Daughter of Chaos

Ava Denzworth

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This story is about the struggles and trials of a young girl who sought to find a sense of stability and escape from the world of chaos in which she lived. After looking back over her life, she realized how much of an impact the violent nature of her family history had molded her into something better.

Sujets

• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 09 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669877103
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Daughter of Chaos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ava Denzworth
 
Copyright © 2023 by Ava Denzworth.
 
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-7709-7

eBook
978-1-6698-7710-3
 
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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Rev. date: 05/09/2023
 
 
 
 
 
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This book is dedicated to my mother, Marian Sophia Jane Johnson the kindest, loving, strongest and most humble person who always told us “Love God with all your heart and always treat others with kindness and don’t worry when other people talk about you, they talked about Jesus Christ, and He still loves them.”
 
“For now, we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12). American Standard Version
CONTENTS
Prologue
 
Chapter 1       Pax in bello
Chapter 2       Enigma
Chapter 3       Sophia
Chapter 4       Forced Amnesia
Chapter 5       Make-Believe
Chapter 6       The White Horse
Chapter 7       Perish
Chapter 8       Sarah
Chapter 9       Part of the Family
Chapter 10     Tainted
PROLOGUE
Staring deeply into that bathroom mirror as a little girl, using tissue to rub off the soap drawn letters H-A-T-E that I had put there, I wanted so badly to make some sense of what happened to me. There must be some sensible reason why things were that way. In my mind, I picture something cruel happening to my daddy when he was little. There were so many crazy stories about the Royal’s. Perhaps somewhere, from the beginning, something awful was introduced into the family and became a way of life. The land the family owns is supposedly a graveyard of disposed bodies from merciless killings and sacrifices. The women in the family were treated like concubines and servants. The men were of tall statue and reverence. They held power that exceeded the normal, what was then referred to as negro, family of those times. They were a proud tribe, heirs of an estate and acreages of land that were given to them back in the 1800s. The land is in what is now a prestige area of Northeast Royal Lake, Mississippi. Of course, most of the stories are true. The main house is still on the property, stripped of its dignity and rotting away deep inside a wooded area hidden away with the crimes and carnage that once controlled that area.
CHAPTER ONE
Pax in bello
“Peace is produced by war,” is what the original Royal family believed. The Royals are a proud family. They seek out strength through the accomplishments of their forefathers who maintained dignity and freedom through family division and slavery. Their pride is based on the namesake of the Royals who came to this country long ago. Their arrival on this land came with a price to fight for what they wanted and to stand on it, even when the fighting was amongst themselves. This seems to be an inherit trait of the Royal blood. In order to maintain harmony, conflict and fighting had to be used to obtain it. The Patriarch of the Royal family was Finlay Royal who was born about 1720 in Scotland. His wife was named Katherine, but her surname is unknown. He loved music and played the violin. When he came to the Americas, he had in his possession a Stradivari Violin which has been passed down through the family until this very day.
Finlay and Katherine had six children: Duncan, Mary, Logan, Noah, Finlay, and Katherine. It was Finlay’s son Duncan who carries our lineage. During the Revolutionary War, Finlay Royal served in the 3 rd Regiment under Captain Richard Davids. His son Duncan was born in 1751 in North Carolina. He married Mary Graham and had only two children, sons Duncan born in 1770 and Logan C. born in 1772. Finlay Royal was captured at the fall of Peter Town and later died in prison about 1781 as a prisoner of war. His son Duncan died in Abbeville County, North Carolina and left his two sons, Duncan, and Logan C. a large amount of property.
Logan C. Royal left Abbeville and moved to Lowndesville, North Carolina. He was married to Katherine (Katie) Edwards in 1792. Logan C. and Katie had six children. They had three sons, Gabriel was born around 1779, Duncan was born about 1780, and Phillipe W. was born September 9, 1810, The birthdates for their daughters: Katherine, Susannah (Susan) A. and Sarah, were not recorded.
Duncan Royal left North Carolina and settled in Mississippi. He met Sophia Caldwell and purchased a large amount of land located from the beginning of Camp Basin Road up to Mt. Moriah Rd. Around 1820, Duncan took Sophia back to North Carolina and they were married. It was during this time that he brought with him a Black Seminole slave woman. This slave woman was said to have practiced rituals to a creator she called Breathmaker. During these rituals, she would speak in an English Creole language and dance. It has been said through family stories that she would go out in the middle of the night and cut off chicken heads to place on an alter seep within the woods as a sacrifice. She wore the beaks of the chickens as a necklace around her neck. She told Sophia that her captivity was a bargain made to destine her family as heirs that will steal away the family name just as she was stolen from her family. Sophia never gave her a name and called her “Seminole Slave Woman.” Out of anger, Sophia would send the “Seminole Slave Woman” on long treks to the lake to haul back water for the house. Upon return, Sophia would be angry with her for the smiles and jeers she would give her and be afraid to drink the water. The “Seminole Slave Woman” would start dancing and singing in as odd language and pour the water over her own head.