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Re: Elizabeth Keckley - Mary Todd Lincoln's Seamstress
Posted by: Rhonda (ID *****0074) Date: August 22, 2002 at 04:29:51
In Reply to: Elizabeth Keckley - Mary Todd Lincoln's Seamstress by June of 130

Hello June,
Elizabeth's husband was James Keckley from Virginia. He also was a black man. I have researched this a little and havn't been able to figure any more about who JAMES' parents are. His mother could have been the slave or it could have been a grandmother. Either way, the only reason Elizabeth is known as a KECKLEY is because most of the slaves didn't have a last name, her husband did. She is published (and stories of her) all over the net.... none give her maiden name. She is however not a KECKLEY.

Please remember..... most of the slaves that came over to the US weren't known by their last names... A lot took their master's surname as their own to have an American name. SO I don't hold out that these guys are KECKLEY by blood, probably just took the name after arriving here in the US.


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