Laidey (Adelaide) Askew celebrates 86th birthday with return to Hooper Street. Laidey (center), daughter Tonce (left), niece Cia (right) and second-cousin Cherie (far-right). While visiting Site #5 Legacy Marker (Hooper Street), a chance encounter with Candler Park resident Sarah Cusick revealed that Laidey’s former home once stood at Sarah’s current address. Honoring the request to spend time “on the land” of her childhood home, Sarah hosted Laidey’s birthday celebration with family (photo courtesy of Edith Kelman).
Descendant Antioch East Baptist Church Families embrace the History Project’s Legacy Markers.
The Latimore family is featured on Site #2 Legacy Marker (Rose Hill). In 1893, they were pioneers in the African American Community on Rose Hill in the Mayson Ave. Subdivision of early Edgewood-Candler Park. This photo represents six generations of the Latimore family (photo courtesy of William Read & George Nikas).Mother Phoebe Luckie Crockett is featured on Site #3 Legacy Marker (Evening Star Lodge). She was an early neighborhood resident who sponsored children’s activities at the Edgewood Evening Star Lodge. This photo represents five descendent generations of M. Crockett’s family (photo courtesy of Dwayne Holmes).Members of several Antioch East Baptist Church families surround the Commemorative Bench at Site #4 Legacy Marker (original church site). Their families belonged to the first wooden church during Antioch’s early years at this site, 1877–1916 (photo courtesy of Edith Kelman).Descendants of Antioch (East) Baptist Church 1872 founding families – Howard, Lattimore, & Patterson – join with Site #4 Legacy Marker sponsors and Candler Park neighbors. They are working together with the BiRacial History Project to document Antioch’s ancestral neighborhood (photo courtesy of Allie Goolrick).Latimore Family Siblings recall growing up in Edgewood–Candler Park in an interview with Emory University/Transforming Community students, at the Old Stone Church, 2010 (photo courtesy of George Nikas).
