Cynthia Wilson
Cynthia A. Wilson is a former Co-Chair of Black Genealogy Research Group of Seattle and former member of the board of directors of Black Heritage Society of Washington, Inc. The history and genealogy of African American residents of Patrick County, Virginia, have been her principal area of study. Currently, she is concentrating her research on black civil war soldiers who found their way to Seattle. She self-published a compilation of slaves names from Patrick County court records and has published articles in the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Journal.
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Green Fields (1840-1914)
Green Fields, former Seattle City employee, early African American resident of the Queen Anne Neighborhood in Seattle, and soldier with...
George Washington Rawles (1845-1922)
George Rawles was born in South Carolina to a young slave mother owned by Benjamin Rawles II. At the age...
Mary Ann Spencer Smith (1917-2001)
Postal worker, real estate broker and civil rights activist, Mary Ann Spencer was the 10th child of twelve. She was...
John Jones (1817-1879)
John Jones, apprentice tailor, writer, and politician was born in 1817 in Green City, North Carolina to a German father...
Pompey Factor (1849-1928)
Pompey Factor, former slave, scout for the United States Army and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, was born in Arkansas...
Robert T. Hickman (1831-1900)
Robert Thomas Hickman, born enslaved in Missouri in 1831, is most noted for the group of slaves including his wife...
Robert Morris, Sr. (1823-1882)
Robert Morris became one of the first black lawyers in United States after being admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Morris was born...
