My great-grandmother, Susan Henderson, was born as a slave in 1857 in Tennessee or Kentucky. She lived to be 105 years old, dying in 1962.
I believe her maiden name was Dixon and that she may or may not have been a descendant of former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon. She married Ballard C. Henderson, who was born in 1829 in South Carolina and died in 1929 in Cairo, Illinois.
If you have any information whatsoever about any of the people mentioned above, please let me know. Thank you.