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Carolyn Lawrence received this photograph from Mr. Jake Brickson, a professional photographer whose wife is close with Ms. Lawrence. It was taken in either the late 1960s or early 1970s, and depicts members of Beloit’s Women’s Culture Club. Made up…

Left to right: Floy Gihvan, her brother Clauzell Givhan, and their cousin Roberta Foster standing on a bridge in New Albany, Mississippi, their family’s hometown.

Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd, where Floy attended school.

These three cousins have a unique thing they share: their name! All three were named Floy Givhan.

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

A young Beverly Bond is pictured with brother, Philip Leslie Johnson, as he gets ready to deliver newspapers around Beloit.

These photos, shot in front of Fairbanks Morse, at Riverside Park in Beloit on March twentieth, 1938, show the four “sophisticated” Johnson wives, and their husbands, the Johnson “musketeers”.

This document, a scan of a flyer for the 1992 Cameron Connection family reunion, features a photo of the family matriarch, Catherine “Grandma Kitty” Cameron. This woman, Floy’s father’s grandmother, had seven children as well as many grandchildren…

Carolyn Lawrence received this descendants list from her former mother-in-law, Annie Inez Gordon Harris – the list dates back to 1795. The first individual listed, Peter Brummel Hughes (1794-1894), is believed to be a former slave. Family members’…

Carolyn Lawrence received this cookbook from her former brother-in-law, Gordon Harris. Compiled in 1996 by Barbara J. Harris Whitmore, it contains recipes from families who attended the now-defunct Ross Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Chickasaw…