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Fam Bibles
 Joshua R.
 James R R 
CEMETERY 
 John A
 William
 Joshua
 John-b
 John-c
 John-n
also
 Mary W
 Jas R
 Enoch
 Sam
 John-b

DREW
 
Eliza
 Whitmell
 John
 John
 William
 Thomas
 Richard

ARMISTEAD
Starkey
William
Westwood
Anthony

LAWRENCE 
Frances
Reuben
Frederick
Humphrey
Robert
John
Robert  
Sir John 
Thomas

OUTLAW
 
Martha
  John
 John
 Edward
  Ralph 
  Edward 
 Afr-Am 
 England

RASCO
Penelope
James 
 James I 
 Rasco
 also
Frances
Arthur

PERRY
 Winny

CHAPPELL
 
Judith 
 Richard

WALSTON
 
Judith
 Phillip 
 Phillip 
 William

MOORE
 Charity
 Epaphrod. 

JONES
 Dorothy
 William

ASHLEY
 
Ann 
 Thomas 
 Thomas 
 Thomas

HENDRICKS
 Elizabeth 
 Daniel 
 Daniel

BENTLEY
 
Elizabeth 
 William

WOOD
 Judith
 Thomas
 Arthur
also
 Mary
 Edward

HUNTER
 Winny
 Henry
 Robert
 William

WHITMELL
 Sarah
 Thomas
 Thomas

BRYAN
 Elizabeth
 Lewis

BREWER
 
Patience 
 Thomas

SUTTON

Some African-American Outlaw relatives:

Dr. Benjamin Speller 
- great grandson of James Outlaw 
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Former Dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University.
I was a tenured Professor at NCCU for 28 year (serving as Dean for twenty years). I retired in 2004 after serving as a librarian, researcher, planning and budgeting officer, and Academic Dean in the UNC System for 42 years. While at NCCU, I also taught Management and Systems Analysis for the School of Business and the NCCU Department of Human Sciences. After retirement, I taught courses on the Internet for the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University at the main campus and at its program at California State University at Fullerton for five years.

 Click here to learn more about Dr. Benjamin F. Speller Jr.

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Ben Speller's retirement dinner
photo by the NCCU Public Relations Department Photographer

"From left to right my brother, Dr. Leslie C. Speller, Sr. Ph.D. (Physics); my close cousin through the Outlaws, Bonds and Spellers,  Dempsey Bond, Jr. and his wife, Mary Kay;  and of course, me.  We really enjoyed ourselves. The Bonds and Outlaws were represented in large numbers at the dinner.  My dad's only brother, late John T. Speller's son, John Jr. was the surprise relative since he is very reclusive (like some of the Outlaws) and usually only comes to a family funeral.  We had not seen him in about 8 years.  Everyone said that I have now won hands down as the favorite relative on all sides of these families because quite a few hard core "no shows" at reunions and other family events came to this dinner."

"Dempsey Bond's great grandfather is David Cherry Outlaw, son of Edward Cherry Outlaw and nephew of David Standley Outlaw, 1806-1868 (the guardian and uncle of Edward Ralph Outlaw).  His great great uncle, George Outlaw, was the mulatto overseer of his father's, David Outlaw, Plantation and also the Plantation Estate of Edward Ralph Outlaw.  Dempsey's mother is Lula Outlaw. She and some of her brothers have red hair and bad eyesight as did David Outlaw. He is also the ggrandson of Cullen Capehart Speller and gggrandson of James Bond, all plantation owners that links us to the free mulattos, blacks, and slaves in northeastern Bertie County where we all now own land that comprised the Speller, Bond, and Outlaw Plantations."

http://www.williamstonhomecoming.com/Bond/ 

James Outlaw 1858 - 1925

  Evidently Edward Cherry Outlaw and his wife who was a Miller both died and left Edward Ralph Outlaw an underage heir.  His cousin David Standley Outlaw, the lawyer and political leader in Bertie, was his guardian.  I assumed that he lived with his uncle, Walter Miller who never married.  At age eighteen 1858, Edward Ralph fathered my great grandfather, James Outlaw, who also lived with Walter Miller.  I assume that the slave woman who we have not been able to identify also lived in Walter Miller's house. 
  There were conflicting opinions about the paternity of James Outlaw because many thought that David Outlaw, Edward Ralph's guardian and cousin, was my great grandfather's father but we knew different, because he had a son and other children that he recognized who l grew up with.  They had his genetic markers, red hair and very bad eye sight. 

  When, my great grandfather married, Edward Ralph deeded him 500 acres of land down the road from Walter Miller's Plantation.  Everyone thought that Walt Miller had made the gift so that make the case stronger so to speak.  By the time my great grand father died in 1925, he had 2,500 acres of land in Bertie and surrounding counties that we know about. - Ben Speller

three photos of the James Outlaw Family Cemetery on Outlaw Farm Road off US Highway 13/17 in Bertie County North Carolina

James Outlaw Cemetery  James Outlaw Cemetery 2  James and Melinda Outlaw memorial
the memorial with the two headstones and two granite slabs are:
white marble headstone, James Outlaw, August 15, 1858 - September 1, 1925
grey granite headstone, Malinda Mitchell Outlaw, 1859 - 1928


 
Maggie Outlaw 1888 -1985

Here is a photo of my grandmother, Maggie Outlaw, 1888-1985, James Outlaw's daughter. At the time of this photo, she was 94 and was blind from the same condition as her great uncle, David Standley Outlaw.  She was born November 14, 1888 and died October 30, 1985.  She married Turner Speller, 1887-1965.
Ben Speller


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Maggie Outlaw at age 85

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