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Byesville / ˈ b aɪ z v ɪ l / is a village in Guernsey County, Ohio, United States, along Wills Creek. The population was 2,364 at the 2020 census . History [ edit ]
Tennessee. Died. May 27, 1928. (1928-05-27) (aged 53) Paducah, Kentucky. Charles Henry " Speedy " Atkins (1875–1928) was an American tobacco worker in Paducah, Kentucky. A pauper at his death, he drowned in the Ohio River. The city turned over his body for a pauper's burial to his friend A.Z. Hamock, the only African-American undertaker in town.
The African Jackson Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the western part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formed by a colony of more than 300 freedmen from Virginia, who were freed in the will of John Randolph of Roanoke, it has been the resting place for many. Active into the 20th century, it is one of the last extant physical remnants of Rossville ...
A homegoing (or home-going) service is an African-American and Black-Canadian Christian funeral tradition marking the going home of the deceased to the Lord or to Heaven. History [ edit ] In 1803, a slave ship landed in St. Simons Island, Georgia, with captive Africans from Nigeria carrying a cargo of Igbo people.
By Brendan O'Brien. (Reuters) - Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe" as they pinned him to the floor of a bar ...
April 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM. Uber is helping investigators look into an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death because he erroneously ...
Calvin E. Lightner. Calvin Esau Lightner (March 31, 1878 – May 21, 1960) was an American architect, building contractor, and mortician. He was born in South Carolina and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to study architectural design at Shaw University. After graduation he took industrial courses at Hampton Institute and studied embalming in ...
Watts is charged with abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in jail and […] The post Ohio prosecutor says he’s duty bound to bring Black woman’s miscarriage ...