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A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun County Introduction by LARRY A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun, Virginia. 9/20/2015 A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun County Introduction BY LARRY ROEDER, MS See also http://conklinproject.wordpress.com/. 9/20/15 1 A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun, Virginia. 9/20/2015 Table of Contents I 1.1 Thanks ....................................................................................................................... 4 I 1.2 Introduction to the Series .......................................................................................... 5 I 1.3 Language Related to Race .......................................................................................... 7 I 2.1 A short history of Conklin ......................................................................................... 8 Media Coverage ............................................................................................................ 10 Sanitation: .................................................................................................................... 10 The Roads ................................................................................................................... 12 Remaining Structures ................................................................................................ 13 Income ......................................................................................................................... 14 Entertainment and Daily Life........................................................................................ 16 1.2.1.1 Population Figures: .............................................................................................. 17 I 2.2 Village Boundaries. .................................................................................................. 19 I.2.3 North Conklin ........................................................................................................... 19 1.2.3.1 Prosperity Baptist Church (NW Conklin) ........................................................... 21 1.2.3.2 Settle-Dean Cabin NW Conklin.......................................................................... 29 I.2.4 West Conklin ........................................................................................................... 37 1.2.4.1 Conklin Colored School SW Conklin ................................................................ 41 1.2.4.2 Cedar Hunt Property .......................................................................................... 47 I 2.4.3 McGraw’s Ridge School (White)(summary history) ....................................... 51 I 2.5 East Conklin ............................................................................................................ 56 I 2.6 South Conklin .......................................................................................................... 68 I 2.6.1 Conklin Post office and First Store: (South Conklin) ........................................... 69 I 3. The Jennie Dean Initiative ......................................................................................... 73 I 4 Conklin Grave Sites ..................................................................................................... 74 I 4.1 The Hampton Brewer Cemetery (SW Conklin) ....................................................... 75 I 5. Conklin in the 1970’s and 80’s .................................................................................. 77 I 6. A story of Freedom .................................................................................................... 78 I 7 Biographies ................................................................................................................. 84 I 7.1 Hampton R. Brewer .................................................................................................. 84 I 7.2 Biographies of the Allen Family and other Free African-Americans ...................... 91 2 A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun, Virginia. 9/20/2015 I 7.2.1 Betsy Allen, her Siblings and Parents .................................................................. 92 I 7.2.2 Charlotte, Amanda and Alexander Allen ............................................................ 96 Note on Dog Taxes: .......................................................................................................... 98 I 7.2.3 William Allen and Rachel .................................................................................. 100 I 7.2.4 James Gaskins.................................................................................................... 103 I 8 Linking African-American families ........................................................................ 108 I 9. Fairfax County Connection and 1850 Slave Schedule ............................................. 110 I 11 Loudoun County Connection.................................................................................. 111 I 11.1 Loudoun Property ................................................................................................. 111 I 11.2 Loudoun Census Records ..................................................................................... 116 Annex 1. Personal Property for Brewer and African-Americans .................................. 124 Annex 2: Tax Receipts for Hampton R. Brewer in Broad Run ..................................... 127 Annex 3: 1854 & 1857 Freedom Files for African Americans. .................................... 136 Annex 4: The Soldiers .................................................................................................. 145 Annex 4.1 Civil War ...................................................................................................... 145 Annex 4.2 World War One (The Great War) ................................................................ 146 Annex 4.3 World War Two ............................................................................................ 149 Annex 5: Fairfax County Law Suit of 1841.................................................................. 149 Annex 7 Works Cited...................................................................................................... 157 3 A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun, Virginia. 9/20/2015 I 1.1 Thanks I’d like to recognize the following institutions and individuals. Balch Library staff, Leesburg, Virginia. (All were quite wonderful, attentive, and highly professional). Esther Dean, born in Settle-Dean Cabin. Current resident of South Riding. Shared memny memories and some photos of life in Conklin. James C. Dean, who shared many interesting recollections of Conklin, including the burning of Prosperity Baptist Church. Nellie Dean, who at age 97 provided recollections of growing up in Conklin. A warm, charming lady with a great memory. John Fishback, Archivist, Clerk of the Court, Loudoun County. Omar and Beatrice Furr, children of Conklin teacher Flossie Furr. Vicky Ginther, Reference/Virginiana Librarian, Fauquier County Pub. Library Arlean Hill, Historian on Conklin and the alve experience. Prominent member of the Dean family. History Club of Lunsford Middle School and Neil Slevin, Principal, J. Michael Lunsford Middle School Audrey Jett, who attended Conklin School, 1938-1940. Louis Jett, Black History Committee, the Balch Library. Donna Kroiz, Student Records Manager, Office of Information Management, Loudoun County Public Schools Steve Larken, Senior Land Development Manager, Toll Brothers, who was kind enough to provide access to surveys prior to development projects like South Riding being installed. Pastor Carlos Lawson, Prosperity Baptist Church, who inspired the project. Lisa S. McCown, Senior Special Collections Assistant, Washington and Lee Leyburn Library, Lexington, VA for access to archival material on former Virginia Public Instruction Superintendent Ruffner. Glandwood Moore, who attended Bull Run “colored school” in Aldie in 1939/1940 and remembered Mary Dean Johnson. Wynne Saffer, Historian and Cartographer, Loudoun County, who deserves special mention for his consistent assistance and great suggestions. Elizabeth Scott, Librarian, The Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center, for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC), Prince William Public Library System, Bull Run Regional Library Eugene Sheel, Historian and Cartographer, Loudoun County, who wrote the first history of Conklin for the Loudoun Times Mirror in the 1990’s. G. Terry Shorrer, who is conducting research into the African-American experience in World War One. Beverly Veness, Library Assistant III, the Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC). Special thanks must be given to Justice Asa Rogers, in 1861 the Presiding Judge of the Loudoun Circuit Court. With the Civil War about to go into full swing, it was clear to Rogers and others that Federal troops would march through Loudoun and therefore the 4 A History of Conklin Village, Loudoun, Virginia. 9/20/2015 potential for violence was a significant risk to county records. Unlike in other neighboring counties like Prince William, which would lose many records to the fire of war, Rogers ordered county clerk George K. Fox, Jr. to remove the records to a place of safety. They were then placed in a large wagon and removed to Campbell County, about 175 miles south along present day Route 29 just SW of Appomattox. During the war Fox moved about to preserve the record’s safety until 1865 when he brought them back to Loudoun intact (Williams, 1938, p. 200). Clearly, Fox is also owed a great debt by all
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