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It should be understandable that some of the material listed here as fact is not indisputable and with the present knowledge of slavery and the “slave/Master”, it goes without saying that in the legal sense many of the marriages listed herein were of the heart and “Master’s” permission. If they were recorded at all, most of the time they were listed in the Home Bible and not at the courthouse.
When the early members of this and other families were born, such things as differences in the surnames and the indisputable fact that many children that were born of a Black “married” couple could conceivable be the ‘get’ of the “Master” or some other “Stud” breeder, and not the ‘husband’. This fact does not indicate any less moral principles on the part of the slave, but to the extent that it was practiced, represented the often dehumanizing and immoral principles of the slave-master. Their was, and still is, not any compromising shame attached to those occurrences, because that was the way life was, and even then the first law of nature was to survive, and survive we did.
During the period that I have been assembling the names and information that follow, I have had some humbling experiences. I realized how little I knew about the families in the Magnolia Springs community, and how soon we forget those gone on before us.
This is a rather feeble attempt to commit to writing some of the known family history of the Magnolia Springs Community. All descendants from 1865 on in this community, excluding a few, descendant from four (4) Families: Frazier’s, Booker’s, Bean’s and Wright’s.
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