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

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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