Mary Brice

ID Number: T03131

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: female Ethnicity: African American Immigration: no Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved: unknown

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1846/12/23 Birthplace: Lynchburg, Virginia Mother: Martha Payne [Brice] Father: Henry Brice 1st Spouse: unknown 2nd Spouse: unknown

Age Details

Age: 71 Age Group: elder adult (60+)

Life Details

Occupation(s): domestic servant Last Church: unknown Military Service: none Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 208 Harrison Street

Death

Death Date: 1918/01/05 Death Note: none Place of Death: Trent Building, Lynchburg Cause of Death: cerebral hemorrhage

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1918/01/08 Funeral Home: Strange & Higginbotham Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none Section: unknown Confirmation Source for Location: Grave Marker Erector(s): Confirmation Source for Interment: city card file

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Obituary and Biographical Detials

Cannot find in 1870 and 1880 censuses

1900 census: widowed, aged 54, cook for Emma and Herman Wells (mother and son), 208 Harrison Street
[Herman Dulaney Wells was later secretary-treasurer of J.P. Bell Co. book publishers]

1910 census: widowed, aged 68, private family laundress for Emma and Herman Wells (mother and son), 208 Harrison Street

Mattie [Crews?] Lassiter (death certificate informant) was mulatto wife of Norman Lassiter, prominent dentist in Newport News (Google search for “Norman Lassiter Dental Society”)