| Drew Williams is our African-American Research Specialist -- he has offered to help anyone who needs it with Kaufman County African-American Research. |
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Search Be sure to also check the entire site when searching for a specific surname as there are entries for African-Americans in other sections of this website. For example, the marriage section includes marriages between African-Americans. These records do not include which race the person belonged to; therefore, they are not separated out and included in the African-American Section. Another example is the census records as, from 1870 on, African-Americans were enumerated in the Federal Census Records; look under the slave schedules for 1860 and previous years as well as under the Federal Census Records for any African-Americans who may have been free prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. More information on African-Americans may be found under Kith & Kin, Family Group Sheets, Obituaries, Cemeteries, Churches, Schools, etc. In addition, Kaufman County Surnames, the posts to the Kaufman County Message Board at RootsWeb, posts to the Kaufman County, TX mailing list and posts to the Kaufman County, TX Archives are not included in the search engine for this site. See the search page for more search options. |
Hester RobertsonKnown as "Aunt Hester", to all who knew her, she and her husband, George, came to Kaufman County some time right after the Civil War from Harrisonburg, Louisiana. Born there as a slave of Elbert Guice, she continued to work for the Guice family after emancipation. She was the personal maid of Guice's daughter Cornelia, who became the wife of Benjamin F. Kitchen. The Kitchen family brought Hester to Kaufman County with them. Hester worked for the Kitchen, Guice and Price families the remainder of her life. In 1925 she had a reunion with some of the Kitchen children she raised, who at that time were in their 50's and 60's. She died in Elmo at the age of 90, on 16 Dec 1926, and is buried in the Shady Grove Cemetery beside relatives. You can see her census information by clicking here. She is considered a true African-American Pioneer of Kaufman County. **If you have information and/or photos of persons who were former slaves and lived in Kaufman County, please share your information with the Kaufman County Historical Commission so their lives can be documented in the county's archives. Plans have been made so those persons can be memorialized as the Pioneers they were. Send info to: kkhunt@mycvc.net |
