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Backlash: Newspaper disputes Robert's paternity claim
In 1884, two years after Robert Jefferson died, the Indiana State Sentinel published a full broadsheet page of articles and pieces of...
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Indy's Prominent Colored Citizens, 1880, Part 3
JOHN G. BRITTAN/BRITTON (1) The man who claims to be the oldest living colored citizen, in point of length of residence in Indianapolis,...
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Indy's Prominent Colored Citizens, 1880, Part 2
James Sidney Hinton "A man of great influence among his own people, and occupying a prominent place in Indiana politics as well, is James...
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Indy's Prominent Colored Citizens, 1880
On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1880, the Indianapolis Journal, published 4,500-word essay on prominent Black citizens living in the Circle City....
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Meeting the Descendants: Margaret Anderson & her sisters
In early August 2022, I had the honor of meeting and spending time with Margaret “Peggy” Anderson, one of the Robert Jefferson...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Aug 17, 2022
Meeting the Descendants: Bill Roberson
William Neff "Bill" Roberson, 84, of Los Angeles, California, poses with a portrait of his father, William Anthony Roberson – a 1986...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Jul 23, 2022
Research Trips: Dreams Do Come True!
Dreams do come true. This summer, I am receiving grants that will allow me to travel to do more research on Robert Jefferson and his...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Apr 2, 2022
Part 12 – Harriet Christian, Were you Really a Washington?
So, I have a hypothesis about Harriet Christian and who her family was. Using the few clues I’ve found in the various legal ads that I’ve...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 24, 2022
Part 11 – What was William P. Flood up to in 1836?
Searchable databases of digitized pages of American newspapers are literal goldmines when it comes to historical research. If it wasn’t...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Jan 7, 2022
Part 10 – New information found ...
So, by renewing my subscription to GenealogyBank, another site that offers searchable content from old newspapers, I was amazed to find...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Jan 3, 2022
Part 9 – William Clinton Thompson, M.D.
In the fall of 2020, when I began to research the events and people mentioned in the 1879 article published in the Indianapolis Journal...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Jun 19, 2021
Part 8 – Why Canada, Robert Jefferson?
Why did Robert Jefferson travel north to Canada after receiving his freedom papers, signed by then-Mississippi State Senator Otho R....
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Apr 3, 2021
Part 6 — O.R. Singleton
There are several men in the periphery of Robert Jefferson’s story. These include Thomas Jefferson Catchings, M.D., who had owned...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 29, 2021
Part 5 – Reflections of a Researcher
"Fasten, your seatbelts, kids; it's gonna be a bumpy ride." (With my sincerest apoligies to Bette Davis in "All About Eve" and devout...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 25, 2021
Part 4 – John Thomas Dearing
CAUTION: SPECULATION INCLUDED! When searching at Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, not a lot of information seems to exist telling the...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 19, 2021
Part 3 – Asa Dearing
Asa Dearing was born around 1785 and died suddenly in 1826, only a few years after he’d married a woman named Margaret Pasture or Pasteur...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 11, 2021
Part 2 – Edward Christian of Charles Town
Paradise was an antebellum home that fronted the west side of the 100 block of North George Street, the unpaved street seen in the...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Mar 7, 2021
Meet my dear friend, Robert Jefferson
For about three years, I've had somewhat of a love affair with a man who has been dead nearly 140 years. And yes, my husband knows all...
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Phyllis CodlingMcLaughlin
- Jun 8, 2020
Part 7 – This is what it's all about ...
In 1839, a group of white abolitionists formed the Neil's Creek Anti-Slavery Society in Lancaster, Ind., once a thriving town and now...
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