The New Madison Street COGIC

Somebody said a #10 Bath Tub.....

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy!

 

Looking for a way to organize this blog.....

My first reading....  ROOTS REVEALED   

http://rootsrevealed.blogspot.com/

Then on to....

In Mississippi to Africa, A Journey of Discovery, written by Melvin J. Collier ---- you will follow a roots-tracing journey of discovery that faced:

        • The Great Black Migration
       • Slavery / slave-owners
       • Surname changes
       • Miscegenation
       • Oral histories
       • The Civil War
       • Family separations during slavery
       • A plethora of historical records
       • Slave documents
       • Christianity
       • DNA testing
       • Transatlantic slave trade (Middle Passage)
       • West African peoples & cultures

the sources that enabled Melvin Collier to document 7 generations include:

Bills of sale (slaves)

Books

Census records

Church records

City directories

County history books

Court records

Death records

Deeds of gifts (slaves)

Diaries / memoirs

Educable Children school records (Mississippi)

Freedmen’s Bank applications

Land records

Linguistic books

Marriage records

Military pension record (Civil War)

Newspaper articles

Probate records

Slave inventories

Slave narrative

Slave schedules

Social security applications

Southern Claims Commission records

Tax digests

Transatlantic slave trade data

Wills

.                                                               World War I draft registration card


I found interesting fact in the AFRICAN ANCESTRY BLOG (http://www.africanancestry.com/blog/)
excerpt from Hugh Thomas’ book, “The Slave Trade,” that are worth noting:

ORIGINS
Senegambia (in Arguin), Sierra Leone	2,000,000
Windward Coast	250,000
Ivory Coast	250,000
Gold Coast (Ashanti)	1,500,000
Slave Coast (Dahomey, Adra, Oyo)	2,000,000
Benin to Calabar	2,000,000
Cameroons/Gabon	250,000
Loango	750,000
Congo/Angola	3,000,000
Mozambique/Madagascar	1,000,000
TOTAL LEAVING AFRICAN PORTS	13,000,000

Here are a few other interesting stats:

SLAVES   DELIVERED TO
Brazil	4,000,000
Spanish empie (including Cuba)	2,500,000
British West Indies	2,000,000
French West Indies (including Cayenne)	1,600,000
British North America & U.S.	500,000
Dutch West Indies (including Surinam)	500,000
Danish West Indies	28,000
Europe (including Portugal, Canary   Islands,
Madeira, Azories, etc)	200,000
TOTAL	11,328,000

sharing a few more facts from African Ancestry blog...... 

Africa is the world’s second largest continent after Asia; Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the most populous black country in the world, with about 140 million people; and that Africa is said to be the first continent where human fossils were found.  

DID YOU KNOW THAT…

• Africans are some of the most educated immigrants in the world, and one of the most educated men in the world is Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe who holds seven degrees – two of them are Master’s degrees.
• Eighteen people from Africa have been awarded the Nobel Prize.  Coincidentally, two of them have houses on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, South Africa:  Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
• While there are between 2,000 and 3,000 languages spoken in Africa, with possibly as many as 8,000 dialects, Somalia is the only country in the world where all citizens speak one language, Somali.
• Even though diamonds are abundant in Sierra Leone, the largest diamond in the world was the Cullinan, found in a mine near Pretoria, South Africa in 1905.  It weighed 3,106.75 carats uncut.  In fact, half the world’s diamonds come from southern and central Africa.
• The Nile River is the longest river in Africa and in the world.  It’s over 4,000 miles long. And while it’s often associated with Egypt, it actually touches Ethiopia, the DRC, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan, as well as Egypt.  This is a picture I took of it from my recent trip to Uganda.

A thoughtful picture - galvanized Tin bath-tub

Grandma's Hands..... Bill Withers....

Holiness Church in Sand Springs, Ok 1918

The Tulsa Star (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 2, 1918, Sequence: 1 | The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Who was Charles Page?

http://gateway.okhistory.org/
Oklahoma gateway Newspaper reading for today.... check the link 

Remembering: Psalm 143 verse 5

"I will remember the days of old.... I meditate on all thy works:  I muse on the works of thy hands......(KJV)

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WHere is the Watson Farm via...MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION RECORDS

WHERE TO FIND MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION RECORDS  follow this link....

