Anderson & Mallie Robbins: 1900 Census

Source: 1900 Census, Dallas County Alabama

Name: Anderson Robbins, Age 60
Birth Year: March 1840, AL
Occupation: Farm Laborer

Spouse: Mallie, 55
Birth Year: Dec. 1844, AL

Boarder: Maude Harville
Birth Year: July 1876, AL
Occupation: Farm Laborer

Anderson Robbins is the paternal uncle of my great-grandmother, Mary Ella (“Mel”) Martin. I have an Aunt who remembers visiting the Robbins family on their farm as a child.

If you have any additional information, please post below.

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language…” Joyce Carol Oates , author

Robbins Family Genealogy Forum: >http://genforum.genealogy.com/robbins/

Linkpendium Robbins Family: Surname Genealogy, Family History, Family Tree, Family Cresthttp://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-R/surc-Rob/sur-Robbins/

Among His Ancestors – Quote by Helen Keller

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.”, Helen Keller

In Memory of Bernice “Bern” Morton

Bernice Morton, 82 of Selma, Alabama passed away on May 26, 2008. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Lett officiating. Visitation will be held prior to the service from 10:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Interment will be at Pineview Memory Gardens under the direction of Lewis Brothers Funeral Home.

Mrs. Morton was preceded in death by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Earnest King, husband, Mr. Ennis Morton and son Ernest Sigmon Sr. Survivors include daughters: Dr. Janice Hunte (Eyston), Marcia Bailey (Marshall), Jenorice Haynes (Japp Sr.), son Ennis Morton Jr. (Carol), grandchildren: Rochelle Ramano (Thomas), Emerson Hunte, Dane Dougherty, Ernesto Sigmon, Erica Peck-Love (Shon), Sheila Smitherman (Juan), Marshanda Bailey, Erin Sigmon, Jasmine Hoffman (Justin), David Hunte (Valerie), Katherine Hunte, Japp Haynes IV, Eyslyn Hunte, great grandchildren: Jasmine Lacey, Solomon Sigmon, Seth Sigmon, Lily Moon Quintero, Brooklin Blu Peck Love, Thomas Ramano, Brock Tristan Smitherman, Brooke Nicole Smitherman, Brianna Simone Smitherman, sister-in-law: Queenie Ferguson, cousins Annie, Bessies, and Mildred Baker, special loved ones:

Hernice Mutuku, Rev. and Mrs. Reese , Fannie and Lester Bailey, Lois McGee, Wanda Tyler (God Daughter), Beloved Friend and Physician, Dr. Glenton Davis and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, special family and friends too numerous to mention.

Born on November 6, 1925 in Selma Alabama, she served the Lord in her community through her work at Selma University and her long time membership at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church.

Mrs. Morton was well known for her work during the civil rights movement and was often mentioned on CNN for her role in preparing meals for thousands of freedom fighters including Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev Ralph Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young, and Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1960’s. Her life and story was recounted in the book entitled “The Selma Campaign 1963-1965.” She also received numerous awards for her leadership and dedication including the prestigious Drum Major for Justice Award and The Faithful Servant Award presented by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta in 1989.

She received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities from Selma University in May 1989 for her outstanding contributions in the field of Education. She loved people. In 1995, she was again honored for her contributions toward equality and fair treatment for everyone and received the Invisible Giant Recognition and Award during the 30th Anniversary March for Voting Rights. She has also been featured in the Selma Voting Rights Museum and has been the focus of several documentaries detailing the civil rights movement and the events leading up to Bloody Sunday. She is one of Selma’s famed “Foot Soldiers.”

She was loved by many and will be dearly missed. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Selma.

http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/articles/2008/05/30/news/obituaries/obit%2018.txt

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In loving memory of Auntie Bern. I will always remember your kindness, warmth and gracious heart. When I first attended the family reunion, your smile beckoned to me from across the room. You are a woman of strength and pride. You made sure to tell me of the struggle of the Freedom Fighters, that the quiet streets I walk were once slippery with blood and tears. You instilled in me a sense of purpose; to not only remember my family’s history but to fight for our place in history itself. Not as slaves or dejected citizens but as people of faith, people of great diversity and most of all–as people worthy not only be remembered but honored. I wish I lived closer, so I could have known you better. But I can say, Auntie Bern, that you will remain in my thoughts and prayers, and your memory will be celebrated in the stories passed down to my children. God bless and keep you <3

Your Niece, Lynn and Family

“At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen.
What marvelous route did you take from this world?

