Re: SESSOMS of Nash County, Rocky Mount, NC
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In reply to:
Re: SESSOMS of Nash County, Rocky Mount, NC
3/10/99
Cheryl,
My Afr-Amer gg grand father, Virgil Sessums, was born in Edgecombe County ( in Swift Creek Township) in 1833. He and his wife, Patience, had three children....Clinton Sessums (my great grandfather), born 1866; Ida, born 1869; and Della, born 1871. Sometime around 1890 Clinton Sessums moved to Wytheville, Virginia
where he married my greaty grandmother.The 1870 Federal census for Edgecombe County, NC,shows Virgil Sessums, Patience and their children living in a neighborhood in Swift Creek very near a family headed by Mary Anne Sessums, the widow of Wilson Sessums. I believe Virgil was a slave on the property of Mary Ann Sessums in the 1860s.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows anything about any of these people. My e-mail address is [email protected]