(The) African American Experience in Ohio: The African-American Experience  in Ohio 1850-1920 is a digital collection brought together from a number  of individual sources specifically for this project. These sources include  manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and  pamphlets. (Includes a plantation account book for Eustatia Plantation in MS) Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations From the Revolution   Through the Civil War: Series J: Selections from the Southern Historical   Collection Part 6: Mississippi and Arkansas LSU Plantation Records Collection (Lower MS): manuscript collections  documenting plantation society and economy in the Louisiana and Lower  Mississippi Valley. The plantation records and personal papers of planters,  factors, merchants, and others whose livelihood came from plantations   provide a wealth of documentation supporting research in plantation e conomy, slavery, and the social history of Southern landholding elites

HOLMES COUNTY:

Baby Place
Bee Lake

 LEFLORE COUNTY:

Hideout Plantation: Hughes(R.B.) Moor's Plantation: Moor
Pleasantview Plantation: Kearney
Rising Son Plantation: Whittington
River Bend Plantation: Pillow
Roebuck Plantation: Aron
Shellmound Plantation
Starwood Plantation
Wildwood Plantation: McLean, Merrill (Money Planting Co.)

LOWNDES COUNTY:

Barry Place
Bellemont Liberty Hall Plantation: Ervin

SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

 Research Leads for Liberty Hall Plantation

• Location: Lowndes Co., MS
  Constructed: 1835
  History: William Ethelbert Ervin owned Liberty Hall Plantation, near Columbus, in Lowndes County, Mississippi, near Columbus. He was born to William and Eliza Dick Ervin in Sumter District, South Carolina in 1809. The family moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi, about 1832. His father died there in 1839. William E. Ervin built Liberty Hall in 1835 on the east side of the Tombigbee River. After his home was built he returned to Sumter, South Carolina, and married Sarah McGee Kennedy.
  
  
  Associated Surnames: Ervin
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• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Ethelbert Ervin Diaries, 1839-1856, Lowndes County, Mississippi. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection consists of two plantation diaries kept by Ervin between 1839 and 1856. Ervin included information on buying and selling slaves, hiring slaves owned by others, providing slaves with blankets, hats, and other clothing, and paying slaves for their "Christmas work." He made lists of slave birth (and some death) dates. In 1847, he wrote out the rules for slave conduct and punishments in case the rules were broken. There were rules for how to handle quarrels, duties of husbands and wives, absence from the plantation, and the obligation of slaves to be in their quarters by 9 p.m.

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Other People Researching This Plantation

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RESOURCES

• Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations Series J, Part 6 (Mississippi and Arkansas) http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm

Shields Plantation:    Shields Plantation

Location: Lowndes Co., MS
Constructed:
History: ----
Associated Surnames: Adams, Shields, Smith
Associated Plantations: Smith Plantation (Halifax Co., NC)

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Associated Free White Names

• Charles Shields: owner; resided in Scotland Neck, Halifax Co. North Carolina
• Howel Adams: overseer at Shields Plantation in MS
• William Ruffin Smith: executor of the Shields estate

Research Leads

• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Ruffin Smith Papers, 1772-1959, Lowndes County, Mississippi; also North Carolina. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm Most of the papers in Series 1 relate to the Mississippi plantation of Charles Shields, William Ruffin Smith's neighbor in North Carolina. Shield bought a plantation in Mississippi and took an unspecified number of slaves there to operate it under the supervision of an overseer, Howell Adams, but died shortly thereafter. Smith, as executor of the estate, administered the property for Shields's heirs. 

Lowndes Co. Links

• Lowndes Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/mslowndes.htm

"When an elder dies, a great library and archives burn to the ground."

GREAT SITE  ////  while thinking of  my Mississippi TRAVIS Clan...
Last Sunday... 6-17-2012... Rayford Travis passed away..... b. 1932, living in Simpsonville SC.

left to right:  Erma Lena Frieson, Teen Henderson, James Travis, Dacron, Danada and Rayford Travis (photo 2010)

I googled a bit and found....
MISSISSIPPI TO AFRICA.... Mel's Roots Diggin' Site

I just love this tree... and Mel's researc tips!!!

Research, Study, and Analyze Federal Census Records

    Armed with names, dates, and places, head to the place that has census records. Such places include state archives departments, city libraries, libraries at some major universities/colleges, family history centers, national and regional archives, etc. Don't forget to take some money with you for copying purposes. Also, for a fee, you can access census records online at Ancestry.com.

