Name/Title
Tillman, Elizabeth Story, 1988Entry/Object ID
9999.BHF.211Scope and Content
Tillman, Elizabeth Story, 1988. Pride remains part of family is the title of a story in the St. Joseph News-Press June 27, 1988. Elizabeth's grandmother came to Missouri from Kentucky when she was three years old.(1860) She was a wedding present for a local couple. Hanna married Henry Bibbins who came to Chillicothe as a slave from South Carolina. They raised 15 children. The youngest of the Bibbins children had only one child, Elizabeth. She and her husband Robert Tillman raised 8 children.
November 15, 1990, St. Joseph News-Press Lynn M. Tillman wrote a letter to the editor about her father. She told the paper that she enjoyed the feature article written about her father William E. Tillman Sr. Her father played the piano and organ. On Sunday after the article appeared the church was packed with friends, family and loved ones who wanted to show her dad how much they loved him.Collection
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