Over break I visited the house that my G-G-G Grandfather St. Clair Graves built after he broke away from his white relatives who banished him from the Graves family. He fathered his bi-racial children here with the mother of his children Anne Brown. My G-Great Grandfather William Henry Fields and his daughter my Great Grandmother Josephine Fields Garnett grew up here. Their last name is technically "Graves", however, because William Henry Fields was born before the Civil war and due to the Graves family reputation in the small town, William was given a random last name that wouldn't be consider controversial during that time.
(Josephine)
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