Rossville AME Zion Church
Ancestral Photo Celebration
WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING ANCESTRAL PHOTOS
Follow These Instructions.
Email photos to: FJORDAN851@GMAIL.COM
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INCLUDE YOUR NAME
YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ANY FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS (i.e phone, text, or email)
ANCESTRAL FAMILY (i.e., Jones Family, Wilson Family, etc)
NAME OF ANCESTOR or PRIMARY ANCESTOR IN (individual or group) PHOTO SUBMITTED
YOU CAN ALSO INCLUDE APPROPRIATE DATES AND LOCATIONS FOR EACH PHOTO AS NEEDED
PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT PHOTOS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE AN “ANCESTOR“
This is not limited to the original Sandy Ground families of the church.
This includes all church families. So ensure your family’s heritage is represented.
Click Photo to Enlarge or Click Family Name
- All
- Barone Family
- Bishop Family
- Cooper Family
- Harding Family
- Harris Family
- Henry Family
- Herring Family
- Holmes Family
- Jackson Family
- Landin Family
- Lee Family
- Moody-Pedro Family
- Mosley Family
Stephen Gray Sr.
Stephen Gray Father of Rebecca Gray Landin (Landin Family)
Maude Cristina Landin
Daughter of Robert Landin and Rebecca Gray Landin She is one of 12 brothers and sisters. (Landin Family)
LANDIN FAMILY HOME built in 1850s
Landin Family Home
Rebecca Gray Landin and family
Rebecca Gray Landin (center seated) with her 12 adult children and grandchildren - early 1950s. (Landin Family)
Rebecca Gray Landin and brothers
Benjamin Gray, Rebecca Gray Landin, and Steven Gray (Landin Family)
Hugh Harding
Warren Harding's Grandfather - Gordon Town, Jamaica (lHarding Family)
Elmore and Yvonne Taylor
Parents of Yvette Taylor Jordan and granddaughter Noelle Jordan (Landin Family)
Hazel Herring
Hazel Herring (far right) and four daughters Theresa, Joan, June and Lucille - photo taken 1952 (Herring Family)
Herring Family Heritage Quilt
Quilted by Lucille Herring in 2012 (Herring Family)
Theresa Herring
(Herring Family)
Olive Harding
Warren Harding/'s paternal grandmother. Photo taken in 1970s Gordon Town, Jamaica (Harding Family)
Pamrie Harding
Warren Harding's paternal aunt Gordon Town, Jamaica (Harding Family)
Gwendolyn Raglan
Warren Harding's paternal great-grandmother Photo taken in 1990s Gordon Town, Jamaica (Harding Family)
Washburn Crosbie
Warren Harding's maternal great-grandfather and Dorothy Reynolds's father. Photo from 1990s Gordon Town, Jamaica (Harding Family)
Father Ralphie Santuli
My dad Ralphie boy Santulli (lifting) at Coney Island, Brooklyn. 1949 (Barone Family)
Family family gathering in Ecuador SA
Ana Aguirre Barone (my daughter-in-law's family) we were all in Ecuador when my son Stef proposed. Her grandpa is gone now since 2018 (Barone Family)
Mom Lee Soluri and daughters
Lee Soluri, Debra Baron and Barbara Volpe (Barone Family)
Dad. Ralphie boy Santulli. With my step mom Gloria Santulli
My. dad remarried (Barone Family)
Grandma Nora Soluri. ( my moms side). 1993
My mom's mother 1993 (Barone Family)
Lee and Ralph Santulli
Parents wedding party 1949 NYC (Barone Family)
Mike Colasurdo and mom Lee Colasurdo 1982. Bklyn
Step Fathera and Mom (Barone Family)
Lee and Ralph Santuli
with daughters Barbara and Debra (Barone Family)
Mom Lee Soluri
Mom (Barone Family)
Grandparents Nora and Joseph Soluri
