Chapter 6 Fieldwork
Introducing my Family
These are my Great-Great-Grandparents Roger Elliot and Ethel Elliot. They started their family in Erwin, North Carolina . They had 4 boys and 5 girls Barbara, William, Annie, Mabel, Duncan, June, Fred, Della , Aliza. So they had a very large family My great grandmother Mabel Elliot moved from Erwin, North Carolina after having her second child in 1957 she moved to Baltimore, Maryland. My great-grandmother Mabel had 4 children of her own one daughter and three sons : Barbara , Boe , Micheal , and Stanley.
This is my grandmother Barbara McNeil’s Wedding in 1994 where you can see majority of my aunts and uncles. My grandmother had five children of her own : Leshawn , Shawanda , Sherita , Damon , and Marcus (Sr). This is a great oppurtunity to Catch a moment in time this was 6 years before I was born.
This is my great-grandfather William (rabbit) McNeil this is my great grandmother Mabels husband he also was located in North Carolina but his family was located in Raleigh , North Carolina . So once they got together and started their family they chose to relocate their family . He passed away In 2005 from an heart attack and liver failure. he was so family oriented we all looked up to him , I have brief memories of him but I definitely remember him.
This was an image from the celebration of my cousin De’aisya Sutton being born in October 1999 . My mother is in the top corner (Brained Bob) and my father is on the floor with ( gold tooth smiling) . This is one of the rare photos with my great-grandparents together . My mother was pregnant with me I was born the following year in July 24th, 2000.
This is my great grandmother Mabel McNeil, Me and my younger brother Marlon at the bottom of the picture, my father Marcus Sutton Sr on the right of me , and my Uncle Damon Sutton on left side of my great grandmother .
This is my family My mother Sheba Boozer and my father Marcus Sutton Sr had 5 children : Marcus Sutton Jr (me) , Marlon Sutton, Matthew Sutton, Mason and Madison. My mother tried so hard to have girl and she never gave up and god gave her a set of twins in 2021.
My family both the Elliots and McNeill’s have lived in the United States. Since the 1800′s at least that's how far I can date back. For the longest time they were a southern family located in North Carolina. My family has always embraced American nationalism as African American or Black ; we keep our American nationalism with our family traditions and recipes. For example, we have a yearly family reunion for each side of the family, because my great grandmother doesn't like to leave out of the house we frequently have cook-out’s and gatherings at her house on holidays so that we can still have some family orientation. Being proud of who you are and being confident in everything that you do has always been important rules my family has enforced for generations. I can honestly say this help me get where I am today. My view has not changed on ethnicity and nationalism from my family but I definitely grasped a-lot about family orientation and the representation of phenotypes and genotypes and how strong some of my family’s genes are. Viewing other’s work shows me how other people’s family has a more variety of ethnicity so they have cool background’s and also have family from all over the world.
