Five Minute Histories: Patty Atavis in Green Mount Cemetery
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- Join us at Green Mount Cemetery to learn about Martha Ann “Patty” Atavis, one of the few Black Baltimoreans buried here. Her grave is in the plot of the family who enslaved her and later employed her after emancipation. In 2011, the Maryland Historical Society (now the Maryland Center for History and Culture) acquired more information about Patty, including two rare portraits of her. We are grateful to have Lashelle Bynum, photographer, Baltimore Heritage Board Member, and frequent guest star, join us to help tell Patty’s story. Thanks for watching and see you next week with another Five Minute Histories video.
This is our series called "Five Minute Histories." Every week, we’ll record a short video about a different historic place in Baltimore and post it on our Facebook page and TH-cam channel.
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Glad to see Ms. Bynum again! Loving the fashion
Thank you, for the compliment and watching the video.. Have a good and safe one.
@niadorian1 is Lashelle herself!
There has been an ongoing active honeybee colony living in the Green Mount Chapel for over 20 years
Wow, we had no idea!
I am hoping that Baltimore Heritage will do a tour of homes and buildings that served the Underground Railroad! Maybe even find some with tunnels still intact!
Sounds like a plan, Thanx for watching ….
a teacher of mine owned a home on york road with several hidden rooms thought to be for this purpose. i also know of at least one tunnel in fells point that goes up to patterson park.
@@zaq_d Very Cool!
Interesting post. Thank you. Martha Ellicott Tyson and her husband Nathan Tyson had a long-time black servant living in their household in Baltimore caring for their 8 children in the first half of the 1800s. They called her Mammy. Letters indicate an attempt to bury her in the family plot in Greenmount, but it didn't happen. I'd love to know more about Mammy.
The "Mammy Letter" was written by Lucy Tyson Fitzhugh Jany, Martha and Nathan's daughter. I believe there's a copy of it in the Howard County Historical Society archives at Howard County's Miller Library. Lucy tells of the love the Tyson children felt for Mammy. She was working in the Tyson household when Martha married Nathan (in 1815), and began caring for the children as they arrived, apparently for 24 years before she died. Lucy's letter tells that she gathered the children and went outside to see the famous meteor shower of 1833. She apparently had no family of her own and in her will left her belongings (about $300) to the Tyson children. Mammy's real name was Sarah Wilkenson. Lucy relates that when James Tyson (oldest son of Nathan and Martha) purchased a plot in Greenmount he wanted to move Mammy's remains there, but couldn't find her grave in the graveyard where he thought she was buried . This letter was in a trove of Ellicott family material sold by the Fitzhughs ito the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in 1998. Those files were on loan to the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum for many years but I believe the Ellicott/Fitzhugh files have returned to the AACWMM. @LyleGaritty
You're welcome. And thanks for the info. If I might ask...what is your interest in Mammy/the Tysons or is Greenmount your focus? So many interesting rabbit holes!@LyleGaritty
I love Baltimore’s history. Thanks for another informative post.
My late Mother told me her Mother is buried in Greenmount Cemetery.I'd like to find out for sure and learn more about that.Great History Moment Folks! 😊
love this .....very informative and we never learned this in school
Glad you Njoyed Thanx for watching….
Not easy to listen to - still so hard to believe that we endured such a life. Great research! Thank you for posting this.
Wasn’t easy for me either, so I feel you there Thank you for watching
I have a 2d Great Uncle, William Clarke is buried there. He died in 1906, he was appointed as the Chief Inspector of Electrical wiring for the City of Baltimore in 1902. He was in poor health and died of exultation in 1906 as a result of being over work during the reconstruction after the great fire of 1904. His Wife Margret Smyth also buried along side Wm was a Major play in the Woman's Suffrage movement. She was the secretary for the Baltimore Woman's Suffrage Association in 1896 and then for Woman's Suffrage Association of Maryland in 1901.
I look forward to Ms. Bynum's next videos!
Thank you, I appreciate that, glad you Njoyed Thanx, for watching
@niadorian1 is Lashelle herself!
Wow. I grew up in that neighborhood. Right across the street from where I lived is the Johnston Square Park. There was once a mansion across from the Johnston Square Park. I heard that nuns lived there. I was also told that the Johnston Square Park once was a fort, and called Fort McKim. Are these things true? Can you please post information/history about this area? Please reply. Thank you.
I know of two more Black people buried at Green Mount with "their" white familes: John Scott, with the Teackle family in E 37; and Celia Jones, with the Moon family in Dogwood 15.
Thanks for this interesting video!
Thank you for this information!
Thank you, will add this to my research.. Lashelle
P.S. And Thank you for watching and Njoying.Lashelle
Fabulous research. Thank you.
I always hated this city but the history of this city is incredibly rich and fascinating. So much history in Baltimore !
Cool, glad to see we changed your mind about our city. Glad you Njoyed and Thanx for watching …..
Thank you for this historic note concerning Black Baltimore! Your digging is bound to uncover more details of Blacks (free or otherwise) interred at Greenmount.
Gonna try, Thanx for watching….
I’ve thought about that as well. Thanx for watching and njoying …..
@niadorian1 is Lashelle herself!
Such a fascinating and complex story to sort out. Thank you for the research and insight. I wonder how the enslaved people felt about the burial choice? I do not mean that as an insensitive question, but rather to what degree may it have been a choice?
Just posted a comment about the intent of white families.
I have wondered the same thing, Thanx for watching …..
@@deankrimmel7867 Hey, Dean it’s Lashelle what and where did you post ?
Long comment above, Lashelle
I'm curious. Why is the street named Greenmount (one word), and the cemetery is (two words) Green Mount? How did it get this name? Please reply. Thank you.
This is such a great question and we don't know the answer yet. We will see if we can figure it out! Thanks for watching
I ‘m on it ? Thanx for watching and asking …
Great research.. do you think the slaves buried with the families is because they were part of the family or do you feel the families believed the slaves were their property and wanted to keep them with the family even after death?
Well done narration and subject matter. When will the race issue be solved?
Probably never …..