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Mr. Early Thomas (T-Man) Lanier

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Early_Thomas—T-Man—Lanier.pdf - Funeral program for Mr. Early Thomas Lanier

Mr. Joe Eddie Swans

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Joe Eddie Swans on May 25, 2001 at Cooper Baptist Church

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Leisure, Aretha Williams

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Aretha Williams

Interviewee: Mrs. June McKenzie (age 72; born 1929 in Portland Maine; fifth-generation Mainer; lived in Maine all her life)

“Oh, yes we do, and they're really big. My sister in Connecticut has, what, seven children, and my sister in the islands has three, and my other sister has one. And all our families and our grandchildren and everything, we all get together on Fourth of July and have a picnic at Sebago Lake, which started out as a big church thing. Our church did it every year, and we've just kept up the tradition.”

“Well, my neighborhood …

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Education And Employment, Aretha Williams

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Mrs. June McKenzie Full Interview

June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve children. Her mother, Florence Eastman Williams, was a Portland native; her father, a truck driver, was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. She graduated from Portland High School in 1947; she attended Northeastern Business College for one year, and took several classes at the American Institute of Banking while employed at People’s Heritage Bank, where she worked for twenty-two years. She married and had eight children, and at the time of this interview had two grandchildren. She is a longtime member …

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Education, Aretha Williams

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Mrs. June McKenzie Full Interview

June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve children. Her mother, Florence Eastman Williams, was a Portland native; her father, a truck driver, was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. She graduated from Portland High School in 1947; she attended Northeastern Business College for one year, and took several classes at the American Institute of Banking while employed at People’s Heritage Bank, where she worked for twenty-two years. She married and had eight children, and at the time of this interview had two grandchildren. She is a longtime member …

Janice Whitfield Legros

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Funeral Program for Janice Whitfield LeGros on May 19 2001 at Abundant Life Resurrection Christian Center

Mrs. Willie Irene Johnson Releford

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Funeral Program for Mrs. Willie Irene Johnson Releford on May 16, 2001 at Johnson Grove Baptist Church

Quincy Oglesby, Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

Quincy_Oglesby_Sr.pdf - Funeral program for Quincy Oglesby, Sr.

Mrs. Doris Moore Kirkland Johnson

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Program of the funeral of Mrs. Doris Moore Kirkland Johnson , held at Old Bethel Primitive Baptist Church on May 13. 2001

Mrs. Veronica Demetri Jones Rock

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Mrs_Veronica_Demetri_Jones.pdf - Funeral program for Mrs. Veronica Demetri Jones Rock

Raquel "Muffin" T. Carter

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No abstract provided.

Eddie Robertson Sr.

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No abstract provided.

Tammy Denise Brown

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Tammy Denise Brown died April 29, 2001 at the Candler County Hospital in Metter, Georgia. She was from Twin City, Ga, a member of Roundtree Grove Baptist Church, a graduate of East Georgia College, and worked atthe Ogeechee Adolescent Center in Swainsboro, Ga.

Funeral services were held on May 2, 2001 at the Roundtree Grove Baptist Church with Rev. S. D. Bings officiating. Interment is at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Cemetery in Garfield, Ga.

Payton's Mortuary was in charge of all arrangements.

John Byrd

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No abstract provided.

Reffard J. Gibson

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No abstract provided.

James Harold Poole Sr.

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No abstract provided.

Antavius Makhia Mobley

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No abstract provided.

Doretha Edenfield

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No abstract provided.

James Garfield Hall

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No abstract provided.

Vermail A. Simmons Horton

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No abstract provided.

Ceasar Jerome Mcbride

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No abstract provided.

Mr. Ernest Lawton

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Funeral Program for Mr. Ernest Lawton on April 24, 2001 at New Hope Baptist Church

Maude Mason Griffin Gamble

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No abstract provided.

Heithey Hendley Williams

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No abstract provided.

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 24, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 24, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Traces Volume 29, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

Mr. James Mathews On Education And Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Mr. James Mathews Full Interview

James Mathews was born at Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, in 1941. He had four siblings; his father, Oscar Mathews, Jr., was a cook for the railroad that ran between Portland and Boston, and his mother, Llewena Hill Mathews, was one of the first graduates of the Gorham Normal School. His father’s family emigrated from Nova Scotia. As a child, he lived with his aunt and uncle in South Portland; the family moved to another home in South Portland when the state took their home to build I-295. Mathews graduated from Portland High School …

Ms. Lucille Young On Employment, Anah Osman

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Ms. Lucille Young Full Interview

Lucille Young was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1928. Her father and her five brothers and sisters lived on eight different plantations throughout Mississippi during her childhood; her mother became ill and died when she was an infant. Lucille attended school up to tenth grade, then worked at the Swift Packing Company, a box factory, and as a house cleaner and nanny. She married and had eight children, seventeen grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren.

She moved to Portland, Maine, in 1967, after her eldest daughter got a JobCorps position in the city.

On Employment:

“Well, I'd …

Mr. James Mathews On Leisure, Maureen Elgersman Lee

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Interviewer: Maureen Elgersman Lee

Interviewee: Mr. James Mathews (age 59; born 1941 in Portland Maine; married with five children; lived in Maine all his life – lived in South Portland for over 26 years)

“Well, when we talk about the Mathews family reunions and also the Fisher family reunions, because they're a part of our family. We all evolved from the Mathews really, and, of course, my name is Mathews. We had a family reunion in Nova Scotia that I went to in 1998. It was July; I think it was the 14th thru the 16th, or something like that, …