Oldest living Valliant?
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Oldest living Valliant?
| Sandy (View posts) | Posted: 2 Mar 2006 5:54AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Just trying one last time to locate any Valliants who can perhaps remember older relatives speak of the Valliants from Oxford, Mississippi of which I am related.
I know that my Valliant relatives were originally property of John Spencer Valliant & his wife Martha from I believe Maryland. These Valliants moved from Maryland to Alabama then to Mississippi. My great grandfather was definitely listed, as was other slaves, as property of these Valliants. He, along w/other slaves were given to John & Martha Valliant's children after their death.
When slavery was abolished, my great grandfather stayed in Oxford, MS and was remembered by many of the older residences there - both black & white (from my family's visits there in the late 1960's & early 1970's). Basically, according to the older residences, there seemed to be a question as to my great grandfather's lineage, as he is supposedly buried there in Oxford in the previously ''white only cemetary. His occupation there in Oxford was one remembered vividly by many of these older residences.
My mother is now in her 90's and is possibly one of the oldest livng Valliants around.
If anyone has any info regarding the Valliants from Oxford, Mississippi, please respond to this message board. I know that my great grandfather, Henry Valliant had many children, and my grandmother was only one of them. I do not know what became of his other children and their children, or what became of my great grandfather's siblings either. I believe that the Valliants who lived in nearby Clay Countyy were related to him (see previous msgs from '01, '02, .03)
Some of these Valliants supposedly moved to Kilgore, TX, and other cities in Texas as well as to other states.
I have one picture of my great grandfather Henry who was a very fair skinned man with a confident look.(dressed in a suit in the picture) Except for also being fair skinned, my mother does not greatly resemble him, but her mother (my grandmother) did.
Any info would be greatly appreciated, as this would be something very special for my mother to be able to experience in her lifetime.
Sandy
I know that my Valliant relatives were originally property of John Spencer Valliant & his wife Martha from I believe Maryland. These Valliants moved from Maryland to Alabama then to Mississippi. My great grandfather was definitely listed, as was other slaves, as property of these Valliants. He, along w/other slaves were given to John & Martha Valliant's children after their death.
When slavery was abolished, my great grandfather stayed in Oxford, MS and was remembered by many of the older residences there - both black & white (from my family's visits there in the late 1960's & early 1970's). Basically, according to the older residences, there seemed to be a question as to my great grandfather's lineage, as he is supposedly buried there in Oxford in the previously ''white only cemetary. His occupation there in Oxford was one remembered vividly by many of these older residences.
My mother is now in her 90's and is possibly one of the oldest livng Valliants around.
If anyone has any info regarding the Valliants from Oxford, Mississippi, please respond to this message board. I know that my great grandfather, Henry Valliant had many children, and my grandmother was only one of them. I do not know what became of his other children and their children, or what became of my great grandfather's siblings either. I believe that the Valliants who lived in nearby Clay Countyy were related to him (see previous msgs from '01, '02, .03)
Some of these Valliants supposedly moved to Kilgore, TX, and other cities in Texas as well as to other states.
I have one picture of my great grandfather Henry who was a very fair skinned man with a confident look.(dressed in a suit in the picture) Except for also being fair skinned, my mother does not greatly resemble him, but her mother (my grandmother) did.
Any info would be greatly appreciated, as this would be something very special for my mother to be able to experience in her lifetime.
Sandy