Daughter of Henry Kempton Craft and
Virginia "Bessie" Elizabeth Letitia Trotter
Photo
Virginia Trotter Craft, Ellen & Virginia Craft
Marriage
To Donald G Dammond
On 8 Jun 1939 at New York, New York
Bio
Ellen Dammond was a social worker and personnel supervisor. Her father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848, and their 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
Virginia'a mother,. Her mother, Virginia "Bessie" Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter, and the great-granddaughter of slaves Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook, of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Ellen felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and introduced a 1970s film on the Crafts. Both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Ellen Dammond worked with Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project. The 2006 Getting Word interview includes a 1995 recording of Ellen Dammond and her sister, Virginia Craft Rose, remembering their family and its history. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/ellen-craft-dammond
Parents
Ellen's father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848. Her mother, Bessie Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Birth Certificate
Note
Middle name from Craft side of family
See Emeline Kinloch Craft (1853-1941), daughter-in-law of the famed fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft.
Social Security Death Index
Name: Ellen C. Dammond
Born: 18 Nov 1916
Died: 12 Aug 2007
Last Residence: San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)
Obituary Index
Name: Ellen (Craft) Dammond
Age: 90
Death: 2007 Long Beach CA
Published: 2 Sep 2007
Social Security Applications & Claims Index
Name: Ellen Craft Dammond
Birth: 18 Nov 1916 Indianapolis, Indiana
Death: 12 Aug 2007
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Bessie Trotter
New York, New York, Marriage License Index
Groom: Donald G. Dammond
Bride: Ellen K. Craft
Marriage License Date: 8 Jun 1939
Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Sister
Virginia Craft Rose
Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index
Name: Craft
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1913
Birth Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Virginia Trotter
Father
Social Security Death Index
Name: Henry Craft
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 18 Oct 1883
Died: Aug 1974
SSN issued: New York (1957-1959)
World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942
Name: Henry Kempton Craft
Race: Black
Residence Age: 58
Birth: 18 Oct 1883 Charleston, South Carolina
Residence: 270 Convent Ave, New York, New York
Wife: Mrs Bessie T Craft, same address
Employer: Y.M.C.A. Harlem Branch
Descendant of slaves of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation, Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook. Regarding life at Monticello, their son Peter wrote that I was “Born and reared as free, not knowing that I was a slave, then suddenly, at the death of Jefferson," I was auctioned and learned I was a slave.
-Ann-Elizabeth Fossett (1812–1902) was the daughter of Joseph Fossett and Edith Hern Fossett. Joseph was freed in Jefferson's will. She gained her freedom in 1837. She married Tucker Isaacs; their home is still remembered as a station on the Underground Railroad.
-Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842–1919), daughter of Tucker and Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs, was raised on a farm in Ross County, Ohio. After the Civil War, she and her sister Maria Elizabeth Isaacs married two veterans of the Civil War, Lts. James Monroe Trotter and William H. Dupree. Both couples settled in Boston, where Trotter and Dupree were well-known figures after distinguished service as officers in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. Virginia Trotter and her sister were described by a contemporary as women of “charming sociability and cultured manners.”
The Trotters lived in Hyde Park, a largely white suburb of Boston, and accumulated property, particularly after James Monroe Trotter’s appointment to the lucrative position of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. They had three children, William Monroe, Maude, and Bessie*. After her husband’s early death, Virginia Trotter managed the family investments and supported her son William Monroe Trotter, allowing him to establish the Boston Guardian, and become a leading voice in the early civil rights movement.
-Virginia "Bessie" Trotter Craft, daughter of Virginia Isaacs & James Monroe Trotter; married Henry Kempton Craft. (Ellen's parents)
Craft Ancestors & Namesake
Sisters Virginia Craft Rose and Ellen Craft Dammond had remarkable ancestors on both sides of their family. Their maternal ancestors were the Fossetts of Monticello. Their paternal ancestors were William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple from Macon, Georgia, who made a daring escape to freedom in 1848. Ellen disguised herself as a white male slaveholder and boarded a train with her husband, who posed as her enslaved valet. Despite many near disasters, the Crafts arrived safely in Boston. There they befriended abolitionists, with whom they traveled across New England giving antislavery lectures. Fearing re-enslavement after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Crafts fled to England. In almost twenty years there, they raised a family and published an account of their escape from slavery, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. In 1868, the Crafts returned to the United States and set up a school for freedmen in Georgia.
