This was just before the Civil War was fought. Charles, being quite strong and muscular, just slung a kicking and yelling Ida over his shoulder and took her to her new home in Buckingham County, Virginia. Ida was sold to a Native American blacksmith, Charles Lewis. Judge Meredith freed her mother, Amanda, to go live with her and look after Ida because he was worried about her. The judge was heartbroken to learn that Ida had been sold. And the wife became very jealous of Ida.Īs a young teenager, Ida was put on the slave block when the judge was on a circuit run.
But he would give maybe the necklace to his daughter Ida and give his wife the earrings, or vice versa. Most times, it was something like a necklace and earrings. When the judge would go out on his circuit runs, he would always bring a gift back home. “I am doing what we all got to do one day.” Annette, who was 82, told us that she had Stage 4 colon cancer and was in hospice care at her home in Willingboro, N.J. Love, Annette 4/16/80.”Ī lot about this piqued my interest, and so one day in October 2017 my dad and I called his sister Annette, whom I had not seen since I was a baby three decades earlier. He helped to restore some of the historic buildings in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and Jamestown, Virginia. The same land that was owned by Uncle Tom, that he gave to Alma and Andrew Hocker as a wedding gift in the 1930s, during the Great Depression Era. “This picture was taken around 1953, at 404 Winston Street. On the back of the photo was faded but beautiful handwriting: I brushed off what seemed to be decades of dust to reveal a tall, white man smiling in a pinstripe suit. It all started with a picture on the wall in my family home in San Jose.
0 kommentar(er)
