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The search or our family history is an interestin winding path. Along this path we have picked up bits and pieces of information in an attempt to put them together and get a better undersatnding as to where we came from. Our family story bgings in North Carolina, at least thats as far as we have been able to trace back. Most of our family is imbedded somewhere in the misty past where truths, untruths and dreams mingle.

Joseph Roberts (Roberds) wasborn in 1817 and died in 1897. Rose Roberds wife of Joseph Robert was said to be 118 year at her death. Turth? Dreams? One can only imagine what it would be like to see the world through 118 year old eyes, during slavery.

It has been said that Rosa and Joseph were separated from each other during slavery. Rosa was left on the land belonging to JC Smather. Joseph and thier boys were sold , but that record can not be found at this time. Rosa and Joseph's love did endure, when slavery ended they reunited and rasied their son's Joseph Jr., Amos, Charles, Calvin and Burt.

Amos had one son, Rendrick. Who was one of the first black men to carry US mail in North Carolina. Joseph Jr. moved to South Carolina, with his wife and 7 children, (Bessie, Julie, Jamie, Burt, Fleet, Goody and Hal).

Burt worked hard and prospered in Leicester, North Carolina. He owned land, farmed, built furniture, wells in instilled education and land owership in his offspring. In Leicester there is still a road named Burt Roberts's road and a mountain named Burt's Mountain. Burt Married twice and fathered fifteen children. Decedents of Burt still live and thrive on the land he left for them in North Caroline.

Calvin also remained in North Carolina to work and rasie his ten children after his wife Anna passed away. Calvin enlisted the help of one of his oldest daughters, Fannie to help raise her bothers and sisters while he worked the fields. Fannie and her husband Mance McAfee not only rasied their ten children but also her younger sister Laura Pat Roberts ( who later married John Craig). Laura passed from this earth in August of 1999 just 4 years shi of her 100 birthday. Fannie passed away in 1930.

Tom McAfee was born into slavery in 1834 . He lived for someperiod in Highlands, North Carolina but eventually settled in Leicester. Tom and His wife (Sylvia Love) had five children. Mance McAfee was one of them. Tom McAfee and several Roberts werethe builders and founding fathers of the Alexander Baptist Church. This church still stands in Leicester and is the site , each September, of a homecoming service which is attended by many of our family members.

It is said that many ofthe founding father of the church are buried under the foundation of the newest part of the church.

Whether your name is now McAfee, Roberts, Greenfield, Jones, Lytle, Williams, Payne, Cooper, Eggleston, Buttrum, Branch, Taylor, Robinson, Thomas, Buntin, Wilson, White, Campbell, Wiley, Smith, Ross, Maxwell, Phillips, West, Penland, Lawry, Hall, Howard, Clements, Mills, Anthony, Gadson, Fears, Dunlap, Butler, Ali, Cooper, Davis, Centers, Doublet, McGimpsey,Haynes, Ledbetter, Logan, Hunt and many many more. Spend Time getting to know more about your family history. Take pride in your history.