Captain Harris' Daughter: ''Fair Flower''

By Florida Ann Kweekeh

Captain Harris Daughter tells the life story of Florida Ann Kweekeh. It tells of her family and childhood, her period of widowhood, her second marriage, her children, her professional life, (working WHO as consultant Zambia and Botswana) Africa and the USA, her experience as refugee running from her native land Liberia on board a rustic cargo ship Bulk Challenge that almost sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, living in Ghana as refugees, and her professional life. The common theme is that God will provide all your needs if you trust Him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469160122

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CAPTAIN HARRIS’ DAUGHTER

"Fair Flower’’

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FLORIDA ANN KWEEKEH

Copyright © 2012 by Florida Ann Kweekeh.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2012901734

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Contents

Dedication

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CAPTAIN HARRIS’S DAUGHTER

LIVING IN THE USA

CAPTAIN HARRIS’S DAUGHTER

MY EXPERIENCE AS AN

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANT

4826 MONARCH GLEN LANE, TEXAS

FLORIDA ANN KWEEKEH

MY FAMILY ALBUM

Dedication

This book is dedicates to my loving dad, the Late Lt. Co. Edwin C. Harris and to my dear mom Boyunoh Theresa Harris. They both contributed to the wonderful childhood memories I cherish. They molded my life by demonstrating through their lives honesty, trust, hard work and caring/sharing spirit. These attributes have made me to be the person I am spiritually, emotionally and in my relationship to others. Thank you Mama and Papa I will always love you.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My Husband and Children

Special thanks and appreciation to my loving husband of 25 years Parlee B. Kweekeh and our loving and caring children Duma Sama Byron Traub (Joanna), Garmai Kweekeh, Gorpu Kweekeh, and Gladys Wilson. They have supported and encouraged me in all my endeavors. God’s hand was in the making of this special family. Praise the Lord for the many blessings He has bestowed upon me and especially making you apart of my life.

My Siblings

I will be forever grateful to all of you my brothers and sisters for the love and understanding we have shared: Victoria Moore Bogbah (Cousin), Edna Harris, Roosevelt Harris, Edwin C. Harris, Jr. (Yvonne), Emmedy Harris (Jackie), Hanson Harris, Williamette Harris, Stanley Harris, Martha Edu (Clarence), Eugenia Mulbah, James Davies, Edith Harris, Thomas Kweekeh/Malon (Brother-in Law), Wilfred Momo, and Abraham Gibson. In loving memories of my siblings who are deceased: Edwin Harris*, Alice Moore*, Joseph Harris*(Martha) and Alfred Harris*

My Nieces and Nephews

Emmanuel Grant/Naomi {Archie, Emmanlyne, Caleb, & Jamel}(Alice*), Siliju Tyee* (Alice*) Silkiloh Tyee (Alice*), Keachahtae Tyee (Alice*), Manslan Tyee (Alice*), Yanfujaju Tyee* (Alice*), Juwili* (Alice*) Jonathan Ben (Edna), Emmedy Harris (Emmedy), Facia Harris (Hanson), Weah Harris(Hanson), R.P Harris (Roosevelt), Toni Harris (Roosevelt ), Brittany Harris (Roosevelt), Joy Harris (Roosevelt), Boyunnoh Harris (Stanley), Marence Edu (Martha), Maurine Edu (Martha), Malinda Edu (Martha), Edna (Korto), Franklin Louder (Edith), Patricia Louder (Edith), Yvonne Harris (Junior), Oscar Harris (Junior), Ophelia Wallace (Junior), Jeremiah Crusoe (Junior), Felicai Crusoe (Junior), Martin Satue (Junior), Teconblah William Tubman (Williametta), Juliet Cooper (Williametta), Warnet Sankaley (Williametta), Edwin Woryonwon Harris (Edwin*), Edna Muyan Harris (Edwin*), Kai Harris (Alfred*), Edward Harris(Alfred*), Kelley Harris (Alfred*)

My Grandchildren

My inspiration and motivation to leave a legacy for my grandchildren is what encouraged me to write this memoir. Hannah Traub and Elijah Moore are my precious grandchildren. This memoir is for you to keep and some day share it with my great grandchildren. I love you.

My Other Relatives and Friends

Thanks to the entire Kweekeh, Traub, Long, Best, Awori, the Jeremiah Joseph Harris and the Moore families and all my dear friends and relatives, for the love we shared through good times and rough times.

*Deceased

CAPTAIN HARRIS’S DAUGHTER

I WOKE UP on this beautiful January morning of 1996 and breathed in the sultry sea breeze and realized that I was home sweet home. Back in Liberia—actually resettling after I left because of the civil war that occurred in November 1989. In November of 1989, the rebel leader Charles Taylor and his group entered Liberia through Nimba County in the north of the country, with the goal to overthrow the Samuel Doe government that had carried out a coup d’état, overthrowing the William R. Tolbert government. Samuel Doe was a master sergeant in the Liberian Arm Forces, and according to reports, he and his men stormed the Executive Mansion and assassinated President Tolbert and a week later executed several cabinet ministers, including the Budget Director Frank Stewart, the uncle of Sama Byron Traub. Liberia was under terror. For many years, the country was on a downward spiral. Everyone wished for Tolbert days. Taylor said he took up arms to redeem the country and restore democracy, but his motives were the opposite.

According to various accounts written on the Liberian Civil War in December 1989, Taylor and his rebel group entered Nimba County and started recruiting more fighters including child soldiers from ages nine to ten years to join his group. His strategy for recruitment was as the regular Liberian National Guard came to hunt out Taylor and his group they disrupted villages. The Liberian army could not identify who was a rebel and who was civilian. Therefore, they killed fathers, mothers, and just about anybody who looked suspicious. After they left, the Taylor group would come in and express sympathy for the villagers and ask them to join him to put an end to Doe government in power. Taylor used this strategy to recruit a large following. Taylor continued to fight the Samuel Doe government, and other rebel factions emerged also. Liberia was plunged into a civil war. As Taylor came closer to the capital of Liberia, Monrovia, I left Liberia on June 10, 1990. Taylor rebels continued to cause serious mayhem to the people of Liberia, and so did the other rebels. More than a quarter of a million people were killed,