Born in March 1896, Arthur Bell was the fourth of four children of William and Francis Bell. Arthur had a younger brother, John, and two older step-siblings, Robert Brown and Cora Brown. According to the 1900 census records, the Bell family lived in Cheatham, Tennessee. William Bell worked as a farm laborer and Francis […]
Thomas Brown was a 19-year-old young man. He was born in Kentucky in February 1883. His parents were John Brown and Bell Brown, who in 1902 were 37 years old and had been married for seventeen years. Thomas Brown also had one sibling, George Brown, who was 17 at the time of Thomas’s death. Thomas’s […]
Grant Smith was born in 1878 in Kentucky. His mother was born in Nova Scotia, and his father was born in the United States. Grant Smith was married to Addie Smith in 1905 in Mason County, Kentucky, and they resided together in Johnson, Fleming County, Kentucky. Fleming County, Kentucky is located in northeastern Kentucky, close […]
Elijah Drake, Henry Smith, and James Stewart were three young men who resided in Madrid Bend, Fulton County, Kentucky. Fulton County is located in western Kentucky, next to the Mississippi River and on the borders of Mississippi and Tennessee. James Stewart was born in February 1875 in Tennessee and was 27 years old at the […]
Documented by Gracie Henderson Henry “Fratus” Warfield was born in Kentucky in 1879. When he was a boy, he resided in Hadensville, Todd County, Kentucky with his mother, Mary Warfield, who was born in Kentucky, and his father Squire Warfield, who was also born in Kentucky. Todd County, Kentucky is located in southwest Kentucky along […]
Joseph Richardson was an African American man who lived near Leitchfield in Grayson County, Kentucky. He was born in 1889 in the state of Tennessee. He was the son of Joe and Nannie Richardson. Within their household in Tennessee at the 1900 census, Joe was 11 years old. He resided with his parents, his sisters Ollie […]
Wallace Miller was a black teenager born in February of 1891 in the state of Kentucky. He resided in Cadiz, located in Trigg County, Kentucky, with several family members, including his father Bubbard Miller, his mother Della Miller, brothers Rumsy Miller and Robert Miller, sister Lemon Miller, and half-sister Maggie St. Clair. Also living in […]
George Tutt was born in October 1884. He was 15 years old at the time of the 1900 census. George Tutt was the son of Katie Tutt, age 60 at the time of the 1900 census, who was a widow. The Tutt family resided in Trenton, Todd, Kentucky, including Katie, George, his sisters Sarah (28 […]
Charley Carroll was a young white youth born on June 6th, 1897. He and his siblings lived with their parents, John and Delphinia Carroll in Beespring, Edmonson County, Kentucky. His mother was Delphinia Carroll (01/12/1862-12/06/1929). His father was John Irvin Carrell (01/09/1856-1900). Charley had several siblings, Acie (1890-1989), Lawson(1885-1949), James (1881-1970), Emma (1889-1981), Patrick (1877-1937), […]
