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Wade Hamption and Sarah-Pittsylvania County, VA

ShirleyWilson63  (View posts) Posted: 1 Feb 2002 1:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hampton, Broadnax, Aikens
I believe that I have located my great great great grandparents(90% accuracy). It always happens, when I am looking for one relative, I come across another one entirely by accident. (Not considering my paternal side, this line of relatives I thought would be the most difficult to trace.)

Thomas Coleman Broadnax is my grandfather(who I meet for the first time as a teenager). His parents were Lazarus Broadnax(born 1867) and Martha Ann Aikens Broadnax.

If any one see a connection notify me on this "followup board."
Thank You In Advance.
Martha Ann Aikens Broadnax's parents were Thomas and Wilmoth Aikens.

Wilmoth Aikens parents were Wade HAMPTON(white) and Sarah HAMPTON(black). According to the 1870 and 1880 Pittsylvania County, VA Census, he openly lived with his racially mixed family and claimed them, because they are listed as his children on the 1880 census.
Sarah HAMPTON is not listed with Wade HAMPTON on the 1880 census, which could be alot of reasons for this, or she died before the 1880 census.

His children, on the 1880 cnesus, were: Elizabeth, Willmouth, and Emily A.
His grandchildren listed: Mary and Virginia HAMPTON.

On the 1870 census does not show how they are related, the household is listed:
HAMPTON, Wade-age54~~~~Sarah Hampton-age40~~~~Boston Hampton-age19~~~~Elizabeth Hampton-age19~~~~Lyles Hampton-age14~~~~Martha Hampton-age12~~~~Sallie A. Hampton-age10~~~~Robert Hampton-age9~~~~Wilmoth Hampton-age7~~~~Emily A. Hampton-age5.

According to the 1840, 1850, and 1860 VA Census, Wade HAMPTON is listed only, and no family members are listed. I assumed that he might have had a white family before his black family.

My mother told me that Martha Ann Aikens was very bright looking, and her sister could pass as white. This explains why my grandfather, Thomas Coleman Broadnax(who is now deceased), was so light in his youth, and why so many of his relatives, in his photo album book looked white.
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