Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Claud, Sykes, Lowe, Doles, and Vinson families (from Southampton County, Virginia).




The daughter of George Washington Claud (1849-1923) and Martha Ferguson (1830-?) had a daughter named Lula Claud (1869-1928). Lula Claud has been a mystery for some since many people don't know about her life.  Lula Claud was born in Southampton County, Virginia. Lula Claud married James Lewis Whitehead on January 20, 1887 at Southampton County, Virginia. Lula Claud and James L. Whitehead had the following children: George Washington Whitehead (1887-1945), Willie T. Whitehead (1890-1931), John Odie Whitehead (1893-1942), Annie Beulah Whitehead (1895-1963), Joseph F. Whitehead (1898-?), Bessie Whitehead (1900-1920), No Name Whitehead (1900-?), Hattie Bell Whitehead Freeman (1903-1957), Lonnie Whitehead (1907-1978), Mattie Whitehead (1909-?), Martha Whitehead (1900-?), and Emmett L. Whitehead (1911-1924). John Odie Whitehead married Ella M. Joyner and had the following children: Mattie Whitehead (1914-1999. She married a man named Guy Artis. He was born in 1913. Mattie Whitehead lived in Portsmouth, Virginia), Herbert Whitehead (1917-1970. He married Bertha Mae Porter. Bertha was born in 1918 at Portsmouth, Virginia), Jasper Whitehead (1920-1958), Jimmie Lewis Whitehead (1921-), Bessie Elnora Whitehead (1924-2011), Johnnie Whitehead Jr. (1927-1973), Marion Whitehead (1932-1977), and Emmett Whitehead (1933-).



One of the most important ancestors in my family tree is a woman named Moby Lee Sykes (1866-1932). She lived in Suffolk, Virginia where many of my maternal ancestors migrated to from Southampton County, Virginia. Moby Lee Sykes' parents were Willis Sykes and Lydia Claud. Lydia Cluad (1842-?)'s mother was Zilphy Claud. Moby Sykes was my first cousin. She married Edward Franklin Evans (1876-?). Moby Sykes and Edward Franklin Evans had the following children: John J. Evans (1898-?), Eula Evans (1899-?), Annie W. Evans (?), Bernice Evans (1902-1979), Magara Evans (1908-1971), Lessie Elnora Evans (1909-1967), Willis Franklin Evans (1912-1989), Eva Grace Evans (1915-2002), James Walter Evans (1917-1989), Carlee Evans (1918-?), Joe Nathan Evans (1921-?), Alice Beatrice Evans (192-2003), and Alvin Evans (1924-?). My second cousin Eva Grace Evans was born on April 10, 1915 at Suffolk, Virginia. She married James Allen Morris (1911-1991) on September 4, 1935 at Portsmouth, Virginia. Eva Grace Evans passed away on August 15, 2002 at Flushing, Queens, New York City. Eva Grace Evans and James Allen Morris had children named James Morris (1936-2006) and Grace Eleanor Morris (1944-1987. She married Ernest R. Stallings. Stallings lived from 1944 to 1999).

Madison Lowe and James D. Ridley's daughter named Elizabeth Jane Lowe lived from 1867 to 1944. She married Robert Ishmael Doles (1864-?). The children of Elizabeth and Robert are the following: Alvin Benjamin Doles (1887-1964), Robert I. Doles (1888-1956), James Oliver Doles (1889-?), Eura Virginia Doles (1891-1937), Lelia M. Doles(1894-1977), and John Henry Doles (1895-1982). Eura Virginia Doles married Robert Roger Brown (1890-?). Eura and Robert Brown had the following children: Harmon Brown (1914-2014), Madison D. Brown (1917-1981), Virginia Jane Brown (1919-1972), Robert Brown (1920-2002), Mary Etta Brown (1923-?), Walter Brown (1925-?), Emmett Brown (1928-?), Pearl Ocee Brown (1919-2010), Eliza Amyrose Brown (1929-?), and Andrew Lewis Brown (1931-1997). Pearl Ocee Brown married Walter Lewis Vinson on the date of December 26, 1937 at Southampton County, Virginia. Pearl and Walter Vinson had the following children: Walter L. Vinson (1939-), Eura Mary Vinson Jewette (1941-), Pearl Eueince Vinson (1942-), Edna Lucille Vinson (1943-1986), Joe Thomas Vinson (1945-1974), Roger Robert Vinson (1947-), Dr. Gwendolyn Vinson (1949-2007), Lois Arnell Vinson (1952-), and Randolph Vinson (1957-). The Lowe, Vinson, Brown, and Doles families lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and some migrated into as north as New Jersey.

Trump wants ICE to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from America. This is impossible to do unless you enact fascist, totalitarian policies. There is no other way to put it. Trump is notorious to have overt hatred of non-white immigrants. He is totally consumed to promote the myth that the only true Americans is one who speaks English and is of European descent. The truth is that the first Americans in human history didn't speak English and were people of color. The indigenous peoples of the Americas were victims of European colonialism and genocide. Black people were victims of slavery, peonage, and Jim Crow. Today, we still see many undocumented immigrants being placed in internment camps, having their families separated, and then experiencing horrendous conditions in various facilities. The humanitarian crisis on the southern border has been exacerbated by Trump's policies. Since the beginning, Trump demonized many Mexican undocumented immigrants as rapists and murderers. ICE weren't informed of enforcement plans.

Trump had his re-election campaign in Orlando, Florida. In that rally, he made the lie that being an undocumented immigrant is synonymous with being a gang members, a criminal, etc. He said that his campaign is against "radical socialism" omitting that socialist ideals are found in Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and other social programs. Socialism is an economic point of view that wants workers or public control of the means of production not totalitarianism. We have massive socialism for the rich and unfettered capitalism for the poor, but Trump refuses to talk about that because of the obvious reason. Also speaking anonymously to the Los Angeles Times, a Trump administration official confirmed that the massive assault would begin by targeting the more than one million immigrants who are subject to removal orders but have not been arrested by federal agents. Mass deportations in the millions will harm families, farming, meat packing locations, and other jobs. Trump is an overt fascist.


By Timothy


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