     The 1940 census is the latest census that was made available to the public on April 2, 2012. See http://www.1940census.net/. Work from the known to the unknown by starting with the 1940 census and continue to the 1930, 1920. 1910, 1900, 1880, and the 1870 census. Unfortunately, the 1890 census was destroyed in a fire. Censuses prior to 1870 only included whites and free people of color. If you are viewing microfilmed census records instead of the digital images on Ancestry.com, a soundex is available for the 1930, 1920, 1910, 1900, and 1880.  Locate your family in the soundex first, which will tell you exactly where to find them on the county census records. However, the 1880 soundex only contain families with at least one child who was 10 years old or younger. If you can't find your folk in the 1880 soundex, then browse through the 1880 county census. Also, be aware that a lot of county boundaries changed. It is possible that families found in the 1870 census were in the 1880 census of another county and they never moved.

     When you find your family in the census, make photocopies of that page and several of the pages before and after that one. Pay attention to their neighbors. It was common for family members to live close to each other. Plan to go back and view the census records again and again and again. Trust me, you won't regret it. I've found many family members just browsing the census in a specific area where I knew most of my family lived. Ask older family members about the names of the other families you will find living near your ancestors. They may be able to identify them. Also, record all of the families that have the same surnames as your ancestors who were living in the same county, especially the same district.

The following information was recorded in the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, & 1940 Census records:

• Name (head of household)
• Names of the people in the household and the relationship to the head of household
• Sex, Race, Age
• Marital status
• Number of years married (may not have been asked in some counties in 1880) or the age when first married (asked in 1930 and 1940)
• Place of birth
• Place of birth of father and mother (not recorded in the 1940 census)
• Occupation 

The following additional information was recorded in the 1900 Census records:

• Month and year of birth
• Number of children a mother had given birth to and how many of those children are living (also asked on the 1910 census)  

The 1870 Census records only provide the following information:

• Names
• Sex, Race, Age
• Place of birth
• Occupation

Note: The 1870 census does not list the relationships to the head of household.

     The 1870 Census is very important in African-American genealogy research. It was very often the first official record that recorded former enslaved African-Americans by their first name and last name. It is also important because the 1870 census was done just five years after slavery. Therefore, for most African-American adults found in the 1870 census records, they were enslaved just five years prior.

     Many African Americans living together in the 1870 census had lived together earlier as a family group on their former enslaver’s farms/plantations and continued to depend upon these relationships even though some were not of blood relations. In 1870, you may often run across other families with the same last names as your ancestors. Some of them were blood relatives and some were not. However, it is very likely that all of them had labored on the same farm/plantation as slaves. Elderly family members may be able to determine which families were blood related.
The Ties That Bind: Finding a Link to
"The Beckley Five" of Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Researched and written by Melvin J. Collier

Search for other important documents.

Such important documents include:

• • marriage records
  • death certificates
  • birth certificates
  • family obituaries
  • pension records
  • Social Security applications 
  • Educable Children's Records (for Mississippi researchers)
  • There are many more records to explore. Order Mississippi to Africa, A Journey of Discovery
     to gain more insight.

     From marriage records, maiden names can be learned. Also, in some counties, the marriage license applications can be found. Often, those documents list the parents’ names. Marriage records can be obtained from county courthouses and state archive departments.  Pay attention to the other names of witnesses on marriage certificates. Often times, they were family members.

     Death certificates are valuable because they contain information such as the name of the spouse, the father's name, the mother's maiden name, the birthplace, the birth date, the place of burial, etc. Also from birth certificates, the parents’ names and the place of birth can be learned.  Those records are typically found at state vital records departments and at state archive departments.

     If you have knowledge that an ancestor or relative may have fought in the Civil War, try to locate his pension records which are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.  Over 200,000 African-American men served in the Union Army. The pension records of these soldiers often contain a wealth of information.  View the database at the USCT website.

     Social Security applications are valuable sources. They contain the father’s name, mother’s maiden name, birthplace, etc. Their database can be accessed on the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) website with instructions on how to order applications.

