Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Pygmy (African)
Immigration: yes
Attributed Race: black
Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: c.1885/00/00
Birthplace: Congo, Africa
Mother:
Father:
1st Spouse: unknown
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: about 30
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): day laborer, tobacco factory laborer
Last Church: unknown
Military Service: none
Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Address: Virginia Seminary Campus
Death
Death Date: 1916/03/20
Death Note: none
Place of Death: shed behind Josephine Anderson’s store
Cause of Death: suicide, pistol shot to left breast
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1916/03/23
Funeral Home: Diuguid; Peoples Undertaking Co.
Diuguid ID Number:
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none
Section: unknown
Confirmation Source for Location:
Grave Marker Erector(s): unknown
Confirmation Source for Interment: official ledger
Obituary and Biographical Detials
Funeral at Diamond Hill BC
Mrs. Lillian “Peggy” Bondurant Davis recalled that she was told Ota Benga was buried in the Old City Cemetery, beside Prof. Ulysses S. Grant Patterson.
Chauncey Spencer clearly remembered Ota Benga being buried in White Rock Cemetery beside Gregory Willis Hayes.