![]() Olley Ballard’s great great grandfather may not have a burial marker of his own, but she says his life is still worth remembering Photos of Ethel Alexander's family at her home near Birmingham.īack at the workshop of the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance, Rusty Brenner is at work. You know, you’re not going to be to say ‘oh, there’s my grandfather…great, great, great slave,” said Alexander. Ethel Alexander says even if Ballard finds the slave cemetery she’s looking for, she may face another problem… You heard about Olley Ballard and her effort to find her great great grandfather’s burial site in Huntsville. So we didn’t really have first names except the first names they would give you.” “The first thing they sell are their slaves, and they were sold before the animals. “Say for instance, a planter, he dies, and they have to sell everything,” said Alexander. Alexander says, before that, most records were bills of sale… Archives says the first census that counted former slaves as people was in 1870. We were chattle…c.h.a.t.t.l.e,” she observed.Īlexander is referring to the lack of records on kidnapped Africans. It’s the largest organization of its kind in the state. We sat down with her at her home near Birmingham where she went through notebooks on her own family tree.Īlexander is past President of the Birmingham African American Genealogy Group. That is…that is…it was one of the most outrageous,” said Ethel Alexander. We met someone who’s heard a lot of stories like that…Įthel Alexander, of the Birmingham African American Genealogy Group Ballard is still working to find her great great grandfather’s burial site. It’s not grave markers or gates that she came to talk about. Ballard is one of only two African Americans in the audience. Today’s workshop featured speakers on cleaning tombstones and repairing cemetery gates. That more than likely that my great great grandfather was on that plantation.” “I’m thinking, and based on what my forefathers said to me. “I’m so glad you asked that question,” she said. The issue that brought her here today isn’t who he is, but rather where he is now. ![]() She’s among one hundred people attending the twentieth annual workshop of the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance.īallard says her great great grandfather was enslaved in Huntsville in 1842. ”īallard is hoping to find answers here today. And, we found his name, and then his son’s name…Caswell, and Caswell, junior. “I was able to find my great great grandfather,” said Olley Ballard from Huntsville. ![]() The police left no stone unturned to (try to) find the child.The check-in table at the 20th annual workshop of the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance yskoud, morsdood, stokdoof تماما، كُلّياً изстинал totalmente chladný/mrtvý/hluchý jako kámen eiskalt, mausetot, stocktaub iskold stendød stokdøv εντελώς, τελείως παγωμένος, νεκρός, κουφός completamente frío/tieso/sordo jääkülm, koolnud, kurt كاملا بي جان jääkylmä, kuollut kuin kivi, umpikuuro complètement froid raide mort sourd comme un pot לגמרי पूर्ण sasvim (hladan, mrtav ili gluh) jéghideg halott földsüket sepenuhnya ískaldur, steindauður, alheyrnarlaus gelido 全く- 아주 완전히 찬, 죽은, 귀머거리 šaltas kaip ledas, negyvas, visiškai kurčias pilnīgi galīgi sepenuhnya steen- iskald steindød stokk døv zimny jak lód, umarły `na amen`, głuchy jak pień totalmente холодный как лёд мёртвый совершенно глухой chladný ako kameň mŕtvy hluchý ako peň popolnoma hladan kao kamen iskall, stendöd, stendöv หนาวจนตัวแข็ง ตายเป็นเวลานานจนตัวแข็ง หูหนวก. ![]() He's almost stone-deaf Your soup is stone-cold. ![]()
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