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Searching the 1885 and 1890 Wilkinson County Mississippi School Census of Black Families

Posted on February 24, 2020March 31, 2020 | by Alvin Blakes | 9 Comments

In the opening statement of the 1885 book, Serena Abbess Haymon gives a vital warning: “I Did Not Change the Document in any way.  If a name is misspelled, I feel that, this is part of your American History Transcript of the Original Document Educable Children” The 1885 book is…

A Case Study of The Phil McWhorter Family

Posted on February 20, 2020March 31, 2020 | by Alvin Blakes | 23 Comments

The only U.S. Population Census that my great-great-grandfather Phillip McWhorter and his wife Patsy Williams McWhorter are enumerated in is the 1880 U.S. Population Census.  Both died in 1899 and therefore were not on the 1900 U.S. Census. I have constructed a McWhorter Family spreadsheet with the information contained in…

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