Mrs. Tissier Moaney:

I am a Living Testimony

 
 
 
 

A Life of Giving through Singing

Honoring History and Culture: Maryland Treasure, Mrs. Tissier Moaney.

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Praising Miss Tish

Interviewer Kentavius Jones and Likisha Thomastine work with Barbara Paca to honor Maryland treasure, Mrs. Tissier Moaney. Known to friends and family as Miss Tish, we follow her journey over 85 years of singing spirituals as her family handed down to her at the historic Copperville Church on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Miss Tish’s selection, I am a living testimony, is important to her for personal reasons, and she believes her survival through difficult illness makes her such. We celebrate her musical gifts and contribution to society in preserving African American or so-called “Negro” spirituals, as were sung by her ancestors, who make up a part of America’s Founding Black Families.

 
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In 2014, Mrs. Tissier Moaney and her grandson talked about spirituals with Likisha. She was born at Wye. This was her first time back since she was 8 years old.

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President Obama honored her for her musical gifts and mentoring youth.

 
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In 2020, Kentavius and Jones and Mrs. Tish Moaney had a conversation about spirituals.

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I am a Living Testimony: Singing with the Waters Choir at Waters Church on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

 
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Patrons Sylvia and Eddie Brown supported research establishing the Founding Black Families.

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Working together to present history with dignity.

 
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Miss Tish with her daughter, Brenda Moaney, in front of family portraits.

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Jeffrey Moaney in front of his forebears with the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.

 
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Celebrating the Founding Black Families of Maryland. 

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Mrs. Virginia Blackwell is a descendant of one of Maryland’s Founding Black Families.

 
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Lieutenant Governor Rutherford and Maryland Secretary of State Wobensmith with community activists and commissioners.

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Promoting History and Culture with Eddie and Sylvia Brown.

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Art Openings: A platform for interviews to gain a better understanding.

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Maryland’s Eastern Shore was the home of many black abolitionists.

 

Celebrating Family

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Education happens in diverse ways.

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Engaging in conversations about the soft power of art.

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Marylanders celebrate diversity.

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Always remembering the love.

 
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Descendants, patrons, artists, and historians sharing history.

 
 
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The wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore is where America happened.

 
 

Thank You!

Mrs. Tissier Moaney, Community Leader and Singer

Jeffrey Moaney, Genealogist, Founding Family Member

Likisha Tomastine, Public Relations and Interviewer

Kentavius Jones, Singer, Songwriter, Educator, Interviewer

Barbara Paca, Ph.D., O.B.E., Coordinator

All of the Mighty Ancestors and Proud Descendants of the Founding Black Families of America

Raymocille Johnson

Chairman Emeritus, Theodore Mack, Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture

Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford

Secretary John C. Wobensmith

Sylvia and Eddie Brown

The Waters Choir, Waters Church, Oxford, Maryland