda Dabney, Richmond,

Virginia; Parker, Patrice Owens, Virginia

Beach, Virginia; Thornton, Bettye P.,

Henrico, Virginia.

Submitted by Tamika Strong, AAHGS

National Membership Coordinator

( [email protected] ), on August

28, 2015.


1977-2015

CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

Arkansas

Arkansas Chapter Michelle Hood, President

P.O. Box 4294

Little Rock, AR 72214 www.rootsweb.com/

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California

Central California Chapter Denise Lancaster-Young, President

P.O. Box 9161

Fresno, CA 93790-9161

www.aahgscc.googlepages.com

[email protected]

Delaware

Delaware Chapter Jim Jones, President

1305 Foulk Road

Wilmington, DE 19803

[email protected]

Florida

Central Florida Chapter Kenneth Mitchell, President

P.O. Box 1347

Orlando, FL 32802-1347 www.rootsweb.com/

~flcfaahg/

Tampa, Florida Chapter Robert L. Wimberly, President

27418 Sugar Loaf Dr.

Wesley Chapel, FL 33544-8639

www.aahgstampa.homestead.com

<[email protected]>

Georgia

Metro Atlanta Chapter Emma Davis Hamilton, President

P.O. Box 54131

Atlanta, GA 30308-9998

www.aahgsatl.org

<[email protected]>

Illinois

Little Egypt Chapter Lori Crenshaw Bryant, President

308 Birchlane Drive

Carbondale, IL 62901

[email protected]

Northern Illinois Southern Wisconsin

Chapter (NISW) Joyce Higgins, President

P.O. Box 1732

Rockford, IL 61110-1732

www.aahgsnisw.org>

[email protected]

Patricia Liddell Researchers Chapter Carrie McMorris, President

P.O. Box 438652

Chicago, IL 60643

[email protected]

Kansas

Kansas Chapter Sherri Camp, President

2601 SW Westport Dr.

Topeka, KS 66614

<[email protected]>

Maryland

Agnes Kane Callum Chapter Roland N. Mills, President

P.O. Box 9366

Baltimore, MD 21228

<baaghs.org>

Central Maryland Chapter Alice F. Harris, President

6352 Windharp Way

Columbia, MD 21045

<cmgen.wordpress.com>

<[email protected]>

Montgomery County, Maryland Chapter Patricia Hallman, President

P.O. Box 10063

Rockville, MD 20859

Prince George’s County Chapter Jane T. Thomas, President

P.O. Box 44252

Ft. Washington, MD 20744-4252

<pgcm.aahgs.org>

Massachusetts

New England Chapter Stella M. Pierce, President

5 Old Planters Road

Beverly, MA 01915

<[email protected]>

<www.aahgs-ne.org>

Minnesota

Minnesota Chapter Callie Flournoy-Riser

P.O. Box 6289

Minneapolis, MN 55406

[email protected]

New Jersey

New Jersey Chapter Muriel D. Roberts, President

P.O. Box 83

Middletown, NJ 07748

<www.aahgsnj.org>

[email protected]

New York

Jean Sampson Scott Greater New York

Chapter Sharon Wilkins, President

P.O. Box 1050

New York, NY 10116-1050

< www.aahgsny.org>

North Carolina

NC/Piedmont Triad Chapter Lamar E. DeLoatch, President

P.O. Box 36254

Greensboro, NC 27416

<www.ncaahgs.org >

[email protected]

NC Triangle Wanda Cox-Bailey, President

P.O. Box 907

Durham, NC 27702

[email protected]

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Family Quest Society Chapter Laura Booth, President

P.O. Box 34620

Philadelphia, PA 19101

<[email protected]>

Pittsburgh Chapter Marlene Garrett Bransom, President

P.O. Box 99893

Pittsburgh, PA 15233-4893

[email protected]

www.aahgspgh.org

<[email protected]>

South Carolina Greenville-Upstate SC Chapter

Truman Humbert

109 Theresa Drive

Greenville, SC 29605

[h] (864) 299-0644

[email protected]

Tennessee

Nashville Chapter Chajuan Fitzgerald, President

3415 West End Avenue, #511

Nashville, TN 37203

[email protected]

Memphis Chapter Alison Barnes, President

P.O. Box 771731

Memphis, TN 38177

http://www.aahgsmemphis.org.

