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: male
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
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):
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)
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