Finding Daisy
Author: Kathy Lynne Marshall
Publisher: Kanika Marshall Art & Books
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780999201428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1976, an innocent letter from Kathy Marshall asking her paternal grandmother, Daisy Dooley Marshall Schumake, what their family lineage was, led Kathy on a four decades-long search for their family roots. Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land, is the third in a series of books addressing that genealogy question.But why would Grandma Daisy tell her family she was born in St. Louis, then migrated to the Promised Land Up North when she actually came from the Deep South, where pre-Civil War plantations and slavery society were the norm? Although the bread crumb trail to grandma's true history was obscured, Kathy finally picked up the tasty clues that led her to the truth. She learned how Daisy was able to navigate Jim Crow to become a well-respected businesswoman, nurse, civic leader, church trustee, fundraiser, wife, mother, and grandmother. The flip side was shedding a bright light on Daisy's beast and the last years of her remarkable life.