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The last words that my father William S Allen your grandfather said that we needed to check out YborCity for information relating the family. The information was about my mother side of the family. Herfather Earl Jackson was once a student at Hampton University for a year his curriculum that of mortician,he transferred from Hampton University to a college in Florida. His wife my grandmother your greatgrandmother was Elizabeth Jackson a pianist who performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City,accompanying Arthur Catigan of Brooklyn NY who was my godfather.

Your great grandfather did own a Funeral Home in Brooklyn N.Y, and your great- great grandmother wasCarlotta Shackelford, who lived in Jacksonville Florida. She owned numerous homes, a small restaurant,and property. We were disinherited from receiving any of her properties. And my mother’s cousin whowas going to give my sister Jackie that information died the next week before she could obtain thatinformation for the family it was a complete cover-up on that end.

My grandmother your great-great disinherited us because my mother returned to NYC, reconciling withmy father your grandfather so because of that everything was given to others.

As this was months after me, my sister Judith and our mother your grandmother was in JacksonvilleFlorida I was 6 years old and Judy was 5 years old only good thing that was gained was the birth of yourfather and his sister Jackie.

Originally I was to be raised by my grandmother Elizabeth Jackson who was my mother’s mother, butshe died when I was a little over 2-years old, so I had to return back to my mother who was raising mysister Judy at the time so there was a reunion between my mother and my sister Judy.

Your great grandfather my father’s father was Benjamin F Allen, and his wife who was my father WilliamS Allen step mother. I never knew my father’s real mother’s name.

But my father has a sister who is about 82 year’s old living in New Jersey who once lived on the eastsideof New York City in Greenwich Village.

Her children are Carol Jones, and Richard Jones a retired NYC, Transit Motorman, he still lives in NYC.

Most of their family met up at my father’s funeral back in 1990s which your father was present and ourcousins. We did have a visit from one cousin Richard Jones some years ago but for some reason we areconnected anymore.

Oh yes please not your great grandfather Franklin F Allen was born in Petersburg Virginia and attendedthe Peabody Elementary School in the city.

We would have had photos of my grandmother actually lying in her coffin but all of the family photoswere destroyed in a fire at 2285 7th Avenue NYC when I was about 20 years old.

There are scattered photos but most folks won’t give them up so we could consolidate the entire groupof photos.

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Hopefully one day I will be able to scan the photos I have onto a disc as I do have a few videos onfacebook of my sons , my wife and myself if you check out my page under videos’. This is why I havetried to maintain a photos gallery sometimes it can become overwhelming at times. I had a disc aroundour home but for some reason I can locate it, and it took some time to scan them all.

So hopefully one day the new generations will take up the cause and search out our family in detail asVanessa and Jackie was doing something like that many years ago but responsibilities can make a personsidestep this type of endeavor.

Remember I’m typing this off the top of my head and not really proofing it as I type on.

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As I see it, it will be very difficult to compile all of the data needed to build a family tree.

Uncle

Barry

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