Sunday, March 31, 2024

 Why were you invited to this newsletter?   This is what all of us have in common.

    In the early stages of the website some very interesting family history was included. It took us back to the early 1780's with Charles and Sarah Marshall, the parents of Mathew Marshall Ford who was Enslaved. It went on to tell us how Jane Ford a free woman married a slave and so Mathew took on her Surname. Jane and Mathew had 17 children. And finally, it explained our Early beginnings in what is known as Culpeper, Virginia. 

  You may not have been a history buff, but Culpeper was the sight of the most military battles in the Civil war.  Why is this important to Our family?  Jane and Mathew (a former slave) ran a commissary for the Union Army in the midst of the war.  Less than a mile away from the homestead was a military jail. 

  You have to ask yourself: What kind of People were Our Family!  Some of our new readers may still ask: Why  is Jane and Mathew important to us. Well Jane and Mathew fathered Richard Ford who married Sarah and had Mary T who in turn married Dock Stroud.  Well, hold on, Dock  and Mary had 5 daughters who eventually moved to Mount Vernon, N.Y and married into the Haden, Tucker, Michael,  Ford and Wyatt Family.  Need I say more?

The 142nd Edition

Peace. love and Grace,

We had two amazing months of discovery, February with Black History month and March  Women's History Month. I want to encourage you to designate April as healing and revealing month. We have all heard the old saying: " everyone has secrets"! Well, if your secret is your pain, your hurt or your loss; don't give your secret a home to fester and grow. Open the door, call the secret what it is and seek help to let it out.

     By keeping the secret, it changes you into what it wants you to be. By taking steps to pull the covers off, it takes away the power the secret has on you. I encourage each of you to take back control and take one step at a time to heal.  One tiny step to a major leap  and heal what secretly troubles you. Trust in sharing so you can heal

     Make it your mantra " In my house secrets are not in control"!  Family, April is our Mental Health Month.  We are not only going to survive but We are going to Thrive!!  Much Love and continued Grace.  

The messages in this newsletter are to offer hope, encouragement  and acknowledgement.  So I trust you will reach out to one another and share your victories, desires and needs.  We can only hope you will find this newsletter worthy of your time and take a moment to read and share your news with us.  Please send any thoughts, messages or history to fullergail@hotmail.com or give me a call at 646 8515247; I'll answer. 


Wider Horizon Book Club

We encourage you to join us on the last Saturday of each month to discuss our book choice or be a part of ongoing circle of friends. 

April's  book will be "Somebody's Daughter" . A memoir  by Ashley C. Ford .So join us at our virtual book Club meeting.  The date April 27th  at 4:00 EST

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To join our monthly Book club visit us at: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/27950/join/6352f4/

Stop in and see what this group is all about. Bring your glass. We believe you will be pleasantly surprised and drawn into joining us again. All ages are welcome to join us.

Good News

The news doesn't get any better than this!  Atlanta Georgia welcome the newest family member. Cairo Nasir Turner born March 22nd Palm Sunday.  The proud parents are Danielle Haden and Byron Turner. His grandmother is Denise Haden and his Great grandparents are the late Lloyd Jr and Dorothy Haden.  Much love and happiness to the Family. Anyone wishing to show some love to Danielle her cashapp is $NappyOtaku

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Put it on your calendar, start your savings account we are headed back to Las Vegas Nevada on Sept 21,2024 for Relay For Life.   Royster Family and Friends and Sister's from the Heart will be representing as National winners of the American Cancer Society  Spirit and Fundraising team! Mark your Calendars

 Great news from Los Angeles California. The teacher of our own Khiem Benjamin Jr. sent this message to his Proud parents Khiem and Marcella Fuller Benjamin: Shout to KJ Benjamin for always being a positive ray of sunshine everyday at school.


Happy 58th Anniversary to our Elders  Norman and Elizabeth "Betty" Tucker Scotland . Elizabeth is the daughter of Harry P Sr. and Helen Stroud Tucker


Prayer Warriors:

Giving All Honor and Praise to the Most High for granting us Grace.  May he continue guide and protect our Paths and give us strength when we are weak.  

