- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Luther Will Steverson, Farrell, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1925]
- Date of Original:
- 1925
- Subject:
- African Americans
Education
Portraits - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Mercer County, Farrell, 41.21228, -80.49674
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- "Farrell, Pa., ca. 1925. Luther Will Steverson, brother of Anna Steverson Hall. [?]1th grade graduation picture. He died of t.b. when he was 20 years old. He was born in Douglas. "Several of my ancestors can be traced to South Carolina. The Lindley ancestors came from South Carolina. Slavery separated the family. Oral history says that part of the family remained in South Carolina while the other members were brought to Georgia. Moses came to Georgia as a slave. During slavery he was a blacksmith. Moses was the first generation of the Lindley family in Georgia. His wife Easter was born in Virginia. They had many children. One of their children was John. John was a red skinned Negro. Like his parents he was born into slavery. When emancipated he was a teenager. The family took the Lindley surname. John Lindley was a farmer. John Lindley married Margaret Barnwell. They had six children: Hanna, Bob, Henry, Ellen, [?] and a son Arilene. John Lindley lived beside his in-laws the Barnwells. The Barnwells, or the "Barnhills" as they were known, were industriers. Bob Barnwell, Margaret's father was born in South Carolina. His wife Lucinda was born in Virginia. Lucinda was also called Hanna. In the 1860s Bob Barnwell purchased property. John and Margaret Lindley named their first two children after Margaret's parents. Their daughter Hanna was the oldest child. After Margaret passed, John had a son Willie from another marriage. Hannah Lindley married Grant Fielder. The Fielder's originated in Coweta County (Georgia). According to oral history, Grant's father Linsey Fielder was a slave in Coweta County. Linsey was a farmer. Linsey's children were Dilse Ann, Malissa, John, Hamp, Tom, Grant, and Julia. Linsey Fielder migrated through Clayton, Douglas, and Fulton counties. The Fielder brothers John, Hamp, Tom, and Grant worked building the railroad. One brother died from over heating while working during the hot summer. Three of the boys bought a lot in Buckhead. On the lot they constructed a house for their mother. She was buried on this family property. After marrying, Grant started farming in Mableton. Grant and Hannah had nine children: Mannie, Luther, John, Earnest, Adam, Arch, S.T., Lulu, and Dillard. John and Arch died during childhood. Neither Grant nor Hannah could read or write. They insured their children were sent to school. On October 12, 1912, their oldest child, Mannie, married Joe Steverson. The Steversons were slaves in Coweta County. Archie and Harriet had been owned by the Stephenson family for many years. They had fourteen children. Some of their children were Wash, Wilson, Sam, Cash, Dennis, Aaron, Nancy, and Laura. There were close ties between the white Stephensons and the black Steversons. Most of Archie's children remained in the hands of members of the Stephenson family. Being freed, Archie and most of his family eventually adopted the Stephenson name in memory of this kind family. The family settled in Coweta County. Wilson raised a family of fourteen children. Some of their children were Amanda, John, Lithia, Judith, Robert, Nathaniel "Joe," Odelia, another son Robert, a son Abno, Mary Lula, and Dolla. Wilson and Rallis had nine daughters and five sons. Most of the Steversons were farmers; however, Wash was a blacksmith/carpenter and Cash was a drayman. Harriet owned land in Coweta County. Other of the children purchased land in the county. In the 1880s, Wilson migrated to Douglas County. He bought an eighty acre farm. His wife Rallis was a midwife. Mary, Lula, Dolla, and Odelia became school teachers. John worked for the railroad. Nathaniel "Joe" was a farmer. Joe was a sharecropper. Joe and Mannie had more children; Luther Will, Dorothy, Earnest, Anna, Clyde, Clarence, Raymond, Roy, and Virgil. In the 1920s, Joe escaped sharecropping. He went north. His father Wilson and sister Mary were already on Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania Joe worked at a mill. All of his sons worked on the mills. Mamie was a seamstress. Anna became a seamstress like her mother. She worked in the factories in New York City. Anna Steverson married Clarence Hall. Their children were Clarence Jr., Leonard, Veronica, and Roland. Clarence and Anna settled in Pennsylvania. Clarence found employment in one of the local steel mills.""--from field notes
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_usa045-83
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:usa045-83
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
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- Georgia Archives
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