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"In many ways, the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU) and its predecessor, the Farmworkers Organizing Committee (FWOC), operated like a trade union. The CFU executive chose three related areas on which to focus its organizing efforts: (1) improving working and living conditions, (2) eliminating the contractor system that further exploited already vulnerable workers, and (3) fighting to include farmworkers in the BC labour code, affording farmworkers rights to minimum wage and health benefits.

Working and living conditions constituted one of the main pillars that organizers rallied around to push their efforts. One story was often used in CFU documents as a rallying cry:

On July 16, 1980, little Sukhdeep Madhar lay sleeping in a cow stall converted into sleeping quarters when, unknown to her parents working in the fields close by, she rolled off her cot. The seven month-old baby drowned in a bucket of drinking water before being discovered. Ruling the tragedy as an accidental death, Dr. Bill Macarthur, Coroner, said that working conditions on the farm were like those found in Nazi concentration camps.

Further, while out in the field, workers found that many farms did not have running water or washroom facilities. Other farms did not have places for children who had to attend work with their parents (or for workers on breaks) to sit in the shade on hot days. In addition to unsafe working conditions in the field, workers who did not have enough money for housing would have to live in converted barn stalls on the farm where they worked. These stalls would often have simple hay and straw as flooring with small cots for sleeping. Some living quarters did not have running water, heating, or washroom facilities. Finally, it was not uncommon for farm owners and operators, or even for the contractors who acted as intermediaries, to withhold wages from workers until the end of the season (should they be paid at all).

Despite its small size, the CFU was relatively successful in improving working conditions, especially with regard to securing stolen wages. The first test for the FWOC was a dispute between Mukhiter Singh and the contractor that he had hired to provide a labour force. On 17 July 1979, workers contacted the FWOC to help set up a picket line after they discovered that Mukhiter was withholding $100,000 owed for six weeks of labour because he was unsatisfied with the pickers’ work. The FWOC immediately sent out “several dozen Committee members” and “joined two hundred workers on the picket lines.” After a tense standoff, Mukhiter offered to pay $40,000 in wages, but the farmworkers refused the offer. After roughly two hours of negotiations with Chouhan, Mukhiter paid the workers $80,000 and the dispute was settled. This incident was the first major victory for the FWOC.

The following year, a larger battle took place with a much larger grower: Jensen Mushroom Farms in Langley. On 18 July 1980, despite the grower’s assertion that “if they don’t like it [working conditions], they can quit,” Jensen Mushroom Farms became the first agricultural work site to be certified by the Labour Relations Board (LRB). While this did not mean the workers had a contract, the LRB ruling did mean that the union could negotiate on behalf of the workers. This was the first ruling of its kind in BC labour history. The first signed contract would come from a different farm, Bell Farms. The owner, Jack Bell, was relatively sympathetic to unions and did not offer any resistance to workers who organized for union representation. That LRB certification would come on 3 September 1980, and the first contract would be ratified on 18 November. While getting a certification was the first step, the process to signing a contract could be extremely drawn out. After nine months of negotiations at Jensen Farms with little progress, the CFU voted to strike on 14 April 1981. Here, Jensen demonstrated his resolve to prevent a union from entering his workplace. On the first day of picketing, an altercation between Chouhan and some of Jensen’s family members left Chouhan with a cut on his forehead, and each side pointed to the other as the instigator. A CFU organizer at the picket line, Sandi Roy, describes in a police report how Annie Hall, Jensen’s daughter, struck Chouhan in the head with keys, “causing him to bleed profusely.” Immediately after the altercation, Murray Munroe, Jensen’s son-in-law, “and at least three of the passengers of both trucks [that had transported Jensen’s family to the picket line] exited from the trucks and began running towards Mr. Chouhan and pushed him into a roadside ditch.” No legal action was taken by either party.

As the strike wore on, the CFU described “various forms of violence from name calling, to car pounding, to a physical scuffle, to telephone wires being cut, to trucks being chased at high speeds, to an attempt to burn down a trailer while a picketer was sleeping inside.” Despite ten workers scabbing (union strikebreaking) and extreme tension on the picket line, the line held strong until September 1981, when it was finally lifted. Formal contract negotiations would not recommence until May 1982, and on 30 July 1982, more than a year after the certification, a formal contract was signed. Getting a contract after a long strike was one matter, but managing to maintain certification with a stubborn owner was also a difficult task. According to the CFU, the fourteen remaining workers who returned to work at Jensen’s were evenly split on the issue of the union. In June 1983, ten months after the strike’s conclusion, the number of people who worked at Jensen’s had increased to forty seven, and the turnover rate was high. This meant that many of those who supported the union had left and that those who remained were now outnumbered in the workplace. Jensen also began to hire his immediate family members as employees to reduce the strength of the union. The family members intimidated workers who were worried about being identified to the employer as pro-union. When shop stewards were elected, Jean Hall – whose relation to the aforementioned Annie Hall is unclear – was elected for labourers and Rajinder Gill was elected for pickers. The CFU claimed that “the election of Jean Hall was orchestrated by Tove Nesbitt and Jens Jensen (Jensen’s daughter and brother).”