Virginia "Bessie" Elizabeth Letitia Trotter
Photo
Virginia Trotter Craft, Ellen & Virginia Craft
Marriage
To Donald G Dammond
On 8 Jun 1939 at New York, New York
Bio
Ellen Dammond was a social worker and personnel supervisor. Her father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848, and their 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
Virginia'a mother,. Her mother, Virginia "Bessie" Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter, and the great-granddaughter of slaves Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook, of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Ellen felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and introduced a 1970s film on the Crafts. Both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Ellen Dammond worked with Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project. The 2006 Getting Word interview includes a 1995 recording of Ellen Dammond and her sister, Virginia Craft Rose, remembering their family and its history. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/ellen-craft-dammond
Parents
Ellen's father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848. Her mother, Bessie Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Birth Certificate
Note
Middle name from Craft side of family
See Emeline Kinloch Craft (1853-1941), daughter-in-law of the famed fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft.
Social Security Death Index
Name: Ellen C. Dammond
Born: 18 Nov 1916
Died: 12 Aug 2007
Last Residence: San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)
Obituary Index
Name: Ellen (Craft) Dammond
Age: 90
Death: 2007 Long Beach CA
Published: 2 Sep 2007
Social Security Applications & Claims Index
Name: Ellen Craft Dammond
Birth: 18 Nov 1916 Indianapolis, Indiana
Death: 12 Aug 2007
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Bessie Trotter
New York, New York, Marriage License Index
Groom: Donald G. Dammond
Bride: Ellen K. Craft
Marriage License Date: 8 Jun 1939
Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Sister
Virginia Craft Rose
Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index
Name: Craft
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1913
Birth Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Virginia Trotter
Father
Social Security Death Index
Name: Henry Craft
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 18 Oct 1883
Died: Aug 1974
SSN issued: New York (1957-1959)
World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942
Name: Henry Kempton Craft
Race: Black
Residence Age: 58
Birth: 18 Oct 1883 Charleston, South Carolina
Residence: 270 Convent Ave, New York, New York
Wife: Mrs Bessie T Craft, same address
Employer: Y.M.C.A. Harlem Branch
Descendant of slaves of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation, Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook. Regarding life at Monticello, their son Peter wrote that I was “Born and reared as free, not knowing that I was a slave, then suddenly, at the death of Jefferson," I was auctioned and learned I was a slave.
-Ann-Elizabeth Fossett (1812–1902) was the daughter of Joseph Fossett and Edith Hern Fossett. Joseph was freed in Jefferson's will. She gained her freedom in 1837. She married Tucker Isaacs; their home is still remembered as a station on the Underground Railroad.
-Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842–1919), daughter of Tucker and Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs, was raised on a farm in Ross County, Ohio. After the Civil War, she and her sister Maria Elizabeth Isaacs married two veterans of the Civil War, Lts. James Monroe Trotter and William H. Dupree. Both couples settled in Boston, where Trotter and Dupree were well-known figures after distinguished service as officers in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. Virginia Trotter and her sister were described by a contemporary as women of “charming sociability and cultured manners.”
The Trotters lived in Hyde Park, a largely white suburb of Boston, and accumulated property, particularly after James Monroe Trotter’s appointment to the lucrative position of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. They had three children, William Monroe, Maude, and Bessie*. After her husband’s early death, Virginia Trotter managed the family investments and supported her son William Monroe Trotter, allowing him to establish the Boston Guardian, and become a leading voice in the early civil rights movement.
-Virginia "Bessie" Trotter Craft, daughter of Virginia Isaacs & James Monroe Trotter; married Henry Kempton Craft. (Ellen's parents)
Craft Ancestors & Namesake
Sisters Virginia Craft Rose and Ellen Craft Dammond had remarkable ancestors on both sides of their family. Their maternal ancestors were the Fossetts of Monticello. Their paternal ancestors were William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple from Macon, Georgia, who made a daring escape to freedom in 1848. Ellen disguised herself as a white male slaveholder and boarded a train with her husband, who posed as her enslaved valet. Despite many near disasters, the Crafts arrived safely in Boston. There they befriended abolitionists, with whom they traveled across New England giving antislavery lectures. Fearing re-enslavement after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Crafts fled to England. In almost twenty years there, they raised a family and published an account of their escape from slavery, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. In 1868, the Crafts returned to the United States and set up a school for freedmen in Georgia.