     The state of Mississippi did a census of all of the children called Educable Children's List.  These lists were started in 1878, recording all of the names of all school-age children between the age of 5 and 21 years old for each county.  The age and sex of each child were recorded.  Most of the records were taken every 4 years.  After 1878, the records were divided into districts and by household with the name of a guardian, typically a parent.  Also, after 1878, the lists were racially divided.  These records can be located at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and also at some county courthouses.  The 1885 - 1896 records are a good substitute for the 20-year-gap in the census that was caused with the destruction of the 1890 Census by fire.

     Once you are able to uncover names of more family members from these documents, plan to search for them in the census records as well. Not only trace direct ancestors, it can also be beneficial to trace other relatives that were known by family members. On one occasion when talking with a family member, she mentioned the name of one of my paternal great-grandmother’s older brothers. I was able to find this relative in the census records. In his household was his mother. Tracing this relative led me to the name of another ancestor, a great-great-grandmother.

“Better to write something now, than everything never.”

WHAT SHALL I WRITE ABOUT; hmmmmmmmmmmm

http://msualumni.wordpress.com/   Borrowed inspiration from RECLAIMIN KIN blogsite.....

Here goes my list:

History of that city, or rural area
Example: The city of Tifton, GA (and the county) was named for Captain Henry Tift, who built large sawmills to harvest the lumber that would be central to this community. My great-great grandfather John Smith was born in Tifton. Many rural areas were named for large slaveowners.

Geography-what was the landscape like?
Example: Many of my ancestors from Hardin County lived along the Tennessee River, so that was a major influence on people’s lives. At the turn of the century, steamboat travel was frequent as were, according to the local paper, drownings of local citizens.

Migration patterns: where did most of the people that settled here come from? Where did many go to?
Examples: Most of the people in early Tennessee were a part of the westward migration from Virginia and North Carolina. This matches exactly the path of the slaveowner of my Tennessee ancestor, Malinda Holt. Also, I have mapped the migration of African-Americans from this county to Northern industries in the 1940s.

 Items from U.S. national history, State history, and/or county history
Hardin County, TN was the site of a large Civil War battle and in many ways that informed the experiences of many slaves who ran away and joined the war effort. Tennessee had more black volunteers than any other state.

Use slave narratives & autobiographies from that area to document the slave experience, even if its not your ancestor
Example: For my ancestors from Montgomery County, MD, I include excerpts from the autobiography of Josiah Henson who was enslaved there. For Hardin County, TN, I use the WPA slave narrative of Edward Bradley, who was enslaved there.

Laws relating to slaves and  freedmen
Example: After the Civil War, Maryland’s Eastern Shore utilized the apprenticing laws to basically re-enslave the children of their former slaves. The Freedmen’s Bureau had to fight to get their children back.  I discuss this in my write-up of my ancestors from Somerset County, MD.

Illnesses and deaths
Example: There was a smallpox epidemic in 1873 in Jacksonville, FL, where my dad’s family lived, which forced many people to temporarily flee the city. Also, the 1918 flu pandemic touched just about every community. Use mortality census records for this topic as well.

Prominent People (both black and white)
Example: Harry Hooks amassed a fortune as a freed black shoemaker in Hardin County, TN before the Civil War, even enabling him to purchase his wife & children. Also, many prominent whites in the county, like William Cherry, were Unionists during the Civil War, which created an interesting dynamic there versus other Southern cities.

Major African-American churches, schools & businesses
Example: My grandfather owned two successful pharmacies in the booming 1940s business district of Jacksonville, Florida, which in part explains why this family never migrated North along with so many others. I find this community he was a part of simply fascinating, and I have documented other black businesses that existed alongside his.

Shared Memories...

It's been 15 years since Daddy passed.... This is a Re-post of Facebook today....

Howard Jr Huggins in his early twenties...abt 1950

BELOW

is more of how we remember daddy ..maybe in in forties ... abt 1970

I've visited by phone with Craig Huggins in Ohio....  relatives from the Howard Huggins Sr... side of the family.....

 Below is the Travis=Morgan=Huggins side of the family  

Mama Dooley and Sister Stafford .. maybe Frederick, OK...long ago

Uncle DD

Aunt Hattie

 Aunt Ruth

Southern Baptists set to elect 1st black president

Southern Baptists set to elect 1st black president

A June Wedding ~ 64 years ago!!!

There's a twinkle in daddy's eye.... and mama leans her head ever so sweetly....

