Calling All Descendants!

In January 1867, 435 freedmen, women and children left Kingstree, South Carolina to travel by train, ship, and train again to land in Marlin/Falls County, Texas, where they hoped to build a better life for themselves and their families. In June of this year, a monument will be installed in Marlin to memorialize the names of every traveler who made this brave journey. Descendants of the Shaw family, Sharon Styles and Angela Shaw Ross, are on a mission to reveal as many family connections as possible ahead of the ceremony, through genealogical tools and research. If you recognize any of the names on this list as your ancestors, or think a name sounds familiar and might be a relation, please contact Sharon, Sharon.kay@sbcglobal.net, or Angela, honey_be_2001@yahoo. com.

Ephraim Fulton Phillis Fulton Jemima Fulton Fortune Jenkins Phoebe Jenkins Dora Jenkins Joseph Kinder James Kinder Frederick Kinder James Wilson Lavina Wilson Sarina Wilson Stacia Wilson Drusilla Wilson Thomas Pendergrass Rose Pendergrass Hennie Pendergrass Alford Pendergrass Nancy Pendergrass Bob Pendergrass Nero Fulton