Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity: African American
Immigration:
Attributed Race: black
Free or Enslaved: enslaved
Birth & Family
Birth Date: c.1840/00/00
Birthplace: unknown
Mother: unknown
Father: unknown
1st Spouse: none
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: about 12
Age Group: child (2-12)
Life Details
Occupation(s): none
Last Church: unknown
Military Service: none
Last Residence: unknown
Last Address:
Death
Death Date: 1852/03/30
Death Note: none
Place of Death: unknown
Cause of Death: railroad accident
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1852/03/31
Funeral Home: Diuguid
Diuguid ID Number: D0316503
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: presumed by TD
Notes
slave of Dr. James Saunders
Obituary and Biographical Detials
Fatal Accident.
A negro boy aged about 12 years, the property of Doct. James Saunders, was killed in this place Tuesday evening, by a railroad car being thrown from the track, by some obstruction on the rail. He was shockingly mangled, and died in three or four hours.
Lynchburg Virginian. Thursday, 1 April 1852. Page 2, column 4.