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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.
Every business has a unique potential waiting to be tapped. Recognizing the keys to unlock this growth can set an enterprise on the path to unprecedented success.
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Continue reading →: Exploring Rabbit Tobacco: Uses and Benefits
Take This Here We call it “rabbit tobacco” and the Yuchi people call it “tsodasha.” This stately, aromatic plant can grow taller than three feet in southern states east of Texas and is ready to harvest in the fall when its silvery green leaves are vivid. It is found on…
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Continue reading →: Found Great-Grandpa Abner In 1860
“If you don’t know where you are going, remember where you came from.” African proverb A lost child who is found by the police or a responsible adult is typically asked, “What’s your name? Who are your parents? Where do you live?” These fundamental questions help return the child to…
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Continue reading →: Annie, How’s Abner?
“How many times I got tell you to go outside and play? Stop asking me who she is. I told you already. Go on now!” Wiping her dishwater drenched hands in her apron, my mother turned from the sink with the look I knew meant business. So I quit questioning…
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