Known African American Residents of Oxford (Deceased)

Born Between 1865 - 1899

Assembled by Professor Mark Auslander and his students during the development of the exhibition, "A Dream Deferred: African Americans at Emory and Oxford Colleges, 1836-1865" at the Hoke O’Kelly Library, January 2001 and is reproduced here by permission. 

Jessie Heard  1865-1902

George Connell  1866-1909

Carrie Rivers  1866-1893

Emma Shield  1868-1964

Lula F. Jackson  1870-1935

Sallie Godfrey  1871-1943

Matilda W. Hunter  1874-1973

Bessie Shaw Howard Banks  1875-1966

Sylvester (Bud) Brown, Sr.  1876-1949

Mack Perry  1876-1976

W.W. Thomas  1877-1919

Dolch (?) Wade  1877 -    (?)               

Lottie E. Brown  1878-1941

Nicholas Ga…….[?] , Jr.  1878~1910

Louise Wright  1878-1934

Hilton Jackson  1879-1942

Julia J. Cox  1881-1963

Emma T. Kelly  1882-1967

Emmet Leslie  1884-1957

Horace Dobbs  1885-1970

Louvinia Dobbs  1885-1961

Adolphus Bose Hayes  1885-1979

John Wright  1885-1971

Emma A. Leslie  1886-1980

Emma Frances Roseberry  1886-1920

Joseph Sutton  1888-1956

Pauline Wright  1888-1972

Valeria Godfrey  1887-1973

George Armstead  1887-1957

Pearl Godfrey Barber  1888-1975

Lula Bryant  1888-1946

Claude Hinton  1889-1961

Ludie E. Moore  1889-1968

John Reese  1889-1957

Frank (last name unknown)  1883-1953

Pearle Gaither  1890-1951

Elder James S. Perry  1890-1960

Americus L. Gaither  1891-1964

Altheria E. Hinton  1891-1960

Ada Perry  1891-1944

J. Sutton  1891-1892

Maudie Benton  1892-1988

Tinsely A. Cody  1892-1970

Walter L. Glover  1892-1966

William M. Parks [?]  1892-1970

Ida Hayes  1893-1987

Homer Shaw  1893-1953

Charlie Gaither  1894-1966

Pauline Anderson  1897-1949

Franks Palmer Evans  1897-1978

Angeline Gaither  1898-1968

Henry D. Smith  1898-1988

Mason M. Wright  1899-1963