This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgB.2ACI/136.553.729 Message Board Post: Hi!, my name is Joyce, I live in Chicago. My grandfather's name was Frank Manigault and grandmother Hannah. My father was the youngest. He was born in 1896 in Winnsboro, S.C. I'm not sure if we are talking about the same people. My Dad did have a sister named Carrie, also Mary, Hester, etc. Most of us Manigault & Manago live in Maryland, South Carolina, California and Chicago. We had a family reunion in Maryland this year. I sent this note to be passed out. I’d like to mention some things about your grandfather / great-grandfather. If you wish you can give this information to the rest of the family, so they may know a little about their grandfather. Andrew was born in February, 1896 to Frank & Hannah Manigault (Manago). He was the youngest of ten children. Andrew was married to his first wife LillieBell with whom he fathered; T.J., Samuel, Ruth, Robert, Pearl, Fred, Moses and Elenora. Andrew left his first family for which he regretted as long as I can remember. But, I have always been so happy to have my older sisters and brothers. (Mom and Dad let us know about them when we were very young). I have always enjoyed their hospitality, their compassion and their accomplishments in life. They did great without Dad being there. When Dad married his second wife (my mother, Levonia), he did a great job as a father and provider. Andrew always worked hard to do his best. In his later years he finally seemed to be a happy man knowning that my his older children must have forgiven him. They would visit and/or write or call. There are reasons for all things in life, I think. I believe that Dad has been the only person I’ve known to brag about the physical labor jobs that he did over the years. He loved to talk about when he scrubbed the floors of Union Staion in Washington D.C. in the early 1900’s. He would actually race with the other workers mopping and said that people who were waiting on the train would throw money to him. I have many pictures of us all on different occasions. I really cherish them and can always go back and remember the great times we have had. I regret that we will not attend the 2002 Manago Family Reunion. I hope that all of you will have a great time. Those of you who have contacted me over the past few years; some I did not get back to but you are always in my heart and on my mind. I love all of you equally. ~ ~ ~ ~ There is a lot of information on the internet about the Manigault’s of whom part are our ancestors. Dad use to talk a lot about how they came to America and about the slavery, of whom his mother was a child slave. Dads mother was Native American. Check it out; Native Americans were used as slaves, too. Back then, the tribes were not recognize; so they were called colored just as the African American slaves were. Some in our family probably thought that Dads mother was white. Lots of Native Americans look white. Dads father, his brother and I don’t know how many more were bought over here from the Carribbeans. Dads cousin, Oscar Manigault, who is in a nursing home now in South Carolina talked to me about ten years ago giving a lot of information about how the family came here from the carribbeans. Also, how we had the first church (African American) here in the U.S. Dad explained how the french, etc. came to shore taking advantage of the people (tribes) etc. just as it is written.