The Official Newsletter of the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.) Volume 25 Issue 1 January-March, 2017 Inside This Issue 2017 Officers, Founders, Mission & Calendar ……...2 Slaves of Bates County, Missouri, 1850-1860 ……...3 MAGIC’s GENERATIONS 25th Anniversary ……...5 The Free Negro in Illinois Prior to the Civil War, 1818-1860 ……...6 Submit to GENERATIONS! ……...7 In Memoriam: Geraldine Elliott Robinson ……...7 Our Negro Population: A Sociological Study of the Negroes of Kansas City, Missouri ……...8 Connect Through Queries ….......9 Black History Month: Heritage Songs of Black America ….....18 Traveling Back Through Slavery to Find Your Enslaved Ancestors …….20 Generations
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The Official Newsletter of the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.)
Jan 7 Jul (NO MTG) Feb 25* Aug 5 Mar 4 Sep 2 Apr 1 Oct 7 * May 6 Nov 4 Jun 3 Dec 2 * Juneteenth Unless noted with an asterisk (*), all monthly meetings are held 1st Saturday of each month from Noon-2 p.m. at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center, 3700 Blue Pkwy, Kansas City, Mo. 64130.
The links on pages 6 and 8 were discovered and generously shared by Dolores J. Rush, who maintains four blogs. Check out “The History Nut of Missouri” blog at:
1860 Agee Miles 1860 Allerd Francis 1860 Asply Samuel 1850 Ball Cecil D 1850 Barrows F 1850 Bartlett William 1850 Beale George C 1860 Bowman H P 1860 Bradley A V 1860 Bradley Meriah 1860 Bradley William 1860 Broom field T S 1860 Brown J 1860 Brown Jacob 1860 Browning Jasper 1860 Bush P W 1850 Cary Alfred 1850 Cary James W 1860 Cary Mary 1850 Cephas M Q 1850 Choteau Edward 1850 Cliser David 1860 Cogswell Henry 1860 Cogswell James 1860 Cogswell James 1860 Coleman C P 1860 Coleman E W 1860 Coleman James 1860 Coleman John 1860 Coleman M D 1860 Coleman N B 1860 Coleman T L 1860 Coleman T M 1860 Coleman Tureon 1860 Conners R W (Sr.) 1850 Cooper William 1850 Corker Hillary W 1860 Crill Luand 1850 Dobbins Samuel 1860 Doil Allen 1860 Dollis Ame
Slaveholders of Bates County, Missouri, 1850-1860 By James Baker, Jr., Cheryl Bell, and Dolores Rush
Compiled by David W. Jackson
1850 Douglass George 1860 Douglass George 1850 Douglass Joseph Smith 1860 Doyle Burton 1860 Doyle Mickle 1850 Drake Oliver 1860 Dryden Elizabeth 1860 Duinan James 1860 Duke G S 1860 Dyarnett Richard 1860 Earhart Alex 1860 Earhart George 1860 Earhart John 1860 Edwards David 1850 Edy F F 1860 Fisher Mary C 1860 Fisher R B 1850 Fisher Russell B 1860 France Henry 1860 France William 1860 Garrison G W 1860 Gates William 1860 Gibson John 1850 Gilbreath John 1860 Gilbreath John 1860 Gilbreath Simeon 1860 Gilbreath Stephen 1850 Gilbreath William 1860 Gilbreath William 1860 Glass George 1860 Hackett Precilla 1860 Haggard Louis 1850 Halley Absolom 1860 Hamilton William E 1860 Harrison J T 1860 Hawkins S F 1860 Henderson James 1860 Hill B 1860 Holingsworth J 1860 Holingsworth J H 1860 Hook James
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1860 Hope Jerold 1860 Hover John H 1860 Hun Polly A 1860 Jackson A T 1860 Jackson Jerre 1850 Jackson Jerry 1850 Johnson Lewis 1860 Johnson Moses 1860 Kisen Philadelphia 1850 Loring S H 1860 Marshal W R 1860 McCool James 1860 McCoy June 1860 McGuines William 1850 McHenry Margaret 1850 McKenzie N G 1850 McNeil R W 1850 McRill James 1860 Meek M L 1850 Merchant Sarah 1860 Mest Monevy 1850 Michael Carter 1860 Morgan Catharine 1860 Morgan R M C G 1860 Nowman George 1860 O'Neale Oliver 1860 Owen John 1860 Owen Martin B 1860 Owens Crayton 1850 Parks John M/N 1860 Parks John M/N 1860 Peck G F 1860 Phillips John 1860 Powers William 1850 Pryor William 1850 Ramsey James 1860 Ramsey James 1860 Ramsey Worth 1850 Redfield Abraham 1860 Reed Elizabeth 1850 Reede Samuel 1860 Robison J S 1860 Rogers James L 1860 Sanford West 1860 Scoggin D C 1860 Scoggin John 1860 Sears Jane