Clearly, Jensen was determined to break the union by inserting his family members into the union’s structure. Union meetings became difficult places to be and were reported by workers to be dominated by Jensen’s family members. According to the CFU, “at one time Jensen had nine family members working at the farm and on average there were seven.” Workers felt intimidated at meetings because they feared that their concerns would be passed back to Jensen and that they could be disciplined or fired. On 1 April 1983, Jensen’s employees applied to the LRB for decertification, and, despite the CFU’s confidence that the decertification vote would fail, on 8 July it passed by a count of 23 to 22. The CFU, understandably disheartened, put some blame on recent immigrants, who were “in awe of ‘authority’ figures” and did not want to appear pro-union to new employers.

During an investigation of Jensen Farms by the provincial government’s Ministry of Labour, R.F. Bone noted some troubling practices on the part of the employer. First, at the time of the strike, it was estimated that 90 percent of the workforce was South Asian and that most supported the union. During the strike, many of these workers left for other jobs because they needed to support themselves. After the strike, Bone noted: “all employees hired (approx. 17) have been non-East Indian, except for four young ladies, all related to the only two East Indians (Gurmit Kaur and Sukhbir Kaur) employed before the strike who then and still are strongly anti-union.” These hires were Euro-Canadians and Laotians. Since the mushroom farm had different greenhouses, Jensen had the Laotians working in areas away from the pro-union employees and had scheduled the pro-union employees to work during union meetings. This tactic allowed the anti-union workers who still attended meetings to elect Jean Hall and Gurmit Kaur, workers who scabbed during the strike, to be delegates for the CFU National Convention in April 1984. Both delegates were expelled from the convention after this revelation and were deemed members “not in good standing.” Finally, Jensen attempted to have the CFU barred from any certifications for one calendar year – an attempt that was denied by the LRB.

This battle had an underlying racist tone. As demonstrated by Jensen’s practices after the strike, Jensen was actively avoiding South Asians. Other anti-union employees also hinted at an ethnic divide. Fred Forman, a white worker hired after the strike, suggested: “if I had a grievance, I don’t think it would work because I’m the wrong colour.” Farmers, including Jensen, used the idea that the CFU was an exclusively South Asian union to discourage membership among newly hired Laotians and whites as well as to discredit the union among its current members."

- Nicholas Fast, ““WE WERE A SOCIAL MOVEMENT AS WELL”: The Canadian Farmworkers Union in British Columbia, 1979–1983,” BC Studies. no. 217, Spring 2023. p. 41-44.

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Name: Janessa James Dixon

Nickname: Jj, Nessa, Ness, Dr.j

Age: 42

Birthday: September 18, 1981 (☼ virgo, ☽ gemini , ↗ taurus )

Gender/Pronouns: cis woman; she/her

Sexuality: Pansexual

Hometown: Cape May, NJ.

Length of Time in Cape May: Whole Life ( minus a few years in college )

Occupation: Pediatric Surgeon

Faceclaim: Tika Sumpter

trigger(s): n/a

Background:

Janessa was born in Cape May, NJ. Her parents had her when they were very young (early 20's, in college). While being raised by her parents, she also had the privilege of being raised by her grandparents, including the infamous James 'Duckie' Dixon.

Growing up in West Cape May meant being close enough to downtown but not having to be surrounded by all the busyness of it. She considered herself fortunate to live on a property that offered a great deal of abundance and it paid off in teaching her a multitude of life skills.

By the time she was 12, she was pruning crops with her grandmother, riding on the tractor with one of her uncles, milking cows with her parents and helping harvest crops with her grandfather, Duckie.

Janessa wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty or her clothes for that matter. She enjoyed learning all the ins and outs of planting and she was very detailed whenever her grandparents required "tiny little hands" to help with tasks.

This could only mean one thing - JJ was destined to be a surgeon. She had the steady hands, the bedside manner and the intelligence.

Her family reminded her constantly that she didn't have to work on the farm or continue on with the family business of the farmer's market. Not that Janessa would've minded. She saw it as important work. It brought the town together and provided healthy but affordable food options for the locals. It also provided Janessa with some of her best friends - the other kids who would have to be up super early on the weekends and hanging out in their parents' stalls.

When Janessa went off to college, it was hard to not be caught up in her studies but also in a boy, she was still young after all and had been dating the same boy since forever. She knew it was destined, even if breaks existed within their relationship.

Janessa and (WANTED CONNECTION) had decided to take a break when she went off to college. He didn't want to hold her back and she didn't want to stop him from living his life. She knew long distance could be hard. However, the two of them fell into their old habits - being consumed in one another. He would make the drive up to her, even in the middle of a storm, just because. She would stay up all night on the phone, explaining medical terms and not hanging up, even when he fell asleep because the sound of his breathing was comforting.

This love was one in a million and sure, during their pauses they had dated other people but they always fell back into each other so it was no surprise when they eventually got married. Janessa was in the last year of her undergrad but she'd be damned if she didn't make it work to marry that man.

She had applied to medical school with a focus on a surgical program at Rutgers. She would make the commute back to Cape May and ( WANTED CONNECTION ) would try and spend as much time as possible up in Newark. As she finished off her medical program, she decided to do the rest of her residency/fellowship at the Cape May Regional Hospital. One, to be closer to family but two, to be at home and really be in her marriage.

