Rev. John Drew (1832-1890) B. Orange Co., NC and died Jackson Co., KY
Please see the last paragraph. Thanks.Our/my (Half) 3rd G-uncle Rev. John Drew (1823-1890) was recorded as being mulatto in "A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea ... By Richard D. Sears: (see 3rd paragraph thanks)
note 55. 'Since I have the story about the Ricmond slaveholder's children in confidence---but on very good authority---the name of the enterprising former slaveholder, still very well known in Madison County, must remain undiscovered.
Some of the people from the mountains who supported Berea were involved in mixed marriages. Greenberry Cotton and his wife Polly lived in McKee, Jackson County, in the 1860s and then in Manchester by 1877. He was a mulatto, and she was white. He was not a slave in 1860 and may have never been. The census taker of that year classified some of the children as mulatto and some as white, surely the basis of appearance alone. Seven of the Cotton children attended Berea.
Reverend John Drew, mulatto, and his wife Isabella, white, were another Jackson County couple who supported Berea's work. Their sons Napoleon and Rufus attended Berea in 1867 and their daughter Catherine in 1870. Eventually, Drew would become minister of the church (John G.) Fee had founded at Camp Nelson. Excerpt from"A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea ... By Richard D. Sears. Copied by 3rd (Half) 3rd G-nephewJ. W. Drew Whitaker 12.6.12
See website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gregg_Feehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gregg_Fee ( may be reached at [email protected] or my facebook under the name of Drew Whitaker.
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Re: Rev. John Drew (1823-1890) B. Orange Co., NC and died Jackson Co., KY