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Zellie Dow, Sr.

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Zellie Dow, Sr. was a longtime Buffalo business owner. He was born in Camden. South Carolina. He moved to Buffalo in the early 1930s. He opened and operated the city's first black owned automobile col...

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Shirley Harris Baker

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Sep 18, 2017 Biographies

Shirley Harris Baker is the youngest of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her parents, Andrew and Emma Robinson Harris, lived in Camden, South Carolina. She had eight brothers, Joe, George, Willie L...

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Jannie McCarley Peterson

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Jun 16, 2013 Biographies

Jannie McCarley Peterson was born in Camden, South Carolina to Rebecca Neal and Reverend Burnie C. McCarley. She was the eldest of two children and has a sister, Rebecca Brown. She lived in Camden unt...

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Katherine Alexander Kirkland

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Jan 28, 2012 Biographies

Biography appears in Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of WNY, Volume III Katherine Alexander Kirkland was born on March 2, 1919. She was the oldest of seven children (Alfred...

Camden SC United States

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Jul 28, 2011 Biographies

Elijah Brown was born in Camden South Carolina on December 25, 1903. His parents, Charles and Cornelia Bush Brown came to Buffalo, New York to make a better life for themselves and their children. Dea...

Camden SC United States

Burnie C. McCarley

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Burnie C. McCarley was born on October 18, 1894 in Kershaw County, now known as Camden, South Carolina. His parents were Israel and Rebecca McCarley. He accepted Christ at the early age of 14 and join...

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