Ned was not the son of John Welch Prewitt at this time we don't know who his parents are
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♥♥Our Beloved Great Grandfather♥♥
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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Our Prewitt genealogy begins like all other genealogy: with oral history and family records. To build a strong foundation of evidence of the past is not just merely using census records, as many novices do, is not enough. A lot of our family history was found among old family memorabilia such as funeral programs from the funeral service, family reunions and newspaper obituaries.
Family history; told by elders of our family including our grandfather and my father, citing that my great grandfather Ned Prewitt's mother surname was Taylor. She was sold to the John Welch Prewitt plantation. At a young age, she gave birth to Ned Prewitt on the John Welch Prewitt plantation. The census shows his race as Mulatto. The Taylor plantation was also part of the Prewitt plantation.
After slavery ended Ned assumed the Prewitt family name. Though Ned's race is listed on some of the censuses as Mulatto we do not have any proof that he was the son of John Welch Prewitt; however, it was well known in the Black community that John Welch Prewitt father many Mulatto children by his female slaves.
We found Ned Prewitt and his wife Lucy in the 1870 census, which is the first census after emancipation. Ned stayed on the Prewitt Plantation until he had enough money to purchase some land where he built a home to raise his family. Though Ned was unable to read or write he learned a skill as a blacksmith and a farmer on the Prewitt Plantation. He was well known in the community; black and white as an honest, good and respectable hardworking man.
The Prewitt family name is spelled several different ways on the US Federal Census. Census takers often spelled the names phonetically and some people didn't even know the correct spelling of their names. I have found our ancestor's names spelled differently on each census year. His last name is spelled wrong on his headstone with an "E" on the end. We also noticed in the Prewitt Slave Cemetery other Prewitt had an "E" at the end of the Prewitt name.
Ned's last will list all of his children; living and dead with the correct spelling of their names. We know that his daughters Febby was disabled and never married.
Below are the children of Ned and Lucy Prewitt with the correct spelling of their name cited on Ned Prewitt's Will:
Elvira, Jesse Daniel, Albert, Perry, Frank, Marshall, Mandy, Johnson, Ned, Febby, Polly and Lucy Prewitt. Polly married Sam Palmer; they moved to Muskogee Oklahoma never to returned to Alabama.
~by J.D. and Jackie Prewitt
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♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
♥♥Our Beloved Great Grandfather♥♥
♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Our Prewitt genealogy begins like all other genealogy: with oral history and family records. To build a strong foundation of evidence of the past is not just merely using census records, as many novices do, is not enough. A lot of our family history was found among old family memorabilia such as funeral programs from the funeral service, family reunions and newspaper obituaries.
Family history; told by elders of our family including our grandfather and my father, citing that my great grandfather Ned Prewitt's mother surname was Taylor. She was sold to the John Welch Prewitt plantation. At a young age, she gave birth to Ned Prewitt on the John Welch Prewitt plantation. The census shows his race as Mulatto. The Taylor plantation was also part of the Prewitt plantation.
After slavery ended Ned assumed the Prewitt family name. Though Ned's race is listed on some of the censuses as Mulatto we do not have any proof that he was the son of John Welch Prewitt; however, it was well known in the Black community that John Welch Prewitt father many Mulatto children by his female slaves.
We found Ned Prewitt and his wife Lucy in the 1870 census, which is the first census after emancipation. Ned stayed on the Prewitt Plantation until he had enough money to purchase some land where he built a home to raise his family. Though Ned was unable to read or write he learned a skill as a blacksmith and a farmer on the Prewitt Plantation. He was well known in the community; black and white as an honest, good and respectable hardworking man.
The Prewitt family name is spelled several different ways on the US Federal Census. Census takers often spelled the names phonetically and some people didn't even know the correct spelling of their names. I have found our ancestor's names spelled differently on each census year. His last name is spelled wrong on his headstone with an "E" on the end. We also noticed in the Prewitt Slave Cemetery other Prewitt had an "E" at the end of the Prewitt name.
Ned's last will list all of his children; living and dead with the correct spelling of their names. We know that his daughters Febby was disabled and never married.
Below are the children of Ned and Lucy Prewitt with the correct spelling of their name cited on Ned Prewitt's Will:
Elvira, Jesse Daniel, Albert, Perry, Frank, Marshall, Mandy, Johnson, Ned, Febby, Polly and Lucy Prewitt. Polly married Sam Palmer; they moved to Muskogee Oklahoma never to returned to Alabama.