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/

AAHGSMemphisTN

Texas

Willie Lee Gay-H-Town Chapter Jesse Williams, President

6670 Radley Drive

Spring, TX 77329

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Utah Chapter Charlotte Starks, President

1193 Sienna Way

Taylorsville, UT 84123

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Virginia

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P.O. Box 7492

Charlottesville, VA 22906-7492

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Palmyra, VA 22963

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Greater Richmond Chapter Marilyn Campbell, President

PO Box 27833, Richmond, VA 23261

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Hampton Roads Chapter Selma Steward, President

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Newport News, VA 23609-2448

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(cont. from p. 5 Horace Waymon Bivins) 13,

1913. With double-time credit for foreign

service in Cuba and the Philippines, he

was given credit for 30 years in the

regular Army.

“Things just grew”

After his retirement,

he settled in Billings,

where he was known

mainly for his

flourishing gardens.

Helen Adams,

writing a sketch of

Bivins that is preserved in the Parmly

Billings Library Montana Room, said,

‘‘Things just grew for him. The most

notable of his garden produce was the

successful raising of sweet potatoes.''

In 1917, Bivins proposed

organizing a unit of volunteers in

Virginia for the United States Army as it

prepared to embark for France to fight in

World War I. The U.S. Army turned

down his proposal but it did make the 55-

year-old former soldier a Captain in the

Infantry. For six months he served on

active duty at Camp Dix, New Jersey

before retiring again and returning to

Billings, Montana.

In 1918, after the United States

had entered World War I, Bivins was

recalled by the War Department and

assigned to the ordnance department in

Newport News, Virginia. In June of that

year, the African Republic of Liberia,

founded in 1821 as a settlement for freed

United States slaves, offered Bivins a

commission to train 115,000 men who

were going to fight against the Germans in

West Africa. He declined and in

September was made a captain of infantry,

serving first as a supply officer at a

detention camp at Fort Dix, N.J., then as

head of a labor battalion in the same camp.

He retired from the Army for good in

1919. He had by then 32 years of credit

with the Army and, coincidentally, had

won 32 Army medals. He studied

taxidermy after the war and followed that

trade for many years. A 1935 article

described him as ‘‘industrious, sober and

studious.'' It also described him as being 6

feet tall, with broad, square-set shoulders.12

In the book, On the Trail of the

Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African

Americans in the U.S. Army, 1886-1917,

which was based largely on government

and military records, Bivins was said to

have stood 5-foot-9. That book also quotes

a 10th Cavalry history that said Bivins had

an excellent character and a story in the

Indianapolis Freeman, a newspaper, that

described Bivins as ‘‘a sober, sensible,

industrious Negro.''

It is not clear what happened to

Bivins' collection of animals and

artifacts. When the Parmly Library

moved out of what is now the Western

Heritage Center in 1969, part of the

collection was transferred to Eastern

Montana College, but officials there

don' t know what eventually became of

it. Kevin Kooistra-Manning, deputy

director of the Western Heritage Center,

said there apparently are no remnants of

the collection still at the center. ‘‘I have

never seen a Philippine lizard in this

place,'' he said. ‘‘Never. We have a

squirrel, but I'm pretty sure it's not from

the Philippines.''13 The Peter Yegen Jr.

Yellowstone County Museum does have

three spears that Bivins brought back

from the Philippines. The museum's card

catalog said they were once given to the

Western Heritage Center by the library,

and then somehow transferred to the

museum.

A second family?

One intriguing thread of

Bivins's life story suggests that he may

have done more in the (cont. on p. 8)

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(cont. from p. 7 Horace Waymon Bivins) Philippines

than collect artifacts. Jess and Daniel

Bevien, of the San Francisco Bay area, think

Bivins had a Filipina “wife” during his

years in that country and that he was their

grandfather. Daniel Bevien said their father

Julian, was born in the Philippines and

changed his name from Beban to Bevien

sometime in the late 1940s. ‘‘Pops did that

out of the blue,'' Daniel said. Although there

was no way of proving it, he said, ‘‘We're

pretty sure he (Bivins) is our grandfather ….