Within 7 years of marriage, they had only lived together for a handful of time and they finally got to be consumed in each other again. That passion and time together led to a pregnancy, a baby boy. While Janessa and (WANTED CONNECTION) were excited to have a baby, it definitely did put a slight halt on Nessa's career, having had to take a bit of a maternity break.

Two years later, they welcomed another child. With two kids under two and demanding careers, their hands were full and it caused them to at times pull away from each other.

The eventual constant pulling away resulted in Janessa feeling as though they were at two different stages and she filed for divorce. It broke her heart but she knew that she didn't want to stay in a marriage because of duty or obligation. They split custody of the kids and JJ carried on with her career and being as present of a parent as she could be.

Having the seniority that she does in the hospital has allowed her to take a bit of a step back and help out her grandfather at the farmer's market. She enjoys the connection and it really does help fit a bit of a void she feels.

Personality:

Janessa is very strong minded, she's not easy to take advantage of and speaks her mind when necessary.

Now that's not to say that she's ruthless or rude, JJ is very loving and has a great deal of compassion but her strong mind allows her to remain detached while performing surgery. She chose a focus on pediatrics because she wanted kids to still be hopeful and to create miracles for them.

Janessa is a bit of a workaholic but has made a point to make sure she makes time for her family. Especially post divorce since the lack of time investment is what likely caused it in the first place.

She is a mother to a 13 year old and an 11 year old but its not her personality. She's a mother and still a woman with a life to live.

She has strong family values and it's what keeps her in Cape May. She also loves watching her kids have a connection with her own grandfather and with the market and all of West Cape May.

Inspired by: Dr. Arizona Robbins from Grey's Anatomy, Haley James Scott from One Tree Hill, Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights, and Ashley Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Wanted Connections:

Ex-Husband: ( Connection on the main )

Best Friend: ( Connection on the main )

Family friends: friends that likely also live in West Cape May or ties to the farmer's market. These would likely be the people JJ spent time with as kids in the market and could even see to this day. Could also be people who have different relationships because they don't want to be tied to the farm life.

Anything and everything under the sun because I'm currently lacking ideas but I will think of some eventually.

#cape.intro

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American Psycho (2000)

Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

An American Werewolf In London (1981)

Anaconda (1997)

Antarctic Journal (2005)

Apocalypto (2006)

The Assassination of Gianni Versace (2018)

Audition (1999)

Batman (1989)

Batman & Robin (1997)

Batman Forever (1995)

Bedazzled (2000)

Black Swan (2010)

Candyman (1992)

Carrie (1976)

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (2005)

Child's Play (1988)

Children Of The Corn (1984)

The Craft (1996)

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Dumplings (2004)

Ed Wood (1994)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

The Faculty (1998)

FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

The Fog (1980)

Freddy VS Jason (2003)

Gothika (2003)

Hannibal Rising (2007)

The Hitcher (1986)

InuYasha (2000)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Joshua (2007)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Kalifornia (1993)

Lily C.A.T. (1987)

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)

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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Magic (1978)

Mermaid Legend (1984)

Mortal Kombat (1995)

Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997)

Near Dark (1987)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

No Country For Old Men (2007)

One Hour Photo (2002)

ParaNorman (2012)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Predator (1987)

Predator 2 (1990)

Queen Of The Damned (2002)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island (1998)

Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

Shaun Of The Dead (2004)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

The Shining (1980)

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Society (1989)

STAR 80 (1983)

The Stuff (1985)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Thing (1982)

Tom At The Farm (2013)

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

VAMP (1986)

The Wailing (2016)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Wicked City (1987)

X-MEN (2000)

28 Days Later (2002)

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Mahdeen Mays - Part I

The Texas Years {1894-1922}

The anecdote my father told me about my great-grandmother, Mahdeen, eventually became an evaporative myth. I’ll come back to the details in due time.

I wasn’t disappointed to find an indomitable woman born at the turn of the 20th century who bore witness to significant historical events, surrounded by brothers, seeking independence as a creative and single parent during the ‘20s and ‘30s.

Family Group Sheet Parents Walter M. Mays (1872-1901) Martha Aminee Rollins (1875-1957) Siblings Mahdeen Mays (1894-1968) - great grandmother Walter Edgar Mays (1896-1973) John Thomas Mays (1900-1986) Step-Father Andrew Jackson Mayberry Sr. (1857-1935) Step-siblings Lydia Ann Mayberry (1888-1952) Thomas Edward Mayberry (1889-1946) Charles Earl Mayberry Sr. (1892-1966) Half siblings Andrew Jackson Mayberry Jr. (1903-1981) Fred Monroe Mayberry (1905-1956) William Clyde Mayberry Sr. (1908-1986) Robert Earnest Mayberry (1910-1983) Spouse 1 and children; James William Roe Sr. (1887-1967) - great grandfather James William Roe Jr. (1915-1992) - grandfather John Ed Roe Sr. (1919-2000) Spouse 2 Anthony L. Ransdell (1885-?) Spouse 3 Arthur Roosevelt Summersett (1901-1990)

Note: citations that include links to news clippings should be viewable without a paywall.

