Thursday, April 11, 2019

Know Your Roots in America

Family and Friends,

Throughout the journey of life, one will ask about where they came from. I am no different. My parents came from two very different parts of the world. Since, right now, I live in America, where am I from in America? The answer to this question comes down the lineage of my father who grew up in Talladega, Alabama.

My great-grandmother and great-granddad (stepdad), who raised my dad, lived in the house on the right (between this address and the warehouse, gas station).

near - 108 Martin Luther King Dr, Talladega, AL 35160

great-grandparents place (next to gas station)

front porch view

The original house I remember is replaced because a felon burned the original house down after murdering my great-granddad in it. (Luckily, my great-grandmother passed away years before this murder due to a stroke or brain hemorrhage or something.) This is the new house built (and I have no idea why they built it smaller and in yellow).

What I'm trying to figure out is the house address? Why can't I find this house address on Google Maps? Where my great-grandparents living on sharecropper's land and that's why I can't see the address?


I need to apparently go back and learn more about my roots. Many answers lie in the past, but are unknown if kept hidden or ignored. I'll see you soon, Talladega and my family roots.


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