My father didn't really know.'' It wouldn't be

very surprising if it were true, he said: ‘‘The

buffalo soldiers came through the

Philippines and left a lot of American kids

there.''14 Daniel said he did enough research

to convince him that Bivins was in the

Philippines at the right time to have fathered

Julian, but for him the best evidence came

when he was touring a museum at the

Presidio some years ago and saw a

photograph of Horace Bivins. ‘‘I looked at

it, and I said, ‘Oh, that looks like Pops,”15

he said. Jess Bevien, Julian's oldest son,

said that his father never saw his father,

‘‘only heard stories told to him by some of

his father's compadres. My dad talked to us

extensively about his life as a young man,

boxer, soldier in the Philippines.''

Back home

However that may be, Bivins's

American family continued to live in

Billings until after World War II, and

Bivins was sought out now and again by

reporters eager to retell his exciting story.

Toward the end of the war, in a January 21,

1945, article in The Gazette, Bivins told a

reporter how pleased he was to have re-

entered the Army during World War I.

‘‘And I wish I was young enough for this

one,'' he added. The same article said

Bivins' wife, Claudia, had died in 1943,

and one of his sons, Paul, was then

stationed in the Pacific.

On Sept. 25, 1949, The Gazette

wrote about Bivins again, this time to say

he had recently left to live in Philadelphia,

where he planned to work on a new,

revised edition of ‘‘Under Fire With the

Tenth U.S. Cavalry.'' Four days later, The

Billings Herald reported that another

reason for the move was that Bivins was

‘‘considering matrimony.'' ‘‘With a sly

grin,'' the story continued, ‘‘Captain

Bivins revealed shortly before leaving for

Philadelphia that he might marry his

daughter-in-law's mother.'' The story said

Bivins's son, Paul, was still living in

Billings but was leaving shortly to join his

father in Philadelphia.

Capt. Horace W. Bivins, Retired,

died after a brief illness December, 1960

in Baltimore, Maryland where he had

(Cont. on p. 24)

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BOOK NOTES BY DEBRA NEWMAN HAM


1977-2015

CELEBRATING OVER THIRTY YEARS

As the eagerly awaited

opening of the

Smithsonian National

African American

Museum on the National

Mall approaches, Tyson

D. King-Meadows’

work African

American Leadership:

A Concise Reference Guide (Mission Bell

Media 2015, index, glossary, illustrations,

511 pp.) is timely. The work is comprised

of entries from 33 scholars and a glossary

with leadership terms. The editor addresses

the format: “The articles in this wide-

ranging encyclopedia examine African

American leadership across a variety of

sectors, periods of time, locations and issue

area… These entries therefore provide a

brief synopsis of the personalities, processes,

competing priorities, and sociohistorical

contexts that have shaped and continue to be

shaped by African American cultural

paradigms, behaviors, opinions, and

institutions” (xvii). The reviewer, Roland

Barksdale-Hall, has an entry, “Inventions

and Patents,” appearing in the work As the publisher notes in a letter,

“This title does not include biographies of

specific leaders, rather it offers a collection

of important and overarching themes that a

researcher would need to understand

leadership in the field as a whole. Many

leaders are included in the body of the

articles placing them within those

overarching themes.” For example, the

entry on Dunbar High School includes the

names of the school founders, the

illustrious faculty and distinguished

graduates. The Reader’s Guide divides the

book into eight categories: Academic

Leadership, Artistic Leadership, Aspects of

Leadership, Business leadership,

Leadership in Faith Communities,

Organizations and Institutions, Politics and

Social Leadership, and Scientific and

Technological Leadership.

There are minor shortcomings.

The entry for the National Council of

Negro Women (NCNW), for example,

focuses on Mary McLeod Bethune, the

founder and her contributions. The “see

also” at the end of the entry does not

direct the reader to the entry for the

Dorothy I. Height Leadership Institute,

where there is more current information

on the NCNW. As far as editorial

oversight, the names of Marc H. Morial

and suffragist Mary Church Terrell

appear incorrectly in the entry for

Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership in.