My grandma Nora (Anglisano ) Soluri. With Joseph Soluri my grandparents 1927 Niagara Falls Ny (Barone Family)
Mom Lee Colasurdo and Family
Left to right: Jordan Barone , Peter Debra Barone, and Stefan Barone, Ashley and Shaun Volpe ( my nephew) My momma Lee Colasurdo , my sister Barbara Volpe. (Barone Family)
Ralph Santulli and his father Rafael Santulli
Father Ralph Santulli, grandfather Rafael Santulli and my sister Barbara Santulli (Volpe) 1951 (Barone Family)
Mom and Family
(Barone Family)
Mom Lee Colasurdo and Family
(Barone Family)
Lee Colasurdo and daughters
Mother Lee Colasurdo. Debra Barone, Barbara Volpe (Barone Family)
My Three Fathers Barone
Debra Barone's Dads: My father-in-law Frank Barone, my dad Ralphie boy Santulli , my step dad mike Colasurdo. 1995 (Barone Family)
Mike Colasurdo
Debra's stepfather Mile Colasurdo WWII 1940s (Barone Family)
Linda Sue Cooper Ganzy
Linda Sue Cooper Ganzy and Debra Barone (Cooper Family)
Linda Sue Cooper Ganzy
(Cooper Family)
Mom Lee and grandsons
Grandsons Jordan Barone, Stefan Barone and Shaun Volpe (Barone Family)
Daisy Briggs and Children
and her three children - Deborah Briggs Jackson, Richard (Ricky) Briggs, and Robin Briggs Fulton (Cooper Family)
Daisy Briggs Family and Mary-Emily Henry Cooper
Daisy Cooper Briggs and Mary-Emily Henry Cooper (Cooper Family)
Daisy Briggs Family
John Cooper Sr. (Husband/father/Grandfather), Melvin Cooper, Ralph Cooper,
Kenneth Cooper (son/brother), Sadie Cooper (wife/mother), Granny Roach (mother of Sadie), Elmer Cooper “Bubbles”/(son/brother), Alvin Cooper/soldier (son/brother) (Cooper Family)
Stephen and Martha Gray
Grandparents of Vera Usry, Great Grandparents of Yvonne Taylor - Great Great of Yvette Jordan, Great Great Great of Noelle Joran (Landin Family)
Booker T. Griggs
Husband of Charlotte Griggs (Moody-Pedro Family)
Charles & Ella Moody with daughter Gladys Moody
Parents of Malvina Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Charles Moody
Father of Malvina Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Harold Cobbs Sr
Father of Lynn Rivera and Anita Kuwonoe (Moody-Pedro Family)
Harold Cobbs, Sr.
Father of Lynn Rivera and Anita Kuwonoe (Moody-Pedro Family)
Lawrence Sams
Son of Marion Washington (Moody-Pedro Family)
Lynn Cobbs-Rivera
Daughter of Harold Cobbs and Charlotte Temple
(Moody-Pedro Family)
Malvina V. Moody-Temple
Mother of Melvin, James, Marion, Robert, Alvin, Charlotte, Richard and Ronald
Malvina V. Moody-Temple
Mother of Melvin, James, Marion, Robert, Alvin, Ronald, Richard and Charlotte
(Moody-Pedro Family)
Marion Moody-Washington
(Moody-Pedro Family)
Marion Moody-Washington
Mother of Lawrence Sams, Carolyn McDonald, Juanita Sams, and Stephen Washington (Moody-Pedro Family)
Marion Moody-Wasgington
(Moody-Pedro Family)
Melvin Temple, Sr
Son of Malvina & Charles Temple, father of Frances Shepard and Melvin Temple, Jr. (Moody Pedro Family)
Melvin Temple
Son of Malvina & Charles Temple, father of Frances Shepard and Melvin Temple, Jr. (Moody Pedro Family)
Sampson Kuwornu
Father of Gamelie (Bless) Kuwonoe, father in law of Anita Kuwonoe
(Moody Pedro Family)
Sampson Kuwornu
father of Gamelie (Bless) Kuwonoe, father in law of Anita Kuwonoe
(Moody Pedro Family)
Lawrence Sams
(Moody Pedro Family)
Alvin J. Temple
Son of Charles & Malvina Moody-Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Charles E. Temple Husband of Malvina Moody-Temple
