Posted on 03/12/2004 7:42:31 PM PST by chance33_98
State Senate Gives Approval To Add Essie Mae To Thurmond Monument
Columbia - Essie Mae Williams moved one step closer to joining her brothers and sisters on a Statehouse monument honoring their late father, US Senator Strom Thurmond.
The state Senate (website) gave key approval to adding the name of Williams, Thurmond's biracial daughter.
The Senate gave second reading to the bill sponsored by state Senator Robert Ford of Charleston.
Williams came forward last year and announced she is the daughter of the late senator.
Her mother was a black 16 year old housekeeper who worked in the Thurmond family home.
Thurmond was 22 years old when Williams was born.
Thurmond died last year at age 100.
The monument was built in the late 1990s with 850,000 dollars in private donations.
Changes to the monument would be paid for privately.
You would think so...but was it acutally confirmed, or only alleged by the woman (and presumably her mother)? I wouldn't put it past old "spermin' Thurman", whose youngest kid was fathered when he was 81 years old.
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