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Feb 6, 2018 Biographies

When she died, Mrs. Harris was believed to be at least one hundred years old. The wife of Peyton Harris, a legendary early Black Buffalo settler, Rebecca was a native of Richmond, Virginia. A newspape...

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Irenas Johnson Palmer

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Feb 4, 2018 Biographies

On February 20, 1842 Irenas Johnson Palmer was born in Hinsdale, New York. His parents were Mr. Mrs. Hannibal Palmer. In 1863, at the age of 21 he went to Boston, Mass. to join the Fifth Regiment Mass...

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Mary E. Wood

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Feb 4, 2018 Biographies

Mary E. Wood was born August 28, 1902 in Des Moines, Iowa to Emmett and Rose Wood. She was educated in the Des Moines Public School System where she graduated from East High School. In 1924 she receiv...

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William Leonard Evans Sr.

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

William L. Evans was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1883. He graduated from Fisk University, studied architecture and engineering at Columbia University and became a partner of an architectural firm ...

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Sarah May Talbert Keelan

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

Sarah May was the only child of Mary Burnett and William Herbert Hilton Talbert. She was born in Buffalo in 1892. She attended Buffalo schools and according to an announcement in the June 24, 1911 edi...

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Jesse Edward Nash Sr

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

Rev. Nash was born in Occoquan, Virginia in 1868. Although both of his parents had been enslaved, they were free persons at the time of his birth. His father earned his freedom and then purchased the ...

Occoquan Religion United States VA

Frank Elliott Merriweather Sr.

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Feb 3, 2018 Biographies

Frank Elliott Merriweather Sr. was born in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Merriweather graduated from Tuskegee Institute in 1910 where he earned degrees in journalism and print operations. He and Carmelita M...

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Elizabeth Smith Brown Talbert

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Jan 28, 2018 Biographies

Elizabeth Smith Brown Talbert was born on July 11, 1890. She was a native of Fayetteville, Tennessee and the daughter of Charles and Mary Smith. Her two siblings were Dr. K.K. Smith and Charles L. Smi...

Community Fayetteville TN United States

Mary J. Lipp Dover

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Dec 4, 2017 Biographies

Mrs. Dover was the daughter of Albert P. Lipp and Mary Jane Lelette. She was a native of Windsor, Ontario Canada. She immigrated to the States in 1871 and married John H. Dover in 1885. Mrs. Dover was...

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Betty Gwendolyn Greene

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Dec 4, 2017 Biographies

Betty Gwendolyn Greene, who preferred B. Gwendolyn, is a native Buffalonian who attended local public schools. Although her first name is Betty, she was named after her maternal grandmother, Ms. Green...

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William H. Jackson

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Dec 2, 2017 Biographies

The opportunities for service to our fellowmen are many and varied but few people in our community have made so much of such opportunities or been able to manifest so concretely his contributions towa...

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Earle Clifford Payne DDS

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Dec 1, 2017 Biographies

Earle C. Payne was a member of an early Buffalo Black family. His mother, Grace L. Thompson was the daughter of Nimrod Thompson, who came to Buffalo around 1850. Her mother was Elizabeth Meyers. Grace...

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