Beating your wings and feathers,
you broke free from this cage.
Rising up to the sky
you attained the world of the soul.
You were a prized falcon trapped by an Old Woman.
Then you heard the drummer’s call
and flew beyond space and time.”
Gone to the Unseen, Jelaluddin Rumi

1910: Stokes and Lucy Morton

Source: 1910 Census
Name: MORTON
Place: Mulberry Precinct, Autauga, Alabama

Stokes/ Stephen Morton
b. 1853
Mulatto
Farm Laborer

wife
Lucy Morton
b. 1855
Black

son
Enice
b. 1875
Black
Farm Laborer
Married

Grandson
Percy Morton (son of Enice Morton)
b. 1899
Black

Granddaughter (daughter of Percy Morton)
Edith Morton
b. 1902
Black

Family of Enis & Margarett Morton (Autauga County, AL)

1900 Census: Mulberry (Autauga County), Alabama

Enis Morton b. July 1875, Black, Farm Laborer

wife

Margarett Morton b. July 1875, Black

son

Percy Morton b October 1899

nephew

Willie Word b. May 1891

NEXT TO

Stokes (Stephen) Morton b. June 1852, Mulatto, Farm Laborer
wife: Lucy J. Morton b. July 1854, Black
Parents of Enis (Enice) Morton

Note: This is a line I am still researching. Percy Morton married my great-grandmother, Mary Martin Morton. Percy Morton later moved to Texas.

For Local and Genealogical Information on Autauga County Visit:

Autauga County Alabama Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alautaug/#Queries

City of Prattville, Alabama:
http://www.prattville.com/

The Honey Web

By Nora (age 4) and Mommy, 12/27/2007

Once upon a time a bear was being mean to a unicorn. The bear was trying to eat her (unicorn). The unicorn is a pet to a beautiful true princess. The true princess wanted to save her unicorn so she poured honey on a spider web. The bear was hungry for some honey, and ran to the spider web. He fell on the spider web and then he got stuck.
He says, “Please let me out! Cuz I’m gonna be nice!”
True princess said, “I can’t let you out because you being mean.”
So the true princess threw the bear into the sky, where he is to this day, still caught in the honey web. Only at night can you see the bear, when the golden web glimmers in the dark. True princess and the unicorn are so happy to be free that they go eat ice cream. The end.

Lynn Mari, ©2007

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Prayerful

Lynn Mari, © 2007.

A Dreamer’s Journey

Job 33:4, “The Spirit of the God made me and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.”

The footprint in this picture was made after Nora was born ()-:)

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Buddies

This cat is named “CC”, his owner is a very lovely woman who opens up her garden for the kids and I to admire her flowers and visit her cats. CC is a Himalayan with the most amazing blue eyes. CC is very friendly and comes running when he sees DP and Nora, rubbing against their legs. CC has really helped–just by being the creature God made him to be.
Thank-you.

Lynn Mari, © 2007.

Lycan’s Story

Lycan came to us in June of 2006. My daughter worked during the summer at the animal shelter. I have never seen anyone with such a passion for animals. On a hot summer evening when she came home she told me of a puppy that was brought in that was no more that two weeks old. Someone found him on the side of the road near death and brought him into the shelter. He had been eaten into the flesh by maggots and ants. He was only a couple of breaths from being dead. My daughter and the shelter manager cleaned him up with peroxide baths and antibiotic ointments and wrapped him in a blanket. He was not moving , but his heart was still beating. The next couple of mornings that she went in to work she only worked with this puppy. After about three days he began to come around. She even began to call him Puff because he looked like a black cottonball. I gave her permission to bring the little puppy home to watch him during the night until he got better. When she walked into the house she was carrying a cat kennel. I peeped into the kennel and I didnt see anything and I asked her where is the pupy, she replied he’s in there. I looked again and still didnt see anything. She sat the kennel down and opened the door and put her long hands towards the back and pulled out a small hand towel and lifted it up to me and opened it and there was a small ball of hair. I took the little thing in my hands and fell in love. He was so battered and bruised with several holes deeply penetrating is skin.

His start on this Earth was a very rocky one, but if you were to see him now. It’s almost been a year and you would not know that it was the same puppy. He has beautiful wavy black hair that has covered where the holes use to be. He loves to play and run from our large dogs. When the door bell rings, he is the first to go to the door. Lycans life reminds me of the song His Eye Is On The Sparrow. I know that if God brought him through all that he went through to a home where he is loved and cared for so much, then I know that he will carry us, his children, through whatever we go through.

Midnight Nile, ©2007.