@rakeemandre: 🌳 HE NEVER CAME BACK! | PART 1 of 3 Around 1952, my great-grandfather Benny Clardy left his wife and four children in Greenville, South Carolina, to work in Florida. But this wasn’t unusual. Benny had traveled to Florida for work before, returning home with money and resources to support his family. This time was different. He never came back. Among the children he left behind were my grandmother and my grandaunt Evelyn Clardy Berry. Years later, before Evelyn passed away, she asked me about her father. She wanted answers about the man who had disappeared from their lives. Her questions stayed with me. So I began searching historical records, following clues that eventually led me to Bartow, Florida. And then something extraordinary happened. I located people who actually knew my great-grandfather! I tracked down their telephone numbers and called them myself. They were shocked to hear from Benny Clardy’s great-grandson. What they revealed helped me reconstruct a life my family knew very little about. This investigation is one of the reasons I became so passionate about family history. 🎥 Watch Part 2 to discover the life Benny built in Florida. Recovering our past, reconnecting our people. #GenealogicalNuggets #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #BlackGenealogy #FamilySecrets

MrsMet04 :

when you said Bartow Florida my heart sank

1234567890 :

granddaddy had another family

Genealogy by Andre Chapman :

🌳 PART 2 IS COMING! I actually located people in Florida who knew my missing great-grandfather, Benny Clardy. What they told me about his new life was something I never expected. Follow to hear what I discovered!

allthingzentertaining :

Men been tricky forever

Chance :

Men did that a lot back in those days, just start a new life like they didn’t have one in another city

Call ME Beth! :

my grandmother's first husband went fishing with a group of men in the 1930's and never came back...she thinks he was put down but he probably abandoned her and started a new family.

Kem👑 :

My great grandfather had two families we are the 2nd family that he created after he was sold by the plantation he was owned by…after being freed he found his original family and would always leave for work in Louisiana until he didn’t return he passed away with his original family and we were sent a telegram to inform us of his death

Sy_dojo :

See this is the side of TikTok I want to be on. Where’s part 2?

John Grant :

Alfonso, was living in Tampa, when I ,moved down there in 1993. My father and him was very close.

Varnita Valtricha :

My paternal grandfather left his wife and kids in Alabama in the 1950s. He met my grandma in Chicago and never went back. They had 2 sons.

idontshyneiglo :

My coworker was abandoned by his dad who left with another woman to Florida must be something in the water 😳

tyme the infamous :

Let's just say he wasn't leaving for work...

user55658836981508 :

This is the sort of content I want in my algorithm not the rubbish that just comes up randomly.

chelseaiswhimsy :

Steelers chic :

Papa was a rolling stone

Avis Nicole Edmond :

Where is part two?

Sunni :

This is going to be interesting

MiMi :

Well what happened. I gotta go to work. Lol

Olivia Maake :

Where is part two

Mark Vining :

OMG 😱 my grandma went to bartow Florida from GA and my grandfather went down to ask her to marry him a they come back to Georgia and had 10 children

Shan :

Why were you shock? That was common

MAKU :

My Great granny used to say this about my Great Grandfather, Went for cigarettes. I was wondering if that was code for something. Clayton, Mississippi 1920’s

clisa_2U :

This sounds exactly like my grandfather story! He had a whole family in North Carolina and created a whole new one in Florida

Littleshebear :

I'm about 2 hours from Bartow.

Bear :

My grandfather got caught embezzling money and never returned to his family after getting out of federal prison.