Tana said that daddy's first cousin from Aunt Molly Travis-Clark is standing next to mama... the picture smudged him a bit... he is Paul Clark, his wife is seated in front of him??? and I can't remember who the children are....

Bruce Fisher has an old suitcase underneath a bed at Ada and Warren's House located at 4009 Springlake Drive, Oklahoma City, OK.   Year and a half-ago... I stopped by and photographed....

This verifies that my mother, Helen Huggins did leave Langston University, OK ... I have a picture of her in a Freshman LU Class.....

she moved to Chicago to stay with one of Big Mama's sisters (an aunt)... and graduated from a business school in may 1947....

Then.....  this is a little bridal book page..... really sweet and sentimental ... (Dad Sipuel had passed in Sept 1946)... so Big Mama prepared a wedding announcement..   I notice that..yes... Daddy was already an ordained COGIC minister when marrying mama.

On.... June 18, 1948 in Chicago Illinois, Howard Jr. Huggins and Helen Sipuel were married...

I found something on Prayer Garden COGIC while scanning the COGIC internet a few days ago...

One more cute thing... whatever book this is with Daddy's handwriting... He had recorded five of US-Chillun.... Tana didn't come along until 1965!!!

Now.... lastly.. I wonder if Orville's middle name is spelled the same on his birth certificate... I always thought it was Thurston!!

Clinton ~ Oklahoma

The houses we lived in . . . . where we grew up and played.....


Chickasha, Frederick and Geary, OK . . . .back to Chickasha... then to the big city.... 4916 N Wisconsin, OKC, OK ! ! !

Just for Fun...

And... remember my family members are following this blog....

A blast from the past.... say late 1960's...... three great Huggins Boyz to Men!!!!!

As a picture does tell a story... I wonder what kind of little blue car were they standing in front of... the place was 4916 N Wisconsin, our first home... the one we grew up in ....in Oklahoma City, OK!!!  I even wonder who was taking the picture????    Oh...  on the back it's marked 1971!!!!   something I encourage everyone to do is mark the back of a photo!!!!

1940 Census Form.... Excel format

If you are comfortable with Excel spreadsheet, there are some good forms here:

http://www.censustools.com/


Free for personal use, donation requested.

Travis Women of Mississippi

NOTICE..... they are wearing their hats......

This is a picture Daddy left around the Woodridge house in a photo album....???   How and who and when did he think of a Family Crest Emblem.... words inscribed are Huggins.  

Uncle DD (James Charlie Morgan  -  brother of Howard Huggins, Helen (wife)  in MS??

This is a great Chicago visit... about 1966-67... Mama Dooley holding Tana!

Below,

Mama Dooley and a Church Friend... 

 and Low and behold.... this is Mama Dooley's cousin...from the Byrd and Molly Travis family tree..... she is Addie Travis Brookins!

The Travis Clan of Mississippi

  I really don't have a clue as to when this picture was taken... or where??? What is in the background?  Mama Dooley (Pearlie Travis Morgan-Huggins) was born in 1900... and she looks really young... about 50-ish???   Daddy said that Mama Dooley was heavy-set as a young mother... that she had a sick spell and lost weight.  Also, she was a diabetic (I think... not diagnosed until her kidneys failed....years of 1930-40-50's.... she only lived to be 68 years old.)

 Back in 2008 . . . . Wendell, myself, Lawrence and Lawry and Kandy made the road trip to Lexington Mississippi... and the town of  Tchula....  and then we looked for Balance-Due Road..... down yonder a ways..... and we had directions for Greenlawn Cemetery!  We found the Headstone daddy placed for his mother.......  The grounds were beautifully well-kept...

 This is Howard Huggins Sr..... who married Pearlie (as a widow) in 1925.... He walked out on Pearlie just seven months after Howard Huggins Jr (my father) was born in Tchula MS.... and YES....There is a story as to WHY HE LEFT.....!!!

