Showing posts with label Charlottesville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlottesville. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Daily Dispatch, January 06, 1880, Richmond, Virginia - Marriages and Deaths

The Daily Dispatch, January 06, 1880
Richmond, Virginia; p. 2, col.4

MARRIAGES.

"Married, in this city, December 24, 1879, by Rev. John E. Edwards, D. D., Mr. EDWARD F. TAYLOR, of Hanover county, Va., and Miss EMMA E. SMITH, of Richmond.

Married, Tuesday, December 30, 1879, by Rev. Thomas Kelly, JOHN H. BOWERS and Miss MARY V. CAVEDO.

DEATHS.

Died, in Charlottesville, Va., on Monday, January 5, 1880, at 11:45 A.M., Miss C. F. PORTER, in the sixtieth year of her age.

Her remains will reach the city this morning via Chesapeake and Ohio railway.  The funeral will take place TO-DAY at 11 o'clock from the residence of W. R. Jones, Esq., 813 west Main street.  Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.

Died, Sunday morning, January 4th, at 5 o'clock, in the fifty-eight year of her age, Mrs. MARY ELEANOR GILL, wife of J. R. Gil, superintendent of the Richmond Male Orphan Asylum.
Her friends and acquaintances are invited to attend her funeral TUESDAY, January 6th, from Park-Place Methodist church, at 11 o'clock A.M.

Petersburg, Va., and Paducah, Ky., papers please copy.

Died, Monday, January 5th, at half past 1 o'clock, of consumption, Mrs. MARY E. GARRETT.

The funeral services will take place at the residence of William Pierce Smith, 6 1 Canal street, TO-DAY (Tuesday), 6th instant, at half-past 3 o'clock.  The friends and acquaintances of the family, and those of her aunt Mrs. John C. Franklin, are invited to attend."


Friday, August 29, 2008

Monticello Plantation Database of the Thomas Jefferson Slaves

Monticello, plantation of President Thomas Jefferson, included over six hundred slaves between 1774 and 1826. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation has made a searchable database of those slaves and can be found at the following link: Monticello Plantation Database

I have not played with it much but the database appears to create family groupings of the slaves and tells as much about their lives as possible. If you are searching for African-American genealogy sources in Virginia, this appears to be one of the most thorough.

I looked up Sally Hemings and the father of most of her children were actually given as "almost certainly Thomas Jefferson."