Fayette County Miscellaneous Data
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Ferris, William, former slave
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Haines, Seward, former slave
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Name William Ferris
Details Former slave, according to his obituary:
WILLIAM FERRIS, FORMER SLAVE DIES
William Ferris, colored, 85 years old, died Thursday morning at the home
of his niece, Mrs. Belle Worthington at Dunbar. He was the last colored
man residing about Dunbar who had been a slave in his younger days. He
was a slave for 31 years. Funeral services will be tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock with Rev. M. F. Simms of Connellsville officiating.
William Farris is found in the 1870 Census of Washington Township, Fayette County. He is listed
as a 30 year old Black male, born in Pennsylvania. That makes his
year of birth about 1839 or 1840, which is within five years of the
approximate year of birth (1834) indicated in his obituary. (U.S.
Census, Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, page 522)
Source Originally published in The Daily Courier
(Connellsville, Pennsylvania), 21 February 1919. Posted by
Patricia Homlish to the PAFAYETT-L RootsWeb archives, 18 September 2001,
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/PAFAYETT/2001-09/1000840208,
accessed 27 January 2007.
- Name Seward Haines
Details Former slave, according to his obituary
SEWARD HAINES
Seward Haines, of Smock, admitted to the Uniontown Hospital on Monday night, November 7, died in the institution Saturday night, November 26, 1932, at 10:15 o'clock of a complication of diseases, following an operation, Haines, a slave during the Civil War days, is believed to have been between 88 and 90 years of age. His body will be sent to relatives now residing in Virginia.
Source Obituary contributed to the Fayette County USGenWeb Project
by Amy Lecouras.
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