Daughter of Henry Kempton Craft and
Virginia "Bessie" Elizabeth Letitia Trotter
Photo
Virginia Trotter Craft, Ellen & Virginia Craft
Marriage
To Donald G Dammond
On 8 Jun 1939 at New York, New York
Bio
Ellen Dammond was a social worker and personnel supervisor. Her father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848, and their 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
Virginia'a mother,. Her mother, Virginia "Bessie" Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter, and the great-granddaughter of slaves Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook, of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Ellen felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and introduced a 1970s film on the Crafts. Both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Ellen Dammond worked with Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project. The 2006 Getting Word interview includes a 1995 recording of Ellen Dammond and her sister, Virginia Craft Rose, remembering their family and its history. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/ellen-craft-dammond
Parents
Ellen's father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848. Her mother, Bessie Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Birth Certificate
Note
Middle name from Craft side of family
See Emeline Kinloch Craft (1853-1941), daughter-in-law of the famed fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft.
Social Security Death Index
Name: Ellen C. Dammond
Born: 18 Nov 1916
Died: 12 Aug 2007
Last Residence: San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)
Obituary Index
Name: Ellen (Craft) Dammond
Age: 90
Death: 2007 Long Beach CA
Published: 2 Sep 2007
Social Security Applications & Claims Index
Name: Ellen Craft Dammond
Birth: 18 Nov 1916 Indianapolis, Indiana
Death: 12 Aug 2007
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Bessie Trotter
New York, New York, Marriage License Index
Groom: Donald G. Dammond
Bride: Ellen K. Craft
Marriage License Date: 8 Jun 1939
Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Sister
Virginia Craft Rose
Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index
Name: Craft
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1913
Birth Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Virginia Trotter
Father
Social Security Death Index
Name: Henry Craft
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 18 Oct 1883
Died: Aug 1974
SSN issued: New York (1957-1959)
World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942
Name: Henry Kempton Craft
Race: Black
Residence Age: 58
Birth: 18 Oct 1883 Charleston, South Carolina
Residence: 270 Convent Ave, New York, New York
Wife: Mrs Bessie T Craft, same address
Employer: Y.M.C.A. Harlem Branch
Descendant of slaves of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation, Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook. Regarding life at Monticello, their son Peter wrote that I was “Born and reared as free, not knowing that I was a slave, then suddenly, at the death of Jefferson," I was auctioned and learned I was a slave.
-Ann-Elizabeth Fossett (1812–1902) was the daughter of Joseph Fossett and Edith Hern Fossett. Joseph was freed in Jefferson's will. She gained her freedom in 1837. She married Tucker Isaacs; their home is still remembered as a station on the Underground Railroad.
-Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842–1919), daughter of Tucker and Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs, was raised on a farm in Ross County, Ohio. After the Civil War, she and her sister Maria Elizabeth Isaacs married two veterans of the Civil War, Lts. James Monroe Trotter and William H. Dupree. Both couples settled in Boston, where Trotter and Dupree were well-known figures after distinguished service as officers in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. Virginia Trotter and her sister were described by a contemporary as women of “charming sociability and cultured manners.”
The Trotters lived in Hyde Park, a largely white suburb of Boston, and accumulated property, particularly after James Monroe Trotter’s appointment to the lucrative position of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. They had three children, William Monroe, Maude, and Bessie*. After her husband’s early death, Virginia Trotter managed the family investments and supported her son William Monroe Trotter, allowing him to establish the Boston Guardian, and become a leading voice in the early civil rights movement.
-Virginia "Bessie" Trotter Craft, daughter of Virginia Isaacs & James Monroe Trotter; married Henry Kempton Craft. (Ellen's parents)
Craft Ancestors & Namesake
Sisters Virginia Craft Rose and Ellen Craft Dammond had remarkable ancestors on both sides of their family. Their maternal ancestors were the Fossetts of Monticello. Their paternal ancestors were William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple from Macon, Georgia, who made a daring escape to freedom in 1848. Ellen disguised herself as a white male slaveholder and boarded a train with her husband, who posed as her enslaved valet. Despite many near disasters, the Crafts arrived safely in Boston. There they befriended abolitionists, with whom they traveled across New England giving antislavery lectures. Fearing re-enslavement after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Crafts fled to England. In almost twenty years there, they raised a family and published an account of their escape from slavery, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. In 1868, the Crafts returned to the United States and set up a school for freedmen in Georgia.
