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The eight grandchildren, called the cousins of Amherst, (many of them earning college and post college degrees) were  - Vernon Allan Rich (1902-1985), William George Rich III (1904-1988), Celestine Rich Arnold (1915-?)- born to Bessie Tinsley 1877-1951  and William George Rich II who was Deaf;  Alma Brown (1902-1926), Charles \"Son\" Brown (1904-1959), Hausie Brown (1910-1934) who were the children of Lillie Tinsley (1879-1922) and Charles Brown; Constance Thomas Parker (1917-1981) was the daughter of Hariette \"Hattie\" Tinsley (1881-1949) and Richard Gates Thomas; and Dorothy Massie Christian (1904-1966) was the daughter of Signora Tinsley (1885-1940) and Hugh Massie (1883-1980).","The collection MSS 16920 contains the Tinsley, Edwards, Rich family history (1795; 1820-1978) written by William George Rich III (1905-1988) about his great-great grandfather who called himself William Tinsley (born into enslavery in 1795,and freed in 1820), his great grandparents Nelson and Lauren Broady Tinsley, (an indigenous woman) and his grandparents Charles Robert Tinsley (1851-1919) and Betty Edwards Tinsley (1855-1924) (daughter of an indigenous woman Malinda Edwards)and their eight grandchildren (William George Rich III and his 7 cousins) who lived on their own land in Amherst, Virginia. The collection is remarkable in the amount of detail that is provided about a prosperous African American family living during Jim Crow laws. Charles Robert Tinsley was the owner of a livery stable and built a house for his children, grandchildren and his parents, Nelson and Lauren Tinsley.","Betty Edwards Tinsley (wife of Charles Robert Tinsley) inherited land from her parents, Washington Edwards and Malinda Edwards (an indigenous woman.) Her father was a minister and may have been white or mixed race. Charles Robert Tinsley sold part of that land and built a farm and successful livery business in Amherst, near Lynchburg, where several generations of the family lived a comfortable life on 64 Depot Road.","There are typed family histories in homemade scrapbooks documenting multiple generations of the Tinsley-Rich-Edwards family, self- described as a prosperous and \"happy\" African American family and with deep roots in Virginia and highly respected by other African American and white families.","The collection contains a photocopy of an 1819 Notice of Sale of six enslaved men of which one man (William Tinsley) was freed and saved his own for sale notice. Jacob and Isaac Tinsley, son and heirs of the white William Tinsley, created the for-sale notice \"Six Lively Young Negroes\". The white heirs made enough money from the sale to free the seventh person, who decided to call himself William Tinsley. The name of William Tinsley's wife is unknown. 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