Revisiting a bloodline
30 year exhibition from 1994
As we have entered into the next phases of existence I believe I am justified to write the next part of history that has swarmed upon my footing, leaving traces of unknown familiarity with a twist of energetic creativeness that can’t be altered. I heartedly believe at this very moment the reasoning behind this literary piece was to finish off what might have still lingered for the descendants of J & F King. Despite disconnections that have been programmed and imbedded into the psyche, of this life, I hope your descendant’s find it purposeful that the language and vision used, comes with the honor of having traces of history that has said to be tainted with vain, cries, violence, inconsistences, faith, courage, promise. Thus, I do not have the energy to combat the opposition with anything more than what I have researched further. I do declare the naysays to contemplate in their own vicinities.
With some oral language from direct descendants , personal research that has been confirmed , I have always been puzzled on the questions I have not been able to answer. Glasco King how did you and your parents end up on that plantation in Wilmont, Arkansas from Perry, Alabama? Jessie & Frankie was your child’s name, Galsco, “Glasgow”? (Grandmother Ethel Lee Cabine use to say she had two birthdays’ what her mother reported and what the government put down?) Were your parents from Africa did you come from Africa? (Grandmother Ethel Lee Cabine told me about the slavery and indentured servitude of the family only in the Americas) Despite this, I must leave some of these unknown certainties to the past and I will move forward. Subsequently, I did not intend to rewrite anything much of what has already been noted. Yet, with the information/technology age, I can now piece together in more depth of the lineage that has been provided from both of you with new enlightenment.
It was written: Glasco King, born in Perry Co. Alabama, (Mvskoke, correction* Mascogee land) moved to a plantation in Wilmont, Arkansas with his parents , Jessie & Frankie King , the DeYampert( Ann King) holders, when he was nine. He lost his left arm while working in the cotton gin at fourteen. The DeYampert (King) family nursed him and sent him to Branch Normal College. Glasco married Nancy Smith, who became a schoolteacher and midwife. They had eight children. (Reference: Robert Porter > Ethel Lee) Furthermore, Glasco was a respected farmer and founder of the first black school, the G.C. King School. He was the first Black Postmaster General, Justice of Peace and a member of the Farmers Bureau and St. Marion Baptist Church.
Finding pictures of Frankie, much was not written yet a woman who bared children could not just be the ending, a mysterious presence of a slender silhouette whose name was passed down to my grandfather hences a bold force. The brief history of this lineage has sure impacted many generations beyond the direct line that I have been apart of. Not forgetting the other children of Jessie & Frankie and their offspring’s who have went onto to do many things in life, these two names have sparked my stubbornness of being intrigued by history that sets me on paths of discovery. The ignorances, family reunions and hours of scrolling through documents, I must say you were never lost and imbeciles. Yet your descendant’s are trailblazers and have continue to implement thought into action.
I have admitted the last known King Family Tree of 1994 into the the internet database along with other related documents regarding the Deyampert family. I will have to leave you now, Jessie & Frankie , let you feel this energy through the movement in which I will create and flow.
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