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Re: HELP! Looking For Info On Edward Dell Carter

kumeyaayindian — 2012-08-10 19:54:15Z

I found a few things.. His draft registration is online.. do you have an account ? through ancestry? If not I can give you all the info from the card.. looks like he lived in Philadelphia
U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 about Edward Dell Carter
Name: Edward Dell Carter
Birth Date: 7 Aug 1884
Birth Place: Willow Grove, Delaware
Residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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some of these may have been relatives ..

All Delaware Naturalization Records, 1796-1959 results for Carter

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Charles Carter 16 May 1834 New Castle
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George Carter 9 May 1850 New Castle
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George Carter 24 Dec 1845 New Castle
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Joseph Edward Carter 8 Nov 1883 Kent
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Marianne Carter 11 Dec 1952 Kent
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Marianne Carter 11 Dec 1952 Kent
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Mary Catherine Carter 17 Dec 1951 Sussex
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Mary Catherine Carter 2 Nov 1917 Sussex
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Marianne Carter 15 Feb 1928 Kent

HELP! Looking For Info On Edward Dell Carter

baileyedsallparr — 2012-02-03 14:17:26Z

My Great-Great-Great grandfather's named was Edward Dell Carter, born August 7, 1884. He was born in Willow Grove, Kent, Delaware. He married in 1920 Mittie Blanche L. Williams. Togther they moved to Philadelphia. Other than this and that his parents were from Delaware, I really have no other information on him. If anyone can help me out I would greatly appriciate it.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary - 1823-1893

Contribution — 2010-06-02 18:19:18Z

October 9, 1823 - June 5, 1893
Mary Ann Shadd was born in Delaware to parents who were free blacks in what was still a slave state. Education even for free blacks was illegal in Delaware, so her parents sent her to a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania when she was ten through sixteen years old.

Mary Ann Shadd then returned to Delaware and taught other African Americans, until the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Mary Ann Shadd, with her brother and his wife, emigrated to Canada in 1851, publishing "A Plea for Emigration or Notes of Canada West" urging other black Americans to flee for their safety in light of the new legal situation which denied that anyone black had rights as a U.S. citizen.

Mary Ann Shadd became a teacher in her new home in Ontario, at a school sponsored by the American Missionary Association. In Ontario, she also spoke out against segregation. Her father brought her mother and younger siblings to Canada, settling in Chatham.

In March of 1853, Mary Ann Shadd began a newspaper to promote emigration to Canada and to serve the Canadian community of African Americans. The Provincial Freeman became an outlet for her political ideas. The next year she moved the paper to Toronto, then in 1855 to Chatham, where the largest number of escaped slaves and emigrant freemen were living.

Mary Ann Shadd opposed views of Henry Bibb and others who were more separatist and who encouraged the community to consider their stay in Canada as tentative.

In 1856, Mary Ann Shadd married Thomas Cary. He continued to live in Toronto and she in Chatham. Their daughter, Sally, lived with Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Thomas Cary died in 1860. The presence in Canada of the large Shadd family meant that Mary Ann Shadd Cary had support in caring for her daughter while continuing her activism

In 1855-1856, Mary Ann Shadd Cary gave anti-slavery lectures in the United States. John Brown held a meeting in 1858 at the home of cary's brother, Isaac Shadd.
After Brown's death at Harper's Ferry, Mary Ann Shadd Cary compiled and published notes from the only survivor of Brown's Harper's Ferry effort, Osborne P. Anderson.

In 1858, her paper failed during an economic depression. Mary Ann Shadd Cary began teaching in Michigan, but left for Canada again in 1863. At this time she obtained British citizenship. That summer, she became a recruiter for the Union army in Indiana, finding black volunteers.

At the end of the Civil War, Mary Ann Shadd Cary earned a teaching certificate, and taught in Detroit and then in Washington, D.C. She wrote for The National Era, Frederick Douglass' paper, and for John Crowell's the Advocate. She earned a law degree from Howard University, becoming the second African American woman to graduate from law school.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary added to her activism efforts the cause of women's rights. In 1878 she spoke at the National Woman Suffrage Association convention. In 1887 she was one of only two African Americans attending a women's conference in New York. She testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on women and the vote, and became a registered voter in Washington.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary died in Washington, D.C., in 1893.

Re: Mary Jackson

Pearlise — 2008-12-21 09:54:48Z

P.S.
If not in the kitchen, she may have been wooking in the laundry or could have been a nurse.

Mary Jackson

Pearlise — 2008-12-05 08:51:36Z

Looking for any info about Mary Jackson who was a cook in the Union Officers kitchen at Fort Delaware about 1863 or so.
I am sure she was an ex-slave so may not be much in the way of records.
Thank You

Re: Arabella Holland & Georgiana Conkey

vontons — 2008-11-21 02:29:32Z

Hi,
Please contact me at yclemmons@carolina.rr.com with any information you may have. My father Allan Oliver Wilson of Newark, Delaware is the grandson of both these women. I can not seem to find either of my great grandmothers after 1820 for Georgianna & 1920 for Arabella. Any information you can give me will be appreciated. There is so much really wild oral family history concerning them both. I would love to validate or disprove some of it

Re: Arabella Holland & Georgiana Conkey

vontons — 2008-10-30 20:56:27Z

Thank you for responding. I have not recently checked the board for messages. Please send your information to yclemmons@carolina.rr.com
Thank you,
Yvonne Wilson Clemmons

Re: Arabella Holland & Georgiana Conkey

kfb112 — 2008-08-09 12:04:16Z

Hi, I've been trying to contact you regarding Arabella and family. I have some new information to add to the confusion!

