Rebecca Fulton Interview Notes altered Viola Muse Transcription Zariah Grant Encoding and edition Brady Benefiel

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 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 12, item 3 Notes about Rebecca Fulton and her family history

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Mrs. Rebecca M. Fulton

bornBorn in DarianDarien (suburb), Ga.Georgia, aboutMuse does not complete this thought, apparently leaving a place to later indicate an approximate date that was never, in fact, added.

Came to Jax.Jacksonville when a small girl, more than 50 years.

Parents -: Louise Sams -, John McQueen ^McIntosh (white)

^maternalMaternal- Grand fathergrandfather: Felix &and Nannie Sams

Great grand parentsgrandparents

Great grand parentsgrandparents were first to buy property when laid off Jax.Jacksonville.laid off here appears to mean laid out or apportioned, referring to the initial layout out of the city (see OED, s.v. to lay off: "To mark or separate off (plots of ground, etc.); to plot out land in some way or for some purpose." A blank space was left after when, suggesting that Muse perhaps intended to go back and insert a name as the subject of laid off. Bought almost whole block where EmaculateImmaculate Conception (white). Catholic churchChurch stands.

They looked like mexicansMexicans. Came here, squatted on land first. Lived there &and owned it until later generations lost it to white people (.