Mabel Hall Pittman Middleton, writer and teacher, grew up in Lexington, Virginia. After serving in the Women’s Army Corps in World War II and graduating from Fisk University, she taught English in Mississippi. She obtained her doctorate from Southern Illinois University and chaired the English Department at Jackson State University. She was appointed to the Mississippi Humanities Council in 2000.
Dr. Middleton, who married and had three children, heard from her family of her connection to Monticello but did not hear of her ancestor Brown Colbert’s emigration to Liberia.
Ancestry
Elizabeth Hemings
1735-1807Betty Brown
1759-post 1831Brown Colbert
1785-1833Benjamin Colbert
ca. 1809–1881Mabel Hall Middleton
1922-2022
