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CopperLady Lynette
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she/her Haunting the dead 🪦 Foolish thoughts my own. Ally 🏳️‍🌈 👊🏾 and always learning
Feb 13, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
#CivilWar veteran Theophilus L Covington widowed two women and was a widower once before his own death in 1911.

I still have significant gaps in his story from his birth to 1875.

Where should I start? Maybe chronology will be key. So... #BHM #USHistory #MIHistory🧵 1st sign I have of him is 1860 census where we see his wife Anna Ward Covington and daughter Gertrude, aged 2, born in Michigan. Living in Owosso, Shiawassee County - which became a sundown town. No Theophilus. 2/
Feb 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Arthur Tays was a showman, restaurant owner and more in Iron Mountain, MI.

Son of formerly enslaved Union veteran Rev. Christopher Tays, he grew up in Missouri. #MIHistory #BHM #Unerasing Seeking medical attention was almost impossible for a Black man in Iron Mountain circa 1900. Tays died as a result of a tooth allowed to decay so badly his jaw went with it.
Sep 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
William Docking Warner is a "famous" family member who started saying he was born in Wisconsin 1840-1842 about the time of the Civil War.

Sources say he knew that was a lie. 1841 Camborne, Cornwall census Image He came to the U.S. in 1842 aboard the Isabella arriving in Fall River, Massachusetts. They went to Wisconsin, lead mining, and the children were orphaned a few years later. Image
Sep 12, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Ontonagon peeps... anyone else remember being told by their reassuring parents the bones they found on the beach near the Epidote St. dead end were just cows? Phew... oh wait.

Dead end is apropos. Ontos' first Catholic church and graveyard were riiiiight there. #Cemeteries Image St. Patrick's in the Sand Image
Aug 1, 2021 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
A woman of African descent inherits significant property. Hubby and son have her hospitalized as insane. She challenges them and gains her business back, founds/sells a town - much as her mother did. Meet Gertrude Covington Phillips. #Keweenaw #BlackHistory #WomensHistory 🧵 Image Gertrude was born in Detroit in the late 1850s to Anna Ward Covington & unknown Covington (#genealogytwitter 👀 for a challenge? Find Covington lol) in 1860 she and her mother are in the household of barber James Evans in Owosso. Might Mary Evans sister to Anna? #MichiganHistory Image