Virginia "Bessie" Elizabeth Letitia Trotter
Photo
Virginia Trotter Craft, Ellen & Virginia Craft
Marriage
To Donald G Dammond
On 8 Jun 1939 at New York, New York
Bio
Ellen Dammond was a social worker and personnel supervisor. Her father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848, and their 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
Virginia'a mother,. Her mother, Virginia "Bessie" Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter, and the great-granddaughter of slaves Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook, of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Ellen felt strongly about preserving and passing on the history of the struggles for freedom and equality, and introduced a 1970s film on the Crafts. Both she and her daughter, Peggy Preacely, were active participants in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Ellen Dammond worked with Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan in the Wednesdays in Mississippi project. The 2006 Getting Word interview includes a 1995 recording of Ellen Dammond and her sister, Virginia Craft Rose, remembering their family and its history. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
https://www.monticello.org/getting-word/people/ellen-craft-dammond
Parents
Ellen's father, Henry Kempton Craft, was a Harvard graduate, electrical engineer, teacher, and YMCA executive. He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848. Her mother, Bessie Trotter, who attended the New England Conservatory of Music, was the sister of the prominent civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org)
Birth Certificate
Note
Middle name from Craft side of family
See Emeline Kinloch Craft (1853-1941), daughter-in-law of the famed fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft.
Social Security Death Index
Name: Ellen C. Dammond
Born: 18 Nov 1916
Died: 12 Aug 2007
Last Residence: San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)
Obituary Index
Name: Ellen (Craft) Dammond
Age: 90
Death: 2007 Long Beach CA
Published: 2 Sep 2007
Social Security Applications & Claims Index
Name: Ellen Craft Dammond
Birth: 18 Nov 1916 Indianapolis, Indiana
Death: 12 Aug 2007
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Bessie Trotter
New York, New York, Marriage License Index
Groom: Donald G. Dammond
Bride: Ellen K. Craft
Marriage License Date: 8 Jun 1939
Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Sister
Virginia Craft Rose
Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index
Name: Craft
Birth Date: 6 Sep 1913
Birth Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Father: Henry K Craft
Mother: Virginia Trotter
Father
Social Security Death Index
Name: Henry Craft
Last Residence: New York, New York, New York
Born: 18 Oct 1883
Died: Aug 1974
SSN issued: New York (1957-1959)
World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942
Name: Henry Kempton Craft
Race: Black
Residence Age: 58
Birth: 18 Oct 1883 Charleston, South Carolina
Residence: 270 Convent Ave, New York, New York
Wife: Mrs Bessie T Craft, same address
Employer: Y.M.C.A. Harlem Branch
Descendant of slaves of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation, Joseph Fossett, head blacksmith & Edith Hern Fossett, head cook. Regarding life at Monticello, their son Peter wrote that I was “Born and reared as free, not knowing that I was a slave, then suddenly, at the death of Jefferson," I was auctioned and learned I was a slave.
-Ann-Elizabeth Fossett (1812–1902) was the daughter of Joseph Fossett and Edith Hern Fossett. Joseph was freed in Jefferson's will. She gained her freedom in 1837. She married Tucker Isaacs; their home is still remembered as a station on the Underground Railroad.
-Virginia Isaacs Trotter (1842–1919), daughter of Tucker and Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs, was raised on a farm in Ross County, Ohio. After the Civil War, she and her sister Maria Elizabeth Isaacs married two veterans of the Civil War, Lts. James Monroe Trotter and William H. Dupree. Both couples settled in Boston, where Trotter and Dupree were well-known figures after distinguished service as officers in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. Virginia Trotter and her sister were described by a contemporary as women of “charming sociability and cultured manners.”
The Trotters lived in Hyde Park, a largely white suburb of Boston, and accumulated property, particularly after James Monroe Trotter’s appointment to the lucrative position of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. They had three children, William Monroe, Maude, and Bessie*. After her husband’s early death, Virginia Trotter managed the family investments and supported her son William Monroe Trotter, allowing him to establish the Boston Guardian, and become a leading voice in the early civil rights movement.
-Virginia "Bessie" Trotter Craft, daughter of Virginia Isaacs & James Monroe Trotter; married Henry Kempton Craft. (Ellen's parents)
Craft Ancestors & Namesake
Sisters Virginia Craft Rose and Ellen Craft Dammond had remarkable ancestors on both sides of their family. Their maternal ancestors were the Fossetts of Monticello. Their paternal ancestors were William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple from Macon, Georgia, who made a daring escape to freedom in 1848. Ellen disguised herself as a white male slaveholder and boarded a train with her husband, who posed as her enslaved valet. Despite many near disasters, the Crafts arrived safely in Boston. There they befriended abolitionists, with whom they traveled across New England giving antislavery lectures. Fearing re-enslavement after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Crafts fled to England. In almost twenty years there, they raised a family and published an account of their escape from slavery, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. In 1868, the Crafts returned to the United States and set up a school for freedmen in Georgia.
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