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Her ancestor's were bought to America by way of the slave trade from Africa. Alma’s DNA
records revealed that Alma’s genetic make up is 35% Benin/Togo, 34% Cameroon, Congo,&
Southern Bantu Peoples, 12% Ivory Coast/Ghana, 7% Ireland & Scotland, 7% Mali, 3% Nigeria,
1% Norway and 1% Philippines.
The slave traders delivered her forefathers to Johnson and Nash Counties, in North Carolina; where she
was born. The small town of Middlesex, NC is Alma lived until she was twelve years old. The population was
588 people and mostly farmers. Farming was how her grandparents made a living. Alma moved to Philadelphia
Pennsylvania when she was twelve with her mother and her slings. All grown up she moved to Tampa, FL
after her military service in 1980.
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