This is the old 1964-65 picture of Aunt Hattie...Uncle DD, Howard Jr, and Aunt Ruth all surrounding Mama Dooley in Chicago, IL.   (At DD's House)

My daddy was born in Tchula

Tchula is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,332 at the 2000 census. As of the census GR2 of 2000, there were 2,332 people, 724 households, and 524 families residing in the town. The population density was 647.8/km² (1,683.6/mi²). There were 772 housing units at an average density of 214.4/km² (557.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 3.43% White, 95.93% African American, 0.09% Native American, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.47% of the population. There were 724 households out of which 38.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 21.4% were married couples living together, 45.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.22 and the average family size was 3.92. In the town the population was spread out with 37.9% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 14.7% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 24 years. For every 100 females there were 80.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 71.5 males. The median income for a household in the town was $11,571, and the median income for a family was $14,773. Males had a median income of $22,250 versus $16,310 for females. The per capita income for the town was $6,373. About 49.4% of families and 54.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 66.6% of those under age 18 and 55.8% of those age 65 or over. Tchula is located at 33°;10′51"N, 90°13′21"W (33.180711, -90.222588)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.7 km² (1.4 mi²). 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (2.11%) is water. Mayor: Yvonne L. Brown

Artifacts   

Click above on the link.... of a great-inspiring blogger! An artifact is anything made, modified or used by a human culture.  I’m sure we think of archaeology as the study of stuff you find buried underground, but I think I’ll use this month to list all the old stuff…. Antique junk…keepsakes that my parents left in the Woodridge home…..a lot of artifacts above-ground! 

My favorite is study of artifacts can be found in an old, old cemetery…like the gravestones, the hand carved headstones!  Archaeologically speaking, gravestones are a particularly valuable artifact in that one aspect of them is controlled: the date.  Since most people were buried shortly after they died, the date of death on the stone was generally very close to when it was carved.  

Think Back.... When did You First Vote...???

So again.... WHEN DID MAMA VOTE ???
WHO DID SHE VOTE FOR ???

It would have been 1948 Truman or in the 1952 Election Year of  in which Dwight Eisenhower won the election for two terms...

Birth: October 14, 1890

Death: March 28, 1969

Term of Office: January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961

Becoming the President:  Eisenhower was chosen to run on the Republican ticket with Richard Nixon as his Vice President against Adlai Stevenson. Both candidates campaigned vigorously. The campaign dealt with Communism and governmental waste. However, more people voted for "Ike" leading to his victory with 55% of the popular vote and 442 electoral votes. He ran again in 1956 against Stevenson. One of the main issues was Eisenhower's health due to a recent heart attack. In the end he won with 57% of the vote

INTERESTING TO ME.....  Eisenhower actually looks like one of my Grandmother's brother!!   Big mama herself (Martha Bell Sipuel)  was born in 1885 and would have been 67 years old in 1952....

the 1900 Census (I'll post a picture of this document)  verifies that the brother seated in this picture is named Scot Smith and was born in 1881. (married and a few other details were found!)

OK ..So.... my mother voted through-out ELEVEN OR TWELVE presidential voting cycles.... covering almost 60 years of American History

Truman

Eisenhower

JFK

LBJ

Nixon (Tricky Dick)

Ford

Carter

Reagan

Bush (One)

Clinton

Bush (Two)

OBAMA  

and Lord willing.... she'll proudly cast a second term vote of Barack Obama in November of 2012

First Vote Cast in 1948 or 1952

In 1948 . . . If Blacks in Chickasha were allowed to register to vote....then at the age of 21... Mama did so either living in Grady County OK...

Or while living in the State of Illinois.......Cook County.

or in 1952 . . . Mama was having her third child... hahahah.... Mr Orville Thurston.... in Chickasha, Oklahoma.   And she probably voted in the November 1952 election... she and daddy, and Big Mama!

Back to My Mother's Voting Years......

Helen Sipuel	Born   7/25/1926
	1936	10yrs old
	1944	. . . . . .18yrs old Graduated HS
	1945	. . . . . . . . . . .Freshman Year Langston University
	1946	. . . . . .20 yrs old
	1947	. . . . . .21 Voting Age
		Living in Chicago, IL
	1948  . .	. . . . . . . . . .Married in Chilcago, IL

My thought while driving one day was..... How many times has mama voted ???  and for who..???   Always Democratic ticket I assume...... but I'll have to ask her!

Lordy....Lordy......My Brother Reads My Blog !!

Just two years older than me.... he is medically retired and doing well!  He called me today and told me he keeps up with this Sipuel Family Blog!

So to Brother Mo.....  Here is a most recent picture of our mother.... who looks soooooo well.... She wanted to get a new short haircut and had her nails done......The skilled nursing center is so upscale, and of excellent quality!  I declare she might live to be a hundred years old!! Or is it 100 YOUNG!!!!