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Continue to Say His Name (with Kelley Dixon-Tealer and Alva Marie Jenkins) | Episode 11
In 1865, Hawkins Wilson, a Texas freedman, wrote letters searching for the family he was torn from as a young, enslaved boy more than 24 years earlier. Though time and distance separated them, his childhood memories remained vivid as he wrote to his "dearest relatives" through the Freedmen's Bureau, sharing the man he had become. His heartfelt letters remained unanswered in the Bureau's files for over 155 years - until his descendant Kelley Dixon-Tealer started a family tree on Ancestry.
In this moving episode, Kelley and her mother, Alva Marie Jenkins, share how discovering Hawkins' letters…
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