OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS UNKNOWN FACES

 A PHOTOGRAPH GIFT ! - by CWarren - Dec 21, 2003 7:21pm

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GREAT GIFT IDEA FOR ANY HOLIDAY!!!!!!!

For those of you who have photographs of your Ancestors, take the time and go through your trunks and make copies and frame them for the family members who dont.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of us who do not have photographs of their Parents or Grandparents that would love to have them.

funeral homes - by rebecca - Jan 3, 2004 7:36am

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There is an African American funeral in Pennsylvania that buried several of our relatives.(Stockdale etc) They happen to be related to us by marriage.

Lantz Funeral Home

297 E. Main Street

Uniontown, Penna. 15401

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Re: funeral homes - by sonya guthri... - Jun 26, 2004 6:24pm

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i am interested in obtaining some information on welch brother's funeral home. my grandmother died in1947 and they had her remains. my mother was only 12 yrs.olds and recalls very little about them.

i know they no longer exist, but whatever is obtained will be greatly appreciated.

thank you,

sonya guthrie

Simmons Photograph - by A. Thomas - Feb 9, 2004 10:40pm

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Looking for a photograph of Obie Simmons from New York. He was born in Alabama to a Calvin and Sallie Simmons.

Thanks

Add 2 funeral homes to list - by Zerry Smith - Feb 20, 2004 3:05pm

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Would like to add 2 funeral homes to list 1) Poole Funeral Directors was located in Birmingham, Alabama and 2)Willie Carter Funeral Home was located in Armstrong, Alabama.

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Re: Add 2 funeral homes to list - by Carole Taylor... - Nov 4, 2004 5:25pm

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Add Griggs Funeral Home in Barnesville, GA. I am looking for his records to find my grandmother death date. Where are funeral home lists of deaths located in Georgia?

Camilla Warren picture - by Angela Merri... - May 2, 2004 11:29am

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I think that your picture of the lil girl from Alabama is my mom please email me and give me more information.

lavonne071@aol.com

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Re: Camilla Warren picture - by Opoaa Site M... - May 10, 2004 8:11pm

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Little girl from AL.

This photograph belonged to a Annie belle Segrest, Siggers of Macon Co. Alabama.

Annie belle later moved to Ohio in the 1950s.

Areas: Shorter, Tysonville, Tuskegee, Cross Keys Alabama

Surnames: Segrest, Siggers, Simmons, Sanders, Hamilton, Williams.

Note: The surnames may not be of the subjects in the photographs.

funeral homes - by Georgia - Jul 18, 2004 7:37pm

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I have funeral home to add that is no longer in existence in Lexington, Ky.

Stewart Funeral Home

Ohio Street

Lexington, Ky.

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Re: funeral homes - by Y. Hinton - Feb 27, 2005 10:57am

I would like to add this funeral home that is no longer in existance. The address is on a funeral reciept from December 29, 1938 in NYC.

Stewart & Co.

Funeral Directors and Morticians

1480-5th Ave.

Corner of 119th Street

(Old Phone #)

LE. 4-3790

MO. 2-2078

REAL FUNERAL HOMES ? - by CWarren/Site... - Jul 21, 2004 8:05pm

Since my journey into Genealogy I've found that research finds its way from the smallest of things you thought would'nt be relevant.

Do you remember when wakes and funerals where held at the homes of the deceased or, of a close family member?

My brother submitted an old funeral booklet, that had a list of people who attended the funeral of a Bessie Motley, in 1951, inside the home of Edith Bryant.

On this document information was found on several missing family members.

Anyone out there with such documents dig em up and see what information you can find.

Allen Photos - by LAllen - Oct 25, 2004 9:53am

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Hi was wondering do you have any more information about Mary Stockdale Allen husband John Allen such as where did he come from or what states was these Allen family from. Could you please forward my questions to Rebecca Henderson or give her my e-mail address I am looking for my family of Allen some of them where from AL,MI,AR,GA. Thanks LAllen

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Re: Allen Photos

Hello,

And thank you for viewing OPOAA.

Regarding your questions about John Allen:

His name was John Wesley Allen, born in Alabama in 1875, and died in Fayette, PA in 1950.

John Allen was Mary Stockdales second husband. His occupation was a coal miner. You can go to the Updated section of OPOAA and find his children's picture there.

  Photos - by CWarren - Oct 26, 2004 7:33pm

Photographs - Folks of Tuskegee, Alabama - by Doll Harris-... - Jan 23, 2005

Photographs - Folks of Tuskegee, Alabama

Here is a link to photographs of folks with origins or roots in Tuskegee, Alabama. Take a look. A few of these folks are unknowns..who are they?

Doll Harris-Hargrove

http://www.dollsgen.com

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Re: Photographs - Folks of Tuskegee, Alabama - by Cwarren-OPOA... - Jan 23, 2005 7:10pm

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Thanks Doll,

Wonderfully done. My roots too are there in Tuskegee.

Thanks for the link!

CWarren-OPOAA

Memphis area Out-of-Business funeral home - by Devon - Jul 12, 2005 7:54pm

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From what I've been told, this was the only funeral home in the Raleigh-Bartlett area that handled blacks. It closed down in the late 60's I believe, and at one point the building was used by Bartlett Emementary school (not exactly sure what it's used for now though).

George Breathett Funeral Home

2795 Shelby St.

Memphis, TN 38134

Genology Study - by Steve Thomps... - Aug 20, 2005 5:17pm

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I am doing and have been doing a study on my fathers family for about 8 years now, I have been able to locate his last name and some members of his family at least there names. However there are a number of them I have not been able to locate. My Father's family started be believe in the Madison Fla. area and possibly the Southern partion of Ga. we are just uable to know just where. We do know he was a very wealth land owner, and Methodist minister, He was also a Grand Master, infact the sixth Grand Master in Jacksonville Fla. during the Great Fire of 1901. That is apart of history. I know where he is buried through death certificates. I would love to have be able to come across some information regarding his funeral service which was held in 1912 in jacksonville. His name was John H. Dickerson, His son my father was name Horatio W. Dickerson who passed in 1970 in Gainsville. I do not have his last name because I was born out of wed lock and during the 40's it was proper to give the child the last name of the mothers father, and place the mothers father name on the birth certificate. I know this is only a small amout of information, but if there is anyone out there who this might spark a thought please contact me. Thank you so very much

Steve Thompson

Ps my mothers family is from Daytona Beach,

SAD Faces - by CWarren-OPOA... - Apr 24, 2006 4:07pm

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Monday, Mar 13, 2006

A Question by a visitor, of why the subjects in most of the photographs seem to have such sad looks on their faces?

Visitor Answer: That African Amercians back then didnt have to much to smile about.

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