Here's more from Karen on her genealogical research........
I'm very excited for what I found at the Schomburg Library's online list of holdings. They have copies from the first decades of the 20th century of the Cleveland Advocate, the Ohio State Journal, The Cleveland Gazette and I've already looked at the Schomburg's holdings from BT Washington's National Negro Business League --all holdings include documents by or about RW Tyler. So as soon as possible I will start researching these and I'm sure I'll be able to update and enlarge the bio......
Karen
Saturday, March 26, 2005
From cousin Karen Taborn of NYC
Karen Taborn writes from New York...............
Dear family members,
I am the daughter of Jeannette Taborn. Jeannette is the daughter of Ralph Tyler II. My mother, other members of my family and myself are planning on meeting you all in Columbus in August. I'm thrilled with the work Kelly and the Homecoming Committee members are making toward are upcoming August 5-6 meeting. I've been reading the articles by and about RW Tyler posted on the Ohio Historical Society's website and information housed at the Schomburg Library in New York City and hope to update my brief bio on RW Tyler on the Homecoming site within the coming weeks.
Best wishes to you all and I'm really looking forward to meeting you this summer!
Karen Taborn
Dear family members,
I am the daughter of Jeannette Taborn. Jeannette is the daughter of Ralph Tyler II. My mother, other members of my family and myself are planning on meeting you all in Columbus in August. I'm thrilled with the work Kelly and the Homecoming Committee members are making toward are upcoming August 5-6 meeting. I've been reading the articles by and about RW Tyler posted on the Ohio Historical Society's website and information housed at the Schomburg Library in New York City and hope to update my brief bio on RW Tyler on the Homecoming site within the coming weeks.
Best wishes to you all and I'm really looking forward to meeting you this summer!
Karen Taborn
Monday, March 21, 2005
Family tree update from Katherine Tyler
Email received from Katherine Tyler, daughter of Ralph & Zoe Tyler of cleveland Heights, OH....
Hi im Katherine Sydney tyler (daughter of Ralph and Zoe). Im 16 and from cleveland and found the web site...very cool. just some additions to help you out..
1) Ralph Harrison Tyler = my older brother, born January 5, 1986
2)my sister Mariel Elizabeth and i are twins and our birthday is April 5, 1988
3)My older sister Sarah Louise Tyler birthday is Decmber 6, 1979
4)our cousins (daughter of Kim Tyler and Micheal Wright (who is deceased) ) are Leah Wright whose birthday is June 30, 1978 and her younger sister Chaney Wright whose Birthday is May 25, 19 they have a younger brother named Kendall Pleasant born November 10, 1994
5) Lauren and Steve Mersereau have one more child ...her name is Cole Anne Mersereau born April 9th, 2002
Hi im Katherine Sydney tyler (daughter of Ralph and Zoe). Im 16 and from cleveland and found the web site...very cool. just some additions to help you out..
1) Ralph Harrison Tyler = my older brother, born January 5, 1986
2)my sister Mariel Elizabeth and i are twins and our birthday is April 5, 1988
3)My older sister Sarah Louise Tyler birthday is Decmber 6, 1979
4)our cousins (daughter of Kim Tyler and Micheal Wright (who is deceased) ) are Leah Wright whose birthday is June 30, 1978 and her younger sister Chaney Wright whose Birthday is May 25, 19 they have a younger brother named Kendall Pleasant born November 10, 1994
5) Lauren and Steve Mersereau have one more child ...her name is Cole Anne Mersereau born April 9th, 2002
Email from Eve T. Wikins re: Everett Tyler
Thanks to cousin Jeanette Taborn for making the connection for the Everett Tyler branch of the family. The following email was received today from his daughter, Eve T. Wilkins........
Everett Tyler's mother died when he was very young, he spent many of his youth with his maternal grandparents in Cleveland, where he graduated from East Tech High School where he was on the track team He graduated fom Ohio State. Returning to Cleveland. he graduated from the John Marshall School of Law, while a student there he worked as a sportswriter at the Cleveland Call and Post. In 1928, following her grauation he married Edna Mayer. (b. 1908, in Washington, D.C.) when she was a student at Oberlin College. They met at the home of Gerald Tyler where she along with other Oberlin students lived with Gerald Tyler and his family.
Following their marriage Everett and Edna settled in Cleveland and had one child, EveEstelle Tyler, (b. 1933). Everett practiced law there and Edna, after receiving her Masters in Social Work, worked in Department of Welfare. Both Everett and Edna died in 1991 in Cleveland.
