Grandma Julia

Meet this mother who bore and raised ten children, Julia Mae Jones Eastman, and yet was fervently determined to preserve the stories of her family ancestry. She meticulously filled the old black and white composition Sterling notebooks in a beautifully flowing longhand using pencil to write down her rich childhood memories. Within these writings she began with her great-great-grandmother, Edyth, who arrived in Virginia shackled as an African slave. Although Edyth was cruelly separated from ...