Overall this is an engaging and thought-

provoking work and recommended for

academic, public and special libraries.

The merit of a work that examines

leadership and followership stands on its

own. (cont. on p. 9)

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African American Genealogy Research In Virginia

Caution: The websites listed below (except ancestry.com) are free,

but access to some links within them may requirement payment.

Useful Websites

African American Resources at the Library of Virginia: Scroll

down to check out the cohabitation registers. Great resource for

finding post-Civil War family units formed during slavery, along with

the former owner's name.

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/Civil-War/African-

Americans.htm

Unknown No Longer: Searchable database of Virginia slave names.

http://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org/

Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South

Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware: Links to names of free African

Americans & their families in the 1600's, 1700's & early 1800's.

Information comes from books by Paul Heinegg. http://

www.freeafricanamericans.com/

African-American Genealogy: http://

genealogy.library.virginia.edu/african-american-genealogy/

State online Resources for African American Genealogy: Virginia

http://www.examiner.com/article/state-online-resources-for-african-

american-genealogy-virginia

AAHGS Virginia Chapters: Click on individual chapter links and

explore their websites. Good resource for local genealogical and

historical information. Access chapters in other states using the

"Chapter Sites" link on the left. http://aahgs.citysoft.org/index.cfm?

fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=543

African American Historic Database: VA http://

www.aahistoricsitesva.org/

Cyndi's List: African American Locality>> Specific: Contains

RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH IN VIRGINIA

links for Nelson County genealogy, African American Heritage of

Virginia (lists of cemeteries, churches, and more), and African

American resources in many other states. http://

www.cyndislist.com/african-american/locality/

Chronicling America: Searchable online resource for newspapers

published from 1836-1922, including Richmond Planet (digitized

from 1889 -1910). http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Book

The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 by John Henderson

Russell.

General Virginia Genealogy Resources

Library of Virginia: (state archive) http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 804.692.3500

Enter "Virginia memory" in the search field to get links for many

searchable record collections.

All States

Search for ancestors and build your family tree at: ancestry.com

and familysearch.org.

Search for ancestors on Heritage Quest through a link on your

local library's website. http://lib.de.us (for DE)

US City Directories: Click on the state of interest to find the

physical location of individual city directories. Many are available

online through ancestry.com. Directories contained names,

addresses, & occupations of city residents. "Colored" people may be

listed in separate sections or identified by * or (c) next to the name,

if listed with whites.

Compiled for April 25, 2015 AAHGS—DE meeting by Rosalyn

Green, Research Consultant. This is her third installment in an

ongoing series. Rosalyn ([email protected])

welcomes feedback from those using her research information

and techniques. Submitted July 22, 2015.

Elvatrice Parker Belsches book entitled

Richmond Virginia was published in 2002 and

is part of the Black American Series by Arcadia

Press (bibliography, 128 pp.). This pictorial

history of African Americans in Richmond

includes copies materials relating to African

colonizationist Lott Cary and enslaved runaway

Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery and

received the nickname “Box” because with the

help of friends he mailed himself to Philadelphia

in a crate. Information relates to other famous blacks such as

entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Governor Doug Wilder.

Virginia Union University, a historically black college, is featured.

Chapters include accounts of the city’s early years, black capitalism,

worship, education, medicine, politics, civil rights entertainment and

local landmarks. (cont. on p. 22)

(cont. from p. 5 Book Notes) Freedom Road: An

American Family Saga from Jamestown to World

War by genealogist Ric Murphy (Authorhouse

2014, notes, index, illustrations, 416 pp.) is

described as an account of America’s oldest

recorded African American family and the

contributions of the family members to American

history over a four hundred year period. The

genealogical information in the book is basically

arranged in chronological order and is accompanied

by numerous photographs and copies of pertinent documents. The

last section relates to the 1963 March on Washington. The cover

information describes Freedom Road as a compilation of individual

stories that begins in Africa and spans over fifteen generations and

three continents. The book includes a timeline of “Critical Dates and

Milestones.”

mailto:[email protected]

PHILADELPHIA AFRICAN AMERICAN BIRTH AUTHENTICATIONS

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. www.aahgs.org Founded 1977

Marilyn C. Jones, past president of the AAHGS Philadelphia Family Quest Society,

submitted the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African American Birth Authentications.