Mahdeen Mays was my father’s paternal grandmother. She was born on 22 Feb 1894 in unspecified Texas, the oldest of the three Mays children. Her parents were Walter M. and Martha Aminee (Rollins) Mays.

Walter M. Mays, the fifth child among six siblings, was the son of a Confederate Civil War soldier. Walter's father, at age 18, served as a Private in the Texas Infantry & Cavalry, Company B, (Kirby’s) 3rd Battalion, and then, at age 19, as a Corporal in the Texas Infantry, Company F, (Allen’s) 17th Regiment. The Mays family were tried and true Texans.

Alabama, Texas, and Virginia, US Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Pension File Nos. 43291-43315. Application Years 1922-1927.

Martha Aminee Rollins, the eighth child among nine siblings, was the daughter of another Confederate Civil War soldier. Martha's father was 32 when he enlisted as a Private in the Mississippi Infantry, Company A, 35th Regiment. The Rollins family relocated from Kemper County, Mississippi, around 1869, after having lost and buried two children who died young. They settled in Brazos County, Texas, as evidenced by the 1870 census.

Alabama, Texas, and Virginia, US Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Pension File Nos. 05756-05810. Application Years 1844-1929. 1870 US Federal Census. Brazos County, Texas. Roll M593_1577. Page 66A. Image 135. FHL film 553076.

Mahdeen’s brother Walter Edgar was born on 24 Jun 1896, specifically in Caldwell, Burleson, Texas. During this period, Burleson County was renowned for ranching and cotton farming.

During the Jun 1900 census, Mahdeen, age 6, was living in Burleson with her father, Walter M., a farmer, age 27, mother Martha, who went by Mattie, age 24, and younger brother Walter, age 4.

Also living in the household was her widowed aunt by marriage, Mary Belle (Cunningham) Rollins, and her two children, Mahdeen’s cousins Mary Frances Rollins, age 14, and William Rollins, age 5. Although listed as widowed, I’ve been unable to find documentation regarding Mr. William W. Rollins’ death.

1900 US Federal Census. Justice Precinct 1, Burleson, Texas. Roll 1650. Page 22A. Enumeration District 0038. FHL microfilm 1241615.

Mahdeen’s baby brother, John Thomas, was born two months after the census on 28 Aug 1900, also in Caldwell. Their mother, Mattie, remarried in 1903, leaving a lingering question concerning the fate of their father, Walter.

Despite consulting conventional sources, information about Walter between 1900 and 1903 remained elusive and his death date was persistently left blank.

While looking for a public domain photo of Burleson County circa 1900 to add to this post, I came across a collection that included searchable Caldwell newspaper archives. I ran a search for Walter and lo and behold found his obituary.

Joiner, F. Lee. Caldwell News-Chronicle. Vol. 21 No. 44 Ed. 1. 29 Mar 1901. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169333/m1/9/?q=%22Walter%20Mays%22: accessed 3 Mar 2024. University of North Texas Libraries. The Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu. Crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.

The 1900 census had documented his birth as "Dec 1872.” With the help of an online date calculator, the obituary helped pinpoint the precise date as 17 Dec 1872. We now know that he died on 27 Mar 1901 and was laid to rest the following day at the Masonic Cemetery. His obituary was a touching tribute to the man, Walter M. Mays, my great-great-grandfather.

My question was what would cause the death of a young man who had been "sick only a short time" and render him unable to speak? A quick search returned a heartbreaking answer, Diphtheria.

We have to keep in mind that these rural families faced the indiscriminate mortality of yellow fever, influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough, tuberculosis, measles, typhoid, and diphtheria from intimate perspectives within their communities during the mid-19th to early 20th century.

Between the ages of 19 and 25, Mattie lost one family member each year: two nieces, a nephew, her father, a brother, and now her husband. Before Mattie was born, two of her siblings died young and an aunt had died at age 16. Due to the time and place, we have little in the way of death certificates to rely on regarding these deaths.

The earliest death certificate I found was for Mrs. Josie Greathouse, Walter’s younger sister. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in 1912, leaving a husband and 3 children.

Walter and Mattie’s children and their ages at the time of Walter’s death:

Mahdeen, age 7

Walter, age 4

John, age 7 mos.

Several family events occurred after Walter’s death and before the 1910 census. In March 1903, Mahdeen's mother, Mattie, married Andrew J. Mayberry Sr. They were likely acquainted with each other's families years beforehand.

Mattie's sister, Mary Matilda (Rollins), had previously married Andrew's brother, Seaborn Burnett Mayberry, in 1889. Their first child, Ethel Aminee Mayberry, was born in 1890 and died when “the death angel visited” in 1899. Mattie attended her niece's funeral with her husband, who, at that time, was Walter.

Bryan-College Station Eagle. 31 Aug 1899. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/bryan-college-station-eagle-ethel-mayber/81529261/ : accessed 9 Mar 2024. clip page for the Obituary for Ethel Mayberry.

Andrew J. Mayberry Sr., at the time of his marriage to Mattie, was a widower whose first wife also died in 1901. From that marriage, he had three children, Lydia Ann, age 15, Thomas Edward, age 14, and Charles Earl Mayberry, age 11.