Eve graduated from the University of Michigan in 1955, married Roger Wilkins in 1956, divorced in 1976. They had two children:
Amy Tyler Wilkins, b. 1959, Booklyn NY, married Lane Davenport --1 child, Tyler Edward Davenport b.2002
David Earl Wilkins b. 1964
Eve recently retired from the US Department of State, Office of Protocol, she has lived in Washington since 1973.
Eve, Amy and her family live in Washington
David lives in Baltimore.
I will try to answer any questions, thank you for all of hard work.
Eve Tyler Wilkins
Everett Tyler's mother died when he was very young, he spent many of his youth with his maternal grandparents in Cleveland, where he graduated from East Tech High School where he was on the track team He graduated fom Ohio State. Returning to Cleveland. he graduated from the John Marshall School of Law, while a student there he worked as a sportswriter at the Cleveland Call and Post. In 1928, following her grauation he married Edna Mayer. (b. 1908, in Washington, D.C.) when she was a student at Oberlin College. They met at the home of Gerald Tyler where she along with other Oberlin students lived with Gerald Tyler and his family.
Following their marriage Everett and Edna settled in Cleveland and had one child, EveEstelle Tyler, (b. 1933). Everett practiced law there and Edna, after receiving her Masters in Social Work, worked in Department of Welfare. Both Everett and Edna died in 1991 in Cleveland.
Eve graduated from the University of Michigan in 1955, married Roger Wilkins in 1956, divorced in 1976. They had two children:
Amy Tyler Wilkins, b. 1959, Booklyn NY, married Lane Davenport --1 child, Tyler Edward Davenport b.2002
David Earl Wilkins b. 1964
Eve recently retired from the US Department of State, Office of Protocol, she has lived in Washington since 1973.
Eve, Amy and her family live in Washington
David lives in Baltimore.
I will try to answer any questions, thank you for all of hard work.
Eve Tyler Wilkins
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Family Research continues.....
Details are really moving along and I'm going to be adding posts more frequently to help let everyone know how all aspects of the homecoming areprogressing. In addition to focusing on event details, keeping the family research moving forward is something I really enjoy.
Ancestry.com has bee an excellent tool for researching the family. They continue to add more and more records so something I searched for 6 months ago may be in their databases now. I've been able to find census, military and birth-death records for many of James S. Tyler's children. I found his Civil war pension record as well as listings in Columbus, Oh directories that showed several of his positions such as cook, watchman and clerk. Many of his sons worked as porters at one time or another. James A, who was the doctor showed up as a porter in the 1880 census. Ralph W. shows up in the 1880 census as a grocer.
AnnMcAfee, James S. Tylers mother-in-law shows up in the 1850,1860 and 1870 census as a widow, so I'm still not certain when her husband, William Logan McAfee died. Did you realize that James S. Tylers mother as well as mother in-law were names Ann?
Another question is confirmation that Mariah (James S. Tyler's wife) had a sister names Clara who appears to have married her husband's brother William H. Tyler. Also living in Oberlin around the turn of the century were Mariah's daughter Ethel, who eventually married a Taborn (So did cousin Jeannette, she'll have to fill us in on the relation) and her son Jesse Gerald who was the first African American graduate of the Oberlin Music Conservatory in 1904.
It seems that Clara and William H. had several children who died either at birth or early in childhood according to birial records from Greenlawn Cemetary. One son appears to have lived to adulthood, William H. Tyler Jr. who seemed to have lived with his Uncle James. He shows up on the 1880 census as "nephew".
The Tyler's family home was located at 1107 Highland and all 12 children were born there. Census records also indicate the family having lived at 25 Highland as well. Interesting is that in all the articles written about family members they reference that they lived in a "brick home". That must have been a big deal for colored folk to live in a brick home.
The most interesting discovery of late was made over the weekend in relation to Britton Green. It is known fact that James Seneca's family came from Dinwiddie County Virginia. Britton Green was James S. Tyler's Grandfather. According to an article written in 1902, Britton and Sylvia Green along with their daughter Ann and her husband Walter Tyler were manumitted from slaverly sometime in 1837, possibly even in September and traveled to Columbus Ohio that month. Ann apparently was 9-moths pregnant during their journey as she gave birth to James Seneca Tyler on Oct. 13, 1837.
