{"id":32094,"date":"2013-07-05T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32094"},"modified":"2013-07-05T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T09:58:18","slug":"a-complicated-family-history-places-black-md-woman-in-dar%e2%80%99s-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32094","title":{"rendered":"A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR\u2019s ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-06-29\/national\/40269978_1_family-history-sally-hemings-edwin\" target=\"_blank\">A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR\u2019s ranks<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bydarrylfears\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Darryl Fears<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reisha Raney\u2019s role in Friday night\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a> ceremony for the military was minor. She carried <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s<\/a> flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DAR_Constitution_Hall\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution Hall<\/a> and then stood perfectly still.<\/p>\n<p>But for Raney, an African American raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Prince George\u2019s County<\/a>, it was one of the most pivotal moments in her life. Her place in the DAR, a predominantly white organization whose annual convention at Constitution Hall in the District ends Sunday, was proof of her extraordinary family history.<\/p>\n<p>The group certified research that traced Raney\u2019s roots to William Turpin, a patriot who fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. Turpin\u2019s mother was Mary Jefferson, the aunt of the nation\u2019s third president, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raney respects her ties to Jefferson, but he\u2019s not the reason the 39-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Washington,_Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Washington<\/a> resident went to a beauty salon, slipped on a flowing white gown and smiled like a beauty-pageant contestant as she walked the halls of a group that at one time barred black people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She was honoring William Turpin\u2019s son, Edwin, Jefferson\u2019s second cousin, who purchased a slave, Mary, and married her in Canada.<\/strong> The two lived in neighboring houses on a plantation in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goochland_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Goochland County, Va<\/a>. The houses were burned when word got out, and then were rebuilt, according to a family memoir. <strong>Before his death in 1868, Edwin wrote in a will that the children he had with \u201cmy woman Mary\u201d were to be free&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-06-29\/national\/40269978_1_family-history-sally-hemings-edwin\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR\u2019s ranks The Washington Post 2013-06-29 Darryl Fears Reisha Raney\u2019s role in Friday night\u2019s Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia\u2019s flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[11185,10142,11179,15101,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-32094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-dar","tag-darryl-fears","tag-daughters-of-the-american-revolution","tag-reisha-raney","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}