MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — I cannot prove with absolute certainty that I am a descendant of slaves who found freedom via the Underground Railroad. Of course, no one involved in…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — Much of the evidence of the Queen’s Bush community is gone. The community of escaped slaves and free Blacks had dwindled from as many as 1,500…
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“In some other parts of Canada the same tendency to spread into the outlying districts and secure small holdings appeared among the colored people. Mr. Peter Wright, the reeve of…
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“This name (Queen’s Bush) was originally given to a large, unsurveyed tract of land, now comprising the townships of Peel and Wellesley, and the country extending thence to Lake Huron.…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — The woman on the left is my grandmother, Yut-Seul Yee (or Yee Yut-Seul in proper Chinese naming order). The woman on the right is my great-grandmother,…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — Yee Jock Leong owned a laundry at 404 West 3rd Street in Dayton, Ohio, for most of his final 20 years. In one of his address…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — I believe Yee Jock Leong kept supporting his family financially, even after the dreadful Stock Market Crash of of 1929. He seemed wealthy before the crash.…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — By 1914, Yee Jock Leong was owned and operated a laundry at 438 Main Street, Irwin, Pennsylvania. But he stayed in touch with his family, and…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — Yee Jock Leong returned to China in 1905, I believe to get married. Before departure, he prepared his documents, compiling his birth certificate and other existing…
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MECHANICSVILLE, Va. (DML) — The family began preparing for Yee Jock Leong’s return to the United States before his departure from China. Yee Jock Leong, by virtue of being born…
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