📚 BOOK #AD -- Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color -- "Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature." (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases.)
Lincecum Lineage
An occasional blog about a one-name study of the Lincecum surname, including variants.
A smattering of stories from other personal genealogy lines will meander in from time to time. These post titles are prefaced with (OTL) for off-topic line.
05 April 2025
Earlene Alston, Daughter of Rosena Lincecum (Virtual Graves)
📚 BOOK #AD -- Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color -- "Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature." (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases.)
04 April 2025
Daisy Lee Lynch, Daughter of Ella Lincecum, Drowns (Virtual Graves)
Born | 5 September 1908 | Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA |
Died | 21 April 1929 | West Columbia, Brazoria, Texas, USA |
Buried | West Columbia Cemetery | West Columbia, Brazoria, Texas, USA |
THREE DROWN IN TEXAS ON SUNDAY EVE
CAUGHT IN UNDERTOW OF RIVER NEAR WEST COLUMBIA.
WEST COLUMBIA, Tex., April 22. -- A joint funeral was to be held today for three West Columbia citizens who were caught in an undertow and drowned at the mouth of San Bernard River, twenty miles south of here, Sunday.
They are Gideon Lincecum, 30, his wife, about 28, and their niece, Mrs. Jack Lynch.
Two other West Columbia persons, Mrs. Lynch's husband and her mother, Mrs. Brown, managed to fight their way back to the shore, but Mrs. Brown still was in a serious condition today from the shock.
A large party of bathers, many of them relatives of the victims, stood on the shore helpless and witnessed the drowning. The bodies were washed ashore a short time later.
03 April 2025
Caledonia Hawthorne, Granddaughter of Caledonia Lincecum (Virtual Graves)
Born | 25 July 1896 | Louisiana, USA |
Died | 29 March 1966 | Jena, La Salle, Louisiana, USA |
Buried | Hawthorne Cemetery | Little Creek, La Salle, Louisiana, USA |
📚 BOOK #AD -- Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color -- "Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature." (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualified purchases.)
02 April 2025
Barbara Lucille Lincecum Musholt Adams Thurman (Virtual Graves)
Born | 18 February 1930 | Sacramento, California, USA |
Died | 23 February 1997 | Auburn, Placer, California, USA |
Cremated | Ashes to be Spread | Trinidad, Humboldt, California, USA |
01 April 2025
Aaron and Bertha Lincecum Craig (Virtual Graves)
- Lucille (1920-1935)
- Marvin A. (1922-1984)
- Howard C. (1923-1996)
- Glen A. (1926-1980)
- Alene E. (1929-2018)
- Richard Lee (1932-1932)
- Calvan (1937-1937)
- Alvin (1937-1937)
02 October 2024
Andrew Lincecum, Free Born
The term free people of color…in the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, at first specifically referred to persons of mixed African and European descent who were not enslaved. The term was especially used in the French colonies, including La Louisiane… In these territories and major cities, particularly New Orleans, and those cities held by the Spanish, a substantial…class of primarily mixed-race, free people developed. These colonial societies classified mixed-race people in a variety of ways, generally related to visible features and to the proportion of African ancestry…In the Thirteen Colonies, settled by the British, and later in the United States, the term free negro was often used to cover the same class of people – those who were legally free and visibly of ethnic African descent. It included persons of mixed race…
From 1699 to 1868, mixed color marriages were expressly forbidden.
So I wonder, were Rezin and Annise "officially" married? I just don't know the answer to that yet.
Returning to Andrew, specifically, his race was noted in a fairly consistent way across the census records taken throughout his life: 1880 – mulatto; 1900 – black; 1910 – black; 1920 – mulatto; and 1930 – negro.
Andrew was occupied as a farmer for the majority, if not all, of his adult life. About 1887-1889, he married Minerva Maxwell, possibly a daughter of Jackson and Mary Jane M(c?)axwell. Census takers considered her to be black, Indian, mulatto, and negro. The couple had five children: Wallace, Mary Ann (Anise), Roley, Otta (Ida), and Edward.
An interesting note might be that Andrew's son Roley (Rollo, Raleigh, Rolle, Rawlins) lived to be 100 years old.
By the time the 1940 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Federal census was taken, Minerva was a widow. She later died on 22 September 1956.
01 October 2024
Family Report for Altus Gideon Lincecum (1909-1979)
BOOK #AD - Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874: A Biography - "Possessed of a driving intellectual curiosity undeterred by lack of formal education, Lincecum examined all he confronted. He learned from Indians, he read widely, and he corresponded with the great minds of his day. In the process he became many things: physician, musician, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, and translator of Indian dialects..."
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Order of the Eastern Star Emblem Gravestone of Mrs. Nettie C. Hall Evergreen Cemetery at Fitzgerald, Georgia |