Husband of Malvina Moody-Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
James E. Temple
Son of Charles & Malvina Moody-Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Lynn Cobbs-Rivera
Daughter of Harold Cobbs & Charlotte Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Robert F. Moody
Son of Charles & Malvina Moody-Temple (Moody-Pedro Family)
Mary Emily Henry-Cooper
(Cooper Family)
Francis Hemingway 1930-2022
Daughter of Howard and Susan Henry;mother to Wodrow, Helen,Tony, Paul (Henry Family)
Paul Hemingway 1957-1985
Parent: Francis Hemingway; siblings (Henry Family)
Anthony (J-Are) Hemingway 1989-2010
(Henry Family)
Hemingway Family
(Henry) J-Are, Tony, Francis mom son and grandson (Henry Family)
Francis Hemingway
(Henry Family)
Howard (Hash) Henry
Parent of Susan & Howard Henry (Henry Family)
Howard (Hashie) Henry Jr. 1953 – 2020
Son of Howard and Doris Henry (Henry Family)
Francis (Henry) Hemingway, Melvina (Moody)Temple
Members of RAMEZ Sr. Choir
Henry Sisters – Frances, Mary, Lois
Frances Henry Joseph, Mary Emily Henry Cooper, Lois Augusta Henry Mosley. Their parents are Howard and Susan Henry (Henry Family)
Elmer and Mary Cooper
With Daughters Linda Cooper Ganzy, Elmira Cooper John, Janice Cooper Taylor, Vickie Cooper Taylor and Grandchildren (Cooper Family)
Elmer Cooper (Pop-Pop)
Enjoys company of daughter Linda and grandson Zaire (Cooper Family)
Linda Ganzy, MaryCooper, Darren Ganzy
Linda Ganzy 2017(d) MaryCooper 2017(d) Darren Ganzy spreading love to mom and Grandma (Cooper Family)
Mary Cooper and Robbie Dinkins
Best Friends for Life (Cooper Family)
Sonny Dinkins, Elmer Cooper, Albert Roach
Sonny-Bubbles-Sonny (Cooper Family)
Mary Cooper with mother-inlaw Sadie Cooper
Grandma Cooper and the other Grandma Cooper - Mary with mother-inlaw Sadie (Cooper Family)
Elmer (Bubbles) with Sadie Cooper
Santa and Mom (Elmer (Bubbles) w mom Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Melvin Cooper
Parents: John & Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Melvin Cooper, Irene Cooper, daughter Christine
Escorting daughter Christine to NAACP Cotillion (Cooper Family)
Arthur Spicer
Brother of Irene and Charlotte who married brothers Melvin and Ralph Cooper (Cooper Family)
Gucchi Spicer (center)
Brother to Irene and Charlotte Spicer-Cooper (Cooper Family)
Albert (Sonny) Roach
Wife Alice, first cousin to Cooper's 3 children Denise, Doreen, Derick (Cooper Family)
Alice Roach
Alice Roach 2023d Husband Albert Sonny Roach, Daughter Doreen, son Derick (Cooper Family)
Doreen Roach-Mitchell
Parents: Albert & Alice Roach, Sons; Renee' and Andree, Husband: Lindsey Mitchell (Cooper Family)
Doreen Roach
With sister Denise and brother Derick (Cooper Family)
Doreen Roach
Doreen Roach Mitchell w husband Lindsey and sons Renee' and Andre (Cooper Family)
Albert (Sonny) Roach
Albert (Sonny) Roach busy counting heads for Family Day (Cooper Family)
John Ralph Cooper
ohn Ralph Cooper (son of John & Sadie, brother of Daisy, Elmer,Melvin Kenneth, Ralph and Alvin (Cooper Family)
Ralph and Charlotte Cooper
Ralph Cooper w wife Charlotte (Charlotte formerly a Spicer) (Cooper Family)
Elmore Taylor-Ralph Cooper-Albert Roach
Men's Club Roseville AME Zion; Members, Men's Club
Kenneth Cooper Sr.
parents: John Sr. and Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
John Cooper
Parents: Kenneth & Loretta Cooper, son Rahsu, siblings; Mary Kenney (Cooper Family)
Kenneth Cooper Jr.
