Died after short illness.∼Memorial based on the grave marker and the book "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created" by Nick Tabor (2023).
James, or Ahnonotoe, an African name given to him by his father to connect to his heritage, was the second oldest of Cudjo and Abile Lewis' six children. He was the manager of the family run business, the Lewis Bros. Grocery Dealers which was one of the first retail shops in Plateau. The store, known as the Hickory Club, also served as the brothers' base of operations as they worked collaboratively with the sheriff's department keeping peace in the Plateau and Magazine Point area. James died in November, 1905 most likely from a diphtheria infection and was buried in the Africatown Graveyard. To Cudjo, who lost his oldest son David just seven months earlier, it seemed that his children were lonesome for each other --"So dey hurry go sleep together in de graveyard".
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
James, or Ahnonotoe, an African name given to him by his father to connect to his heritage, was the second oldest of Cudjo and Abile Lewis' six children. He was the manager of the family run business, the Lewis Bros. Grocery Dealers which was one of the first retail shops in Plateau. The store, known as the Hickory Club, also served as the brothers' base of operations as they worked collaboratively with the sheriff's department keeping peace in the Plateau and Magazine Point area. James died in November, 1905 most likely from a diphtheria infection and was buried in the Africatown Graveyard. To Cudjo, who lost his oldest son David just seven months earlier, it seemed that his children were lonesome for each other --"So dey hurry go sleep together in de graveyard".
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
Died after short illness.∼Memorial based on the grave marker and the book "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created" by Nick Tabor (2023).
James, or Ahnonotoe, an African name given to him by his father to connect to his heritage, was the second oldest of Cudjo and Abile Lewis' six children. He was the manager of the family run business, the Lewis Bros. Grocery Dealers which was one of the first retail shops in Plateau. The store, known as the Hickory Club, also served as the brothers' base of operations as they worked collaboratively with the sheriff's department keeping peace in the Plateau and Magazine Point area. James died in November, 1905 most likely from a diphtheria infection and was buried in the Africatown Graveyard. To Cudjo, who lost his oldest son David just seven months earlier, it seemed that his children were lonesome for each other --"So dey hurry go sleep together in de graveyard".
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Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
James, or Ahnonotoe, an African name given to him by his father to connect to his heritage, was the second oldest of Cudjo and Abile Lewis' six children. He was the manager of the family run business, the Lewis Bros. Grocery Dealers which was one of the first retail shops in Plateau. The store, known as the Hickory Club, also served as the brothers' base of operations as they worked collaboratively with the sheriff's department keeping peace in the Plateau and Magazine Point area. James died in November, 1905 most likely from a diphtheria infection and was buried in the Africatown Graveyard. To Cudjo, who lost his oldest son David just seven months earlier, it seemed that his children were lonesome for each other --"So dey hurry go sleep together in de graveyard".
*************
Grave plot location note: Special thanks to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail (DFFAAHT) for making the Old Plateau Cemetery grave location archive: https://www.dffaaht.org/ available. The grave location is based on the College of William and Mary's Africatown Archaeological Project 2010 research database of graves in the Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery map they created uses the "ID# for GIS" as the location ID. This information is only for the OLD section, and not those buried in the new section.
A copy of this database & map has also been placed on file with the Mobile Public Library - Local History & Genealogy, Mobile, Alabama. (4/24/2021)
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