The Edwards cousins This is a picture of me and my cousins over to my paternal grandparent's house located at 2313 Shriver Avenue. Left to right, standing: Sandra Lee Edwards, Anita, Charlie Smitherman, David Franklin, Yvonne "Beetle" Edwards, Roosevelt Franklin, Steven Golder, Sitting: Joyce L. Edwards Moore, Mark Franklin in Aunt Dorothy's lap (Dorothy Edwards Thorne), and Janice M. Edwards Gardner.
Name of my aunt Mary's husband, Rev. W.H. Wyatt This past Thanksgiving (2921), Justin posted the video of our 1955 thanksgiving dinner. Joyce asked me a few questions about my aunt Mary. I had few answers. This week, I asked Sophie some questions, she gave me a key piece of information, everyone referred to him as Reverence Wyatt. Within hours, I found out that he died in 1941 and was a pastor of Good Hope Baptist Church in Indianapolis.
Joyce was a speaker at the Annual Black History Dinner – February 15, 2015 The National Council of Negro Women is a non-profit organization with a mission to advance opportunities and quality of life for Black women. NCNW fulfills this mission through research, advocacy, national and community based services and programs, in the United States and Africa.
Mt Helm celebrates it's 95th anniversary Reverend William D. Edwards was pastor of Mt. Helm for many years. Several of the Edwards descendants attended the celebration.
Moving to A Higher Ground
A Narrative History of Mt. Zion Baptist Church
by William F. Sims, Church Historian In 1869, African-Americans who lived in Fletcher Bottom about eight miles southwest of
Indianapolis usually worshiped at the White Lick Colored Baptist Church near
Bridgeport.or at the Lick Creek Baptist Church near Beech Grove. Sometimes during the
year, seven or eights persons who represented the two congregations met on Fletcher's
Farm to organize a new church. It is not know whether this group were ex-slaves or freed
men, but most of them apparently lived on Fletcher's Farm. It had been only seven years
since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 and the passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1866 that conferred citizenship upon Black Americans.
HISTORY OF NORTHSIDE NEW ERA MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
The Northside Baptist Church was organized in the year 1934 under the guiding hand of Rev. Broadus A. Hogan. The church which was located at the corner of 30th and Ethel Streets, made rapid growth numerically and spiritually under the pastorate of Rev. Hogan. In the year 1936 in the month of June, the property of 30th and Ethel Streets was purchased by the Northside Baptist Church. The transaction was completed by Rev. James T. Crable and the following named Trustees:
Eugene Rhea, Sr., John Gilmore, and Arthur Jefferson.
Joyce attended her last ACGA board meeting this February in Houston TX The ACGA Board members met in Houston, TX this month to plan for the upcoming year. We added more Board members which really strengthened the Board. Diversity is key to a successful board and we are a very diverse board.
Joyce shares her reflection on her aunt Virginia's 99th birthday celebration.
USCT Questions For over forty years two wonderful pictures by Burl Washington have hung in our dining room. The question that came to mind was are the uniforms "historically correct"?
