...Aiken, SC and Willie (Fredrikca) Bright, Trenton, SC; uncle, Henry Curry, Sr., aunts, Mary Oliphant, Carrie Butler, Hattie Simpkins, Alice Dobey and Martha Curry; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Friends may call...
...Aiken, SC and Willie (Fredrikca) Bright, Trenton, SC; uncle, Henry Curry, Sr., aunts, Mary Oliphant, Carrie Butler, Hattie Simpkins, Alice Dobey and Martha Curry; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Friends may call...
...with his sentence. On the other hand, a local prominent white man sexually assaulted a 15-year-old black girl, Carrie Butler, who worked as a maid in his family's home. She was impregnated at 15 and gave birth to Essie Mae Washington...
...free." Williams announced last weekend she is the illegitimate daughter of Thurmond, a former segregationist, and Carrie Butler, a maid for the Thurmond family. Thurmond was 22 and Butler was 16 when Williams was born in 1925. "I knew him...
...Edgefield District Genealogical Society building. Mrs. Washington-Williams, the daughter of Mr. Thurmond and Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked for the Thurmonds as a housekeeper, grew up with an aunt and uncle in Coatesville...
...in Coatesville, Pa., by Mary and John Washington. Her world changed at age 13 when Mary Washington's sister, Carrie Butler, told Essie Mae she was her biological mother. Ms. Williams, now 79, yearned to know more about her other family...
...result of a liaison between the then-22-year-old Mr. Thurmond and a black maid in his parents' Edgefield house, Carrie Butler. Ms. Butler was 16 at the time, Ms. Williams has said. Early in his 48-year Senate career, Mr. Thurmond instructed...
...Thurmond provided over the years was "a very substantial amount" but less than $1 million. Williams' mother, Carrie Butler, was unmarried when she gave birth to her in 1925. Butler's neighbors in the impoverished section of Edgefield...
...Curry, Gloria Curry, and Velma Jean (Ervin) Daily; a brother, Henry Curry, Sr.; five sisters, Mary Oliphant, Carrie Butler, Alice Dobey, Hattie M. Simpkins, and Martha Curry; 12 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; a host of nieces...
...Belvedere, S.C., Michael (Edwina) Stringer and Douglas Stringer, Hephzibah, Ga.; five sisters, Mary Oliphant, Carrie Butler, Washington, D.C., Hattie Simpkins, Alice Dobey and Martha Curry, Edgefield, S.C.; two brothers, Henry...
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