{"id":5038,"date":"2024-03-29T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rivahguide.com\/stage\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2024-04-21T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T04:52:13","slug":"celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-armistead-stokalas-nickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivahguide.com\/stage\/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-armistead-stokalas-nickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the life and legacy of Armistead Stokalas Nickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4479\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivahguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Feature-Family-and-friends-gather-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Nickens program presenters and extended family members\" width=\"1000\" height=\"339\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nickens program presenters and extended family members from left are (front row) Francine Aytes Hunter, Brenda Campbell, Jacqueline Morris Whitman, Karen E. Sutton, Ph.D., Antionette Diantha Aytes; (next row) Karen Turner Fauntleroy, Bonita Corbin James, Lezlye Ajani, Sonia Lynch, Levi Pitts, Liana Lee and Shawn Lee, holding Zaden Lee; (next row) Bryan Evans, Karen Hart, Linda Ross, Earl Hunter Jr., Dean Nickens, Marva Nickens, Corey Whitman, Malcom Whitman, Maurice Joseph Aytes and Calvinette Betts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LANCASTER \u2014 On February 24, a sunlit date marked with historical memoirs and oral histories, family and community filled the Lancaster Community Library meeting room for \u201cA Family\u2019s Journey into the Life and Legacy of the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This historical presentation was co-hosted by Brenda Campbell and Francine Aytes Hunter, The Nickens Historical Highway Marker Committee, and the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Antionette Diantha Aytes set the tone with storytelling, much like envisioning and sitting in on family conversations at the dinner table, about the inspirational beginnings of this journey and the discovery of family history as conveyed by the late matriarch Gazelle Nickens Aytes. Dr. Karen E. Sutton followed with the analytical research of the \u201cThe Nickens Nine,\u201d free Black ancestors who fought in the American Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Morris Whitman, great-granddaughter of Nickens, fluently related the biography of his early life, his vision for building a school for Black residents in the county, the co-founding of Calvary Baptist Church, and his early advocacy for building a bridge in Tappahannock, later to be known as the Downing Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, another great-granddaughter, spoke further of \u201cthe Virginia Gentleman and his Legacy,\u201d vividly imparting additional information about Nickens\u2019 vocations, entrepreneurship, public service and assistance to others. She also conveyed history regarding Simon Conquest, a brickmaker, and others who helped construct buildings on the streets of Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Walker, joining virtually from Seattle, Wash., described his comprehensive national and global travel to conduct research of family genealogy and history. He also announced that a classroom and technology lab was named for the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens in 2022 at the Filipino Community Center in Seattle, in recognition of his dedication to education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4475\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rivahguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Feature-Family-and-Friends-HANOVER-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Kathryn Rexrode, a representative from the Office of U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman, Francine Aytes Hunter and Brenda Campbell view a historical exhibit about Armistead Stokalas Nickens at the Hanover Tavern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Francine Aytes Hunter played a video with remarks from Joe Gorman, a sixth grade U.S. History teacher in Hanover Public Schools who integrates the history of \u201cThe Honorable Armistead S. Nickens\u201d within his classroom instruction. She additionally enlightened the audience about the Historical Highway Marker process, describing the Virginia Department of Historic Resources protocol and acknowledging the abundant level of local, regional and statewide community collaboration and support. Hunter spoke, too, about future plans to preserve the Nickens cemetery and other ways of continuing to commemorate family history and public service.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation and accompanying visual displays also featured information from sources including historian Matthew S. Gottlieb, who also virtually attended the presentation and is the author of the Encyclopedia Virginia entry \u201c<em>Armistead S. Nickens (1836-1906)<\/em>,\u201d the Lancaster County African American Historical Society; the late Dr. Morgan E. Norris Sr., the late J. Allen Ball Sr., author of the \u201c<em>The Honorable Armistead S. Nickens, Statesman, Virginia Gentleman, Father: A Memoir<\/em>; and the late Carolyn H Jett, author of <em>Lancaster County, Virginia, Where the River Meets the Bay<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Hart, executive director of the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society, read remarks from the U.S. Congressional Record of proceedings in the House of Representatives from February 23, when the Honorable Robert J. Wittman stated, \u201cMr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens, one of the first African Americans to serve in Virginia&#8217;s government. On December 16, 1871, Armistead S. Nickens took the oath of office as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, making history as the first African American elected official in Lancaster County history. Armistead Nickens would go on to win a second term in 1873\u2026\u201d Congressman Wittman\u2019s tribute continued with a summary of Nickens\u2019 life history and contributions and concluded with \u201cMr. Speaker, I ask you to join me in recognizing the immense accomplishments of the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens.\u201d\u00a0 On February 26, Kathryn Rexrode, a representative from Congressman Wittman\u2019s office, met with Campbell and Hunter at the Hanover Tavern, Hanover, where the family also had historical items on display.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter expressed much humble gratitude \u201cto our Elders, upon whose shoulders we stand.\u201d Special thanks were also extended to the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society, Lancaster Community Library, Kilmarnock Museum and Historic Christ Church &amp; Museum. She concluded the event stating, \u201cAs we connect the past to the present and envision the future endeavors of legacy and public service, we leave you with this, \u2018Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.\u2019 \u2014Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. \u2018If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you\u2019re wearing work shoes.\u2019 \u2014Author Unknown\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the local dignitaries and community leaders present at the event were Lancaster board of supervisors chairman Ernest Palin and member William Lee; Kilmarnock council member and former mayor Mae Umphlett; former Kilmarnock council member Keith Butler; Carroll Lee Ashburn, director of the Kilmarnock Museum; Lloyd Hill, chairman of Deacon Ministry of Sharon Baptist Church; Pixie Curry, \u201cA Pixie from Kilmarnock\u201d Podcaster;\u00a0 Alice Norris, granddaughter of Dr. Morgan E. Norris Sr.; and retired Lancaster County Public Schools educator, Sandra Davis Smyre, who reunited with several generations of former history students.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bessida Cauthorne-White, executive director of the Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Virginia, was also in attendance. Representatives of the Lancaster Virginia Historical Society included Hart and board members Alice Cooper, Vera Lee and Margaret Forrester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2014 On February 24, a sunlit date marked with historical memoirs and oral histories, family and community filled the Lancaster Community Library meeting room for \u201cA Family\u2019s Journey into the Life and Legacy of the Honorable Armistead Stokalas Nickens.\u201d This historical presentation was co-hosted by Brenda Campbell and Francine Aytes Hunter, The Nickens Historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-rivah-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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