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The Marzette/Marzett story
Posted by Billy (Charles) Marzette <brcmarzette@netscape.net> on Wed, 14 May 2008, in response to Marzett/Marzette, posted by Djenaba Marzett on Fri, 19 Mar 2004
HEY CUZ,> LET ME SHARE A LITTLE MARZETT/MARZETTE HISTORY as it was told to me,(the quick version):
> MY NAME IS BILLY RAE CHARLES MARZETTE,I WAS BORN IN FRESNO,CALIFORNIA (1942.
I AM KNOWN BY FAMILY AND FRIEND IN FRESNO AS CHARLES. HOWEVER THE MILITARY CALL ME,"MARZETTE".
I RETIRED FROM THE ARMY IN 1987, (22 years) I NOW LIVE AND WORKED IN THE WASHINGTON D.C. METRO AREA.
I WORKED AT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, I retired from there Dec 2006.
> THE ELDER MARZETTES THAT WERE PRESENT AT THE BIG MARZETTE FAMILY REUNION,IN FRESNO CALIFORNIA. (the big reunion was or is held ever 2 years,in different states)
THAT WAS HELD IN FRESNO,CA IN THE MID 1980S, WITH OVER 1500 MARZETTE/MARZETT'S IN ATTENDANCE,
THEY SAID THERE WERE 7 FRENCH BROTHERS IN THE EARLY 1800'S THAT MARRIED 7 BLACK SLAVE WOMEN, IN SOUTH CAROLINE, THIS MARZETTE CLAN GREW TO OVER 200 FAMILY MEMBERS.
WHEN ONE OF THE BROTHER KILLED A WHITE MAN FOR WHAT HE DID TO ONE OF THE MARZETTE WOMEN.
THE WHITES ROUNDED UP THE MARZETTES CLAN EXCEPT FOR ONE OF THE BROTHERS.
THE WHITES PUT ALL OF THE MARZETTE CLAN IN A LARGE BARN AND THEY HAD PLANS TO KILL THEN THAT NIGHT.
BUT THAT ONE BROTHER THAT WAS NOT NOT CAPTURED, FREED THE REST OF THE FAMILY BEFORE THE KILLING STARTED. AFTER THE MARZETTE CLAN EXCAPED, THEY ALL AGREED THAT NEVER AGAIN WOULD ALL THE FAMILY BE CAUGHT IN ONE PLACE AGAIN SO THEY SPLIT UP AND WENT TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THROUGH OUT THE STATES AND CANADA, THEY ALSO AGREED THAT THE FAMILY REUNION WOULD BE HELD EVER TWO YEARS TO SEE HOW MANY FAMILY MEMBERS WERE STILL ALIVE.
THE ELDERS ALSO SAID THAT SOME FAMILYS MEMBERS DROPED THE "E" MARZETT, BECAUSE IT WAS SILENT. HOWEVER SOME SAID YOU PRONOUNCE THE "E", MARZETTE SO THE DEBATE GOES ON. (one of my brothers droped the "E" for years before he started back to using it again).
THE BOTTOM LINE THEY TOLD US WAS, NO MATTER IF ITS SPELLED MARZETT OR MARZETTE, IF YOU WERE BORN WITH MARZETT/MARZETTE BLOOD IN YOUR VAINS YOU ARE FAMILY.
I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MY GREAT GRANDFATHER,OTHER THAN HE WAS WESTLEY MARZETTE.
MY GRANDPARENTS WERE JORDAN & MATTIE MARZETTE, FROM THOMPSON,ALABAMA WHERE MY FATHER SHERMAN,AND SOME OF HIS ELEVEN OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE BORN.
MY GRANDPARENTS MOVED TO OKLAHOMA IN THE EARLY 1900 WHERE THE REST OF MY FATHER'S SIBLINGS WERE EITHER BORN IN BOLEY OR CHICKASHA,OK. I DONT KNOW IF MY AUNT "MYRTLE (MARZETTE) LITTLE", STILL LIVES IN CHICKASHA OR IF SHE IS STILL ALIVE OR NOT. YOU CAN CHECK TO FIND OUT IF YOU KNOW ANY OF HER CHILDERN.
I HAD TWO OLDER BROTHERS AND A SISTERS THAT WERE BORN IN BOLEY OR CHICKASHA, THEY ARE DECEASED NOW. I HAVE TWO SISTERS LIVING IN CALIFORNIA NOW, AND A LOT OF COUSINS.
SO I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU AND ANYONE ELSE THAT READS THIS.
GET BACK TO ME ANYTIME YOU WANT TO.
WITH MUCH LOVE
MARZETTE
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