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Read the premier journal in the field, The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and stay informed...

Roland Barksdale-Hall, Editor, Journal of the

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical

Society

This scholarly journal is "committed to documenting and preserving the African and African American experience by publishing historical and genealogical subject matter of interest to the African American family researcher, and facilitating the dissemination of historical and genealogical resources that will assist the African American family researcher" (from the journal web site). Content discusses detailed methodologies for African American ancestry research, and includes depository materials, reports of archives, and family genealogies. Primary source transcriptions, along with their data analysis, are also included. Includes brief "Book Notes." Annual indexes for most years from 1990;b22008 and a cumulative index for 1980;b290 are available online. Recommended for all public libraries.

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VIRGINIA SEMINARY CATALOGUE FOR 1892-1893

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IN MEMORY Genealogy World Salutes the Legacy of Agnes Kane Callum

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IN MEMORY Archie Lee Moore, Jr. Ascends into

AAHGS Ancestral Chapter

ARCHIE LEE MOORE,

JR., was welcomed into

this world by his parents,

the late Archie and

Gustavia Fort Moore Sr. on

August 1, 1960. He

peacefully departed his

earthly life on Sunday,

May 10, 2015. Archie loved life, his state

and hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.

He loved traveling, history and a lover of

laughter especially for his special passion

"people".

Archie served the state of Arkansas in

many capacities. He was appointed in May

prior to his passing to serve on the board of

the Arkansas Historical Association. He

was a collector, historian, community

developer, philanthropist, church trustee and

lifelong member of Wesley Chapel United

Methodist Church. In 2009, he was

appointed to the Arkansas Civil War

Sesquicentennial Commission by Governor

Mike Beebe. He served on the Board of

Directors for the Arkansas Humanities

Council, the African American Methodist

Heritage Center, the Central Arkansas

Library System; an Advisory Board

Member for the Butler Center (genealogical

research center for CALS), and CD Voices-

The African American Experience in Little

Rock. He was a member of the United

Methodist Arkansas Conference Museum

and was serving as Historian for the Afro-

American Historical and Genealogical

Society (AAHGS) Arkansas Chapter.

Archie had one of the largest one-of-a kind

collections of African American

memorabilia in the state of Arkansas and

often exhibited and lectured on his

collection of artifacts at various

genealogical, religious, and historical

conferences and institutions across the

country. He established the Archie

Moore Jr. Collection of Black

Americana, a manuscript collection. The

collection consists of African American

funeral, church and school programs as

well as fraternal organizational items and

Arkansas Teacher Association (ATA)

materials.

Besides spending time on his historical

collections, he also spent his weekends

attending antique shows and auctions.

He loved to travel and sell wares

throughout the Southwest region at

antique shows.

Archie, through your tireless work and

dedication to the preservation of our

ancestral past you have provided all of us

with a privilege that will last a life time.

The historical and genealogical

community has indeed suffered a great

loss. We will miss you! AAHGS

Arkansas Chapter

(cont. from p. 9 Book Notes) Three of the six books

for this issue’s Book

Notes are by featured

author, Veronica Alease

Davis. The historian

and librarian wrote

Here I Lay My Burdens

Down: A History of the

Black Cemeteries of

Richmond, Virginia (Dietz Press 2003,

index, illustrations, 82 pp.). A few of the

chapters in this work are entitled, “Black

Aristocrats and their Monuments,” “Going

in Style” and “Who Will Save our Black

Cemeteries.” Davis provides the founders,

locations and photos of Richmond

cemeteries, dates of their establishment,

their size and their condition. She laments

that many of the cemeteries are in poor

condition because of their lack of regular

upkeep. This is unfortunate because the

cemeteries have so much genealogical,

historical and cultural information.

