Ferrill Genealogy Research

02/01/2026

I created a documentary on the history of white passing in American history. The documentary is the story of a slave named "Queen" who passed for white to su...

07/03/2025

A collage of the Women in my Lineage
Mary Etta aka Eddie Jones Burney
Mollie Evelyn Burney Wilson
Shirley Wilson (Pratt )Ferrill
K’Andria Pratt (Graham)
Kiana Chatman
Naomi Chatman

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06/19/2023

Found

New Burney kinfolk
Curtis and Henry Burney from Adamsville
Hey Y’all

09/21/2021

Hey Cuzzo Twin

07/02/2021

“ In spite of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 altered the status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, it did not emancipate some hundreds of thousands of people who remained slaves until the 1960s.

As historian and genealogist Antoinette Harrell discovered, slaves in Southern states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Florida were still being held in slavery more than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.”

But y’all go head and celebrate the 4th

In spite of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 altered the status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to free, it did not emancipate some hundreds of thousands of people who remained slaves until the 1960s.

03/30/2021

1823 to 1827
Record of Monroe Church Session~
North Alabama Presbytery

The following information is extracted from a book by the above title. It was graciously sent to me by a LOVE and COLBERT researcher of the "Five Civilized Tribes", T.C. Patrick.

03/30/2021

My maternal Grandmother
Mary Etta aka Eddie Jones Burney and her sisters