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From Chillicothe and Ross County, OH to Los Angeles, CA

From Chillicothe and Ross County, OH to Los Angeles, CA

Posted on January 8, 2023 by refresh -

In 1887 Madison Hemings’s youngest daughter Ellen Hemings Roberts moved with her family from Ohio to Los Angeles, where her husband Andrew J. Roberts established the first black-owned mortuary.

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