William J. Parsons

ID Number: T01443

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: male Ethnicity: unknown Immigration: no Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: c.1832/00/00 Birthplace: Campbell County, Virginia Mother: Lucy Parsons Father: unknown 1st Spouse: Mary Annie Pride Parsons 2nd Spouse: none

Age Details

Age: about 57 Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): grocer; liquor dealer; merchant Last Church: unknown Military Service: none Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: Madison Street (next to J.W.A. Pride)

Death

Death Date: 1889/08/12? Death Note: none Place of Death: Lunatic Asylum near Philadelphia Cause of Death: paralysis

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1889/08/14 Funeral Home: NOT DIUGUID 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: newspaper

Notes

probably free before Civil War; Mary Annie Pride Parsons was dau. of Wm. Royall & Lucinda Gladman Pride

Others In Same Plot (T0259)

Full Name

Birth Date

Death Date

William Jacob Calloway

1854/07/04

1907/08/24

Rebecca Lucy Pride Calloway

1855/08/12

1900/04/17

Mary Annie Pride Parsons

1842//

1923/04/28

Thomas Royall Pride

c.1848/unknown/unknown

1869/08/23

Lucinda Gladman Pride

Obituary and Biographical Detials

“William J. Parsons, a well known colored grocer on Twelfth Street, who was sent to a lunatic asylum in Philadelphia, about four years ago, died in the institution Monday from softening of the brain. He was brought to this city and interred yesterday at the old Methodist cemetery.”

–The Lynchburg Daily News, Thursday, 15 August 1889

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Married Annie Pride in 1862