Extra Credit Questions

[Laurie Verge]

What excellent information. I have often wondered if some of the Simms family were the progenitors of the Simms family that worked one of our farms in Prince George's County during the 1950s.

As for a burial ground, is there a possibility that it might have been on the Henry Lowe Mudd farm down the road - or even a slave section in Old St. Peter's Cemetery? From what we were told when locating Spangler's grave to mark it years ago, that old cemetery had a lot of damage done to it in the 1950s or so when they hired a man with a bush hog to clear out the overgrowth -- he cleared out gravestones also. Since many slaves' graves were marked only with wooden crosses or boards, they may have been part of the debris.

I love the chicken and biscuits. We served ours with chicken gravy over them. Wonder if Lettie made any gravy for the visitors???