Most individuals pictured above are paternal or maternal family members. The few others are close family friends or part of the larger, supporting communities the families lived in.
"Great Cloud of Witnesses" is one of my favorite collages. Without their stories, my story would not exist. Each photograph has been colorized for a new perspective.
“And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
WHester was born in Rondeau, Harwich Township, Ontario.
Bill Meehan claimed that Matthew Henson, an African-American explorer with Robert Peary at the North Pole in 1909, was an Anderson/Freeman family cousin.