Will demps biography wills

 

Slaves Named in Wills

Halifax County, North Carolina, 1758-1854

King George County, Virginia, 1721-1804

 

Halifax County Will Book Volume 1, 1758-1774

p.1, I George Huling...to my son John Huling one Negro fellow named Jerry and a Negro boy named Dick...Daughter Elizabeth Huling one Negro fellow named Frank(? writing faded) and a negro woman named Agge & her child Ben...1759.

 

pp.9-10, Benjamin Sherrod...son Benjamin a tract of land in Northampton County...his choice of all my negroes that is to say one negroe and one iron pot, one bed three cows and calves and five head of sheep...son Richard land in Johnston or Dobbs County containing 100 acres and all the stock of cattle living there on and their future increase, one negroe his choice, one bed, one iron pot, five head of sheep...all the rest of my personal estate of what kind or nature to be rent by my executors for the use of my wife Patience and support of my children...5 June 1759. (signing). June Court 1760.

 

pp. 17-18, Martha Davis 20 November 1760...I give to my co

Cosmo and Gullah Geechee Northeast Florida

by Tim Gilmore, 8/6/2022

1. A Paradox and a Mystery

A lifelong resident of Cosmo says there’s no such thing as Cosmo. Says another, “There’s plenty of white people in Cosmo now, they just don’t know it.” They moved into new houses they never knew were built in a black community with roots in Sea Island cultures with dialects that sounded more African than African American. Developers knew. And they knew how to get the land.

Cosmo is a paradox and a mystery. Nobody knows how it got its name. It developed shortly after the Civil War as a community of former slaves who built scattered wooden houses and painted them pastel blues and yellows and pinks in the woods just outside Old Fulton Town at St. Johns Bluff, about 10 miles northeast of Original Jacksonville. It connected by old footpaths to other wooded black communities like Lone Star and Chaseville.

Mount Zion United Methodist Church in the former settlement of Lone Star

The Reverend Ethel Deloris Demps spent her whole life in Cosmo. Long before becoming pastor of Alexander M

Scott Koethe Season 1998

  • 1999 Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Academic Honor Roll

Scott Koethe (pronounced COE-thee) teamed with Nate Kolterman to buck up Dan Vili Waldrop at right tackle in 2002.  Koethe also served as the left tackle for the Husker PAT and field goal units.  In his career, Koethe appeared in 40 games (including bowls) and notched seven career pancakes.

2002: Koethe played in all 14 games in 2002, including the Independence Bowl against Mississippi, and recorded his only pancake in the win over McNeese State.

2001: Koethe played in all 12 games as Dave Volk's backup at left tackle. Koethe recorded four pancake blocks on the season, one each vs. Rice and Texas Tech and a career-best two vs. Iowa State. Koethe saw action in the 2002 Rose Bowl vs. Miami as a member of the PAT and field goal units.

2000: Koethe played in 10-of-11 games, serving as a backup at left tackle to Volk and Chris Loos and as the left guard on Nebraska's PAT and field goal units. Koethe did not make the trip to Texas Tech, but was on the traveling squad for all other games. Koethe r

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