Ive learned a lot researching the history of The Hairston Family. The Hairston clan is one of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons share a complex and compelling history: divided in the time of slavery, they have come to embrace their past as one family. The Hairston family originally was of cacasion decent. In America there were nine plantations. With the exception of one, they were located fairly close together: there were "Marrowbone" (1749) "Beaver Creek" (1776), "Berry Hill" (1782), "Hordsville" (1836), and "Red Plains" (1860), located in Henry County, Virginia; "Oak Hill" (1823), located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; "Sauratown Hills" (1786), located in Stokes …show more content…
Soon the bond of kinship and fellowship began to surface and bind father and mother, sister and brother, and cousins left and right. HAIRSTONS, white and black, began to seek and find each other. Kinship recognition was in bloom.It was some time later that the HAIRSTON CLAN was founded, primarily through an attempt to bring about a greater involvement of family solidarity and kinship feeling among surnamed white and black relatives whose origins began in the nine plantations.It was some time later that the HAIRSTON CLAN was founded, primarily through an attempt to bring about a greater involvement of family solidarity and kinship feeling among surnamed white and black relatives whose origins began in the nine plantations.Progressing slowly through the social and legal barriers of humble beginnings and racial struggles, HAIRSTONS, all, are now beginning to join together in sincere kinship unity and expand their historical, sociological and humanitarian horizons for the good of family, country, and