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Mabel Hall Middleton
Mabel Middleton
Mabel Middleton
Mabel Hall (later Middleton) at her graduation from Christiansburg Institute, 1941 (courtesy of Mabel Middleton)
Mabel Hall (later Middleton) at her graduation from Christiansburg Institute, 1941 (courtesy of Mabel Middleton)
Brown Colbert's granddaughter and Mabel Middleton's grandmother, Melinda Colbert Hance (1849-1919)
Courtesy of Mabel Middleton
Brown Colbert's granddaughter and Mabel Middleton's grandmother, Melinda Colbert Hance (1849-1919)
Mabel Hall Pittman Middleton, writer and teacher, grew up in Lexington, Virginia. After serving in the Women’s Army Corps in World War II and graduating from Fisk University, she taught English in Mississippi. She obtained her doctorate from Southern Illinois University and chaired the English Department at Jackson State University. She was appointed to the Mississippi Humanities Council in 2000.
Dr. Middleton, who married and had three children, heard from her family of her connection to Monticello but did not hear of her ancestor Brown Colbert’s emigration to Liberia.
13 July 2003, Charlottesville, VA
Interviewee: Mabel Hall Middleton
- Elizabeth Hemings 1735–1807
- Betty Brown 1759–post 1831
- Brown Colbert 1785–1833
- Benjamin Colbert ca. 1809–1881
- Mabel Hall Middleton 1922–
- Brown Colbert descendant