1860 Simpson James 1860 Simpson Thomas 1860 Smith Joseph 1860 Smith William 1860 Spencer Nathan 1850 Stapp Ben 1860 Stratton E M 1850 Stratton G M 1860 Stratton P B 1850 Stratton Peter B 1850 Stratton Richard 1860 Strode Lucy 1860 Swan N G 1860 Thornton John 1860 Thrulsary T 1860 Tucker Morrice M 1850 West Mark 1860 White J J 1860 Williams J T 1860 Williams Tureon 1860 Woody Henry 1860 Wright Ruben Some schedules are hard to read and so names may not be completely transcribed accurately. You should view the original schedules for yourself, if you feel a name may be in error. For the detailed slave holdings (i.e., the individual slaves enumerated by gender, approximate age and perceived race), visit: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jrbakerjr/genealogy/ rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobates/Census/1860BatesSlave.htm If you have found other Missouri counties with similar slave listings, please let us know! E-mail [email protected].
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This issue marks the 25th year of our publication’s existence! If you have any back issues of Generations that you may let us copy, we’d like to assemble a complete collection. As you can see from the list at the right, there are many years where issues are missing. Contact Generations editor David Jackson to help us out. E-mail: [email protected] Our Publications Committee has added a book to our bookshop, “MAGICs Generations Newsletter, 1991-2011,” which encapsulates the best of the first 20-years of articles that appeared in our periodical. The last five years are available on MAGIC’s website (and may become a future printed publication). Please take this moment to consider submitting to Generations! Among any other type of submission from photos to genealogy tid-bits, we need first-hand recollections...memories...of your everyday life in Kansas City! For instance, there are no archived recollections of anyone experiencing desegregation in schools, housing, etc. Start with recording your favorite memory and contact us how we may help you! The list at the right is what we know about Generations to date:
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BY STEVEN J. SAVERY Here is the beginning of his abstract. Read the 130-page thesis at:
member Passes Geraldine Elliott Robinson passed on November 28, 2016. Although her memorial tribute did not mention it, Robinson was an early and long-time MAGIC member.
Submit to GENERATIONS! This publication is only as good as you make it by your contributions. What we need more of are personal and family photos and recorded memories. A memory does not have to be ages old...it could be one created yesterday. But, we need to document personal stories of seemingly ordinary days in our lives that are now, after the passage of time, extraordinary! Did you live through wartime? Did you experience desegregation? Can you describe instances of racism you have faced? Who is your favorite ancestor? What is your favorite, personal memory? The list is endlessssss.
