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Continue reading →: Roots of Faith
Welcome to Roots of Faith, where we explore the deep spiritual traditions of African American and Native American communities in the rural South. Today, we journey to the heart of eastern North Carolina, to a small crossroads near Oak City in Martin County, where a simple wooden building known as…
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Continue reading →: Black Withrows in the 1910 Census
My paternal great-great grandparents Isaiah and Jennie (Wesley) Withrow had 10 children during slavery in North Carolina’s Rutherford county. They both passed on in the early 1880s resting assured that their two daughters Lucinda and Nancy Ann had married and their eight sons were thriving. Here are 12 Withrows descendants…
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Continue reading →: Nip It In The Bud With Catnip, Sassafras, Dandelion
Take This Here Have you ever had a wretched bout of “the runs” at least once in your life? Wouldn’t it occur at the most inopportune moments like during a friend’s dinner party or five minutes into your speech at a podium with all eyes on you? In those instances,…
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Continue reading →: Once a Slave – Ervin Withrow pt. 2
abt. 1855-1950, Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina Previously: Ervin maintained close relationships with South Carolinians in Cherokee and Spartanburg counties as hinted by a mysterious generosity towards such a family in his last wills and testaments: the Cantrells. Weldon and Garlin (Gray) Cantrell: While the Withrows were growing cotton, another young…
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Continue reading →: Once A Slave – Ervin Withrow pt. 1
abt. 1855-1950, Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina As DNA ancestry tests are popularized with their casually curious customers building family trees, so has ever-expanding online resources become available to researchers’ delight. These tools are major finding aids to explore your family history after you’ve scrounged through boxes in the attic, basement,…
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Continue reading →: Take This Here: Common Poke
Poke around a summer North Carolinian pasture or the edge of woods teeming with deer, small game and birds and you’ll find this forager’s delicacy. Its small, white flowers blooming from July through September preview dark berries that beckon bees to its stems. Although the entire pokeweed plant is poisonous…
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Continue reading →: Horehound: A Deeply Rooted Bitter Cure
Part 3 of the “Take This Here” series: African American-Native American Home Remedies A healing plant’s story lasting from ancient Egypt to the American Great Migration What outlasted slavery, migration and time, wasn’t only the herb but the knowledge of how to use it. Ancestral Memories When a cough or…
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Continue reading →: Trailblazer Frances Elliott Davis, R.N.
from my Withrow family archives, a Women’s History Month spotlight Sources: https://www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2017/08/03/world-war-i-nurse-frances-reed-elliott-davis Pathfinders: A History of the Progress of Colored Graduate Nurses. United States: Kay Printing House, 1929. The Crisis Magazine 1918
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Continue reading →: Boneset: Indigenous Herbal Benefits and Uses
Eupatorium perfoliatum by I, SB_Johnny,CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2529818 Take This Here “She don’t feel good again. Came home with a cold.” Mom “Well, fix her some of that boneset. She be alright.” Dad “Girl, take this here. Now! It’ll make you feel good.” Mom You’re a kid and if you…
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Continue reading →: That Preachin’ Man Chauncey I. Withrow A.M., D.D.
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