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Jun 9, 2024 Biographies

Edeston Vincent Leslie was born on May 26, 1924, in the parish of Westmorland in the Haddo section of Jamaica West Indies. He grew up in the country, born to Iris Malcolm, and was raised where he love...

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Samuel Davis

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Samuel Davis was born on August 13, 1810, in Temple Mills, Maine. He moved to Buffalo from Windsor, Ontario sometime in the late 1830s and quickly became a respected community leader. A learned man, D...

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Emeline Coy

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Apr 10, 2024 Biographies

Emeline was a native of Virginia, who was born circa 1825. Whether she was enslaved or not is unknown and how she and her sister got to Buffalo is also unknown. She, and her sister, Sarah arrived in B...

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Mary Morris Burnett Talbert

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Apr 9, 2024 Biographies

Mary Morris Burnett was born in 1866 and educated at Oberlin College. Following her graduation in 1886 from Oberlin at the age of 19, Ms. Burnett moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where she accepted a p...

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Peyton Harris

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Apr 8, 2024 Biographies

One of Buffalo's most historic buildings, the Michigan Street Baptist Church (constructed between 1845-1849), is well-known for its association with the Underground Railroad and Buffalo's civil rights...

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Thelma Clarice Adderley Batts

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Oct 6, 2023 Biographies

Mrs. Thelma Clarice Batts was born to Hilgrove and Geraldine Adderley in Pembroke, West Bermuda on July 16, 1924. Throughout her lifetime she has lived in various foreign countries with her spouse, e....

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Felton L. Davis

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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

Felton L. Davis is an Eagle Scout, earning the award on October 22, 1956, with Troop 41, Baton Rouge, LA. He attended Bayou Boys State during the summer of 1959 and then served on the Boys State Staff...

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Ronal Bassham

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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

Ronal Bassham was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is the eldest of the six children of Thaddeus and Peggy Bassham. The Bassham family moved to Buffalo, New York when Ron was a child. He attended Buffal...

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Paul Woods

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Jul 13, 2023 Biographies

It is Black History Month, and today we salute Living Black History. Mr. Paul Woods, a World War II veteran, fought in the Pacific Theater earning three Bronze Stars and a Liberation of the Philippine...

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Annie Nixon Singleton

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Mar 13, 2023 Biographies

There are many well-known and accomplished African Americans buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The list is long and impressive. One of the lesser known people is a woman named Annie Singleton, who at th...

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Irene McLeish Greene

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Feb 9, 2023 Biographies

Irene was born Irene McLeish in Buffalo, New York on August 31st, 1939, ten minutes after her identical twin Lorine. Their parents were Aaron and Martha McLeish. The sisters had a close bond in this w...

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Hortense Butts Nash

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Jan 22, 2023 Biographies

Hortense Butts Nash is the eldest of two daughters born to George and Ruby Tucker Butts. Hortense was born on September 29, 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia. Two years later, her sister Gloria was born in the...

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