Comments on: The Multinational, Multiethnic Ainsworth Family

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:26:54 +0000

Very interesting, Mitchell. How did you determine that this was Ainsworth property–through court records? It would be great if someone out there could confirm whether or not Sampson’s parents are buried on this property.

Thanks for the contribution!

Vikki

By: Mitchell Blakeney

Mitchell Blakeney — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:25:32 +0000

To Micheal Allen II >>> Back in the late 40′s, 50′s, and 60′s, there was an Agee family that were sharecroppers on my uncles place. This would have been about 6 miles south of Sampson’s place, between the next two bridges crossing Leaf River, that the locals call the Dan Blakeney bridge and the Bob Blakeney bridge. This was a Black family. Mrs. Agee soon to be 93 still lives on the east side of Leaf River from the Bob Blakeney bridge. Unknown to most, there is a Black cemetery on my uncles place that has some of the Agee relatives.

By: Mitchell Blakeney

Mitchell Blakeney — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:11:36 +0000

I have found part of the property that was owned by Sampson J. Ainsworth, my ggg grandfather. It’s about 10 miles north of my place in Smith County. The Leaf River ran through two forties on the east side of this property. The highway, which is now Mississippi Hwy 18 also runs through that property. Hwy 18 connects Raleigh to Bay Springs. The bridge crossing Leaf River on Hwy 18 would be the first main bridge crossing the Leaf from it’s beginning in Scott County. It’s my belief that Sampson’s parents, are buried on this property, unless they are in unmarked graves at the Mt. Nebo cemetery near Bay Springs. I also just discovered that Sampson was an officer of Smith County in 1838. Is there anyone out there that would like to add too or comment?

By: Michael Allen II

Michael Allen II — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:16:09 +0000

I have come to believe that about Sampson Jefferson Ainsworth as well.I know that his son Jefferson Napoleon Ainsworth also acknowledged his son Andrew that he had with Caroline.I have heard the story too about how Andrew went to see him and turned around.I do know that we had passed down the name of Sullivan’s Hollow in our family as the place where J.N. lived at.I researched Sullivan’s Hollow and it is/was a very rough place.I can see why he had second thoughts and turned around.I know through a descendant of J.N.’s through his wife Sophia that they knew him as “Agee”.I have also been told that there was a doctor in the Ainsworth family that tended to Andrew and his family.I’m finalizing a family tree and I hope to have on on ancestry.com very soon. BTW I have heard about the story about Emmanuel and his twin sons.I see that Emmanuel died at a very young age.Does anybody know the story around his early demise?

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:56:05 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Mitchell! And, yes, whatever one might think about Sampson’s behavior, he certainly set some amazing records for both longevity and “productivity.”

Sampson apparently did acknowledge his descendants through Martha, his slave. It would be interesting to hear any stories that might have been passed down to them. Yvonne Bivins has commented that they were known as “children of the plantation,” and that they always knew who their father was.

Vikki

By: Mitchell Blakeney

Mitchell Blakeney — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:18:00 +0000

Sampson Ainsworth must have been quite a man. God gave him almost Ninty years on this earth in really bad times. I feel that he loved his family, both white and mulatto. I don’t think a man can have that many children by a woman and not love her. He is my ggg grandfather on both my Mother and Father’s side. His neighbor was Jacob Blakeney, who is also my gg grandfather. I own property that Sampson walked on, maybe died on, that was homesteaded by his son, Asberry.

By: MA

MA — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:01:39 +0000

I have some information on the Ainsworths.I know they lived in Sullivan’s Hollow.I heard they were a very mean people.I’ve heard some stories about Sampson and one of his sons named Emmanuel especially.I have pictures of Sampson’s son named Asberry and his daughter known as “Park”.My GG Grandfather Andrew was the son of Jeffereson Napoleon Ainsworth aka “Jesse” and Caroline Duckworth Buckhalter.She was married to a Wiley Buckhalter at the time that Andrew was born.He was the only ‘mulatto’ in the family.I read Andrew was one of the wealthiest Black men in Mississippi.His descendants are mostly in Chicago and California but they are spread all over the nation…There is mention of him in this link regarding his farming business….

http://www.archive.org/stream/negroyearbookana00workrich/negroyearbookana00workrich_djvu.txt

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:05:12 +0000

Thanks for this, Michael. This is a branch of the multiracial Ainsworths that I know almost nothing about. Feel free to tell us more!

Vikki

By: MA

MA — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:29:20 +0000

Sampson Jefferson Ainsworth is my direct paternal GGGG Grandfather and his son Jefferson Napoleon Ainsworth is my GGG Grandfather.There is a lot of history surrounding the ‘mulatto’ son of JN Ainsworth known as Andrew Buckhalter born in 1869 and died in 1945 that was born to Caroline Duckworth later known as Caroline Buckhalter….My line from Sampson has thousands of black/multiracial/white descendants…Too many of us to count….

By: Clay Ainsworth

Clay Ainsworth — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:30:36 +0000

I was meaning to tell you, my sisters name is Leah Ainsworth. Quite a coincidence.