Son of Clayton (son of Smallwood and Charlotte) and Lugenia Ferebee Ackiss (daughter of Silas and Phyllis Ferebee) of Seaboard, Princess Anne County, Virginia, where he grew up and attended grade school.
Married Thelma Davis of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with whom he had two children, Jeanne and Smallwood, Jr. Their marriage ended in divorce, and Thelma died in 2000 at the age of 94.
Graduate of Howard University School of Medicine. Professor at Howard University's School of Medicine, and from 1927-1928, surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital.
His paternal grandfather, Smallwood Ackiss, was a Private in Company E, 23rd Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry. "Grandfather Smallwood Ackiss was a slave who ran away from his plantation during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863, and went to Norfolk, Virginia. He went on to fight for the Union for two years. In 1865, he went back to the plantation. John Ackiss II, who was the plantation owner, had been fighting for the Confederacy at the same time. Smallwood was given 30 acres of land. He lost the property, but there is a family cemetery there that’s now on a country club in a really exclusive area of Virginia Beach."
Quotation taken from the book "Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax and Changed her City Forever," written Charlene Butts Ligon.
Married Thelma Davis of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with whom he had two children, Jeanne and Smallwood, Jr. Their marriage ended in divorce, and Thelma died in 2000 at the age of 94.
Graduate of Howard University School of Medicine. Professor at Howard University's School of Medicine, and from 1927-1928, surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital.
His paternal grandfather, Smallwood Ackiss, was a Private in Company E, 23rd Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry. "Grandfather Smallwood Ackiss was a slave who ran away from his plantation during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863, and went to Norfolk, Virginia. He went on to fight for the Union for two years. In 1865, he went back to the plantation. John Ackiss II, who was the plantation owner, had been fighting for the Confederacy at the same time. Smallwood was given 30 acres of land. He lost the property, but there is a family cemetery there that’s now on a country club in a really exclusive area of Virginia Beach."
Quotation taken from the book "Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax and Changed her City Forever," written Charlene Butts Ligon.
Son of Clayton (son of Smallwood and Charlotte) and Lugenia Ferebee Ackiss (daughter of Silas and Phyllis Ferebee) of Seaboard, Princess Anne County, Virginia, where he grew up and attended grade school.
Married Thelma Davis of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with whom he had two children, Jeanne and Smallwood, Jr. Their marriage ended in divorce, and Thelma died in 2000 at the age of 94.
Graduate of Howard University School of Medicine. Professor at Howard University's School of Medicine, and from 1927-1928, surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital.
His paternal grandfather, Smallwood Ackiss, was a Private in Company E, 23rd Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry. "Grandfather Smallwood Ackiss was a slave who ran away from his plantation during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863, and went to Norfolk, Virginia. He went on to fight for the Union for two years. In 1865, he went back to the plantation. John Ackiss II, who was the plantation owner, had been fighting for the Confederacy at the same time. Smallwood was given 30 acres of land. He lost the property, but there is a family cemetery there that’s now on a country club in a really exclusive area of Virginia Beach."
Quotation taken from the book "Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax and Changed her City Forever," written Charlene Butts Ligon.
Married Thelma Davis of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with whom he had two children, Jeanne and Smallwood, Jr. Their marriage ended in divorce, and Thelma died in 2000 at the age of 94.
Graduate of Howard University School of Medicine. Professor at Howard University's School of Medicine, and from 1927-1928, surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital.
His paternal grandfather, Smallwood Ackiss, was a Private in Company E, 23rd Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry. "Grandfather Smallwood Ackiss was a slave who ran away from his plantation during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863, and went to Norfolk, Virginia. He went on to fight for the Union for two years. In 1865, he went back to the plantation. John Ackiss II, who was the plantation owner, had been fighting for the Confederacy at the same time. Smallwood was given 30 acres of land. He lost the property, but there is a family cemetery there that’s now on a country club in a really exclusive area of Virginia Beach."
Quotation taken from the book "Fearless: How a Poor Virginia Seamstress Took on Jim Crow, Beat the Poll Tax and Changed her City Forever," written Charlene Butts Ligon.
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