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Read this 1913 book and enjoy the photos therein, online through the New York Public Library’s website at:
Davis—MO40 Dorsey—LA35 Duffel—Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS37 Duffel—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO37 Durham—MS39 Durham—AR39 Durham—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Edwards—TX3 Ellington—Chariton Co., MO1
CONNECT THROUGH QUERIES Search by surname below,
or location, separately on page 13
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Ellington—LA30 Ellis—AL26
Ellis—SW, AR & Pine Bluff, AR49 Ellis—GA26
Ellis—KS49 Ellis—MS26 Ellis—LA26 Epps—MS39
Epps—TN44 Epps—AR39 Epps—Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO39 Evans—AR
Clowers Collins Crawford Ellis Gaunt/Gantt Gilmore Harris Hayes Lee Co. Hill Daniels Lewis Marzett/Morissette
Simpkins Wiggins
Arkansas Anderson Bailey Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. Berry Blair Brooks Byers Caldwell Carter Craig Davis Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co. Ellis Evans Ferguson Gilmore Hall Hardin Houston Jones Keller Lee Lester Blackwell, Conway Co. McDaniel McIntosh McLeod Mitchem Newport, Jackson Co. Morris Nash Phifer Reams Rowell
Simpkins Skinner Slay Smalls Snowden Stewart Stitt Walker Ward Blackwell, Conway Co. Washington Webb Williams
Calgary Alberta Canada Chaney Frazier Moore Jones Polk
Delaware Walker
Edmonton Alberta Canada Chaney Moore Jones Polk
Georgia Adkins Brooks Caldwell Clowers Crawford Ellis Evans Felts Gilmore Hall Harris Hicks Jones McClain Sansing Snowden Walker Webb Wiggins
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Kansas Byers Davis Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Ellis Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Grant Hardin Kansas City, Wyandotte Co. Houston Doniphan Co. Jackson Mitchem Fort Scott, Bourbon Co. Morgan
Kentucky Craig Keller Anderson Co. Sharp Slay
Louisiana Adkins Allan Brooks Bussey Caldwell Clowers Crawford Dorsey Ellington Ellis Evans Gilmore Glover Hall Harris Hendricks Jones Jackson Parish Kidd Nelson Patenaude Patterson Reams Snowden Walker Wiggins Wright
Maryland Charles Co. Jackson
Mississippi Allen
Campbell Clowers Crawford Ellis Field Gore Graham Hank Harris Johnson Jones Sardis, Panola Co. Jones Sardis, Panola Co. Lester Levison Nash Ramey Ray Rienzi Stevenson Wiggins Williams
Missouri Franklin Co. Aitch St. Louis Co. Aitch Chariton Co. Akers Jackson Co. Brookings St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Butler Byers Jackson Co. Carter Davis Chariton Co. Ellington Clay Co. Gants Ray Co. Giles Hardin St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Jackson Franklin Co. Jackson Holt Co. Jackson Kansas City, Jackson Co. Jackson Bunceton, Cooper Co. Jones Leach Lyles St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. Madison Fulton, Callaway Co. Mason Portland, Callaway Co. Mason McDonald McIntosh Mitchem St. Louis Morris Franklin Co. Pryor/Prior
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Hardin Mason McClain Mitchem Sanders Sansing Washington Woody
Tennessee Anderson Bethpage Hennings, Lauderdale Co Bonds Epps Huddleston Reed White
Holt Co. Pryor/Prior Buchanan Co. Sharp Holt Co. Sharp Jackson Co. Smalls Chariton Co. Washington Jackson Co. Williams Bunceton, Cooper Co. Wright
Nebraska Levison
North Carolina Brooks Bullock Burton Byers Caldwell Coley Davis Evans Goodrem Hall Hardin Harris Jones McKinney Mitchem Sansing Sherard Snowden Webb
Oklahoma Banks Bussey Grayson Mason Rentie Riley Taylor Vann
Pennsylvania Gaunt/Gantt
South Carolina Adkins Byers Davis Ferguson
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Brown Westmoreland Co. Gumby Spotsylvania Co. Jackson Westmoreland Co. Jackson Johnson Jones Sansing
Washington, D.C. Brown Johnson
West Virginia Kanawha Co. Jackson Kanawha Co. Pryor/Prior
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Booker T. Washington School Courtesy Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.
Three heritage songs of Black America are: “Go Down Moses”, “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing”. The songs are most renowned during Black
History Month. During the month, we honor and praise Black and White who helped get us this far on the stony road we have trod.
