Andree Roaf

Chester W. Sully, b. 1847, Virginia. Son of Mary Randolph. One grandmother was named Julia Lyons. Married to Rosa J. Edwards, b. 1852, Chesterfield County, VA. Daughter of Ballard Trent Edwards and Sarah Coy.

Rosa J. Edwards, b. 1852, Chesterfield County, VA, daughter of Ballard Trent Edwards and Mary Coy Edwards, married to Chester W. Sully. Teacher, member of historic black First Baptist Church of South Richmond.

Mary Estelle Highgate, African Canadian, seamstress, b. June 5, 1889, Dresden, Kent County, Ontario, d. October 12, 1948, Norfolk, VA. Daughter of Alfred Highgate and Louisa Donnelly Highgate, married to John Wesley Anderson (all pictured elsewhere on this site). Mother of Agatha Phoebe, Ruth, and Kenneth Wesley Anderson.

John Wesley Anderson, African American, b. October 22, 1887 in Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama, died August 27, 1959 in Norfolk, Virginia. Son of William Anderson and Lucy Crowell Anderson, graduated Wilberforce College in Xenia, Ohio and Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Charter member Aplha Phi Alpha fraternity at Yale, A.M.E. church membership. Married to Mary Estelle Highgate (pictured elswhere on this site) who was born in Dresden, Ontario, Canada. Papa Anderson loved driving more than anything, and would drive the family to Alabama and Ontario every summer to visit grandparents.

Mrs. Louisa Donnelly Highgate, wife of Alfred Highgate, of Dresden, Ontario, Canada, with her five daughters: Hazel, Louisa, Bert, Alice Maude, Mary Estelle, Janet (in front). African Canadian
People in photo include: Louisa (Donnelly) Highgate, Hazel Highgate, Louisa Highgate, Bert Highgate, Alice Maude Highgate, Mary Estelle Highgate, and Janet Highgate

A photo of Benjamin Thomas Layton and Bessie Brown Layton, 50th wedding anniversary photo, 1925
People in photo include: Benjamin Thomas Layton and Bessie (Brown) Layton

Serena Ann Davis
b. Clara Delores Layton
Birth: Aug. 29, 1943
Columbus
Franklin County
Ohio, USA
Death: Jan. 27, 1988
District Of Columbia, USA [Edit Dates]

Born Clara Delores Layton, moved with familty to Muskegon, Michigan in 1951. Graduated from Lansing, MI Sexton High School and earned Bachelor's degree from Michigan State Univ. in advertising. Worked as advertising copywriter in Michigan and New Jersey. Married J. Otis Davis in 1968; divorced in 1975. Moved to Washington, DC in 1975. Author, Guide to the New World, founder Trust for Transpersonal Property. Parents William and Phoebe Layton, sisters Andree Layton Roaf and Mary J. Layton, life partner Robert Barraclough. [Edit Bio]

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Washington
District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA

Alfred Highgate, African Canadian, farmer, b. February 6, 1865, Kent County, Ontario, died 1948, Kent County, Ontario. Son of Oliver and Eliza Highgate, married to Louisa Donnelly, ten Children.

Oliver Highgate,(based on this large framed photo hanging in his Ontario farmhouse) African Canadian, farmer, b. 1806, Chester County, PA, died 1881, Kent County, Ontario. Son of Aaron Highgate , b. 1764, Chester County, PA and Susanna, b. 1780 PA. Marrird to Eliza, b. 1816, PA. Emigrated to Ontario from Pittsburgh, PA area in 1850s, after the passage of the federal Fugitive Slave Act, along with brothers Aaron Highgate and James Henderson Highgate.

Lucy Crowell, seamstress, laundress, b. Union Springs, AL 1866, died Union Springs, AL May 16, 1937. Daughter of Eliza Crowell, step-father Henry Henderson. Married to William Anderson, second husband was Isaiah Cooper. Mother of John Wesley Anderson (pictured elsewhere on this site).

Ballard Trent Edwards, (African American), from Richmond, VA, Virginia State legislator during reconstruction
People in photo include: Ballard Trent Edwards

William Brown Layton, born in Millwood, Clarke County, VA 1887, son of Benjamin Thomas Layton and Bessie Brown Layton, married to Mary Amanda Sully of Richmond, VA. Graduate of St. Paul Normal School in Hanover, VA, blacksmithing, Superintendent of Virginia Boys Training School at Hanover 1920s - 1948.

Harriett & Henrietta Harris, beautiful(black/white/native american)twin daughthers of Robert Alexander Harris & Ellen Thompson Donnelly Harris, half sisters of Louisa Donnelly Highgate (pictured elsewhere on this site). Ellen Thompson (b. Ohio 1849) was the daughter of Alfred Vanacter Thompson (b. free 1816 Tenn.) and Ellen Cannon Thompson (b. free 1922 S.C., was one of five sets of twins born to her mother), who emigrated to Canada ca. 1865.

Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Roaf (Charlotte Boughton), 50th Anniversary photo.
People in photo include: Arthur Roaf and Charlotte Boughton Roaf

Ellen Thompson, b. 1852, in Ohio, daughter of Alfred V. Thompson (b. free Tennessee) and Susan Cannon Thompson (b. free South Carolina) , with her second husband, Robert Alexander Harris. Thompsons were African/European/Native American ancestry, and emigrated to Ontario in the 1860s. Her first husband was Edward Donnelly, and they had a daughter, Louisa Donnelly, b. 1869, in Kent County, Ontario, Canada. Louisa married Alfred Highgate, and is pictured with her daughters on this site under the Highgate surname. Highgates also emigrated to Ontario, from Allegheney County, PA, in the 1850s.