~by J.D. and Jackie Prewitt
♪♪ Higher Ground Click Here ♪♪
Ned was not the son of John Welch Prewitt at this time we don't know who his parents are
♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
♥♥Our Beloved Great Grandfather♥♥
♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Our Prewitt genealogy begins like all other genealogy: with oral history and family records. To build a strong foundation of evidence of the past is not just merely using census records, as many novices do, is not enough. A lot of our family history was found among old family memorabilia such as funeral programs from the funeral service, family reunions and newspaper obituaries.
Family history; told by elders of our family including our grandfather and my father, citing that my great grandfather Ned Prewitt's mother surname was Taylor. She was sold to the John Welch Prewitt plantation. At a young age, she gave birth to Ned Prewitt on the John Welch Prewitt plantation. The census shows his race as Mulatto. The Taylor plantation was also part of the Prewitt plantation.
After slavery ended Ned assumed the Prewitt family name. Though Ned's race is listed on some of the censuses as Mulatto we do not have any proof that he was the son of John Welch Prewitt; however, it was well known in the Black community that John Welch Prewitt father many Mulatto children by his female slaves.
We found Ned Prewitt and his wife Lucy in the 1870 census, which is the first census after emancipation. Ned stayed on the Prewitt Plantation until he had enough money to purchase some land where he built a home to raise his family. Though Ned was unable to read or write he learned a skill as a blacksmith and a farmer on the Prewitt Plantation. He was well known in the community; black and white as an honest, good and respectable hardworking man.
The Prewitt family name is spelled several different ways on the US Federal Census. Census takers often spelled the names phonetically and some people didn't even know the correct spelling of their names. I have found our ancestor's names spelled differently on each census year. His last name is spelled wrong on his headstone with an "E" on the end. We also noticed in the Prewitt Slave Cemetery other Prewitt had an "E" at the end of the Prewitt name.
Ned's last will list all of his children; living and dead with the correct spelling of their names. We know that his daughters Febby was disabled and never married.
Below are the children of Ned and Lucy Prewitt with the correct spelling of their name cited on Ned Prewitt's Will:
Elvira, Jesse Daniel, Albert, Perry, Frank, Marshall, Mandy, Johnson, Ned, Febby, Polly and Lucy Prewitt. Polly married Sam Palmer; they moved to Muskogee Oklahoma never to returned to Alabama.
~by J.D. and Jackie Prewitt
♪♪ Higher Ground Click Here ♪♪
♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
♥♥Our Beloved Great Grandfather♥♥
♥ڿڰۣಌ═══════♥๑۩۩๑♥═══════ಌڿڰۣ♥
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
Our Prewitt genealogy begins like all other genealogy: with oral history and family records. To build a strong foundation of evidence of the past is not just merely using census records, as many novices do, is not enough. A lot of our family history was found among old family memorabilia such as funeral programs from the funeral service, family reunions and newspaper obituaries.
Family history; told by elders of our family including our grandfather and my father, citing that my great grandfather Ned Prewitt's mother surname was Taylor. She was sold to the John Welch Prewitt plantation. At a young age, she gave birth to Ned Prewitt on the John Welch Prewitt plantation. The census shows his race as Mulatto. The Taylor plantation was also part of the Prewitt plantation.
After slavery ended Ned assumed the Prewitt family name. Though Ned's race is listed on some of the censuses as Mulatto we do not have any proof that he was the son of John Welch Prewitt; however, it was well known in the Black community that John Welch Prewitt father many Mulatto children by his female slaves.
We found Ned Prewitt and his wife Lucy in the 1870 census, which is the first census after emancipation. Ned stayed on the Prewitt Plantation until he had enough money to purchase some land where he built a home to raise his family. Though Ned was unable to read or write he learned a skill as a blacksmith and a farmer on the Prewitt Plantation. He was well known in the community; black and white as an honest, good and respectable hardworking man.
The Prewitt family name is spelled several different ways on the US Federal Census. Census takers often spelled the names phonetically and some people didn't even know the correct spelling of their names. I have found our ancestor's names spelled differently on each census year. His last name is spelled wrong on his headstone with an "E" on the end. We also noticed in the Prewitt Slave Cemetery other Prewitt had an "E" at the end of the Prewitt name.
Ned's last will list all of his children; living and dead with the correct spelling of their names. We know that his daughters Febby was disabled and never married.
Below are the children of Ned and Lucy Prewitt with the correct spelling of their name cited on Ned Prewitt's Will:
Elvira, Jesse Daniel, Albert, Perry, Frank, Marshall, Mandy, Johnson, Ned, Febby, Polly and Lucy Prewitt. Polly married Sam Palmer; they moved to Muskogee Oklahoma never to returned to Alabama.
~by J.D. and Jackie Prewitt
♪♪ Higher Ground Click Here ♪♪
Inscription
Inscription on Ned's headstone: "NOT MY WILL BUT THINE, BE DONE"
