My Grandmothers

Posted by LT

My Grandmothers

matilda carter

I am making a list of my grandmothers - Matilda is one of them. If you are related to her, you are related to me... (email me if you are...tracelara@protonmail.com)

LIST: (partial, not complete)

Elizabeth Goode (1609- )

Mary Frances Morris and her husband James are my great-grandparents

Mary Frances (Morris) and her husband James Harlow are my great-grandparents/Buddy Moore photo/Pana, Illinois[/caption]

Angeline Coburn (1818-1898)
Deborah Gunn (1640-1693)
Ida Alice Sedgwick (1852- )
Cornelia Clemons (1854-)
Hannah Clemons, New Hampshire (1820- )
Rebecca Ayers (1788-1845)
Eleanor Knox (1754 - 1835)
Elizabeth Congdon (I'm still searching dates but there are Congdons who are Pequot/Narragansett/Wampanoag)
Matilda C Stephens (1824-1885)
Olive Carter (1855-Unknown)

I love each and every one of them...

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waterbird

"Those Teachings that we are given reflect the identity of the Spirit that is in each and everyone of us. You carry all those Teachings inside of you. As long as you have an ounce of blood of Anishinaabe, you have the genetic memory to know those Teachings. The holy spot of our people is the knowledge the Ceremony, the language, the relationship that we have with the land, that is the holy spot of our people. What an awesome gift that the Creator gave us as Anishinaabe people." -Dave Courchene Jr.

James Baldwin

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-from a 1979 interview published in The New York Times