OHS Partners With Tyler Family in Legacy Project
Descendants of James Seneca Tyler, first African American elected Clerk to the Ohio House of Representatives, and his wife, Maria McAfee, daughter of an indentured servant who helped raise the children of the prominent Alfred Kelley family of Columbus, will meet August 5-6 in Columbus for the Tyler Family Homecoming. Many of the descendants will be meeting each other for the first time.
In the Tyler Family Legacy Project, a partnership between the Tyler family and the Ohio Historical Society, the Tyler Family Homecoming will include a reception, a small exhibit and a genealogical workshop at the Ohio Historical Center’s Archives/Library in Columbus. Staff members of the Ohio Historical Society will videotape interviews with Tyler family members, make copies for the family and place the series of recordings in the Society’s permanent collections. In addition, the Tyler family and the Ohio Historical Society will unveil an Ohio Historical Marker about the Tyler family, which will be placed in Goodale Park in Columbus later this year. James Seneca Tyler lived at 1107 Highland Ave. in Victorian Village with his family from the 1880s until his death in 1916.
What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing the story of an unknown and obviously prominent family in Ohio with all us. Also, what an exciting idea to partner with a state historical society. It would be wonderful to learn more about this fmaily's story.
Posted by: Eliza McNally | July 28, 2005 at 08:31 AM