Lydia Ann Mayberry would marry at the age of 17 in 1905.

Mattie and Andrew J. Mayberry Sr. would have four children of their own;

Andrew Jackson Mayberry Jr. - 21 Dec 1903 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

Fred Monroe Mayberry - 1 Dec 1905 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

William Clyde Mayberry Sr. - 2 Mar 1908 - Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas

Robert Ernest Mayberry - 14 Dec 1909 - Merkel, Taylor, Texas

Andrew and Mattie (Rollins) Mayberry’s children would be double cousins or first cousins twice over to Seaborn and Mary (Rollins) Mayberry’s children...whenever siblings marry siblings, the children are double cousins.

My great-grandmother Mahdeen would marry my great-grandfather, James William Roe Sr., in Taylor County, Texas, early in the year, on 12 Jan 1910. She was one month shy of 16 years old. James was 22. She later testified during their 1923 divorce court proceedings that they met at a school party.

Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015. Taylor County Clerk's Office. Abilene, Texas. Taylor County Marriage Records. Volume 6. Page 94.

In the Apr 1910 census of Merkel, Taylor, Texas, Mahdeen and her husband, Jim W., a farmer, resided with her stepfather who was a carpenter, her mother Mattie, two older stepbrothers, two younger brothers, and four younger half-brothers.

1910 US Federal Census. Merkel, Taylor, Texas. Roll T624_1593. Page 5A. Enumeration District 0272. FHL microfilm 1375606.

James and Mahdeen's sons, James William Roe Jr., my grandfather, and John Ed Roe, my granduncle, were born in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas. James was born on 29 Jul 1915, and John on 29 Oct 1919, both during the era of World War I. In the years preceding World War II, it was commonly referred to as the “War,” the "Great War,” or the “World War."

Of note: their son John's middle name was Ed, not Edward.

The only immediate family member who served in the war was her brother John Thomas Mays. He enlisted in the US Army at the age of 17 on 29 Jul 1918 and was discharged on 16 May 1921. His obituary published in Dec 1986 didn’t mention the US Army but reported that he served in the US Navy. I have yet to find proof of Naval service.

The post-war 1920s stood out as a notable decade. Prohibition, commencing in 1920, and the ratification of women's right to vote in August of the same year were pivotal historical moments. In Texas, the '20s heralded the onset of the oil boom. In the local context of Fort Worth, colloquially known as "Cowtown," an extensive network of railways from across the nation played a vital role in supporting the cattle industry centered at the Fort Worth Stockyards. The railroad infrastructure, as evidenced by the impressive 1888 map, laid the foundation for the region's visions of financial success and stability. Presently, the “stockyards" have become a cattle-free tourist destination.

Wikimedia Commons: Paddock Fort Worth, TX, and Rail-Roads, 1888

The census dated 6 Jan 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, shows Mahdeen living with her husband Jim, now a carpenter, and two sons: James, age 4, and John, age 2 months. Also, a young couple who were roomers.

1920 US Federal Census. Fort Worth, Ward 8, Tarrant, Texas. Roll T625_1850. Page 7A. Enumeration District 134. Image 168.

In July, seven months later, Mahdeen initiated divorce proceedings.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 28 Jul 1920. Page 10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-maude-files-for/141681011/ : accessed 23 Feb 2024. clip page for Maude Files for Divorce.

After almost two years, in Mar 1922, Judge Terrell dismissed 171 divorce cases, including hers, all of them “for want of prosecution.” At first, it sounded to me like an easy day for the Judge. Then again, I’m unfamiliar with divorce law in Texas during the 1920s. The 171 cases that were listed take up an entire column of the newspaper.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 11 Mar 1922. Page 5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-171-divorce-cas/141681126/ : accessed 23 Feb 2024. clip page for 171 Divorce Cases Dismissed.

Mahdeen “ain't” givin' up just yet! Stay tuned for more...

#ancestry #family history #genealogy #honor their legacy #american history #texas #womens issues #1900s #1910s #1920s #womens history #healthy gossip #Mays #Rollins #Confederates #WWI #mortality #railroad

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Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, James Roberts, & Asa Martin-Charleston No. 1

Recorded on Friday, February 3, 1933 in New York, New York for A.R.C. Records.

Fiddlin' Doc Roberts was born near Richmond, Kentucky on April 26, 1897 and named Dock Phil Roberts in honor of a certain Doc Phillips who assisted at the birthing. Little Dock appears to have learned to fiddle on his own by emulating his big brother Liebert. His first public role model was a fiddling African-American bandleader named Owen Walker who worked out of Richmond.While participating in a fiddling tournament in Winchester, Roberts hooked up with guitarist and fiddler Edgar Boaz of Paris, Kentucky. The duo took to performing at schools and theaters, and in early 1925, traveled north to Cincinnati to audition for a Gennett field recording unit which was stationed there at that time. After playing "My Baby Loves Shortenin' Bread" they were invited to visit Gennett's main facility in Richmond,

Indiana and did so in October and November of 1925 and again in October of 1926. During these excursions, the duo provided accompaniments for vocalist Welby Toomey. In 1927, after Boaz decided to relocate, Doc Roberts then teamed up with mandolinist Ted Chesnut and guitarist Dick Parman to make records for Paramount under the name The Kentucky Thorobreds.