Kenneth Cooper Jr.(L) with sister Mary Cooper and brother John Cooper (son of Kenneth Sr. and Loretta
Kenneth Cooper and wife Loretta Cooper
Kenneth Cooper w wife Loretta (Cooper Family)
Kenneth Cooper Sr.
Parents: John & Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Kenneth Cooper Sr.
Kenneth Cooper Sr. with grandchildren Rayniece and Rahsu (Cooper Family)
Kenneth Cooper Sr.
Kenneth Cooper Sr. with grand daughter Rashel (Cooper Family)
John Cooper and son
John Cooper with son Rashu He is the son of Kenneth Cooper (Cooper Family)
Simone Roan 1974-2019
Simone Roan with grand mother Mary Cooper and aunt Daisy Briggs - Parents: Gregory & Janice Taylor (Cooper Faamily)
Linda Cooper Ganzy 1949-2017
Linda with niece Simone 1974-2018 - son: Darren Ganzy - Parents: Elmer & Mary Cooper (Cooper Family)
Gram Mary Cooper
Gram (Mary Cooper) with Grands; Gregory and Tamara (Cooper Family)
Gram Mary Cooper
Gram Mary Cooper with Taylor 2 Family (Cooper Family)
Elmer Cooper (Pop-Pop)
Annual visit to Coney Island Elmer Cooper (Pop-Pop) with grandchildren (Cooper Family)
Mary E. Henry-Cooper; 1928 – 2017
Mary E. Henry-Cooper - Parents: Susan & Howard Henry, Husband: Elmer Cooper; Siblings: Howard Jr, Lois Mosley, Francis Hemingway, Dora Walls (Cooper Family)
Elmer & Mary Cooper
Elmer & Mary Cooper 1948 - Parents to 4 daughters: Linda, Myra Janice Vickie (Cooper Family)
Elmer (Bubbles) Cooper 1923 – 2008
Elmer (Bubbles) Cooper 1923 - 2008 Parents John Sr. & Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Gram (Mary Cooper
Gram (Mary Cooper on Jessica's wedding day (Cooper Family)
Gram Mary Cooper
Gram (Mary Cooper shares advice about marriage with granddaughter Gina (Cooper Family)
Mary Cooper
Mary Cooper on duty with granddaughters Corrinda, Jessica and daughter Elmira (Cooper Family)
Sadie Cooper
Sadie Cooper - Everybody's Grandma - with grands; Linda, Myra, Janice and Vickie (Cooper Family)
Daisy (Cooper) Briggs 1922 – 2016
Parents John Sr. and Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Sadie Cooper
Sadie Cooper - children: Daisy, Elmer, Melvin, Kenneth, John-Ralph and Alvin (Cooper Family)
Daisy (Cooper) Briggs 1922 – 2016
Daisy (Cooper) Briggs 1922 - 2016 Parents John Sr. and Sadie Cooper (Cooper Family)
Lillian Sergeant Briggs
Lillian Sergeant Briggs - family visit with cousin Lil (Cooper Family)
Fish & Roach Family Reunion 2008
(Cooper Family)
Yvonne (Usry) Taylor
Two photos - High School graduate age 16 1950 and age 12 1946 (Landin Family)
Maude Landin and little Yvonne Usry
Maude Landin and little Yvonne Usry age 2 (June 1936. (Landin Family)
Martha Bush Gray and Rebecca Gray (Landin)
Wife of Stephen Gray (Landin Family)
Maude Landin and Elmore Taylor
(Landin Family)
Yvonne Taylor
Yvonne Taylor and granddaughter Noelle Jordan (Landin Family)
Vera Usry and Yvonne (Usry) Taylor
Vera Usry 1909-1993 and daughter Yvonne Taylor (Landin Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel
Daughter of Bromley and Mabel Munro (Landin Family)
Wallen (McGhee) Family
Photo 1943 - Parents: Bertha Landin-Wallen (sister to Vera Usry) and Alfred Wallen, Children: Arthur Wallen and Norma Wallen-McGhie (Landin Family)
Arthur Wallen
Arthur Wallen - brother of Alfred Wallen (Landin Family)
Rev Issac Coleman
(Landin Family)
Robert (doc) Wilis
Member of Rossville AME Zion Church (Landin Family)
Yvonne Taylor and Marilyn Wilkes