By chance I did a search for Britton Green and discovered him in the 1830 census in Dinwiddie County Virginia!!!!!!! What was fascinating and intriguing at the same time is that for him to be included in the census, he had to have been a free person of color. So was he free and Walter was still a slave? Oral history and included in an article about James S. later in life is that his father served in the Mexican War of 1846-1848. So he had to have been free too. Maybe it was Britton wh owas manumitted sometime earlier and they thy decided to leave. The only problem was that Virginia law at the time stipulated that all recently manumitted slaves had 30 days to leave the state after their manumission or they risked being returnd to slavery.
I have an made initial contact with the Historical Society of Dinwiddie as well as the county recorder of deeds and hope to gather more information on their manumission and find out who owned them.
Uncle Paul's family tree traces the McAfees back to a Dinah Henderson born in 1763. Accounts of William Logan McAfee state that he was from Virginia and was a "very bright mulatto". I was asked by a co-worker what mulatto meant. It was a common word for mixed race Americans taken from Mule, for hybrid. Several family members were listed as "mulatto" even in the census including Ralph W. Tyler, Mariah Tyler and James Adolph Tyler.
My ultimate goal is to discover our first ancestor who arrived in America. It boggles my mind that we have ancestors that were free as early as 1830. Something to think about......
Ancestry.com has bee an excellent tool for researching the family. They continue to add more and more records so something I searched for 6 months ago may be in their databases now. I've been able to find census, military and birth-death records for many of James S. Tyler's children. I found his Civil war pension record as well as listings in Columbus, Oh directories that showed several of his positions such as cook, watchman and clerk. Many of his sons worked as porters at one time or another. James A, who was the doctor showed up as a porter in the 1880 census. Ralph W. shows up in the 1880 census as a grocer.
AnnMcAfee, James S. Tylers mother-in-law shows up in the 1850,1860 and 1870 census as a widow, so I'm still not certain when her husband, William Logan McAfee died. Did you realize that James S. Tylers mother as well as mother in-law were names Ann?
Another question is confirmation that Mariah (James S. Tyler's wife) had a sister names Clara who appears to have married her husband's brother William H. Tyler. Also living in Oberlin around the turn of the century were Mariah's daughter Ethel, who eventually married a Taborn (So did cousin Jeannette, she'll have to fill us in on the relation) and her son Jesse Gerald who was the first African American graduate of the Oberlin Music Conservatory in 1904.
It seems that Clara and William H. had several children who died either at birth or early in childhood according to birial records from Greenlawn Cemetary. One son appears to have lived to adulthood, William H. Tyler Jr. who seemed to have lived with his Uncle James. He shows up on the 1880 census as "nephew".
The Tyler's family home was located at 1107 Highland and all 12 children were born there. Census records also indicate the family having lived at 25 Highland as well. Interesting is that in all the articles written about family members they reference that they lived in a "brick home". That must have been a big deal for colored folk to live in a brick home.
The most interesting discovery of late was made over the weekend in relation to Britton Green. It is known fact that James Seneca's family came from Dinwiddie County Virginia. Britton Green was James S. Tyler's Grandfather. According to an article written in 1902, Britton and Sylvia Green along with their daughter Ann and her husband Walter Tyler were manumitted from slaverly sometime in 1837, possibly even in September and traveled to Columbus Ohio that month. Ann apparently was 9-moths pregnant during their journey as she gave birth to James Seneca Tyler on Oct. 13, 1837.
By chance I did a search for Britton Green and discovered him in the 1830 census in Dinwiddie County Virginia!!!!!!! What was fascinating and intriguing at the same time is that for him to be included in the census, he had to have been a free person of color. So was he free and Walter was still a slave? Oral history and included in an article about James S. later in life is that his father served in the Mexican War of 1846-1848. So he had to have been free too. Maybe it was Britton wh owas manumitted sometime earlier and they thy decided to leave. The only problem was that Virginia law at the time stipulated that all recently manumitted slaves had 30 days to leave the state after their manumission or they risked being returnd to slavery.
I have an made initial contact with the Historical Society of Dinwiddie as well as the county recorder of deeds and hope to gather more information on their manumission and find out who owned them.
Uncle Paul's family tree traces the McAfees back to a Dinah Henderson born in 1763. Accounts of William Logan McAfee state that he was from Virginia and was a "very bright mulatto". I was asked by a co-worker what mulatto meant. It was a common word for mixed race Americans taken from Mule, for hybrid. Several family members were listed as "mulatto" even in the census including Ralph W. Tyler, Mariah Tyler and James Adolph Tyler.
My ultimate goal is to discover our first ancestor who arrived in America. It boggles my mind that we have ancestors that were free as early as 1830. Something to think about......
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