On August 26 and 27, 1927 Doc Roberts had his first opportunity to record with an electrically powered microphone, now in the company of African-American guitarists John and Joe Booker, going by the name Taylor's Kentucky Boys. The intermingling of black and white musicians was still fairly uncommon in recording studios at that time, but is indicative of the shared musical traditions of country, blues and folk music that flourished in Kentucky (and elsewhere) during the early 20th century.

Doc Roberts met guitarist Asa Martin at a fiddling contest in Winchester and struck up a working relationship that would result in what are now regarded as Roberts' best recorded works. Most intriguing are a series of blues records they cut during the early ‘30s. Martin sang a little, blew harmonica, and even emitted square dance calls on a few of their records. Roberts also performed with his son, guitarist James, fiddler Oney Muse, and Lexington guitarist and vocalist Arthur Rose.

Doc Roberts was also a capable mandolinist, and used the instrument on at least five different records made over the course of six years beginning in 1928. His final Gennett recording date took place in August, 1934. Although James Roberts and Asa Martin would continue to play professionally, Doc withdrew from public performance. James recorded his father at home during the '50s and some of this material was released in 1981 on Visits, a compilation produced by Ray Alden. Late in life, Doc Roberts did emerge from retirement to perform at Berea College in southernmost Madison County. His final appearance there was in July, 1971, in the company of his son and Asa Martin. Doc Roberts passed away in 1978, and Asa died the following year.

Even though he spent much of his life farming and performed mainly on weekends, Kentucky long bow legend Fiddlin' Doc Roberts was a very influential country musician who, during the years 1925-1934, cut about 70 sides under his own name, most of which were reissued by Document.

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People was first to report the news of John’s split from Barrett. In addition to the 40-year-old All in by Teddi founder, the “Small Town” crooner has daughters Michelle, 50, and Justice, 36, and sons Hud, 27, and Speck, 26. He was previously married to Priscilla Esterline from 1970 to 1981, Victoria Granucci from 1981 to 1989 and Elaine Irwin from 1992 to 2011. They got back together in July 2017 before separating again in October 2019. John and the “When Harry Met Sally” actress, 59, started dating in 2011 but broke up in 2014 because of distance, as she is based in California and he is in Indiana. He was previously engaged to Meg Ryan following their years-long, on-off relationship. Aka: john mellencamp, john says ex meg ryan.

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John and Sherrill dated from April 2020 until January. Crossover of heartland and funk giant herbie hancock was dating history free of 16 of his girlfriend list 2016. The Grammy winner’s daughter Teddi Mellencamp, who famously starred on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” is said to have introduced him to both Barrett and Sherrill. Page Six exclusively reported in June that Mellencamp had been wooing Barrett for months after he split from high-profile dermatologist Jamie Sue Sherrill. While the musician and Barrett, 46, are no longer an item, we’re told that “they’re still friendly and still speaking.” The 69-year-old Jack & Diane singer-songwriter and his 46-year-old celeb real estate agent girlfriend have parted ways after months of. Mellencamp is also “shooting new video this week,” according to the source. John Mellencamp and Natasha Barrett are no longer dating. 25 in Hartford, Conn., with performers including Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Dave Matthews. The rocker’s festival benefitting family farmers is set to take place on Sept. “He’s got a new album coming out his Farm Aid festival coming up.” “It just didn’t work out,” a source told us Monday. The “Jack and Diane” singer, 69, and realtor Natasha Barrett split after just a few months of dating, Page Six has confirmed. Mellencamp, 65, appeared on the Howard Stern Show on Wednesday and revealed that his ex-girlfriend is not his. More On: john mellencamp Identity of John Mellencamp’s mystery new girlfriend revealed Denise Richards denies saying Teddi Mellencamp lives in her dad’s ‘shadow’ John Mellencamp seeing celebrity beauty guru Jamie Sherrill Teddi Mellencamp shares sweet photo of dad John Mellencamp with her new baby Doesn’t sound like John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan will take another shot at love.

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Events 9.29

61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. 1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner. 1227 – Investiture Controversy: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades. 1267 – The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III. 1364 – Hundred Years' War: Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession. 1567 – French War of Religion: Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade. 1578 – Spanish colonization of the Americas: Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards. 1714 – The Great Hatred: The Cossacks of the Russian Empire kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto. 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture. 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns. 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded. 1848 – The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces, and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution. 1850 – The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. 1855 – The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought. 1864 – The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate. 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C. 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1918 – World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica. 1918 – World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack. 1918 – World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice. 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. 1923 – The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect. 1923 – The First American Track and Field championships for women are held. 1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia. 1940 – Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely. 1941 – World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre. 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China. 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. 1957 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded. 1959 – A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people. 1971 – Oman joins the Arab League. 1972 – China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China. 1975 – WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US. 1979 – The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara. 1981 – An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people. 1988 – NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster. 1990 – Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C. 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. 1990 – The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland. 1991 – A Haitian coup d'état occurs. 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached. 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth. 2004 – Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize. 2005 – John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States. 2006 – A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis. 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. 2008 – Great Recession: The stock market crashes after the first United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails. 2009 – The 8.1 Mw  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds. 2011 – The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case. 2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria. 2016 – Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. 2019 – Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.

