When I was home before Christmas, I met up with Dr. Michael Barnes to receive a generous gift — scans of documents he has mined from his parents’ papers. These included the booklet for First Baptist Church’s 85th anniversary celebration. I’ll be sharing photographs from this document in a rich series. Look for posts on Tuesdays!
Pender Street! I’m a Pender! Was anything in there about my 3rd great grandfather Frank Taylor/Barnes/Pender/ or his grandmother Mathiah Pender, or his mother Sylvia Pender/Barnes?
Pender Street was named for the white Pender family. (Likely specifically for Confederate General W.D. Pender.) Pender is a relatively common surname among African-Americans with roots in eastern North Carolina. This booklet specifically commemorates the founding of Jackson Chapel First Baptist Church and does not address Pender Street or families named Pender.
My family was owned by the white Pender family, specifically Joseph John Pender born 1807. He held a mulatto women named Mathiah, and her two know children at the time Rhoda and Bryant, whom I DNA matched with their descendants.
I hope you’ve seen my posts re J.J. Pender, which include information on some of the people he enslaved.
DNA matches to the white Barnes family suggests that Mathiah “Sookie” Pender may of been the daughter of Wiley Barnes born 1771 and an enslaved women named Nice owned by John Robbins, his brother-in-law.
I’ll keep an eye out for documents related to the people you name!
My grandma was a Pender sookie was my great great grandfathers mother
2/14/64 went down in the baptismal pool of jackson chapel ; offered forth by Talmadge Watkins. MY baptismal Brother on that winter day was a noted icon,nccu grad, judge, nc ga representative , senator & orator, CHD grad, award winning coach and local barrister if i use the term correctly.