In 2005, Davis

published Inspiring

African American

Women of Virginia

(iUniverse Inc., index,

tables, bibliography,

281 pp.). This

biographical

compilation includes

famous Virginia women

such as financier

Maggie Lena Walker, educator Nannie

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Helen Burroughs, entertainers Pearl Bailey

and Ella Fitzgerald, clubwoman Dorothy

Height and many others.

Hampton University, by

proud alumna Davis is a

part of The Campus

History Series and was

published by Arcadia in

2014 (illustrations, 127

pp.). This pictorial

history is divided by

subjects: Principals,

Presidents, and

Distinguished Faculty;

Campus Scenes; Education for All;

Academics; Normal School; Domestic

Science; Agricultural Science; Trade School

and Military Training, Dixie Hospital and

Hampton Training School for Nurses and

Athletics. The final chapter discusses the

work of Hampton graduates in the

community. It includes many maps and

photograph from the Library of Congress,

the HathiTrust and private collections such

as images from Byron Puryear. Davis

references other books and articles relating

to Hampton’s history.

Debra Newman Ham, Ph.D., is Professor of History, Morgan State University. She is “Book Notes” Editor and a founding member of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Submitted August 7, 2015.

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been living with his niece. He is buried in the

Baltimore National Cemetery.

Notes

1. “Horace Waymon Bivins was born to free

parents on May 8, 1866, in Pungoteague,

Accomack County Virginia…” Bivins,

Horace W. (1862-1937). http://www.blackpast.org

2. ‘‘was in line to become an ordnance officer

and preferred the army routine to circus life.''

Billings, Ed. “Much Decorated Soldier Served Many Years of Adventure.” The

Billings Gazette. April 11, 2003.

3. "distinguished himself as a national revolver

and carbine marksmanship champion, proudly wearing his many awards." Powder

Magazine at Northern Rockies Heritage

Campus.” Wikipedia.

4. The Distinguished Pistol Program began in 1884 when the U.S. Army first awarded the

Distinguished Marksmanship Badge. In 1891

the program expanded to offer a

Distinguished Rifleman Badge and a Pistol Shot Badge. These badges are the highest

honor most military and civilian pistol and

rifle shooters can aspire to earn and are

(Cont. from p. 8 Horace Waymon Bivins)

awarded in recognition of a pre-eminent

degree of achievement in target practice using a military service rifle or pistol.

5. “But for the timely aid of the 10th Cavalry,

the Rough Riders would have been

annihilated.'' Interview with Horace Bivins.

The Billings Gazette. April 11, 2003.

6. Ibid.

7. Reef, Catherine. African Americans in the

Military. 8. Baumler is an interpretive historian for the

Montana Historical Society.

9. Billings, Ed.

10. Ibid. 11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid. 15. Ibid.

References

Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight. Novato,

Calif.: Presidio Press, 1998, pp. 59–60, 70.

Buckley, Gail. American Patriots. New York:

Random House, 2001, pp. 144–146, 148–149.

Bivins, Horace W. (1862-1937). http://

www.blackpast.org/aah/bivans-

horace-w-1862-

1937#sthash.9WQzUSki.dpuf.

Retrieved Feb. 10, 2015

Bivins, Horace. “Montana Moments.”

http://

ellenbaumler.blogspot.com/2012_0

2_01_archive.html#sthash.dBNDka

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Wikipedia. Retrieved Dec. 2, 2014

Cashin, Herschel V. Under Fire with the

Tenth U.S. Cavalry. Niwot, Colo.:

University Press of Colorado, 1993.

Kemmick, Ed. “Much Decorated Soldier

Served Many Years of Adventure.”

The Billings Gazette. April 11,

2003.

“Long, Brilliant Army Career Recalled at

Age of 89.” The Baltimore

Evening Sun. Friday,

December 30, 1955. Page 15.

“Veteran of 3 Wars Ready for Service;

Health Still Good.” Baltimore Afro

-American, p.12. May 10 1941.

Robert Bivins ( [email protected] ) is an AAHGS Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter member. Submitted March 29, 2015.

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