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On this very day…in music history…..

September 22nd

2015 - Happy Birthday

A US District Judge ruled that the original copyright to 'Happy Birthday' was invalid and the song would now be entirely in the public domain. The copyright was obtained by the Clayton F. Summy Co. from the song's writers, sisters Mildred and Patty Hill and bought for $15 million in 1988 by Warner / Chappell Music Inc.

2011 - Queen

Research conducted by car maker SEAT found that Queen’s 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was the song most likely to be found on British iPods, with more than 40% of owners having the hit on their players. The Beatles had four songs in the list, a feat also matched by Coldplay. Other favourites included U2, The Killers and Rihanna.

2005 - Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page was made an honorary citizen of Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro for his work helping its street children. The Led Zeppelin guitarist had opened Casa Jimmy (Jimmy's House) in 1998 which had so far supported more than 300 children.

2004 - Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens, who now went by the name of Yusuf Islam, was escorted from a diverted transatlantic flight and refused entry into America by FBI agents. His name showed up on a US watch list after United Airlines Flight 919 had taken off from London. The flight landed in Maine where Islam, who was traveling with his 21-year-old daughter, was detained and questioned.

2001 - Bruce Springsteen

‘A Tribute to Heroes’ was aired commercial-free on most of the major US TV networks. The live program was organised to raise money following the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center. Neil Young, Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, U2, Limp Bizkit, Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam all performed. Manning the telephones to take pledges were celebrities including Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Meg Ryan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kurt Russell, Adam Sandler and many more.

1985 - Neil Young

The first Farm Aid benefit concert was held before a crowd of 80,000 people at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, the event had been spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers. The star studded line-up of country stars included: Alabama, Hoyt Axton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Rogers.

1981 - Harry Warren

American composer Harry Warren died aged 88. He wrote over 800 songs including 'I Only Have Eyes For You', (a hit for The Flamingos and Art Garfunkel), ‘You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby’, ‘Jeepers Creepers’, ‘That's Amore’ and ‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’. Warren's songs have been featured in over 300 films.

1979 - Def Leppard

Def Leppard had their first major live review when UK music weekly Melody Maker reviewed a gig the band had played in Wolverhampton. With a 15 year-old drummer the band had just released their debut 3-track single.

1973 - The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones scored their eighth UK No.1 album when 'Goats Head Soup' started a two-week run at the top of the charts. Also a US No.1.

1967 - The Doors

The Doors appeared on the Murray the K show on WPIX-TV in New York City performing 'People Are Strange' and 'Light My Fire.'

1965 - Grace Slick

San Francisco band The Great Society, featuring Grace Slick and her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, made their live debut at The Coffee Gallery, North Beach, California.

1964 - Herman's Hermits

Herman's Hermits were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Carole King & Gerry Goffin song 'I'm Into Something Good', the group's only UK No.1.

1962 - The Springfields

The Springfields (Dusty Springfield her brother Tom and their friend, Tim Field) had 'Silver Threads and Golden Needles', enter the US Top 20 and became the first British vocal group to chart that high in America.

1958 - Elvis Presley

After receiving special permission from the US Army, Elvis Presley gave one last press conference at the Military Ocean Terminal in Brooklyn. He then joined the rest of the 3rd Armored Division on the USS General Randall for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany.

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A newborn Holstein calf learning to walk as its mother looks on By: Jerome Wexler From: Farm Babies 1981

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A personal connection to Greek HERstory

I have spent most of my life having a vastly different lens on life than my non-Greek friends and colleagues. Like many Europeans who migrated to Australia, my parents arrived separately, married by an arranged marriage and had two children. Not long after, my baby sister was born in 1981 in Melbourne, Australia; my parents decided it was time to back to their homeland, Greece. The thirty-four-hour journey led us to a remote village, Sisani, 172km West of Thessaloniki.

The memory of my first day in Greece is at my grandmother's house. Standing at the gate, lifting myself on tiptoes to see the village kids playing; the only word I understood was 'Kangarootha', Greek for kangaroo. The kids pointed and laughed towards the house.

My grandparents, my family of four and my aunty all called this two-bedroom village villa home. The adults of the house all worked on the family's broad bean farm while my sister and I left home. My grandfather, a sheep shepherd, was known in the village as ‘Captain’ and spent days away whilst at home the Sheppard, and some would argue the actual captain was my grandmother.

My own mother was a stoic, outspoken, hard-working woman who had her work and financial independence stripped from her as soon as she joined the ‘family business’. gave my father an ultimatum. After four and a half years of living under the same roof as my grandmother, she saw no future for her two girls and gave my father an ultimatum. My mother requested to move to a bigger Greek city or back to Australia to secure a better future for her children.

My grandmother is also stoic, outspoken, hard-working and deeply attached to her only son Konstantinos. Now the ninety-year-old woman is still coming to terms with losing her son to a foreign land, Australia, that couldn’t be further from where she raised him in Sisani, Greece.

When my family returned to Australia in 1987, I had forgotten every last word of English and found myself thrust back into the same predicament. Only now, I'm in Australia, and I'm the Greek kid in an all-English-speaking public school in Richmond, Victoria.

