Two annexation petitions, Chelsea and Tickton, could reshape Ridgeland. The efforts have residents and elected officials pondering the future of the Jasper County town.
The Ridgeland Town Council voted to accept a petition to annex 3,000 acres into the town, defying a request from Jasper County to defer decision to March.
ByStacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Alethia Browning Tanner worked to purchase the freedom of more than 20 of her relatives and neighbors, mostly the family of her older sister Laurana including Laurana herself, her children, and her grandchildren.
In her early years, Alethia Browning Tanner sold vegetables in a produce stall near President’s Square – now known as Lafayette Square – in what is now Northwest Washington, D.C.
According to the D.C. Genealogy Research, Resources, and Records, Tanner bought her freedom in 1810 and later purchased several relatives’ release.
She was the first woman on the Roll of Members of the Union Bethel AME Church (now Metropolitan AME Church on M Street), and Turner owned land and a store at 14th and H Streets, which she left to her nephews – one of whom later sold the property for $100,000.