Mercer Hospital_ WEST VIRGINIA. NECROLOGY 1922-1924 Bluefield --Kimball Huntington Bluefield January 7-Wilkes, Miss. Laura E., Washington, D. C. teacher, writer, author of "Missing Pages of American History." 7-Young, Charles, Legos, Nigeria, West Africa. Colonel United States Army. Highest ranking Colored officer, Military Attache at Monrovia, Liberia. 9-Baldwin, Miss Maria, Cambridge, Mass. Educator, Principal of the Agassiz School of that city. 10-Johnson, J. S., Birmingham, Ala., Educator, Principal Tuggle Institute. 15-Wheaton, J. Frank, New York City, Lawyer. Former Member Minnesota State Legislature. 17-Hodges, J. W., New York City. Actor. Prominent in Colored theatrical world. 18-Manning, J. W., Knoxville, Tenn. Teacher in city schools for forty years. February 4-Williams, Egbert Austin (Bert,) New York City, Actor, world famous comedian. 9-Gunner, Byron, Hilburn, N. Y. Minister, President of the National Equal Right League. 10-Hymes, Mrs. Imogene, (white,) Cincinnati, Ohio. First Actress to play "Little Eva" in Uncle Tom's Cabin." March 11-Gladden, W. E., Los Angeles, Cal., Chaplain (retired) United States Army. 14-Kemp, R., Charleston, S. C., Minister, Secretary, Foreign Mission Board National Baptist. Convention, Unincorporated. April 5-Murphy, John H., Baltimore, Md., Editor and owner, Baltimore Afro-American. 9-Cravath, Mrs. Ruthanna Jackson (white), Wilmington, Del. Widow of the first President of Fisk University and co-worker with him in the establishing of that institution. 9-Greener, Richard T., Chicago, Ill. Educator, politician, diplomat. First Negro graduate of Havard University. 20-Thomas, James C., New York City. Pioneer Negro undertaker of that city. May June 20-McCarthy, Charles H., Albany, Ga. Business man. July 14-Hutto, G. R., Brunswick, Ga. State Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias. 16-Jackson, Miss Mary Elizabeth, Wilmington, Del. President State Federation Colored Women's Clubs. August 12-Abbot, George T., Chicago, Ill. Lawyer. 16-Simon, E. L., Atlanta, Ga. Educator, Former teacher, Clark University. 19-Johnson, C. First, Mobile, Ala. Business man, Minister, founder of The Union Mutual Insurance Co. 21-Cole, Miss Rebecca, Philadelphia, Pa. Prominent physician. First Colored woman to graduate from Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia. 23-Boyd, Richard Henry, Nashville, Tenn. Minister and Publisher. Founder of the National Baptist Publishing Board. September 4-Pride, Fisher, Captain, Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces. 5-Fallows, Samuel (white,) Chicago, Ill. Bishop, Reformed Episcopal Church. Famous as preacher, soldier, author and lecturer. A friend of the Negro. 5-Morris, Elias, Helena, Ark. Prominent minister, Baptist Church. President, National Baptist Convention, incorporated. 7-Speller, Turner, Washington, D. C. Goverment clerk. Former member of the North Carolina Legislature. 10-Adams, John Q., St. Paul, Minn. Editor and Publisher of "The Appeal." 18-Wormley, Mrs. Mary A., Washington, D. C. Teacher. One of the first lady music teachers in the city's public schools. October 14-Jones, Joseph E., Richmond, Va., Professor of Church Polity and Homiletics, Virginia Union University. 16-Knight, F. H., Boston, Mass., Educator, Former President, New Orleans University. 21-Scott, James A., Chicago, Ill. Lawyer, politician, Assistant State's Attorney. November 3-Thomas, Jonas W., Bennettsville, S. C. Farmer and Business man. One of the largest raisers of cotton in the state. 9-Warren, Francis H. Detroit, Mich. Lawyer and politician. 24-Brock, J. R. Paul, Atlantic City, N. J., Educator, Supervisor, Colored Schools, Atlantic City. 26-Silsby, E. C., Talladega, Ala. Minister and Educator for forty-five years in the South. Established the Burrell Academy, Florence, Ala., and for almost forty years was a professor in Talladega College. December 8-Holmes, J. Wilford, Pittsburg, Pa. Lawyer. First Negro to be admitted to the Alleghany County bar. 13-Hackley, Madam E. Azalia. Detroit, Mich. Singer of note. 13-Parks, W. G., Philadelphia, Pa. Prominent Baptist Minister. First President, National Baptist Convention, Unincorporated. 