I went back to Greece recently and visited my grandmother, aunties and the village we once called home. I met many other Greek women along the way. On this visit, I discovered a profound narrative of pain, perseverance, and purpose in all my conversations. That is why I tell the Greek HERstory of my own and other women I have met and will meet along the way.

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In 1883, less than 20 years after emancipation, Curtis Gentry bought nearly 1,500 acres of undeveloped land in Shiloh, a rural community in the Alabama county where he had once been enslaved. Alongside his brother Turner, with whom he was able to reunite after emancipation—unlike the members of so many other Black families—Gentry cleared that property, uprooting trees, brush, and undergrowth. Once the land was arable, he planted and harvested an array of crops, including ribbon cane, corn, and peas.

“He was a hard worker,” Bernice Atchison, Gentry’s granddaughter-in-law, told me. “Not only did he clear his own land, but he took jobs helping white people clear their land.” He taught his family how to take care of the farm while he worked on other people’s farms, bringing in extra money to the household.

Gentry’s children continued to farm after their father’s death, and each subsequent generation was trained in the ways of tending to their inherited land trust. When Atchison married Gentry’s grandson Allen in 1953, the young couple were given charge of nearly 280 acres of farmland, which included amenities built by those who came before. “We had a ribbon cane mill that made syrup. We had a saw mill. There was an old still that they had used to make whiskey back in those days,” Atchison said. “I loved farming, because you have to come to understand the land.”

In 1959, the Atchisons bought another 39 acres, and two years later, they built a house in which they would raise eight children. The couple sold vegetables and produce to loyal customers, most of whom worked in nearby factories and plants. In 1981, just after the Atchisons were certified as United States Department of Agriculture pig breeders, they received a letter from the USDA notifying them that they qualified for federal loans to buy “farrowing pens for the sows to have their little babies in,” Atchison said. She and Allen had spent years helping neighbors build their own farrowing pens, which had been paid for with USDA farm subsidies. “Helping Mr. Waldruf and Mr. Jones and Mr. Scott, we saw that the loan program had worked for them. So we went down to the USDA to get the money to build ours,” she said.

But there was a crucial difference. “They were white, and we were Black,” Atchison explained.

👉🏿 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-farmers-pigford-debt/

👉🏿 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-ground/id1036276968

👉🏿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman

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I posted 19,258 times in 2021

2492 posts created (13%)

16766 posts reblogged (87%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 6.7 posts.

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(kicks door open) AND ANOTHER LUKE HEAD-CANNON!! Luke’s most powerful weapon is his ability of crushing the word no with his puppy-dog eyes.

Vader: I’m evil.

Luke: Please don’t be. (sad face)

Vader: Kay, I’m good.

Han: I don’t support the rebellion.

Luke: But can’t you? (hopeful face)

Han; Welp, let’s go kill some flying space-Nazis.

Yoda: You can’t save your friends.

Luke: But...I wanna. (pleading face)

Yoda: Aw, well, ok then.

Din: I only love my son.

Luke: Can I be included? (shy face)

Din: (slams marriage license down) Sign the fuck up, buttercup.

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Din: (trying to learn more about this [cute] Jedi to figure out if he’s trustful to take care of Grogu) So...what do you like to do?

Luke: (happy this very handsome DILF is talking to him) Well...I like sparring, fighting, teaching, taking care of kids, flying ships, visiting my family, hiding on quiet planets, I garden at times cause I used to be a farm-kid...also calms my mind, I apparently may have PTSD cause i’ve had two sets of parents die, two teachers die, friends die, my first crush die, was told my father was responsible for genocide, lost my hand to said father, has been tortured, hunted, left alone, and had to shoulder the weight of the entire galaxy basically alone...but I found Grogu and you and i’m starting a school so it’s better now...oh, I like to bake cakes :D

Din: (on his knee) For the love everything holy, marry me...and use our marriage benefits to get therapy.

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Luke, a 5′6 cinnamon roll martyr: I am ready to die for this cause.

Din, a 5′11 built tired himbo: (picks him up and carries him away) You most certainly are not.

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Bo-Katan: You have to be the Mand'alor and rule as king. It is your duty and honor as the chosen one.

Din: Nah.

Bo-Katan: You could unite our broken people.

Din: None of my business.

Bo-Katan: You'd be powerful and adored.

Din: Yuck.

Leia (drinking a Pina Colada from the sidelines): You could marry my brother to keep galactic peace.

Din: ...so how quickly can we get the throne room updated? I'd like a chair next to mine for my consort. You think naming a city after him would be too much of a power move in my first year? Can I tax people if they look too long at him? Grogu will be called prince, by the way, and he gets his own wing in the palace. Kryze, keep up and help me get this coronation started.

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Luke: Why is everyone so concerned about Top or Bottom?

Din: Luke...

Luke: I mean, I’d just be happy to have a bunk-bed.

Din: (sighs) Luke...it’s because of the tactical differences. Using a saber from the top would just be difficult. You want someone with a blaster on top to act as cover.

Luke: Oooh...that does make sense.

Han & Leia:...

Han: I gotta tell them.

Leia: No.

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