79 years of love: Virginia’s longest married couple celebrates another anniversary | WSLS 10 News

A.J. and Lillie Reeves celebrate lifetime together [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] We Were Eight Years in Power Virginia’s longest married couple just celebrated another anniversary. A.J. and Lillie Reeves recently celebrated 79 years of marriage. The pair were married Jan. 25, 1941 in Sontag. The couple is from Truevine, where they’ve lived their entire life. The couple […]

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East St. Louis woman who raised 12 children and helped feed the hungry dies at 105 | Belleville News-Democrat

A few years ago, I read slave narratives to explore the lives of black agricultural workers after the end of the Civil War. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The narratives came from the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, a program that employed researchers from 1936 to 1938 to interview former enslaved people, producing more than […]

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