25-Lacy, Major, N. M., (white,) Fountain City, Ind. One of the original conductors on the Indiana branch of the Underground Railroad. January 1923 Stone, Mrs. Amy (white,) Brooklyn, N. Y. Actress. Played the part of "Little Eva" in the first "Uncle Tom's Cabin" put out. 10-Brown, John M., Topeka, Kans. Business man, politician and Major in the twenty-third Kansas regiment during The Spanish-American War. 14-Tanner, Benjamin Tucker. Eighteenth Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 15-Brawley, Edvard M., Raleigh, N. C. Minister and Educator. Former President of Selma University. 17-Stewart, T. McCants, St. Thomas, V. I. Lawyer, Diplomat, formerly in New York City. Recently member of the Liberia Supreme Court. 23-Caruthurs, S. S., Nashville, Tenn. Practicing physician and Professor of Dermatology, Meharry Medical College. 24-Lockerman, Joseph H., Baltimore, Md. Principal of the Teachers' Training School of that city. February 1-Smith, Charles Spencer, Detroit, Mich., Bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church. 3-Rakestraw, W. M., Tuskegee Institute, Ala. For fifteen years Conference Agent, Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference. 12-Bruce, Mrs. Josephine B., Washington, D. C. Wife of former United States Senator, Blanch . Bruce. 12-Wallace, Henry A., Chester, Pa. Clerk in War Department, writer. During the Reconstruction period was a page in the South Carolina legislature. He was an authority on Reconstruction history in South Carolina. 18-Turner, C. H., St. Louis, Mo. Teacher Sumner High School. Specialist in Biology. Held Ph. D. degree in, from University of Chicago. March 10 Farrar James, Richmond, Va. Architect and Contractor. 18-Butler, J. P., Jamesville, N. C. Teacher and politician, former Mayor of Jamesville and former member of the County Board of Education. 21-White, C. M., Denver, Colo. Supreme Commander, American Woodmen. 29 Morrow, Cornelius W., Nashville, Tenn. Educator, Dean Emeritus, Fisk University. April 3-Mocre, Garrie, Atlanta, Ga. Professor of Social Science, Morehouse College. Former Secretary Boys' Work, Inter-national Committee of Y. M. C. A. 14-Diggs, J. R. L., Baltimore, Md., Minister and former College president and professor. 17-Jones, Joseph L. Cincinnati, Ohio, Editor, business man and leader in fraternal circles. President, Central Regalia Company. President and one of the founders 24-Crews, Nelson, Kansas City, Mo. Editor, politician, fraternal man. 29-Moore, A. M., Durham, N. C. Physician, business man. of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. May 9-Jackson, Miss Mary E., Providence, R. I. Industrial Secretary, Bureau of Colored Work, Young Women's Christian Association. Was for more than thirty years connected with the Rhode Island Bureau of Statistics. 11-Robinson, R. H. New York City. Teacher. Was for forty years instructor in music, New York Public Schools. 12 -Alexander, Steurt, former Major of the Eight Infantry Illinois National Guard. 15-Allen, Benjamin F., Jefferson City, Mo. Educator, former President, Lincoln University. July 27 -Spencer, Mrs. Anna P., Washington, D. C. Public School Teacher. 30-Montgomery, Mrs. Martha Robb. Mound Bayou, Miss. Wife of Isaiah T. Montgomery; founder of Mound Bayou. September 5-Alexander, Charles, Los Angeles, Calif., Editor, Newspaper man. 6-Green, Mrs. Nancy, Chicago, Ill. Originator of the World famous "Aunt Jemima's pancake flour." Milling Company, :St. Joseph, Mo. Marketed the flour from her recipe in a container bearing her picture. 19-Silas, X. Floyd, Augusta, Ga. Minister, educator and writer. Former Secretary, National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools. 19-Willcox, William G. (white,) New York City. Business man. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Tuskegee Institute; Supporter of Negro education in general. 