Tag: family history
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Pennsylvania Death Certificates and the Florida Death Index, 1877-1977
Death certificate of Harry Florence Flowers (1845-1928) Pennsylvania Death Certificates, 1906-1963 Last April, the state of Pennsylvania made death certificates between 1906 to 1963 available on Ancestry.com. Again, if you do not have a membership with Ancestry, I will encourage you to do the two week free trial. Choose a period of time where you…
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Bradley, Flowers, and Sams: A Blended Family
Lydia Bradley —/-— Harry Flowers Mary Samuel Josie Harry Flowers –/– Nancy Sawyer Chauncey Fred John Rachel Theodore Vincent Gladyce Hilda Nancy…
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Happy Birthday: An Open Letter to Mrs. Rachel Ellerbee (Flowers)
Rachel Flowers pictured at Messiah Bible School and Missionary Training Home (1916-18) Dear Rae, Happy birthday beautiful lady! You would have been 115 years old today. I meant 115 years young! It is strange to say that because I have only known you for three years and the only images I have of you are…
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Newspapers, Obituaries, and African American Genealogy
By the 20th century, the black press was a cornerstone in the black community giving voice to essentially Black America. It was the “Black Twitter” of the past. In the late 19th and throughout the 20th century, this was the source of black news in America, it was what the black community turned to for…
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Update: Cemetery Hunting
I have not had a chance to follow up with the cemetery. Why? It is expensive….actually it is reasonably price. Once I buy my car, I will pay to have the researchers at Laurel Hill Cemetery complete my genealogy request. How much are we talking? –Rachel Ellerbee $25 –Nancy Sams $20 Then I have to…
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Want to Start Researching Your Own Family’s History? Here are Some Tips
A Piece of the Flowers’ Family Tree I get this question a lot, so hopefully I can help someone out. Before I share some tips, let me give you a bit of my genealogical research background. I have my B.A. in history and graduated last May. I have under my belt a semester of graduate…
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The Inevitable: Cemetery Hunting
Now, I am at a standstill in my research. Next year will mark the centennial of Rachel Flowers’ enrollment at Messiah Missionary School and Training Home, known today as Messiah College, my alma mater. If you are new to my blog, welcome! To give you a brief background about Rachel, please read the bio marquee…
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Protected: The Murder of Helen Thomas, My Grandmother
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Happy Memorial Day: A Tribute to the Flowers Family
Memorial Day, Owen Freeman War kills people and destroys human creation; but as though mocking war’s devastation, flowers inevitably bloom through its ruins. After a long siege, a prolonged bombardment for months from all around the harbor, and numerous fires, the beautiful port city of Charleston, South Carolina, where the war had begun in April,…
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Part Three: The Flowers Family and The Black Church
Harry Flowers —-/—-Nancy Sawyer | ———————————————————————————— Chauncey Fred John Rachel Theodore Vincent Gladyce Hilda Philadelphia In West Philadelphia born and raised…perhaps not the best introduction; however, the young women of the Flowers family did call Philadelphia home following their father’s death. For Rachel and Gladyce, Wesley AME Zion became their spiritual home during the late 1920s.…
Diary of a Historian 