Daughter of David Dickson and Julia Frances Dickson On March 10, 1893, Nathan and Amanda brought Mamie to the St. Francis School and Convent in Baltimore, Maryland, an order of black nuns, in an attempt to protect her from Charles Dickson's misguided attentions. She learned to read and write, and assumed the social graces of white Southern affluence. Your donation is fully tax-deductible. On his death he scandalized Hancock county society by bequeathing the vast bulk of his estate (a share with a value estimated at more than $300,000) to his only child, Amanda America Dickson (1849-1893). Amanda Dickson Toomer is known as one of the richest black women in the 1800s. As a child Toomer was purchased by John Toomer, who moved to Houston County, Georgia, in the 1850s. By the time the courts settled the Dickson will case, she had firmly ensconced herself in this new home and decorated it with Brussels carpets, oil paintings, a walnut dining room table and chairs, and books. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 (Brown Thrasher Books) Paperback - October 1, 1996 by Kent Anderson Leslie (Author) 86 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $9.30 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $30.00 17 Used from $4.91 4 Collectible from $24.99 Paperback Her enslaved mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, was just 13 when she was born. Five of Dickson's descendants, from across the nation, are expected to attend the marker ceremony, Hock said. Julia relinquishes Amanda to the Dicksons, realizing that her baby will be raised free because she was born with fair skin. Amanda remained married to Nathan Toomer until her death from Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, considered to be caused by an unbearably hot train ride home from a month's stay in Baltimore for her health. When her father David Dickson died in 1885, and his will was read, it was revealed that he left all of his property, over 15,000 acres of land in Hancock and Washington Counties as well as his personal possessions, and money, together estimated at slightly over $300,000, to his daughter Amanda Dickson and her two sons. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. She moved to Augusta, Georgia before the town mandated residential segregation by race and purchased a large brick home at 484 Telfair Street, in the most prominent neighborhood in the city. To use this feature, use a newer browser. 1900), who married Kate Holsey, the daughter of Harriet and Bishop Lucius Holsey of Augusta. and to behave like a lady , according to biographer Kent Leslie. Resend Activation Email. [1]:107 Also, in part to distance herself from her disgruntled white relatives whom David Dickson had left out of his will, she moved to Augusta, Georgia, which was a familiar city to her. Family members linked to this person will appear here. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Julian Henry Eubanks married Eva Walton, the granddaughter of George Walton, who is credited as one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Fashion and politics from Georgia-born designer Frankie Welch, Take a virtual tour of Georgia's museums and galleries. Born on November 21, 1849, baby Amanda's parents couldn't be more dissimilar her father, the renowned white agricultural plantation owner, and writer, David Dickson; her mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, was an enslaved child-servant to Dickson's mother Elizabeth Sholars-Dickson. Legally, Amanda was still a slave until her grandmother's death in 1864. In the process, she opened the way for other black women to preach in the A.M.E. church. She died at 5 p.m. June 11, 1893. (2003). The union produced two sons: Julian Henry (1866-1937), who married Eva Walton, the daughter of Isabella and George Walton of Augusta; and Charles Green (1870-ca. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. MORE: Augusta Historical Marker Part of Georgia Civil Rights Trail Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. The family has become part of the educated, professional black elite in the United States. In 1793 or 1794 Suzanne married Jean-Baptiste Peltier. Although conceived through the rape of her adolescent mother, Amanda was raised and educated in the Dickson household. "[1]:123 Amanda America Dickson Toomer died on June 11, 1893, with "complications of diseases" being the cause of death listed on her death certificate. Amanda died just one year later after becoming ill during a trip to Baltimore with her husband. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Her birth was the result of the rape of her enslaved mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, when Julia was twelve years old. Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of a slave and her owner, became one of the wealthiest black women in nineteenth-century America when the Georgia Supreme Court upheld her claim to her father's contested will. Gabriel moved to Emanuel County, Georgia after his fathers death.David Lipscomb College, TN~ 1939 (Edna Waters)Harding College, Se From a variety of sources, a great deal of information can be gathered on Mullato Amanda America Dickson, who exempted the traditional role of gender and racial inferiority in Antebellum and post-Civil War southern society. In New Georgia Encyclopedia. Dickson inherited his estate in Hancock County upon his death in 1885. In 1873, Mr. Dickson deeded 1,560 acres of land worth $10,000 to Amanda. When John Toomer died, he became the property of Colonel Henry Toomer, Johns brother. My father ( who's grandmother was a slave of David Dickson) married my mother who is a descendant of Amanda Dickson. Born into slavery, she was the child of David Dickson, a white planter, and Julia Frances Lewis (Dickson), a young enslaved woman of his who was thirteen when her daughter was born. [2] After Amanda was weaned, she was taken from her enslaved mother and maternal grandmother, Rose, to be raised in the household of her white paternal grandmother and mistress, Elizabeth Sholars Dickson. In 1892 Dickson married Nathan Toomer of Perry. In 1892, Amanda married a wealthy biracial farmer from Perry, Ga., but they had limited time together; she died the next year despite receiving the best medical care available. The former slave-turned-millionaire purchased a home at 448 Telfair St., Augusta, Georgia, primarily to distance herself from irate relatives in Hancock County, Georgia. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. She was born November 20, 1849, on the Dickson Plantation, near Sparta, Georgia (Hancock County) to a famous 40-year-old plantation owner David Dickson and a 12-year-old enslaved girl, Julia . Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone. In her late 20s, Dickson attended the normal school of Atlanta University, a historically black college, from 1876 to 1878. Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender . She was born on November 20 or 21, 1849, on the Hancock County plantation of her father, the famous white agricultural reformer, David Dickson (1809-85). The storm almost wiped the town off of the map and only a handful of buildings survived. Her father had stipulated that Amanda, and her children after her death, were the beneficiaries, and no future husband or Dickson family member could "interfere". David Dickson had only one child, Amanda America Dickson, who died in 1893.She had two sons, Julian Henry, 1866-1937 and Charles Green, 1870-???. There was a problem getting your location. Born on November 20, 1849, Amanda America Dickson was Davids daughter, the product of his rape of thirteen-year-old Julia Francis Lewis, the enslaved property of his mother. It reached the height of its power by the time it reached Charlotte. [1]:101102 James Jackson expressed his firm conviction against upholding the will, saying, "I would rather died in my place than uphold the will." [1]:112114 White Georgians generally viewed black citizens within the racial caste system, without regard for wealth or class. Toomer and Dicksons marriage lasted until her death on June 11, 1893, of neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion. Some of the businesses that were destroyed included several . White relatives did contest it, first at the probate level, then on appeal to the Superior Court, and to the Georgia Supreme Court, arguing that the future of the Anglo-Saxon race, the traditions of the past, and the hope for the future all lay in the balance. The Court decided, however, in favor of Amanda based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, making her one of the wealthiest Black women in the nation. Do you find this information helpful? In. Login to find your connection. Woodard, My GA History, Amanda America Dickson, http://mygahistory.com/amanda-america-dickson/. The front porch is getting new crown molding and new columns. I read Dr. Kent Anderson Leslie's biography of Amanda Dickson Toomer several years. By the 1860s David Dickson was the richest planter in Hancock County, with 150 slaves, 350 cattle, 600 hogs, 200 sheep and 57 mules and horses. Ashlee and Nesia discuss life as the owner of a basketball team, retirement and more. David Dickson was a rich white Georgian who attentively raised, educated, and supported Amanda America Dickson, the daughter he fathered by one of his many slaves. New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Jul 17, 2020. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/amanda-america-dickson-1849-1893/, Leslie, K. A. ." who was raised and educated in David's household. Jonathan Bryant, Race, Class, and Law in Bourbon Georgia: The Case of David Dicksons Will, Georgia Historical Quarterly 71 (summer 1987): 226-42. Come celebrate the 2022 results. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Warren Logan was born into slavery in Virginia shortly before the American Civil War. Amanda America Dickson was born into slavery in Hancock County, Georgia. (1-1) Philip Brown, of Westbrook, recipient of a Spirit of America Foundation Award. One of the first laws the Georgia State legislature passed after the war reinstated the prohibition against interracial marriage. This home is located at 1173 W Grab Creek Rd in Dickson, TN and zip code 37055. She was kind-hearted, generous, and charitable, and her benevolent work was indeed extensive.. She bore two children from this marriage, Julian Henry and Charles Green. [1]:81100 Then, in March 1886, the white relatives filed their appeal with the Supreme Court of Georgia. This house still stands on 452 Telfair Street. She was Mrs. her father's plantation, Hancock County, GA, United States, Charles "Charley" or Leslie Green Dickson, Amanda America "miss Mandy" Eubanks (born Dickson), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1791-1963, The Springfield Daily Union - June 15 1893, The Springfield Daily Union - June 23 1893. Amanda America Dickson spent her childhood and adolescence in the house of her white grandmother and owner, Elizabeth Sholars Dickson, where she learned to read and write and play the pianothe survival skills of a young lady but not ordinarily the opportunities of a slave. Born in 1849, Amanda was the daughter of David Dickson, a plantation owner who had raped Amanda's mother when she was 12. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Amanda Toomer (10337890)? Born Amanda America on the Dickson Plantation, near Sparta, Georgia, Mrs. A. At the time, David Dickson was forty and the wealthiest planter in the county. I am also proud of my heritage and what she has done for the people of America. The doctors diagnosed her with neurasthenia, a disease characterized by profound physical and nervous exhaustion. Jay Jefferies stops by to deliver the weather and much more! In 1892, she married Nathan Toomer of Perry, Georgia. At that time she and her children took the last name of Dickson. Dr. Kendall gave her anodyne, a pain-relieving medication. In 1892 Dickson married Nathan Toomer of Perry. The City of M. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Suzanne bore a daughter Eulalie in Chicago in October of 1796. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Julian married Eva Walton (1868-1933) and they had 5 children, Julia Frances II, David II, Henry, William and Isabel. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. Born 1835 in Hancock County, Georgia. The first ovine . His white relatives challenged the will but Dickson ultimately won a successful ruling in the case. 20042023 Georgia Humanities, University of Georgia Press. Her mother, a slave belonging to his mother, had been raped at age 12 or 13 by David Dickson. Four years later, her son Charles was born. Her father, David Dickson, was a white planter and slave plantation owner who owned her mother; he was one of the eight wealthiest plantation owners in the county. A. Dickson Toomer was, in her time, the wealthiest African-American woman in Georgia and possibly the United States. Legally a slave owned by her white grandmother, the biracial child was reared in her father's household. In her childhood, she was taken into the Dickson family and tutored by her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Sholars Dickson. Museum Address. Shutters are being built for the house's front. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. My mother is a descendant of Amanda America Dickson. Dickson, 1849-1893 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996); Oops, we were unable to send the email. 1900). A Loving Wife. A host of David Dicksons white relatives contested the will, but the superior court of Hancock County ruled in favor of Amanda Dickson in November 1885. Her younger son, twenty-three-year-old Charles Dickson, who was married to Kate Holsey, became infatuated with stepsister Mamie Toomer, who was only fourteen years old. David Dickson is a wealthy plantation owner in antebellum Georgia who fathers Amanda by raping one of his slaves, Julia. Clinging to his body, Amanda cried, "Now I am an orphan, though her mother was still alive. There was an error deleting this problem. A system error has occurred. Her second husband was Nathan Toomer from Perry, Georgia, and she legally was known as Amanda America Dickson Toomer. In the winter of 1885 David Dickson died, leaving the bulk of his estate to Amanda Dickson and subsequently to her children after her death. This 1,200 square foot home, which was built in 2018, sits on a 0.40 acre lot. One obituary said: though in possession of such riches, she made no gaudy display but lived a quiet, easy, and unpretending life. [1]:122, Nathan and a very ill Amanda America arrived back at their home in Augusta, Georgia between four and five in the afternoon on June 9, 1893. In 1892, Amanda married Nathan Toomer, a wealthy widower from Perry, Georgia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/amanda-america-dickson-1849-1893, Amanda (Walters) Marks (abt.1849-aft.1894), Cedar Grove Cemetery, Houston County, Georgia, US Black Heritage Project Managed Profiles. This house still stands on 452 Telfair Street. She learned to read and write, and assumed the social graces of white Southern affluence. Amanda America Dickson was born to 40-year-old slave master David Dickson and 13-year-old slave, Julia Lewis in 1849. Amanda remained married to Nathan Toomer until her death from Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, considered to be caused by an unbearably hot train ride home from a month's stay in Baltimore for her health. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? New Georgia Encyclopedia, 10 March 2003, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/amanda-america-dickson-1849-1893/. Wednesday - by appointment. Amanda's family said her father "became devoted to his daughter . discoveries. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. After four years of being married to (or living as a married couple with) Charles Eubanks, Amanda left her husband and returned to her father's plantation in 1870, shortly after giving birth to her second son, Charles Green. She was buried in her wedding dress, in a metallic coffin, which was lined in rose colored plush fabric. a Sort of Mystery: Jean Toomers Georgia Heritage, Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (winter 1993): 789-809. The museum is located on the corner of 24th and Florin inside the Florin Business Arts Complex. The disgruntled relatives then appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court decision in 1887. Alachua County Voters1st Florida Election1845Gabriel Waters (father) & William Waters (son)Gabriel Waters c.1780-after 1846. Immediately after his death, she took measures to protect herself legally. Born November 20, 1849, on the Dickson Plantation, near Sparta, Georgia in Hancock County, Amanda America was the product of her 12-year-old mother, an enslaved house servant, Julia Francis. Dickson's family members appealed the lower court decision and the case wound up in the Georgia Supreme Court. While white Georgians were establishing segregation as the ruling social order in the public sphere, members of the Dickson family went about their private lives. [1]:128, Nine months after Dickson's death, Nathan Toomer married Nina Pinchback, the daughter of P. B. S. Pinchback, the Reconstruction Era senator-elect from Louisiana. David Dickson showed that farmers could profit from slave labor without having to resort to violence to keep them in submission. She was the main heir to the estate of over 15,000 acres valued at $309,543. Augusta, GaFriday, May 21, 2021, Formerly enslaved Amanda America Dickson Toomer (1849-1893), who later became perhaps Georgia's wealthiest African American woman in the 19th Century, received a Georgia Historical Marker in her honor. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Mother of Julian Henry Dickson and Charles "Charley" or Leslie Green Dickson, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10337890/amanda-america-toomer. The son of this marriage was Jean Toomer, the author of the novel Cane (1923). Showtime Networks Inc., New York, 1999, film. [1]:41, At the age of twenty-seven, Amanda chose to leave her father's plantation in Hancock County, Georgia to attend the normal school of Atlanta University, where she studied teaching from 1876 to 1878. Please try again later. Toomer was born in 1839 in Chatham County, . Heiress and socialite Amanda America Dickson Toomer was, in her time, the wealthiest woman in Georgia, and one of the wealthiest women in the United States. The union produced two sons: Julian Henry (1866-1937), who married Eva Walton, the daughter of Isabella and George Walton of Augusta; and Charles Green (1870-ca. Amanda, then15, had a relationship with her 29-year old white cousin Charles Eubanks and had two sons, Julian and Leslie, near Rome, Georgia. She was the richest woman in the south, at that, a black woman during the civil war era. By 1861, he was known as the "Prince of Georgia Farmers," having contributed perhaps more than any other farmer in Georgia at that time to the prosperity of the region. Hi my name is Ashlee Dickson and I am a descendent of Amanda America Dickson. Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Born on November 20, 1849, Amanda America Dickson was David's daughter, the product of his rape of thirteen-year-old Julia Francis Lewis, the enslaved property of his mother. 20072023 Blackpast.org. . Amanda's father was 40 year old David Dickson, son of Elizabeth and a wealthy white merchant, planter and slave owner. The real issue is the . Adella Hunt Logan, 1902 The Logan family are African Americans descended from Warren Logan and his wife Adella Hunt Logan. The New Georgia Encyclopedia is supported by funding from A More Perfect Union, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Upon John Toomers death in 1859, his brother Colonel Henry Toomer purchased Nathans mother, Kit, and seven of her children from the estate. Degro woman in the United Staes has just died. This courthouse was destroyed by fire in 2015, but reconstructed around the original walls. February 27, 2023, 4:41 PM. As Henry Toomers personal assistant, Nathan Toomer learned the manner of the white upper class. Her story is unique. . Antebellum Hancock County was in the black belt, a rich streak of fertile soil that grew the white bolls that made the South prosper. Who was Amanda America Dickson Toomer? - Kent Anderson Leslie. Amanda America Dickson House. This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Verify and try again. Eubanks was a Confederate Veteran. woman in the (Ti i ted .states has just died. an organ and piano and a bookcase of books. She became involved in philanthropic works, saw both of her sons married, and welcomed grandchildren bearing family names Julia Francis II, David II and Amanda America II. The music, too, feels familiar -- sorrowful wails to let us know that slavery was sad and evil, as if we didn't know. Amanda married first to her father's nephew, Charles Eubanks, in 1866-67 and they lived on a plantation in Rome, Georgia. At the time, David Dickson was forty and the wealthiest planter in the county. His estate included thousands of acres of property in Georgia and Texas as well as the rights to his agricultural seeds and compounds. Dickson left his estate to his mulatto daughter Amanda America Dickson. [1]:58 Because of anti-miscegenation laws in Georgia at the time, Amanda America and Charles, as an interracial couple, could not legally marry in Georgia. [1]:64 Charles Eubanks died a few years later on July 31, 1873. Born in 1839 in Chatham County, North Carolina, Toomer had been the slave of Richard Pilkinson of Chatham County, North Carolina but was later sold to John Toomer of Houston County, Georgia. 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