Apsilla (or Apsaline) “Appie” Ward Hagans | as shown on Scuffalong | More here: https://scuffalong.com/2014/03/16/appie-ward-hagans/
Lisa Y. Henderson is a researcher — and descendant — of North Carolina’s free people of color. She runs a genealogy blog at http://www.scuffalong.com which features archival material on her work in history and genealogy:
Appie and her twin Mittie Roena Ward were born 19 April 1849 near Stantonsburg, Wilson County, to David G.W. Ward and Sarah Ward, an enslaved woman. They likely spent their early years in and around this house. How and when Appie met her husband, Napoleon Hagans, who lived in northeast Wayne County perhaps 7 miles from the Ward plantation, is unknown. I have not located their marriage license. Appie and Napoleon had two sons, Henry Edward Hagans (1868-1926) and William Scarlett Hagans (1869-1946).
Appie left little trace in official records, appearing in two census enumerations and on a couple of deeds with her husband. She died 12 April 1895 and is buried near their home in northern Wayne County.
Photo courtesy of William E. Hagans.
Henderson also runs another blog, http://www.afamwilsonnc.com, which documents the African-American history of Wilson County NC.
The Scuffalong blog began as a Tumblr, G.B.N.F., which posts material Henderson has collected on black history in North Carolina.
Source: Scuffalong: Genealogy.
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Thanks for the shout-out, Jessica. And much appreciation for the curatorial genius that ADphD embodies. — Lisa H.
P.S. There’s a third blog: http://www.ncfpc.net, which documents North Carolina’s free people of color.