Best of Friends (Landin Family)
Mabel and Bromley Munro
Parents of Marcia and Herb Munro (Landin Family)
Landin Family 10
(Landin Family)
Landin Family member 5
(Landin Family)
Bishop Family photo #1
(Bishop Family)
Bishop Family photo 3
(Bishop Family)
Grandpa Bishop and Grandma (Hyde) Bishop #5
(Bishop Family)
Helena Hyde Bishop Grandmother #6
(Bishop Family)
Jesse Pedro Bishop Grandmother #4
(Bishop Family)
Mosley Family
Henry/Mosley - row 1 Lois and Glemby Mosley, row 2 Gayle Heyward, Garrett Mosley, Gerry, Glenda Mosley, Gerry Mosley, Gregory Mosley (Henry Family)
Mosley Family 1980
(Henry Family)
Pop Pop and Lois Henry
Francis Henry, Pop Pop Henry, Lois Henry Mosley, Mary Henry Cooper and Heshey Henry (Henry Family)
Glemby Richardson Mosley
Tottenville High School Basketball Team 1946 - Glemby Richardson Mosley 2nd from the right (Henry Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel and Robert Willis
(Landin Family)
Glenda LaBoard and Linda Ganzy
Promoting the Sandy Ground book Glenda LaBoard and Linda Ganzy (Henry Family and Cooper Family)
Glenda LaBoard and Linda Ganzy
Promoting the Sandy Ground book Glenda LaBoard and Linda Ganzy (Henry Family and Cooper Family)
Yvonne (Usry) Taylor and Yvette (Taylor) Jordan
Mother and daughter (Landin Family)
Bromley and Mable Elmore Wedding
(Landin Family)
Bromley Munro in a SI Advance
Bromley Munro in a SI Advance - Munro Gardens Florist was one of the primary florist of Staten Island at the time. (Landin Family)
Elmer Decker, Bromley and Mable Munro copy
(Landin Family)
Herb and Joyce Munro
(Landin Family)
Herbert and Joyce Munro
(Landin Family)
Mable Munro
(Landin Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel
(Landin Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel
(Landin Family)
Benjamin Mitchell
Son of Grace Landin Mitchell, His grandmother is Rebecca Landin Gray (Landin Family)
Bertha Landin Wallen
(Landin Family)
Daisy Briggs and Norma McGhie
(Landin Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel and Gail McGhie
(Landin Family)
Marcia Munro Emanuel
(Landin Family)
Yvonne Taylor and Sherri McGhie
(Landin Family)
Daisy Briggs and Norma McGhie
Best of Friends (Cooper Family) (Landin Family)
Norma and Roy McGhie with Granddaughters
(Landin Family)
Norma and Roy McGhie
Parents of Gail and Sherri McGhie (Landin Family)
Rev Robert and Rebecca Landin original
(Landin Family)
William Pop Pedro with his wife Susan Jane Bishop in Sandy Ground.
William "Pop" Pedro, known as the unofficial mayor of Sandy Ground with his wife Susan Jane Bishop in Sandy Ground. Moody-Pedro and Bshop Families
Joseph Bishop Black Shop
JOSEPH BISHOP taken in 10/4/1981, lifeling resident died in 1986 shown in his blacksmith shop housed in a wooden barn for more than 125 years before being destroyed by fire in 1982.
Sandy Ground/Rossville children playing in the local neigborhood
(church families) Robert McKinney, Jeffrey Moody, Catherine McKinney, Denise Pedro and Warren Landin, (from left to right) play on a Sandy Ground street in Rossville, on March 31, 1967 Staten Island Advance/John Padula
Joseph Bishop in his Blacksmith Shop in Snady Ground.
(Biship Family)
BIshop-Pedro Family Reunion July 2024 at Rossville AME Zion Church grounds
John Arthur Bishop and Helena Hyde Bishop – Wedding Photo taken in Sandy Ground in 1919 Grandparents of Dr. Evelyn Mangin
(Bishop Framily)