Don't forget our Elders in your daily prayers! As well as some of our family members who have experienced recent losses.  

Let us keep our Cousins,  Teresa Haden Boone in Texas,  Jasmine Jennings in Texas, Rhassan Boone in Rhode Island and Lynn Branco Boone in California, in our prayers as they prepare to memorialize Jamal Myles Boone on April 14th. We will provide the zoom link once we have it.

Healing prayers go out to Carol Smith in Georgia.

Please pray for our Young Adults who are desperately trying to find themselves. Pray, support and give them tough love guidance. As a people we have accomplished a lot more with a lot less.


Our History   

The Stroud name came from...  Last month we shared the results of what collaborating family Genealogist have proven through DNA connections.  A few years ago we shared with you the story of Berry  O'kelly, who was the founder of the first African American school in Method, North Carolina and a Civil rights activist.  'Berry's mother was Precious  Frances Stroud.  This story and many others have been verified by present day DNA matches.

   So the Stroud name is derived from the enslaver Bryant Strowd a white land owner in North Carolina and Tennessee. One of the earliest Stroud's whose existence is documented was Ned " Edward" Stroud b. March 1819 near Cross White, Orange County North Carolina and died Feb.10,1915 in Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. Ned "Edward" Stroud fathered 21 children and was the son of  Lasley "Leslie" and Vina Stroud Lord.  Ned, was the grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather of one hundred and fourteen children 


Ned had 10 known brothers and sisters.  Edward "Ned" Stroud was the brother of our 2nd Great Grandfather David "Doc" Stroud.  David is the father of our own Benjamin "Dock" Stroud, who was the husband of our Mary T Ford

     Edward "Ned" Stroud  was listed in the will of the white enslaver Bryant Strowd a North Carolina and Tennessee landowner..  Ned was willed to Bryant Strowds children upon his death  in 1857.  Bryant Stroud enslaver of  Edward "Ned " Stroud died and left the following will that reads in part: It is my will and desire that all my just debts be first paid. My will and desire is that at the decreat that all my first lot of Negroes; Virginia, Sam, Ned Dave and Jimmy. They and their children Cornelia, Avis and Harriet and Elizas and little girl. Mariah and all there increase to be equally divided by lot or sale between my six oldest children or their representation                                                                                                             
     Ned's story is a thriller from beginning to end. Ned lived to serve as a witness against the KKK.  If that weren't enough he testified against the Governor of North Carolina as he was a member of the KKK,  Ned had two noted experiences with the KKK. the first being when 16 men in hoods  came to his house and dragged him and his sons out.  They threaten to hang  his sons . They made Ned hug a tree and they beat him with a whip 25 times. They than threatened they would return kill and burn his house down. The second incident occurred in 1871 when Ned had just  moved into his home two weeks earlier. Again Ned and his children were threatened with hanging. Ned's encounter was recorded in the newspaper .

      Our ancestor Edward Ned Stroud was beaten and threaten yet he lived to tell his story.  Ned' s final act of courage was his testimony against the Governor of North Carolina.   Which ended in the impeachment of than Gov. William W Holden.
Testimony in the Impeachment of Gov. William Woods Holden
02 March 1871 • Raleigh, North Carolina  Raleigh Daily Telegram March 3,1871 Page2
Ned Stroud testified to his experience with the KKK in the impeachment trial of Gov. William W. Holden.
 He was the 2nd American Governor to be impeached, and the first to be removed from office. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, Holden advocated for Southern rights to expand slavery and sometimes supported the right of secession, but by 1860 he had shifted his position to support the Union.[4] Holden and his newspaper fell out of favor with the state Democratic Party, and he was removed as the state's printer when he editorialized against secession in 1860.[6]: 123  The main charges against Holden were related to the rough treatment and arrests of North Carolina citizens by state militia officer Colonel George W. Kirk during the enforcement of Reconstruction civil rights legislation. Holden had formed the state militia to respond to the assassination of Republican senator John W. Stephens on May 21, 1870

Holden was the first governor in American history to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

Edward "Ned" Stroud a man of Strength, integrity and fearlessness. 




  

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