20-Shaw, M. A. N., Boston, Mass. Prominent Minister, Baptist Church. 21-Dempsey, Madam Pauline, New York City. Actress. 21-Scott, D. W., St. Louis, Mo. Physician, Candidate in 1893 for the United States Congress. 21-Smith, Henderson, Chicago, Ill. Musician and band leader, for almost fifty years with prominent ministrel shows, including the Al. G. Field Company. 24-Ellis, William Henry, Mexico City, Mex. Financier. New York City. Had spectacular career as a promoter. Represented in 1904 the State Department of Washington as the Bearer of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce to King Menelik of Abyssinia. 24-Filley, Chancy I. (white,) St. Louis, Mo., abolitionist, Civil War Mayor of St. Louis; the last of the sixty-six members of the Missouri Constitutional Convention. 24-Williams, Amos Alfred, Little Rock, Ark. Minister, Instructor Theological Department, Shorter College. October 15-Talbert, Mrs. Mary B., Buffalo, N. Y. A leading woman of the race; former President National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; Spingarn_Medalist. 18-Banks, Charles, Mound Bayou, Miss. Banker and planter; First Vice-President, National Negro Business League. 18-Bonney, Mrs. Sallie L., Norfolk, Va. President and Secretary of United Order of Tents and J. R. Giddings Jollifee Union. November 18-Gilbert, John Wesley, Augusta, Ga. Professor, Paine College. Seretary, Sunday School Department, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 20-Singleton, R. H., Atlanta, Ga. Prominent Minister African Metholist Episcopal Church. 30-Brown, Phil H., Washington, D. C. Commissioner of Conciliation, Department of Labor. Newspaper man and politician of Hopkinsville, Ky. January 1924 1-Waring, James H. N., Washington, D. C. Physician, Educator, Principal, Downingtown (Pa.) Industrial School. 11-Peterson, James T., Mobile, Ala. Business man, philanthropist, poltician, publisher of the Moblie Forum. 11-Steward, Theophilius G., Wilberforce, Ohio. Professor of Theology, Vilberforce University; Chaplin (retired), Educator and Author. February 2-Washington, John H., Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Educator, Brother of he late Booker T. Washington, and Acted Assistant in the establishing and developing of Tuskegee Institute. 3-Frazier, Miss Susie Elizabeth, New York City, First Colored woman teaner in New York mixed Public Schools. 13-Woodward, Sidney, New York City. Singer and musician. First Nego tenor to gain inter-national recognition. 15-Hill, Walter R., St. Louis, Mo. Lawyer, Politician, Assistant Associate City Counsellor. 16-Thomas, Miss. Emily B., Brooklyn, N. Y. Teacher, Newark (N. J.) Public Schools. March Adam, Elijah B., Bisco, Ark. Physician, President State Medical Association and former Mayor of Biscoe. 5-Montgomery, Isaiah T., Mound Bayou, Miss., Business man, Writer and Politician. Founder of Mound Bayou. 13-Ruffin, Mrs. Josephine, St. Pierce, Boston, Mass. One of the most prominent women of the race: Anti-slavery worker and one of the organizers of the National Association of Colored Women. 20-Bates, Stephen, Chillicothe, Ohio. Business man, Politician and Proprietor, Bates Hotel. 25-Cashing, Herschel Vivian, Decatur, Ala. Lawyer, Politician, former member Alabama legislature. 30-Eagen, John J. (white,) Atlanta, Ga. Business man, Philanthropist, friend of the Negro, Chairman. Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation. April 5-Rendall, John Ballard (white), Lincoln University, Pa. Educator for fifty-four years, was Professor and President of Lincoln University. 5-Stewart, Charles, Indianapolis, Ind. Newspaper man. 23-Tyers, William H., New York City, Musician and Composer of note. 27-Boothe, C. O., Birmingham, Ala. Prominent Minister and Scholar. Widely known throughout Alabama and the South. May 11-Mollison, Willis E., Chicago, Ill., Lawyer. 