Four-year-old Margaret States died this date, May 3rd, in 1850 “from the effects of a burn.” She lived with her parents, Owen and Margaret, and her siblings on Carpenter Street between 13th Street and Broad Street and Christian Street and Washington Avenue. This street no longer exists. Owen was a laborer, a “jobber,” who was occasionally employed as a basketmaker. Margaret worked as a washerwoman who also did sewing according to the 1847 African American Census. The States were a family of 5 who all lived in a 10′ by 10′ room for which they paid $2.25 a month in rent. There are 16 other individuals buried at Bethel Burying Ground that we know about that succumbed to the “effects of a burn.”
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