by boxcar-admin | Oct 26, 2016
Versa May (Hamilton) Roach was born April 15, 1916 in Dresden, Tennessee to Robert and Callie (King) Hamilton. Versa married Louis Roach in Tennessee and moved to Washtenaw County, where her husband found work at the University of Michigan Hospital, with her family in...
by boxcar-admin | Oct 5, 2016
Genevieve Ward Williams was born November 8th 1890 on Ridge Road in Superior Township. She was the fourth child of Archibald and Rebecca Luvenia Ward, tenant farmers on the McDougal farm off Ford Road. Her father came to Washtenaw County from Indiana and her mother...
by boxcar-admin | Oct 5, 2016
Leo Crawford Clark was born July 28, 1930 in Newport, Arkansas to Dr. Samuel F. and Hattie C. Clark. The Clark family came to Ypsilanti in 1938 and here his father practiced medicine from their Hawkins Street home. Graduating from the Michigan State Normal...
by boxcar-admin | Sep 16, 2016
Emroy Lois (Woods) Cook was born July 25, 1929 to Sam and Ethel Woods in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her family joined the Great Migration and came to the Ypsilanti area in the 1940s. Settling in Willow Village, she witnessed the struggle to end school and housing...
by boxcar-admin | Aug 8, 2016
Charles Eugene Beatty Sr. was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1909. After the death of his parents, Eugene came to Michigan after to live with his sister and graduated from Detroit Northeastern High School. There he became a star track and field athlete. Winning...