11-Rucker, Henry A., Atlanta, Ga., Business man, Politician, Former collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia. 19-Ludlow, Miss Helen W., (white,) Hampton Institute, Educator. Had been teacher at Hampton for almost forty years. 25-Clint, Mrs. Fannie Hall, Chicago, Ill. Dramatic Reader. June 4 -Gordon, David E., St. Louis, Mo. Educator, Principal, City Public Schools. 15-Williams, J. W., Charlotte, N. C. Physician, Former Member Charlotte Board of Aldermen and Ex-Consul to Sierra Leone. 22-Lyons, Judson, Augusta, Ga. Lawyer, Politician, Former Register of the United States Treasury. 23-Wright, Curtis, J., Boston, Mass. Lawyer. 25-Coppin, Levi J., Philadelphia, Pa., Bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church. 28- -Connor, W. S. Atlanta, Ga. Supreme Grand Master, Independent Benevolent Order July August Simango, Mrs. Katherine Easmon, London, England, Educator and Missionary. 7-Bruce, (Grit) John Edward, Yonkers, N. Y. Writer and Politician. President of the Negro Society for Historical Research. 13-Jackson, Giles B., Richmond, Va. Lawyer, Politician, First Negro to be admitted to practice in Richmond Courts. 14-Wilson, Miss Emma J., Mayesville, S. C., Educator, Principal, Mayesville, Industrial Institute. 22-Hubbard, George Whipple, Nashville, Tenn. Educator, Founder and President Emeritus. Meharry Medical College. 29-Stokes, A. J., Los Angeles, Cal, Minister, Treasurer, National Baptist Convention, Incorporated. September 4-Stewart, George P., Indianapolis. Editor, Indianapolis Recorder. 10-Reid, William M., Portsmouth, Va. Lawyer, State Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias. 14-McKirahan, William M., Chicago, Ill. Educator and Minister. Former Principal, Norfolk Mission College. 17-Tupper, Mrs. Sarah B., Philadelphia, Pa. Wife of the founder of Shaw University. October 14-Steward, Joseph Henderson, Washington, D. C. Lawyer. November 5-Tuggle, Mrs. Carrie B., Birmingham, Ala. Founder and President of Tuggle Institute. 12-McKissack, E. H., Holly Springs, Miss. Educator, Politician Business man. Manager Union Guarantee and Insurance Company. 13-Mixon, W. H., Selma, Ala., Prominent Minister, Africian Methodist Episcopal Church. Nationally known in politics. 21-Newman, Stephen M., Washington, D. C. Educator and Minister, Former President of Howard University. 22-Cottrill, Charles A., Toledo, O. Politician, Ex-Collector of Internal Revenue, Honolulu. 24-Jones, Edward Perry, Chicago, Ill. Minister, President, National Baptist Convention Unincorporated. December 11-Long Edgar A. Camlria, Va. Principal Christianburg Normal and Industrial Institute. 24-Meyer, Mrs. Sarah Bampfield, Charlotte, N. C. Grandaughter of Ex-Congressman Robert Small of Civil War fame. The rate of increase of the Negro population, 6.5 per cent in 1920, as compared with 11.2 per cent increase for 1910 would appear to indicate that the Negro population is rapidly approaching a stationary state. It is of interest to note that for the decade 1860-1870 the rate of increase was 9.9 per cent, almost as low as for 1920 (1). The rate of increase for Negroes, 1850-1920, shows great fluctuation, part of which is explained by census revisions. The greater part of the difference between the rates of increase in 1850, 1860 and 1870 is due to the sudden change in the status of the Negro as a result of emancipation. The Negro was released from the soil and permitted to move about with a freedom and facility which he had not heretofore possessed. A somewhat similar state existed in the five years, 1916-1920. During this period there occurred the greatest economic and social change which the Negro had experienced since emancipation. This change was almost as sudden as that of emancipation and was accompanied by an even greater movement of population. The results in both periods because of this sudden change and great movement of population were that many Negroes were probably not enumerated in the census. The census estimate of omissions of Negroes in Southern States in census of 1870 is 512,000. See Vol. II p. 15 of 1920 Census Report. |