My mother Lois Diana Burns Jenkins passed away after 10:00 PM on Monday, August 26, 2024. Until her very last breath she fought a long courageous battle against an illness. One of her last acts as our Tribal Historian ( Emeritus ) was to take an Ancestry DNA test and made many discoveries with regards to her maternal grandmother's family (Emma Hunter Burns). I was glad even as she was in the hospital in May that she was still willing to do so. She was also in on a call with a member of the extended family another act to help expand knowledge of her maternal grandfather (James Lee Burns) family's roots. Something written about briefly on this blog. She was a longtime banker who first started at the First National Bank of Chicago where she was a Trust Officer and then later became a Vice President at the Black-owned lender Seaway National Bank of Chicago. She graduated from JFK High School in Mound Bayou, MISS and after a period of part-time study she gained her undergrad degr...

Aggie Farrow - Find a Grave  It was a bit of a task to find out when Mama Aggie Andrews had passed away and some semblance of where she had passed away. Or even to have some confirmation of when she was born. All we have are census records to show that she was around. I found her in 1870, possibly 1880, 1900, 1920, and 1930. She was emergency contact for her son Turner when he was part of the WW1 US Army. Another son Will who joined the US Army listed her as someone he needed to support on his draft card. We found that she had married a Mr. James Farrow in the 1920 US Census. Which leads credence to family legend as recorded by our tribal historian. And now we know about when she was born and had passed away. She lived a long life I wonder how many of her grandchildren got a chance to know her. Sadly most of the ones I could haved asked has since passed away. Both Mama Aggie and Mr. Farrow died in 1944. Perhaps there's a way to find out if there is an official record for Aggie a...