Re: Arabella Holland & Georgiana Conkey

carablume1 — 2008-08-07 21:07:37Z

I believe that the Georgiana Conkey referred to here is the daughter of Jonathan and Anne Conkey, who lived in what is now White Clay Creek State Park in New Castle County, Delaware (near Newark). Jonathan was the son of James (d.1836) and Diana Conkey. They lived on land purchased by James from Elias Glasgo, who was married to Jonathan's sister (James' daughter) Rebecca. Both the Glasgo and Conkey families appear to have come from London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, just over the state line.

Cara Blume
Cultural Heritage Program Manager
Delaware State Parks

Re: elwood jackson and angiline parker family

asbrobert — 2008-02-20 02:12:53Z

yes ,asbrobert@optonline.com

Re: elwood jackson and angiline parker family

asbrobert — 2008-02-19 01:11:17Z

yes, my cell is 732 6429326

Sampson Anderson

vontons — 2008-02-18 02:11:08Z

I am looking for my Great Great grandfather Sampson Anderson born in the Raleigh, Durham area about 1854. His wife was named either Jane or Janes. He was either native American or Mulatto. At one time he was the sexton in a cemetary in Raleigh. If anyone has any knowledge of him please contact me at yclemmons@carolina.rr.com

Arabella Holland & Georgiana Conkey

vontons — 2008-02-18 02:02:04Z

I am searching for my paternal great grandmothers who both resided in what is today the Newark, Delaware area. Arabella Holland was a mulatto woman born abt. 1854 She may have been given to Perry & Mary Holland at birth to be raised. There is a close relationship between her & the Abieja James family. Mr. James was a worker who lived on the Cooch family land. Georgianna Conkey, brn 1858 is my other great grandmother. Little is known about her other than she had two sons. One named Chris & the Other named Charles Wesley Conkey, my grandfather. Somehow in later years his name was changed to Charles Wesley Wilson.
Please contact me at yclemmons@carolina.rr.com if you have any information about them

Re: elwood jackson and angiline parker family

charlenefountain59 — 2008-02-15 19:21:24Z

we must talk. was this the 55th ma, black reg?

Miller,Hunter

marychaney45 — 2007-06-16 01:42:08Z

Looking for information on Millers that may been on the border of DE and PA, specifically Hutchinson(Miller),born in about 1827, do not have fathers name at this time, He married a Hunter. Her father was Jacob Hunter born about 1788. Any information appreciated.

elwood jackson and angiline parker family

asbrobert — 2007-03-14 00:58:49Z

i am looking for stephen jackson,woolford, parkers,1830 in laural deleware census, poss related aneius, john jackson .elwood was born in new jersey a. 1844 serve in civil war 55th mass, from 1863.he was born in woods town or woodbury,nj married angeline in 1865 ,his children were elvadeen gould,harriette,laura morris,john jr.,david,theodore, elwood father was john jackson poss deleware,mother mary jane woolford from bushtown or woodstown,nj

1957 Obituary: Edward T. DEMBY

Contribution — 2006-05-28 22:49:52Z

Name: Demby, Edward T.
Date: Oct 15 1957
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #104.
Notes: The only Negro bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, the Rev. Edward T. Demby, suffragan bishop of Arkansas, died here yesterday at Ingelside Hospital. Bishop Demby, 88, who was granted his bachelor of divinity degree by Wilberforce University in 1929, is listed in Who's Who. Born in Wilmington, Del., Bishop Demby had his first parish in Mason, Tenn. Bishop Demby had lived at 10519 Englewood Ave., with his wife, Antoinette Ricks, the first registered Negro nurse in Cleveland. She died last year. They had been married 53 years. Services will be at 2 p. m. Thursday at Trinity Cathedral. Among those participating will be Bishop Nelson M. Burroughs; the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, retired bishop; the Rev. John C. Davis of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Tolly Caution of New York.

Listing of Residents of Wilmington

2006-02-18 11:35:38Z

Below is a list of African-Americans taken from the list. May be useful to someone.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/de/new_castle/pioneers/...

18th/19th Century Residents of Wilmington,
New Castle County, Delaware

The following two lists were compiled by Isaac Starr beginning in 1794, including the names of residents of Wilmington, DE who lived past the age of sixty. In 1845 these lists were published in "A History of the Original Settlements on the Delaware" by Benjamin Ferris.

The "FIRST LIST" gives the names of individuals who were over sixty in 1794 when the survey began.

The "SECOND LIST" gives the names of residents who were added later.

FIRST LIST
AGE YEAR AGE
IN OF AT
NAME 1794 DEATH DEATH
James Hall (coloured) 61 1814 80
Jacob Shreve (coloured) 61 1819 86
Jas. Valentine’s wife (coloured) 63 1800 69
Fortune, Dr. M’Kinley’s African 73 1803 82
Negro Fortune 81 1800 87
Lucy (coloured woman) 83 1806 96
Joseph Nicholson (coloured) 65 1816 87
Rose Hugall (coloured) 84 1798 88
James Valentine (coloured) 68 1807 81
Saba (coloured) 99 1798 103
Brutus (coloured) 101 1795 102

SECOND LIST

YEAR YEAR AGE
OF OF AT
NAME BIRTH DEATH DEATH
Abm. Doras (coloured) 1758 1825 67