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This family portrait is of Wade Hampton Johnson, his wife Ella Mae Valiant and their first born son John William Wade. John William Wade was born in 1918 and was one of 8 children the couple eventually had.

Floy’s father, Robert Givhan, worked in the Fairbanks Morse foundry for thirty years after coming North from Mississippi in the 1930s.

After Floy’s mother came North with her husband, Robert, in the 1930s, she worked for the Kerry family caring for their children.

While growing up, Floy and her parents attended Second Methodist Church, which stood where Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association now stands (800 Pleasant Street). In this photo, a group of women attend a tea social. The woman at the far right is…

Floy Givhan brought a photo from a football team from her high school, Lincoln Jr. High School. She had many friends on the football team, but had to leave school when she became pregnant as a junior in 1960.

Bottom: John Philip Johnson poses in front of a Christmas tree celebrating the holidays on Pleasant St.

Top Right: John Philip Johnson (age 24) and Christabel Johnson (age 20) are pictured at Riverside Park in May 1937 with their…

This book, made by Shirley Johnson, accounts the Johnson family history and their migration from Pheba, Mississippi. The story mainly follows the life and descendants of the first Johnsons who migrated to Beloit: Andrew James Johnson Jr, Joseph…

Floy attended Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd. She is the young girl in the front row, second from the left.

This photo features Reverend Shed Barksdale, contributed by either Wanda Sloan or Sheryll Caldwell, both close friends of Ms. Lawrence. Rev. Barksdale was a minister who filled in for the ministers of Beloit’s New Zion Baptist Church and Beloit’s…