Mrs. Mary Ellen Burris Ogle, was one of seven girls born in Fredericksburg,  Virginia on a plantation. Her parents names are not known.  She had several  sisters including  Nannie, Josephine, Betty, Fanny, Annie and Mollie. Their  grandmother Nanny Price had also been a slave on this plantation in Virginia. 

She married Jeremiah Ogle, a native of Georgia and they were the parents of  five children. Known as Granny Ogle by her grandchildren, she was described as having a "very Christian attitude,  and was very quiet, patient and accepting."  It  was her love that nurtured Robert Harold and his younger siblings including  Walter Jerry, Elizabeth Garfield (but called Nettie), Clifton (who died at the age of 9 in 1899) and a baby girl Gertrude who died in  infancy. 

She also outlived her husband and five children whom she buried. At the funeral of her son Robert Harold, she remarked "Oh Lord, that is my last  child. I wanted them but the Lord wouldn't let me." according to her  granddaughter Helen. 

Virtually little is know about Mrs. Emma Brice Tandy, the mother of Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy. On the 1870 census for Lexington, an Emma Brice was found married to a Henry Brice. This couple bore the same name as Jewell Tandy's parents. Through research it has been difficult to discern their 
relationship because Tandy's parents were not found on the 1880 nor 1900  census for Kentucky. The research continues as it does with the search for the parents of  Jewel Charles Henry Chapman. 

AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
"The Talented Tenth" by Skip Mason 

THE HISTORY OF ALPHA'S HISTORY BOOK 
 ....As the Second Vice President of the fraternity, Brother Raymond W. Cannon of Minneapolis was constantly bombarded with questions about the fraternity including its origin and the names of the Founders. These facts were not  being taught as they are today or since the history book was published in 
1929. Back in 1923, Brother Cannon realized that most of the chapters  knowledge was limited to the present.  It seemed that several sets of  Founders appeared and the brothers wanted to be advised  as to which was the correct set.  From these events, Cannon decided that a fraternity history should be published. There were earlier attempts to document the history of the fraternity. In 1916, Past General Charles Garvin was appointed as the first historian.

Wesley writes in The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A  Development in College Life:  "Interest in the history of the fraternity was present at this convention. It  was moved by Brother H.H. Long of Beta and seconded by Brother W.N. Colson of  Gamma that ' the President appoint a historian whose duty shall be to write a history of the fraternity.' The motion was carried." Cannon began to correspond with some of the early members of the fraternity and found that  the Founders did not keep in touch with each other.  He 
located them and traveled to Cleveland to visit and interview Charles Henry  Chapman. From that point Nathaniel Allison Murray, George Biddle Kelley and Henry Arthur Callis provided him with a list of the Founders as they remembered and to his surprise these lists did not agree and each was certain  that his list was correct. 

Brother Cannon received a telegram on September 30, 1925 from Nathaniel  Allison Murray whose list included: George Biddle Kelley, Arthur Callis, Nathaniel  Murray, Robert Ogle, Gordon Jones, James M. Morton and Vertner 
Woodson Tandy. Charles Chapman's name did not appear on Murray's list.......  

Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy, 1939 
 

I would urge that ... brothers individually, would continue to be inspired to  worthy actions through the ideas and visions of the Fraternity and its  leadership, and strive for even greater achievements in the future than we  had in the past. 
Dr. Charles H. Wesley, February 1949 

I FAILED TO INCLUDE THIS ON THE OMEGA ARTICLE; 
As a footnote, let it be known that when Omega Psi Phi was chartered on the  campus of Howard, the brothers of Beta sent to them a note of congratulations  which read in part: 
"...We hope that you will stand for and keep aloft the high ideas which we,  as Negro Greek letter fraternities must maintain. With best wishes for long  life and the greatest success, I am President of Beta Chapter. 

A BROTHER RESPONDS ABOUT THE UNOFFICIAL HANDSIGN AND A FEW OTHER THINGS YOU 
WERE DYING TO KNOW.... 

Bro. Lawrence Jones, II 
Alpha Eta Chapter, 1983 
National Step Champions 1988 
Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter, Columbia, MD 
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  ~A PHI A ~~  A K A  ~~  Kappa Alpha Psi ~~ D S Theta~~
I Phi Theta~~ Q Psi Phi  ~~ S G Rho
~~ Phi Beta Sigma~ Zeta Phi Beta ~~