ALICE'S FAMILY
THE LINDSEY/WATTS AND FULLER/HICKS FAMILIES
These
Pages cover both sides of my family that are descendants of African slaves and
white slave owners. Here I will briefly give you some information about these families,
the surnames and geographic locations.
Click the hyper-links to see more information. I think you will be as
intrigued as I was with their lives and the history that they lived, and that I
now get to share through my research.
On
my father's side are the Lindsey and Watts. The Lindsey family and the Watts
families are originally from Maryland, North Carolina and Missouri. My
great-great grandfather Jacob Lindsey was a free black man from Maryland. He
married Mary Coffin of Jamestown NC. Mary Coffin is listed as the slave of
Shubal Coffin in the 1850-1860 US census slave schedule. The family story is
that she was the daughter of Shubal and was listed as a slave to protect her
from being kidnapped and sold. Their oldest son Junius under the surname Coffin
enlisted in the union army (see military record under official papers section
below) during the Civil War. After the war he came back he and his family moved
to Peru, IN. His son, my great grandfather Henry Harrison, married Frances
Porter, an orphaned Blackfoot Indian. They traveled the entire state of
Illinois. My grandfather Harry Lindsey married Edith Watts; the family lived
for a while in Peru, IN, and then moved to Chicago, IL.
My great-great grandfather Julius Watts was a runaway slave
from Rocky Mount, NC. He walked from Rocky Mount to Cairo, IL where he met the
family of Matilda Dawson, daughter of slave owner Robert Dawson of Fayette, MO.
who had been brought from slavery to Cairo. Julius married her daughter Fanny
Patrick in Springfield, IL. Their children lived throughout IL. My grandmother
Edith moved to Chicago, IL. with her husband Harry Lindsey.
Here are the separate family pages:
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LINDSEY - The surnames associated with the Lindsey family (listed in
alphabetical order) are: ARTIS - ARTIST - BLANKS - BLOODWORTH - BROWN - COFFIN
- DENT - DUNGEY - EVERETT -FRANCIS - GATTES - HARDIN - HARTWOOD - HILL - HOWARD
- KERSEY - KING - LINDSEY - McCARTHY - MMcDONALD - MENDENHALL - MOODY - PARKER -
PAYTON - PERRY - PORTER - VALENTINE.
The
locations associated with these names: North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,
Kentucky and California.
WATTS - The surnames associated with the Watts family (listed in
alphabetical order) are: ADGELY - BANKS - BOWDEN - BRIDGEFORD - EDENS - GAINES
- HALL - HAMILTON - HIBBS - JOHNSON - MCCCANT - PATRICK - PICKETT - REDMOND -
RICE - SHIRLEY - SIMONS - VESTAL WATTS - WILSON - WORK.
The locations associated with these names are: North
Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Nebraska.
On
my maternal side are the Fullers and Hicks.
My great great-great grandmother was Caroline Fuller
was from Abbeville County, SC. From the will of Isabella Guest Woods Hardin it
appears she is the daughter of Isabelle's slave Sarah Woods. Her daughter Frances was the slave of
Isabelle's son, Ralph Harden of Lowdensville, SC and she bore him four children
and then married Sam Jackson, with whom she had nine more children. Her son
General Kemp Fuller married first Frances Hunter and had one son Ide (or Ira).
They divorced, and then he married my great grandmother Mary Taggart in 1896. They had four children. After General Kemp
Fuller's death in 1913, Mary moved her family to Atlanta, Georgia and later to
Evanston, Illinois where her family the Taggarts had moved following the
lynching of the prominent black landowner and farmer Anthony Crawford in
Abbeville, South Carolina in
1916. Her daughter Fannie
married Roy Hicks in Greenville, South Carolina. Their first child who died
young was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Their second child who also died
young, and the next two children were born in Atlanta, their last two children,
one stillborn were born in Evanston, Illinois. Roy and Fannie divorced. Fannie my grandmother for the most part
raised her three surviving children alone with a little help from her mother
Mary, by doing laundry for white households, starting a taxi company in
Evanston, Illinois and later putting herself through nursing school and
becoming a LPN. She then started with some other nurses one of the first
nursing schools for Blacks. When she
died at age 92 she could reflect on how her hard work had paid off, her oldest
daughter a dedicated teacher and leader in her community, her son the first
black fire chief of Evanston, Illinois and her daughter one of the most
respected community activists with many famous friends and acquaintances in the
world of politics and entertainment.
Fannie maintained her strong spirit and independence even after illness
kept her confined to a wheelchair. She moved in with her youngest daughter, my
mother, where she supervised the day-to-day house chores, entertaining and
cooking until her death in 1990.
My great great-grandmother Lucille Johnson was born in
Columbia, SC. She was a daughter of slave owner Col. Wade Hampton. She and her
sister Cynthia moved from Columbia, South Carolina to Greenville, SC area.
There she met and married Henry Hicks from Greenville and they had five
children. Their son Roy married my grandmother Fannie. After the divorce he lived for a while in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then came to live with his youngest daughter, my
mother, until his death in 1958.
The surnames associated with the Fuller family are:
ANDERSON, BOBO, BOJASKI, BONE, BOWEN, BOWIE, BRITT, BYRD, CALHOUN, CALLAHAN,
CAMPBELL, CANN, CARLILE, CLINKSCALES, COBB, CRAWFORD, DAWSON, DENNIS, DIXON,
DONALD, DONALDSON, DOOLEY, DRINKWATER, FANT, FREEMAN, FULLER, GREEN,
GUILLIBEAUX, HARDEN, HAZZARD, HICKS, HUNTER, JACKSON, LITTLE, LOGAN, LOMAX,
LYONS, MCADAMS, MIMMS, NANCE, PHILLIPS, PLUMMER, PRESSLLY, RAINDROP, RICHEY,
ROBINSON, SEARLES, SETTLES, TAGGART, TEMPLE, TERRY, WARDLAW, WATKINS, ,
WIDEMAN, WOODS. The locations associated with these names: South Carolina,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Arkansas.
The surnames associated with the Hicks family are:
ADDERLY, BROWN, CANTEY, COHEN, DICKERSON, DREHER, FITZSIMMONS, HAMPTON,
HARTWELL, HICKS, HUFFMAN, JOHNSON, KENNEDY, LATIMORE, MIMS, MONTGOMERY, NIX,
SEARS, TAYLOR, THOMAS, THOMPSON, TRAYLOR, WHITE. The locations associated with
these names: South Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania and California.
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