Family tree research reveals Revolutionary War roots
At a family reunion in 1999, Eugene Manuel’s relatives assigned him the job of researching the family tree to determine their ancestral roots.Manuel took up the challenge.Along with a whole lot of help from other researchers, he eventually discovered that he is a direct descendant of William Lomack, a free black man who fought in the Revolutionary War in the 1770s.And that discovery led to him recently being the first black man to be inducted into Fayetteville’s le […]
