Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river in Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
...Frances Everett Fletcher, widow of Lucian Fletcher, died, aged 87. She was survived by one daughter in Cincinnati, two daughters in Charleston, three great-granddaughters in Latonia, Ky., all the descendants of Lucian Fletcher of Lynchburg and all pure white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt...
...well had the late Maria Fletcher done, in fact, that last week her white half-sisters and white grandnieces were more than willing to acknowledge their mulatto kinfolk in order to win from the Illinois Appellate Court the right to contest the late Maria's will in the hope of cutting a black foster son out of the late Senator Turner's tidy fortune. Commenting on her family's privy past, Lucian's white Daughter Flavonia Fletcher Coffey cheerfully admitted: "Father was in a good many scrapes...
...March, "Lorraine" Ganne *Overture, "Light Cavalry" Suppe *Indian Lament Dvorak-Kreisler *Rhapsody "Espana" Chabrier *A victory Ball Schelling Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchalkovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Strauss *Over There," World War Melody selection, "The Fighting Allies...
...picture. Then, most touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special commendation going to the manner in which Weber's charmingly simple piano forte pieces are worked into the incidental music...