In the middle 1900s, the African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination and churches of the National Baptist Convention, USA founded publishing houses in Nashville, TN that published and distributed periodicals to churches that were members of their organizations.
The books most ordered were church hymnals that averaged over 525 songs. Churches were not the only places the hymns were sang. They were on the program at school events and
marches. One song, written as a poem, has become known at the Black national anthem.
Heritage songs of Black America have inspired our grandparents and parents to move from shotgun houses in the South to public housing projects in the North and then on to the
House of Representatives and the Senate in the nation’s capital.
Messages in the hymns motivated hardworking black men
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to flee from cotton fields in Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri and ride the rails to get to automobile jobs and meat-
packing jobs in Detroit, Chicago and Kansas City.
Heritage songs have encouraged students to finish school and college, to hold on to dreams and to become entrepreneurs, teachers, and generals in the military.
Songs of deliverance have spirited gifted and talented butlers and maids to escape Jim Crow and win Oscars in Hollywood, to become stars on Broadway, and to become sports heroes of the nation.
Black Americas my age remember when we were taught the songs in the hymnals that cased our ancestors to pray for a Moses, a liberator to free them from enslavement.
There are songs in the hymnals that gave Black soldiers in the Civil War the courage to fight and die to end slavery. There are songs that motivated freed slaves to founded churches and colleges after the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era.
Songs in the hymnals call on us to lift our voices and sing and to celebrate the victories we have won, and to seek public office and vote for people and causes that can make dreams come true.
Black Americans my age remember when songs in the hymnals
Black History Month: Heritage Songs of Black America
By Joelouis Mattox
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Joelouis Mattox is a self-described "born and bred in cotton-picking country" Viet Nam veteran (Spec 4, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 3rd Armored Cavalry, Germany). He is also a highly celebrated historian and civil rights leader and Life Member of the NAACP and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. He attends St. John A.M.E. Church in Kansas City, MO, and, of course, is a long-time MAGIC member and Generations contributor.
inspired members of the family and neighbors to steal away to cities up-North and out-West for better jobs and equal
opportunities, and to serve their county in the armed forces.
Words in the hymns have caused many black people and white people to stand-up for righteousness and justice, and to march on—with a steady beat—to the place we now stand.
In 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. looked over the mountain top and declared “I have seen The Promised Land. I may not get There with you but as a people will get to The Promised Land.” (He did not say
Beulah Land). That was 48 years ago. Dr. King would be disappointed that we have not entered The Promised Land and are work helping make this nation a more perfect union.
I agree with those who say the songs of deliverance, the ones in the hymnals, have become dated, gone out of style and are seldom sang any more.
Today, black advancement and progress appears to be stalled at the gates of The Promised Land at the time when the First Family of Country is Black American. This being our condition, heritage songs in the hymns should be given a second chance to make the prediction in King’s “Mountain-Top Speech” come true.
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MAGIC (Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition; www.magickc.org) in collaboration with MGC (Midwest Genealogy Center;
www.midwestgenealogycenter.org) co-host an annual Black History Month/MAGIC Open House. Sherri Camp--Genealogy Librarian at the Topeka, Kansas, Library, founder and president of the Kansas Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), and National AAHGS Vice President--will teach participants four strategies to locate their enslaved ancestors. Participants will learn how to do a survey, find various documents to help determine where their ancestors were enslaved and who their owners were. It will also help them learn how to use the newly indexed Freedmen's Bureau Records. In addition, participants will learn how to keep track of the survey information that cannot go into a family tree. They will learn how to use OneNote to keep track of documents, names, and locations that they can retrieve to add additional information or use for citations Reserve a limited seat by calling (816) 252-7228, or online by February 18 so we may plan to provide light refreshments.
Traveling Back Through Slavery to Find Your Enslaved Ancestors
Saturday, February 25, 2017 1-4 p.m.
Midwest Genealogy Center 3440 S. Lee's Summit Road Independence, MO 64055
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